Author Topic: In for a penny... (Read 55146 times)

Sergeant Pluck · « **Reply #300 on:** 01 June, 2009, 01:17:49 pm »

Loved that vid

Climberruss · « **Reply #301 on:** 02 June, 2009, 11:40:35 pm »

I'm impressed. You make riding a Penny look easy - and I'm sure its not. Well done.

spesh · « **Reply #302 on:** 03 June, 2009, 12:07:31 am »

Quote from: Charlotte on 01 June, 2009, 08:43:44 am

If I just put a bluegrass MP3 on the stereo, Monty seems spectacularly unbothered. When I pick up my banjo, however, he bolts for the cat flap in the manner of a creature fleeing for his very life.

Clearly, when it comes to live music performance, he has no taste whatsoever.

Au contraire...

Charlotte · « **Reply #303 on:** 04 June, 2009, 09:31:29 am »

The bikesheds at work, yesterday:

It's official: I am the office nutter

clarion · « **Reply #304 on:** 04 June, 2009, 09:34:20 am »

Awesome.

Does it really need locking, though? Surely any woud-be miscreants can be peeled off the tarmac a few yards from the bikeshed and handed to the Polis when Intensive Care have finished with them?

Charlotte · « **Reply #305 on:** 04 June, 2009, 09:40:13 am »

Joff sez it only really needs locking when you take it to the pub. Apparently, it's only really drunk people who think they can ride it

clarion · « **Reply #306 on:** 04 June, 2009, 09:41:26 am »

Really drunk people and the official office nutter

nuttycyclist · « **Reply #307 on:** 05 June, 2009, 12:54:45 am »

Quote from: Charlotte on 04 June, 2009, 09:31:29 am

The bikesheds at work, yesterday:

...

I wondered how long it'd be

So how many comments, and what did they range from?

rogerzilla · « **Reply #308 on:** 05 June, 2009, 06:44:06 am »

Quote from: Charlotte on 01 June, 2009, 01:06:47 pm

Bad Andy. Rude Andy!

Who obviously spends way too much time at YouPorn

Charlotte · « **Reply #309 on:** 05 June, 2009, 08:06:42 am »

Quote from: nuttycyclist on 05 June, 2009, 12:54:45 am

So how many comments, and what did they range from?

A good few. Mostly from bemused people from FOREIGN who work at our office. Although the Dutch just grinned and the Pakistanis did the drop-jaw thing, our Nigerian chaps thought it was hilarious.

One guy on the footpath was laughing so much I was worried he might have been having an involuntary bowel movement.

andygates · « **Reply #310 on:** 05 June, 2009, 08:12:42 am »

Odd, it was the Nigerian cleaners who stopped me when mine was at work and engaged in amused-but-intrigued conversation. I wonder, is there a telly character on Abuja TV who rides one?

Regulator · « **Reply #311 on:** 07 June, 2009, 01:12:25 pm »

I saw these at the Strawberry Fair, Charlotte, and thought of you astride the penny...

There was a horned one in Louis Vuitton - so you dahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhling!

Charlotte · « **Reply #312 on:** 07 June, 2009, 07:33:44 pm »

Oh. My. Gods.

I need one! Strawberry Fair? What's that then?

Clare · « **Reply #313 on:** 07 June, 2009, 07:44:56 pm »

If you got one of those horned ones, Elf Ernsayftee would be on to you. Imagine the damage you could inflict falling on somebody from all the way up there

You *need* a Pikelhaube

.

Moloko · « **Reply #314 on:** 07 June, 2009, 07:50:09 pm »

THESE do a Valkyrie Helmet with real wings.

fruitcake · « **Reply #315 on:** 07 June, 2009, 07:55:59 pm »

Quote from: Charlotte on 01 June, 2009, 08:11:41 am

YouTube - Penny Pootle

That is fuckin brilliant.

clarion · « **Reply #316 on:** 07 June, 2009, 08:10:23 pm »

Quote from: Clare on 07 June, 2009, 07:44:56 pm

You *need* a Pikelhaube .

Please note second from right at Brooklands last year. Not quite, but close.

Regulator · « **Reply #317 on:** 08 June, 2009, 07:28:49 am »

Quote from: Charlotte on 07 June, 2009, 07:33:44 pm

Oh. My. Gods.

I need one! Strawberry Fair? What's that then?

A fair that was on this weekend in Cambridge. The helmets were only £20 and I was going to get one for you but Mr R said 'No'....

They were purely decorative - I wouldn't rely on one for any real protection, but I thought they were perfick for a penny. I'll see if I can find an online supplier.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #318 on:** 08 June, 2009, 07:58:39 am »

How long a ride was it? Without giving away personal details, obv. I recognised Kingston at one point (and was watching out for my little sister).

Charlotte · « **Reply #319 on:** 08 June, 2009, 08:38:53 am »

Quote from: Regulator on 08 June, 2009, 07:28:49 am

A fair that was on this weekend in Cambridge. The helmets were only £20 and I was going to get one for you but Mr R said 'No'....

They were purely decorative - I wouldn't rely on one for any real protection, but I thought they were perfick for a penny. I'll see if I can find an online supplier.

Mr R is a terrible spoilsport, but if you can find out who sells them I shall forgive him in a flash

I do *need* Pikelhaube, it's true

Quote from: Tim Hall on 08 June, 2009, 07:58:39 am

How long a ride was it? Without giving away personal details, obv. I recognised Kingston at one point (and was watching out for my little sister).

Cobham to Ealing, via (as you quite rightly identified) Kingston. About 15 miles, give or take. Usually a fast hour's roadbiking, onna penny it takes a smidgen longer...

Moloko · « **Reply #320 on:** 08 June, 2009, 09:23:57 am »

Quote from: Regulator on 08 June, 2009, 07:28:49 am

They were purely decorative - I wouldn't rely on one for any real protection,

So they are cycling helmets then? Just not as garish.

Ri-fol, Ri-fol, Tol-de-riddle-li-do,
Ri-fol, Ri-fol, Tol-de-riddle-dee.

darkpoint · « **Reply #321 on:** 12 June, 2009, 08:30:37 am »

I got news last night that I will have to wait a while longer for my Penny... the latest estimate is now Christmas.

I already feel like a ten year old looking forward to (getting a bike for) Christmas, and we are only in June.
Hopefully I will be able to use the time to try and learn how to ride one.

Charlotte · « **Reply #322 on:** 12 June, 2009, 08:33:33 am »

Oh noes

Joff's getting ver' busy again now, I know. He wasn't able to help fettle Mr Gates' penny...

darkpoint · « **Reply #323 on:** 12 June, 2009, 08:35:10 am »

I know and understand, I was just getting so excited.

andygates · « **Reply #324 on:** 12 June, 2009, 09:16:42 am »

"Shiny new bicycle for Christmas" -- is this the happiest phrase in the English language?