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- 21 Jul 2020, 5:18pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: HR6 Velomobile spotted....
- Replies: 5
- Views: 225
Re: HR6 Velomobile spotted....
I very much doubt there is a motor involved. Going up the steep incline I mentioned it was definitely at a speed best described as "winching it up", certainly no assistance. Going down the slope towards Ledbury I suspect it was on the speed limit for that road, 60 mph. These fully faired ...
- 21 Jul 2020, 1:26pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: HR6 Velomobile spotted....
- Replies: 5
- Views: 225
Re: HR6 Velomobile spotted....
maybe the owner had an electric motor fitted? But that'd be cheating..... .......in which case I'll throw my hat at it next time I see, never mind raise it !!! Seriously though, the bodywork/superstructure seemed to have a pedalling hard type wallow to it as it went along, which if it was just huma...
- 21 Jul 2020, 11:53am
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: HR6 Velomobile spotted....
- Replies: 5
- Views: 225
HR6 Velomobile spotted....
On a couple of occasions over the past few weeks, whilst on the way towards Ledbury, I've come up behind a red Velomobile[or something very similar], and to put it mildly, it wasn't hanging about!! My speedo was reading 43mph at one point for goodness sake, and I wasn't catching it up, just cruising...
- 8 May 2020, 3:16pm
- Forum: Cycle Camping sub-forum
- Topic: Tent for Brompton
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1668
Re: Tent for Brompton
Always fancied a Wild Country Hoolie 2. Seems to tick a lot of the boxes for Brompton touring, and also for the larger or taller person. Doesn't weigh too much and got a good porch by the look of things. Might treat myself when all this is over,.......if I'm still here and we're allowed to go out an...
- 24 Jan 2020, 4:52pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: Two favourite poems.
- Replies: 59
- Views: 1498
Re: Two favourite poems.
Sorry, I only have one favourite at the moment. A Child in the 80s 'Daddy, how old is Groucho Marx?' 'Sorry dear boy, he's dead.' 'Gosh! And Chico? Oh yes, and Harpo?' 'Dead. All of them dead.' 'Daddy, is Lassie very old?' 'Dogs die young, you know.' 'Will Hay's good! Is he dead too?' 'Thirty years ...
- 30 Jun 2019, 3:51pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: Pictures of your bike(s)
- Replies: 1696
- Views: 479385
Re: Pictures of your bike(s)
" only good for commuting " my foot !!
Here's mine exploring off road down the bottom of the garden. Great fun.
Fancy RTW next ....................Round the Wirral.
And back in time for tea.
- 16 May 2019, 9:36am
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: Funniest clean joke I've heard recently
- Replies: 1237
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Re: Funniest clean joke I've heard recently
" DAAADDDD.....I'm cold, "
Go and stand in the corner, it's ninety degrees.
Go and stand in the corner, it's ninety degrees.
- 19 Aug 2016, 12:03pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: Not a good start to the day.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 355
Re: Not a good start to the day.
No drop off in the number of swifts over and around this part of HR6, or so it appears to me. As for swallows and house martins, flipping dozens, possibly hundreds of them, playing in the breeze around the quarries at the top of the Clee Hill, probably trying to spot the easiest/flattest/shortest wa...
- 19 Jul 2016, 9:39pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: Too Hot to Cycle
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1485
Re: Too Hot to Cycle
.....48 miles today. It was just like riding my bike round the airing cupboard!!!!
- 26 Jun 2016, 9:35am
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: 2nd referendum?
- Replies: 219
- Views: 8002
Re: 2nd referendum?
Well we never took the old signs down in the first place, so back to normal round here !!
- 16 Jun 2016, 2:14pm
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: Argos Racing Cycles (Bristol)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2458
Re: Argos Racing Cycles (Bristol)
They did a good alteration job on my forks when I wanted a more upright position, putting a new longer steerer tube in. Better, ie. nicer looking, than those ugly riser attachments you can get. Would certainly use them again.
- 12 Feb 2016, 10:14am
- Forum: Health and fitness
- Topic: Cycling with a mechanical heart valve
- Replies: 3
- Views: 692
Re: Cycling with a mechanical heart valve
Hi Tom, Mine's a mechanical valve, in since 2002, for the same reason as you. If you see the reply I gave in the Hole in the Heart thread down below, that says most of it. I'm not a TT'er, just a pootler round the countryside, but hills make me sweat, and certainly raise my heart rate. But the valve...
- 11 Feb 2016, 2:31pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: In/Out or On/Off?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 659
Re: In/Out or On/Off?
Just a thought.........................
How long before it ends up on a headstone?!?
logged off this mortal coil
logged out of life
.......... there's bound to be one sooner or later!!!!
How long before it ends up on a headstone?!?
logged off this mortal coil
logged out of life
.......... there's bound to be one sooner or later!!!!
- 3 Feb 2016, 9:20am
- Forum: Health and fitness
- Topic: Hole in the heart recovery post surgery.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 693
Re: Hole in the heart recovery post surgery.
Hi 3spd, After my open heart surgery for an Aortic valve replacement the ' very expensive plumber' as he called himself, said give it 6 to 8 weeks and then see how it feels. So that's what I did. That was in 2002, and since then I've cycled up, over and down most of the hills in this part of the wor...
- 24 Jul 2015, 2:12pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: Morris Minors
- Replies: 114
- Views: 12193
Re: Morris Minors
018.jpg .....and here's another rallying Minor. I was P2, in the navigators seat, my pal from Rolls Royce Motors in Crewe was P1. Post office van back axle, Shorrocks Super charger, high lift cam off I can't remember what, and enough lighting to peel the paint off anything we caught up on route. Ha...