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Title: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 27 June, 2012, 05:55:21 pm
I think there should be a gallery of Audax control break shots. I'll kick off with a few of mine.

(http://www.aukweb.net/pix/aix4ehdy_mon_may_23_13_42_27_2005.jpg)

(http://www.aukweb.net/pix/xf9f1phu_mon_may_23_13_42_56_2005.jpg)


(http://www.aukweb.net/pix/lgf76bka_tue_jun_21_20_32_53_2005.jpg)

I've always liked the 'What's your passion' line , it makes it like an advert for Audax.
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: rogerzilla on 27 June, 2012, 07:28:09 pm
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  :)
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 27 June, 2012, 08:33:04 pm
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3049/5853188138_fd9d448628_z.jpg)

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3075/5852635915_91d4541e98_z.jpg)
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: jogler on 27 June, 2012, 08:47:09 pm
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.
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Chris S on 27 June, 2012, 08:53:11 pm
Here's my selection - hopefully adding balance to the 24-hour Tesco / Forecourt obsession so far exhibited:

(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6141/5983017794_582f4a962b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40735552@N05/5983017794/)
P1010048 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40735552@N05/5983017794/) by Pelotonhound (http://www.flickr.com/people/40735552@N05/), on Flickr

(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6170/6180408539_6fd201ba3f.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40735552@N05/6180408539/)
P1010264 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40735552@N05/6180408539/) by Pelotonhound (http://www.flickr.com/people/40735552@N05/), on Flickr

(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6218/6339949628_02e48c47db.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40735552@N05/6339949628/)
P1010565 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40735552@N05/6339949628/) by Pelotonhound (http://www.flickr.com/people/40735552@N05/), on Flickr

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7037/6844743396_782f74f886.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40735552@N05/6844743396/)
IMAG0370 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40735552@N05/6844743396/) by Pelotonhound (http://www.flickr.com/people/40735552@N05/), on Flickr

For us - controls are mostly about the food. In winter, also beer.
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: jogler on 27 June, 2012, 08:55:24 pm
^^^
now that is high on the hog ;)
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: eck on 27 June, 2012, 09:18:22 pm
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."
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Pip on 27 June, 2012, 09:33:50 pm
Apologies Dave

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a262/cliplesspedals/DaveKahn-1.jpg)

Courtesy of Els (photo not food)

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a262/cliplesspedals/PhilMark.jpg)
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: L CC on 27 June, 2012, 09:40:18 pm
Er, yeah, all about the food.
(http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/576569_10150965039699451_1962473211_n.jpg)

And the zeds.
(http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/306929_10150965044444451_1248163916_n.jpg)
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Feline on 27 June, 2012, 09:42:37 pm
I think this picture of Manotea and Simonp at the Dreux control on PBP 11 sums it up quite well  ;D

(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6071/6087228644_1e742bfc4d_b.jpg)
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Feline on 27 June, 2012, 09:44:47 pm
Fidgetbuzz could kill me for this one:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/iphone406.jpg)
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Chris S on 27 June, 2012, 09:46:42 pm
Especially as there seems to be a CDC in his pudding!
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: jogler on 27 June, 2012, 10:31:10 pm
I thought it was cock a leekie soup :-\
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 28 June, 2012, 12:41:49 am
Apologies Dave

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a262/cliplesspedals/DaveKahn-1.jpg)


The smeared lens speaks volumes. I like the way it shows that the first one to the Costa/Starbucks concession gets the leather sofa, but they're too short for me. The pricing at motorway service stations starts to make sense when a couple of hours sleep is factored in. But orange juice on arrival, coke or coffee before departure, and always eat the little biscuit or chocolate bean.
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: jogler on 28 June, 2012, 03:34:34 am
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.


EUREKA

see reply #86 of this thread...

http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=46393.75
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 28 June, 2012, 11:22:50 am
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  :)

He'll find that on some rides people will open their home to riders, having been extended that courtesy by others in the past.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3462/5772731228_38359015fc_z.jpg)

They'll even stoke up the stove so the riders can dry out.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2437/5772204603_5ef65ca3db_z.jpg)

but that later in the ride they might be huddled in a disabled toilet, repeatedly pushing the hand drier button. The guy in the foreground is wondering what happens if he pulls the alarm cord, will it make the ride stop? I wondered who had the disabled toilet key.

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5263/5775485662_9ef5d94688.jpg)

There's even a film to show your mate. People ride in those conditions and come back for more, but you have to know what you are doing, the progression through the distances helps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eph8qOUnM6I&feature=g-upl
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Pingu on 28 June, 2012, 12:30:00 pm
I wondered who had the disabled toilet key.

The photographer, mercurykev.
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: GrahamG on 28 June, 2012, 12:45:07 pm
Deja vu! This wasn't from last year's Brevet Cymru was it?!

Er, yeah, all about the food.
And the zeds.
(http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/306929_10150965044444451_1248163916_n.jpg)

Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Chris S on 28 June, 2012, 12:47:56 pm
No - although I looked as bad as that then, too  :facepalm:.

This new humiliation was the National 400 a couple of weeks ago. I just don't do night-time that well, I guess.
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 28 June, 2012, 12:48:25 pm
I've tracking down some Japanese photos. I'm not convinced about putting those tents up on the gravel of a river bed.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/atkamano/6342476164/sizes/z/in/set-72157627996748535/

They seem to be having fun, I like the plywood table structure, it probably dismantles for transport.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/atkamano/6342477496/sizes/z/in/set-72157627996748535/
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 29 June, 2012, 11:07:35 am
Riffing on the supermarket catchphrase thing, these photos show that Audaxers are "passionate about being passionless".  ;D
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: mattc on 29 June, 2012, 11:23:12 am
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:
(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 29 June, 2012, 11:28:39 am
Riffing on the supermarket catchphrase thing, these photos show that Audaxers are "passionate about being passionless".  ;D

Certainly it favours those nations with a phlegmatic disposition. the Poles did well at PBP in 2011, when all of them finished.  http://shprung.com/pbp/?mode=list&country=Poland
But they are brought up with images of the Passion of Christ, so  faces drained of emotion during a great trial are a good fit into a part of their mindset.

(http://www.mcnaughtonart.com/images/image_map_zoom_images/via-dolorosa-stretched.jpg)

Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 29 June, 2012, 11:43:42 am
I don't recognise the chap in the blue suit touching Jesus' shoulder, who is he? Whoever he is, I have a feeling most Poles would find that picture somewhere between distasteful and blasphemous. Myself, I just think it's a bit ickly. But I'm sure you could draw a parallel between Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey to his execution and the Audaxer's humble bicycle to exhaustion. Or something. Not of course that all Audaxers' bikes are at all humble.
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 29 June, 2012, 11:53:43 am
The Audaxers sacraments are Coca Cola and Ibuprofen, their altar can be the bench outside the Co-op in Kinlochleven.

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3019/5852633709_1d7f9fd16c_z.jpg)

or the garage at Ballachuillish,

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5311/5853186236_6628077a76_z.jpg)

Here's some Audaxing Poles.

(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6151/6159153563_2b2ee5428a_z.jpg)
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 29 June, 2012, 12:01:59 pm
Barlinecka is a firm making wooden flooring, so those are Poles riding on planks.
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: eeymsmo on 29 June, 2012, 12:03:55 pm
how much per year do you have to be spending on Ginsters and milkshake to have a Garage chain think you're worth sponsoring!

Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 29 June, 2012, 12:09:10 pm
Barlinecka is a firm making wooden flooring, so those are Poles riding on planks.

Very oily planks given their shirt sponsor.
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 29 June, 2012, 12:12:30 pm
how much per year do you have to be spending on Ginsters and milkshake to have a Garage chain think you're worth sponsoring!

Those lads look like they've got a serious pasty habit.
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 29 June, 2012, 12:20:59 pm
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.
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 29 June, 2012, 12:25:20 pm
Control shots are the commonest form of Audax photo, they're the easiest to get, although the art lies in not steaming up the lens. So the dominant impression is of the thousand-yard stare. That diminishes as you get nearer the finish with time in hand. I quite like the sense of anticipation you get when the cards are handed out, that's usually  done with a desk close to a wall, so you can't get a shot of the hand-out without being obtrusive.
There's a greater variety of emotion at the start.

(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2691/5852632883_dc1668b374_z.jpg)

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?
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 29 June, 2012, 12:48:38 pm
I spent a lot of time nodding along to this article a couple of weeks ago.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/jun/15/happiness-is-being-a-loser-burkeman

Quote
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.

Stoics are happy to set out knowing they won't enjoy it all.

(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2679/5853185404_479209988e_z.jpg)
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Bledlow on 29 June, 2012, 02:46:59 pm
I've tracking down some Japanese photos. I'm not convinced about putting those tents up on the gravel of a river bed.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/atkamano/6342476164/sizes/z/in/set-72157627996748535/

They seem to be having fun, I like the plywood table structure, it probably dismantles for transport.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/atkamano/6342477496/sizes/z/in/set-72157627996748535/
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.

Just check the weather forecast upriver before setting up, especially in typhoon season.
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 29 June, 2012, 03:02:52 pm
It is as you describe, they've probably got airbeds, otherwise the gravel would be uncomfortable.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/atkamano/6342479288/in/set-72157627996748535/

Coca Cola, biscuits and crisps are popular the world over. Downloading is disabled, hence the links.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/atkamano/6341681061/in/set-72157627996748535/

It's interesting to see what photos they choose in Japan, there's a lot of pictures of food, they're probably using them on blogs.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/atkamano/sets/72157627996748535/with/6342479288/
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Post by: Chris S on 29 June, 2012, 06:05:48 pm
 ;D
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 29 June, 2012, 08:49:31 pm
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?
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.
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 30 June, 2012, 01:19:39 am
Pictures of Audax in India are a bit difficult to come by, what there are lead to articles from the principal centres such as this.
http://bangalore.citizenmatters.in/articles/view/2758-bangalore-brevets-cycling-race-qualifiers
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 30 June, 2012, 09:50:44 pm
Audax in India has only really taken off in the last couple of years but is gaining popularity rapidly. Of course there it's a sport of the upper middle class enthus contrasting with the utilitarian cycling on heavyweight Hero and Atlas roadsters of the hod carriers and tiffin boys (yes, there seriously is a job known as tiffin boy). There's even an equivalent to the Easter Arrows:
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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).

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/bangalore-bikers/lc7SGF4o68E

But the Bangalore Bikers Group I still get emails from doesn't do photos, I'm afraid.
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 01 July, 2012, 06:47:33 pm
Cycling seems to be a middle class activity in the East. In the Phillipines there's Executive Cycling, which seems to be a sportive scene. One of the most exotic  pictures I can find is of a 90 K control on a 200k in Singapore and Malaysia with expat French riders and the ladies of Team David's Salon. Audax is raely like that, but we live in hope.

(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c204/cvserina/audax42small.jpg)

http://dadzgrl.livejournal.com/150392.html

Audax seems more organised in Indonesia, nice to see sponsorship from Pocari Sweat.
(http://www.holidayresort-lombok.com/news/images1/Audax01.jpg)
http://www.holidayresort-lombok.com/news/news.html
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: rogerzilla on 01 July, 2012, 07:10:26 pm
This thread is brilliant.

A digest of a PM exchange I had with Jaded recently:

Me: Fancy a ride this afternoon?
Jaded: Can't, I'm running a control at (name of extra-toes town removed to protect identities)
Me: Has anyone made eye contact yet?
Jaded: I'm trying to take photographs for Arrivee but the people are verging on weirdness.  One guy said he "didn't do photos" and ran away.
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Pingu on 01 July, 2012, 08:10:36 pm
Making eye contact does seem to be difficult.

(http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1301/4700109641_43b3ccd715_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/4700109641/)
IMG_4114 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/4700109641/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 01 July, 2012, 08:54:38 pm
I'd forgotten about that shirt, I'll have to track it down.
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: rogerzilla on 02 July, 2012, 07:28:03 am
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.

 The closest thing to a podium girl in Audax is someone's mum making tea at the finish control. and the closest thing to a spot prime is getting the last Ginster's pasty, only a week beyond its "use by" date, from a remote Murco fridge.


Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 02 July, 2012, 09:32:38 am
The Mondrian influenced Look shirt from the 80s still appeals with its minimalism, relected here in a classic  fixed bike with a few modern tweaks.

(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6090/6159680812_8c0d5cc6b9_z.jpg)

The art lies in combining such casual self effacement with serious ability.
http://shprung.com/pbp/?mode=info&frame=8395
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: mattc on 02 July, 2012, 10:09:04 am
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.
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.

Now what I like about Audax is that noone gives a fuck if you wear a hideous jersey, and I cherish the odd sighting of something vomit-based; but in reality they're just a bunch of average cyclists, who threw away their 80s jerseys (after about 40,000km), only for RZ to salvage them, and honour them in his special 80s Walk-in Wardrobe Shrine.
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Bledlow on 02 July, 2012, 11:08:24 am
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.

[edit]Mais oui! Par Santini, pour cinquante livres.

http://www.prendas.co.uk/details.asp?ID=2239 (http://www.prendas.co.uk/details.asp?ID=2239)
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Post by: rogerzilla on 02 July, 2012, 12:39:04 pm
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:
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: TimO on 03 July, 2012, 06:55:03 pm
I've got a vague idea that I've still got one of those Mondrian jerseys, somewhere.  It was tight quite a few years back when I used to wear it, and given that most of my current jerseys are fairly loose, it's probably relatively uncomfortable in comparison (assuming it hasn't been eaten by moths, or lost in a move).
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Post by: Jaded on 03 July, 2012, 07:04:36 pm
We definitely need a before pic.

(click to show/hide)
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Post by: Gareth Rees on 03 July, 2012, 07:07:11 pm
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i3E3LA0jcc0/TaGU3BAjgwI/AAAAAAAACVc/JAx7hEw3yZ0jEsqR0uW9yuP89F_a8U1ngCKgB/s1600/P4090115.jpg)
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Post by: rogerzilla on 03 July, 2012, 07:34:37 pm
I'd like to believe someone was doing an audax on that BSO (respect!), but I suspect it was just J. Random Customer's.
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 30 July, 2012, 08:26:38 pm
(http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/319312_425668470818463_22184554_n.jpg)


Mike Dayton and Ian Hands near Leasburg North Carolina on Saturday.
It's hot over there, and what better to keep cool than an AUK PBP shirt, or an Adrian Hands shirt, especially if it commemorates your Dad. Photo by Tim Lucas
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 02 August, 2012, 04:53:06 pm
A bit of a diversion. a couple of pictures from the Mersey Roads 24, so hoping for a placing.

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7123/7698515322_c597f708c4_c.jpg)

Call me Ishmael.


(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7125/7698511720_e4fb398fc7_c.jpg)

Call me anything you want, I'm done in.
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Post by: L CC on 20 August, 2012, 08:28:00 am
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/20120818_195004.jpg)
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Post by: Chris S on 21 August, 2012, 06:57:24 am
 :facepalm:
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Post by: clarion on 21 August, 2012, 08:44:17 am
You broke Mr Smith! :o
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Post by: Chris S on 21 August, 2012, 03:56:34 pm
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8285/7829279016_eb0a5a3649.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40735552@N05/7829279016/)
P1020375 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40735552@N05/7829279016/) by Pelotonhound (http://www.flickr.com/people/40735552@N05/), on Flickr
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Post by: Karla on 21 August, 2012, 04:16:32 pm
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3531/3773470359_69eb6604c7_z.jpg)

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3582/3772951121_58368d1d79_z.jpg)

(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2498/3774047134_c5c063675f_z.jpg)

All are from LEL2009.
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Post by: mattc on 21 August, 2012, 04:23:27 pm
It's a shame about the Hi-viz reflection - that 3rd piccie would be awesome.

(The 2nd one still horrifies me.)
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Post by: Karla on 21 August, 2012, 04:42:03 pm
I might try to tone them down.  Here's another chirpy one

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3428/3773248375_36c61d4b7d_b.jpg)

Here's a La Vie Claire jersey too, to satisfy Damon

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3519/3773161969_517affd06e_z.jpg)
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Post by: mattc on 21 August, 2012, 04:47:04 pm
"chirpy one": Not a great advert for the food you were serving, Mr B.

(Anything with sideburns in is cool at the moment - or so I hear.)
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Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 21 August, 2012, 05:17:14 pm
It's a shame about the Hi-viz reflection - that 3rd piccie would be awesome.

(The 2nd one still horrifies me.)

My mate Nick from WA wasn't having an easy ride at LEL. It doesn't rain that much in Perth. He was much happier at both PBPs in 2011 though.
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 21 August, 2012, 05:31:00 pm
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3519/3773161969_517affd06e_z.jpg)

That's Riccardo Gravina, he features in the PBP 2007 and LEL 209 DVDs. He turned up at the campsite at PBP 2007 without a tent or Karrimat, so we lent him both, then we fed him, then he announced that his back wheel was knackered about 2 hours before the start. So I spent the time I should have been preparing, changing his cassette onto Heather's wheel. He's a lovable chancer.
At PBP 2011 he wandered into the pre-departure meal, wild-eyed and looking to borrow a bike so he could ride along, he said he was living rough, and doing some courier work, but he was obviously a bit out of it. I last saw him waving a flag made from a bin-liner and a bit of the shrubbery just at the start. I'll have to find out what's happened to him.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 21 August, 2012, 05:36:23 pm
I remember serving up the slop at Alston and wondering how human beings could eat that stuff.
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Post by: jogler on 21 August, 2012, 07:31:30 pm
"chirpy one": Not a great advert for the food you were serving, Mr B.

but the custard at Thorne in 2009 was awesome
 ;)
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Post by: Ray 6701 on 22 August, 2012, 12:58:33 pm
Shell garage @ Wellesbourne on the Two Battles 200k
L to R MarmiteGeoff, Roy, Dasmi & Jogler.

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7119/7649518672_3a876c5ab6_z_d.jpg)

Maccies @ Raunds on the easter arrow 400k (we weren't looking so happy in the rain at 03:00hrs)
L to R Adam, Sam, Me & Roy.

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8440/7748140846_13bbd5989d_z_d.jpg)
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 22 August, 2012, 01:09:05 pm
Riccardo Gravina is now living in Lausanne on Lake Geneva apparently.

(https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQxVARYcRM7woI6_GXLMJvSdJozrynED3RFN-nXD2WHchE43A_t)

Still wearing his LEL T-shirt, I wonder how he blagged that?
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Post by: L CC on 25 August, 2012, 02:19:03 pm
(http://img.tapatalk.com/d5cdec6c-d0d5-6656.jpg)
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Post by: rogerzilla on 25 August, 2012, 02:22:08 pm
Shell garage @ Wellesbourne on the Two Battles 200k
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8440/7748140846_13bbd5989d_z_d.jpg)
Respec' to whoever was on the BMX.
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 07 October, 2012, 06:43:09 pm
The season continues in North Carolina. It 's nice to know that someone somewhere is eating filling station pasta and staring blankly into space.

(http://sphotos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s480x480/540911_10151198913393938_138207490_n.jpg)
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Post by: TimO on 07 October, 2012, 08:00:36 pm
The season continues in North Carolina. It 's nice to know that someone somewhere is eating filling station pasta and staring blankly into space. ...

Oy, how did you know what I was having for supper?

(... it's not just for Audax, a Cup Noodle is for life ...)
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Post by: rogerzilla on 07 October, 2012, 08:04:30 pm
What is it with Americans and facial hair?
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Post by: Kim on 07 October, 2012, 08:05:21 pm
Isn't it more Audaxers and facial hair?
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Post by: rogerzilla on 07 October, 2012, 08:12:46 pm
Ah...silly me  :facepalm:
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Post by: mattc on 07 October, 2012, 08:13:13 pm
I discovered it totally eradicates chapped lips.
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Post by: slope on 11 October, 2012, 12:09:57 am
Control at Finchingfield, Essex - a 100k from Chelmsford? 1992 hence blurry memory. Mocy on left (and I the snapper riding GL tandem trike) "Fast Eddy" on right (1970s Woodrup) regaling the two "new" lads (one may be still of this parish?) with tales of riding fixed from Blackpool up into the Lakes in his youth with the "club" and half a crown on a Friday night, sleeping rough in barns and not returning until Monday morning to "sign on" - but still with sixpence left for chips.

(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6206/6119944533_08efc54774_o.jpg)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 11 October, 2012, 12:11:55 am
That almost looks like Hummers in the pink shirt.
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Post by: slope on 11 October, 2012, 12:29:39 am
Whilst I'm on a nostalgic bender . . . .

Control at the top of Llangyndr Mountain - Timm Frenzel's 100 or 200k event from Cwmcarn - sometime in the early 1990s. The stink of burning oil from his Alfa Romeo still lingers in my throat, as does his infective deep laugh (although not down my throat, obviously).

Mocy and I (behind camera) on a GL tandem with only two wheels!

The girl on the left may be wearing one of the early unofficial AUK scratchy acrylic tops?

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8465/8075399408_921ae674d9_o.jpg)
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Post by: slope on 11 October, 2012, 12:33:49 am
That almost looks like Hummers in the pink shirt.

This may have been discussed/noticed previously?! As I recall (so totally unreliable) the two lads in the pic were on their first Audax? The best bit was the Ugly (sp?) control later on.
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 31 October, 2012, 12:53:25 pm
Andrew Bragg, John Ende, Dewey R Blacker and Mike Dayton in a MacDonalds near Hamilton Victoria on the Great Southern Randonee, about an hour ago.

(http://sphotos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/169122_10151097320181513_1589172663_o.jpg)
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 31 October, 2012, 01:46:04 pm
Snazzy ankle bands! I guess Jane Fonda is the Victorian audaxers' style guru.
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 31 October, 2012, 03:29:13 pm
Something may be lost in translation in this finish picture of Maya Ide from Japan and new friend at the end of a 1,000k in Taiwan.
It's all part of my attempt to understand cultural diversity.

(http://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/28754_10151223019189171_1224036588_n.jpg)
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 31 October, 2012, 03:45:12 pm
I'll admit to being perplexed by this start picture.


(http://sphotos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/334729_379998465408226_729132538_o.jpg)
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 31 October, 2012, 05:02:37 pm
I think the start picture just shows that Taiwanese audaxers are as obsessive as their Western counterparts.
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 01 November, 2012, 09:10:02 am

Near Allensford Victoria. 8 hours ago.

(http://sphotos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/285601_10151237841108938_1850244587_n.jpg)


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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 01 November, 2012, 06:30:14 pm
45 Miles to go, Apollo Bay, Victoria.

(http://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/559377_10151238862218938_1704803677_n.jpg)
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Post by: mattc on 01 November, 2012, 06:32:18 pm
Is the guy on the left face down or face up?

(The Allensford picture looks like some arctic military facility.)
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Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 01 November, 2012, 06:38:17 pm
The Great Southern Randonnee 1200 has reportedly been a real stinker this time. 35+ degrees the first day and lots of cold, wind and rain since.
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 01 November, 2012, 06:48:09 pm
That's the US contingent, including the President of RUSA , Mark Thomas. Mike Dayton's been taking the pictures, he's on the Newsletter committee.
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Post by: Deano on 01 November, 2012, 07:23:29 pm
What a great thread.

Gretna (possibly) services on the Lanchester 400, 2010.

(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4099/4805821357_358173e655_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/4805821357/)
Ben T at Gretna (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/4805821357/) by dean.clementson (http://www.flickr.com/people/30024450@N04/), on Flickr
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Post by: Deano on 01 November, 2012, 07:25:46 pm
Sleepy at the Archaeolink Cafe on the Snow Roads 2010

(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4062/4675760205_7b46e247f0_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/4675760205/)
P1060624 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/4675760205/) by dean.clementson (http://www.flickr.com/people/30024450@N04/), on Flickr
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Post by: Deano on 01 November, 2012, 07:32:58 pm
Unadvertised rest stop near the Cowtons on the Wiggy 300 a few years ago:

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8327/8145566345_16f2828bfc_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/8145566345/)

It's a pity Alan wasn't wearing his HADES 69* jersey, as modelled in this shot, on Buttertubs:

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8465/8145604418_a4ed2b3497_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/8145604418/)


*Heaton and District Electrical Services
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Post by: Deano on 01 November, 2012, 07:43:09 pm
And a couple from PBP:

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8184/8145603445_d032131293_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/8145603445/)
roadside stop on the return to Paris (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/8145603445/) by dean.clementson (http://www.flickr.com/people/30024450@N04/), on Flickr

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8192/8145634730_558bff5ec8_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/8145634730/)
roadside stop on the return to Paris (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/8145634730/) by dean.clementson (http://www.flickr.com/people/30024450@N04/), on Flickr
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 01 November, 2012, 09:36:22 pm
John Ende and Spencer Klaasen, breakfasting 18 miles from the end of the GSR, an hour ago, picture by Mike Dayton.


(http://sphotos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/317760_10151239081643938_821395466_n.jpg)
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 01 November, 2012, 10:18:31 pm
Spencer Klaasen, 10 miles to go, courtesy of La Société Adrian Hands.

(http://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/s480x480/33885_294747823964407_1180874217_n.jpg)
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 02 November, 2012, 09:06:35 am
Hope fulfilled, I assume that Mike Dayton is hiding a beer behind his back.

(http://sphotos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/131392_4312558705251_122265963_o.jpg)
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 November, 2012, 03:43:54 pm
Which one of them was riding the Moulton?
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Post by: Chris S on 02 November, 2012, 04:18:51 pm
Which one of them was riding the Moulton?

HK? (not in the picture)
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Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 02 November, 2012, 04:38:37 pm
Yep, that particular bike is unique.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 November, 2012, 05:13:58 pm
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.

Anyway - what's unique about that particular Moulton?
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Post by: Wowbagger on 02 November, 2012, 05:29:38 pm
My recollection is that HK stands for "helium knickers" - a reference to the good lady's hill-climbing ability.

It would be a tad embarrassing if I were wrong about that!
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 November, 2012, 05:31:59 pm
If she were Mrs Flatus she'd be Hydrogen Knickers.  :D
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Post by: rogerzilla on 02 November, 2012, 05:32:59 pm
Sleepy at the Archaeolink Cafe on the Snow Roads 2010

(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4062/4675760205_7b46e247f0_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/4675760205/)
P1060624 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/4675760205/) by dean.clementson (http://www.flickr.com/people/30024450@N04/), on Flickr
Being able to shit fully-assembled bikes would make him very popular in the Merida factory.
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Post by: L CC on 02 November, 2012, 06:38:25 pm
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.

LW&B- I hope the presence of Casper in that picture means she finished, in time, and had a good ride??
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Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 02 November, 2012, 06:53:01 pm
Nope. She DNFed the 1000 due to back problems and finished the 'Ride of Redemption' 300 instead, with a lot of other DNFers.
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Post by: Peter on 02 November, 2012, 06:57:35 pm
Dave, I think Julian was supposed to be doing that ride.  How, did he get on?
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Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 02 November, 2012, 07:01:37 pm
He did just fine, according to http://audax.org.au/public/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=246:gsr-links&catid=1:latest-news
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Post by: Peter on 02 November, 2012, 07:26:18 pm
Great - thanks for that!
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Post by: eck on 03 November, 2012, 05:44:00 pm
About time this had another airing?
The Corran Ferry is a control on the Twilight / Gi'es a Light 600
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3192/2899034172_f524c64b60_z.jpg?zz=1)

otherdave, valkyrie, Captain Zep, fin, alves
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Post by: zigzag on 04 November, 2012, 02:29:35 pm
ooh, i've got plenty of photos for this thread..

BC400 2011:

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-tAkmEBHJ1ME/Tb1g2JwArfI/AAAAAAAABWE/SL_zm66zfyY/s640/IMGP0383.jpg)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-gCK7yJ2sC7w/Tb1g7xA73mI/AAAAAAAABWY/oT8EJCM271g/s640/IMGP0389.jpg)
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Post by: tonyh on 07 November, 2012, 11:39:31 am
Tregaron?
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Post by: zigzag on 07 November, 2012, 12:08:28 pm
Tregaron?

second photo - yes
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 07 November, 2012, 07:37:36 pm
This has a similar feel to one I took at Beverly in 2005.

(http://sphotos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/136094_3688108614197_1480843357_o.jpg)



(http://www.aukweb.net/pix/oobqseu3_wed_may_18_15_26_04_2005.jpg)


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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 07 November, 2012, 07:52:40 pm
This has a similar feel to one I took at Beverly in 2005.

(http://sphotos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/136094_3688108614197_1480843357_o.jpg)



(http://www.aukweb.net/pix/oobqseu3_wed_may_18_15_26_04_2005.jpg)
Except the Taiwanese lot look about half the age of AUKs!
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 07 November, 2012, 08:05:34 pm
You can't blame the people who do the rides for not being young. I've been interested in cycling in Taiwan for a while. The distance of 1,000km around the Island makes it ideal for a single ride, the blogger I linked to on my Cycling and Ideology thread had some interesting insights. Audax in the UK exists despite the culture, in Taiwan it seems to be in step with the culture. Aspects of that culture are fairly alarming historically, but things seem to have changed a great deal in recent years.
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 07 November, 2012, 08:27:09 pm
They do seem to have a different demographic in Taiwan.

(http://pic.pimg.tw/lowelowe/4a360dfdde7f5.jpg)

(http://pic.pimg.tw/lowelowe/4a39d6db98da1.jpg)
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 07 November, 2012, 09:25:06 pm
One explanation for higher participation rates in Asian countries might be that fertility rates have fallen off a cliff.
Quote
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 2005
Coupled with apartment living it might be creating a demand for time-consuming outdoor activities.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 07 November, 2012, 10:57:29 pm
Continentals have sex lives, Brits have hot water bottles and Taiwanese have audax!
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Post by: Maverick on 08 November, 2012, 09:32:30 am
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.

(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww37/martinbe/ArrowPenrith.jpg)

Maverick, Mercurykev & Cyclops on the Easter Arrow
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 08 November, 2012, 10:05:37 am
Is Mercury Kev wondering how he can silence the mix cd of The Lighthouse Family and Sade?
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 08 November, 2012, 11:26:39 am
Continentals have sex lives, Brits have hot water bottles and Taiwanese have audax!

The Italian fertility rate is down to 1.4, there seems to be a link between not having children to care for and the commitment to hobbies such as Audax.
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Post by: Ray 6701 on 08 November, 2012, 12:51:20 pm
They do seem to have a different demographic in Taiwan.

(http://pic.pimg.tw/lowelowe/4a39d6db98da1.jpg)
 

That's it!  I'm booking a flight to Taiwan  :-*
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Post by: benborp on 15 November, 2012, 02:24:46 am
I really want to go back to Taiwan. The riding is fantastic. When I was there I was the only weirdo on a road bike. Obviously that's an exaggeration, in my two years there I did see another guy once when I was on my motorbike.

It's great to see the bike shop I used to go to to order tyres, inner tubes and lycra is thriving, seemingly on roadies. Sam liked the high end stuff but spent most of his time being amazed at how Giant etc. kept on churning out cheaper and cheaper MTBs that were of course practically all he sold.

My introduction to Taiwan was cycling 200km at night from T'aipei to T'aichung at the end of the Chinese New Year holiday without a map. Incense, fireworks, gongs, lanterns and five million drivers going the other way - any which way they could. On the back of two days flying to get there it was a mad, hallucinatory experience.

By the way, round the island rides, audax or tours, are quite impressive feats. It's lumpy up the east side! (http://www.panoramio.com/photo_explorer#user=700003&with_photo_id=26667437&order=date_desc)
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Post by: Justin(e) on 15 November, 2012, 06:22:51 am
That's it!  I'm booking a flight to Taiwan  :-*

The Philippino ladies on one of the PBP's might suggest you take in a side trip to the Philippines as well.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 15 November, 2012, 12:06:21 pm
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.
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Post by: Bledlow on 15 November, 2012, 07:21:38 pm
Audax Saitama - the local audax club where Mrs B is from.

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-mVIXrS2Ctt8/Sr89bE64OrI/AAAAAAAAAKI/rZM5R4V2Pos/s640/IMGP5845.JPG)

Quite a gallery.
https://picasaweb.google.com/111990507299194803085 (https://picasaweb.google.com/111990507299194803085)

They seem to stop at a lot of convenience stores.

More the classic audaxer -
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-cVBM81-0aEM/Sr8-L6xDxGI/AAAAAAAAAXw/BwUxHDMJ_Cs/s640/IMGP6050.JPG)
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Post by: iddu on 04 February, 2013, 09:58:47 am
(http://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s480x480/428270_10151337646599089_1783112636_n.jpg)

Seems to be from a blog.

http://doctoronabike.blogspot.co.uk/
SHIRT! ;D

[Edit: That's tonight's reading sorted...]
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Post by: DrMekon on 04 February, 2013, 11:12:49 am
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.

(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww37/martinbe/ArrowPenrith.jpg)

Maverick, Mercurykev & Cyclops on the Easter Arrow

Love it. You look like casualties from a particularly sordid warehouse party.
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Post by: mattc on 03 March, 2013, 05:54:30 pm
Copied from facebook (LEL page), so probably won't display, don't blame me:

(http://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/c64.0.403.403/p403x403/33938_428190933931769_2041728082_n.jpg)

http://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/c64.0.403.403/p403x403/33938_428190933931769_2041728082_n.jpg
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Post by: rogerzilla on 03 March, 2013, 06:34:55 pm
A rare bookshop shot.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/825_104082260191_4253_n.jpg)
I bet that's the corner where the Sci-fi and Fantasy section meets the Computing section.
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Post by: L CC on 04 March, 2013, 03:03:17 pm
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/20130302_131037.jpg)
Synchro-tea at the back there. Niiiice.
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Post by: Chris S on 05 March, 2013, 10:49:35 am
And excellent "Spoon anticipation" from Lars there. The spoon has barely left his soup, and his mouth is already in slurp configuration  :thumbsup:.
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Post by: Deano on 06 May, 2013, 02:18:51 pm
A couple from the Chevy Chase 200:

The Impromptu Cafe, Elsdon:
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8417/8713018321_50afd55a1d_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/8713018321/)

Roadside control at Whygate:
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8259/8713027175_e6c6054bb5_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/8713027175/)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 02 June, 2013, 01:07:07 pm
and people do this for fun ....
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Post by: jogler on 02 June, 2013, 01:23:33 pm
^^^ the 1000 yard stare;perfectly illustrated ;D
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Post by: trumpet on 02 June, 2013, 06:55:54 pm
Wendy's in Rocky Point, North Carolina, somewhere near Cape Fear.


(https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/934152_10151674892388938_511866512_n.jpg)

Reminds me of a scene Edward Hopper could have painted.
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Post by: Feline on 02 June, 2013, 09:18:05 pm
This morning after we had cleaned up the Methodist church hall in Bude after the K&SW600 riders had all left, Chuffy is asleep sitting up!
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2863/8928513694_aa47e6e9b6.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/8928513694/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/8928513694/) by Lara Feline (http://www.flickr.com/people/felinelara/), on Flickr
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 12 June, 2013, 01:16:27 pm
Food to Go, I doubt they envisaged going 600km.

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3812/9004629695_791a779529_z.jpg)
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Post by: clarion on 12 June, 2013, 01:39:32 pm
Red & yellow diagonal stripes looks like the old Clarion racing jersey.
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 12 June, 2013, 01:57:35 pm
There were a few Clarion riders, it's a strong area in the Mytholmroyd catchment area.

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5452/9004547269_1dff66cfee_z.jpg)
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Post by: clarion on 12 June, 2013, 02:01:59 pm
I don't doubt it.  The North West has been the focus of the Clarion almost since the beginning (it began in Birmingham).  Sadly, the closest Yorkshire Clarion section is Calder, which is a long way downstream of Mytholmroyd.
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Post by: shyumu on 12 June, 2013, 03:56:26 pm
I like this thread.  Apologies to my fellow Arrows Team...

(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg53/shyumu/DSCN5121_zps1ad99d65.jpg) (http://s245.photobucket.com/user/shyumu/media/DSCN5121_zps1ad99d65.jpg.html)

In the middle of the night... (I forgot the flash was on and struggled to see for a while)...

(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg53/shyumu/DSCN5140_zps93833022.jpg) (http://s245.photobucket.com/user/shyumu/media/DSCN5140_zps93833022.jpg.html)

And then finally...

(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg53/shyumu/DSCN5164_zps96c61cd2.jpg) (http://s245.photobucket.com/user/shyumu/media/DSCN5164_zps96c61cd2.jpg.html)
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Post by: Chris S on 12 June, 2013, 03:58:39 pm
 :facepalm:

Me in my Most Camp Pose Possible. Deano with a fag-on, astride Thomas.

Great ad for the VC167   :thumbsup: ;D

BTW, shyumu - is that a picture of you trying very hard not to boke your beer & chilli over the A19?  :demon:
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Post by: shyumu on 12 June, 2013, 04:05:46 pm
:facepalm:

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":

(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg53/shyumu/DSCN5219_zps734e1100.jpg) (http://s245.photobucket.com/user/shyumu/media/DSCN5219_zps734e1100.jpg.html)
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 23 November, 2013, 06:41:03 pm
Litigation culture is really getting out of hand - even the surgeons have to wear hi-viz in Texas.
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Post by: zigzag on 24 November, 2013, 12:16:43 pm
does it get that cold in texas?..
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Post by: Oscar's dad on 24 November, 2013, 12:28:42 pm
does it get that cold in texas?..

I wondered that.  Or perhaps bank robbing is part of US audax culture?
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Post by: αdαmsκι on 24 November, 2013, 12:33:56 pm
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":

FYI, the gentleman in whom you refer occasionally posts on yacf.
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 24 November, 2013, 02:05:54 pm
does it get that cold in texas?..

Around 0 degrees C with 3 degrees of windchill.
http://www.wunderground.com/US/TX/Georgetown.html

Georgetown seems to be one of the many college towns that are home to bicycle culture in the USA. With a university older than most foundations in the UK.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown,_Texas
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Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 24 November, 2013, 05:37:05 pm
Parts of Texas are a long way from water. Combined with clear skies, this can result in sub-zero temperatures at night. A friend had his bidons freeze during an Audax through inland Queensland.
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Post by: Pingu on 11 April, 2015, 11:26:59 pm
Day 4679 in the crisp & juice repository and I'm the only one left.
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Post by: Dibdib on 12 April, 2015, 09:23:14 am
American audaxing will never truly take off until someone starts exporting Ginsters pasties and Frijj. The guy in the yellow is moments away from flipping out and screaming "I ONLY WANTED A SAUSAGE ROLL!"
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Post by: Deano on 29 June, 2015, 09:39:03 pm
Ness control on the Golden Road and Standing Stones 300:

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/393/18650723664_48e8e4e307_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/uq6Qn7)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/425/19279448851_709a9b8f9b_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/vnEdsx)

Great thousand-yard stare on ramcityrocker, there. (sorry, Rob ;D)
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Post by: Pingu on 29 June, 2015, 10:42:00 pm
The smiley guy on the right in the first pic works at our Dingwall office.
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Post by: Deano on 29 June, 2015, 10:46:48 pm
As does the other smiley guy in the Morvelo top!

The non-smiley guy can be excused from smiling, as he caught the 3 am freight ferry over, and was seriously sleep-deprived. As well as having a mouthful of cake.
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Post by: Pingu on 29 June, 2015, 11:10:40 pm
As does the other smiley guy in the Morvelo top!

I don't recognise him, it's been a while since I've been to that office.
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Post by: Deano on 06 September, 2016, 11:06:33 pm
Takeaway in Ieper at 11 pm on the Borders of Belgium 1000:

(https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8110/29471964186_a85900bfb9_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LUkway)
(https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8298/28881268834_bf164cbce3_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/L1941W)
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Post by: sg37409 on 07 September, 2016, 04:33:42 pm
That wallpaper rocks
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Post by: Deano on 10 September, 2016, 09:24:50 pm
Magnificent, isn't it.
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Post by: Deano on 16 April, 2017, 11:33:04 pm
The Graun has a photo comp on the theme of "endurance" - I'm tempted just to point them at this thread.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/apr/11/share-your-photos-on-the-theme-of-endurance
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Post by: Pingu on 17 April, 2017, 10:48:11 pm
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3933/34016468086_a07b3d62fa_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/TPVhR5)
IMG_8293_01 (https://flic.kr/p/TPVhR5) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: Deano on 21 May, 2017, 10:05:56 pm
Standing room only at Cornhill-on-Tweed, 310 km into the Hot Trod 400:

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4245/33997166443_28ec8d0d9a_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/TNdn98)
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Post by: Oscar's dad on 22 May, 2017, 08:20:07 am
I love the facial expression of the chap stood on the right of the picture. It looks like he could be thinking a number of things - none of them particularly positive  ;D
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Post by: Deano on 22 May, 2017, 10:27:37 pm
He's waiting for his dad (leaning back at the far left) to die move so he can nick his seat ;D
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Post by: matthew on 24 May, 2017, 09:31:35 am
Where as I am wondering who is going to be a gentleman and give up their seat for the lady standing at the back.  :demon:
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 31 August, 2017, 01:21:39 pm
Dodgems! Not a store but a fun fair.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Deano on 03 April, 2018, 11:33:08 pm
I couldn't resist nicking this one from Alan's Strava feed (https://www.strava.com/activities/1487929971). Easter Arrow 2018, Somewhere in Lincolnshire:

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/815/41174224462_2c3e950ba9_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/25JqErL)

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Post by: rogerzilla on 28 September, 2018, 06:25:23 am
I think the MAMIL magazines should print some of these pictures.
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Post by: madcow on 19 October, 2018, 10:44:35 am
Look familiar?-Ryanair staff couldn't find a hotel room so forced to adopt the audax style .

 (https://s2.yimg.com/lo/api/res/1.2/2YciB89cX5g8y047LBAMhg--/YXBwaWQ9eW15O3c9NjQwO3E9NzU7c209MQ--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/9d5de14cd448a1074702b409b407b024)

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Post by: ElyDave on 20 October, 2018, 07:36:19 pm
that's probably why I was so comfy when stranded at at Oslo last year.
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 12 May, 2019, 12:29:47 am
Deep in the heart of Texas.

(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/26805419_10155060740041776_7240999263229093723_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr3-1.xx&oh=85b1922a8cc1a6fe5071ca7c673a51eb&oe=5D2B6B88)
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Post by: FifeingEejit on 12 May, 2019, 01:49:26 am
Late to the party that could be described as "people looking f---- during bike rides",
As many know I carry a small waterproof camera with me, unfortuately some times I forget to clean the lense before getting a picture and end up retaking but anyway.

I'll start with - Dunblane control midnightish, Auld Alliance 400 2019
A night start has varying effects on people.

(https://i.ibb.co/QnLDrZT/P1030350.jpg)
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Post by: FifeingEejit on 12 May, 2019, 02:07:06 am
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/py5QD6j/P1030316.jpg)

You've had enough of the Weatherspoons breakfast and never ending refills of coffee just isn't hacking it.
(https://i.ibb.co/3vL5sHF/P1030328.jpg)

Some people can sleep anywhere
(https://i.ibb.co/vv8N3Jn/P1030341.jpg)
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Post by: FifeingEejit on 12 May, 2019, 02:11:23 am
Service Area seating seems to attract all sorts at silly AM,

(https://i.ibb.co/Hqp14tY/P1010629.jpg)

(https://i.ibb.co/ccYDQx1/P1020288.jpg)

(https://i.ibb.co/86rjd8R/P1020286.jpg)

And yes some people can really sleep anywhere;
Snow Roads Perm February 2019, Outside the Panmy in Edzell
(https://i.ibb.co/Tg69Fcs/P1030076.jpg)
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Post by: FifeingEejit on 12 May, 2019, 02:15:18 am
Border Lands Explorer 2018
It was wet, many were fed up, others just looked it

(https://i.ibb.co/hH6tMYb/P1010834.jpg)

Fed up even when the sun was shining (actually that's not the 600, the sun didn't shine on that)
(https://i.ibb.co/r3F6KXg/P1020329.jpg)

Edit: Photo is from Brandt and Slape, cracking weather but the climbing was getting to me.
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Post by: FifeingEejit on 12 May, 2019, 02:18:14 am
And then there's the time you realized you were biting off more than you could chew a tad too late...

Failed attempt at the Central Scotland 300 Perm; Innerleithen
(https://i.ibb.co/ncdjCVJ/IMG-20190309-033905.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/25bFSG1/IMG-20190309-033927.jpg)
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Post by: rogerzilla on 12 May, 2019, 08:10:43 am
(https://i.ibb.co/vv8N3Jn/P1030341.jpg)

I doubt Rapha will be using that one for their 2020 catalogue.
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Post by: Kim on 12 May, 2019, 05:53:27 pm
(https://i.ibb.co/vv8N3Jn/P1030341.jpg)

I doubt Rapha will be using that one for their 2020 catalogue.

I look forward to CrossCountry using it on one of their "freewheeling all the way" demotivational how-to-book-a-dangly-bike-space posters[1], thobut.


[1] The current iteration features a mountain biker with handlebars that look like they wouldn't fit.
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Post by: L CC on 13 May, 2019, 03:21:08 pm
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
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 13 May, 2019, 04:45:55 pm
(https://i.ibb.co/25bFSG1/IMG-20190309-033927.jpg)
Utter glamour.
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Post by: Kim on 13 May, 2019, 04:49:44 pm
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.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 13 May, 2019, 05:07:16 pm
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.
Not really. It puts the endurance in endurance sport.
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: FifeingEejit on 13 May, 2019, 08:06:08 pm
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

 ;D

I have the limitation of having unpleasant reactions to something in cheese and milk, that definitely isn't lactose (as that would only be unpleasant to me)
The beef then chicken approach worked for me on the first 2 visits, but the 3rd I stupidly only had an apple pie and fries, I must remember the fillet of fish next time I'm in that position.
THe further problem was that at the next control the food on offer was also a choice of chicken or beef; so I grabbed sweets... amateur hours.

Any sport that involves more than one visit to The Scottish Restaurant in a 24-hour period is immediately suspect IMHO.

Scottish Restaurant? Oh you mean the name...
I thought you meant chip shops, much more variety there you don't even need to eat the same variation of oatmeal more than once

1) white pudding supper with a mars bar and bottle of bru
2) black pudding supper with a twirl and a bottle of Red Kola
3) red pudding supper with a snickers and a bottle of Moray Cup
4) haggis supper with a crunchie and a bottle of fanta
5) fish supper and a bottle of coke
6) burger supper and a can of tango

Where's the challenge in that? (You may note I got fed up of the deep fried confectionery after the crunchie)
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: rogerzilla on 13 May, 2019, 09:15:33 pm
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.
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: FifeingEejit on 13 May, 2019, 09:36:23 pm
test ignore...
(https://i.ibb.co/tDPkKqc/P1010629.jpg) (https://ibb.co/tDPkKqc)

Edit: hm, dodge photo host I picked doesn't resample to the size selected just sets the BBCode to tell the browser to resize appropriately, but thumbnail seems ok?
Edit2: What's even dafter is it seems to link to a 640x480 version of the image...
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Chris S on 13 May, 2019, 09:53:29 pm
I think I have retired from audax riding, and this thread will forever affirm that decision. Especially this:

(https://i.ibb.co/25bFSG1/IMG-20190309-033927.jpg)

It seems to fit in well with this:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v333/pnweb/yacf/fixiespotting/audaxspotting_white.png)
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Kim on 13 May, 2019, 11:09:49 pm
I'm now picturing him diving into the toilet to rescue his Garmin, with a Brian Eno soundtrack.
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: FifeingEejit on 13 May, 2019, 11:50:11 pm
I'm now picturing him diving into the toilet to rescue his Garmin, with a Brian Eno soundtrack.


Do I need to develop a neddy Edinburgh accent or will my gadgie dundee/Fife one do?

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Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: rogerzilla on 14 May, 2019, 08:57:52 pm
That may not be The Worst Toilet In Scotland but it is a very nasty one.  I appreciate that Angel Delight Butterscotch brown seats are somewhat thin on the ground in the 21st century but black would have been better than white.
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Kim on 14 May, 2019, 09:48:30 pm
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.
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: FifeingEejit on 20 May, 2019, 07:53:36 pm
A couple from Great North Road
(https://i.ibb.co/s6dD2yY/P1030504.jpg) (https://ibb.co/RBkM9zw)
(https://i.ibb.co/s16zhwv/P1030511.jpg) (https://ibb.co/6t1L2PR)
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: αdαmsκι on 20 May, 2019, 09:10:05 pm
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.)

Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: hellymedic on 21 May, 2019, 04:49:23 pm
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.)

The public convenience that appeared in Nantwich at around 2am when I did WCW in 1994 has not been forgotten.

I doubt it's still available...
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: mattc on 22 May, 2019, 07:46:42 pm
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.

It's taken me 8 days to get this joke.
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Deano on 24 September, 2019, 10:50:08 pm
I thought I'd already posted this - Easter Arrow 2018. Actually the easy bit of the ride.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48789874013_52b4d92c65_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hkoRJn)
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: FifeingEejit on 24 September, 2019, 11:02:00 pm
I packed at the weekend,
I was not taking a picture of either the party train to Edinburgh from Gala, or the pisshead train from Edinburgh to Darkest Fife.


Some more collected over the months

(https://i.ibb.co/tmPNYzJ/FB-IMG-1565473191036.jpg) (https://ibb.co/tmPNYzJ)
(https://i.ibb.co/0YSGp4d/P1030896.jpg) (https://ibb.co/0YSGp4d)
(https://i.ibb.co/hX9VYLy/P1030797.jpg) (https://ibb.co/hX9VYLy)
(https://i.ibb.co/J2s0gQz/P1030874.jpg) (https://ibb.co/J2s0gQz)
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Pingu on 25 September, 2019, 11:46:14 pm
Only for Softies 2010.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/4056/4700111715_16d0c0d04e_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/8akisT)
IMG_4120 (https://flic.kr/p/8akisT) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Deano on 07 September, 2022, 09:34:37 pm
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:

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52340541482_c8b0d0f457_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nK9Xt1)
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52341803659_953f422c0c_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nKgqEF)

We also visited the phone box in Bampton, because of course you would.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52341803669_4d7244d7dd_h.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nKgqER)
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Peter on 07 September, 2022, 10:32:56 pm
Lovely!
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: IanDG on 07 September, 2022, 10:48:36 pm
Ness control on the Golden Road and Standing Stones 300:

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/393/18650723664_48e8e4e307_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/uq6Qn7)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/425/19279448851_709a9b8f9b_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/vnEdsx)

Great thousand-yard stare on ramcityrocker, there. (sorry, Rob ;D)

and another

(https://live.staticflickr.com/530/19045525388_de91157305_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/v1Ziao)Dean at Ness Control (https://flic.kr/p/v1Ziao) by ian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/), on Flickr
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: IanDG on 07 September, 2022, 10:59:47 pm
Uig Community Shop, Isle of Lewis 520km into a solo 600

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52340692092_8770e166a5_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/9103L573A6)90798436_10158058920012486_2683363968742850560_n (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/9103L573A6) by ian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/), on Flickr
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Jaded on 07 September, 2022, 11:11:26 pm
That looks like a good day!!  ;D
Title: Re: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 08 September, 2022, 08:50:18 am
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:

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52340541482_c8b0d0f457_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nK9Xt1)
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52341803659_953f422c0c_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nKgqEF)

We also visited the phone box in Bampton, because of course you would.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52341803669_4d7244d7dd_h.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nKgqER)
There's something about those photos that somehow looks like "This happened 20 years ago."