looking at xcweather, i'm anticipating a 10am start
left hand is brutal.. but shirley i'd be crying if it was proper broken
you ate outside after killing a pheasant ?
best leave game hanging for a day or two beforehand
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Commuting
The "I had a lovely ride today, thankyou" thread
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hand looks like a bunch of sausages
i'm taking up walking til i work out how to brake with two fingers in a splint
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@bax San, ouch, that sounds bad, not even skipping will be possible
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frankly gembo i was thinking of chucking the cycling biz anyway
gonna sign up for living streets upcoming turf war against pavement parking instead
if i apply myself diligently, i could rise swiftly up the ranks and become David Hunter's right hand man
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@bax David Hunter was Meg Mortimer (Richardson’s) right hand man according to Richard Jobson
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bonus.. that would make me third in line to manage the crossroads motel.. night shift, probably
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Night shift, Sundays with no staff except maybe Benny and Shuggy McPhee on the sauce.
Trivia - which war film does Shuggy feature in?
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many possibilities.. hmm.. wasn't John Wark in The Great Escape ? so it wouldn't be that one..
i'm going for The Dirty Dozen..
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@bax San, I am giving you a McGuffin. John Wark was in Escape to Victory one of the funniest war films ever for many of the wrong reasons.
You could always google Angus Lennie?
Or I could tell you he played Flying Officer Archibald Ives? ANd had a peculiar form of madness which led to him hearing imaginary bagpipes?
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googling would be cheating.. was it Colditz ?
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Highlander?
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@Bax he could have been in Colditz actually
Highlander does have Nazis well guessed @ IWrats
But I think I shall give some further clues though tricky not to give too obvious oneS
Good luck
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was it The Ninth Configuration ?
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@bax it was indeed the Ninth Configuration (of your original answer)
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This is so easy, come on.
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Highlander II: The Quickening?
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@cyclingmollie they know the answer they are just messin
Today on day off we were supposed to be heading to Innerleithen, some world wide game of sardines that some financial people I know were involved in but as there was a need to go to D Mains first I BROKE THE habit of a lifetime and asked for route change on the road. Worked well - D Mains to Bridge, west side cycle lane then up Lovers Lane to the West Fife Railway path. We overshot Longannet to Clackmannan looking nice in the sunshine. Then descended to flood plain and over Kincardine bridge for coffee at the Kelpies then tacked back through West Lothian with tailwind assist. Ended on the Ravelrig Brae which was steep but easier today than 50 miles round Pentlands in wind on saturday
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back on the bike at last
gammy fingers strapped and taped
40km in the big 53t ring (can't shift back up)
indurain grimace throughout
MAGIC
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@bax, good effort. Do you have Big Mig’s lungs or access to drugs?
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Went round Arthur's Seat and over Braid Hill on @gembo's winter bike to get a feel for the thing, set the seat and the bars and all that.
They go fast, road bikes. Good fun. Got into a bit of a rhythm and even climbed Braid Road en danseuse. Hit the giddy heights of 27mph at the stables speed trap on Liberton Drive despite the sketchy surface. That's quick for me but of course only 2mph over the average speed of Tour de France winners.
When I got home I was bouncing the bike on its front wheel to see if the head bearings needed tightened and a guy on a bamboo bike stopped to ask if I 'had a mechanical'. That a roadie thing?
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Yes mechanical is a roadie term
I went up west kip on the Glen Tilt bike this morning. Descent was fast
We then walked the Poet’s Glen, Mount Parnassus, clubbiedean, then Up Torphin hill with fab view down Torduff Reservoir, Castle, Arthur’s Seat , island in the Forth,
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Only a matter of time til les flics are rooting through my bathroom cabinet....
https://road.cc/content/news/nairo-quintanas-tdf-hotel-room-raided-police-277411
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That is a bit like when willie Johnson was sent home from 1978 World Cup for taking performance enhancing drugs which did not enhance his performance.
If Nairo is blood doping and falling out the back. What are the rest of them doing?
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I expect he's been dobbed in as a lightning rod to cover for the fast boys?
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Definitely a bad batch for the Colombians this year, Lopez & Uran apart
Need some of the Slovenian secret sauce*
*efficacy may vary wildly on Saturdays
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At one point the Colombians were 3rd 4th 5th and 6th. They all fell out the back. Ran out of smarties?
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the investigation concerned "a very limited number of riders and their close relatives who are not employed by the team".
Even I have a dodgy cousin after all. What can you do?
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Very limited number. Quintana brothers?
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I had a glorious ride at the weekend. Through the Moorfoots to Inners, over to the Gordon Arms then over Berrybush to the Ettrick valley. I follow the Ettrick valley past the village to the end of the tarmac. What a lovely road. Had a good chat with the owner of a house beyond the end of the road.
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@amir, sounds great, might have been a headwind back if you went out Saturday?
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