What's your impossible project?

[deptfordmarmoset]

I've got this strange cycling routine. I decided about 3 years ago that I'd ''ride every road'' in my area. Since then I've ridden every cyclable road (no tunnels or motorway-style roads) in an 80 square mile area of where I live.

Now clearly, this little project is completely impossible to complete, but at least I can slowly make it bigger and I get an odd pleasure out of knowing that in some way it's ''my London,'' even if I very often have no idea where I am within the area (all I know is that I've been here before...). I've learnt all-too intimately that the domestic urban ideal is to live in a dead end you can drive to. And I'm now pretty good at tight U-turns. Also, farting around in dead-end streets really makes your average speed take a nose dive at first.

So, is there anybody apart from me who's decided to ''own ''every road around their home? Or have you got a dafter project?

 

[TheDoctor]

I was truly delighted when I found a road 15 miles away that I'd not ridden.
I reckon that I've ridden pretty much every road within 25 miles of me.
Including the non-motorway bit of the A1.
My other impossible project is going into space. Still working on that one...

 

[Brains]

Well at least you will now be qualified to drive a rickshaw

 

[TheDoctor]

What, me? I'd love a rickshaw!!

 

[PBancroft]

My impossible project is to cycle the coast of mainland Great Britain (or the nearest cyclable part thereof). I had once planned to take a sabbatical at 35 to do it. I'm edging 30 now and thats starting to look a bit unrealistic.

 

[Brains]

What, me? I'd love a rickshaw!!

OP, not you !

London's Black Cabbies need to do 'the knowledge' which involves knowing all the major and many of the minor roads in London, and how to get from one to the other.
It would appear the OP may be on his way to a qualification

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Mine is to understand the female mind.

 

[ColinJ]

I decided about 3 years ago that I'd ''ride every road'' in my area.

I had a similar idea, but quickly decided that I have no desire to visit every rough estate in Rochdale, Bradford (where-ever). In fact, I have no interest in riding any roads in any city or large town, unless I absolutely have to to get to somewhere more pleasant! Taking the original idea though, and transplanting it to somewhere else nearby - I have thought about riding every road in the Yorkshire Dales and The Forest of Bowland. Much more doable, and much more interesting! In fact, I reckon that project would make a great series of forum rides ...

My seemingly impossible non-cycling project is to earn enough online to pay my bills, do some urgent repair work on my house, afford a couple of decent holidays a year, buy a few nice things now and then (a Ti touring bike, android tablet, that kind of stuff), save enough to pay the £60k off on my house, and eventually enough to retire on, so I reckon I need to earn about £1 million over 10 years! Some people do it ... It's just - I don't! It isn't impossible, but it does seem desperately unlikely.

(Anybody who has any interesting suggestions for how I can average £100k a year beavering away at my PC for about 50 hours a week, feel free to PM me! PS No dodgy suggestions involving webcams! )

 

[MattHB]

My impossible mission is to feed the whole famIly successfully tomorrow for Christmas dinner!

 

[Archie_tect]

Mine is to understand the female mind.

That's just deluded....

 

[Blue]

That's just deluded....

What, the female mind? How true.

 

[Archie_tect]

Oh no, you're not catching me out on Christmas Eve... all women are wonderful and perfect and lovely.... especially Mrs A_T.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

(Anybody who has any interesting suggestions for how I can average £100k a year beavering away at my PC for about 50 hours a week, feel free to PM me! PS No dodgy suggestions involving webcams! )

..simples..all you have to do is figure out the female mind, then sell your findings to every guy on planet earth...in fact, if you do that you will probably be able to sell your 'user pack' for £10,000 a clip...with an average time to close each sale of ..oooh a minute....so that's £100,000 for ten minutes work at the pc....leaving you the rest of your life to sit on a caribean beach and reflect on how much better you have made your fellow mans worlds.

 

[ColinJ]

..simples..all you have to do is figure out the female mind, then sell your findings to every guy on planet earth...in fact, if you do that you will probably be able to sell your 'user pack' for £10,000 a clip...with an average time to close each sale of ..oooh a minute....so that's £100,000 for ten minutes work at the pc....leaving you the rest of your life to sit on a caribean beach and reflect on how much better you have made your fellow mans worlds.

Sorted! Hang on a minute, where's my notepad ...

 

[BigonaBianchi]

where's my notepad ...

some bird nicked it?





Just kidding ladies