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  • _Brun_
    _Brun_ Posts: 1,740
    Right, confession time. Which one of you is this?

    Be thankful I posted the link rather than the pic, otherwise you'd have to see it everytime you read this page.
  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    _Brun_ wrote:
    Right, confession time. Which one of you is this?

    Be thankful I posted the link rather than the pic, otherwise you'd have to see it everytime you read this page.

    :shock: I can't even begin to imagine what is wrong with that photo, but then having said that I did almost choke my then girlfriend/now wife about 8 years ago giving her a full on kiss as we passed the camera point on the log flume at Chessington!

    And before anyone asks, NO I haven't got the pic - we didn't even buy it in the end!
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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    Finally......

    Me: http://www.smileforskysports.com/album/ ... _1494.html
    DDD: http://www.smileforskysports.com/album/ ... _1495.html

    Now I've gotta look at one of the other towers to see if I'm in that one to!
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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    Finally!

    http://www.smileforskysports.com/album/ ... _1494.html

    Now I'm gonna check the other tower's for that hour!

    EDIT: Found another!

    http://www.smileforskysports.com/album/ ... S8043.html
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  • stuaff
    stuaff Posts: 1,736
    Commiserations GB. An unfortunate reminder of why I insured my own pride-and-joy.

    I had a splendid time, despite my Dahon's unfortunate habit of chain-dropping coming back with a vengeance. First three or four laps were no bother, then three drops on the next, and another not long after that. Then it was OK again....fume. My favourite LBS will hopefully sort it this weekend, before I go into Basil Fawlty whacking it with a bush mode....
    Anyway, got on the course about ten to ten, and then it was lovely- pretty much all the way round with hardly any stops. Not too bad even when it was more crowded- I think the longer and better arranged route helped, plus the marshalling at crossings was better. The number of times I got stopped last year.....sheesh. Big improvement on what was already a great event. Roll on next year!!

    And while I'm at it, might as well add my pic to the rogues' gallery:
    http://www.smileforskysports.com/album/ ... _0516.html

    BTW Snooks, that's not a folder behind you in the pic. It's a Pashley-Moulton TSR (the less hideously expensive version of the Moulton New Series). Might be a separable version, but definitely not folding (Dr Alex views that as an unwanted compromise). Didn't see that one, but there were a few of its relatives out and about.
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  • snooks
    snooks Posts: 1,521
    StuAff wrote:
    BTW Snooks, that's not a folder behind you in the pic. It's a Pashley-Moulton TSR (the less hideously expensive version of the Moulton New Series). Might be a separable version, but definitely not folding

    I stand corrected :)

    To my limited knowledge, small wheels means one of three things...Kiddies bike, BMX or folder :D

    But I've learn something new, thank you...It also means there are tourers out there tampering with their food chain number.....Cunning :wink:
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  • snooks
    snooks Posts: 1,521
    This photographer got a little bits distracted, he only just managed to get her head in....

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    And there were three other frames to choose from! :roll:


    and I found DDD eyeing up his next victim...
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  • Specialized Needs
    Specialized Needs Posts: 802
    snooks wrote:
    And there were three other frames to choose from! :roll:
    Having trawled through a lot of the photos from each tower, it is clear that the photographers were fairly red-blooded, heterosexual males. Look at which 'views' get several repeat photos in succession (and note where the focus for the shots are) :?

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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    snooks wrote:
    This photographer got a little bits distracted, he only just managed to get her head in....

    _J6S6462.jpg

    Hilarious!
  • Coriander
    Coriander Posts: 1,326
    You can laugh, boys, but it is a problem.

    I put on a nice decorous v-neck top that just shows shadow of my cleavage, get on my bike start cycling and realise that there is spectacularly more on show than I had ever intended. But by now I'm miles from home and not about to go back and change.

    Not that I can as all my tops are lowish cut.

    :shock:
  • snooks
    snooks Posts: 1,521
    duncedunce wrote:
    snooks wrote:
    And there were three other frames to choose from! :roll:
    Having trawled through a lot of the photos from each tower, it is clear that the photographers were fairly red-blooded, heterosexual males.

    I would have though they might have made the photos easier to find....painting the towers with the clocks on the appropriate colour might have helpped and putting the photos in cronological order....I was searching at the end of the galleries for my shot taken at 12:54...and it was right at the start of the 12-1pm batch.

    All the pics would have the exif data of the time they were taken, and sorting them into 10 or 20 min batches would have taken a few minutes longer to do, but saved everyone searching so much time rather than having to flick through all the images from the hour (or hours) they went around.
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    I am in the same boat Cori....

    All I can say is NEVER CYCLE IN A COWL NECK!!

    They inflate from teh top, and billow away and down, away and down damn it! :oops:

    All very tiresome...

    But then, on the other hand, the chance of ever seeing the people gawping again is slim to none, so whatever!
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    snooks wrote:
    This photographer got a little bits distracted, he only just managed to get her head in....

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    I think the photographer may have found the perfect cycling boobies. :shock:

    I KNOW! Lets have a competition we should all post pics of what we think are the perfect cycling boobies/cleverage.

    LiT's and Corriander I'm expecting you two to submit your own ample examples 8) :D :shock:
    snooks wrote:
    and I found DDD eyeing up his next victim...
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    Ah sweet prey!!
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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    RE Snook's photo find, I'm sure I spotted that girl when we where waiting at the Bike Doctor's on the turn leading upto Traf Sq. I do remember being rather distracted and commenting "healthy set of lungs on her!" to DDD :lol:

    As for Cori and LiT, although I fully sympathise with the issue of what top you can wear when riding it's unlikely anyone will get much chance to stare and if they do start to take to much notice chances are they'll crash and you can scalp em :-)
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  • Mark_K
    Mark_K Posts: 666
    On the other hand i did see some ppl wearing lycra That that realy realy put me off my lunch on Sunday :? Surly lycra in larger sizes i.e. xxxl should have some kinda warning printed on them both inside and out :shock:
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  • snooks
    snooks Posts: 1,521
    Coriander wrote:
    You can laugh, boys, but it is a problem.

    I put on a nice decorous v-neck top that just shows shadow of my cleavage, get on my bike start cycling and realise that there is spectacularly more on show than I had ever intended. But by now I'm miles from home and not about to go back and change.
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    They inflate from teh top, and billow away and down, away and down damn it! :oops:

    All very tiresome...

    But then, on the other hand, the chance of ever seeing the people gawping again is slim to none, so whatever!

    Isn't anyone going to ask for pictures??? :roll: :wink:
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Bassjunkieuk wrote:
    RE Snook's photo find, I'm sure I spotted that girl when we where waiting at the Bike Doctor's on the turn leading upto Traf Sq. I do remember being rather distracted and commenting "healthy set of lungs on her!" to DDD :lol:

    Oh yeah, I remember now! With a pair of lungs like that I think her body simply doesn't produce fatigue inducing toxins... *comicbookgeek moment*
    As for Cori and LiT, although I fully sympathise

    I don't, if I was a women I would do nothing but wear tight lycra, skirts and damn sexy tops. I'd have men gawp at me all day. I would relish in the power of knowing that 'they all wanted me and none could have me' :twisted: !

    I sweetly despise this fact because whilst I'm aware of being purposely made to want yet no chance of having. I, a hetrosexual male, cannot help but be a slave to it.
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    DDD, calm yourself. Cold shower immediately!
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    DDD, calm yourself. Cold shower immediately!

    I don't know what gotten into me. They must have put something in my Alpen this morning.

    Oh well, going to Spain on Thursday with my girlfriend. I'm sure I'll be able to get out whatever is in my system.
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    A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
  • OldSkoolKona
    OldSkoolKona Posts: 655
    Tsk, searched the photos and haven't been able to find myself or Mrs OSK.

    Have uploaded a few of my own. Here's one to show that not all cyclists are RLJ'ers:
    http://alliesphotos.fotodock.co.uk/p53738386.html

    Snooks has snuck in on this one:
    http://alliesphotos.fotodock.co.uk/p53738379.html

    ..and the previously mentioned roller blader with the stereo system (taken on the move):
    http://alliesphotos.fotodock.co.uk/p53738407.html
  • snooks
    snooks Posts: 1,521
    OldSkoolKona wrote:
    Snooks has snuck in on this one:
    http://alliesphotos.fotodock.co.uk/p53738379.html

    I'm starting to wonder if I have a left side at all :(
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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    DDD, calm yourself. Cold shower immediately!

    I don't know what gotten into me. They must have put something in my Alpen this morning.

    Oh well, going to Spain on Thursday with my girlfriend. I'm sure I'll be able to get out whatever is in my system.

    Dude, that was to much info........
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Bassjunkieuk wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    DDD, calm yourself. Cold shower immediately!

    I don't know what gotten into me. They must have put something in my Alpen this morning.

    Oh well, going to Spain on Thursday with my girlfriend. I'm sure I'll be able to get out whatever is in my system.

    Dude, that was to much info........

    I cannot be held accountable for your clearly overactive imagination.

    I was talking about the stress, anxiety and frustration of work running through my system...
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  • helz
    helz Posts: 406
    I found my Chis Hoy picture!
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    I know it looks like I've got my hand somewhere it shouldn't be (I wish!!) but I'm actually just holding my handlebars.
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  • mailmannz
    mailmannz Posts: 173
    Looks like she has her hand somewhere...maybe holding a handle bar too? :)

    Regards

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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    snooks wrote:
    This photographer got a little bits distracted, he only just managed to get her head in....

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    Freewheel photoprapher snaps pics of Topeak's new XL Front Rack system...... :wink:
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  • UnworthyPapaLazaru
    UnworthyPapaLazaru Posts: 422
    Sound like the Londoners had a nice day out! It also seems that it was very much targeted at the local population but from what I have read it sounds like it could also be targeted at tourists.

    The route I read about included some famous London sites and a great opportunity to see them in a very different way to normal. It sounds perfect. Better than a day in traffic on an open top bus. I think I may bring the family down next year for a sightseeing trip. Something I have never done in London before cause it is so busy.

    (I usually just visit friends and get drunk and laugh at the comically early pub closing times)
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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    UnworthyPapaLazaru wrote:
    Sound like the Londoners had a nice day out! It also seems that it was very much targeted at the local population but from what I have read it sounds like it could also be targeted at tourists.

    The route I read about included some famous London sites and a great opportunity to see them in a very different way to normal. It sounds perfect. Better than a day in traffic on an open top bus. I think I may bring the family down next year for a sightseeing trip. Something I have never done in London before cause it is so busy.

    (I usually just visit friends and get drunk and laugh at the comically early pub closing times)

    It was quite a good route for site seeing, especially as we took in Trafalgar Square this time! It was quite pleasant riding round with it closed to traffic and with all the other peds watching us!

    Having said that if you do want to site see don't go round with anyone from the SCR thread, it's quite difficult to do when your doing 25MPH and scything through the other cyclist's :twisted:
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  • Specialized Needs
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    UnworthyPapaLazaru wrote:
    Sound like the Londoners had a nice day out! It also seems that it was very much targeted at the local population but from what I have read it sounds like it could also be targeted at tourists.

    The route I read about included some famous London sites and a great opportunity to see them in a very different way to normal. It sounds perfect. Better than a day in traffic on an open top bus. I think I may bring the family down next year for a sightseeing trip. Something I have never done in London before cause it is so busy.
    I have sent feedback suggesting that the sponsor (whoever) provides a downloadable podcast description and/or printable info sheet for each of the main sights - giving history and stories about the sights (to be listened to while stopped, of course; wouldn't want to enter the debate about using headphones while cycling in such a crowd :roll: ). I'm sure they could weave some subtle advertising in there (Thinks: "on the left, just after the Sky Sports photo tower, ...").

    What was really nice this year - but not something jointly promoted - was that it was also the Open House Weekend. So you could have got a cheap hotel room (if not local) and visited unusual buildings on the Saturday and attended FW (and possibly some other buildings) on the Sunday. The FCO on Whitehall is a particular favourite of mine. Wonder whether the coincidence will be the same next year. I don't think it happened last year as FW was comparitively a week later then.

    Stuart
  • AV2Hire
    AV2Hire Posts: 3
    Especially for the Av2Hire guys with the massive bass tube - they spent a good 5 minutes turning it around the first time. Following them through the embankment underpass before they got sound-limited was truly deafening.

    Well, as the guy riding the cannon ...
    I ended up turning before the hill after the first time ... the turning wasn't so bad, but the hill was a killer on a 20 foot long, articulated, 200kilo bicycle.

    Shame they were limiting the sound .. I had the biggest sound bike ever, with the lowest volume!

    I shoulda brought my Ipod speakers instead :roll:

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