The riding challenge game. Pic of your bike 'somewhere'

[weeksy]

How far did you ride to get the pic ?

It's a 'riding game' not a walk outside the house game after all.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Isn't what constitutes a nice watch in the opinion of the rider, for me a Timex is a nice watch

This looks like a nice watch to me

[Whysub]

How far did you ride to get the pic ?

It's a 'riding game' not a walk outside the house game after all.

Its a fair cop. I've got to go out later so I'll get a proper "been for a ride" photo.

[Skub]

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Nice watch in front of a few of my not so nice bikes...

Cool Burqa bikes.

[Whysub]

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Just popped out to get some milk (18 km round trip) so here's a watch, my scootay and some mountains.

If this fulfills the criterea, how about your bike next to an abandoned car? Preferably on the side of the road somewhere, but driveway abandonment is good enough

[weeksy]

aye... i'll give you it

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Does a crashed pickup truck with a police aware sticker count?

Though that's going to be a dangerous photo to get

Just remembered I do know of a couple of abandoned cars, they're down a bit of a goat track road though, and a tedious place to get to.

[Whysub]

Abandoned cars are few and far between here where I live, but i used to love looking out for them when I was riding around unfamiliar industrial and housing estates

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I think they're pretty rare in the UK these days, the two I know of are both on a piece of private land down a tiny dead end road, I only know about them because I've cycled past them.

[Potter]

Isn't what constitutes a nice watch in the opinion of the rider, for me a Timex is a nice watch

This looks like a nice watch to me

Funny you should link to that one, it's one of my favourite watches and has been hanging up in my garage for years.

Edited...just noticed it's 3 minutes slow, it must be losing about 30-40 seconds a year.

[Potter]

If this fulfills the criterea, how about your bike next to an abandoned car? Preferably on the side of the road somewhere, but driveway abandonment is good enough

That might be a challenge, I'd have to drive to a dodgy area, I haven't seen an abandoned car for years, although I don't think I've been on an estate with mattresses and settees in the garden for years either.

[MingtheMerciless]

I'll just wait for the weekend and some boy racer will feck up near Beachy Head and put it in a field.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Isn't what constitutes a nice watch in the opinion of the rider, for me a Timex is a nice watch

This looks like a nice watch to me

Funny you should link to that one, it's one of my favourite watches and has been hanging up in my garage for years.

Edited...just noticed it's 3 minutes slow, it must be losing about 30-40 seconds a year.

The last watch I bought was one of these, I haven't seen it for years as I don't wear a watch now, I'm guessing it's in one of my man drawers of stuff.
I think I've only owned 4 watches in my life.

[Whysub]

That might be a challenge, I'd have to drive to a dodgy area, I haven't seen an abandoned car for years, although I don't think I've been on an estate with mattresses and settees in the garden for years either.

Quite a few that I saw on driveways were on the drives of older, larger houses. You know the sort, built in the 1940's/50's, occupants now in their twilight years with an old Jag/Rover/ Ford Focus in front of the garage, covered in moss.

[Potter]

Oh, well in that case I have my own abandoned vehicles, here is a Landrover that hasn't turned a wheel in over a year, with my bike that also hasn't moved in over a year.
They're both going for MOT shortly.

(My LC is out and on the road because it doesn't need an MOT anymore)

[Whysub]

More "deliberately not used" rather than "abandoned" in the real sense of the word?

[Potter]

More "deliberately not used" rather than "abandoned" in the real sense of the word?

Indeed.
Although it wasn't deliberate, the covids kept me away.

[Whysub]

I hope they are more enjoyable now than when you put them away.

[Skub]

I was out for a couple of hours today,but the only wreck I thought of had been removed!
I need a spot of local civil unrest to have a chance with this one.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

To be fair the ones I know of are more "not used since the 1970s" rather than abandoned.
Riding up to Cadwell on Saturday, I might see something on the way if I go through Wisbech.
I do know of an abandoned Morris Minor, but you'd need a trail bike with aggressive knobblies to get near it, and I haven't seen it for 20 years so it might not be there any more.