Author Topic: Comedy Off-Roading (on Mildy Inappropriate Bikes) (Read 70937 times)

Pingu · « **Reply #125 on:** 22 June, 2019, 06:58:16 pm »

IMG_3206_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Andrij · « **Reply #126 on:** 22 June, 2019, 07:51:27 pm »

NCN ___?

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #127 on:** 22 June, 2019, 09:09:22 pm »

Looks distinctly low on comedy.

Kim · « **Reply #128 on:** 24 June, 2019, 03:51:39 pm »

Routesheet Error on the Rally 50. Observant readers will note:
a) grass that's higher than my...
b) ...not-a-mountain-bike with...
c) ...Look pedals and associated ridiculous shoes.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #129 on:** 25 June, 2019, 02:05:06 pm »

Lots of COR on Sunday. Mown grass (on top of the Severn estuary embankment), mud (track by Oldbury), gravel (Sharpness canal tow path), even some concrete slabs (another part of the embankment). And an incredibly overgrown path (taller weeds and much narrower than in Kim's photo above, along with sections of limbo under the tree branches) which, to my surprise, took my inside the fence of the defunct Berkeley nuclear power station.

Kim · « **Reply #130 on:** 25 June, 2019, 02:14:10 pm »

To be fair, that path got a lot worse. That's just the bit where I fell off my bike and got the phone out to consult the OS map^[1] between boabwords, before resorting to the 24" gear on Mildly Inappropriate Shoes. The track had been thoroughly rutted by vehicle tyres before becoming overgrown, so there were surprise mud-traps under all the triffids.

When I reached ~~tarmac~~ gravel, the first job was to remove the Ventisit and bash it against a convenient post to shed a cloud of accumulated grass seeds. At the next control I worked out that the mystery clicking sound from the front wheel was a stalk that had become wound round the hub inboard of the brake disc - unwinding it span the wheel in a remarkably satisfying manner.

_{[1] Which indicated that I was about halfway through, so obviously there was no point in turning back...}

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #131 on:** 25 June, 2019, 02:18:50 pm »

My overgrown path was rideable all the way, apart from a couple of yards where I had to bend too low. And it left me big long stalks in my shoes, wheels and cassette, which would have been useful evidence that I'd arrived innocently if Magnox Security had stopped me. There was another path though (an official byway) where I got overtaken by two horses, two walkers and one dog cos it was so bumpy.

Kim · « **Reply #132 on:** 25 June, 2019, 02:22:37 pm »

I suspect this one would have been mostly rideable (apart from one short section where the foliage really needed kicking flat) on an upright tourer or mountain bike, if you managed to avoid the ruts. Low-racer, not so much. At least I didn't have very far to fall. No unclear power station, either. Though the ~~West Coast Mainline~~ the branch that heads south-east from Trainspotter Bridge was lurking in there somewhere.

Pingu · « **Reply #133 on:** 29 July, 2019, 12:08:49 am »

Steeper and more slippery than it looks.

IMG_3469_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Kim · « **Reply #134 on:** 29 July, 2019, 12:16:32 am »

Someone really ought to invent a way of making photos of bastard hills look as steep as they feel when you're on/pushing a bike. If it weren't for that fence, you might think it was flat.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #135 on:** 29 July, 2019, 08:28:08 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on 29 July, 2019, 12:08:49 am

Steeper and more slippery than it looks.

IMG_3469_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Oi, you've got my cap on! The one that I was wearing yesterday!

Wobbly John · « **Reply #136 on:** 29 July, 2019, 09:09:05 pm »

I;ve got it today.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #137 on:** 30 July, 2019, 09:08:53 pm »

Is this like Bob's hat?

Pingu · « **Reply #138 on:** 30 July, 2019, 10:06:59 pm »

It's been about a bit:

IMG_4886 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #139 on:** 02 August, 2019, 07:39:03 pm »

It's purple, therefore it's mine, ner.

Also that was more a case of inappropriate shoes than an inappropriate bike.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #140 on:** 02 August, 2019, 08:07:23 pm »

Mine's dark blue rather than purple. Pretty close though. Never actually seen a purple one IRL.

Pingu · « **Reply #141 on:** 10 December, 2019, 12:34:04 am »

OK, the bike was less inappropriate than usual for us.

IMG_4548_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Luke · « **Reply #142 on:** 10 June, 2020, 06:05:31 am »

Yesterdays COR.

Pomp. by Luke Hayes, on Flickr

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #143 on:** 10 June, 2020, 03:20:54 pm »

Smell the pine.

Pingu · « **Reply #144 on:** 10 June, 2020, 09:05:08 pm »

Where the COR finished and the walking started.

IMG_6173_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Pingu · « **Reply #145 on:** 20 September, 2020, 07:08:00 pm »

IMG_6910_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

IMG_6919_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Pingu · « **Reply #146 on:** 02 April, 2021, 10:34:35 pm »

And again.

IMG_7989_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Pingu · « **Reply #147 on:** 30 June, 2021, 10:59:59 pm »

Tile bagging again.

IMG_8393_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Wobbly John · « **Reply #148 on:** 29 August, 2021, 10:56:59 pm »

The road home from Mildenhall 'Rally' was closed by police because of an RTA (the police didn't give a reason at the time), which meant a >20 mile diversion, or...

And then across a potato field (on a track left by vehicles, but soil tooooo soft to ride, so dragged the trike by the rear wheel) to get back on the road after the incident but the wrong side of the closure the other end.

I think the cop at the other end was a bit surprised at the trike flying over the level crossing and between his road closure cones from the supposed to be closed part of the road...

Pingu · « **Reply #149 on:** 29 August, 2021, 10:59:40 pm »