Forumite spotting

[tiermat]

Tuesday evening I spotted a Pharti and a jenhunt, usually in front of me, as we went to the pubbe.

Last night I spotted a paul, who had arrived at my hotel to collect a bike frame.

Fish, barrel

[citoyen]

Occasional forumite Colin W, aka Teapot, at the White Cliffs NT café - where on a Sunday lunchtime in August it takes a full 20 minutes to get served a coffee & sausage roll. Really didn't think it through when selecting the café stop around which to base my ride. Still, good to catch up with Colin.

[Torslanda]

That MZJO in his garden with the motorbike & sidecar. Pleasure to make your acquaintance, enjoy your new cranks...

[tonyh]

Non-spotting actually. But there must surely be a forumite or two in Richmond Park in the mornings this month. I'm often in an Audax Cymru jersey. And am always easy to overtake.

[Katie]

barakta, several times over the weekend (neither of us on bikes, alas)

YACF did come up in conversation talking about my recent crash, though (when she pointed out that I could have gone to the nearest train station, locked up and posted a plea for help collecting it on here, instead of cycling another 40km to get myself home…  )

[Wascally Weasel]

Non-spotting actually. But there must surely be a forumite or two in Richmond Park in the mornings this month. I'm often in an Audax Cymru jersey. And am always easy to overtake.

I go through there every morning and have remained unspotted since I resumed doing so in early May.  I suspect that the forumites that also go through the park in the morning get out of bed earlier than me.

[citoyen]

Saw a black YACF jersey going the opposite way to me down the Elham valley this afternoon. Said hello but not sure who it was - aregister seems the most likely candidate.

[Hattyfatner]

Someone in a blue YACF top speeding down Hassocks high street yesterday - if it was saturday I apologise that post my first 24h I feel quite adled.

[LittleWheelsandBig]

Quite a while ago now but Jedric, not long after the start of PBP. Quite a few others OTP of course but I'd seen most of them previously during brevets.

[hatler]

Someone in a blue YACF top speeding down Hassocks high street yesterday - if it was saturday I apologise that post my first 24h I feel quite adled.

That would be me. About 5ish ?  And there were (or should have been) some children behind me.

And well done on the 24.

[Basil]

Hopefully that was a Kim heading towards me in the distance as I turned right onto the Bristol Road this evening.
As the 'Kim' waved back and her eyesight is probably better than mine is, I assume I've not freaked anyone out.

[Kim]

Hopefully that was a Kim heading towards me in the distance as I turned right onto the Bristol Road this evening.
As the 'Kim' waved back and her eyesight is probably better than mine is, I assume I've not freaked anyone out.

It was indeed.   

[Basil]

Yeah  I knew would have been very surprised if it wasn't you really.
My eyesight is worrying poor these days but all the clues were there.
'Bent - Surprisingly fewer in Brum than c20 years ago.
Correct profile for a SM
Powerful headlight on in day light
Black top that could have been yacf
Cap, not magic hat.
And here's the weird one - Kim's cadence/peddling style. (No, I don't mean the cadence/peddling style was weird - I mean it was weird that I'd recognise it)

Wow, I'm starting to recognise cadence/peddling styles?   Blimey!

Eta. Clarion is another I'd recognise that way.  Don't ask how.  It's not something I can put into words.  It just says 'Clarion'

[Kim]

I don't usually have the light on in daylight, but I'd just returned from the middle of what appears to have been a highly localised downpour.  A bit closer and you'd have noticed I was also sopping wet.

[Basil]

Grrrrrrrrrrr.

Sorry 

[CrinklyLion]

Marj, spotted over coffee cups in Patisserie Valerie this afternoon 

[Marj]

Marj, spotted over coffee cups in Patisserie Valerie this afternoon 

It was good to see you too yesterday, I'm now home, busy few days in Yorkshire.

[IanDG]

Couldn't find this thread yesterday - Had a pm from Mr Plumtree to say he was holidaying in Harris so went for a ride and met up for coffee after he arrived on the ferry (seen here with my friend Richard)

[Ruthie]

Hello Bill!  Have a lovely holiday!

[TheLurker]

And here's the weird one - Kim's cadence/peddling style. (No, I don't mean the cadence/peddling style was weird - I mean it was weird that I'd recognise it)
Wow, I'm starting to recognise cadence/peddling styles?   Blimey!
Eta. Clarion is another I'd recognise that way.  Don't ask how.  It's not something I can put into words.  It just says 'Clarion'

I dunno, doesn't sound _that_ surprising.  Perhaps a slightly more refined variation of the gait analysis that allows us to pick out people we know at distances where we can't see faces?

[CrinklyLion]

I recognised Kim (on the Thames Path Meander) from a thumbnail view of a pic that TimO posted elsewhere - I had never noticed before how distinctive her stance is before!  That'll be the one-leg-shorter thing in evidence I assume.

[rogerzilla]

Polar Bear and MllePB at home in Rugby, which is a lot nicer than I thought it would be (Rugby, I mean). I've only ever seen it from a train carriage and I expected a mini-Coventry 

[Basil]

I’ve just seen Dibdib!

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Well probably not really, but I passed a chap on my way in near Five Ways that was so incredibly the absolute spit of him that I almost stopped.  He was pedestrianing with cup of coffee and colleague.

[Dibdib]

I’ve just seen Dibdib!

Sadly not moi, although I have form for passing by Five Ways (it used to be my commute when I worked in Brummingham). The Real Dibdib is currently in _FORRIN for work

[clarion]

NSTN in Wandle Park!