Does it get any better?

in message <[email hidden]>, Tony Raven

(') said:

Flying along through the country lanes on a nice, light, responsive
bike watching the wheels you built yourself spinning away beneath, the
chain lightly buzzing as it snicks into another gear, sun shining and
temperature just right. Does it get any better?

It doesn't.

I had to have a blood test this morning - I'm having to have them weekly
just now which is a bit of a bore - and I had a few other errands to do
in town, so I cycled in on my old Raleigh. I then dropped in on a few
friends on the way back, and ended up diametrically on the wrong side of
the ridge. So either I went quite a long way to round to cross the ridge
east of Screel, or quite a long way west to cross west of the Black
Breast; or take the old road over the top.

I haven't ridden the old road on something that wasn't explicitly a
mountain bike for twenty years, and I haven't ridden it without
suspension for about five years. But, nice day, and I was wearing SPD
shoes because I have SPDs on the Raleigh, so if I had to walk up... no
problem.

The Raleigh has 51/41 on the front and 13-21 on the back, but to my
surprise I was able to ride all the way up the climb. 28mm slicks are
not the perfect tyre for an unmetalled road, but... it was surprisingly
nice. Over the top, and there's 150 metres of vertical descent in 4Km,
and on a full suspension bike you just blast down it. On an old steel
road bike I most definitely did not feel like blasting down, but still
came down at a pretty good lick.

It was great. Modern bikes are brilliant, of course, and I really enjoy
riding them. But there's an old rigid mountain bike sitting in the shed
which might just get a bit of exercise in the next few weeks.

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Quoted message said:

Does it get any better?

Cake stop?

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:-)

Mark.

"Mark Thompson"
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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Does it get any better?

Cake stop?

Tailwind?

cheers,
clive

Clive George said:

"Mark Thompson"
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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Does it get any better?

Cake stop?

Tailwind?

Witherly?(as opposed to an againsterly).
Good company.
Good feeling.
One of those days that you feel you aren't riding a bike along the road
but piloting one flying just above it.
And then to hospital to have that extra wide grin surgically shortened
;-)

...d

Tony Raven said:

Flying along through the country lanes on a nice, light, responsive bike
watching the wheels you built yourself spinning away beneath, the chain
lightly buzzing as it snicks into another gear, sun shining and
temperature just right. Does it get any better?

You could be riding a fixie.

tom

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If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait
until you hire an amateur. -- Red Adair

Tony Raven said:

Flying along through the country lanes on a nice, light, responsive bike
watching the wheels you built yourself spinning away beneath, the chain
lightly buzzing as it snicks into another gear, sun shining and
temperature just right. Does it get any better?

Sure, when you get to do it in a comfy chair, looking at the scenery
rather than the wheels! ;-)

Pete.
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Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
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Peter Clinch said:

Tony Raven said:

Flying along through the country lanes on a nice, light, responsive
bike watching the wheels you built yourself spinning away beneath, the
chain lightly buzzing as it snicks into another gear, sun shining and
temperature just right. Does it get any better?

Sure, when you get to do it in a comfy chair, looking at the scenery
rather than the wheels! ;-)

If I were in a comfy chair I would be looking at the hedges, not over
them at the scenery ;-)

--
Tony

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using
his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
- Leonardo da Vinci

Tony Raven said:

If I were in a comfy chair I would be looking at the hedges, not over
them at the scenery ;-)

rtfm "highracer"

Pete.
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Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
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Quoted message said:

temperature just right. Does it get any better?

Helena Christensen is the stoker on your tandem.
She whispers in your ear "Ease up, I'll do all the hard work.
Save your strength for later tonight".

John Hearns said:

Helena Christensen is the stoker on your tandem.
She whispers in your ear "Ease up, I'll do all the hard work.
Save your strength for later tonight".

Even better if she were the captain.

Simon Bennett said:

Even better if she were the captain.

^^^ pilot (of course)

John Hearns said:

Quoted message said:

temperature just right. Does it get any better

Liz Hurley is the stoker on your tandem.

Quoted message said:

She whispers in your ear "Ease up, I'll do all the hard work.
Save your strength for later tonight".

(sorry)

John Hearns said:

Quoted message said:

temperature just right. Does it get any better?

Helena Christensen is the stoker on your tandem.

Tandem? Shirley you mean a Tridem (you know, like wot the Goodies rode)
with Evangeline Lilly /and/ Alyson Hannigan.

Quoted message said:

She whispers in your ear "Ease up, I'll do all the hard work.
Save your strength for later tonight".

"...We'll do..."
"...tonight and tomorrow..."

R, overly-ambitious, and keeping this post well away from the sight of
Mrs R. :-)

"Simon Bennett" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

John Hearns said:

Helena Christensen is the stoker on your tandem.
She whispers in your ear "Ease up, I'll do all the hard work.
Save your strength for later tonight".

Even better if she were the pilot.

Depends what she'd eaten for lunch.

Ambrose Nankivell said:

Depends what she'd eaten for lunch.

Supermodels /never/ fart.

in message <[email hidden]>,

MartinM (') said:

John Hearns said:

Quoted message said:

temperature just right. Does it get any better

Liz Hurley is the stoker on your tandem.

Quoted message said:

She whispers in your ear "Ease up, I'll do all the hard work.
Save your strength for later tonight".

This thread has been a most interesting insight into the fantasies of
male members of this froup. Interesting that no female cyclists have yet
been nominated.

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twitching, but resurrection is not an option - unless Satan
chucks them out of Hell as too objectionable even for him.

Tony Raven said:

Flying along through the country lanes on a nice, light, responsive bike
watching the wheels you built yourself spinning away beneath, the chain
lightly buzzing as it snicks into another gear, sun shining and
temperature just right. Does it get any better?

You forgot the obligatory tailwind (which, of course, doesn't exist -
you're just going well).

Quoted message said:

This thread has been a most interesting insight into the fantasies of
male members of this froup. Interesting that no female cyclists have yet
been nominated.

As well as the cake stop, I was thinking about Victoria Pendleton, but.. my
mind keeps drifting back to a certain Regular riding along in her student
days wearing a full length evening dress hitched up out of the way, each
gust of wind revealing tantalising glimpses of stockings and suspenders..

David Martin said:

Clive George said:

"Mark Thompson"
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wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

> Does it get any better?

Cake stop?

Tailwind?

Witherly?(as opposed to an againsterly).
Good company.
Good feeling.
One of those days that you feel you aren't riding a bike along the
road but piloting one flying just above it.
And then to hospital to have that extra wide grin surgically shortened
;-)

..d

PUB
or is that just me?
--

Martin Bulmer