Cycling Photo Challenge - Entries and Chat

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Congrats @SatNavSaysStraightOn

You'll need more meds

My husband delivered a fresh bottle of morphine yesterday. I have a feeling I'm going to need it!

@BigAl68 , err, thank you, I think.
Rather unexpected. Perhaps I should have entered the one without the robin?

I'll think about it on my walk this morning and try to come up with something sensible?

 

[BigAl68]

@SatNavSaysStraightOn you always take lovely photos and the robin captured a winter morning quite beautifully.

Enjoy being judge as when you get as many great photos as this round it can be enjoyable.

 

[djb1971]

Well done @SatNavSaysStraightOn, looking forward to your new theme.

I'll stick it in the today's ride thread

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

OK, I have a theme for everyone.

Given it is such a nice morning here, frosty overnight and the sun is now burning it off, the dawn chorus is really starting nicely here and the mist is being burnt off the land, plus yesterday I spotted my first crocus in flower, nettles are growing, buds are starring to turn green and in some cases open!.... I'll have another wide open one such as @BigAl68 did and simply go for

• Taken between 6am today and midnight 28th Feb (2015 just to clarify)
• Outside
• Does not have to, but can contain a bike or part of
• May or may not contain, heron, crow, egret, foot or feet (for @User14044 and @potsy )
• Theme: first signs of Spring.

That should allow for some creativity , plus anything taken on a ride today without people knowing about the theme .

 

[summerdays]

Well done @SatNavSaysStraightOn

And to @Spinney too

I may have to go looking for those snowdrops then, I have a few in my garden, but there were lots of them and it's half term so I'm at home with the kids!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Now goes off to record page number so know how many pages she will have to go through... Page 352...

 

[vernon]

Well done @SatNavSaysStraightOn

Well done @BigAl68 - that was a good competition

Even though we didn't win.

 

[djb1971]

Okay, I'll kick things off.

This mornings springtime ride, well it looked and felt like spring. The daffodils aren't quite out yet, maybe a week or two

 

[vernon]

I think we have a winner

We haven't entered yet....

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Okay, I'll kick things off.

This mornings springtime ride, well it looked and felt like spring. The daffodils aren't quite out yet, maybe a week or two

Really beautiful!
I had a feeling things were looking good out there this morning!

 

[summerdays]

Okay, I'll kick things off.

This mornings springtime ride, well it looked and felt like spring. The daffodils aren't quite out yet, maybe a week or two

I do wish you'd put where you are on the photos as you normally manage to make it look like a place that would be worth visiting.... Or is it that you are good at Photoshop and in reality it's Birmingham city centre with a light touch up

 

[djb1971]

I'm very good at photoshopping the buildings and people out of the pics

In truth, I just head out into the countryside away from traffic, everyone and everything, love the peace and quiet. It helps when you get off the roads and head into fields and woods. Just look at a local map for bridle ways and rights of way. Google maps on satellite view is good for looking for rural pathways. If I just had to ride on town and city roads, I'd sell my bikes

 

[summerdays]

I meant area... Is it the mid Wales sort of area .... ?

Last time I went majorly off road I had suggested there might be a shortcut to a friend (on a road bike) and we ended up pushing our bikes through above ankle mud up hill and then cycling on fields fairly lost! The road way that I was trying to short cut would have been less than half a mile, the route we took was a lot longer and rose a lot higher than necessary before we finally found the road. I don't think he has been riding with me since!

 

[djb1971]

I meant area... Is it the mid Wales sort of area .... ?

It's just outside of Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire. These are the local woods and trails, holly woods, bowsey woods, haying woods, waltons woods, keele woods and bullhorn woods it's a good loop but it gets very dirty!

I don't think he has been riding with me since!

Wimp, was he scared of getting mud on his bike or th carbon melting when it got wet

 

[Spinney]

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Any of these would have made worthy winners and I would like to have awarded two winners but in the end its the robin on a roof by @SatNavSaysStraightOn but special mention to @Spinney

Result!!

Commendation without having the prospect of wading through reams of dodgy attempts at meeting the conditions!