Cycling Photo Challenge - Entries and Chat

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

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!

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

Now you have me wondering exactly where, given I went to school in nul!
Used to walk the wood with my grannie over in the Westlands rather a lot as a kid, not to mention growing up (primary school) over in Endon when it was a village!

Edit: from the one in the my ride today with the car garage, is that the back end of madeley heath? If it is you got awfully close to my sisters house (which used to be my mother's)!

 

[djb1971]

These woods are heading over to Betley, Madeley, then heading back toward Keele and Silverdale.

Just to make you feel better and younger, Endon still is a village. It's just got a few more buildings

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

These woods are heading over to Betley, Madeley, then heading back toward Keele and Silverdale.

Just to make you feel better and younger, Endon still is a village. It's just got a few more buildings

Nah Endon had joined to Stockton Brook note which had more or less joined to Hanley.... When I lived there you could actually see countryside between Hanley and Stockton brook!

We lived in the really old house to the left of the telephone exchange as you enter Endon, just on the corner... It was a council house and we were its last tenants!

It does sound like you almost cycled passed my sister house on Wharf Terrace!

 

[djb1971]

I went through Waltons woods, under the M6 behind her house, then up through Agger Hill to Finney Woods and Holly Wood

 

[summerdays]

I sort of know of that area a very tiny bit, Mr Summerdays family are if you go back a bit from Madeley, Beteley, Onneley, and I definitely remember the name Bowsley Woods, but I haven't been to that area as the family drifted a little further east to the Uttoxeter area.

 

[Katherine]

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Primrose Hill looking into London - taken during my walk to visit Mrs R

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I didn't see Potsy's blue tit or Vernon's leg.

And how is Mrs R.?

 

[potsy]

OK I have had a good look at the top 9 based on my arbitrary scoring system and these 9 were.

Robin on a roof by @SatNavSaysStraightOn
Bike in the snow @Fnaar
Thames at dusk @Mark Grant
Black mountains @Spartak
Trees @SatNavSaysStraightOn
Frozen leaves @Katherine
Fallen tree @User14044
Sunrise over field @summerdays
Lake district @Spinney

Special mention also goes to @potsy and @User14044 for entering valid pictures.

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

 

[Fnaar]

Ahem... point of order... the original (see first post) aim of this thread was for photos WITH bikes, taken after the challenge was set...
There's 'the photography thread' for any old pictures. You can probably put herons and feet in there too

 

[djb1971]

Ahem... point of order... the original (see first post) aim of this thread was for photos WITH bikes, taken after the challenge was set...
There's 'the photography thread' for any old pictures. You can probably put herons and feet in there too

Take more photos and win the comp, then you can choose whatever rules you like

 

[potsy]

I agree fully with fnaar, too much rule breaking and thread derailment going on, maybe I should put my name forward as a mod and start knocking this competition into shape?

 

[summerdays]

Actually the comp has morphed from when it was first set in which it was the FIRST person to get a photo of the challenge.

 

[djb1971]

The BIG wooden spoon award goes to @Fnaar

It has many uses, the main one is for stirring piles of poo

Rocky is correct, we should make you the next winner. The best form of torture, err punishment.

 

[djb1971]

Does this mean that CC members don't like seeing photos of my foot?

Without me checking, is it always the same foot?

 

[Mark Grant]

This afternoon, on the way back from 10 muddy miles.
Taken with my phone.

Busy bee.

 

[potsy]

[QUOTE 3537726, member: 9609"]taken on my afternoon walk along loch ness[/QUOTE]
Noodley out for a swim?