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classic33

Leg End Member
Thought Happy Valley was excellent.
Morning all.
It's not raining at the moment.


Same here, a good start.
I'm going out on the bike later, just a ten mile loop, but far enough to keep the legs ticking over.
They did wonders with the swimming pool.* Never looked that good when open to the public.

*Halifax Police Station.
 
not a full length ride - just to the airport and back but did include the leg to the control tower so that makes it just over 16 miles

did manage to get wet feet due to a flooded road - which I though they fixed a few years ago - but looks like they need another go. Anyway it was just deeper than the left pedal - which was not clear until I felt water in my shoe

yuk
 

classic33

Leg End Member
not a full length ride - just to the airport and back but did include the leg to the control tower so that makes it just over 16 miles

did manage to get wet feet due to a flooded road - which I though they fixed a few years ago - but looks like they need another go. Anyway it was just deeper than the left pedal - which was not clear until I felt water in my shoe

yuk
Your pedals are at two seperate heights*, or you have no right-hand pedal?

*At Bottom dead centre
 

welsh dragon

Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
We had sausage rolls. We were not very hungry.
 

PaulSB

Squire
Wonderful day for a ride with sunshine and 3-4⁰C most of the way. 58 miles with 15.7avg.........then the legs went........home with 66 and 14.7avg. Not too shabby for a winter bike. I need to shift some kilos.

Have I ever mentioned two young women who are ex British Cycling ride with the club? Possibly not. They turned up to the ride today. Great talent and wonderful discipline to sit in or take the front at the right pace...........while making it look depressingly easy.

The quilted Galibier gilet is very good. Toasty.
 
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CharleyFarley

Senior Member
Location
Japan
We had sausage rolls. We were not very hungry.

My wife makes awesome sausage rolls. It's always been a Christmas tradition with us but somehow it got missed this last Christmas. We came to the USA in 1978 and Americans (we met) didn't know what sausage rolls were. They do, now, and love them. A blob of Colman's yellow mustard on them, they're a meal fit for a king. Some are even making their own.
 

12boy

Guru
Location
Casper WY USA
The anticipated blizzard has been as promised so far and will still continue through tomorrow. The stout NE winds will taper off around noon today and at some point tomorrow will be stout SW winds. It may blow a lot of this away but the temps will not get much above freezing till Thursday so there won't be biking for a while. I am glad I stocked up on perishable food stuff since the roads will be funky for the grocery trucks for a while. Tonight will be pink trout, green beans and some linguine.
I found a book at the library on sheepherder wagons and the people who made them and lived in them. A really large proportion were made in central Wyoming and used here for the 1 1/2 million sheep that were once raised here. Nowadays the lamb in the supermarket comes from New Zealand although some woolies can still be seen here. One sheepherder lady discussed living in one with -54F nights, having to keep her head below the blankets so her face would not get frostbitten. Makes this weather seem pretty tame in comparison. I will take mine to the mountains nearby in the summer and do a little glamping in honor of those hardass sheepherders.
Be safe and warm....
 
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