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Cycling + => About The Bike => Topic started by: No. 22 on July 20, 2023

Title: On the road again
Post by: No. 22 on July 20, 2023
Archive of this page: https://archive.ph/zqLeK

. . .

Here's my Litespeed Blue Ridge, (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=3486.0) retired from 20+ years service last year after the crack of doom thanks to an ill-advised modification, else I'm betting it would still be going. I've decided to make a gallery of it on tour in its afterlife. Can't think where I got the idea.

(https://i.imgur.com/Cx0WEjY.jpg)

Went to the village today.

(https://i.imgur.com/ApEMxT7.jpg)


Took the scenic route.

(https://i.imgur.com/D8ZemTy.jpg)

You can thank an articulated lorry for that splintered fingerpost. Ouch.

(https://i.imgur.com/FxOweFV.jpg)

Just passing the time.

(https://i.imgur.com/ZferLpM.jpg)

There aren't many businesses. We're lucky to have a framing shop.


This thread isn't really about the bike.
Title: On the road again
Post by: No. 22 on August 04, 2023
The opening scene of My Boy Jack (https://youtu.be/GAkbVXmUeW0?t=21) has Rudyard Kipling racing through the countryside on roads which may as well have been built just for his Rolls.

Spoiler
Kipling never learned how to drive.
[close]

(https://i.imgur.com/cmocnVr.jpg)

Unfortunately it's behind glass (https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/760464) and impossible to get a decent shot. To make up for that, here's a nice Triumph I spotted in the village. Some of my best friends are motorcyclists. (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=981.0)

(https://i.imgur.com/Sdql1uo.jpg)

(I love asking total strangers for help (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/index.php?topic=4222.0) with "my art project".)
Title: Yes we have no
Post by: No. 22 on August 09, 2023
(https://i.imgur.com/Vm2snyU.jpg)
100 years ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes!_We_Have_No_Bananas)
Title: Yes we have no
Post by: No. 22 on August 10, 2023
(https://i.imgur.com/w7FzkZe.jpg)
Title: Yes we have no
Post by: No. 22 on August 11, 2023
(https://i.imgur.com/6PxIHTK.jpg)
Title: Where next
Post by: No. 22 on August 12, 2023
(https://i.imgur.com/GSMUiuk.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/nzyeVKx.jpg)
Title: Lia
Post by: John Everett Millais on August 13, 2023
(https://i.imgur.com/TRWc8iD.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/4V0PgHs.jpg)
Title: Almost... almost...
Post by: Fay Wray on September 15, 2023
(https://i.imgur.com/HfQdLc5.jpg)

I also visited Zoltar.

(https://i.imgur.com/jjoaF1q.jpg)

"Why suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune while Zoltar is here to guide you?"

(https://i.imgur.com/pC5dVGr.jpg)

Title: On the road again
Post by: Robert Moses on December 18, 2023
"Of course you can."

(https://i.imgur.com/dRT7adc.jpg)

Put it on the back of the truck for a photo op.

(https://i.imgur.com/PkA2opR.jpg)

I love a can-do attitude.

It was OK with these guys too.

(https://i.imgur.com/U1dMq0x.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/3JOBxoD.jpg)

All that was left was to

(https://i.imgur.com/JiDoP9t.jpg)

and head home.


Robert who? (https://www.jimcarrollsblog.com/blog/2022/5/4/j15bfhr96r7l918w0e6vqrb431lnrb)
Title: Do not Enter
Post by: Edith Tolkien on January 21, 2024
(https://i.imgur.com/LdeJKt4.jpg)
Title: I got you babe
Post by: Sonny Bono on February 16, 2024
(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/lollipop.jpg)

Caught before the morning rush hour of school kids.

The Mandalorian was too young for school.

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/mandalorian.jpg)

I noticed him walking nearby with his mum, who was was carrying a couple of masks.

"Is that a stormtrooper's helmet?" I asked her. She confirmed it was.

Well, I couldn't let this opportunity pass: "Do you mind if I take a picture of your son wearing it?" I then asked, inviting him into the conversation. "Posing with my bike frame? It's for an art project."

(For the record, nobody has yet refused me.)

"You watch Star Wars?" he asked excitedly.

"I love Star Wars!" I told him.

A bit more chatter as he prepared to put on the helmet, then suddenly he announced:

"My father died. He was unhealthy and he died."

All I could say was how sorry I was to hear that. Naturally I glanced at his mother; she must have heard this a few times now. I wonder how many other men he has told this to. I felt so bad for the little guy.

Then he gamely put on the helmet and I snapped away. His mother even asked if he might like to wear the Mandalorian helmet she was also carrying, which worked for me as it's a good match for the frame.

"I'm very good at standing still," he said.

(https://prettygoodbritain.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/stormtrooperBW.jpg)

I agreed he was.

Then we were done and they walked away. He turned around and said "It was nice to meet you!"

And it was.