http://www.executivestyle.com.au/why-quaxing-is-trending-globally-with-cyclists-ggzobh
No, I'd never heard of it either. Not sure if it includes washing machines.
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Quaxing
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Posted 8 years ago #
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Warning, can wear out your panniers
Posted 8 years ago # -
Fun article, although I feel the editor ruined the theme somewhat by placing it in the 'Fitness' section of the magazine?
Posted 8 years ago # -
From link -
Posted 8 years ago # -
aah - Dick Quax was a pl0nker when I lived in New Zealand - ACT is like UKIP lite. Glad to see that things haven't changed.
Very handy runner though.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Ah, I was wondering if this would make it onto CCE. It's been doing the rounds of soshul meedja lately...
Problem with the term is, does't mean anything beyond the Oz context. Will weird out any 'norms' (i.e.. drivists) if they come across it...
Posted 8 years ago # -
Dick Quax died last week, thankfully this article remembered him mainly for his running rather than his politics
Posted 5 years ago # -
Fortunately, the route from woodyard to house is almost all bike path. Noticeably heavier than bamboo of similar length; small, corrective steering motions were impossible, so I stopped every time someone was coming towards me.
Posted 5 years ago # -
Been a guy twice this week with same wood jutting out his rear. First day thought he was doing the Wingpig thing, second day same thing so now I dunno, I dunno
Posted 5 years ago # -
Off to Corstorphine for a final plant care session. May attempt to bring a plastic garden chair back on mountain bike rack. We shall see...
Posted 5 years ago # -
Are quaxing and the Scottish term of 'getting the messages' similar? I recall doing a lot of 'messages getting in' as a child by bike/foot mainly and sometimes bus (but only if it was wet/cold) because we didn't own a car. Does anyone still 'go for the messages'?
Posted 5 years ago # -
Yes but no. Quaxing typically involves the transporting of items by bike with a tendency towards the improbable, just to prove it is possible. But that improbability can cover many factors, such as size and weight, or indeed the weather.
Since it was popularised on the internet, many people undertook to prove Dick Quax wrong, and so the examples became more outlandish, a bit like extreme ironing.
"It's -50 out there and the wind is blowing to 200mph. Just nipped to the shops." kind of thing. I think people have softened somewhat since then.
Posted 5 years ago # -
In my never actually performed Weimar Republic musical (well we only had two songs but one of them was quite good) called Cafe:Society one of the characters (waiter) was stuck in the cafe (a sort of purgatory where you worked until your punishment was determined) and was alleged to have mental health issues. His lines were I keep getting sent these messages. Therapist character - What are these messages? Waiter - Two pun o'mince and a plain loaf.
Niche I know but not dissimilar to a Cecil Taylor play that had singing Nazis and of course The Producers. Think my version was the only one with a pantomime horse.
Posted 5 years ago # -
Ah - I see. Sort of.
In that case, I may have quaxed in the past. However, the onset of middle age and increased caution and no longer possessing a functioning pannier rack has diminished my 'quax appeal'.
Posted 5 years ago # -
Does anyone still 'go for the messages'?
All the time. I'd starve otherwise.
Posted 5 years ago # -
Surely not while woodpigeons come within range?
Posted 5 years ago # -
Capture and eat some, then use the threat of consumption to persuade the others to fetch you berries and vegetables.
Posted 5 years ago # -
For a moment there I thought you meant he should threaten to eat other people. Not sure you can get a licence for that.
Posted 5 years ago # -
You seem to have me down as some sort of madman. I'm not threatening pigeons for food, not now not ever.
Posted 5 years ago # -
Coming up The Meldons the Uddingston Pigeon Racers were about to release The Doos. Their pigeon lorry sponsored by Tunnocks given that Uddingston is where more than five million caramel wafers are made and sold each week.
No hellos from the race men.
That Meldons road is well used by the camper van fraternity. Thought one of them was being friendlier but was probably just trying to wave away the midges.
There is also a bend in the river at Dunsyre that often has tents pitched. Nice spot.
Posted 5 years ago # -
I still get the messages. My kids like to pretend they don't know what I mean.
I once escorted @crowriver from my house to his allotment with a 7 foot bay tree in a trailer attached to his bicycle.
Posted 5 years ago # -
I followed someone down Leith St this evening, who had tucked mirrored glass under his arm.
said glass had no frame, no wrapper, no paper, and was about 3ft square...
he went through the roundabout and down Leith Walk. and people say it's not a good cycle route...Posted 5 years ago # -
I'm having a clear-out/tidy up at home so I have bought a number of plastic storage boxes to keep my various things in. There are 6 of the boxes (35L Really Useful XL) and a mattress topper strapped to my Carry Freedom ready to take them all home from work.
Consternation is expected from the burghers of South Edinburgh as they drive home and see me...
Posted 4 years ago #
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