Author Topic: [HAMR] MARSH GIBBON!!  (Read 54781 times)

Vince

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Re: MARSH GIBBON!!
« Reply #50 on: 02 February, 2015, 11:05:12 pm »

Does these mean a Marsh Gibbon meet up is a possibility? Do we need to start a list?
I'd be riding from Sheffield.

Apparently there is camping available at Gubbins Hole Farm, Marsh Gibbon. Its a Sign!
ETA Aw Shucks... its caravans only :(
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Re: MARSH GIBBON!!
« Reply #51 on: 03 February, 2015, 09:36:51 pm »
JohnR's avatar is some sort of primate.  Could it possibly be...?
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Re: MARSH GIBBON!!
« Reply #52 on: 03 February, 2015, 09:53:21 pm »
MG is only 100km from my bit of London.  A weekend excursion is definitely possible.
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

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Re: MARSH GIBBON!!
« Reply #53 on: 06 February, 2015, 12:08:37 am »
Four days without a Marsh Gibbon visit.  The longest Gibbon-free stretch since the run of 5 days up to and including January 20th.
You are in a maze of twisty flat droves, all alike.

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Re: MARSH GIBBON!!
« Reply #54 on: 06 February, 2015, 12:11:26 am »
There could well be a few more Gibbon free days coming up too, looking at the weather forecast. There's a couple of days of Northerly winds, and Steve tends to like to ride into the wind in the morning and have a tailwind for the return journey. I expect tomorrow's ride could well be a repeat of today's, or perhaps a trip to Spalding.

Re: MARSH GIBBON!!
« Reply #55 on: 06 February, 2015, 08:23:55 am »
We'll all agree to meet there.

That'll be "Funky".....

I'll get my coat.

T42

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Re: MARSH GIBBON!!
« Reply #56 on: 06 February, 2015, 08:37:02 am »
We definitely need a date next year for the First Commemorative Marsh Gibbon Convention. Although a warm one, please.
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Re: MARSH GIBBON!!
« Reply #57 on: 06 February, 2015, 09:42:41 am »
Looks like being another Marsh Gibbon-free day today :(
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Re: MARSH GIBBON!!
« Reply #58 on: 06 February, 2015, 02:37:15 pm »
I think Steve is showing consideration for the inhabitants of Marsh Gibbon, for fear they may be overwhelmed by AUKs paying tribute.  However, he may now be creating a new phenomenon....


SHEEPY MAGNA
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Re: MARSH GIBBON!!
« Reply #59 on: 06 February, 2015, 02:40:10 pm »
I think Steve is showing consideration for the inhabitants of Marsh Gibbon, for fear they may be overwhelmed by AUKs paying tribute.  However, he may now be creating a new phenomenon....


SHEEPY MAGNA

Sheepy Magna (and Sheepy Parva) has been a phenomenon for ages, Steve's late to that party.

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Re: MARSH GIBBON!!
« Reply #60 on: 06 February, 2015, 02:50:32 pm »
Apropos of nothing in particular: Marsh Gibbon to Sheepy Magna is about 71 miles according to Google's bike routing.
You are in a maze of twisty flat droves, all alike.

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Re: MARSH GIBBON!!
« Reply #61 on: 06 February, 2015, 04:26:10 pm »
Another interesting name, this time from his Nor'easterly routes into the Fens:  Stow Longa

On those routes, he also passes very close to, but not yet through Souldrop.
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Re: MARSH GIBBON!!
« Reply #62 on: 06 February, 2015, 04:42:42 pm »
Apropos of nothing in particular: Marsh Gibbon to Sheepy Magna is about 71 miles according to Google's bike routing.

So a little over-distance for an out and back tribute Randonee??
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T42

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Re: MARSH GIBBON!!
« Reply #63 on: 07 February, 2015, 09:02:23 am »
I was thinking of doing one from here.
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Re: MARSH GIBBON!!
« Reply #64 on: 07 February, 2015, 03:02:01 pm »
Given his direction and destination today, I think a Marsh Gibbon fly-by is pretty much ruled out.  If that's the case, this is the longest that will have passed without the relentless red randonneur passing through!
You are in a maze of twisty flat droves, all alike.

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Re: MARSH GIBBON!!
« Reply #65 on: 07 February, 2015, 06:19:20 pm »
IIRC, they have a Marsh Gibbon at Twycross Zoo.

http://twycrosszoo.org/conservation/conservation-projects/fauna-and-flora-cao-vit-gibbon-conservation-project-in-vietnam/

AFAIK, it drinks tea.

It can tell some stories about 'nam vets.

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Re: MARSH GIBBON!!
« Reply #66 on: 07 February, 2015, 07:11:36 pm »
It just sits in a tree mumbling "You don't know, man, you weren't there"?
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Re: MARSH GIBBON!!
« Reply #67 on: 08 February, 2015, 08:20:44 am »
Listen out for those words when Steve is interviewed.

Re: MARSH GIBBON!!
« Reply #68 on: 08 February, 2015, 09:00:38 am »
..twinned with Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh and by long association, with West Wittering

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Re: MARSH GIBBON!!
« Reply #69 on: 08 February, 2015, 05:26:27 pm »
There's lots of flat roads around West Wittering the problem is finding a breach in the South Downs to get there.
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Re: MARSH GIBBON!!
« Reply #70 on: 09 February, 2015, 08:57:16 pm »
Steve arrived back in the vicinity of Milton Keynes needing a few extra miles, so embarked on a loop away from MK.

It appears, though, that he didn't need quite as many miles as a Marsh Gibbon Manoeuvre would entail so we now have a run of 8 Gibbon-free days.

He is still 26 visits ahead of Tarzan and IronOx though.
You are in a maze of twisty flat droves, all alike.

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Vince

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Re: MARSH GIBBON!!
« Reply #71 on: 09 February, 2015, 09:16:16 pm »
I think this is another rule that the UMCA missed. No HAMR can be completed without a visit to Marsh Gibbon.
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Re: MARSH GIBBON!!
« Reply #72 on: 09 February, 2015, 09:57:49 pm »
Tarzan has been very close to the Green Swamp Wildlife Management Area today. If that is worthy of its name it will have a thriving colony of Marsh Gibbons making faces at him and sticking thorns in his Vredestein Continentals.

Come to think of it, Tarzan's well-known cry is probably one of frustration at another broken frame, punctured tyre or some such.
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Re: MARSH GIBBON!!
« Reply #73 on: 10 February, 2015, 10:38:30 am »
I wonder if anybody living in Marsh Gibbon is aware yet of the phenomenon that is the Red Randonneur and the fame that he brings to MG?

Will there be pilgrimages?   Do they have a suitable camping field?   Can you buy sausages there? 

Re: MARSH GIBBON!!
« Reply #74 on: 10 February, 2015, 11:56:32 am »
Tarzan has been very close to the Green Swamp Wildlife Management Area today. If that is worthy of its name it will have a thriving colony of Marsh Gibbons making faces at him and sticking thorns in his Vredestein Continentals.

Come to think of it, Tarzan's well-known cry is probably one of frustration at another broken frame, punctured tyre or some such.

In Florida, its the Skunk ape.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_ape