Sitting on a National Express on our way to the Eurostar for a Netherlands river cruise through the tulip fields, with my parents. Third time lucky I hope, with COVID and my dad being poorly getting in the way before. Apparently they have bikes on board that we can use to explore, not the ship obvio...

Ouch Jimmy! Admirable dedication to the cause though

Oh WOW John Allen, amazing riding and stunning pictures!!!

That looks like a proper good trip V :-bd I really enjoy exploring the smoke by bike & do similar myself if i’m down there visiting family & friends, with the odd rave thrown-in. If you go again try swapping banks at St Paul’s, then heading through the city, Spitalfields & East London. ...

Just read V's report and my head is in a complete spin! A right sensory and incident overload there V, top work. Hiring 8 bikes in a row is a clever idea. Reckon the adjudicators have got to let that BaM through simply for the lunacy value. Chalk it up! I'm going out right now into our High Street ...

Raggedstone wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 11:35 am I do wonder about the company you keep V

By that I'm wondering if you mean my daughter? The people I talked to on the trip? Or you lot for wanting to cross the black mountain??

Raggedstone wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 10:36 am Yes Reg that's the one if you read your list upside down at anytime let me know .

I don't suppose your interest has anything to do with a hole in the ground does it ?

Very nice one Kev!!

Have wondered about that shelter up there!

And about the crossing over the top - count me in??

Last minute March BAM in the early hours of Easter Sunday... Here's a question for you who are guardians and interpreters of BAM rules: On the "a bike must be involved" question, are there any rules about the timescale and distances involved to make it one single "BAM" event?? Re...

Last weekend was my one year anniversary of giving audax riding a go, with a return to Barry's Bristol Butt Buster aka a total cake fest!!! (with that being one of the main attractions...) It really really is one I'd highly recommend, I realise now what a brilliant introduction that was for me to it...

This was my cheery Friday - sunshine, shorts, no jacket, up, WOW what views, down when my stomach started rumbling for some brekkie, and just in time before winter returned once more :cool: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53624858054_f96ca97ec7_b.jpg IMG_20240329_105851 by Verena Zimmer , on Fli...

Not today, but a couple of weekends back... March has been busy! Went for a weekend away to Wiltshire with Mr Z, stayed in Marlborough for a couple of nights, and I took not my bike but just my trainers and went out both mornings for a mooch along the ridgeway. This one was on the Saturday morning, ...

You know when you've been away too long when you have to scroll back 4 pages to pick up where you last left the BAM thread - back in a mo to write up my also last minute March one...

What a month folks - loving the adventure reports and photos. Sorry some of you had a rough one, and 100?! Blimey! With little energy in the tank I ticked March off the list, with a local bivvy at an old railway station not far from home. Temp was forecast to be dry and only dip as low as 5 degrees...

Bearlegged wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 11:08 pm

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Precious things, minds. Hope you can keep yours and your family's in the right place.

Yes

Stinginglip wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 9:02 pm My 2024 BaM is over. After bailing on the WinterJennride I've just couldn't find time or motivation for Feb. Good luck everyone for the rest of the year

O no - start again next month for a 12 months rolling year anyway?

Supertramp!! Of course!

I was considering insuring my bike and perhaps having a brief pootle but given that we woke to snow yesterday, I decided against bothering. Instead I will busy myself with the seemingly never ending list of tasks which require attention while I watch the droopy daffs and lambs head-butt each other....

Great idea! I agree two nights out feel completely different from just one. Not sure at all that I'd manage it this year (as foolishly aiming for super Randonneur this year) (keep saying that bit again of how 600 is "easy"?!?!), having already "failed" at Randonneur around the ye...

Ah you've beaten me to it, have just logged on to post link to the article...late to the party I see! Will have a read later on over a tea break...
And also see what else has been occurring, especially on the BAM thread, as I'd better get my furry socks into gear for this month...

gecko76 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:48 pm 'an oil bicycle' - that caught me out too recently

WTF?!?! spell checker??

For my February BAM, I made my way to a google map pin drop sent to me, at the appointed hour, which turned out to be in the middle of some random suburban street, as the sun was setting... Whereupon I was soon met by around 8 men, some strangers, some just strange :wink: , who beckoned me to follow...

Happy birthday Mike, Mike from Bromsgrove

And Sean too for the other day

What did I do next? Rolled back down the hill, had a cappuccino bought for me at the cafe at the lake there, then was driven up to Liverpool. Got dumped there by young Miss Z, and managed to put bike back together, pack and attach my bags, whilst being desperate for a wee, which I consider quite an ...

JudithG wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:44 pm Glad that I have someone willing to look after my kids and that I have the kit to travel, so I can appreciate the great outdoors in this way

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That looks great

Lazarus wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:53 pm

I then dismounted my bike in the usual style of flinging my leg over the back, forgetting I had kit back there and ended up landing on the ground.

We have all done it. ... Haven't we?

Yep