The "Photos From Today's Ride" thread...

[Silver940]

Here's a house




..waits for yellowjack

[yellowjack]

Silver940 said:

Here's a house




..waits for yellowjack

A 'Spooky House' at that. "You rang?"




Just a shame I didn't take the picture from the same spot, for a true "now you see it..." comparison. If it stops raining I'll ride out and try to match Silver940's original photo more closely.

(And check out how green those trees have got in the thirteen days between those photos! Nature works fast when the sun comes out.)

[Silver940]

yellowjack said:

(And check out how green those trees have got in the thirteen days between those photos! Nature works fast when the sun comes out.)

Good grief!

[Daveyraveygravey]

JustinF said:

cracking shot and good bike skills

+1! (Although he is stationary!)

[mcelliott]

JPJPJP said:

That is quite a day in the saddle!

What's the story?

http://veloviewer.com/everesting/578544370

Edited by mcelliott on Wednesday 18th May 19:33

[thiscocks]

Banana Boy said:

JustinF said:

thiscocks said:

There is loads of room on the path ffs

Yup, that parking is considerate to everyone, enough path for a double buggy, leaves enough road for a fire engine. I park like this every day a mile from work.

Oh ok, I stand corrected, footpath is code for car park and fire engines need a lane and a half to manoeuvre through a main road. Noted.

So he should just abandon the car fully in the road so cars have to stop behind it with oncoming traffic just in case someone with the widest wheelchair known to man might have to put a wheel on the grass. Noted.

[anonymous-user]

mcelliott said:

http://veloviewer.com/everesting/578544370

Edited by mcelliott on Wednesday 18th May 19:33

Magnificent effort, well done

I bet you know every pothole and other feature of that stretch if road now!

[mcelliott]

JPJPJP said:

Magnificent effort, well done

I bet you know every pothole and other feature of that stretch if road now!

Every inch!

[tuffer]

thiscocks said:

So he should just abandon the car fully in the road so cars have to stop behind it with oncoming traffic just in case someone with the widest wheelchair known to man might have to put a wheel on the grass. Noted.

Yes, just like all the other people parked on the same road.
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[JustinF]

thiscocks said:

Banana Boy said:

JustinF said:

thiscocks said:

There is loads of room on the path ffs

Yup, that parking is considerate to everyone, enough path for a double buggy, leaves enough road for a fire engine. I park like this every day a mile from work.

Oh ok, I stand corrected, footpath is code for car park and fire engines need a lane and a half to manoeuvre through a main road. Noted.

So he should just abandon the car fully in the road so cars have to stop behind it with oncoming traffic just in case someone with the widest wheelchair known to man might have to put a wheel on the grass. Noted.

[Banana Boy]

tuffer said:

thiscocks said:

So he should just abandon the car fully in the road so cars have to stop behind it with oncoming traffic just in case someone with the widest wheelchair known to man might have to put a wheel on the grass. Noted.

Yes, just like all the other people parked on the same road.

Bless, I understand that this is a difficult concept for many drivers these days but yes. At some points during your journey you may have to slow down or stop to negotiate things like junctions, bus stops, round abouts, parked cars even.

If you remember back to your driving lessons you should have been taught to park near the kerb (but not on it) etc. and other road users would have to manoeuvre around you. Equally if you approached a parked car then maybe, just maybe you'll need to slow down or even stop to allow on coming traffic to clear before indicating and moving around it.

Also, 'just in case someone with the widest wheelchair known to man might have to put a wheel on the grass', not only are there some pretty wide wheel chairs our there but in this case the wheel chair user would have to be in the bushes or on the road not 'on the grass'! Doesn't seem very fair or considerate really?!



So sorry to have clogged a perfectly good thread with this, I kind of wish I'd just bitten my tongue now!

[yellowjack]

Banana Boy said:

So sorry to have clogged a perfectly good thread with this, I kind of wish I'd just bitten my tongue now!

I'm regretting posting the picture too! I had hoped to raise a froth, but more for the wrap (I'm guessing that it isn't paint?) than the parking. It may still find itself in the 'badly modified' and 'bad parking' threads, but more likely I won't bother as it's not exactly an extreme example of either.

That said, I have to admit I'm in the "don't park like that, there's no need" camp. I rode down there, after all, and had no issues either myself, or with oncoming traffic, getting past the cars parked fully in the carriageway. It's not the sort of road that looks to get busy enough to cause delays by parking properly, a bit of negotiation and timing it right and you could drive through just lifting the throttle occasionally to match your pace with oncoming traffic passing the parked cars.

I certainly wouldn't park on the footway, unless it was expressly permitted (my sister's street has super-wide footways with 'half bays' painted on the footway). If parking in one street meant obstructing a footway to avoid obstructing the carriageway, I'd park in another street and walk further. Inconsiderate in the extreme to potentially force wheelchair user, or a parent with a double buggy out onto the carriageway for totally selfish reasons...

[Silver940]

From today's lunch spin out from the office



Enjoyed riding round Windsor Great Park

[Gruffy]

Finished building the thing late on Wednesday night and then started riding from London to Bilbao on Thursday.


Day 1 https://theadventurecapitalist.wordpress.com/2016/...

Day 2 took me through Le Mans https://theadventurecapitalist.wordpress.com/2016/...



A few more blog entries to follow, once I've found some time to cobble my notes and photos together.

[Banana Boy]

Gruffy said:

...posted links to his London-Bilbao ride blog...

That is one seriously epic ride! Chapeau! As they say!

I should have been getting ready for work but reading the blog entries were well worth it!

May the cycling gods be kind to you on the rest of your ride!

(I'd be in the queue for race number #13 too, I love the number 13! - just remember to wear it upside down!)

[Gruffy]

Day 3's entry is now live too.
http://wp.me/p6RY6c-11m

[macp]

Loving the blog gruffy I will be with you electronically although wish I was there instead. Bon Courage


"I’d love to share the Strava file with you but my Edge 810 shat itself and lost the ride. I hate that bd thing with a passion".

"I’d stared Fate square in the eyes and given it the big ‘fk you!’"

[yellowjack]

65 miles and 4,500ft of climbing for me yesterday in the wilds of Surrey...


The 'Devils Punchbowl' Hindhead. Never fails to raise a "Wow!" when I ride up there.


The very top of Hindhead Common. I raised an eyebrow from a MTBer as I descended a gully back to the main path.


Looking toward the next part of my ride, down there somewhere to get under the A3 and up to Guildford.


I found this 'new' hill. Bowlhead Green Road, I think it was called, near the village of Brook. So much fun that I rode back up it a couple of times, too!


Bowlhead Green Village. Very pretty, and very, very quiet.


I want this house!!!!


A farm that looks like it includes a lot of a ruined Abbey. The lake was full of fish too, plenty of them jumping even in the short period I stopped for the picture.


Looking back from Down Lane, Guildford, to Hindhead Common, where those first few pictures were taken.


'Arty' use of barbed wire fence to frame a shot? You betcha!


Something's up with my camera. Sorry about the 'lens flare' - I had to dump a bunch of Devil's Punchbowl shots that were ruined by it , and the sun wasn't even out! Guildford Cathedral, as viewed from up on The Mount.

[Pot Odds]

Some nice pics of Surrey above YJ.

Video of one of my favourite sections on a loop down to Frensham Pond - familiar to Hampshire locals i'm sure. Best watched in 720 hd as YouTube compression really downgrades the quality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xrookj8DNw

PO

[macp]

Nice pics YJ, man do we live in a beautiful country.