Frothy conker paste

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jonny jeez

Legendary Member
Go on, who was it that tagged this particular phrase (I cant recall, I know it was one of you)?

well, I had my first encounter this morning. The ground was wet, conker was squished and my slippy armadillos did the proper slippy thing as soon as they came in contact.

frothy conker paste is dodgy stuff!!
 

upsidedown

Waiting for the great leap forward
Location
The middle bit
I remember it well :

humptygocart said:

Near where I live, the conkers are falling after the weather suddenly turned colder. The conkers fall on the road and get crushed and squished by wheels into conker paste, then when it rained they went all frothy. Frothy conker paste.

Pointless anecdote, badly told.
 

downfader

extimus uero philosophus
Location
'ampsheeeer
They can be just as bad in the dry too as they contain oils. The casing can also cause puncture problems. I tend to avoid routes with them if I can, and ride around the clumps if I encounter any.
 

Davidc

Guru
Location
Somerset UK
:tongue:

Stop moaning and get out in the countryside for some real gunge to ride on.

There's slightly diluted cow pat. Slippery when wet, but dries hard enough to stop your gears working, and then try getting it off your clothes.

Assorted muds. Clay based ones are generally the slipperyest. Can of course be mixed with cow pat, different proportions give different effects.

Then there are squashed apples, to be found in cider making counties up the west side of England, Sussex and Kent, Brittany and Normandy, generally similar properties to squashed conker but stickier when it gets onto anything. Added benefit is its attractiveness to wasps.

A spill of slurry can be great fun. Guaranteed off if it's on a bend, and the stink once it's on you lasts for days!

Red diesel spilt on the road is just as good as the normal stuff you get spilt in towns and cities and in the eastern counties a few sugar beets squashed and mixed with rain water are always good for an off!

The real jewel in the crown is hedge trimmings. Most hedges just leave shards of wood which lie flat and only go through a tyre very occasionally, but of course there's always the hawthorn hedge to make up for that. What you really don't want to meet is a piece about the length of a tyre circumference with 20mm thorns sticking out in all directions at 5mm intervals. A few of those hidden under a selection of the surface coatings above is guaranteed to make any cyclists day - not.

And then there's foamy squashed conkers
 

summerdays

Cycling in the sun
Location
Bristol
I cycled through Blaise today and the paths there were covered in plant material - I think Cob nuts ... I started to look it up but decided that Nuts was a bit of a dodgy thing to type into google!!! But you could hear it crunching beneath the wheels and the bike sliding around a little.
 

Plax

Guru
Location
Wales
I can't say I've ever come across this frothy conker paste phenomenon. I nearly run over a tiny little mouse on the way home though, I bet that would have been slippy had I squished it.
 

downfader

extimus uero philosophus
Location
'ampsheeeer
I can't say I've ever come across this frothy conker paste phenomenon. I nearly run over a tiny little mouse on the way home though, I bet that would have been slippy had I squished it.


I've told my squirrel story often enough online.

:B)
 

snailracer

Über Member
OMG rabid conkers!
 
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jonny jeez

jonny jeez

Legendary Member
I remember it well :

humptygocart said:

Near where I live, the conkers are falling after the weather suddenly turned colder. The conkers fall on the road and get crushed and squished by wheels into conker paste, then when it rained they went all frothy. Frothy conker paste.

Pointless anecdote, badly told.


slightly obscure I know but, this was the last post I read before setting off home and I had a tune stuck in my head all the way because of it (I seem to pedal to music in my head that suits the cadence or rhythm that I ride).

Odd

oh, song was "when I'm president" by extreme the opening lyrics are "I remember it well...."
 

taxing

Well-Known Member
Last week after a storm I had to ride through a massive patch of conkers. It seriously took up the whole road. Anyway, when I rode over one of the conkers it made a 'pop' and then fired through some railings. I'm glad it didn't hit the railings, if it had ricocheted back at me it would have done me an injury, it was travelling faster than I was.

Of course that bit of road is now frothy conker paste.
 

slowmotion

Quite dreadful
Location
lost somewhere
No problems with conker paste so far, but the beautiful shiny brown fresh ones can cause you trouble. Yesterday, I rode through a bunch of them and winged one with my front wheel. Out it went, like a high speed tiddly-wink and went "ding" into a parked car a metre away. Blimey!
 
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jonny jeez

jonny jeez

Legendary Member
Last week after a storm I had to ride through a massive patch of conkers. It seriously took up the whole road. Anyway, when I rode over one of the conkers it made a 'pop' and then fired through some railings. I'm glad it didn't hit the railings, if it had ricocheted back at me it would have done me an injury, it was travelling faster than I was.

Of course that bit of road is now frothy conker paste.


No problems with conker paste so far, but the beautiful shiny brown fresh ones can cause you trouble. Yesterday, I rode through a bunch of them and winged one with my front wheel. Out it went, like a high speed tiddly-wink and went "ding" into a parked car a metre away. Blimey!


Blimey...Ballistic Conkers!!

whatever next?
 
Frothy conker paste -filtered and sold to the public as 'Badedas' bath oil. Scoop it up and shove it in the tub after a hard days ride.
After all, as the ad. (nearly) used to say "Things happen after a frothy conker paste bath!"

Evenmorerecumbentpanda (I hit some FCP).
 
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