Oh, what a beautiful moooorrrrning

Oh what a beautiful day!

home and collapsing in the chair.

Done my normal short route out by Epping Forest and then headed across North London and dropped down
into the city. Had a mooch around Evans bike shop at Waterloo Cut and then crossed the Thames and
had lunch and coffee sitting outside a cafe in Covent Garden watching the world go by.

Roll on Summer, now I've had a taste of it I want more!

Hope everyone's day was as pleasant as mine.

--
Mark
______________________________________

"Just ask yourself: What would Scooby Doo?"

 

I did 25 miles towards Garforth and back home through Leeds, was going OK until the final A62 climb
to Morley !! Another month or so and I'll be over the Pennines again. Great day for it though, wish
I was fitter !!

"MSA" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> Oh what a beautiful day!
>

> home and collapsing in the chair.
>
> Done my normal short route out by Epping Forest and then headed across
North
> London and dropped down into the city. Had a mooch around Evans bike shop at Waterloo Cut and then
> crossed the Thames and had lunch and coffee
sitting
> outside a cafe in Covent Garden watching the world go by.
>
> Roll on Summer, now I've had a taste of it I want more!
>
>
> Hope everyone's day was as pleasant as mine.
>
>
>
> --
> Mark
> ______________________________________
>
> "Just ask yourself: What would Scooby Doo?"

 

MSA wrote:
> Oh what a beautiful day!

And a warm one. First day in shorts for me.

> arriving home and collapsing in the chair.

Bloody hell! 30 miles was enough for me.

~PB

 

M Series wrote:

> I did 25 miles towards Garforth and back home through Leeds, was going OK until the final A62
> climb to Morley !! Another month or so and I'll be over the Pennines again. Great day for it
> though, wish I was fitter !!
>
> "MSA" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> > Oh what a beautiful day!

Superb. Took my 8-year old daughter out for her first 'long' solo ride (previously she has always
been on the tandem trike). She never walked one hill, spinning her little legs. Tea and cake stop
was at Popham Airfield while watching the planes, then wind assisted home.

Nearly 30 miles covered - and she's now gone out to ride around the park to practice better gear
changing. She's one that'll need watching.

John B

 

Pete Biggs <pLime{remove_fruit}@biggs.tc> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> MSA wrote:
> > Oh what a beautiful day!
>

> And a warm one. First day in shorts for me.

Ditto. Looked a bit white on their first airing of 2003!

--
Mark
______________________________________

"Just ask yourself: What would Scooby Doo?"

 

MSA wrote:

> Pete Biggs <pLime{remove_fruit}@biggs.tc> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > MSA wrote:
> > > Oh what a beautiful day!
> >
>
> > And a warm one. First day in shorts for me.
>
> Ditto. Looked a bit white on their first airing of 2003!
>
> --
> Mark

White shorts, Yuk.

Where do you wipe your hands after fixing the chain?

John B

 

John B <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> MSA wrote:
>
> > Pete Biggs <pLime{remove_fruit}@biggs.tc> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > > MSA wrote:
> > > > Oh what a beautiful day!
> > >
> >
> > > And a warm one. First day in shorts for me.
> >
> > Ditto. Looked a bit white on their first airing of 2003!
> >
> > --
> > Mark
>
> White shorts, Yuk.
>
> Where do you wipe your hands after fixing the chain?
>
> John B
>

Black Condor shorts, white(ish) LEGS!

--
Mark
____________________________
Practice does not make perfect... Perfect practice makes perfect

 

Well, the Unfit Family Simmons have had a cycling day too. This morning all three of us acted as
marshals on a 4-up time trial. Then this afternoon spent the time out on our own bikes cycling round
the lanes of deepest rural Norfolk
- to Castle Acre & back. Very civilised. It was a perfect day for cycling.

Cheers, helen s

~~~~~~~~~~
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Any speeliong mistake$ aR the resiult of my cats sitting on the keyboaRRRDdd
~~~~~~~~~~

 

I wore my shorts Saturday & today. It was a bit chilly Sat. Bit of an impressionist me, I can do a
mean one of two full milk bottles at the moment!

A few more days in shorts should cure that though.

Niv.

"MSA" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>
> John B <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> > MSA wrote:
> >
> > > Pete Biggs <pLime{remove_fruit}@biggs.tc> wrote in message
> > > news:[email protected]...
> > > > MSA wrote:
> > > > > Oh what a beautiful day!
> > > >
> > >
> > > > And a warm one. First day in shorts for me.
> > >
> > > Ditto. Looked a bit white on their first airing of 2003!
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mark
> >
> > White shorts, Yuk.
> >
> > Where do you wipe your hands after fixing the chain?
> >
> > John B
> >
>
>
>
> Black Condor shorts, white(ish) LEGS!
>
>
> --
> Mark
> ____________________________
> Practice does not make perfect... Perfect practice makes perfect
>

 

<snip>
> Roll on Summer, now I've had a taste of it I want more!
>
Yer damn right..

>
> Hope everyone's day was as pleasant as mine.
>
Very nice, not quite long enough in the saddle.

I actually went out late afternoon which on balance was better, fewer cars around.

--
Andrew

"Look laddie, if you're in the penalty area and aren't quite sure what to do with the ball, just
stick it in the net and we'll discuss all your options afterwards."

>
>
> --
> Mark
> ______________________________________
>
> "Just ask yourself: What would Scooby Doo?"

 

"MSA" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> Oh what a beautiful day!

Good for any time of year, but March!

> home and collapsing in the chair.

Was spoilt for choice, sun + no wind normally = long road ride but seeing as the local trails are
unseasonally dry I went mtb'ing for 4.5 hours.

About halfway round sat next to trig point scoffing malt loaf and enjoying the view, limited but not
unspoilt by the mist.

The only clues to it not being mid summer was the lack of foliage and the pair of white candlesticks
masquerading as legs emerging from my shorts ;-)

Pete

 

In article <[email protected]>, one of infinite monkeys at the keyboard of
"Pete Biggs" <pLime{remove_fruit}@biggs.tc> wrote:
> MSA wrote:
>> Oh what a beautiful day!
>
> And a warm one. First day in shorts for me.

Grrr ... my first day out in shorts was a Tescos trip last week, and it got me a thorn/puncture on
the way home:-(

--
Saturday: "the west" publishes pictures of Iraqi POWs. Sunday: Iraq publishes pictures of american
POWS; Rumsfeld cries foul.

 

"Pete Biggs" <pLime{remove_fruit}@biggs.tc> wrote in message
news:<[email protected]>...

> And a warm one. First day in shorts for me.

Me too, but I was keeping SWMBO company plodding round (the shorter version of) the Kingston
Breakfast Run rather than cycling. First commute of the year in shorts this morning, however. Time
to get rid of the leg hair again.

--
Dave...

 

Such a beautiful morning, I managed to get DH out of bed to go for a morning ride instead of our
usual afternoon one. Planned route went a bit haywire when a bridle path I was planning on using had
been covered by a new industrial estate - but the path is going back in when the estate is finished.
Ended up getting mildly lost in endless housing estates in Wythenshawe, instead of a nice country
ride around Styal. 17 miles in about 2 hours felt like a real bike ride, the first of the year.
Might not sound much to some inhabitants of this news group, but for a veryfatoverfortybirdonabike
who couldn't do 17 miles in an entire week at the beginning of February, I'm pleased.

The sunshine continued all day. Round about 4pm I got this 'it's Sunday afternoon and it's sunny so
I should be out on my bike feeling' and nearly went out again. However my Monday morning aches
suggest that not going was a wise decision.
--
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and
trying to put things in it. Terry Pratchett Steph Peters delete invalid from
[email protected] Tatting, lace & stitching page
<http://www.sandbenders.demon.co.uk/index.htm

 

John B wrote:

> Nearly 30 miles covered - and she's now gone out to ride around the park to practice better gear
> changing. She's one that'll need watching.

Wow! I doubt my 19 year old sister could manage 30 miles!



--

-Alex

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Steph Peters <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

17 miles in about
> 2 hours felt like a real bike ride, the first of the year. Might not
sound
> much to some inhabitants of this news group,

It doesn't matter Steph, you were enjoying yourself, full stop. Well done!

--
Mark
____________________________
Practice does not make perfect... Perfect practice makes perfect

 

>Might not sound much to some inhabitants of this news group, but for a veryfatoverfortybirdonabike
>who couldn't do 17 miles in an entire week at the beginning of February, I'm pleased.

You and I must be related! I too am a fatbirdonabike who is over forty! We should start a
fatbirdoverfortyonabikeclub - FBOFOBC

The key thing is to cycle and *enjoy* it - that way we keep cycling

Cheers, helen s

~~~~~~~~~~
Flush out that intestinal parasite and/or the waste product before sending a reply!

Any speeliong mistake$ aR the resiult of my cats sitting on the keyboaRRRDdd
~~~~~~~~~~

 

wafflycathcsdirtycatlitter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> You and I must be related! I too am a fatbirdonabike who is over forty! We should start a
> fatbirdoverfortyonabikeclub - FBOFOBC
>

the fatboringoldfartonabikeclub which welcomes all genders ;-)

Tony

--
http://www.raven-family.com

"I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them
their job."

Samuel Goldwyn

 

[email protected] (wafflycathcsdirtycatlitter) of AOL, http://www.aol.co.uk wrote:

>>the fatboringoldfartonabikeclub which welcomes all genders ;-)
>>
>>Tony
>
>We may be fat, we may be over forty, we we fatbirdsoverfortyonabike are *never* boring.
No we aren't - see the 'Horse Ate My Saddle' thread for the 'parrot ate mine' incident. I'm paid
to be boring - I'm an accountant turned software engineer - so I'm resolutely interesting when not
at work ;-)
--
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and
trying to put things in it. Terry Pratchett Steph Peters delete invalid from
[email protected] Tatting, lace & stitching page
<http://www.sandbenders.demon.co.uk/index.htm