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    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    Nothing to report, haven't spent a nights money on a beer or been thrown out of a stranglers concert for being grumpy 😂 Here's Hully Gully at Gisbern Video tip, reduce framerate to 24 to get motion blur Its actually just masochism this mountain bike malarkey Got my kneepads under my jeans...
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    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    So Stefan what was the weather like and did you take A457 or the queens bypass, because its very busy before 10am, except on Fridays when the local school only opens in the afternoon, the headmaster in my neighbours cousin, hes got a dog with three legs. Anyway to cut a long story short, I...
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    Going to upgrade my rig for crossing Rocky mts on paved roads--would you comment plz?

    I'd stick with the bbso2, its more than enough with it being mid drive, have you tested it on harsher terrain because geartrain issues expose themselves quite quickly when you need them the least.
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    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    Ramping up the effort to stay with friends on the trails is completely exhausting. Its exercise Ive needed, but holy smokes, I'm walking around like a 90yr old, got back at 1pm, woke up still in all my gear on the couch five hours later
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    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    Ugandan vanilla beans, used by local witch doctors to entrap adventurers with their mystical mind bending effects, leaving them powerless to resist as they empty them of their purse .
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    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    Insult? they might as well slapped you in the face, maybe you come across sophisticated
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    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    Ooh, its been used twice, Oxford dictionary next 😂
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    Just for fun...

    I used to be confused by Polish, now after this short tutorial I'm completely Bamboozled.
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    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    Did a ride yesterday, Morecambe to Arnside while trying to keep on the actual 'beach' paths as much as possible. Those mountains are the Lake Disctrict Eric Morecambe was an iconic entertainer with his semi straight man Ernie Wise, they owned british TV for a decade in the 70s and somehow got...
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    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    I don't know where you got that milk from, all the real stuff has a teabag in it.
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    Just for fun...

    I'll give EVs a pass on brake dust as well, though not eliminating it, most of their braking is regen, which is a double win.
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    Just for fun...

    Im not having ago at EVs, but many environmentalists point this out. The problems with cars is vastly more than co2.
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    Just for fun...

    My Grandson is learning Spanish at Nursery, but just cant even say the easy 'Sorry' phrase. Thats poor for four isnt it
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    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    Lovely summers day ride, 60 miles is too much for me, but nothing spells freedom more than a trip like that to such a beautiful area, we are all spoiled on here. I'd rather do that one day than a week on the beach in the Maldives
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    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    Get to bed rosy cheeks.
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    brake pad material

    What do you bind them with, Id feel happier making my own if that sat in a shaped holder so they couldnt suddenly start spinning around with the disc, whack you in the eyes and then youre blind with no brakes.
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    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    I was referring to visiting the places on the stickers, but I found gold panning next to impossible, the guys pointing at specks and Im like.. The gold coloured specs that arent gold or the gold coloured specs that are gold.
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    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    They only appear if you have a true heart.
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    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    OK, you Cold Americans. Anyone done this? 1997, we just found the gold pan from Chicken Alaska.
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