Apologies Dave
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I've failed to find a pic* I remember of 5 or 6 Audax Ecosse riders huddled together in a disabled toilet during a wet 4 or 600km ride (Edinburgh/Preston?).
It neatly summed up the rock 'n roll lifestyle of living high on the hog enjoyed by audaxers ;D not
IIRC Damon's abode was the turn round control?
* I'm hoping someone else can find it.
One of my work colleagues (aged 51, right in the target range) has had to give up running and is starting cycling. He asked me about the various types of riding and I included audax. He's joined Audax UK and I shall enjoy showing him these pictures :)
I wondered who had the disabled toilet key.
Er, yeah, all about the food.
And the zeds.
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No foties atm, but wrt the title, the best "this chimes totally with how I feel" moment I ever saw was a graffito on a bus shelter near the end of an audax: it said simply, "I feel so much better now I've given up hope."If you ever need the gents at Knighton (e.g. on the BCM), you might read:
Riffing on the supermarket catchphrase thing, these photos show that Audaxers are "passionate about being passionless". ;D
Barlinecka is a firm making wooden flooring, so those are Poles riding on planks.
how much per year do you have to be spending on Ginsters and milkshake to have a Garage chain think you're worth sponsoring!
No pasties in Poland. They'll be fed on lard and onion sandwiches, lots of bacon and dumplings. Perhaps they could get sponsorship from this firm, (http://www.jawo.pl/?co=products&act=show&m1=1&m2=&m3=&m4=&id=1) who already seem to sponsor some kind of cheerleading thing.
It doesn't necessarily follow, of course, that it would be a better idea to switch to negative visualisation instead. Yet that is precisely one of the conclusions that emerges from Stoicism, a school of philosophy that originated in Athens a few years after the death of Aristotle, and that came to dominate western thinking about happiness for nearly five centuries.
For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility – not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word "happiness". And tranquility was to be achieved not by chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances. One way to do this, the Stoics argued, was by turning towards negative emotions and experiences: not shunning them, but examining them closely instead.
I've tracking down some Japanese photos. I'm not convinced about putting those tents up on the gravel of a river bed.Not the bed, but the flood plain. AFAIK Japan doesn't have rivers that dry up, but it has a lot that get much bigger at times, usually at the same times of the year. There are many of them with big dykes to limit the overflow. In urban areas the areas inside the dykes are often filled with sports fields & picnic grounds, & in the countryside they're popular for hiking & picnicking. That (& anglers) is probably what the car park next to that site is for.
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They seem to be having fun, I like the plywood table structure, it probably dismantles for transport.
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Yeah, I got that! But I'm not familiar with Polish filling stations, only having owned a car for six months there and never liking to frequent them on other occasions. I'd go with your suggestions of Coke, crisps (Lays being the leading brand, I think it's based in Belgium) and biscuits - Polish jaffa cakes, known as delicje, live up to the implication of their name and are available in a far wider range of flavours than their Anglo-saxon cousins. I'd expect bigger stations also feature a counter serving hot toasted baguettes with cheese, tomato sauce and maybe bacon, you might also get hot pierogi if you're lucky. No lard and onion sarnies though, that's a home thing and mostly rural at that.No pasties in Poland. They'll be fed on lard and onion sandwiches, lots of bacon and dumplings. Perhaps they could get sponsorship from this firm, (http://www.jawo.pl/?co=products&act=show&m1=1&m2=&m3=&m4=&id=1) who already seem to sponsor some kind of cheerleading thing.
The suggestion was that they were getting sponsorship from BP as a chain of filling stations. What do they keep in their chilled cabinets in Poland?
We have the chance to organize the first ever Flèche in India. The chosen location is Hampi. Hampi is central enough in South India that we can expect teams based in Bangalore, Goa, Pune, Mumbai and Hyderabad to take part. It is a region of historical significance and should be a fun place to gather. Hampi does get hot by Easter, so we will plan to have an earlier Flèche event, by early March (I understand this shouldn't be a problem with ACP).
I'd forgotten about that shirt, I'll have to track it down.It's nowhere near horrible enough for audax. You need something that was apparently designed by a bloke who used to do New Wave album covers in the early 1980s. An old Mapei-GB team top (the one that looks like a cascade of multicoloured Lego blocks) would be the minimum standard, although probably frowned on because it implies speed, glamour, spot primes and podium girls.
I think what this proves is that you, RZ, are stuck in the 80s. Hardly a single photo on this thread shows anything but average-looking jerseys.I'd forgotten about that shirt, I'll have to track it down.It's nowhere near horrible enough for audax. You need something that was apparently designed by a bloke who used to do New Wave album covers in the early 1980s.
The Mondrian influenced Look shirt from the 80s still appeals with its minimalism,One I've long regretted not buying. I wonder if anyone does a replica.
I think what this proves is that you, RZ, are stuck in the 80s. Hardly a single photo on this thread shows anything but average-looking jerseys.You keep telling yourself that, and I'll keep thinking of the old Newbury RC gilet :sick:
It's a shame about the Hi-viz reflection - that 3rd piccie would be awesome.
(The 2nd one still horrifies me.)
"chirpy one": Not a great advert for the food you were serving, Mr B.
Shell garage @ Wellesbourne on the Two Battles 200kRespec' to whoever was on the BMX.
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The season continues in North Carolina. It 's nice to know that someone somewhere is eating filling station pasta and staring blankly into space. ...
That almost looks like Hummers in the pink shirt.
Which one of them was riding the Moulton?
Sleepy at the Archaeolink Cafe on the Snow Roads 2010Being able to shit fully-assembled bikes would make him very popular in the Merida factory.
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I'm confused by this HK. I've seen a few references to HK in the "have you been out today" thread (which is perhaps so big and fundamental a thread it's almost a board to itself!) and I seem to remember they're a she, so to speak, and a she who seems to be well enough known by forumites to refer to as HK, but is not a YACFer herself.She is a YACF-er, but is usually riding her bike. Big miles girl.
Tregaron?
This has a similar feel to one I took at Beverly in 2005.Except the Taiwanese lot look about half the age of AUKs!
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The fertility rate of Taiwan is one of the lowest fertility rates ever recorded in the world in historical times. It reached its lowest level in 2010: 0.90 children per female. In 1980, the rate was still well above replacement level (2.515), but it dropped to 1.88 in 1985, 1.81 in 1990, 1.78 in 1995, 1.68 in 2000, 1.12 in 2005Coupled with apartment living it might be creating a demand for time-consuming outdoor activities.
Continentals have sex lives, Brits have hot water bottles and Taiwanese have audax!
They do seem to have a different demographic in Taiwan.
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That's it! I'm booking a flight to Taiwan :-*
It's lumpy up the east side! (http://www.panoramio.com/photo_explorer#user=700003&with_photo_id=26667437&order=date_desc)It certainly is! Lovely photos.
(http://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s480x480/428270_10151337646599089_1783112636_n.jpg)SHIRT! ;D
Seems to be from a blog.
http://doctoronabike.blogspot.co.uk/
This classic of the genre is missing from the thread - it has all the right ingredients: thousand yard stare, no eye contact and general air of weirdness.
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Maverick, Mercurykev & Cyclops on the Easter Arrow
A rare bookshop shot.I bet that's the corner where the Sci-fi and Fantasy section meets the Computing section.
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Wendy's in Rocky Point, North Carolina, somewhere near Cape Fear.
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:facepalm:
does it get that cold in texas?..
During the BCM, the gentleman on the left of this photo was sat perfectly happily until I brought out the camera, and then he adopted the "audax pose":
does it get that cold in texas?..
As does the other smiley guy in the Morvelo top!
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I doubt Rapha will be using that one for their 2020 catalogue.
Easter Arrow 2019
McDonalds number 3 before breakfast time, you've already had a beef burger and a chicken burger and you've forgotten about the Fillet O' Fish as the other meat option.
(https://i.ibb.co/25bFSG1/IMG-20190309-033927.jpg)Utter glamour.
Easter Arrow 2019
McDonalds number 3 before breakfast time, you've already had a beef burger and a chicken burger and you've forgotten about the Fillet O' Fish as the other meat option.
1st Mac - Meal
2nd Mac - Apple pie / brownie / muffin & Milkshake
3rd Mac - Mozarella bites, fruit bag and coffee
4th Mac - Please god let the breakfast menu be available
Not really. It puts the endurance in endurance sport.Easter Arrow 2019
McDonalds number 3 before breakfast time, you've already had a beef burger and a chicken burger and you've forgotten about the Fillet O' Fish as the other meat option.
1st Mac - Meal
2nd Mac - Apple pie / brownie / muffin & Milkshake
3rd Mac - Mozarella bites, fruit bag and coffee
4th Mac - Please god let the breakfast menu be available
Any sport that involves more than one visit to The Scottish Restaurant in a 24-hour period is immediately suspect IMHO.
Easter Arrow 2019
McDonalds number 3 before breakfast time, you've already had a beef burger and a chicken burger and you've forgotten about the Fillet O' Fish as the other meat option.
1st Mac - Meal
2nd Mac - Apple pie / brownie / muffin & Milkshake
3rd Mac - Mozarella bites, fruit bag and coffee
4th Mac - Please god let the breakfast menu be available
Any sport that involves more than one visit to The Scottish Restaurant in a 24-hour period is immediately suspect IMHO.
I'm now picturing him diving into the toilet to rescue his Garmin, with a Brian Eno soundtrack.
Would it be possible to stop posting 3MB images to this thread, please? They take rather a long time to load, and the forum won't display more than 640 x 640 anyway.
I'm now picturing him diving into the toilet to rescue his Garmin, with a Brian Eno soundtrack.
I'm now picturing him diving into the toilet to rescue his Garmin, with a Brian Eno soundtrack.
We were talking about this on the BCM yesterday, but decided it'd be ibuprofen one would be diving for from the toilet.
(This came up in conversation as one of our group needed the toilet, and being the sad fu**er I am, I knew that despite being in the middle of nowhere (http://www.streetmap.co.uk/idld.srf?X=309417&Y=274595&A=Y&Z=115&lm=1) there was a decent public toilet a few miles up the road. I knew this as I was in a similar dilemma last year when my prayers were answered and suddenly a public toilet appeared as if by magic. I was expecting it to be like a scene from Trainspotting, but it was actually OK, and yesterday when we turned up it was being cleaned.)
Would it be possible to stop posting 3MB images to this thread, please? They take rather a long time to load, and the forum won't display more than 640 x 640 anyway.
I reckon dialup-esque image loading times seemed in keeping with the theme of the thread.
Ness control on the Golden Road and Standing Stones 300:
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Great thousand-yard stare on ramcityrocker, there. (sorry, Rob ;D)
As the chippy was shut, we had to improvise behind Shap Co Op during We Went on Audax by Mistake (the finest hills available to humanity) a couple of months back:There's something about those photos that somehow looks like "This happened 20 years ago."
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We also visited the phone box in Bampton, because of course you would.
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