RIDES 2017 — add yours here

[John Saxby]

Oh dear...  You did well to keep your powder dry, Matt, and not react.

[Andre Jute]

People like that, I take the view that he isn't surly because he's alone, but that he is alone because he's surly.

(Obligatory bicycle reference included above — twice.)

[John Saxby]

Obligatory bicycle reference included above — twice.

Surly you jest, Andre?

[Matt2matt2002]

People like that, I take the view that he isn't surly because he's alone, but that he is alone because he's surly.

(Obligatory bicycle reference included above — twice.)

People like that could Trek all over the Galaxy and never change.
😉

[Andre Jute]

 

[Danneaux]

Anto's rides on 25 and 27 October, 2017. Part 1...

Posted on his behalf. 

Best,

Dan.

[Danneaux]

Anto's rides on 25 and 27 October, 2017. Part 2...

Posted on his behalf.

Best,

Dan.

[jags]

Thank's Dan, that was a great days cycling loads hills one of my favourite routes .

anto.

[John Saxby]

Love the sun!  Here, it's cold, dark, wet and miserable -- standard November weather

[rualexander]

Local ride today out past Loudon Hill, scene of Robert the Bruce's first major military victory over English forces.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Loudoun_Hill

Two sundays in a row of sunshine and light winds!

[jags]

Very nice

[JimK]

I haven't been getting out much lately, but still, now and then... today I tried a new route - ouch! Some serious mountain biking terrain! I got off a lot to push! When I got home, rats, one of the nuts that holds the saddle frame to the spring on my Brooks Flyer was gone! I knew it was coming loose and had been finger tightening it - tricky to get a wrench up in there! Now the puzzle got a little more complicated!

[Andre Jute]

Rual took a detour via Ayer's Rock (Australian joke -- look at Rual's photo to get it).

Jim, careful not to force any nut you buy at the local hardware store onto your Brooks saddle threads. They ain't heard of metric yet, and it might not even be a standard current British thread, instead being Whitworth, very common until after the war.

Trivia: I won't have any trouble undoing the first series Rohloff sprocket because I still have a hew-huge Whitworth wrench I have left over from my Bentley days which is the precise equivalent of the metric Rohloff sprocket socket.

[JimK]

Thanks for that tip, Andre! I was thinking those threads could be mighty strange! I'm thinking this is the part: http://www.brooksengland.com/en_us/spare-parts/saddle-parts/9-32-nut-bmp-183.html but getting one here... ha, I actually have a spare saddle in reserve! But I don't think this bolt is very important - if I can just remember not to pick up the bike by the saddle!

[John Saxby]

Whitworth, very common until after the war

Jim, your local network of ageing Brit-bike restorers/riders will know the suppliers of
Whitworth-thread nuts & bolts.

If you get stuck, you could ask these guys for advice: http://www.britcycle.com/, or these: https://www.walridge.com/

Nice horizons you have there -- the big rocks poking up from the ground will ensure you can only watch the horizons when you have your feet on the ground

Cheers,  John