Author Topic: Forumite spotting (Read 588257 times)

rogerzilla · « **Reply #4125 on:** 13 September, 2021, 02:55:05 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 20 August, 2021, 07:12:55 pm

Accidentally spotted myself: https://www.kidderminstershuttle.co.uk/news/19527470.bomb-squad-called-explosive-found-bewdley/

When I heard someone mention it was a bomb that had stuck me on the wrong side of the Severn, I was thinking some Germans had got lost on the way to Coventry. This sounds a bit more 'see it, say it, sorted' than that.

Poor Bewdley. If it's not flooded, it's being blown up by Goering's dastardly Heinkels.

mike · « **Reply #4126 on:** 13 September, 2021, 03:23:51 pm »

Indeed. I thought he knew the Before Roads.

Butterfly · « **Reply #4127 on:** 16 September, 2021, 05:35:08 pm »

Wowbagger, Andrew C and Canardly are riding round East Anglia, so it was probably them. In my experience, if you think "that looks like Wowbagger", no matter how unlikely, it usually is.

andrewc · « **Reply #4128 on:** 17 September, 2021, 08:39:26 am »

Quote from: mike on 13 September, 2021, 02:08:00 pm

Did we ride past Wowbagger and a couple of others out near Linton yesterday?? (possibly loadsabikes?)

You were stopped at a junction, checking a map. I was suffering too badly, desperately hanging on to her back wheel while still 20 miles to home to let me stop and chat!

Wowbagger, Canardly & myself. We’d just come off a scenic detour via the Roman road.

grams · « **Reply #4129 on:** 19 September, 2021, 10:51:56 pm »

Someone said hello to me in Chelmsford? Is suspect they may be Of This Parish.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #4130 on:** 22 September, 2021, 03:46:59 pm »

Quote from: rogerzilla on 13 September, 2021, 02:52:50 pm

I thought Wowbagger had been around so long that he knew All Teh Roadz.

Those cunning Romans put one in when I wasn't looking.

jiberjaber · « **Reply #4131 on:** 23 September, 2021, 07:37:38 pm »

Quote from: grams on 19 September, 2021, 10:51:56 pm

Someone said hello to me in Chelmsford? Is suspect they may be Of This Parish.

Depends where you were in Chelmsford?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #4132 on:** 17 October, 2021, 05:34:31 pm »

Kim, Barakta, Gerwinium & Blodwyn Pig at the BHPC AGM meeting today.

matthew · « **Reply #4133 on:** 23 October, 2021, 12:29:07 pm »

GCN has just put up a video from a BHPC meet at Hillingdon. https://youtu.be/sWM0CHJeYAI I recognise Kim on the red barron and there must be more of you so own up.

Kim · « **Reply #4134 on:** 23 October, 2021, 01:57:23 pm »

Quote from: matthew on 23 October, 2021, 12:29:07 pm

GCN has just put up a video from a BHPC meet at Hillingdon. https://youtu.be/sWM0CHJeYAI I recognise Kim on the red barron and there must be more of you so own up.

More discussion of that in the BHPC thread: https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=113381.msg2667960#msg2667960

Gerwinium's definitely in it (onna upwrong, YACF jersey) at several points. Not sure about the others (if barakta's there, she's in a wheelchair somewhere near the timing tent, and Blodwin Pig would be in the slow group on the Vorsprung Durch HPVelotechnik).

LittleWheelsandBig · « **Reply #4135 on:** 23 October, 2021, 02:01:26 pm »

A several of forumites a little before midnight Thursday, briefly hanging round a Rowland Hill statue in central London. A few of them rode there, one from Edinburgh that morning.

Wobbly John · « **Reply #4136 on:** 01 November, 2021, 11:41:09 pm »

A red ICE trike in Ely this morning, being riden by Slowfen, I believe?

Marco Stefano · « **Reply #4137 on:** 05 November, 2021, 06:35:12 pm »

Quote from: Wobbly John on 01 November, 2021, 11:41:09 pm

A red ICE trike in Ely this morning, being riden by Slowfen, I believe?

And around that day (+/- 1), Wobbly John riding down Silver Street (you wouldn't have seen me, just wandering down Church Lane with a stinking cold).

Tim Hall · « **Reply #4138 on:** 07 November, 2021, 07:12:12 pm »

Cruising into Brighton on the Pino with my Young Lady, chasing the Old Cars, we were hailed by Frank9755, who was doing much the same thing
A little later a nice police officer bade me to pull over, but I mostly ignored him, as it was Charlotte's favourite copper, Titus of the Yard

The Family Cyclist · « **Reply #4139 on:** 14 November, 2021, 08:32:34 pm »

Jane who I think is OTP but not sure of her forum moniker walked past me wheeling her bike at todays remembrance parade.

andrewc · « **Reply #4140 on:** 09 December, 2021, 10:14:20 am »

Steph, inna pubbe, in Liverpewl.

Peter · « **Reply #4141 on:** 09 December, 2021, 12:26:25 pm »

"Steph Inside, Love"..........

Steph · « **Reply #4142 on:** 10 December, 2021, 11:26:47 am »

AndrewC, outside two pubs in Liverpool and behind a large* umbrella as half the Irish Sea came inland for a visit. There was one moment as we walked down Chapel Street where the image that came to mind, as he braced the umbrella in front of us, was a stand of pikemen after being told "Prepare to receive cavalry!"

It was THAT windy. There was a cruise ship (Fred Olsen) parked in front of my hotel that set off into the storm, and I can still hear the distant voices of the passengers calling to their four friends: "George! Ralph! Huey! Ruth!"

* Fortunately, and empirically, a robust one. I walk with a stick these days, and ordinary trekking pole, and the wind was that strong It was almost blowing the stick horizontal.

andrewc · « **Reply #4143 on:** 10 December, 2021, 11:47:41 am »

https://www.umbrellasuperstore.co.uk/fulton-stormshield-mens-walking-length-double-canopy-umbrella/

Fulton Stormshield. My office is down by the river , the wind will destroy lesser umbrellas.

Steph · « **Reply #4144 on:** 10 December, 2021, 06:17:41 pm »

Your umbrella was IN the river, as it had come up the bank to meet us.

Efrogwr · « **Reply #4145 on:** 24 December, 2021, 07:33:59 pm »

I think that I saw Slope last night, heading towards Snowdon Towers from Beddgelert.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #4146 on:** 21 February, 2022, 06:16:14 pm »

Delthebike, sans bike, this morning, whilst I was heading for my Stoutness Exercises. We merely "hello"ed on another. It would have been good to stop and chat but I was cycling into a strong wind and had limited time. I arrived at the gym with about 2 minutes to spare.

delthebike · « **Reply #4147 on:** 21 February, 2022, 06:49:03 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 21 February, 2022, 06:16:14 pm

Delthebike, sans bike, this morning, whilst I was heading for my Stoutness Exercises. We merely "hello"ed on another. It would have been good to stop and chat but I was cycling into a strong wind and had limited time. I arrived at the gym with about 2 minutes to spare.

For the record 'twas I without bicycle not the Wowbagger.
I noticed that your beard seems to be particularly full and whiter than I remember it.

IanDG · « **Reply #4148 on:** 12 March, 2022, 10:00:12 pm »

Spent the evening supping beer with Deano 🙂

JellyLegs · « **Reply #4149 on:** 21 March, 2022, 12:53:40 pm »

Does an “electronic spot” count? FelstedRider has a tweet of his spotlighted by Road.cc in their story on Jeremy Vine’s twitter spat with a taxi driver.