Cycling Photo Challenge - Entries and Chat

[Kirstie]

Brilliant - is there one of you doing it Kirstie?

No I couldn't do it I am too short and my bike was too small!

This is what happens when it goes wrong (I'm in the background)

 

[rich p]

having seen you riding over that log I'm sure you could have perched on the top bar and leapt over the gate like a Red Indian stunt rider

 

[Kirstie]

having seen you riding over that log I'm sure you could have perched on the top bar and leapt over the gate like a Red Indian stunt rider

Which log would that be richp? I've done a fair few logs in my time (and ridden over bits of wood arf arf)

 

[rich p]

Which log would that be richp? I've done a fair few logs in my time (and ridden over bits of wood arf arf)

I remember seeing a picture you posted of you (younger and more reckless?) riding over a log with a fair drop.

 

[Kirstie]

Oh I think I know the one. Yes, definitely younger and more reckless!!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Well rather than another picture of one of my old hacks I thought I'd use one of my boy's bike next to some old Dors.

 

[summerdays]

Ok - I keep seeing gates everywhere - so here's today's one:

and from another angle:

 

[rich p]

Well rather than another picture of one of my old hacks I thought I'd use one of my boy's bike next to some old Dors.

I can't see that for some reason 3BM. Is it me?

We should really have a picture of a Dawes which would cover both bases

 

[Aperitif]

Here's one to stir the cockles! Taken by mikee - not me, on the "Park and Ride" ride in Autumn last year...sorry about the CycleChat ped. in shot!

 

[Arch]

OK, may I enter another 3?

A couple from Walmgate Bar:

I had to take this next one when the traffic light phase was right, as I was blocking the path a bit!

And another 'gate' local to me...

 

[arallsopp]

Incredible!

Arch, when I was 13, I went to York with my school. We had a set of questions to keep us busy around town, one of which was 'who or what is the whip ma whop ma gate'. I got everything except that one, and went home disappointed.

5 years later (swot that I was) I got invited back as a prefect. 12 kids in my care, and again the question, 'who or what is the whip ma whop ma gate'?

The poor lad who asked me had everything else right, but I had to feign honour and say it wouldn't be fair to tell him.

Now, mid thirties, and I finally find out.
That has been bugging me for the best part of a quarter century!

 

[Arch]

Incredible!

Arch, when I was 13, I went to York with my school. We had a set of questions to keep us busy around town, one of which was 'who or what is the whip ma whop ma gate'. I got everything except that one, and went home disappointed.

5 years later (swot that I was) I got invited back as a prefect. 12 kids in my care, and again the question, 'who or what is the whip ma whop ma gate'?

The poor lad who asked me had everything else right, but I had to feign honour and say it wouldn't be fair to tell him.

Now, mid thirties, and I finally find out.
That has been bugging me for the best part of a quarter century!

These days, you'd just google from your iphone...

Glad to be of service! It's a tiny street, I think they say it's the longest name and the shortest street in York. It changes name about 10 yards to the right, and ends at a T junction about 2 yards to the left. Legend has it, it was where you brought your wife to flog her if she misbehaved, but I don't know how true that is...

Anyway, I shouldn't be talking to you. I read the book from cover to cover last night and it's given me ideas I may come to regret, and it's all your fault....

 

[Amanda P]

 

[rich p]

Right - entries closed and Judge Dread is in his chambers. Expect an annoincement after my mid afternoon nap.

 

[Arch]

'Ere! She's riding my bike!