The Retirement Thread
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GM
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- North of the river
I've been thinking of doing the same, ironically there was a chap on FB this morning talking about the same...
...but I think this is going a bit too far....
classic33
Leg End Member
Something for those having a go at the weather.
Twenty five years ago, today, you'll have been complaining about the heat(dropping as low as 25°C some nights). The grass was burnt, the roads were melting and you'll have been praying for a bit of cool weather, rain even!
Twenty five years ago, today, you'll have been complaining about the heat(dropping as low as 25°C some nights). The grass was burnt, the roads were melting and you'll have been praying for a bit of cool weather, rain even!
gavroche
Getting old but not past it
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- North Wales
I also remember 1976 very well . That was some summer too.
classic33
Leg End Member
As was the summer of 1982.
Yes.....76 was a standout year.
We had a week on Anglesey in the April and 2 weeks in Cornwall later on.
We were nearly black (can I say that?).
82 was also a good year.
Cant really recall the 25 years ago one....95??
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Rain stopped play. 
I got as far as the right turn for Purley Chase, by then it was p*****g down, I turned through Birchley Heath and rode for home, got in looking like a drowned rat, then did that jeans advert thing, stood in the kitchen peeling off wet clothes and chucking them in the washing machine, so only a measly 22 miles for me today. There was no rain in the weather forecast this morning and I've also got washing out, its now wetter than it was when I put it out.
I got as far as the right turn for Purley Chase, by then it was p*****g down, I turned through Birchley Heath and rode for home, got in looking like a drowned rat, then did that jeans advert thing, stood in the kitchen peeling off wet clothes and chucking them in the washing machine, so only a measly 22 miles for me today. There was no rain in the weather forecast this morning and I've also got washing out, its now wetter than it was when I put it out.
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1976 I was living in a grotty bedsit, was running around on a new motorbike, an MZ250, and working in a small radio/TV workshop. I remember when the drought finally broke, I was in London and rode home up the M1 and M45 in a torrential down pour.
gavroche
Getting old but not past it
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- North Wales
I remember the winter of 1995, very cold. We just moved house and there was no central heating in the new one !! We also had a tree fall down across the drive on Christmas day and peacocks that escaped from the local zoo , in our garden.
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The winter of 2010 is one that stands out. I'd just started a new job and I remember riding in some mornings when the temperature was down below -11, we also had a lot of snow that winter, I'm sure the snow started in November, there was one road on the commute that was never treated, I remember tip toeing down the hill one morning on a mixture of frozen snow and sheet ice with a 3.5 ton truck practically sat on my rear mudguard.
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Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
T'was the year I broke my pelvis trying to break the sound barrier on a Raleigh Chopper. Word is that Chuck Yaegar said a prayer for my recovery.
Mo1959
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- Perthshire,Scotland
With the position of the gear changer on the Chopper, you are lucky you didn’t damage anything else!
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
In 1976 I had a 3 year old and a 1 year old and I was trying to keep them cool. I hated that weather.
2010 was so cold here In Wales and the snow was 2 or 3 feet deep. We couldn't get off the property for 3 weeks as the lane was cpmpletely blocked by snow.
2010 was so cold here In Wales and the snow was 2 or 3 feet deep. We couldn't get off the property for 3 weeks as the lane was cpmpletely blocked by snow.
Mo1959
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- Perthshire,Scotland
1976 we were holidaying on a boat on the Norfolk Broads and I got sunstroke! Pretty sure 2010 would be the year I had some horrendous drives in deep snow getting to and from work.
