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by rich.hr6
12 Aug 2022, 3:19pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Fish
Replies: 16
Views: 709

Re: Fish

Dorsal fin looks a bit "grayling-ish" to me, but not sure if they live that close to salt water though.
by rich.hr6
13 Dec 2021, 10:18am
Forum: Using the Forum - request help : report difficulties
Topic: Standardised Sales Form for bikes
Replies: 12
Views: 1451

Re: Standardised Sales Form for bikes

I stand, well actually sit, as it were, on my Brompton, corrected!!!

And....I shall continue to count the teeth on my cogs, even though they are sprockets. Thankyou very much.

Happy Christmas....
by rich.hr6
27 Aug 2021, 11:14am
Forum: Using the Forum - request help : report difficulties
Topic: Standardised Sales Form for bikes
Replies: 12
Views: 1451

Standardised Sales Form for bikes

Would it be thought possible and/or beneficial to have a standard list of details and dimensions to fill in for bike sales, that enabled and helped sellers put down all the relevant and important information to aid potential purchasers make up their minds? So many bikes are listed without the details that help me, and possibly many others, make the effort to even bother going any further.

Location....price....teeth count on cogs..........all handy things to know, at least I would have thought so!!

Or is it just me?????
by rich.hr6
28 Jul 2021, 9:31pm
Forum: On the road
Topic: Queen Victoria Postboxes
Replies: 132
Views: 24889

Re: Queen Victoria Postboxes

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Here's my brush with royalty, just outside Kingsland on the back road to Shobdon.
[Herefordshire in case you're wondering].
One should always have a matching mode of transport.
by rich.hr6
21 Jul 2020, 5:18pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: HR6 Velomobile spotted....
Replies: 5
Views: 418

Re: HR6 Velomobile spotted....

tatanab wrote: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 machines are rapid (with the right rider) so none of what has been described surprises me at all.


......in that case I'm mightily impressed, and looking forward to hopefully [being able to] catch up with it again.

I know the roads you mention, and 60mph on the downhill towards Ledbury is more than I'm happy to do in the car.

6 inches off the ground, probably clad in lycra, and a bumpy-bouncy surface, and then throw in that amazing turn of speed, well, to pot with the UCI,

CHAPEAU.... that is one brave person.
by rich.hr6
21 Jul 2020, 1:26pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: HR6 Velomobile spotted....
Replies: 5
Views: 418

Re: HR6 Velomobile spotted....

mercalia wrote: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 human powered you'd expect. It must take some sort of output to hit 40mph, and keep it up, so you're probably right about the motor.

Devious bunch.......
by rich.hr6
21 Jul 2020, 11:53am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: HR6 Velomobile spotted....
Replies: 5
Views: 418

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 along two vehicles behind it. Considering the appalling state of most of the roads in HR6, its progress over the tarmac was impressive to say the least. The two vehicles in front of me were not getting impatient either, and followed it for a couple of miles before waiting for a clear bit of road and cruising past, and I did likewise a little further on, and it was still maintaining 40 'ish mph.

If whoever is pedalling it reads this, I take my hat off to you. I only ride a Brompton these days, so am not, under UCI regulations, allowed to say "Chapeau" to you.

I never realised those things went so fast, but having now checked them out on Youtube, I'm impressed. The only downside I can see is you don't get much of a sun tan, but then you probably don't get any flies in your eyes, stung in the mouth by a wasp after gasping your way to the top a steep bit, OUCH!, or hit on the cheek by a stone flicked up by a passing car. OUCH OUCH!!!

Can you get a fairing for a Brompton.............................
by rich.hr6
8 May 2020, 3:16pm
Forum: Cycle Camping sub-forum
Topic: Tent for Brompton
Replies: 35
Views: 2835

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 and enjoy ourselves
by rich.hr6
24 Jan 2020, 4:52pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Two favourite poems.
Replies: 59
Views: 2128

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 ago.

'Daddy, if Elvis comes this way
Can we go and see him?'
'Elvis stays in Memphis now,
Blue carnations near him.'
'Sossidge is on again tonight.'
'That was Joyce Grenfell, eh?'
Was? Oh, Daddy, did she die?'
'Just the other day.'

This is immortality
Never dreamed of yet:
Life because a child sits by
A television set.
'Gary Cooper's good on horses.'
'That was his last ride.'
'Disney must be very rich.'
'Was, until he died.'

But the child who's sitting there
Starts to love each day
People who at natural breaks
Death will take away.
'John Wayne - Bogey - Errol Flynn -
Are they full of lead?'
'Darling, it wasn't quite like that -
But all of them are dead.'



Derwent May
by rich.hr6
30 Jun 2019, 3:51pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Pictures of your bike(s)
Replies: 1924
Views: 583890

Re: Pictures of your bike(s)

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" 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.
by rich.hr6
16 May 2019, 9:36am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Funniest clean joke I've heard recently
Replies: 1446
Views: 125041

Re: Funniest clean joke I've heard recently

" DAAADDDD.....I'm cold, "


Go and stand in the corner, it's ninety degrees.
by rich.hr6
19 Aug 2016, 12:03pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Not a good start to the day.
Replies: 4
Views: 483

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 way to Africa!?!
by rich.hr6
19 Jul 2016, 9:39pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Too Hot to Cycle
Replies: 32
Views: 1767

Re: Too Hot to Cycle

.....48 miles today. It was just like riding my bike round the airing cupboard!!!!
by rich.hr6
26 Jun 2016, 9:35am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: 2nd referendum?
Replies: 219
Views: 11008

Re: 2nd referendum?

Well we never took the old signs down in the first place, so back to normal round here !!
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by rich.hr6
16 Jun 2016, 2:14pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: Argos Racing Cycles (Bristol)
Replies: 14
Views: 2926

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.