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Moon bunny
Judging your grammar
- Location
- Basking in my own brilliance.
My new paint markers have arrived!
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
It's sort of like a deconstructed breaded chicken and sauce.
Mind, I do make savoury veggie crumbles.
classic33
Leg End Member
That's how the curry crumbles!
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
Another example of male multi-tasking this morning: bike ride combined with bottle bank run, some shopping and visiting the doctors' surgery for my 2nd Covid jab this morning. Absolutely no reaction yet apart from a having the munchies - although that may be from the afternoon's bike ride in a 20mph+ wind.
Day out tomorrow, then back to work on Wednesday for nine consecutive days of civil service based boredom.
Day out tomorrow, then back to work on Wednesday for nine consecutive days of civil service based boredom.
randynewmanscat
Veteran
- Location
- Vienne, Poitou-Chrentes
Warsteiner €1 50cl bottle at my local beer chain. I'll be making some space in the back of the motor tomorrow.
newts
Veteran
- Location
- Isca Dumnoniorum
I saw a 'cyclist' on a mtb yesterday with a door mirror from a 7.5t truck mounted on the handlerbars
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
First ever grasstrack racing done, with 2 minutes of 'practice' before-hand. Lots of fun. No pressure on him, which is unusual these days, and it was an evening off for us both.
I wasn't last, except in my sprint heat, although I think the commissaire must've thought we weren't taking it seriously in the last two races - we rolled up just as they started both times.
Son's rear wheel moved on our £40 Fuji Track just as he went into a final sprint in the Devil (oops
), I was on a borrowed bike and the grass was solid on one side, mud on the other.
I wasn't last, except in my sprint heat, although I think the commissaire must've thought we weren't taking it seriously in the last two races - we rolled up just as they started both times.
Son's rear wheel moved on our £40 Fuji Track just as he went into a final sprint in the Devil (oops
), I was on a borrowed bike and the grass was solid on one side, mud on the other.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
First ever grasstrack racing done, with 2 minutes of 'practice' before-hand. Lots of fun. No pressure on him, which is unusual these days, and it was an evening off for us both.
I wasn't last, except in my sprint heat, although I think the commissaire must've thought we weren't taking it seriously in the last two races - we rolled up just as they started both times.
Son's rear wheel moved on our £40 Fuji Track just as he went into a final sprint in the Devil (oops
Sounds like you had a blast
classic33
Leg End Member
Would you do it on a penny farthing?First ever grasstrack racing done, with 2 minutes of 'practice' before-hand. Lots of fun. No pressure on him, which is unusual these days, and it was an evening off for us both.
I wasn't last, except in my sprint heat, although I think the commissaire must've thought we weren't taking it seriously in the last two races - we rolled up just as they started both times.
Son's rear wheel moved on our £40 Fuji Track just as he went into a final sprint in the Devil (oops
The link you gave for grass tracks mentioned a race track in Halifax. Cinder track at the top of Hanson Lane. Thrum Hall, Clarion Cycle Club raced there.
The area itself was a local "sport centre", with a number of different activities there over the years.
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
I don't think I could do it on anything other than cross tyres - it was too muddy. In a dry summer it'd be fine but penny farthing's tended to be raced on cinder tracks rather than grass.
There's an old map of Halifax here - and it shows a cricket ground next to the football ground at the top. I'm guessing it was round the outside of the cricket ground since there's a dotted line.
And @Reynard - it was good to have a night where results didn't count, without the pressure of needing to get a result and points. That lack of 'focus' probably showed a bit
- he still gave it a push at times, but with a muddy-faced smile. His training schedule has a 'day off' today, and it just about covered that.
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
Who won the Derby in 1935?
Come back in 1936, and I'll tell you then!
Mr Memory, always the crowd pleaser.
classic33
Leg End Member
It was a cinder track, still there when it was sold by the rugby club.I don't think I could do it on anything other than cross tyres - it was too muddy. In a dry summer it'd be fine but penny farthing's tended to be raced on cinder tracks rather than grass.
There's an old map of Halifax here - and it shows a cricket ground next to the football ground at the top. I'm guessing it was round the outside of the cricket ground since there's a dotted line.
And @Reynard - it was good to have a night where results didn't count, without the pressure of needing to get a result and points. That lack of 'focus' probably showed a bit
Later the home of the Halifax RLFC, before they moved to the Shay. Cricket Club moved out a few years before.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
And @Reynard - it was good to have a night where results didn't count, without the pressure of needing to get a result and points. That lack of 'focus' probably showed a bit
Yup, am familiar with that sort of thing from my fencing days.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Anyways, gonna slope off in search of a 