Happy New Year, Reg

Although by now I expect you've had some kip, breakfasted and pedalled back up the garden for a proper sleep in the warm .

...an honourable munchion... Oooo...that is such a great phrase :-bd . It conjures-up an image of the chairman of the cycling club addressing the proprietor of the cafe formally, to give enthusiastic (but succinct) praise for most agreeable light refreshments. Please tell me it's a typo :YMPRAY:.

Somehow your description has made it less appealing, :sad: Sorry about that :smile: . I was a right grumpyboots yesterday - poor old Pete - partly because it's approaching the time I'd normally be jumping on a train to Welsh Wales for the Real Winter Event but also because we'd agreed to have a nic...

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 1:07 pm

Shirtsleeves? Looks like they're having fabulous weather. Most unseasonable. .

And which side of the border is that massive laser positioned?

Fantasy riding

summittoppler wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 5:16 pm
20201230_125754 by Jeff Price, on Flickr

Chilterns reality-check

RIP wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 6:03 pm

Shaf - thanks, but nope. The moving pad moves back and forward easily: it's as if the disc is sticking to the static pad. It's happened with 2 pairs of pads and after a caliper renewal, too. Something to do with the pad-disc interface, perhaps .

Broke it. :sad: Again. :(( Sticking free hub, worn rear bearings and an odd tendency for the rear cable disc brake to lock on fully (despite a change of cable, outer, caliper and pads). And it's always the MTB that fails: the "skip bike" just seems to plod on like the Top Gear Toyota Hilux...

....cos he's not THAT old :lol: . Great film. I love the traffic levels and relentlessly chirpy music :grin: . As someone on BP observed: nothing's new, including flared bars and even mug-dangling :wink: . On a more serious note: as virtually no one's going to be commuting to the office ever again, ...

Tier 4

This seems to sum up the mood of the planet
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zu3k2PJumfI

Totally bonkers and quintessentially Scooter

Thanks for the prompt.
Done.

What a fabulous story! . The role call of countries adds a layer of " " with every paragraph.

It looks like you've travelled to more places in 2020 than the rest of the inhabitants of planet Earth, combined .
Superb achievement .

BigdummySteve wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 12:22 pm

MuddyPete wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 11:55 pm Individuals .

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QereR0CViMY

Steve - I always liked your previous signature "We're all individuals: except me...".

Still brings a smile to my face...and anyone else's when I drop it into conversation .
Cheers! .

Individuals .



Auto log-out again today . Perhaps that's where everyone's gone .

Whatever I'm listening to, I'm listening to a lot of it .
According to Spotify I listened to 132,233 minutes of music and discovered 3,987 new artists .
What an ace year .

Chedar Man - That's not what I've observed. BB is a very welcoming forum, similar to YACF for audaxing. I note a few YACF stalwarts have appeared on BB during the past 2-3 years, have thrived and become part of the - ahem :roll: - "nuevo-establishment" :lol: :-bd , possibly just as a natur...

Ice Beard Surfers of Lake Superior

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vo1BzyBwZ1E

sean_iow wrote: ↑Tue Dec 01, 2020 11:25 am ...and whittle a stick into something, probably a smaller stick

So as some motivation to do some riding before the bivi...

...how about pictures of the MOST FABULOUS Christmas lights in your riding area of choice?

+1 for down trousers (or trial the concept with cheap ski sallopettes) & using a bivi-bag-in-a-tent option.

Alpinum wrote: ↑Fri Nov 27, 2020 2:31 pm https://www.pinkbike.com/news/video-the ... tupid.html[/url]

"...so many waterbottle bosses I'm getting hydrated just THINKING about it..."

An exploratory loop from Bulbarrow-Hilton-Bulbarrow, researching options for pre-and post-work blasts.
A good, well-drained, non-cheeky discovery .

https://www.instagram.com/p/CH2-q4EFw57 ... c2bvn9608y

Not a wobble (no beer involved), so must've been a bimble. Lesson learned.

And I thought the red & green lights were the entrance to Dunstable harbour .

Very nice. Impressively early bird you are matey! Didn't fancy a actual brekkie for the Breakfast thread? Kippers, kedgeree, devilled kidneys in the woods? Bet nobody was up Rushmere at that time? I've been considering that since the brekkie ride thread popped-up :-), it'd mean arranging meetings a...

Pre-brekkie bimble around the local woods. All very golden. Lovely .

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHglh1blLgl ... c35k1m6euu

An excellent weekend chasing an e-MTBer around the local countryside, complete with backyard barbecue and sparklers :-bd . https://www.instagram.com/p/CHWaeZwFQFt/?igshid=nm4pxgmn5o05 Hope everyone else had as good a time as possible :-) . If you missed a display here's the one Reg conjoured up last...

Mike Carter (One Man and His Bike author) just kept going for 3 months around the UK coastline and it changed his life for the better. Danny Wallace said "yes" to everything for a year :-bd ; he wrote a very funny book about it that was commissioned as a film and it changed his life for th...