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Pingu

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #900 on: 27 April, 2013, 06:26:06 pm »
Old bridge near Methlick:


IMG_1419 by The Pingus, on Flickr


David Martin

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #902 on: 04 May, 2013, 10:07:48 pm »
Some small bridges from today..


Untitled by davidmamartin, on Flickr

Ex-bridge

Untitled by davidmamartin, on Flickr
The ditch was too deep and wet to risk crossing.


Untitled by davidmamartin, on Flickr

I was trying to find a way across the Moss. A former mire that was drained int eh early 1800's for the railway and is criss-crossed by deep drainage ditches. Unfortunately when I got to the next ditch I was out of time and bridges.


Untitled by davidmamartin, on Flickr

Another ex-bridge but which didn't take me where I needed to be.


Untitled by davidmamartin, on Flickr
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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #903 on: 05 May, 2013, 07:23:23 am »
A hollow voice says plugh

David Martin

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #904 on: 05 May, 2013, 02:12:20 pm »
A hollow voice says plugh
Is that the sound you make just as you discover [1] that not only is the ditch wider and the water deeper than expected, but the ditch bottom is somewhat muddier than desired.

Through an accidental empirical testing process
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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #905 on: 07 May, 2013, 09:31:30 pm »
You are IN a maze of twisty ditches, all alike  ;D

Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #906 on: 08 May, 2013, 02:35:20 pm »
In front of you there is a single stepping stone. Do you:

A Step onto the stone
B Turn and go back the way you came
C Attempt to lift the stone
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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #907 on: 12 May, 2013, 08:27:38 am »
An old pic, new to this thread:



Not recognising the Romanian for "Diversion", I just carried the bike across and continued  ::-)
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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #908 on: 14 May, 2013, 01:49:21 am »
Last weekend we rode over this bridge, while a train was going underneath. We had no cameras to hand to take a picture though  :(
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #909 on: 14 May, 2013, 11:46:08 am »
That's extremely impressive and quite beautiful too.
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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #910 on: 14 May, 2013, 01:41:39 pm »
This one's a feature of the Long Itchington Canons Ashby ride, which is fairly lacking in good bridges.



Notable mainly for being surprisingly steep on the road side, and surprisingly deep on the canal.

CrinklyLion

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #911 on: 14 May, 2013, 01:43:01 pm »
Last weekend we rode over this bridge, while a train was going underneath. We had no cameras to hand to take a picture though  :(

Bridges over bridges and multimodal usage and serendipitous trains passing?  Many bonus points!

And Kim - all bridges are good bridges :D

Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #912 on: 14 May, 2013, 10:05:01 pm »
All from Cumbria.

Netherbeck Bridge:


Lingmell Bridge:


Another bridge over Lingmell Beck:


LindaG and Down in the Dale Bridge:


Ravenglass Railway Bridge:

Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #913 on: 14 May, 2013, 10:06:42 pm »
And these are from County Durham.

County Bridge, Middleton in Teesdale:


Bridge over Stony Beck, between Holwick and Wynch Bridge:


(that second one is really tiny)

Pingu

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #914 on: 15 May, 2013, 11:57:05 pm »
Rome:


IMG_1561 by The Pingus, on Flickr


IMG_1565 by The Pingus, on Flickr


IMG_1566 by The Pingus, on Flickr


IMG_1567 by The Pingus, on Flickr


IMG_1568 by The Pingus, on Flickr


IMG_1570 by The Pingus, on Flickr

thing1

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #915 on: 15 May, 2013, 11:59:23 pm »
Last weekend we rode over this bridge, while a train was going underneath. We had no cameras to hand to take a picture though  :(

Let me illustrate that for you :)


Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #916 on: 18 May, 2013, 01:50:51 pm »
Did some comedy off-roading courtesy of a route I liberated from the Sky Ride website...

Looked at this bridge for a while before deciding it unfortunately wasn't on the route:



The bluebells looked deeelightful, though.

Looked at this bridge crossing for a while before deciding it unfortunately was on the route:



No incidents to report :)

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #917 on: 18 May, 2013, 10:30:18 pm »
Bridge across Severn at Over, nr Gloucester

Telford wanted to build an iron bridge, but the City Council considered only stone suitable for a gateway to the city. It wasn't opened till 3 years after it was completed, as the middle of the span sank. But it settled safely and was used till about 1970.

Bridge at Newbridge, on the edge of Bath.
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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #918 on: 22 May, 2013, 11:38:44 am »
At work today, a temporary affair:


JStone

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #919 on: 22 May, 2013, 04:58:20 pm »
At work today, a temporary affair:
...

I hope they're not trying to build it from the drawings - the cross-section as shown doesn't match the plan  ;)
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jogler

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #920 on: 22 May, 2013, 05:13:18 pm »
At work today, a temporary affair:
...

I hope they're not trying to build it from the drawings - the cross-section as shown doesn't match the plan  ;)

It is probably drawn by one of several architects of my acquaintance :demon:

Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #921 on: 22 May, 2013, 06:08:57 pm »
At work today, a temporary affair:
...

I hope they're not trying to build it from the drawings - the cross-section as shown doesn't match the plan  ;)

It is probably drawn by one of several architects of my acquaintance :demon:
I'm curious how they plan to get the pipes to interlock...

It's a rough drawing for us to tender against. So a prospective guideline temporary affair. Hardly a bridge at all, really...

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #922 on: 30 May, 2013, 12:30:06 pm »
About time I post a few of ours ...


Villa o'Higgens crossing Argentina to Chile - pretty much no man land. Note the rotten wood and the roaring river below and what you can't see the nice bigger than a foot holes in the bridge.


Another "bridge", before the one above, this one I didn't attempt to ride at all :)
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Pingu

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #923 on: 02 June, 2013, 10:23:48 pm »
A couple of Deeside bridges:


IMG_1637 by The Pingus, on Flickr


IMG_1639 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #924 on: 03 June, 2013, 09:18:54 pm »
Yarm Railway Viaduct (and a pleasing reflection in the Tees):