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Title: any craic lads.
Post by: jags on December 22, 2016, 07:15:54 PM
Well any craic with you lads  you all must have died and gone to heaven or hell  not a peep from anyone.
whats the plan for next year anything exciting in the planning ,Tours. new kit new bike  new woman or man on the cards ;)
anyone got any photos to share  bikes/ tents / cooking gear/
i just watched this vider and for the life of me i cant figure out how the hell did they manage to cycle from  france to spain on cycle path's .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fJ5oUY716g&t=557s

anyway folks whats the latest.

anto.
Title: Re: any craic lads.
Post by: Matt2matt2002 on December 22, 2016, 08:10:23 PM
Seasons greetings Jags.
Always good for banter and craic.

I have a question you or our others of our merry band may be able to answer.

In the run up to preparing for our Xmas dinner my butcher offer me 8 legs of venison for £50.

Do you think that's two deer?

Title: Re: any craic lads.
Post by: Danneaux on December 22, 2016, 08:16:23 PM
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Do you think that's two deer?
Yes and...yes.
 ;D ;D ;D

Thanks for another good one, Matt.

All the best,

Dan.
Title: Re: any craic lads.
Post by: martinf on December 22, 2016, 08:44:05 PM
i just watched this vider and for the life of me i cant figure out how the hell did they manage to cycle from  france to spain on cycle path's .
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Combining the cycle paths I used on the outward journey and those used on the way home I reckon I was on cycle paths for about a third of the distance from my home in South Brittany to the Spanish frontier.

I could have planned a route that used more cycle paths, but that wasn't a specific objective for me.

In particular, there is a good network of paths in the Landes region, from the Gironde estuary more or less all the way to the Basque country. And I could have got from my home to the Loire estuary uniquely on canal towpaths.
Title: Re: any craic lads.
Post by: jags on December 22, 2016, 08:49:45 PM
Seasons greetings Jags.
Always good for banter and craic.

I have a question you or our others of our merry band may be able to answer.

In the run up to preparing for our Xmas dinner my butcher offer me 8 legs of venison for £50.

Do you think that's two deer?
;D ;D
he seen you coming
have a great christmas Matt  stick to turkey.

anto
Title: Re: any craic lads.
Post by: Matt2matt2002 on December 22, 2016, 09:07:32 PM
I promise not to do any more......

It's not difficult to tell the difference between stoats and weasels.  One's weaselly recognised while the other is stoatally different.
Boom boom.
Title: Re: any craic lads.
Post by: jags on December 22, 2016, 09:24:42 PM
now i lay me down to sleep
with a bottle vodka at my feet
if i die before i wake,
please tell them i drank it straight .

corny ould joke  ;D ;D
Title: Re: any craic lads.
Post by: John Saxby on December 23, 2016, 05:12:47 PM
This is all getting too much.  Here's a joke from a few years back, from--of all places--our hockey dressing room.  I disclaim responsibility--'twas Matt's reference to venison which unearthed this:

So, what you have when you have fifty male deer and fifty female pigs?

A hundred sows and bucks.

Next big cycling opportunity will be in Feb/March, if you can imagine:  We are spending 2 months with our son and his family in Australia's Gold Coast.  I'm going to take my derailleur bike (it's a little lighter than my Raven) and do some day rides in the Queensland/New South Wales border country.

Have attached some photos of the countryside, two taken on a squally/rainy but beautiful day (it does rain, so you can use mudguards). There are some serious grades, as the roads cross the remains of a huge and ancient volcano (from some 24 million years back, safely extinct, so far as we know), but on the secondary roads, there's not a lot of traffic. Stories and photos to come, I hope.
Title: Re: any craic lads.
Post by: jags on December 23, 2016, 05:53:22 PM
looks like tough cycling country so different that my part of the world all good tho. ;)