A Picture paints a thousand words - restart

Anonymous
Anonymous Posts: 79,667
edited October 2013 in Your pics and vids
Right, thanks to an administrative cockerel-up, the last thread was accidentally deleted :lol:
I won't name names, Nick. oops!

Anyway, right, here's a thread for inspirational pictures, images that stir your soul, and urge you to go for a ride, the level of photographic technicality is irrelevant.
Here's some ground rules.
    This is for pictures that inspire, or have that special something only, not just any old snapshots of you and your mates. The pictures should be taken by forum members ideally, not stock photos. It doesn't matter if someone uses a cameraphone, or an EOS 1DS, as long as that picture has that special something, that's all that matters. If you cock up when trying to post a picture, DONT keep trying and trying with new posts, go back and edit it instead. That's what the edit function is there. And lastly, I think for ergonomical reasons, if your images are huge, then post a link to them instead. Or re-size them to roughly 800 pixels wide (I think that's near the forum limit)
Right, rules can and WILL be changed at anny time by ME! (Come on, you all know what I'm like by now :lol: )

So, get posting.
There were some awesome imagesd in the last version of this, let's try and get the ball rolling again with some corkers.
Oh yeah, feel free to post a picture even if it was in the last thread. A corking shot is a corking shot.

NEW RULE:
Post a short blurb explaining WHY the image you've posted hits the spot for you.
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  • dubcat
    dubcat Posts: 737
    This picture has special significance to me as this is my journey up to my first trail ride. I was alone, feeling lost, and the adrenaline was flowing. This is the ride up to the top of Holmbury Hill at Peaslake in the Surrey Hills. I had no clue how long the road was or where I was going. Very exciting for a noob :)

    I know it's not of a hardcore trail and it's only with a camera phone - but it's definitely got special significance as I feel like a whole new world has just opened up to me (queue music from lion king).

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  • _jon_
    _jon_ Posts: 366
    edited September 2010
    From the Long Mynd this morning-

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    From the Peak District (Ladybower Loop) a fortnight ago-

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  • jay12
    jay12 Posts: 6,306
    me at lee quarry on saturday
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    me on a hip jump at delamere
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    me whipping on a 4x track
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    view from lynn crafnant
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    and another
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    me jumping at delamere
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    on another jump
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    my pic which got into the IMBmag reader's gallery
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    and this is my mate at delamere
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Good effort, apart from Jay (holy crap you look EVEN younger than I imagined!) spamming a bit, it's off to a good start.
    Still, nice pics, Jay, just let others have a chance as well :lol:
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  • dubcat, not a particularly amzing pic, but i understand the significance, i ride there quite a bit, and the top car park is just round the corner from there- so close!

    Good pics jay, i wish i had somewhere like that to ride near me :(
  • Nice story Dubcat, I know exactly what you mean.
  • woodnut
    woodnut Posts: 562
    Rocky Paths
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    The valley
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    Can't see the wood for the trees...
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    All taken yesterday near where I live
  • 13baz
    13baz Posts: 52
    Me at Rothiemurcas close to aviemore at the weekend A great weekend with some amazing biking and scenery!!

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  • Glentress last Friday afternoon... (dodgy camera phone)

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  • I got slagged by my pal for living next to hills and never climbing them.......

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    The target.....

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    Half way.....

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    Funny what you find at the top (well, over the shoulder)...explains the width increase in the path....
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  • Like that one Rossi.

    But Dubcat... your's is a road.. makes me feel like not riding :p[/code]
  • Stoo61
    Stoo61 Posts: 1,394
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    Innerleithen and Ben Cleuch rides.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Is it just me, or has the actual text and images section of the forum got even narrower?
    I'm reading this on my laptop and I'm thinking it looks like a hell of a lot of blank space either side of the thread.
    Sure it wasn't like that a month ago :?
  • altern_8
    altern_8 Posts: 1,562
    above the clouds on walna scar road,looking down towards coniston water.
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  • t0pc4t
    t0pc4t Posts: 947
    my local forest

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  • Miggins
    Miggins Posts: 433
    View of the Royal bothy Glas-alt-Shiel on the shore of Loch Muick nr. Ballater, Royal Deeside, Scotland


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    From the top of Mount Keen (note the padded frame protectors
    by 661 :wink: )

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    Unfortunately, on both occasions I didn't have my camera, so these were taken with the 2 mega pixel camera on my old Nokia.
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  • TopCat - My localforest = Swinley

    Ditto - There are better pics to be had though! :D
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  • t0pc4t
    t0pc4t Posts: 947
    LjStronge, that was a random pic off my phone, I also go up to the labrynth which is pretty lush

    if you're ever about though would love to learn the good spots in Swinley
    Whether you're a king or a little street sweeper, sooner or later you'll dance with the reaper.

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  • t0pc4t wrote:
    LjStronge, that was a random pic off my phone, I also go up to the labrynth which is pretty lush

    if you're ever about though would love to learn the good spots in Swinley

    I'm there twice a week dude - although not there this week now.

    Give us a shout when your about or feel free to ask for for directions if you need to!

    What do you ride?
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  • t0pc4t
    t0pc4t Posts: 947
    anthem x4 mate, I'm pretty green though

    you Bracknell based?
    Whether you're a king or a little street sweeper, sooner or later you'll dance with the reaper.

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  • t0pc4t wrote:
    anthem x4 mate, I'm pretty green though

    you Bracknell based?

    Was for 27 years,just moved. Forest Park & Crown Wood.

    I ride 1 evening after work on my way home and once at the weekend. I have a 2009 Rockhopper Comp. I have only been riding for about 8 months and built my bike up from the frame about 3 months ago, so Green is the right word for me to!

    Fitness isn't the best, but I always push myself around Swinlwy. I prefer the singletrack but actively seek out the hills to work the legs

    Hang on, PM me - I think we are hijacking this thread!
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  • Jay (holy crap you look EVEN younger than I imagined!

    + 1, you're way too young to be hanging out chatting with us sad lot :wink:
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  • This shot is from my first taste of proper mountain biking in the lakes a few years back. Any shot from that trip makes me want to ride. Taken on a berm at the blue loop at whinlatter.

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  • Tim.s
    Tim.s Posts: 515
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