Cycling Photo Challenge - Entries and Chat

[raleighnut]

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Big puddle
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Big chimney
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Big Weeeeeee.... Through a puddle

That's a lot of wee.

 

[PeteXXX]

A big lump of cake on yesterdays ride..

 

[hopless500]

If it were a 'phone pole it would be 50v DC, a telegraph pole would carry 80v DC.

Mind, there's 3 wires which rather implies 3phase 415v

 

[hopless500]

24v dc minimum definitely

 

[hopless500]

If it were a 'phone pole it would be 50v DC, a telegraph pole would carry 80v DC.

Mind, there's 3 wires which rather implies 3phase 415v

 

[hopless500]

They could be 11Kv or 33Kv according to Wiki but a 'flat' triple cable like that is used to get electricity to farmhouses, telephone wires tend to be one above the other.
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiev_KvpOPMAhXsC8AKHafBAe4QFggdMAA&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_distribution&usg=AFQjCNGWJAz4fqVnXxWYJHQWWzTnevw_PQ

 

[hopless500]

If it were a 'phone pole it would be 50v DC, a telegraph pole would carry 80v DC.

Mind, there's 3 wires which rather implies 3phase 415v

 

[hopless500]

I have a severe case of

itis.
It also affects me when people get technical about cars or bikes (particularly gearing).

 

[raleighnut]

I have a severe case of

itis.
It also affects me when people get technical about cars or bikes (particularly gearing).

The point is if you ever come across an idiot who has crashed their car into one of those poles do not go near the cables, they could well be 'live' still.

 

[hopless500]

The point is if you ever come across an idiot who has crashed their car into one of those poles do not go near the cables, they could well be 'live' still.

That is very true.
It's not exactly that I don't want to know, it's just that my brain literally freezes and switches off at the first whiff of technical when it comes to stuff like this. Maybe I was hypnotised years ago and don't know about it
I can be relatively technical about my sewing machine and kiln if you like though Although technical language tends to consist of doofers and wotsits

 

[derrick]

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The big wide road. If you look carefully you can see my bike in the distance.



And that's a big lie

That looks like Brickendon.

 

[Hill Wimp]

@potsy can you come and retrieve your weather please, it's pouring down here but 22 miles away in France i can see the sun shining

 

[mybike]

They could be 11Kv or 33Kv according to Wiki but a 'flat' triple cable like that is used to get electricity to farmhouses, telephone wires tend to be one above the other.
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiev_KvpOPMAhXsC8AKHafBAe4QFggdMAA&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_distribution&usg=AFQjCNGWJAz4fqVnXxWYJHQWWzTnevw_PQ

I'd expect telephone to be a self supporting cable rather than insulated wires these day.

 

[summerdays]

A large cock-up in the road surface

 

[Katherine]

This was the inspiration for the theme. It's by the cycle path on the A580 East Lancs Road. I would have liked to have got closer but there were a lot of thistles and I was wearing shorts.