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John Saxby

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Re: happy new year
« Reply #15 on: December 31, 2013, 08:52:50 pm »
Good for your doc, Andre, and for your bike.  And especially for you!!  Viva!!

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Re: happy new year
« Reply #16 on: December 31, 2013, 09:11:09 pm »
Happy New Year Everyone!

And thanks for all the help.

Chris

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Re: happy new year
« Reply #17 on: December 31, 2013, 11:09:16 pm »
Happy New Year to everyone!

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Re: happy new year
« Reply #18 on: December 31, 2013, 11:55:54 pm »
Happy New Year, everyone!

It's 2014 already here in Oz, but it's 15 minutes to go in the UK and Ireland, and Dan's much further behind!  ;) (Hey Dan, for a small fee, I can tell you who won the Superbowl before it's played  ;D)

We watched the fireworks from a friend's pad on Sydney Harbour last night - spectacular once again! The head's a bit thick this morning, but a greasy breakfast should sort that out.

My friends, wherever you are in the world, may you have a happy, healthy and safe 2014!

Mr and Mrs Slammin!

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Re: happy new year
« Reply #19 on: January 01, 2014, 12:15:55 am »
Happy & Healthy New Year everyone!

The fireworks in London  ….wow brilliant.

All the best

Steve

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Re: happy new year
« Reply #20 on: January 01, 2014, 12:27:45 am »
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(Hey Dan, for a small fee, I can tell you who won the Superbowl before it's played)
This I like, Sam! I'll use the knowledge to place a big, winning bet and then split the proceeds with you evenly.

 :D

All the best,

Dan. (...who thinks this may be the next best thing to a Time Machine)

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Re: happy new year
« Reply #21 on: January 01, 2014, 02:39:59 am »
Hi All,
Why are you all so Slow? It's 2014 and i'm off for a ride again....  :o

Pete  ;D

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Re: happy new year
« Reply #22 on: January 01, 2014, 02:41:17 am »
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Why are you all so Slow? It's 2014 and i'm off for a ride again....
Still 5 hours and 20 minutes to go out here...  ???

 ;)

All the best,

Dan.

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Re: happy new year
« Reply #23 on: January 01, 2014, 02:53:39 am »
Hi Dan!
It will be dark by then and bed time to see in the 2nd day of 2014!

You need to adjust your clocks?

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Re: happy new year
« Reply #24 on: January 01, 2014, 05:08:06 am »
Hi Dan!
You need to adjust your clocks?

LOL!

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Re: happy new year
« Reply #25 on: January 01, 2014, 06:38:54 pm »
Happy New Year and safe riding to all!
Steve - looking forward to seeing some pics of the new n+1 at some point.
Gareth

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Re: happy new year
« Reply #26 on: January 02, 2014, 03:11:45 am »
Back in Texas and a little late getting on (9pm central 01-01=14).  Got a feeling it is going to be a great year.  Not one wreck seen between Picher Creek, AB, Idaho Falls, ID, and here (Childress, TX).  That is over New Years Eve and Day!

Dan I am with you, how did we get to be last?  I smell a conspiracy!  Actually, I am two hours ahead of you, so I guess you are last.  ;D

Andre, I hope that bike lives forever.  Are you sure the virtual friends didn't appear after the champagne was consumed?

Poor Pete, down up there frying his brains out on the day after!

Jags, thanks for the thread.

Wish everyone the best year ever!


Tom

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Re: happy new year
« Reply #27 on: January 02, 2014, 12:58:32 pm »
And I hope I'm not too late to add my New Year greetings for everyone.

Yesterday being New Years Day I had a cycle ride which was, sort of, symbolic.  I have already booked in for an endurance ride in June and this year I'm concentrating more on cycling (instead of running), so I thought it was a great way of starting the New Year off. 

Complete with a sniffy and runny nose I set off for a short 7.5 miles bike ride.  Talk about raining cats & dogs!  The first leg of the ride was into the wind and I can tell you it was horizontal rain, stinging my face.  I was leaning forward, as if I were racing and I'm sure if I'd slowed down I would have instantly stopped and get blown back home straight away.  Cars splashed through puddles and it was almost as if someone was standing throwing buckets of water at me - BUT I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT! 

I went on to climb a couple of hundred feet and then out on to an escarpment where the wind was behind me.  I cruised along a level stretch of road, probably for about half a mile and without hardly any effort maintained 35mph before going even faster on a downhill swoop towards our home.

That was fun!  I was grinning ear to ear when I got home.  Although only a short ride it was enough to feel so very much alive and as it I'd had a decent ride and a brilliant way to start the New Year.

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Re: happy new year
« Reply #28 on: January 02, 2014, 03:04:19 pm »
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And I hope I'm not too late to add my New Year greetings for everyone.
Not at all, Doug!
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Complete with a sniffy and runny nose I set off...
'Hope those are better t'day.
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...if I'd slowed down I would have instantly stopped and get blown back home straight away.  Cars splashed through puddles and it was almost as if someone was standing throwing buckets of water at me - BUT I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!
Yay! Proof-positive, the best tool in the kit is a good attitude. Such conditions are what one makes of them.
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...grinning ear to ear when I got home.  Although only a short ride it was enough to feel so very much alive...
Yeah! Wonderful start to the New Year, Doug, good on ya!

(Glad you made it home safe and sound, Tom)
(Agreed with Gareth on pics and more pics!)

Best,

Dan.

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Re: happy new year
« Reply #29 on: January 02, 2014, 11:39:49 pm »
Andre, I hope that bike lives forever. 

Last year was the first time that I didn't make a shortlist of bikes and spend some time considering which I should treat myself to. The reason is that in the last five or six years, my shortlist was the same three bikes each year, one of which I already have but just in a different color, which tells you how desperate I was becoming.

The truth is, I have the best bike for my purposes; it was excellent to start with, and now I've further developed it to a most pleasing state of refinement and utility, with very little left that I can do (perhaps a new seat post, because the Brooks saddle clip is such rubbish), so I'm getting a bit bored. Idle hands, my granny used to say, are the devil's ear cushion. (Don't ask me, I'm just telling you what she said.)

So I stopped wasting time evaluating bikes in detail to arrive at the same old shortlist.

A positive view on this is that I already own the best bike I have ever owned or will ever own, and should concentrate on riding it.