I do feel compelled to agree that a blue map pin is hardly worth a C- .
I suspect the HM gave me a B+ for discovering the word "Toot" is olde english and denotes a "look out point" I reckon that would have got me to B- when tootling as I do BUT finding a Wimble look out point should have got me an A grade....!!!!
Excellent work Simon. Dragging that scooter around a soft pasture, presumably behind your car using that KTM orange strap, has made it look vaguely aerodynamic and shaped...like an incompetent panel beater may have had a go at it.... C+
Back to thread and most seriously, yesterday, I had the unfortunate experience of watching Stairway to Devon with Ross Noble and Austin Vince.
No idea about nor have ever used the supposedly legal lane running past what appears to be a disused railway station in the Chudleigh environs where they camped? Were the TRF informed? Equally the embattlements near Plymouth have never featured on a tootle out despite being a great toot! Has Dougie been told? A link is here provided but probably won't work to arrive at minute 31:00 where the intrepid dirt bikers (Austin / RoSs) wHolly smear their faces with rice pudding and custard which they hope may get licked off by miniature ponies (tragic) to prove rice pudding is better with or not with custard (tearfully tragic) a total lack of ideas....despite the miniature pony centres friendliness...
https://youtu.be/wA7WpdFDb-I?t=1860
...imagine if Simon had been the creative director?
Probably everyone on the credits list would now be millionaires (apart from the ponies) ....
-- Edited by Jhonny Yoga on Sunday 12th of January 2025 07:26:45 PM
Yes Naughty Mingster please stay on topic and yeah baby I'll take that C + with glee.
Back on topic NZ suffers with the same entitled private land owner control, I found out recently that NZ's largest waterfall is on private land and no access for the public.
I had a quick read and their argument for keeping it off limits it'll be trashed by tourists, it's the classic go to line to keep most of the land here in private hands.
The Maori ain't much better, we used to go to a place called woodhill forest which was great for riding fishing camping etc but recently it was given back to the local Maori tribe who promptly put up huge gates and now only allow access for a $100 50 nicker fee.
Excellent work Simon. Dragging that scooter around a soft pasture, presumably behind your car using that KTM orange strap, has made it look vaguely aerodynamic and shaped...like an incompetent panel beater may have had a go at it.... C+
Back to thread and most seriously, yesterday, I had the unfortunate experience of watching Stairway to Devon with Ross Noble and Austin Vince.
No idea about nor have ever used the supposedly legal lane running past what appears to be a disused railway station in the Chudleigh environs where they camped? Were the TRF informed? Equally the embattlements near Plymouth have never featured on a tootle out despite being a great toot! Has Dougie been told? A link is here provided but probably won't work to arrive at minute 31:00 where the intrepid dirt bikers (Austin / RoSs) wHolly smear their faces with rice pudding and custard which they hope may get licked off by miniature ponies (tragic) to prove rice pudding is better with or not with custard (tearfully tragic) a total lack of ideas....despite the miniature pony centres friendliness...
https://youtu.be/wA7WpdFDb-I?t=1860
...imagine if Simon had been the creative director?
Probably everyone on the credits list would now be millionaires (apart from the ponies) ....
-- Edited by Jhonny Yoga on Sunday 12th of January 2025 07:26:45 PM
A certain Mr Robert Snaf was involved with the production you are maligning Pete.
P.S I am now a successful panel beater although her ass does still swing to left.
I reckon if you use a long chain to the right hand rear and the other to a suitable tree and ride off at 28.63 mph that should be enough to realign the leftee rear.
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The custard or Noble arse licking especially?
Them folk on the credits could've been millionaires if creative direction allowed to wander...
Do you know the railway lane out Chudders way?
I'm sure the support services were first class; I believe the railway station to be Longdown on the private Culver estate (permissive riding only) near Ide and therefore it's inclusion is somewhat misplaced in a travelogue programme when there are so many wonderful legally accessible monuments and lanes in Devon?
The custard or Noble arse licking especially? Them folk on the credits could've been millionaires if creative direction allowed to wander... Do you know the railway lane out Chudders way?
I've walked a lot of it but much is private. We ride some of it when we go along the edge of the river at Ashton.
Having studied the route (at 31 minutes ... the route is not hard to find with Austin's detailed description of the dates the ex-railway line opened and closed) I have to wonder why the DTRF associated themselves in supposedly promoting trail riding in Devon? That's probably a Q for the powers that be Tim or Rob - but in the meantime you promote Devon's green lanes better than most - when are you standing for election?
I used that map to figure out what the round building was adjacent to the A38 just along from Buckfastleigh. With the leaves gone I could see with it clearly with some scaffolding round it.
It's on the Exeter to Plymouth side between peartree and dartbridge but you can see it clearly going buckfastleigh to Exeter direction.
It looked like an old stone ice house but map informs me it's a dovecote.
On the subject of interesting websites I found an excellent site that accurately shows footpaths (and also various other things like byways and bridleways.
I used it many times in unfamiliar places and it's really handy.
footpath map.co.uk
With GPS enabled you can check where you are.
We have been on some really unused ones at times but it's really good.
Did a walk on Dartmoor just a mile and a half up the road from my house. Was handy to check the route as we had walked it before but in snow the paths are less clear.
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Simon - probably you're maybe not right person to ask whether there is any regulation in NZ regarding how deep one is obliged to bury failed engineering projects? Out of interest, given your practice, how deep do you bury yours?
Well Simon at least the banana scooter will go around a roundabout without leaning. Every cloud and whatnot.
Also the photo of the gate is due to artistic flair. It's also a talent getting the photo the right way up too.
I hear you took my advice about bolting numerous mirrors to emulate the mod style era but unfortunately got the sun behind you and melted your plastic scooter style skull cap to your head resulting in third degree burns and a shrunken head.
Most tragic.
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Walk a mile in another man's shoes. ...and you will be a mile away... and have his shoes..
I hear you took my advice about bolting numerous mirrors to emulate the mod style era but unfortunately got the sun behind you and melted your plastic scooter style skull cap to your head resulting in third degree burns and a shrunken head.
gifted an opportunity to get photos of an attempt at blowing up a condom over your head (via nostrils) and, if successfully inflated, publishing; and be damned any man who cannot at age <70 years
-- Edited by Jhonny Yoga on Wednesday 15th of January 2025 10:39:16 PM