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Bit of a business opportunity I think for certain individuals Binners, Drac, Ninfan all spring to mind? I mean who wouldn't pay good money for a days riding and "socio-political" discussion, I think it's a winner.
And then charge double to not attend, you'll make a fortune. 😉
Free ear defenders for the [s]victims [/s]participants and it might fly.
Better than a block paving training course
"Big Ride with a Big Hitter"
"Just when you thought it was over they throw in another climb"
"When it's all going really well and everyone's having a laugh they ride up on your blind side and put a stick through your spokes"
"You'll never even get out of Greggs"
"I went on a Big Ride with a Big Hitter - he barely spoke and fell off his bike trying to ride up a kerb"
The fatal flaw you have made here is to assume they ride bikes
The fatal flaw you have made here is to assume they ride bikes
This.
Non premier members have to sit through a timeshare presentation first, then at random points on the ride?
Celebrity try outs? Is this a porn thing?
It should be a ride, followed by a question-time style debate with the big hitters on the panel.
question-time style debate
Operating under the rules of "Just a minute"
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"Deviation"
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"Deviation"
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"Deviation"
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"Deviation"
Operating under the rules of "Just a minute"
Bzzzzzzz - strawman
Bzzzzzzz - Jambafact
Will people come by randomly and interrupt by waving adverts in front of you ?
Who's ninfan? One person's big hitter is another's D-lister
They'd never get out of the carpark.
'Let's go left'
'I think you'll find it's right from here' etc...........
bearnecessities - Member
<Buzz>
"Deviation"
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"Deviation"
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"Deviation"
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"Deviation"
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"Repetition"
'Let's go left'
'I think you'll find it's right from here' etc...........
This 😀
Of course the above assumes it would be possible to agree on which car park in the first place
I doubt we'd get past the sitting reading the Guardian, shaking my head, and tutting disapprovingly stage
This forum's getting a bit self obsessed of late. Let's keep some perspective, we're just a load of opiniated ****s who occasionally ride bikes.
I charge a small fee, a bigger one if you expect me to actually ride a bike.
That's your opinion
I thought they were bots. They can't be real can they?
Expect this guy to join the ride on Page 4.
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Anyone who wishes to be elevated to "big hitter" or "forum celebrity" your desire can be fulfilled here: [url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/shameless-plug-for-a-few#post-7696642 ]How to become a Big Hitter and or Forum Celebrity[/url]
Is there a village called Hominem we could ride towards?
This forum's getting a bit self obsessed of late. Let's keep some perspective, we're just a load of opiniated **** who occasionally ride bikes.
I take offence at that. I don't ride a bike.
[i]This forum's getting a bit self obsessed of late[/i]
"Of late"? It has been that way for as long as I can remember.
How would you do "cut and paste" in real life?
How would you do "cut and paste" in real life?
Ride past as many libraries as possible?
Make stops so everyone can read your source information?
The last one wasn't much of a success, Jambalaya threw a strop and refused to ride with everyone..
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rOcKeTdOg - Member
Who's ninfan? One person's big hitter is another's D-lister
You'll know him better as Zulu-Eleven?
Can there be an alternative ride somewhere else,at the same time, so that the other [s]pleps[/s] folk without [b]P[/b]s can relax knowing that they won't meet any big hoiters. 😛
Thought the P just means you're a subscriber.
I think I have a P and I'm nothing special 🙂
It would be a short and slow ride if I was there. I'm at that stage where my memory of the fitness and good health I used to have doesn't match the reality of what I have now.
Avoided posting here for ages, but given the usual internet forum standards I've seen across different interests. This one is mostly OK.
Can there be an alternative ride somewhere else,at the same time
As long as there is no talk about religion and/or history. I couldn't stand the thought of people sharing their opinions without being there to offer any sort of corrective(s). And even if I could bilocate, my cherished 'P' would see me excluded anyway. It would be the worst day of my life. 😉
Two rides sounds ideal
For those with a 'P', we have a tour of Vineyards with a 7 course lunch included..
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For the oiks without, they have 10 laps of Thetford forest in the rain...
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Obviously the 'P' ride will be on e-bikes as well....
footflaps, that is the single greatest post in the history of the internet.
🙂
footflaps, that is the single greatest post in the history of the internet.
It could be but the three riders on the terrace are eating breakfast.
It could be but the three riders on the terrace are eating breakfast.
If you are going to question dietary choices you will be on the Molgrips ride
It already happens every Thursday
http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/lordswood-thursday-night-ride-131
The trick is to work out who the Big Hitters are and how many are on the ride
Is that Quirrel weeing in a plant pot at the edge of the shot?
It already happens every Thursday
Do you have a menu and wine list I could see before hand?
It could be but the three riders on the terrace are eating breakfast.
The "P" ride includes pre-ride breakfast, mid-ride lunch and post-ride dinner
It already happens every Thursday
I'll get along one day, I may not admit to my forum name 😉
[i]pre-ride breakfast, mid-ride lunch and post-ride dinner [/i]
Just don't ask Mark for the recipes...
For the oils without, they have 10 laps of Thetford forest in the rain...
And no pudding afterwards
Footflaps....
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[i]wine list[/i] - The normal selection of champagnes
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If a similar ride tries to set off shortly after the original one, will a mod stop them and tell them to go home, or catch up to the original one?
@WCA if you think I am joining some bloke I met on the internet in his garden shed you are much mistaken, I see a future filled with sleeping under the patio 😯
Any better?
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As long as there is no talk about religion and/or history.
It would get as far as the top of the first climb where during the wait for the slower riders a big argument would break out.
Perhaps we could force the issue by planning a route around significant religious sites.
Are you really inviting Jamba to your kinky hot-tub party?
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Celebrity Sex Shed - now that would make Channel 4 as a docu drama
Perhaps we could force the issue by planning a route around significant religious sites.
😆
Actually some epic riding near Strata Florida abbey.
Ken Livingston will be leading a ride starting here:
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It'll end in tears and a vow of silence....maybe a missing member or three
You chaps will head out all bright eyed and bushy tailed then 30 mins into the ride when all the food is gone it will go all "The Hills Have Eyes' with the members with the most meat on them getting gobbled.
After you chaps wake from your feast and find the night has set in and you have no lights it will start off as using your body heat to keep warm but then quickly turn into 'Deliverance/Lord of the flies' when someone discovers a antique Mars Bar covered in god knows what in the bottom of their bag.
Maybe this has already happened?
Wheres Jamie?
A fair few of us would turn up to see which banned forumite you are
A few of us have ridden with the biggest hitter. No fist pies were required.
Wheres Jamie?
Funny thing is he stopped posting about 7 months before you joined, until recently. 😕
@WCA that extension needed a lot of material for the foundations 🙂
Look forward to seeing you one day - maybe even June 23rd Referenum day, I'll wear my t-shirt !!
oldmanmtb - Member
Bit of a business opportunity I think for certain individuals Binners, Drac, Ninfan all spring to mind? I mean who wouldn't pay good money for a days riding and "socio-political" discussion, I think it's a winner.
You might end up with people stabbing each other with screwdriver then the incident being reported in the headline news.
Headline news "Old people stabbings at bicycle gathering". 😆