Arrivée est arrivé!

[marcusjb]

2006!

Maybe time for another appearance of a bent on the cover?  (hopefully hidden away at the back again!  )

[Exit Stage Left]

I was just looking through the AUK photo Gallery. http://www.aukweb.net/resources/gallery/

Very few photos get put on there these days, which is a shame, because it's a good way of archiving them. It didn't keep up with developments in broadband, so the pictures are quite small.

People imagined that links to photo hosting sites were the way ahead, and LEL 2009 follows that model. The result is that many of the links referred to no longer exist, and it's easier to find pictures from earlier events.

A picture in Arrivee is a good record to have, especially a cover or two. it might be a good idea to include all Arrivee photos in the photo gallery. That might also generate a few more submissions when it becomes realised that it's a good archive. I can click on my own name for a view of what I did in a given period.

[citoyen]

There, that should give you the oppressed feelings back again.

 

[Nethypete]

There, that should give you the oppressed feelings back again.

 

 

[hillbilly]

There, that should give you the oppressed feelings back again.

 

 

Don't take it lying down!

[citoyen]

Hey, just a bit of 'banter'. I'm not really prejudiced - some of my best friends are recumbent riders!!!!!

[frankly frankie]

Here's one I spotted on PBP '87 - totally-enclosed jobbie, ISTR you could hear him singing to himself as he trundled along -



and here's a whole rash of 'em 20 years later -

[Exit Stage Left]

the one at the top is a Leitra, there was one in 2007 that was predominantly red, with white trim. at 1.31 in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s3VCsr2x6Q
I remember seeing it at PBP this year, in the bike park.

[hillbilly]

Here's one I spotted on PBP '87 - totally-enclosed jobbie, ISTR you could hear him singing to himself as he trundled along -

A country sing-along?

(say it slowly....)

[jsabine]

He'd have to have been more than trundling.

[bikey-mikey]

and here's a whole rash of 'em 20 years later -

Still not finished, presumably??

[Nethypete]

Oppressed, marginalised and now dissed

1. dissing someone is showing disrespect to them
2. being dissed is the act of being disconnected, by voice or by modem, from another party

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[LittleWheelsandBig]

Really?

[IanDG]

'bout time one completed the Golden Roads and Standing Stones. Had the first fixed rider (Deano) last year

[Phil W]

and here's a whole rash of 'em 20 years later -

Still not finished, presumably??

 

[Exit Stage Left]

The lady on the back of the blurred back to back recumbent tandem in that shot from 2007 was called Barbara, and can be seen at 1.22 in the video referred to above.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s3VCsr2x6Q

[bikey-mikey]

Talking of recumbents...

Are any of them riding fixed ??

[LittleWheelsandBig]

Fixed bents are very rare beasts. I've only ever seen one of them.

[bikey-mikey]

Well I salute fixed bent riders - I wouldn't have the guts...   

[frankly frankie]

the one at the top is a Leitra,

Well he chose a good year for it.  1987 was a solid wall of headwind for the first 600k, with the occasional very heavy shower to add - my knees felt like bags of marbles at Brest.  I saw him several times and again at the finish, so his time would have been similar to ours, in the mid 70s.  I don't know if he had more than one song, but I suppose in that little cabin it was a bit like singing in the shower.  I also remember he had a little periscope arrangement for rear view, so if you were riding behind him you could see these two little eyes in a letterbox shape.  It all seemed very novel back then.

[Exit Stage Left]

It was a bloke called Carl Georg Rasmussen, originator of the design.

http://www.cyclorama.net/viewExhibitor.php?id=75

[Exit Stage Left]

Maybe we should have a more 'Manga' feel, it's popular with the young people.

[marcusjb]

I saw that PBP cartoon, though I did not remember too many japanese ladies with unfeasibly large breasts and short skirts riding.  All very odd.

[Exit Stage Left]

It's probably a sort of folk memory of Team David's Salon from the Philippines in 2011. I see there were two TDS finishers according to the current brochure.

[L CC]

I saw that PBP cartoon, though I did not remember too many japanese ladies with unfeasibly large breasts and short skirts riding.  All very odd.

Wrong end of the ride. Or too much sleep.

(My hallucinations only extended to boys from the indian subcontinent on kick scooters in purple jerseys.)


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HK, Cathy Brown, bhoot, Denise Booth, fboab, Anne Learmonth.

Foreground: Virginia McGee

The artist has reversed my hand signal.