Photos of Random Tandem Ride

[clarion]

There's quite a few - watch out!

Assembling at Long Buckby


On the road


Triplet!


Some bicyclists


St Nicholas Church - one of quite a few pretty ones, but the only one that seems to have a bomb shelter


Mrs Chris on her lovely lugless Roberts


Tea at last!


Cyclists in their natural habitat


Coolest T-shirt of the day

[clarion]

Cake Stop Photos:

Knowing the lumpiest bits of the ride lay ahead, there was some dallying here.

Bike Park 1


Bike park 2


Happy Smiles


I didn't get any photos of the Lovely Ladies on the swings, but the roundabout was also fun:



Wow couldn't resist


Cake chat


Martin


Chris, Teethgrinder & Polar Bear


O that Tamara de Lempicka were alive in our age!


Ceitidh - Chief cake carrier and fixed n00b


TG's DY


Wows ready to move on


Bicycle Repair Man (Butterfly) saves the day with the Triplet.  Don't worry - after taking the photo, I did help

[clarion]

Waiting at a junction, some triplet fun was had:

Getting started


Pretty fast


A real blast!


U-Turns on a sixpence(ish) in front of some rather fine gates



Sorry  these are a bit blurred - the light was quite low at this point.

[Charlotte]

Loving that triplet 

[Blah]

Is that the next n+1 then? 

[Wowbagger]

Marion, Jan and I were speculating about the children's diaries when they got back to school:-

"Yesterday I went on a bicycle ride with mummy and daddy and my brother and sister. Charlotte, Liz, Butterfly, Clarion, Teethgrinder, Wowbagger and Mrs Wowbagger all came along too. We had a competition, with a piece of cake as a prize, for whoever could ride up the hills the slowest."

"Miss, how do you spell fixie-chick?"

[Julian]

Chris and team do their Ganesh impression:


Triplet!


Teethgrinder and his monstrous gear:


Team Chris:


Tandem peloton:

[Julian]

Wowbaggers!




Clarion forgets momentarily that he has a stinking cold:




Polar Bear & stoker:

[Julian]

At Naseby we stopped at the Civil War monument:


There was this stunning captain I took a picture of:


We got to go play on the playground!




Triplet honking - now that is really cool:

[clarion]

Chris and team do their Ganesh impression:

I can't help but feel Chris might be more flattered by comparison to Lord Vishnu (less contention about the trunk!)

Tandem peloton:

I approve this message

[Julian]

A pretty little church:






Zoe and Lewis demonstrated to me how properly to crew a triplet:


Then Charlotte and I got a go!


We did get to borrow a stoker though...

[clarion]

I ought to point out that I saw two different styles of tandem honking.  There was the very impressive Triplet honking, where Chris was out of the saddle, although that was what was happening when the chain decided to bury itself behind the sprockets

The other style was with the pilot seated, and the stoker (you, as it happens, Liz) standing on the pedals rushing a rise.  Also impressive.

[Wowbagger]

In this picture, I was as dizzy as I've been for years, having revolved extremely rapidly thanks to various assistants. Try as I might, for about half a minute I simply couldn't get up.

[chris]

I ought to point out that I saw two different styles of tandem honking.  There was the very impressive Triplet honking, where Chris was out of the saddle, although that was what was happening when the chain decided to bury itself behind the sprockets

I was changing gear at the same time! Perhaps not such a good idea, but it hasn't been a problem in the past (except for when the same thing happened in Dorset about four years ago).

[clarion]

tbf, it was a very steep bit of hill, and you were putting an awful lot of power down, with not a trace of wobble on that mighty machine.  Top honking, sir!

As our chain was misbehaving (overenthusiastically leaping across) three times in all, I understand your problem.  Glad we could get you going again

[chris]

tbf, it was a very steep bit of hill, and you were putting an awful lot of power down, with not a trace of wobble on that mighty machine.  Top honking, sir!

As our chain was misbehaving (overenthusiastically leaping across) three times in all, I understand your problem.  Glad we could get you going again

Thanks for that Butterfly, I was going to put the chain back on myself, but by the time I had walked to the back of the bike you already had your hands dirty.

[Butterfly]

That's the point of full fingered black gloves 

[clarion]

It's a long walk...

[rogerzilla]

I always said playgrounds were chav magnets 

[chris]

It's a long walk...

That was the nearest we got to home on the ride, but you are right when you say -

"It's a ". (picture not from yesterdays ride)

[clarion]

  Is that for real on the route we took?  And I missed it?  Dang!

[clarion]

That's the point of full fingered black gloves 

Well, one of the points...

[chris]

  Is that for real on the route we took?  And I missed it?  Dang!

No it's [decides to keep the picture for guess the place], but I'm quite happy to organise a ride from Northampton to there (It'll take a week or two though).

[Sigurd Mudtracker]

Where can I get a T-shirt like that?!

[Polar Bear]

Nice pics guys, esp Liz.  Thanks