htrider wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 2:03 pm Off up north to see friends, drink beer, have a barby and do some normal mountainbiking i.e. where we spend more time chatting than riding

Oh dear! I misread that as "have a baby"

whitestone wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 3:21 pm

htrider wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 2:03 pm Off up north to see friends, drink beer, have a barby and do some normal mountainbiking i.e. where we spend more time chatting than riding

Oh dear! I misread that as "have a baby"

I think that's a correct reading actually - it'll be a euphemistic baby after all that beer n BBQ .

Oh I don’t know about that reg, my son was born about 9 months after a Gogol Bordello gig, there was definitely beer involved

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SkkIwO_X4i4


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K3SUPPeuRdU

Cracking day on the Anglesey coast

It was cheery Friday until a quarter of an hour ago. All packed ready to go, tomorrow, on a 5 week sailing adventure on a tall ship around the Western Isles. Then got the call from Test & Trace.

My big adventure has gone up in smoke - isolating at home until 18th June. I don't yet know if I can join the ship after that - I'd still have 4 weeks left - but it all hangs on whether the ship will be somewhere reachable.

"If you want to give the Devil a laugh", the saying goes, "tell him your plans." Never a truer word was spoke.

^^^
That is rotten news, feel for you having to do that

Jaysus, Lu, that gave me a real lurch in the stomach on your behalf. Massive commiserations. Fukc, fukc, fukc.

RIP wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 7:42 pm Jaysus, Lu, that gave me a real lurch in the stomach on your behalf. Massive commiserations. Fukc, fukc, fukc.

Ah well! The saying, "It is what it is..." was coined for just such occasions as this. And, all may not yet be lost I've only got to isolate until 18th - that's only 5 days later than I should have started, if I can join it somewhere.

Fingers crossed Lu.

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 8:44 pm Fingers crossed Lu.

Thanks.
Toes, and eyes, and kna**ers, and eyes and even the hairs on my head. But hey, que sera sera. No point in worrying about summat you can't do owt about.

Thank god I didn’t register saying hello to you at the WRT!
Fair play to you for sticking to the sometimes ridiculous rules. Hope you can join the tub somewhere

Meant to post this yesterday, when it was actually Friday. A successful test of running around with my tent in the handlebar harness. As suspected, the feed bag was buzzing off the tyre every time we went over a bump, from about half way along the first byway. A quick looping of the paracord on the front of the bad around the Wahoo mount soon stopped that. This'll be much nicer and preferable to the current 2x 5L dry bags on the forks.

BigdummySteve wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 10:39 pm god I didn’t register saying hello to you at the WRT!

You would have been fine. I haven’t got COVID - I had it last year, and had both jabs since then. It’s just that I’ve been close to someone that’s got it, so Track'nTrace have put me and Mrs Frog in solitary confinement. She's had both jabs too. We’ve been for PCR tests today and not expecting bad news.

As to the sailing trip, they’ve said we can join when the isolation's over. That’s 19th June and the ship will be in Oban, so easy enough to get to. We'd still have 4 weeks of the trip left.

Unless something else goes wrong, of course

A new 'Boris Bike'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-c ... 7453840

I know Lu, I was just gently poking fun at the regulations, which seem now only to impact those who are responsible enough to either abide by them or like yourself have been fully vaccinated.
Still after what we’ve been through in the last 18 months can’t be too careful, meanwhile all the unvaccinated youngsters are getting ready to party again

whitestone wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 3:21 pm

htrider wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 2:03 pm Off up north to see friends, drink beer, have a barby and do some normal mountainbiking i.e. where we spend more time chatting than riding

Oh dear! I misread that as "have a baby"

That would not be cheery....

Well it certainly is for Joseph Thomas who has just finished first in Taunus bikepacking in an incredibly fast time

https://www.followmychallenge.com/live/ ... 3841,15.29

Ruby usually drags me out of bed around 5.30 because everything's dead exciting and you really ought to be outside enjoying it. However, this morning she decided to get Dee up instead so they could have a little girl time together, which got me another hour in bed

Nice pic .

Caption Contest? (*)

(*) only one rule: the caption must have the word "Stu" in it somewhere

Quite cheery here. Pissing with rain. I like rain.

No caption ideas, but what a lovely picture!

"Oh god, Stu swapped out the shampoo for superglue again, didn't he?"

Landslide wrote: ↑Fri Jun 18, 2021 9:11 am "Oh god, Stu swapped out the shampoo for superglue again, didn't he?"

"Dee Wright first off mark after Welsh husband upgrade legislation passed into law"

"I warned Stu to keep away from that hole in the driveway, now how are we going to get him out of there..."