A good enough reason to be cheery!
Yay, it's cheery Friday.
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
In a break with tradition, I'm actually posting a cheery Friday post on a Friday .... project Death Trap is on the back-burner until I receive my newly reground crank and cams but as (a) I've never actually seen it in daylight and (b) it's sunny, I thought I'd drag it from the workshop and have a look. Now, I'm generally never entirely happy with anything and there'll always be something I think could be re-made or re-done better and this is perhaps no exception but all in all, I'm reasonably happy with how the thing looks ... sadly, the picture doesn't do the sparkly paint justice. There's so little of it, that it's hard to see where all the work is but I suppose the work's in making it as minimal as possible while still functioning.
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Yes that would definitely make me cheery as well lovely bit of work Stu
it looks like the sort of bike that will put a big smile on your face every time you ride it as well
it looks like the sort of bike that will put a big smile on your face every time you ride it as well
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What does give me CF feelings and a little inward giggle is picturing the conversations I will invariably be having over the coming days/ week, when people are going to ask me if I've got anything nice planned for the weekend, or When's your next adventure?
And I'm going to have to somehow say to them that I'm going away for the weekend with a dozen or so blokes I've never met before (who call themselves Boners) - but it's ok, I know them from the internet
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And I'm going to have to somehow say to them that I'm going away for the weekend with a dozen or so blokes I've never met before (who call themselves Boners) - but it's ok, I know them from the internet
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
I’m on a train with a fully packed bike. Yay!
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Is it B150 this weekend?
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He's only down the road. Thought he'd have ridden there wouldn't you?Is it B150 this weekend?
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Fri Jul 16, 2021 6:47 am In a break with tradition, I'm actually posting a cheery Friday post on a Friday .... project Death Trap......
Superb! Starting to look like something (*)
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(*) something evil and badass
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However, <crocdundee>Call that a cam? This is a cam [follower]</crocdundee>
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
So you're expecting a dirty weekend!
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Oh why do I suddenly I think of Benidorms' Donald & Jacqueline , 'Oh, Yes!'
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Indeed - just putting a few last bits int' van and then I shall be heading south to the seaside. Today's activities include packrafting, cave exploration and Greggs and tomorrow I shall be cycling very slowly and thinking of excuses why ![Thumbs up! :-bd](./images/smilies/113.gif)
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
As a lapsed caver I need to know about these caves Stu
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Dan yr Ogof?
We go out into the hills to lose ourselves, not to get lost. You are only lost if you need to be somewhere else and if you really need to be somewhere else then you're probably in the wrong place to begin with.
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While awaiting this week's Death Trap update I've just been out to water my little babies at the bottom of the garden. This year's brood of oak saplings. Collected acorns last Autumn from various places. Sprouted 'em over the winter. Planted ten out in pots in February. This is them after only 5 months. As with all families every one is quite different. Only lost one which is good going (the pot at the front). One holly on the right, to confuse the oaks. Amazing really, the power of things wanting to be alive. Next winter I'll plant them out down by the river with their relatives from previous years. Every year for about the past six years I've sprouted ten or so acorns and planted out the ones from the year before. Quite a little mini-forest on the go now, obviously with six different heights.
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Snap, I so wanted to ask that too....
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maybe http://www.ogof.org.uk/areas/sout ... aves.html
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Sort it Reg
Bivy in Ogof Fynnon Du at the top of Salubrious
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Koki. Added to the to-do list.
OFD... hmm
. LNRC was the scariest one I did round there.
OFD... hmm
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"My God, Ponsonby, I'm two-thirds of the way to the grave and what have I done?" - RIP
The sign outside the asylum is the wrong way round.....
"At least you got some stories" - James Acaster
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"At least you got some stories" - James Acaster
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Maybe interestingly, or not, the sleeping bag I use to this day was purchased back in the mid 90s, specifically as there was to be an overnight Dan Yr Ogof trip. It never happened - but I love the sleeping bag :)
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You could always do a DYO overnight in the intended bag 30 years late
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The sign outside the asylum is the wrong way round.....
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Stu this will make you smile.
Just seen a post of someone I know starting the French Divide ITT today, so I googled it and look what I found (read carefully)
https://www.frenchdivide.com/en/a-propo ... ch-divide/
Just seen a post of someone I know starting the French Divide ITT today, so I googled it and look what I found (read carefully)
https://www.frenchdivide.com/en/a-propo ... ch-divide/
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