Most handsome dyke out there

kelsen

It's gotta be Offa's...

dhope

I had high hopes for this thread.

rick_chasey

Sometimes people like big dykes...

notsoblue

Agreed on Offa's, and just to keep this cycling specific, here is a picture of Clare Balding visiting it as part of the Britain by Bike series:

NGale

You guys all owe me a new keyboard and a coffee

clarkey cat

That is a beautiful dyke. A little large for my tastes but I'm sure once I was up on it I'd have a whale of a time.

EKE_38BPM

Since we're keeping it cycling related, how about this:

redvee

notsoblue wrote:

Agreed on Offa's, and just to keep this cycling specific, here is a picture of Clare Balding visiting it as part of the Britain by Bike series:

I was going to correct the title of the program but didn't as she complained at an AA Gill article in The Graudian which mispelt bike

EKE_38BPM

Or this:


Sorry its so bloody big!

Stevo_666

There's a prize for the first person who can post a picture of two dykes together (I don't reckon the ones above are real).

Wooliferkins

Cor blimey luv a duck

EKE_38BPM

Stevo 666 wrote:

There's a prize for the first person who can post a picture of two dykes together (I don't reckon the ones above are real).

Have a look at where that picture came from and you may have to change your mind.
How about this then?

Wooliferkins

Stevo 666 wrote:

There's a prize for the first person who can post a picture of two dykes together (I don't reckon the ones above are real).

Does four count?

notsoblue

This was the biggest dijk I've ever been on.

The sea is on the left, and the lake is on the right. I'm not sure that statue is the best metaphor for as competent a sea faring nation as the Dutch though.

Phil_D

Stevo 666 wrote:

There's a prize for the first person who can post a picture of two dykes together (I don't reckon the ones above are real).

What is the prize?

notsoblue

Phil_D wrote:

What is the prize?

Here you go

rhext

dhope wrote:

I had high hopes for this thread.

Funny, I had very low hopes for this thread!

Stevo_666

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Have a look at where that picture came from and you may have to change your mind.

Err - thirdraildesignlab.com - looks like some sort of comic book website, not some red hot lezzie website :?: Still, will take your word for it that they bat for the other team

ddraver

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Stevo 666 wrote:

There's a prize for the first person who can post a picture of two dykes together (I don't reckon the ones above are real).

Have a look at where that picture came from and you may have to change your mind.
How about this then?

[Geogeek] Techincally, *snort* those are levees! (Hoivenmaven) [/Geogeek]

EKE_38BPM

ddraver wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Stevo 666 wrote:

There's a prize for the first person who can post a picture of two dykes together (I don't reckon the ones above are real).

Have a look at where that picture came from and you may have to change your mind.
How about this then?

[Geogeek] Techincally, *snort* those are levees! (Hoivenmaven) [/Geogeek]

Dammit, I hoped no-one else on here was sad enough to know the difference. You loser.
Or I'm a loser.
Or we're both losers.
Or everyone else on here are losers for not knowing. Yeah, thats the one I'll go with.


Everyone on Bike Radar apart from EKE_38BPM and ddraver are losers!

Why can't I have a big font AND in red?

walkingbootweather

♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫

Bye, bye Miss American Pie
Rode my bike to the dyke but the dyke was dry
Them good ole boys were drinking whiskey in Rye
Singin' this'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die

♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫

Something doesn't quite scan, but I can't quite put my finger on it....

rolf_f

EKE_38BPM wrote:

ddraver wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Stevo 666 wrote:

There's a prize for the first person who can post a picture of two dykes together (I don't reckon the ones above are real).

Have a look at where that picture came from and you may have to change your mind.
How about this then?

[Geogeek] Techincally, *snort* those are levees! (Hoivenmaven) [/Geogeek]

Dammit, I hoped no-one else on here was sad enough to know the difference. You loser.
Or I'm a loser.
Or we're both losers.
Or everyone else on here are losers for not knowing. Yeah, thats the one I'll go with.


Everyone on Bike Radar apart from EKE_38BPM and ddraver are losers!

Why can't I have a big font AND in red?

Ummmm, a levee is a dike, dyke or dijk. Levee is really more of an American term (good to hear that the levee was dry - a wet levee is not a good place to be!) but really they are interchangeable so take your size 200 text away with you

Of course, dyke can also refer to a drainage ditch but it would be a very unknowledgeable person who would think that a raised earthwork could be a dyke and not a levee.......

FOOOLLSSSS!

ddraver

What? Bollox! Levees are raised banks at the edge of a meandering river system (or a turbidite system in deep water environments) deposited during flooding events. They can be natural or man made!

Dikes are entirely man made structures, usually between the sea and "the land." That one that Offa built is an obvious exception though, built to keep the bloody Welsh out of Glorious England!

(excellent work walking boot weather!)

rolf_f

Sorry - the structure in the picture can be described as a dyke or a levee. It is entirely wrong to say that they are usually between the sea and the land - commonly they are constructed in artificially drained land to control water levels - in these circumstances, the land is often well below the level of the 'natural' river systems which will have dykes, levees or banks separating them from the lower lying land - this then has to be drained separately from the river system and, at places, pumped up into the higher level system. The Dutch polder systems are constrained by dykes - inland or coastal. I'm sure you have seen many - they are common inland of Leiden!

The only point I might concur is that I haven't myself heard the term dyke used for natural river deposited banks. But then I haven't heard the term levee used in the UK professionally at all!

There are plenty of non water related Dykes about - Offas is not an exception. For example Danes Dyke on Flamborough and Devils Dyke and Fleam Dyke in Cambridgeshire. The term is commonly used for pre-historic earthworks.

ddraver

well that's why I said usually!

Supercool geologists have a different use for "dykes."



This means we can make hilarious jokes about dykes intruding dykes

itboffin

notsoblue wrote:

Agreed on Offa's, and just to keep this cycling specific, here is a picture of Clare Balding visiting it as part of the Britain by Bike series:

How sweet the two of you are wearing the same outfit :twisted:

itboffin

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Since we're keeping it cycling related, how about this:

Farking typical ...no brakes! jeez!