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Its a van, it has a rugby ball in the back, and has two seats. Thats as far as it goes. Berlingo, in case you were wondering what make.
Sounds rad.
It does the job.
I'd like a van. Soon I might not need a car any more so I might trade in
They come in very handy. Even if i didnt need it for work id propbably have one anyway, so easy to chuck the bike in the back n get going, no messing with bike racks and all that malarky. We managed to get 5 bikes in the back of it with the front wheels taken off and stacked down the sides so for a little van its taken some good loads, ahem.
Only problem is the lack of seating up front but you can get three seater berlingos, although it would be very cosy and i dunno where they put the gear lever 😮
Right, buggrit.... have just approached 2 very good, not seen in tooo long a time, friends to see if we can defer our 'prior' of the 25th..... at £106 for a service my forks need a bloody good using 🙂
Will see what the friends come back with....
ooh the pressure!
Job sorted 🙂
All things being equal I shall grace you with my presence - as usual, last up the hills, last down 🙂
You might have to fight me for the honour of being last up the hill, not so slow going downhill though gravity is on my side 😀
@ 16 stone'ish in full kit, it's on mine, too.gravity is on my side
It's just that I have to be sure to do my job - unofficial brake tester 🙂
I'm pretty sure I will be up there for the steadiness award going up the hills. And down. And on the flat bits, too.
I might run this pootle in lincolnshire. Then there'll be no hills for you to fight over anyway. 😉
Not Lincolnshire, my mum will walk along side me and nag all the way around. If i promise to let someone else be at the back can we move it back to the peaks?
Go on then. I'll see if i can find some hills out that way.
I might go on this.
I'd recommend it iDave, you'll probably find some new customers. ;D
Sam's destined to be a fat knacker. It's his love of jelly babies.
Unless i continue my disgraceful habit of throwing them on the floor.
last up the hills, last down
I might be joining you on the ups. Good for mid-table on the downs, I hope.
Before I book the day off is this still on? Saturday 25th of this month?
Yeah course it is!
😀
Can we start wishing for nice weather now? I feel it's deserved.
Hi Chris - I'm thinking about joining you again for a bit of pootling, I think I need to brush up on my bicycle-scuba skills...
Will keep an eye on here for meeting-up details 🙂
Excellent - Simon, it will be good to have you along again - it's been a while.
I'm still deciding on a route.
could be up for my first ever 'pootle'
I can never remember- does pootling trump bimbling or is bimbling a better hand, I do know that a dawdle is the worst of the lot but I never seem to get above that at least in public! On the odd occasion that I've been lucky enough to have a blast there are never any witnesses a bit like my hole in one and my 147 break !
if we're going on that analogy, while a dawdle would be a high card....a jack say, a pootle is a pair of fours. A bimble is a pair of threes.
I'd be quite happy to get my hands on a nice pair on a cold morning like this at work.Card playing is frowned upon here at the ministry of funny walks though .
could be up for this (I'll start the approval process straight away) 😆
I'm still playing with routes
Anything we've not done before?
Dunno yet. I keep hearing Cavedale.
Was Cavedale the one where we chucked Hora's bike behind the wall?
We rode down Pindale on that one, but the Cavedale turning was just before where I hid his bike. Cavedale is steeper and the rocks don't move as much. Slippy too.
re: route, can I suggest stanage/blackamoor/totley moor areas?
AFAIK you've not covered that area on a pootle before?
Not thaaat terrible for mud and generally not loads of height to pedal up for amount of trail/distance that can be covered? is a bit early/low 'season' for me atm ..
Guessing Lady Cannings developments aren't due to be finished for a while yet?
EDIT: though train access would of course be a 'mare/impossible, unless dropped down (nearly) into totley itself?
Or is that a bit too much of a sheffield local ride than a peak pootle?
technically still peaks in my book. Blacka is currently a bog though, and linking from that end over to stanage pole way includes an epic amount of roads unless you go rogue cheeky. cheers for the suggestion though.
it may be a summer one though...
Cut Gate out and back would be ace if it's frozen... how about that plus a contingency route if it happens to be mild and pleasant. Or mild and unpleasant. Or just do it anyway and enjoy the carnage. About time there was an Epic Pootle... 😉
Cutgate is an ACE out and back when it's frozen. Just don't forget that it's frozen on the descent back down and nearly crash into a wall.
Might be interesting if it's a bogfest too. Nearly bald High Rollers are the right tyres for those conditions right?
Might be interesting if it's a bogfest too. Nearly bald High Rollers are the right tyres for [s]those[/s] [b]all[/b] conditions!
ftfy
Never ridden Cut Gate, so that'd be good for me if it's frozen.
that was actually #1 on the list, from langsett end.....
Fingers crossed for a clear, cold, blue sky week next week then.
we've never had had weather on a pootle....
Ooh cavedale, kinda love/hate it, I like it and it hasn't killed me yet but it does scare the hell out of me, don't like slippy wet rock.
Not done cut gate in a while and never done stanage. Looking forward to it whatever the route. Also hoping for (dry) frozen ground.