The Retirement Thread

[pawl]

BBC for light winds 14 MPH.Is that wind speed classified as light .My classification is b%#£# hard work when it’s a head wind or is just I’m doddering old git Don’t answer that

 

[Mo1959]

BBC for light winds 14 MPH.Is that wind speed classified as light .My classification is b%#£# hard work when it’s a head wind or is just I’m doddering old git Don’t answer that

I wouldn't call that light. I think light is up to 5mph. Even the draught from a big lorry going the opposite way slows me down these days!

 

[pawl]

I wouldn't call that light. I think light is up to 5mph. Even the draught from a big lorry going the opposite way slows me down these days!

Thanks for that Mo I might go and do a dodder 🚴‍♀️🚴🏻‍♂️🚴‍♀️

 

[Mo1959]

Thanks for that Mo I might go and do a dodder 🚴‍♀️🚴🏻‍♂️🚴‍♀️

Try and plan a little route heading out into it to start. Always nice to get a tailwind home when the legs are getting tired.

 

[numbnuts]

I've just put my summer quilt on the bed as I was hot last night

 

[Mo1959]

I've just put my summer quilt on the bed as I was hot last night

I've had a 3 tog all winter. I am always hot in bed!

 

[BoldonLad]

I've had a 3 tog all winter. I am always hot in bed!

Steady on there @Mo1959 , think of us poor lads, and our Blood Pressure

 

[classic33]

Thanks
Yes - basically it is at the Widnes end of the canal - place called Spike Island just by the Widnes end of the old Widnes Runcorn bridge

You can ride right the way through to it from Sankey Bridges - it starts near the tip (sorry - recycling centre!) past the old power station
Spike Island is quite a nice place - views of all 3 bridges and the Mersey Estuary and you can also ride on through along the banks of the Mersey (past some factories!) and through to Pickerings Pasture - which is a nice grassy place on the banks with view across the river
You can then ride through to Hale Village and through to the airport and onto Speke Hall

You ever been there looking for the ghosts?

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Steady on there @Mo1959 , think of us poor lads, and our Blood Pressure

Thank goodness someone got it and commented on that before I did

again

anyway - looke like a lovely day again - great day for a ride around the canals

excpet that I am banned from riding due the broken (only cracked really so it would be OK - honest dear????????)
and also we are going away on Monday for a few days and I need to go shopping for some shorts as my "little incident" on my bike has rather destroyed my favourite shorts

on which point - they had a 9 inch rip down the bum area on the left
and another one about 3 inchea long at the rear groin level on the right

and MY WIFE didn;t notice when I was walking around the house for several hours like that - and let me go to the Walk-in Centre like that

clearly the marriage is not in the "first heady days" anymore!!!!!!!!

 

[numbnuts]

I've had a 3 tog all winter. I am always hot in bed!

My Ex use to say that I was hot in bed, I wasn't, it was her that was so bloody cold …......in more ways than one

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

My Ex use to say that I was hot in bed, I wasn't, it was her that was so bloody cold …......in more ways than one

We are both hot in bed

temperature wise that is

On holidays in hot places we need a king or super-king sized bed so we can get far enough away from each other!!!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

We ride through Sankey Valley on gravel routes and always enjoy it, lovely place. I think we ride along a filled in section of the St Helens canal but never seen anything like @ebikeerwidnes describes. Can you be a bit more specific about where it is?

Our Lad has a bike for getting to and from work and thats all he does, whats parts of Sankey Valley he rides I don't know but he lives not far from there.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I've been for a bimble, my Meriden loop, the slowest one I do these days, includes the long drag up Harvest Hill Lane and the climb up Cornets End lane, 25 miles ridden and the first one since I started riding again that I truly enjoyed, no mechanicals or trips into the scenery, lovely morning, bright, sunny and breezy, cool at first but getting warm as the ride progressed, by the end of the ride I was over dressed, I was working like a slave into the breeze and flying before it, great fun and should help my fitness. I enjoyed that.

 

[welsh dragon]

I have been decoupaging terracotta plant pots. 🪴

Mr WD is pulling weed out of the pond and hacking trees back to let some sunlight in.

its hots here and I have no idea what we are having to eat yet.

 

[gavroche]

Salut. After walking the dogs on Angel Bay, I went for a 26 kms ride before it gets too hot. We are having another viewing on Monday afternoon so I must cut the grass sometime before tomorrow night and it won't be today.