[Closed] canal ride

barns, and your shorts look like you have soiled them, and are by far the worst colour for a pair of shorts i have ever seen........ 😀

your shorts look like you have soiled them, and are by far the worst colour for a pair of shorts i have ever seen.

weighty advice from such a clued up fashion guru 🙂

shall I wear the yellow ones next time ?

-10 for the shorts but +3 for the best "not a peado" excuse of the year (so far) 😀

Never wear a pair of speedo's if the the "S" has worn off. Nothing to do with this thread but the photo of SB in those shorts and the last post made me think of it.

Never wear a pair of speedo's if the the "S" has worn off

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i fell in the canal once first time i had ever worn toe clips and the last 😥

[url= http://www.chilloutzone.to/video/fleischgewordener-eisbrecher.html ]falling through ice....[/url]

barnes, you're weird.

falling through ice....

very funny, but even Blobzilla there wouldn't have gone through the canal I was on 🙂 The ice in the movie is wet and obviously translucent...

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[url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/8449250.stm ]2 brothers die after falling through the ice. Sympathy? Thought not.[/url]

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You have been warned!

Ti29er - Have I missed something? Theres damn all ice in that photo. You'd be pretty daft to try cycling on that? But maybe it a question of tyres?

2 brothers die after falling through the ice. Sympathy? Thought not.

well it's a shame when a nice frosty walk turns into tragedy 🙁

The canal is not as frozen as you might think.
In places here it is, then it's not 300m away, then frozen again.
Don't assume a thing.
I believed the canal was frozen solid. I was wrong.
Thank fully I had no desire to ride or walk on it to test the depth of ice.

[u]The BBC Link:[/u]
Simon, no doubting it.
What possessed 4 brothers to do that?
I wonder if they'd "just got off the boat" and had no clue of what they were doing.
Or were daring each other.
Or were drunk. (Didn't a spectator at the Darts competition perish in a lake this week also)
Or were slightly simple.

The canal is not as frozen as you might think.
In places here it is, then it's not 300m away, then frozen again.
Don't assume a thing.
I believed the canal was frozen solid. I was wrong.

yes, 100m away the surface was free water, under the bridge where it rarely freezes. I didn't think it was frozen solid, as I'm sure that would take weeks, and it only froze over last Friday...

danger zone:
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note:
a) open water under bridge
b) community support office in yellow jacket coming to shoo them off...

Danger zone;

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[i]note:
a) open water under bridge
b) community support office in yellow jacket coming to shoo [s]them[/s] dodgy bloke with camera off... [/i]

Please don't fall through the ice this weekend...I am on call and will not be pleased if I have to get out of my nice warm bed at 2am because some **** has fallen through the ice and drown.

Again with the photos of schoolgirls.

Please don't fall through the ice this weekend...I am on call and will not be pleased if I have to get out of my nice warm bed at 2am because some **** has fallen through the ice and drown.

so we shouldn't take any risks in case we disturb your slumber ? Perhaps you'd be better suited to being as estate agent?

Again with the photos of schoolgirls.

actually a self-selected group of [b]people[/b] having fun :o)

[b]user removed:[/b] yes, it's about that deep 🙂

b) community support office in yellow jacket coming to shoo [s]them[/s] dodgy bloke with camera off...

he never said owt to me 🙂

now look what you made me do:
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(hopefully frozen Sow How Tarn near Cartmel Fell)

I think the thought that I might plunge through at any second increased my enjoyment, though oddly none of the others would have a go...

can you imagine the response to a post titled
'barnes dies in fall through ice accident'............?

'barnes dies in fall through ice accident'............?

I may not be that easy to kill 🙂 It took great self control not to ride right across - or was it that I lacked the nerve ? I [b]so[/b] wanted to!

wouldn't catch me riding on any frozen water other than puddles.Seriously that could be really dangerous imo.

It can't be that cold - he's wearing shorts!
Sppppppllllaaaaaaaaaashhhhhhhhh!

It can't be that cold - he's wearing shorts!

no, I [b]always[/b] wear shorts, so they are not a reliable temperature indicator...

Seriously that could be really dangerous imo.

the more people tell me not to do a thing the more I want to 🙂

Since it's warmed up, Simon, you are NOT, I repeat NOT to go out on the ice-covered canal. And for goodness sake, but some clothes on!

(stands back and awaits the inevitable)

Since it's warmed up, Simon, you are NOT, I repeat NOT to go out on the ice-covered canal. And for goodness sake, but some clothes on!

whatever happened to freedom of choice ? I considered myself overdressed in the canal shot 🙂

I remember as a child, there was a tarn near Kendal somewhere that froze up every year, and loads of people went ice skating. Were we all engaging in reckless folly?

SB you are a fool.

SB you are a fool.

keep it up :o) Obviously you lot who weren't there know so much more about it than me!

The ice was 5 inches thick at the very edge of the canal near us, and still around 2 inches under the bridges. Easily thick enough for around 5 people to jump up and down on it the same place without a hint of movement. It took a huge section of tree and a lot of effort to get through 😀

You dont have to be there to understand the dangers.....if you go in, you might get wet 🙄

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Well I wouldn't put my life at risk going to help any one who's stupid enough to risk walking on ice no matter if it was on a canal or a lake should it break on them.

Agree with you JC, but I'd get their bike... Salvage rights

It really is stupid, the lake near us was frozen solid the other weekend, how solid you'd never know but there were some skiddy footprints on it so a few numbnuts had walked on it at some point.

we sound like a right bunch of old duffers for darwins sake!

Well I wouldn't put my life at risk going to help any one who's stupid enough to risk walking on ice no matter if it was on a canal or a lake should it break on them.

and I never asked anyone to!

but there were some skiddy footprints on it so a few numbnuts had walked on it at some point.

and survived the experience 🙂

You're all a right lot of nellies :o)

Well I wouldn't put my life at risk going to help any one who's stupid enough to risk walking on ice no matter if it was on a canal or a lake should it break on them.

I did fall through the ice near Cheers in Boston. That was funny. I was right next to the bank. My two friend in the middle of the lake tried to levitate back.

After reading this thread I went out and rode across a frozen pond today.

OK it was only about 25 foot across but it was fun none the less.

And it started to crack about 5 foot from the other side.

That was really close I almost got my feet wet. 😀

i think the real problem here is the barnes is a cock............
if it had been anyone else on the forum it would not be a problem......
am i right or am i right???

You lot are pathetic. frozen canals and lochs are there for your entertainment.

as are plastic bags?