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by RIP
Fri Sep 17, 2021 6:53 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Mini-bikepacking trip with mini people - Benno Boost E Review
Replies: 15
Views: 2775

Re: Mini-bikepacking trip with mini people - Benno Boost E Review

Was going to mention Flickr2BBLite but you're all sorted. Marvellous photos!

How come Bearlegged is still Bearlegged? Special dispensation obviously :wink: .
by RIP
Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:23 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: The story behind your BB name (and whats your usual form of address)
Replies: 206
Views: 31298

Re: The story behind your BB name (and whats your usual form of address)

I have great memories of ending up at the backstage party after their Albert Hall extravaganza. Shook Nige's hand. Didn't wash it for a week.
by RIP
Thu Sep 16, 2021 3:34 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Mini-bikepacking trip with mini people - Benno Boost E Review
Replies: 15
Views: 2775

Re: Mini-bikepacking trip with mini people - Benno Boost E Review

Sadly not :sad: .

Not sure who else uses google to host. Bit of a flickr fan meself...
by RIP
Thu Sep 16, 2021 2:45 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Mini-bikepacking trip with mini people - Benno Boost E Review
Replies: 15
Views: 2775

Re: Mini-bikepacking trip with mini people - Benno Boost E Review

PS> any chance of fixing the photos above?
by RIP
Thu Sep 16, 2021 2:42 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Bye bye access rights
Replies: 49
Views: 4563

Re: Bye bye access rights

Bearbonesnorm wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 1:19 pm I did once ask Ronnie Corbett if he was lost when I stumbled across him on the slopes of Plynlimon some years ago. :-bd
Surprised you could see him above the height of the tussocks :smile:
by RIP
Thu Sep 16, 2021 11:12 am
Forum: Anyone playing out?
Topic: Moors One Hundred 2021
Replies: 106
Views: 20716

Re: Moors One Hundred 2021

It's a fair cop guv :smile: . But.....
by RIP
Thu Sep 16, 2021 11:10 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: Bye bye access rights
Replies: 49
Views: 4563

Re: Bye bye access rights

Fair enough Stu re "lost?" but you must admit that tone of voice and expression can load that question in different ways, and it is a reasonably common substitute for "git orf moi lahnd"...
by RIP
Thu Sep 16, 2021 11:01 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Mini-bikepacking trip with mini people - Benno Boost E Review
Replies: 15
Views: 2775

Re: Mini-bikepacking trip with mini people - Benno Boost E Review

A very interesting read that, thank you. Big compliments for taking the cargo bikes on the train. As you say, rather less wieldy than yer normal MTB. Bristol to Abergavenny presumably involved a change at Newport? It must have been quite challenging shifting the bikes to the other platform whilst al...
by RIP
Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:27 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: hard-core JOGLE attempt
Replies: 19
Views: 2348

Re: hard-core JOGLE attempt

Very good! :smile:
by RIP
Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:18 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: hard-core JOGLE attempt
Replies: 19
Views: 2348

Re: hard-core JOGLE attempt

:grin:

Fair play to the guy, from now on I want you all to call me.... Jade.
by RIP
Wed Sep 15, 2021 11:50 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: hard-core JOGLE attempt
Replies: 19
Views: 2348

Re: hard-core JOGLE attempt

Jaysus I'm Mr Grump tonight but... another Jogle? Where does it all end? Hopping backwards nude with one finger in your ear? In fact I think that's been done?

Still, I'm as bad. I have to keep coming up with hare-brained ideas to stop myself getting jaded.
by RIP
Wed Sep 15, 2021 11:39 pm
Forum: Anyone playing out?
Topic: Moors One Hundred 2021
Replies: 106
Views: 20716

Re: Moors One Hundred DATE CHANGE ON P3

And the lubing :cool: Was I a gentle and considerate lover? :wink: Best post on the thread ;) What I find intriguing is we're on 103 replies in this thread and the WRT threads generally get about 2 replies. Curious why that is. Actually, and no dis to this event, but I rather like the eccentricity ...
by RIP
Wed Sep 15, 2021 7:37 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: The post man's been ...
Replies: 11450
Views: 1932326

Re: The post man's been ...

A Lunar Solo from FLV :-bd The tarp /tent / shelter / hammock / bivi collection is getting a bit silly now :lol: Are you loaning them out for a fee, like 'higher' company? :grin: :-bd I challenge Monkey to set them all up at the same time. Not next to each other, but inside each other, "Russia...
by RIP
Tue Sep 14, 2021 12:06 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Bye bye access rights
Replies: 49
Views: 4563

Re: Bye bye access rights

that view of what makes that landscape special/beautiful is a recent snapshot in multiple millenia of human activity. It calls into question the mission of National Parks to "Conserve and enhance the natural beauty, wildlife and cultural heritage" when they are preserving an industrial la...
by RIP
Mon Sep 13, 2021 9:48 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2021
Replies: 973
Views: 106040

Re: Bivvy a Month 2021

Good job you remembered by Shrewsbury at least. Can only get better. Good luck with the ride Lu.
by RIP
Mon Sep 13, 2021 8:56 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: The story behind your BB name (and whats your usual form of address)
Replies: 206
Views: 31298

Re: The story behind your BB name (and whats your usual form of address)

I tried to get - The Bikepacker Formerly Known as Lune but was turned down :wink: You're lucky - I just woke up one morning and suddenly I was someone else! Verusa - nooooooo-o-o-o don't change back now! Two confusions don't cancel out they just make double confusion! And the rest of us'd have to r...
by RIP
Mon Sep 13, 2021 7:16 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: The story behind your BB name (and whats your usual form of address)
Replies: 206
Views: 31298

Re: The story behind your BB name (and whats your usual form of address)

So are we now Bearlegged (Beerlegged?) Formerly Known As Landslide? This is all very confusticating for a simple bear/Bear like me. (and yes I know that bear :-bd ) From now on, I want you all to call me... 'Loretta'. Oh, get back, get back Get back to where you once belonged Get back, get back Get...
by RIP
Mon Sep 13, 2021 6:44 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Todays ride
Replies: 3323
Views: 629104

Re: Todays ride

MuddyPete wrote: Sun Sep 12, 2021 10:02 pm my 26" Orange P7 doesn't attract as much attention from "the ladies"
Mine does - must be something else you're [not] doing Pete :grin: .

Sounds a good laff weekend though!
by RIP
Sun Sep 12, 2021 10:38 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: BB200 fame awaits.
Replies: 24
Views: 1875

Re: BB200 fame awaits.

by RIP
Sun Sep 12, 2021 12:03 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: The story behind your BB name (and whats your usual form of address)
Replies: 206
Views: 31298

Re: The story behind your BB name (and whats your usual form of address)

PS. on the subject of names, in the past few hours, amongst many other weirdnesses which I won't go into now, I've just discovered that my chum Mark did Astrophysics for a while after he left school ("why did you stop?", "birds, booze, drugs", "ermm.. oh. er, right" sai...
by RIP
Sat Sep 11, 2021 11:37 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: The story behind your BB name (and whats your usual form of address)
Replies: 206
Views: 31298

Re: The story behind your BB name (and whats your usual form of address)

Good grief, only been away half a day and Verena is now Veruca ( were you in Charlie and the Choc Factory, V??), Landslide is some sort of ursine alter ego, and apparently I'm not Reg at all (if indeed I ever was? Er, was I?) but another gender-explorative member of the PFJ??? My attachment to reali...
by RIP
Sat Sep 11, 2021 3:25 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: The story behind your BB name (and whats your usual form of address)
Replies: 206
Views: 31298

Re: The story behind your BB name (and whats your usual form of address)

So are we now Bearlegged (Beerlegged?) Formerly Known As Landslide? This is all very confusticating for a simple bear/Bear like me.

(and yes I know that bear :-bd )

From now on, I want you all to call me... 'Loretta'.
by RIP
Fri Sep 10, 2021 9:25 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: What are you listening to now?
Replies: 1129
Views: 194628

Re: What are you listening to now?

random albums Well also obviously what I'm listening to right now: "Is It....Man Or Astroman?" :-bd (*) Followed by "1000X".. "Man Made Of CO2"..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhjamqKk_28 (*) good grief, I've just checked, and my CD is fetching fifty quid or more ...
by RIP
Fri Sep 10, 2021 8:48 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: What are you listening to now?
Replies: 1129
Views: 194628

Re: What are you listening to now?

Yes, yes... but was it Bill , or was it.... Bob ? :smile: If you remember I was keen to join in the HMHB gig at the same time as The Rezillos but "stuff" got in the way to my eternal chagrin :cry: . Not too late though chap. Gigpacking is not dead, just.... sleeping.... Essential? How far ...