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Re: The riding challenge game. Pic of your bike 'somewhere'
Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2022 8:19 pm
by Le_Fromage_Grande
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The white building that looks a bit like a control tower is Orford Sailing Club
Next your bike with anything linked to the Cold War
Re: The riding challenge game. Pic of your bike 'somewhere'
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2022 9:12 pm
by Tricky
Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Mon Jun 20, 2022 8:19 pm
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Next your bike with anything linked to the Cold War
I had some quality time with the 890 today, and on my travels passed this place
It's RAF Halton- There aren't any cold-war era planes on view and although I'm guessing pilots were still trained there in the cold war era I wasn't sure whether it really played any sort of role, and it's probably a bit tenuous, so on my way home I managed to snap a shot outside the entrance to Chequers without getting shot
This place does have a history of various UK and US leaders meeting there for secret summits post WW2 , and more publically Margaret Thatcher hosting Gorbachev there Christmas 1984, which some say was instrumental in kicking off the end of the cold-war as-was.
https://www.theparliamentaryreview.co.u ... gorbachevs
If that works, then next is your bike with a Japanese-style Pagoda in shot
Re: The riding challenge game. Pic of your bike 'somewhere'
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2022 9:13 pm
by weeksy
I'm easy. Always a win.
Re: The riding challenge game. Pic of your bike 'somewhere'
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2022 9:23 pm
by Skub
weeksy wrote: Tue Jun 21, 2022 9:13 pm
I'm easy. Always a win.
You didn't say that when I had to take a Greek yogurt for a ride.
Re: The riding challenge game. Pic of your bike 'somewhere'
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 7:36 pm
by Scotsrich
Not my bike but I saw this in a car park at Applecross.
Now that’s dedication.
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Re: The riding challenge game. Pic of your bike 'somewhere'
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 8:53 pm
by Wossname
Skub wrote: Tue Jun 21, 2022 9:23 pm
weeksy wrote: Tue Jun 21, 2022 9:13 pm
I'm easy. Always a win.
You didn't say that when I had to take a Greek yogurt for a ride.
....or my chicken....
Re: The riding challenge game. Pic of your bike 'somewhere'
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 8:59 pm
by Le_Fromage_Grande
Tricky wrote: Tue Jun 21, 2022 9:12 pm
Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Mon Jun 20, 2022 8:19 pm
.................
Next your bike with anything linked to the Cold War
I had some quality time with the 890 today, and on my travels passed this place
It's RAF Halton- There aren't any cold-war era planes on view and although I'm guessing pilots were still trained there in the cold war era I wasn't sure whether it really played any sort of role, and it's probably a bit tenuous, so on my way home I managed to snap a shot outside the entrance to Chequers without getting shot
This place does have a history of various UK and US leaders meeting there for secret summits post WW2 , and more publically Margaret Thatcher hosting Gorbachev there Christmas 1984, which some say was instrumental in kicking off the end of the cold-war as-was.
https://www.theparliamentaryreview.co.u ... gorbachevs
If that works, then next is your bike with a Japanese-style Pagoda in shot
The Hunter is a Cold War aircraft as far as I'm concerned, they were flying over my house in the late 70s and early 80s, very distinctive sound.
Re: The riding challenge game. Pic of your bike 'somewhere'
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2022 1:35 pm
by slowsider
I worked with a maintenance test pilot who described the engine as 'constant thrust, variable noise'.
Re: The riding challenge game. Pic of your bike 'somewhere'
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2022 1:42 pm
by Le_Fromage_Grande
If I google Suffolk Pagoda I get this
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/orford ... rford-ness
I love a ride to Orford, I must have done at least 5 of these challenges with pictures from Orford, but it's not exactly Japanese
Re: The riding challenge game. Pic of your bike 'somewhere'
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2022 9:30 am
by Wossname
I must have missed it... Do we have a new challenge?
Re: The riding challenge game. Pic of your bike 'somewhere'
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2022 10:38 am
by Le_Fromage_Grande
Wossname wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 9:30 am
I must have missed it... Do we have a new challenge?
Japanese Pagoda still.
I think it's time from some executive input from Weeksy as pagodas aren't happening
Re: The riding challenge game. Pic of your bike 'somewhere'
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2022 10:58 am
by Tricky
Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 10:38 am
Wossname wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 9:30 am
I must have missed it... Do we have a new challenge?
Japanese Pagoda still.
I think it's time from some executive input from Weeksy as pagodas aren't happening
Your Orford one would do ( or I guess there must be some Pagoda-y looking things at Garden centres if we get desperate
)
Re: The riding challenge game. Pic of your bike 'somewhere'
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2022 11:11 am
by Mr. Dazzle
I rode around Willen lake here in MK for ages on Monday trying to find somewhere I could get a shot of this with my bike in view, must have lapped the lake 3 times in various ways
No dice though.
First purpose built peace pagoda in the UK and the western hemisphere, as far as I know.
Re: The riding challenge game. Pic of your bike 'somewhere'
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2022 11:46 am
by Le_Fromage_Grande
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 11:11 am
I rode around Willen lake here in MK for ages on Monday trying to find somewhere I could get a shot of this with my bike in view, must have lapped the lake 3 times in various ways
No dice though.
First purpose built peace pagoda in the UK and the western hemisphere, as far as I know.
You're going to have to do a midnight trespass in the park
The ones at Orford are so far away you can barely see them In a photo, shame I haven't got a trail bike anymore, we used to ride right up to them 35 years ago (the MOD couldn't be arsed to chase us off, but English Heritage might be a whole lot more Nazi about it)
Re: The riding challenge game. Pic of your bike 'somewhere'
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2022 3:19 pm
by weeksy
Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 10:38 am
Wossname wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 9:30 am
I must have missed it... Do we have a new challenge?
Japanese Pagoda still.
I think it's time from some executive input from Weeksy as pagodas aren't happening
I'm not in charge,
@Tricky can pick something if he wants to move this along a bit.
Re: The riding challenge game. Pic of your bike 'somewhere'
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2022 3:29 pm
by KungFooBob
Do I win?
Re: The riding challenge game. Pic of your bike 'somewhere'
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2022 5:21 pm
by weeksy
Sure.
Next!
Re: The riding challenge game. Pic of your bike 'somewhere'
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:53 pm
by Jody
weeksy wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 5:21 pm
Sure.
Next!
Whats next boss?
I actually remembered to check this thread before I went out
Re: The riding challenge game. Pic of your bike 'somewhere'
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:55 pm
by KungFooBob
I've got my fingers crossed the next challenge is a pic of your bike on Le Shuttle.
Re: The riding challenge game. Pic of your bike 'somewhere'
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:58 pm
by Skub
KungFooBob wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:55 pm
I've got my fingers crossed the next challenge is a pic of your bike on Le Shuttle.
Don't you have to pick the subject,since you won?
