Cycling Photo Challenge - Entries and Chat

[Crackle]

I think I've got this one licked. Finally I could stamp my mark on this competition and put together a nicely wrapped package of pics

 

[hubgearfreak]

bit of a tight deadline there hgf

'fraid so, i want these pics by first class delivery tomorrow. it's phils turn to set a challenge, but in his absence someone's got to keep it alive

 

[Aperitif]

I went for a quick one around Windsor

and the collection details were amended thus:

A one poster bed maybe?

 

[hubgearfreak]

nice composition. however, you ought to go back and re-take it, having painted the GR & crown graphite /gunmetal or something.

 

[Aperitif]

- probably have some old dear with a sparkly hat chasing me down the street if I tried that in her front drive...

 

[hubgearfreak]

paint your bike mucky PO gold?

 

[Amanda P]

Sorry, chaps. Computer was being fiddled with by the preventer of IT - so I was off work Friday and (though I hesitate to say it) walking in the Lakes over the weekend.

Walking in the lakes.... Well, you know what I mean.

I like the postbox idea and I'd like to see a few more of them. I'm trying to remember where I've seen one of those really antique octagonal pillar boxes. Then there are those very straight-sided seventies-looking ones. And they're very easy to photograph with bikes next to them.

So I'll adopt Hubgearfreak's challenge. Show us your bike next to the oldest or newest post box you can find. You can do better than Aperitif's "GR" box effort I reckon.

Deadline... let's say midnight Wednesday. The weekend's over it's true, but the weather's nice and no-one has to travel too far to find a post box. It's a perfect excuse to extend your ride home from work!

 

[hubgearfreak]

i've found two with VR

tomorrow, i'll get some new ones.

someone must live near the biggest, the smallest, the ugliest setting, the most picturesque. it's for you to judge the winner phil, i'm glad you're back and that you don't feel i've trodden on your toes (or small wheels}

 

[Amanda P]

The very octagonal boxes I was thinking of!

I do have bigger wheels as well. You'll see them if we keep this game up...

It's just that that Moulton's so nice I can't bear to leave it at home just now.

 

[hubgearfreak]

I do have bigger wheels as well..t's just that that Moulton's so nice

agreed. it's lovely. i was only being silly

as for the pillar boxes, i didn't notice the shape, but they look hexagonal to me....it hadn't occurred to me what they look like until today, but it seems that you are a secret Pillar box spotter

 

[Amanda P]

Polygonal.

 

[Aperitif]

Sorry, chaps. Computer was being fiddled with by the preventer of IT - so I was off work Friday and (though I hesitate to say it) walking in the Lakes over the weekend.

Walking in the lakes.... Well, you know what I mean.

I like the postbox idea and I'd like to see a few more of them. I'm trying to remember where I've seen one of those really antique octagonal pillar boxes. Then there are those very straight-sided seventies-looking ones. And they're very easy to photograph with bikes next to them.

So I'll adopt Hubgearfreak's challenge. Show us your bike next to the oldest or newest post box you can find. You can do better than Aperitif's "GR" box effort I reckon.

Deadline... let's say midnight Wednesday. The weekend's over it's true, but the weather's nice and no-one has to travel too far to find a post box. It's a perfect excuse to extend your ride home from work!

Yeah - not difficult... Just got to turn up really...

 

[hubgearfreak]

Polygonal.

nice word. and even a pedant like me can't argue with it

 

[bonj2]

I saw a VR one the other day but i didn't have my bloody camera wtih me did i?!

 

[longers]

Having just moved and not being around much I'm not au fait with my local postboxes so here is a pic of my nearest.

It's not old, new, interesting or special in any way but it is jinxed .

I've only ever posted 3 letters there and none of them have arrived at their destination
One of them was to my house 200 yds away