Memorials and bikes

[pjd57]

a sadly neglected small memorial for the firefighters who lost their lives at the Cheapside Street fire in Glasgow.

 

[biggs682]

War memorial at Milton Ernest on this morning's ride .

 

[biggs682]

The USAF memorial between Foxhall and Draughton .

208 airmen from this base lost their lives .

The airbase later went on to be a Raf base .

 

[kapelmuur]

Plaques commemorating the spot in which John Wesley preached, I think it says 1767.
The plaque occupies an undignified position under the M56 on Booth Bank Lane near Dunham Park in Cheshire.

 

[Mr Celine]

Romanes eunt domus

Trimontium, the three (Eildon) hills, Eildon Hill North in the background.

 

[BalkanExpress]

Since he is still alive, a commemoration rather than a memorial, the newly renamed Square Eddy Merckx in Woluwe where his parents had their shop and he lived as a kid.

 

[Blue Hills]

Like the Bates - that's me on one in my avatar, but alas, the photo itself is 52 years old now and the bike was 2nd hand when I got it and I parted with it a long time ago, but it was a great ride.

Just blown up the pic. Nice but the admiring looks are being given to the scooter in the background. Vespa?

 

[Blue Hills]

View attachment 460086 View attachment 460087 Since he is still alive, a commemoration rather than a memorial, the newly renamed Square Eddy Merckx in Woluwe where his parents had their shop and he lived as a kid.

I sometimes oddly wonder how bikes of that period (feel free to educate me/specify) ended up with paintjobs like that. They remind me of hotwheels toy cars, but I don't remember folks driving round the streets with cars like that.

 

[Blue Hills]

Boulder City Nevada USA’s nod to the nearby Hoover Dam.
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What sort of unwinding facilities does boulder city promote?

 

[BalkanExpress]

I sometimes oddly wonder how bikes of that period (feel free to educate me/specify) ended up with paintjobs like that. They remind me of hotwheels toy cars, but I don't remember folks driving round the streets with cars like that.

I suppose the answer is “because they could” . Fabric technology meant that with sublimated printing anything could be printed on a jersey (google team tonton tapis for the proof of this) and retina searing jerseys led to similar bikes. I say similar not matching as the team Z kit and bikes don’t exactly match, in fact the steel bikes (the one in the photo) and the carbon bikes have totally different paint jobs and neither match the kit

 

[booze and cake]

@BalkanExpress cool mural, but you rode there on a Lemond...... nothing wrong with the bike of course, but when you own a Merckx as you do it seems a missed opportunity, so go back and photograph it with the 'correct' bike

 

[BalkanExpress]

@BalkanExpress cool mural, but you rode there on a Lemond...... nothing wrong with the bike of course, but when you own a Merckx as you do it seems a missed opportunity, so go back and photograph it with the 'correct' bike

Merckx is locked up at work, I will ride it there soon. Could have been worse, I thought it would have been in poor taste to take the Gios .

 

[iandg]

I was on a Donegal bike tour. My bike's not in this pic but there is a bike route waymarker in the background (tenuous, I know)

 

[Blue Hills]

at the risk of being shouted down for ignorance a memorial to who?

 

[NorthernDave]

At Manston Park, Leeds in front of the memorial to "The Barnbow Lasses": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnbow