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Haven't been around for about 10 years. What's new?
« on: 21 January, 2020, 10:09:08 pm »
All the news, please... from everyone.. for the last 8-10 years since i stopped using the forum  ;D
"Many, also, are the hills that lie between, and we must ascend, by a glorious stairway, from strength to strength."
- Petrarch, 'The Ascent of Mount Ventoux', 1336

Wowbagger

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Re: Haven't been around for about 10 years. What's new?
« Reply #1 on: 21 January, 2020, 10:19:51 pm »
I'm still breathing. For the moment.

Welcome back!
Quote from: Dez
It doesn’t matter where you start. Just start.

Re: Haven't been around for about 10 years. What's new?
« Reply #2 on: 21 January, 2020, 10:55:16 pm »
Indeed Welcome back.   I remember your name but I'm not sure if we ever met ?


People have got married & had babies, people have had babies, people have drifted away, people have flounced, sadly some people have died, some people have joined.   Some radicals have even ridden their bikes...
Not fast & rarely furious

tweeting occasional in(s)anities as andrewxclark

Basil

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Re: Haven't been around for about 10 years. What's new?
« Reply #3 on: 21 January, 2020, 11:07:35 pm »
Hello matey.  :D

Mostly, we're all about 10 years older.  Not many of us (myself included) are 10 years wiser.
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

hellymedic

  • Just do it!
Re: Haven't been around for about 10 years. What's new?
« Reply #4 on: 22 January, 2020, 12:08:42 am »
Welcome back!
Did you have some Danish connection?

Re: Haven't been around for about 10 years. What's new?
« Reply #5 on: 22 January, 2020, 12:19:43 am »
Howdy all! I remember so many of your names. Yeah, was originally from Denmark, lived in London, left for the US with two bikes (one of which got stolen last year :'( )

Never got back into long distance cycling since i left, they don't have the same audax scene here. Was just loking at some old cycle route locations on Google street view when i got a bit nostalgic :)

Did think about returning, but that boat has sailed with Brexit, and besides, a "man cannot cycle the same path twice, for he's not the same man and it's not the same bike path."

Glad to see you have kept the community alive, it's really a special thing!
"Many, also, are the hills that lie between, and we must ascend, by a glorious stairway, from strength to strength."
- Petrarch, 'The Ascent of Mount Ventoux', 1336

T42

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Re: Haven't been around for about 10 years. What's new?
« Reply #6 on: 22 January, 2020, 08:40:03 am »
You left before I joined but hello anyway. Sad about the bike.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: Haven't been around for about 10 years. What's new?
« Reply #7 on: 22 January, 2020, 08:41:27 am »
Glad to see you have kept the community alive, it's really a special thing!
Special thing keeps on specialling. I think that's mostly what's been happening over the last ten years.

(But in terms of what's new: ooh so many little things!)
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

IanDG

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Re: Haven't been around for about 10 years. What's new?
« Reply #8 on: 09 February, 2020, 08:46:22 pm »
I'm not Windy any more, sorted the diet out and moved away from the Outer Hebrides.

rogerzilla

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Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Re: Haven't been around for about 10 years. What's new?
« Reply #10 on: 12 February, 2020, 01:22:47 pm »
Yo! Ibrahim.
I'm still using the Crumpler bag.

pdm

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Re: Haven't been around for about 10 years. What's new?
« Reply #11 on: 12 February, 2020, 01:48:30 pm »
Good to see you back!
The forum ethos is pretty much unchanged (thankfully)!
We are all a little older and probably not much wiser  ;D