Forumite spotting

[Feanor]

Someone at the entrance / exit of a bike parking area;

Probably me at Hessle.

Yes, it was your name I had in mind, but was not confident enough of that...
Thanks.

[Graeme]

It was a festival of meeting friends - one of the reasons I enjoyed the start gate marshal role was talking to almost everyone. Oh, and shouting a lot. I liked the shouting.

[hatler]

It was a festival of meeting friends - one of the reasons I enjoyed the start gate marshal role was talking to almost everyone. Oh, and shouting a lot. I liked the shouting.

You are a Vogon guard AICMFP.

[Graeme]

It was the low-slung stun ray holster provided by Danial that sold the job

[hatler]

It's always nice to have it affirmed that one is amongst like-minded individuals.

[JonB]

I spotted a YACF jersey in the wild on Sunday morning between Shortwood and Pucklechurch in South Gloucestershire, a good chance they're someone who uses this forum?

Think that might have been me if it was a red YACF top 

[JonB]

I met too many to mention on LEL.

I was wearing a red YACY gillet and red YACF top some of the time.
My memory has grown hazy of all those I met.
I can remember:

Mr Larrington at the start, and at some control far from Larrington Towers;
Someone at the entrance / exit of a bike parking area;
The Rev G. at the secret control;
Hummers onna motorbike (more than once?) and I think at Eskdalemuir;
AlfaPete lending me a light at some control where my charge cable had broken;
Another rider inna green YACF jersey, name lost like tears in the rain;
Charlotte at the end.

And others I have missed.

Oh, and obviously IanDG at some control too...

I think we chatted a bit on the route out of Louth (we'd both encountered a dodgy van driver), I had a black audax Bristol top on

[Feanor]

I met too many to mention on LEL.

I think we chatted a bit on the route out of Louth (we'd both encountered a dodgy van driver), I had a black audax Bristol top on

Yes, that sounds right. Hi!

[felstedrider]

Adamski at Parkrun yesterday.

Howdee at a local 10k this morning.

(The first one was pre-planned so maybe doesn’t count.)

[fd3]

Streetmachine on Ashmore rd.
Feat Kim

[ElyDave]

Possible forumite near Shippea Hill yesterday, I was on the S40, them on roadbi,especially, wearing a 2017 LEL Jersey  from a brief exchange, they also did this year

[IanDG]

Sat next to Oraloon at a recent D&G CTC AGM and didn't realise it was him until a month later 

[ravenbait]

There's someone in Fordoun who rides a recumbent with a yellow flag. No idea if they're on this forum. I suppose not every recumbent rider is OTP, but I do sometimes wonder if it's someone I would know by a forum name.

Sam

[The Family Cyclist]

Not sure if they're on here but had a quick chat with some bike training instructors under instruction as we're using my road for practice and I was fitting new battery to my car

[geraldc]

Cycling by Hyde Park, when another cyclist struck up a conversation (about my lack of gloves) We were both riding e-bikes. There was something familiar about the other cyclist, the accent, the glasses the camera on his hat. So I asked are you Cycling Mikey? and he was indeed. We had a very pleasant chat all the way to Shepherds Bush. It's the first time I've had an extended chat with someone else riding an e-bike. It was very civilised and very enjoyable.

[Kim]

Gerwinium, having his curry pointed at by Queen Prince Charles in the Evening Standard.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Not sure which of those volleys is Gerwinium, but when you've spent 99% of your life as a subj of Mrs Queen, reading a sentence that begins "The King has..." makes you think you must be reading something written pre-1952. Possibly one of those Just William books you read as a small child, for instance, in which it was essential to know how many shillings in a half-crown. No, not that sort of crown.

[Kim]

He's the one on the right, and is exempt from royal subjugation (at least by our royals), on account of being a FOREIGN.  He doesn't normally get to serve food in front of visiting dignitaries, but his usual job involves chopping tomatoes and stuff, so...

reading a sentence that begins "The King has..." makes you think you must be reading something written pre-1952

Yes.  Its like having a male prime minister, only with a stronger suggestion that there might be dragons and castles and things later in the story.  (Something John Major overlooked with his Back To Basics campaign.)

[Cudzoziemiec]

Yes.  Its like having a male prime minister, only with a stronger suggestion that there might be dragons and castles and things later in the story.  (Something John Major overlooked with his Back To Basics campaign.)

Now there's a way of thinking of it. As I was basically ABROAD fraternizing with the FOREIGNS for the entirety of the Blair years, the last male prime minister while I was present, was Major. Obviously Cameron and Johnson were male, but were they really prime ministers? Not that May and Truss did any better on that front.

[Mr Larrington]

He's the one on the right, and is exempt from royal subjugation (at least by our royals), on account of being a FOREIGN.  He doesn't normally get to serve food in front of visiting dignitaries, but his usual job involves chopping tomatoes and stuff, so...

…which in our case we have not got?

[SpaceBadger]

Had a nice chat with De Sisti on a ride today, previously only known to me by their *real* name 

[fd3]

Woah, is that a recumbent ... riding up the bristol rd toward the lickeys?

... nevermind, it's a Streetmachine and the rider is waring a black cap, so it must be Kim.

[geraldc]

Ran into Cycling Mikey again last night. However I forgot yesterday was 4.20, so Hyde Park was full of kids smoking weed, so the police closed the entrances to the park, resulting in a bit of detour so I was running late to pick up my daughter, so only got to nod hello and had to fly off as fast my legs and power assist could carry me.

[Joe.B]

Ok, this is technically third party reporting but anyway:

Chatting with a colleague yesterday morning who reported spotting  a chap on a trike while riding round the Otterburn ranges earlier this week. After describing said chap, trike & considerable rate of progress, I believe it must have been the good Mr Aidan.f of this parish. Probably route checking next weekends Chevy Chase 200K.

[JellyLegs]

The talk of regular cycle commutes from Basingstoke to London and the weekend 600km strongly suggest this belongs here.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65779925