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[Gaileb]

Starting to sound like you just want a holiday. Are you just using us as pawns to manipulate Rick into taking you away?

Awww, you've seen through my cunning plan! Shhh, don't tell him

 

[AAAC 76C]

Just done it having challenged my quickest time from last year. So it was a red me against a green me and LBHIFI's ghost was there to. So the bottom line was that I got my 4ss kicked by myself and LB who seemed to be within a second of each other the whole way I came in well over 2 minutes behind having found it a tough ride with no let up.
I then remembered that I and LB both had our old pro units which were really black classics with a different support frame. They obviously went quite a lot quicker as we both knew and although no slingshots or hyperspace thingys they were quicker uphill. Don't know about you Lars but I'd quite like my old machine back .
So please use todays ride for my handicap @gbrown which was 28:39. Thanks.

Which is not long enough for an FTP

 

[<Tommy>]

I will invite you along Tom to forward this motion

Sorry mate, I'm essentially a coward... How about a video link?

 

[Add]

I have my own varied recollection of caravan related holidays - not towing but fixed site caravans (not even 'park homes') - a miscellany of family holidays in Cornwall, Dorset and even Wales!

But the best recollection was of long weekends away with my grandparents on the Isle of Wight. They lived in a caravan (again, not a park home). I would write - I'm sure many of us here might remember letters - no emails or phone (mobile or otherwise), to announce my anticipated arrival date. My grandmother would start cooking a chicken curry on the Thursday ready for my arrival on a Friday afternoon. I would then cycle from home just outside Reading, down through the New Forest to get the ferry from Lymington to Yarmouth, then on to the grandparents at Wootton Bridge. Saturday would be spent riding round or around the Isle of Wight, before cycling home on the Sunday.

Somehow I can't imagine many parents allowing their 14/15 year old do trips like that nowadays. What a shame.

By far the most pleasant and uplifting account of caravaning we've had on here today....it kind of gives me hope.

 

[AAAC 76C]

I have bought caravan on LP, 8 track, cassette, CD and iTunes and it has nothing but good memories. One of Van's best.

I thought Caravan was a group from Canterbury, England who released LP's such as 'The Land of Grey and Pink' ('where all the Bou Scouts go to think'and similar deep and meaningful lyrics that seemed so cool in the 70's)

 

[BILL S]

Which is not long enough for an FTP

Luckily for me probably.

 

[Add]

How about this?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/d.../Pico-de-Veleta-cycling-Europes-highest-road/

No problem for a seasoned bkooler.


edit: http://www.strava.com/activities/12815547

Omg Bill, that doesn't look like much of a 'holiday' to me!

 

[RickB]

Starting to sound like you just want a holiday. Are you just using us as pawns to manipulate Rick into taking you away?

Already in hand dear boy. Big family holiday sorted this year .... doesn't include bikes though

 

[BILL S]

Omg Bill, that doesn't look like much of a 'holiday' to me!

Beer afterwards then six days relaxing. Sounds like a good holiday to me!!

 

[Soarerv8]

Sorry mate, I'm essentially a coward... How about a video link?

You would probably want your face fuzzied out like on tv to protect your identity.

 

[Soarerv8]

By far the most pleasant and uplifting account of caravaning we've had on here today....it kind of gives me hope.

Yes and it is words like that that lead to people owning the accursed things.

 

[AAAC 76C]

By far the most pleasant and uplifting account of caravaning we've had on here today....it kind of gives me hope.

For me it was 4 of us kids packed into the back seat of a Wolsey 4/44 (UKJ876, I can still remeber it) towing a trailer tent, that was once owned by Stiring Moss (apparently), all the way from Kent to the New Forest, Bridport and closer to home Brighton.
Loved every minute of it, once we got there, sorrounded by the big outdoors and no feeling of missing those gadgets and games from home, as we had none.
We had the freedom to roam the Forest, the Beach and the Sea all day with no parental supervision. How times have changed!

Luckily my eldest Brother had joined the Army when he was 151/2 and my eldest sister was already busy making her own family as six of us would have been a squeeze on the back seat.

 

[Add]

Beer afterwards then six days relaxing. Sounds like a good holiday to me!!

Now we're on the same page Bill. Let's get the DD under our belts first. Have you got yourself some good gloves this year?

 

[<Tommy>]

You would probably want your face fuzzied out like on tv to protect your identity.

Ha!

Probably best if we don't take any chances and just use an actor...

 

[AAAC 76C]

Now we're on the same page Bill. Let's get the DD under our belts first. Have you got yourself some good gloves this year?

Do they still brew Double Diamond, haven't seen that for years but then again I don't get out much on account of being worn out from trying to stay fit!