Any body know of any funny named villages, appropriate for cycling? I have just seen a place called UFFINGTON. Sounds like my breathing when winching up a steep hill.
Wimblington - a place where cyclists go so slowly they get lost.
Knossington - When cyclists clear their nose, over the shoulder style.
Stanton Long - A tandem manufacturer.
Pumpsaint - Someone who rescues you after puncuring both spare inners.
-- Two cannibals eating a clown. One says to the other, "Does this taste funny to you?" To reply replace the obvious bit with "richard"
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Any body know of any funny named villages, appropriate for cycling? I have just seen a place called UFFINGTON. Sounds like my breathing when winching up a steep hill.
I've been there, it's got a big white horse on the hill.
We've got a village up the road called SKIDBY. Then there's WALKINGTON when you have to walk a century when you've a flat. WAWNE is the village where your bearings give up. If you manage your century then you've DUNSWELL. If your offspring manage a century - BAINTON (local idiom) After running over a rock, you're glad your RIMSWELL.
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Any body know of any funny named villages, appropriate for cycling? I have just seen a place called UFFINGTON. Sounds like my breathing when winching up a steep hill.
Up here there is No Place for when you're lost, Pity Me for sorting out double punctures in the rain, and Wallish Walls which you discover they are if you hit them. Wide Open offers some good riding.
Any body know of any funny named villages, appropriate for cycling? I have just seen a place called UFFINGTON. Sounds like my breathing when winching up a steep hill.
Wimblington - a place where cyclists go so slowly they get lost.
Knossington - When cyclists clear their nose, over the shoulder style.
Stanton Long - A tandem manufacturer.
Pumpsaint - Someone who rescues you after puncuring both spare inners.
From Douglas Adams and John Lloyd's book "The Meaning of Liff":
WORMELOW TUMP (n.)
Any seventeen-year-old who doesn't know about anything at all in the world other than bicycle gears.
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Pumpsaint - Someone who rescues you after puncuring both spare inners.
But pronouced correctly, it's a lot weirder: imagine St. Christopher driving a 70's cadillac convertible with furry dice and seatcovers, hanging his arm out the window, shouting "hey girl! get yo ass over here"...
OK, its friday, and I've been working and cycling too hard. God I need a beer!
Any body know of any funny named villages, appropriate for cycling? I have just seen a place called UFFINGTON. Sounds like my breathing when winching up a steep hill.
OS 1:50,000 series (map 186) SU 928 497 gives Christmaspie.
Christmaspie (it is all one word) is a small part of a village called Flexford (Surrey). Flexford lies roughly half way between the A31(Hog's Back - Guildford to Farnham) and the A323 (Guildford to Aldershot).
Maybe Christmaspie isn't exactly cycling related but would you sniff your nose at it if you were bonking on Boxing Day?
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Any body know of any funny named villages, appropriate for cycling?
Amazed nobody's mentioned Ryde yet :-)
And anybody who's used a Sustrans path near a river will be familiar with Clatterbridge
Mr Beloki is more familiar with Wheelock though.
Those who ride Trices with Mountain Drives are probably looking for Ringmore, but David Millar is maybe more familiar with Ring of Brodger (sounds like bodger, anyway).
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Richard Bates said:
Any body know of any funny named villages, appropriate for cycling? I have just seen a place called UFFINGTON. Sounds like my breathing when winching up a steep hill.
Wimblington - a place where cyclists go so slowly they get lost.
Knossington - When cyclists clear their nose, over the shoulder style.
Stanton Long - A tandem manufacturer.
Pumpsaint - Someone who rescues you after puncuring both spare inners.
From Douglas Adams and John Lloyd's book "The Meaning of Liff":
WORMELOW TUMP (n.)
Any seventeen-year-old who doesn't know about anything at all in the world other than bicycle gears.
OT but another couple from that excellent book which I recently re-found in an Oxfam shop: Wroot; a short berk who gives you the impression that by looking at you in a contemplative way and pulling on his pipe he is 6 foot tall and infinitely wise. Low Eggburgh; a quiet unregarded man who is actually building an atomic bomb in his garden shed.
Wroot; a short berk who gives you the impression that by looking at you in a contemplative way and pulling on his pipe he is 6 foot tall and infinitely wise. Low Eggburgh; a quiet unregarded man who is actually building an atomic bomb in his garden shed.
Clonmult, Sadberge & Buldoo remind me of Audax controls. I lent my copy of 'The Meaning of Liff' to friend...
OT but another couple from that excellent book which I recently re-found in an Oxfam shop:
Determinedly trying to get back on topic while staying with the same book:
BROMPTON
A bromton is that which is said to have been committed when you are convinced you are about to blow off with a resounding trumpeting noise in a public place and all that acually slips out is a tiny 'pfpt'.
And wishing for the cycle paths to be cleaned with a:
VANCOUVER (n.)
The technical name for one of those huge trucks with whirling brushes on the bottom used to clean streets.
Beware of this book - you can end up incomprehensible, even to your friends (or just get them a copy).
OT but another couple from that excellent book which I recently re-found in an Oxfam shop:
Determinedly trying to get back on topic while staying with the same book:
BROMPTON
A bromton is that which is said to have been committed when you are convinced you are about to blow off with a resounding trumpeting noise in a public place and all that acually slips out is a tiny 'pfpt'.
And wishing for the cycle paths to be cleaned with a:
VANCOUVER (n.)
The technical name for one of those huge trucks with whirling brushes on the bottom used to clean streets.
Beware of this book - you can end up incomprehensible, even to your friends (or just get them a copy).
The one I use most, usually when cycling on cold days is:
LONGNIDDRIE (n.)
The drip that hangs from the nose.
IIRC. -- Mark Road bike, Mountain bike and I'm getting something special built for me (I hope it will arrive soon).
