Author Topic: Have you been out today? (Read 3886418 times)

T42 · « **Reply #22750 on:** 24 December, 2019, 09:40:23 am »

Not been and not going,
Bike's clean and it's ~~snowing~~ pissing down again.

cycleman · « **Reply #22751 on:** 24 December, 2019, 06:22:19 pm »

A short ride on the ez3 to Windsor Datchet and and Slough to pick up a couple of Christmas presents. Don't people get stressed this time of the year

Kim · « **Reply #22752 on:** 24 December, 2019, 06:26:47 pm »

Quote from: cycleman on 24 December, 2019, 06:22:19 pm

A short ride on the ez3 to Windsor Datchet and and Slough to pick up a couple of Christmas presents. Don't people get stressed this time of the year

Yeah, I did a short ride this afternoon and while the traffic was relatively light, the standard of driving was appalling. Serious outbreak of MGIF and SMIDSYIJDGAF.

markcjagar · « **Reply #22753 on:** 24 December, 2019, 07:17:55 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 24 December, 2019, 09:40:23 am

Not been and not going,
Bike's clean and it's ~~snowing~~ pissing down again.

This, I'll go out tomorrow it's supposed to be okay then.

Kim · « **Reply #22754 on:** 25 December, 2019, 04:54:11 pm »

Short urban pootle to celebrate the absence of the Christmas Sodding Market and the general reduction in motor traffic. Observed that Christmas pedestrians come in three main categories:

Chinese people
Dog emptiers
Young people who appear to have popped out to smoke weed where their families won't see them.

LittleWheelsandBig · « **Reply #22755 on:** 25 December, 2019, 05:12:27 pm »

Trundled down to the Cutty Sark for the traditional Xmas Day ride. I tended to hover around the high bike riding Deliveroo Santa (you had to be there) who tried to avoid dismounting as much as physically possible. We cut out the beer stop near Putney Bridge in favour of getting warm at the Beirut Cafe. A good lunch fuelled us for the ride back on somewhat smaller roads. Though the traffic density increased over the day, the driving quality definitely dropped.

Ian H · « **Reply #22756 on:** 25 December, 2019, 06:26:21 pm »

45k round the hills in mud & sunshine. Now undoing the good work.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #22757 on:** 25 December, 2019, 07:24:07 pm »

Went out. It was chilly but sunny. There was a lot of traffic for a day when everyone's sitting at home. Drank tea, ate biscuits, chatted. Came back. It was less chilly and there was less traffic. Ate huge lunch (after huge Christmas Eve meal last night), ate cake, ate chocolates, drank tea, played Risk. Gears need indexing.

markcjagar · « **Reply #22758 on:** 26 December, 2019, 09:11:37 am »

Went out yesterday. 180km, headed towards Goole.

Went down a few roads I'd never been down before which is always nice and getting harder to do.

Stopped at Glews services for a sandwich and a coke whilst I chatted with my mum & various Scottish relatives.

Came back via Epworth & Bawtry. Roads were largely quiet, only saw 1 or 2 cars on the main road from Goole to Crowle.

Finished in the dark & probably could've done with another layer.

diapsaon0 · « **Reply #22759 on:** 26 December, 2019, 04:46:52 pm »

Only as far as Asda in the pouring rain. Halfway round the shop when I realised I'd left my wallet on my desk. So, home again, grab wallet, ride back to Asda and start again. At least I got some fresh air and exercise. Past few days have been in te car up and down the North Devon Link Road/M5.

Joe.B · « **Reply #22760 on:** 30 December, 2019, 03:06:38 pm »

A 26 mile run out on the tandem with little Joe as stoker and Mrs. B on her electric. The 10 mile up-hill, westerly leg to our planned cafe stop was rather hard going, especially with a 10 year old stoker who wasn't particularly inclined towards working up a sweat.

The cafe was closed.

telstarbox · « **Reply #22761 on:** 30 December, 2019, 07:47:48 pm »

That is character building stuff

Wowbagger · « **Reply #22762 on:** 30 December, 2019, 08:44:10 pm »

A 4.5 mile round trip for some tea and natters with my pal Penny. Sunny and bright.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #22763 on:** 31 December, 2019, 01:57:32 pm »

Sunday I went out with The Fridays.

Twenty or so miles around central London, visiting sites connected with famous scientists, led by Charlotte's favourite policeman, Titus. A good mix of people and bikes, lots of traffic lights and probably one mechanical.

We ended up at Alborone*, Butler's Wharf where I took a Several Glasses of BEER at one end of the bar, while everyone else was at the other. Unlike last year no bikes were stolen.

Some pics here:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/pHz8WQhgHgWrRCMz8

*All Bar One as spoken by Jurek.

Jurek · « **Reply #22764 on:** 31 December, 2019, 02:08:30 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 31 December, 2019, 01:57:32 pm

Sunday I went out with The Fridays.

Twenty or so miles around central London, visiting sites connected with famous scientists, led by Charlotte's favourite policeman, Titus. A good mix of people and bikes, lots of traffic lights and probably one mechanical.

We ended up at Alborone*, Butler's Wharf where I took a Several Glasses of BEER at one end of the bar, while everyone else was at the other. Unlike last year no bikes were stolen.

Some pics here:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/pHz8WQhgHgWrRCMz8

*All Bar One as spoken by Jurek.

Nice pics.
I note with interest, that Adrian has gone for the Very Full Set.

*It's Al Baroné BTW

ETA: Growler refills?

Tim Hall · « **Reply #22765 on:** 31 December, 2019, 02:09:45 pm »

Secretly Adrian wants to be the next leader of the Labour party.

I note your accents and will use them in the future.

Kim · « **Reply #22766 on:** 31 December, 2019, 02:25:58 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 31 December, 2019, 01:57:32 pm

Sunday I went out with The Fridays.

Me TAAW.

No photos, but I finally got some video of everyone shouting "Bollards!".

Tim Hall · « **Reply #22767 on:** 31 December, 2019, 02:40:50 pm »

Excellent Bollarding.

I realised after the ride that even though we had a supplementary lecture about Isaac Newton and his work at the Royal Mint, we didn't touch on his Best Invention*, the cat flap.

* the usual amounts of apocryphal doubt are attached to this story.

Kim · « **Reply #22768 on:** 31 December, 2019, 02:45:46 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 31 December, 2019, 02:40:50 pm

I realised after the ride that even though we had a supplementary lecture about Isaac Newton and his work at the Royal Mint, we didn't touch on his Best Invention*, the cat flap.

I did consider mentioning that. And pointing out that Enigma was broken by Polish mathematicians before the war, Turing's work was on scaling that up to an industrial process, and later the Lorenz cipher. But nobody likes a cleverclogs.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #22769 on:** 31 December, 2019, 03:38:18 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 31 December, 2019, 02:45:46 pm

Quote from: Tim Hall on 31 December, 2019, 02:40:50 pm
I realised after the ride that even though we had a supplementary lecture about Isaac Newton and his work at the Royal Mint, we didn't touch on his Best Invention*, the cat flap.

I did consider mentioning that. And pointing out that Enigma was broken by Polish mathematicians before the war, Turing's work was on scaling that up to an industrial process, and later the Lornez cipher. But nobody likes a cleverclogs.

Well I don't think that is well known even in Poland. A dużo to im pomogło w tamten wrześniu(!)

Kim · « **Reply #22770 on:** 31 December, 2019, 04:36:59 pm »

I think there's a propaganda factor there. Colossus was kept secret until some time in the 1970s (Lorenz was still in use well after the war), so the Plucky British Codebreaking Story revolved around Engima, and the USAnians took all the early-computer-molishing credit for ENIAC.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #22771 on:** 31 December, 2019, 05:17:33 pm »

It's surprising though that Polish governments of various stripes have not taken the opportunity to say, "Look how it was us who won the war before those Brits/Yanks/Sovs <delete and insert according to political preference> even knew it existed!"

Kim · « **Reply #22772 on:** 31 December, 2019, 05:41:09 pm »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biuro_Szyfr%C3%B3w refers

cycleman · « **Reply #22773 on:** 31 December, 2019, 06:44:37 pm »

My last ride of the year was to Windsor and on my way back i did the Iceland shopping as I had the trailer on about 5 miles today

guidon · « **Reply #22774 on:** 01 January, 2020, 07:06:57 pm »

After a decade of near inactivity I decided that I really ought to get out every day, even if for half an hour....With a recent doctors diagnosis of a borked back and no running or jumping cycling it had to be... thus to celebrate the new year et al off I went...A twenty or so km pootle round the skeggy lanes of central Brittany (only been here a month) experiencing the usual Breton weather (akin to Welsh). Good fun and will continue!