Picture(s) of the day....

[Michel]

Don't know how up to date those records are but 51.28mph on a Moulton AM7 in 1986 still standing unsurpassed today? Wonder what Jim Glover had for breakfast that day

Regards Neil

Cocaine and red wine if the standards of 70s and 80s cycling were being upheld..

[CitroJim]

I can't live without ticking clocks... It's been an constant in my life since the very day I was born...

I love sitting in your living room Jim, listening to all the ticking. It's very relaxing!

Funny thing is Mike, I don't notice the ticking and striking conciously but if one of them is stopped I know immediately...

I'm listening to them now and of the four clocks in the room I can pick out every one of them by their distinct tick signature...

[Hell Razor5543]

You might like Jeremy Clockson from the Terry Pratchett book "Thief of Time" then, Jim. He was a clockmaker, and his clocks were very accurate (he was somewhat obsessive about time; there was a little bit of trouble at the Clockmakers' Guild, as Williamson kept his clock 5 minutes fast, but Jeremy is now taking his medicine). Jeremy had one timepiece that went off just before the hour; this was so that he could warn any customers to cover their ears. On the hour all of his clocks rang the hour in their own peculiar ways; "cuckoos cuckooed, the hour pins fell out of the candle clocks, the water clocks gurgled and see-sawed as the buckets emptied, bells clanged, gongs banged, chimes tinkled, and the Hershebian lawyer beetle turned a summersault."

Jeremy could build clocks with an accuracy better than one second in eleven months, which was better than any other clockmaker in the city.

[myglaren]

Have you seen this Jim? - absolutely fascinating:

[NewcastleFalcon]

Bike shop just round the corner from Steampunk Coffee Roasters in North Berwick.

Not 45mph downhill machines but maybe 10mph on the beach or in snow!

Regards Neil

[CitroJim]

Not 45mph downhill machines but maybe 10mph on the beach or in snow!

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Regards Neil

They're not bikes

Hard to ride and likely to put any potential cyclist off for life... It saddens me when I see people struggling along on cheap, heavy, over-tyred bikes totally unsuitable for anything... I know their riders will end up hating them and giving up what is a great means of transport and a fantastic means of keeping fit...

Such a shame...

[NewcastleFalcon]

They're not bikes

I feel a Rene Magritte homage may be necessary then Jim

The Treachery of images N Falcon homage to R.Magritte

Regards Neil

[Hell Razor5543]

OK, they are not road bikes, but they are good for off road cycling where the ground is less firm than ideal!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Anyone remember "All Creatures Great and Small"

Langthwaite, Arkengarthdale...from the opening credits

N Falcon Own Work

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Nearly a week without a picture shouldn't be allowed...

Anyone got owt

Regards Neil

[bobins]

Stedham church, local to here, with a rather unusual narrow road in a cutting passing through the graveyard.

Stedham Church - own work

[NewcastleFalcon]

Stedham church, local to here, with a rather unusual narrow road in a cutting passing through the graveyard.

Like it Black-face clock with a nice horizontal quarter to three at the exact moment of the photograph.


This is a nice image of Iping Church Stedham's partner in crime



You would have to creep about in the twilight to capture such an image.

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

This is my picture of the day......an HVan Spot and and HVan chat

n falcon own work

regards Neil

[Pug_XUD_KeenAmateur]

playing 'catch up' again, previous two pages to date unread.

ticking clocks as relaxing, cor, goes to show..... have the opposite effect for me, I have been known to remove a ticking clock or its batteries from where I'm attempting to sleep

30mph +, I can only think of one occasion when I topped it, and I'm with you Jim, very scary; I still to this day feel a little bit guilty when I remember the oncoming Vauxhall Chevette that I missed by an awfully small margin at that speed. I'd've been a gonner.

You'll like the attitude of the Dutch to cycling Jim, its class-less and age-less.... and initially quite weird to see, they mostly use a sturdy 'Sit Up & Beg' Road bike on (probably) 26 x 1, 1/2's ('Trade Bike' Wheels) that pretty much disappeared from the UK some while ago.

Velorama, a short journey from Amsterdam, I believe is the biggest Bicycle Museum in Europe

[NewcastleFalcon]

Am I the only one who has a camera, or a phone that takes pictures...surely not....

Its easier to join in than not.

Here's today's effort an artistic attempt at the magnificent brick chimney at the Ryhope Engines Museum, a water pumping station of the Sunderland and South Shields Water Company Sort of exceedingly tall rather thin "Angel of the North" without wings.

The Angel of Ryhope

Regards Neil