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As well as the obvious 'going out on your bike'
My two girls have spent the last hour running around the back garden, laughing like drains while I hosed them down. They got me back with their water pistols obviously 🙂
Your nominations please. Stuff that just makes you grin
Sat in the sun reading the newly arrived ride journal drinking tea and listening to 6 music......... 😆
riding uber steep rediculous loamy black runs in the alps at about 2mph, so damn well awesome that you are just trying to stay upright.
most fun you can have with your clothes on.
Nope, yours sounds about as good as it gets Binners (he says, eagerly awaiting Saturday's first birthday party for his two girls).
🙂
Reading on the bog 🙂
Taking my 3 year old out on his bike. He only learnt to ride a couple of weeks back and is right on it 🙂
Lighting a campfire without matches - although just 1 match is very close too.
Spending a sunny afternoon in the local park by the Thames with a very large group of parents and kids, having a BBQ, getting nicely tipsy and watching the kids going nuts and having fun.
Summer evening. Ale. English country pub.
Lying down in the park staring at the sky.
Jumping in puddles.
Kiss-chase.
Watching my cat chase its tail, never fails to make me chuckle!!
Cake
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Lying in the Sunshine in Ashton Court looking over Bristol thinking how lucky we are to have wicked riding on our door step.
Had my 2yr old nephew over yesterday. He picked up hose pipe and, with it pointing at his face, squeezed... I tried to warn him, really.
Leaving work at 4.30pm, being in woods by 5pm, seeing wild deer.
Dunno why but makes me very happy at the moment !
Leaving work early on a Friday afternoon after taking a long lunch in a pub beer garden!
Watching all my newly planted vegetables spring to life and produce - produce. Yummy.
surfing this weekend! that should do it!
Leaving the office and smelling the outside is good too. 😐
Last evening...
Planned a ride with a mate.
Get home to find i'm locked out - Mrs out, had left key in the door....
Thought #1 - bAllcocks!
Thought #2 - could be worse, suns out, pubs open... 😉
cetacean watching
you look for whales and dolphins - find a nice place, quite high up with a good sea view. Gaze out to sea for an hour or so. record any whale/dolphin/porpoise activity you see. drink some tea. eat some biscuits. chat to some folk.
Go somewhere else, do it again, if you can be bothered.
My two girls have spent the last hour running around the back garden, laughing like drains while I hosed them down. They got me back with their water pistols obviously
Just had similar - my 20 month old boy playing in the paddling pool with a friend of his - much laughing and splashing! Love spending time with our little one.
Ned - hate to say it but the swell needs to do a LOT of picking up - it went from this yesterday morning (at 8am - took it just as I got out):
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to almost flat this morning!
Going bowling with my daughter this afternoon and seeing the look on her face when she got a strike to draw level in the 9th frame of the third game (it was 1 round each at that point) and then getting another strike in the 10th to beat me for the first time in ages
v cool 😆
Blue Bell Knoll by the Cocteau Twins while eating me lunch by the river in Vernon Park. Lat 53deg 24'42.76"N Long 2deg08'17.55"W
Reading on the bog
... at work, thus being paid to do so.
A really good dump.
Splitting a big **** off log with one strike of an axe.
A feet up 2-wheel drift.
Apple crumble and custard.
Actually, come to think of it - just the custard will do.
Riding into the bar after some utterly nuts alpine descent and the first mouthful of ice cold beer.
My 4 year old getting me to bounce on his big trampoline, while he sits on it.
JonEdwards - MemberA feet up 2-wheel drift.
^^ This ^^
awesome feeling when you (occasionally) get it right 🙂
BBQ and beers on a nice evening after a day in the sun.
wearing flip flops
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/anyone-want-to-date-my-mountainbiking-sister
after that, I'd remove going for a bike ride from the list
after that, I'd remove [s]going for a bike ride[/s] living down south from the list
fixed that for you
ace, check, simple for sure
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(bad to admit!) babies put to bed, open a bottle of red
Just a few over the last week:
Discovering Koppaberg (sp?) Pear Cider while camping on a warm evening
Cycling home from work after a sh1t day with a tail wind and having numerous near crashes as the warm weather has made all the PYTs dress all skimpy
Seeing the first goslings of the year on the canal outside the office on a lunch time stroll
The look of complete and utter involvement, happiness and joy as my 3 year old daughter held a duckling in her hands for the first time
Seeing the look of surprise and pride as my 6 year old managed something in an adventure playground he didn't think he could do
surf_mat, it turned out nicely, hey? Waist-chest high and clean at Woolacoombe.
Good sessions Saturday morning and afternoon, and Sunday morning. Got a bit windy on Sunday afternoon, but we were lunching and leaving by then. T'was a pretty lucky and well-timed trip!
Ned - it was flipping great! The week's surfs so far...
Monday am - chunkyish, cleanish
Monday pm - picked up, cleaner
Wed am - properly big, slightly onshore
Thurs am - head high, super clean, got too windy offshore eventually but genuinely epic early on
Thurs pm - dropped a lot but super hollow
Sat am - very light cross onshores, picked right back up again, utterly classic
And still plenty of fab time with the little boy, the wife and the dog. Best week in years!
Riding into the bar after some utterly nuts alpine descent and the first mouthful of ice cold beer.Yep. that does it for me - make mine a Monaco 8)
http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink5419.html[longs for last years hols - no ****in chance of a repeat for the next few years 🙁 ]
rolling out of the airport/trainstation with a select group of mates, and nothing to think about but riding and drinking beer for a week...........
roll on september............ 8)
+1 for a big dump
Getting into a warm bed in the middle of winter at 7am in the morning after a long day and an even longer night shift, spooning with my fiancee and listening to the rain batter down outside, absolutly knackered and just so very greatfull for a roof over my head and a Bed.
Having a brilliant day ride and realising that my bike is perfect, then hearing a late cuckoo, just when I thought I'd exit spring 2010 without hearing one...
Edit: PS - having the best roast dinner you can remember ever having, after [i]cooking it yourself[/i].
I know you said it was obvious, but going out on your bike.
Had one of those days yesterday where absolutely everything went right.
Bike all lubed up, tweaked, adjusted fettled and ready to go after winter of neglect, check.
Glorious sunshine pretty much all day, check.
Meet missus in pub mid-ride and get bought sublimely fresh crab salad for lunch, check.
Get talking to bloke in beer garden who was admiring my bike, swap details and bolster list of potential riding buddies, check.
Stitch together all-day ride comprising known and unknown bits of trail, and only get lost once - despite battery dying on phone/GPS, check.
Finding that new trails consist of several whoopin' and a hollerin', shit-eating grin-inducing descents, check.
Nail three technical climbs which have previously defeated all attempts at being done "in a oner", check.
Arrive home buzzing, barely tired at all after nearly eight hours in the saddle, check.
Hose the odd spatter of sheepshit off legs and bike, emerge from shower, limbs still tingling with sunburn and nettlerash, check.
Stick on Leftfield's Rhythm & Stealth, jack the volume right up, start making dinner, crack open a beer, check.
Return to living room to find both my dogs - neither of them noted music connoisseurs - sitting in the sweet spot between the speakers, staring intently at the stereo. Um, check.
Have been flirting with the darkside recently and have done more riding on-road than off. But yesterday reminded me just how much fun mountain biking can be. You simply could not have that much fun on just tarmac.