whoops! are we pub bores?

[dellzeqq]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/active/6694726/Cycle-diary-route-finding.html

apparently we're obsessed with routes.

guilty as charged, m'lud

he is a complete plank, though - like a sack of spuds on the saddle. And, unless he improves in a hurry, he's paste.

 

[iLB]

30 seconds of my life i'll never get back

 

[garrilla]

"Avoiding right turns is not a bad idea as well,"

Many moons ago, in a time before kids when weekends were endless, we used to go for long rides only turning left with the aim of divining a route as we went so that when got home or to our destination we would draw the route on the map to see what kind of arcs we had travelled and if we had crossed our paths.

A long cherised route took us 52 miles but never leaving the city of Liverpool boundaries and only crossing paths once.

I've always a been a big fan of routes. Pre-bike I used to love to plan how we'd get to a destination in my dad's van or with my mum on the buses etc. But since my early teens and with the aid of a bike I especially love divergence that concludes in territorial definition. The moment when a whole network of roads and geographies are plug together into a GIS of the mind as a whole understood space is great experience for me. And with this exception, where I do differ from many routists is I'm not bothered about discoveries.

 

[Bollo]

Just got a plaster to stem the flow of blood from that cutting-edge journalism. With his talent for insight, he should write something about cars...

"They've got three pedals, sometimes two on posh ones and you have to press them in the right order or you'll crash"

Or how about trains...

"The train drivers are able to balance the carriages on the thin bits of metal called rails. Sometimes you have top sit next to a man who smells a bit like wee."

 

[neslon]

Apparently the Telecrap plans to make most of its money by charging for access to the website. Good job they've got their finger on the pulse (oops, sorry, just remembered most of their reader are already dead)

 

[Fab Foodie]

Apparently the Telecrap plans to make most of its money by charging for access to the website. Good job they've got their finger on the pulse (oops, sorry, just remembered most of their reader are already dead)

Oi! I'm not dead, I just seem that way...

 

[Cab]

How the heck does that qualify as journalism?

 

[MacB]

If I leave home and take every left turn, that isn't a dead end, I arrive back at home after about 3 miles. If I go down the dead ends and back out it's about 4 miles.

 

[iLB]

If I leave home and take every left turn, that isn't a dead end, I arrive back at home after about 3 miles. If I go down the dead ends and back out it's about 4 miles.

i'd be back home after 400 yards lol

 

[Plax]

I think I'd be home in less than half a mile. I'll have to try it the next time I'm bored.

 

[Norm]

If I leave home and take every left turn, that isn't a dead end, I arrive back at home after about 3 miles. If I go down the dead ends and back out it's about 4 miles.

One of my kids' favourite rides does that. It's about 5 miles and involves 12 left turns, if you include the one out of the garage.

 

[PBancroft]

"They've got three pedals, sometimes two on posh ones and you have to press them in the right order or you'll crash"

You owe me a cup of tea and a keyboard.

 

[Gandalf]

So we have a supposedly professional journalist coming out with 'different to'.....I despair.

 

[jimboalee]

Apparently the Telecrap plans to make most of its money by charging for access to the website. Good job they've got their finger on the pulse (oops, sorry, just remembered most of their reader are already dead)

I always knew that rag as "The Daily Bellylaugh".

In my precise filing system, this will go into the "timewaste" section.


May I suggest he tries a route via China and Mexico next time he rides to work.

 

[Wheeledweenie]

It's all nonsense anyway. When a bit lost I just follow those nice gentlemen and ladies standing on corners waving me on..... Or is that just on night rides??