Manchester to Blackpool

[smokeysmoo]

P.s did anyone else see the man on the really tall bike? please can someone tell me how he got on and off it and what he did and traffic lights if they were on red!!!!!

Didn't see it this year, but saw it last year, bet that things fun in the wind at St Annes

I don't know how to embed a YouTube video, but here's a link to the bike I suspect you saw;


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox1Ja5M9rkw&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

 

[ColinJ]

I don't know how to embed a YouTube video ...

Allow me to help!

Copy the URL of the YouTube video, click on the Insert Media icon above the post edit box (it looks like a slide projector screen) and paste the URL into the pop-up box which appears.

NB:

1. You need a 'long' URL for 'Youtube.com' not the 'short' type for 'Youtu.be'. There is an option to select the long type when you click the 'share' button below the video in question on YouTube.
2. Some videos have embedding disabled so you can't!

 

[gb155]

I saw that guy last year and I managed to take a quick film of him on the road, here it is

[media]
]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY_FB6Rk0DQ[/media]

 

[smokeysmoo]

Allow me to help!

Copy the URL of the YouTube video, click on the Insert Media icon above the post edit box (it looks like a slide projector screen) and paste the URL into the pop-up box which appears.

NB:

1. You need a 'long' URL for 'Youtube.com' not the 'short' type for 'Youtu.be'. There is an option to select the long type when you click the 'share' button below the video in question on YouTube.
2. Some videos have embedding disabled so you can't!

Cheers Col, I've tried before but with no success, guess I was using the 'short' type. I'll keep your instruction safe and try again next time

 

[smokeysmoo]

Forgot to say, (and I've no idea why). Stopped at Howe Bridge Leisure Centre for a pee during the M2B on Sunday. Came out just in time to see some muppet pulling his BSO out the stand next to mine, catch my back wheel and promptly knock my bike over

It was one of those time stand still heart in mouth moments. I couldn't reach my bike in time to catch it and just had to watch it fall. It was like seeing a child running out into the road!

Anyway, I said, "I don't think you wanted to do that mate", to which he grunted, "Eh! What did I do?" !!!!!!! You could tell from his vacant expression that he didn't have a clue what he'd knocked over, to him it was just another BSO, feckin' philistine

So now my poor Rhianna is sporting a graze on her top tube and a small scuff on the edge of the seat. It could have been much worse I suppose, but it should never have happened in the first place. At least the tube has not dented, which disproves what some people assume about CAAD10 tubing

Don't know if I can touch it up due to the matt finish. Might look for a discreet sticker to cover it up with.

Lesson learned - never leave a bike alone in the presence of knobheads!

 

[Judderz]

So now my poor Rhianna is sporting a graze on her top tube and a small scuff on the edge of the seat.

Why Rhianna?

 

[smokeysmoo]

Why Rhianna?

Because she's black and she's beautiful

 

[eddie coffin]

Because she's black and she's beautiful

Nice.......very nice

 

[ColinJ]

Anyway, I said, "I don't think you wanted to do that mate", to which he grunted, "Eh! What did I do?" !!!!!!! You could tell from his vacant expression that he didn't have a clue what he'd knocked over ...

That reminds me of when I was redecorating my bathroom with my (then) girlfriend ...

Me: "You just knocked the tin of paint off the step ladder and it has smashed the bath!"

Her: "No, I did not!"

Me: "Er, you did, my love!"

Her: "No, I did not!"

(She carried on painting the ceiling.)

Me: "Well when your brush runs dry, we can continue this conversation ..."

(Soon, it did and she reached down for more paint.)

Her: "What have you done with the paint?"

Me: "Let's try again ... You just knocked the tin of paint off the step ladder and it has smashed the bath!"

Her (Looks further down, freaks out): "OMG, OMG, I've smashed the bath!!!"

Me: "Oh well, never mind, it could have happened to anyone! Shall I put the kettle on?"

 

[italiafirenze]

Because she's black and she's beautiful

You'll have to rename it Tina Turner; was black and beautiful, now black and a bit scarred.

 

[smokeysmoo]

You'll have to rename it Tina Turner; was black and beautiful, now black and a bit scarred.

Grrrr!

 

[madpensioner]

I have found the answer to next years Manchester to Blackpool - I can get the sponcership forms from Christies - and on the same day do my own 63 miles on the Wyre where I train - I can put my own sponcership of £17 onto the form instead of to Bike Events - by doing that Christies will get £17 more - and I will miss all the riders who try and beat the time they did last year by claiming colour blindness at traffic lights in the firm belief that one day they will be in the TDF

 

[PaulB]

I have found the answer to next years Manchester to Blackpool - I can get the sponcership forms from Christies - and on the same day do my own 63 miles on the Wyre where I train - I can put my own sponcership of £17 onto the form instead of to Bike Events - by doing that Christies will get £17 more - and I will miss all the riders who try and beat the time they did last year by claiming colour blindness at traffic lights in the firm belief that one day they will be in the TDF

Mad not to.