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singlespeedstu - Member
z1ppy.
You're brave going to the hollyhall cross.
Did any snetters try and nick your bike?
In and out, and back down the canal fast, but it was bloody chilly so maybe they all stayed home (sensible).
redthunder - Member
@zippyWent for the kill there How many Trig points ?
I have a feeling if Graham has the time, he'll outshine me by miles, so I thought I'd get in early.
I was lucky to be so close to so many of them, so I went for 13 TP's and a Rivet and got managed to get 12. I did get to all the locations, but went couldn't locate the rivet (side of the road, I didn't have a GPS position), also went to Bissells Wood but as I was loosing the light and couldn't see any sign of it, just horse paddock's. I thought better of investigating in the dark.
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19 miles around Delamere and Grestys Waste today, trails in excellent condition, still frozen/dry, with the odd soft patch where the the sun has broken through.
Haven't found the trig points we apparently have round here yet 🙁 Will give it one last go tomorrow.
Dammit. I knew I was meant to do something today. Knackers.
Trig point at Lundie Crags NW of Dundee
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I think this is the [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha-ha ]ha-ha[/url] at Arley arboretum, marking the boundary between the lawns and common land beyond, although I could be mistaken and it could just be a retaining wall on one side of a sunken lane.
The idea of a ha-ha is that when viewed from the big house, on the right in this picture, there is an uninterrupted view of grass with no fences, while still keeping any animals from the common land off the lawn.
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Trig point at Ashover in Derbyshire.
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Trig Point on Slieve Martin, Northern Ireland.
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now i got my trig points in on monday.........can i please choose this weeks challange?
pleaes
pretty please.............. 😀
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suggestion for future challenges..TV or Radio transmitters/masts
Trig Point on top of the Worcestershire Beacon yesterday afternoon
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England v Wales [Wye Valley] Welsh Side.
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Trig Point [survey station] in foreground when they built the bridge.
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Suggestion for future challenges:
Postboxes / Phoneboxes
Tractors 😉
Churches/Graveyards
Beaches / Rivers with the front wheel or both wheels in it.
Pill boxes
thats a good 'un.
WW2 and cold war stuff. Better not do modern stuff or we'll all be shot and killed dead and stuff 😉
None for me today, although i did get a couple of beach and pier shots (and some frozen roadies).
"Pylons"
IGMC
not really a sparkling effort from myself..
but it varied my route - did 33 miles - by the time I got home my left foot had gone a funny blotchy purple colour and I couldn't bend my toes...
TP4210
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Some good suggestions for future themes here. Keep them coming, I'm sure we'll work through them all eventually.
Beaches / Rivers with the front wheel or both wheels in it.
I like this one. I had an idea for "bikes under water" as a cryptic clue to see what imaginative ideas people could come up with featuring aqueducts and canal locks without actually dunking their bikes under water.
A mile post on the A56 near Lymm, made from cast iron.
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How about Cold War ROC Bunkers?(known as Posts)
You will maybe need to do a bit research and turn detective to find one,
You will find one listed near you as there were around 1500 across the entire UK and Islands...
Above ground they look like this,1 of 6 here in my county,
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Find your local one or remains of one here;
[url= http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=50 ]urban Exploration forum[/url]
And if your lucky and its intact,unlocked and not vandalised you can have a wee explore like this 😮
[url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVcp0fR2HZs&feature=player_embedded ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVcp0fR2HZs&feature=player_embedded[/url]
Morning ride out on the 29er around the Staffs area and nipped up to this viewing platform/ trig point.Can any body tell me where this is?
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Great vid.
I know where a ROC bunker is near me.... Pheww I'm covered if this crops in the next exam 😉
Found it, turns out I just didn't look very hard 😆
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I ride that bike every day whether it's raining or not. The roads I ride tend to get muddy in the winter as well. So it's a mixture of mud and rust! Planning on giving the whole bike a full clean/grease as it's a bit noisy at the minute.
so it's rust then !
You should invest in a tin of 3 in 1 🙂
Phone camera today, lugged the decent camera up there but left the battery charging in the kitchen.
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Botton Head [url= http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=459432&y=501594&z=3&dn=598&tl=TP0697+-+Botton+Head ]NZ594015[/url] Yorkshire moors.
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Found that by accident, actually went to see the original a few hundred yards on.
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The Face Stone. Legend has it the expression changes to reflect true nature of the traveler's soul as they gaze upon it.
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All I know is it summed up how my ears felt at that moment in time.
Dammit! Also forgot
I managed to finally get out today, unfortunately the frozen ground of the last couple of days seems to have gone and i was left with Lincolnshires finest sticky mud.
The (second) highest point in Lincolnshire
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A whole 161m high. The highest point is 168m
An odd sign telling me the area of the woods i was in
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And the price i paid for riding in thick sticky mud
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Have done plenty of Mayhem/SITS etc in the mud and always wondered how people broke their frames/mechs. Turns out you just need enough mud on the lower jockey wheel to dive into your spokes.
Off to see the framebuilder at some point this week i think.
I've failed this week. I live about 3 miles from the Mason-Dixon line in the US, so should have been able to get something, but there's too much snow around to get out on the bike. Boooo!
Trig point on Twm Barlwm above Cwmcarn . . .
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Thanks for the inspiration - I probably wouldn't have gone up there were it not for the photo challenge - would've spent the morning in the woods instead - like riding indoors 😕 . What a cracking day . . . sunshine rocks!! 😀
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Beside Sarn Helen - thought to mark the location of a Christan burial site - road side graves being a feature of Roman burials.
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Rode up from home in Ludlow to the top of Clee Hill in south Shropshire yesterday. Started round field edges picking up a bit of mud and it had frozen on the bike by the time I got to the blustery trig point at the top. Now and again spots of golden sunlight burst through the clouds and lit up the orange dead bracken over on Brown Clee, the hill in the distance in the first pic. Stayed up there about 5mins then straight back down the same way - toad-in-the-hole for tea. Nicely.
More from the North York Moors, it was frozen and misty early on this morning.
Boundary marker stone near Captain Cook Monument. Says E on one side, T
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Grade II listed too, marks the parish boundary between Great Ayton and Easby
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Another couple, marker stone and cairn from further over the moor.
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Final couple of shots of bike at high tide mark.
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Pole bank along the Long Mynd - cracking ride this morning, lovely and crisp with some icy patches running down Minton Batch to keep you on your toes!
Trig Pillar 493
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Allermuir Hill in't Pentlands
(ok, rather missing-the-mark regarding 'this weekend', but I'm claiming poetic licence as I've barely been out since our boys birth in early December... 🙂 )
Sorry that my homework is late this week Sir. I did take this photo yesterday, but erm, the dog ate it Sir, erm on the bus Sir!
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Taken not far from home on the A246 - I was going to do the trig points on the Surrey Hills but I though loads of people would have done that!
White Peak riders will know where this one is...
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Le rocks noir
A combined Bikeradar/Wyre Forest facebook group/Bridgnorth Cycling Club trip to Clee Hill, including a stop at the trig point on Titterstone Clee Hill by the golf ball.
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Not a monument but this was on the West Highland Way on Sunday which is a kind of an OS feature...
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