Author Topic: It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. (Read 84327 times)

Bledlow · « **Reply #125 on:** 15 November, 2012, 07:21:38 pm »

Audax Saitama - the local audax club where Mrs B is from.

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

They seem to stop at a lot of convenience stores.

More the classic audaxer -

iddu · « **Reply #126 on:** 04 February, 2013, 09:58:47 am »

Quote from: Exit Stage Left on 17 January, 2013, 09:12:33 am

Seems to be from a blog.

http://doctoronabike.blogspot.co.uk/

SHIRT!

[Edit: That's tonight's reading sorted...]

DrMekon · « **Reply #127 on:** 04 February, 2013, 11:12:49 am »

Quote from: 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.

Maverick, Mercurykev & Cyclops on the Easter Arrow

Love it. You look like casualties from a particularly sordid warehouse party.

mattc · « **Reply #128 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

rogerzilla · « **Reply #129 on:** 03 March, 2013, 06:34:55 pm »

Quote from: Exit Stage Left on 29 January, 2013, 01:11:03 pm

A rare bookshop shot.

I bet that's the corner where the Sci-fi and Fantasy section meets the Computing section.

L CC · « **Reply #130 on:** 04 March, 2013, 03:03:17 pm »

Synchro-tea at the back there. Niiiice.

Chris S · « **Reply #131 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

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Deano · « **Reply #132 on:** 06 May, 2013, 02:18:51 pm »

A couple from the Chevy Chase 200:

The Impromptu Cafe, Elsdon:

Roadside control at Whygate:

pcolbeck · « **Reply #133 on:** 02 June, 2013, 01:07:07 pm »

and people do this for fun ....

jogler · « **Reply #134 on:** 02 June, 2013, 01:23:33 pm »

^^^ the 1000 yard stare;perfectly illustrated

trumpet · « **Reply #135 on:** 02 June, 2013, 06:55:54 pm »

Quote from: Exit Stage Left on 02 June, 2013, 12:57:40 pm

Wendy's in Rocky Point, North Carolina, somewhere near Cape Fear.

Reminds me of a scene Edward Hopper could have painted.

Feline · « **Reply #136 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!

Untitled by Lara Feline, on Flickr

Exit Stage Left · « **Reply #137 on:** 12 June, 2013, 01:16:27 pm »

Food to Go, I doubt they envisaged going 600km.

clarion · « **Reply #138 on:** 12 June, 2013, 01:39:32 pm »

Red & yellow diagonal stripes looks like the old Clarion racing jersey.

Exit Stage Left · « **Reply #139 on:** 12 June, 2013, 01:57:35 pm »

There were a few Clarion riders, it's a strong area in the Mytholmroyd catchment area.

clarion · « **Reply #140 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.

shyumu · « **Reply #141 on:** 12 June, 2013, 03:56:26 pm »

I like this thread. Apologies to my fellow Arrows Team...

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

And then finally...

Chris S · « **Reply #142 on:** 12 June, 2013, 03:58:39 pm »

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

Great ad for the VC167

BTW, shyumu - is that a picture of you trying very hard not to boke your beer & chilli over the A19?

shyumu · « **Reply #143 on:** 12 June, 2013, 04:05:46 pm »

Quote from: Chris S on 12 June, 2013, 03:58:39 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":

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #144 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.

zigzag · « **Reply #145 on:** 24 November, 2013, 12:16:43 pm »

does it get that cold in texas?..

Oscar's dad · « **Reply #146 on:** 24 November, 2013, 12:28:42 pm »

Quote from: zigzag on 24 November, 2013, 12:16:43 pm

does it get that cold in texas?..

I wondered that. Or perhaps bank robbing is part of US audax culture?

αdαmsκι · « **Reply #147 on:** 24 November, 2013, 12:33:56 pm »

Quote from: shyumu on 12 June, 2013, 04:05:46 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.

Exit Stage Left · « **Reply #148 on:** 24 November, 2013, 02:05:54 pm »

Quote from: zigzag on 24 November, 2013, 12:16:43 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

LittleWheelsandBig · « **Reply #149 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.