Tea? (Part 4)

[welsh dragon]

Makes a change.

Im turning over a new leaf......and I've got my fingers crossed

 

[stephec]

Evening all.

I'm now ensconced in a hotel near Trinity College, I can see a rather nice looking bar from my window.

And when it comes to this forum ride and ogling, why hasn't there been a like it at the rear joke?

 

[Saluki]

The tapes cost around £40 each. About twice as wide as a cassette tape, but smaller overall.

So not the horrible cassette types then

 

[ScotiaLass]

B

Evening all.

I'm now ensconced in a hotel near Trinity College, I can see a rather nice looking bar from my window.

And when it comes to this forum ride and ogling, why hasn't there been a like it at the rear joke?

because we knew you'd be along to talk about bringing up the rear sweetie....

 

[Lullabelle]

Good mornin' @classic33
@ScotiaLass @welsh dragon
@Turdus philomelos
@Lullabelle
@172traindriver @the_mikey
@Bobby Mhor @Fubar
@BrianEvesham
@luckyfox (just turned up)
@anyoneIforgot & @anyonenothereyet

 

[IDMark2]

I'll be honest, I could go fast enough to keep up with TD172 on a ride but I doubt the whole thing would be downhill would it?

Evening, I am back home now, 200 odd miles finished about an hour ago with a 'scenic' route back (read twisty as ****) and a stop off at Raglan Castle for an explore and a cuppa for a couple of hours.

 

[BrianEvesham]

Busy day today.
Just back from the park at Stratford on Avon. Kids are tired (result).
Now enjoying

 

[BrianEvesham]

Ok kids, Pop Quiz: If the Tea Thread were on a forum ride how do you imagine that would go?

I reckon out in front would be: @172traindriver (tutting at how slow we all are), closly followed by @BrianEvesham, @the_mikey, @SteCenturion and @IDMark2 in the peleton.

Then you would have a group of "ladies" showing no discipline whatsoever, cycling all over the road and chatting: @ScotiaLass @welsh dragon @Turdus philomelos @Lullabelle @Saluki

Two Fat Lads at the Back: @Bobby Mhor and @Fubar ignoring each other, obviously.

Then bringing up the rear - Dear Old @classic33 with his sandals and scythe, muttering to himself about the old days and yorkshire puddings.

Thoughts?

Yep that'll do me. I think I can keep up with most as long as it's flattish and less than twenty miles

 

[classic33]

So not the horrible cassette types then

No, not the cassette type tapes. Proper industrial class storage.

 

[classic33]

Evening all.

I'm now ensconced in a hotel near Trinity College, I can see a rather nice looking bar from my window.

And when it comes to this forum ride and ogling, why hasn't there been a like it at the rear joke?

Jurys?

 

[IDMark2]

Ok kids, Pop Quiz: If the Tea Thread were on a forum ride how do you imagine that would go?

I reckon out in front would be: @172traindriver (tutting at how slow we all are), closly followed by @BrianEvesham, @the_mikey, @SteCenturion and @IDMark2 in the peleton.

Then you would have a group of "ladies" showing no discipline whatsoever, cycling all over the road and chatting: @ScotiaLass @welsh dragon @Turdus philomelos @Lullabelle @Saluki

Two Fat Lads at the Back: @Bobby Mhor and @Fubar ignoring each other, obviously.

Then bringing up the rear - Dear Old @classic33 with his sandals and scythe, muttering to himself about the old days and yorkshire puddings.

Thoughts?

I'd be more likely to be having yet another photo stop, sometimes for ages, flapjack break or drinks slurp than trying to keep up with anyone. In fact I see it as a duty to not record any facts and figures about my rides now, I'm well beyond being picked up for a race team, don't need to prove or test myself against a clock and just want to enjoy riding a bike at my pace and do what I like, when I like. For me that is the appeal now although I recognise that everyone has different thinking.

 

[welsh dragon]

I'd be more likely to be having yet another photo stop, sometimes for ages, flapjack break or drinks slurp than trying to keep up with anyone. In fact I see it as a duty to not record any facts and figures about my rides now, I'm well beyond being picked up for a race team, don't need to prove or test myself against a clock and just want to enjoy riding a bike at my pace and do what I like, when I like. For me that is the appeal now although I recognise that everyone has different thinking.

+1

 

[IDMark2]

No, not the cassette type tapes. Proper industrial class storage.

We used to dump sales data from our tills down to tapes, cassette at first and then a new data type. Then we'd take it upstairs to the office to be read into the main computer... This is obviously before the days of wireless, or even wired, data transfer between machines. The tape readers were about £1000 each, we had three, early eighties I think it was.

 

[Blue]

Ok kids, Pop Quiz: If the Tea Thread were on a forum ride how do you imagine that would go?

I reckon out in front would be: @172traindriver (tutting at how slow we all are), closly followed by @BrianEvesham, @the_mikey, @SteCenturion and @IDMark2 in the peleton.

Then you would have a group of "ladies" showing no discipline whatsoever, cycling all over the road and chatting: @ScotiaLass @welsh dragon @Turdus philomelos @Lullabelle @Saluki

Two Fat Lads at the Back: @Bobby Mhor and @Fubar ignoring each other, obviously.

Then bringing up the rear - Dear Old @classic33 with his sandals and scythe, muttering to himself about the old days and yorkshire puddings.

Thoughts?

 

[IDMark2]

More coffee required I think, that wiggly drive today has fair done me in, entertaining the kids, watching out for Red Kites and climbing trees at our Castle pitstop. Tree climbing is something else I've discovered I can't do with the same alacrity as I remember now I'm well on the wrong side of forty (and approaching fifty fast)...