Tales from today's utility ride

[Toshiba Boy]

I used to live in Watchet, many years ago.. 19, Swain Street

I know Swain Street well, indeed I got my paper from the Co-Op in that very street!

I live just down the coast in Blue Anchor. Did you grow up in Watchet PeteXXX or live their for a period of time as an adult?

 

[PeteXXX]

I know Swain Street well, indeed I got my paper from the Co-Op in that very street!

I live just down the coast in Blue Anchor. Did you grow up in Watchet PeteXXX or live their for a period of time as an adult?

I lived there after, I moved out of London, to get out of the dodgy scene I was in. I was 17 or 18, so that would have been 1969/70 ish.
I knew Blue Anchor quite well. A friends mum (if I remember correctly) owned Blue Anchor flats.
I still have some of the fossils I found on Watchet beach, collected on winter walks there..

 

[mjr]

All this talk of free produce reminds me of picking up free rhubarb while cycling around WsM. I'd forgotten about it. Fenlanders seem to sell their unwanted growings rather than give them away!

 

[PeteXXX]

25 mile utility ride to t'other side of town (plus a small diversion to add some miles) to collect a '5' shaped cake tin in readiness for baking my grandsons birthday cake, tomorrow morning.
On the way, I found a security badge for St Andrews hospital, so I dropped it off on the way back.
I also met a mate on his commute into work, so stopped for a chinwag for 10 mins.

 

[biggs682]

A quick dash down to the vets after work yesterday to collect some medicine for the cat reminded me how much i hate cycling in busy rush hour time

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Quick trip along coast path to Minehead for some bits and pieces. Sunshine had replaced earlier drizzle

Lovely 10 mile spin on the "old Beast" hack bike. Car not used all weekend.

 

[Sixmile]

I'd a short but eventful road out to a work site this afternoon. The rain had just about stopped so I ventured out along some of Belfasts finest cycleways. A few pedestrians were walking down the middle of one stretch so I slowed to go around them but due to the damp conditions and surface of the path, I was near down twice after touching my brakes.

Further on, a taxi and a van done their outmost to totally block access down the cycle path.

 

[mjr]

Do Belfast police or parking enforcement accept dash cam evidence?

A quick dash down to the vets after work yesterday to collect some medicine for the cat reminded me how much i hate cycling in busy rush hour time

It's mixed here. It's more awkward to cross to the cycleway, but once nearer town, it's easier to cross because cars move less.

 

[Sixmile]

I had agreed to lift a Honda Space saver wheel a few miles across town. I didn't fancy carrying it and the city bike rear rack turned out to be a God send.

 

[Sixmile]

Dropping a Circe rear rack to the local PO

 

[The Bystander]

I've been relying on the village Co-op since the beginning of lock-down.

First trip into town to the supermarket today.

Strangely the town seems to have sunk a bit over the last few months, it's the only thing I can think of to explain why the hill on the way home has got steeper

 

[straas]

Picked up some dog food in the new DIY brompton basket - little bit rattly, but seems fine.

 

[Oldhippy]

I always love the comments when I used to load my cycle trailer with shopping. Some people genuinely amazed that someone actually chose to shop by cycle. My, how they chuckled as they wobbled off to their time box. These days mostly veg from allotment as still avoiding large confined spaces.

 

[PeteXXX]

Utility ride to deliver a picnic box and freezer packs to my daughter in readiness for tonight's evening out 🍔

 

[Archie_tect]

Good to revive an old thread! Didn't see this the first time round...

Been collecting stuff from Screwfix 7 miles away and Homebase [before it shut] throughout the lockdowns [to finish all the little jobs that I'd always meant to get round to!] and still nip down there on my old Dawes as it's the only bike I have with a rack [Mrs A_T's permanently 'borrowed' my Giant hybrid]. Tins of emulsion were the trickiest to keep stable!