StreetCowboy

Small things

The present will always be a foreign country for those that live in the past.

I’d been lid up poorly with covid mot of the week, but Sunday felt well enough for a gentle ride. I’d agreed to lend my mountain bike to a friend who had just returned to the country, pending the arrival of his container, and I had to to spare, so took a trip round a local park. There was a lacrosse team practicing It is a nice little park, but for all that everyone likes parks, not a lot of people use them

My apologies to those of you who have heard this story before so many times, but like your grandmother’s stories, they’re so much more fun when you can sing along. I was walking up Sukhumvit Road on the even side, and I noticed a “Scottish” pub on my left. I went in and the cigarette smoke was so thick, I thought I’d been tear-gassed. It was brightly lit, with a linoleum floor - just like back home! I bought a pint of Singha, and looked about me. ”Whair’re you go?” ”Hong Kong…” ”Hong Kong? Ah wiz 22 year wi Swire Pacific - d’ye Ken Swire Pacific?” ”Yes - Cathay Pacific airlines and the Coca Cola franchise. Are you retired here now?” ”Aye; afore that Ah wiz in Hong Kong, twenty-two year wi’ Swire Pacific. D’ye ken Swire Pacific?” We did a couple more laps of this while I finished my Singha, and the fact that the pub’s gone now is not the only reason I’ve not been back.

If you’re going to wax, then waxing eloquent is as good a way to wax as any

It’s easier than golf, and the guys in the clubhouse don’t scrutinise your score card the same way

The 9th Tour de Damansara is scheduled for 4th December, for those that wish to join. We’ll be visiting the pubs tomorrow to confirm their participation. Then the detailed route planning, poster preparation, sponsorship and riders…

This forum has been like a morgue recently, so I thought it was time for a cryptic thread. Post a cryptic description of where your bike’s been, and let others describe the photo; please quote the original description, as I fully anticipate there will be loads of challenges running in parallel.... then a week later, or sooner, or later, as you see fit, post the photo.

I was undergoing medicinal treatment from the chaps at Boon Rawd, and browsing this forum at the same time. I chanced to happen upon some remarkably entertaining threads, and thought perhaps, with a jolt from the old electrodes, and a judicious post or two, they could be brought back to life.... But then I thought "Is that what the good doctor would do? No - of course it's not. He wouldn't give the kiss of life to any old team and let them flounder as before. He'd bring in the best from around the world, he would scour the planet to the ends of the M62 and back to create a veritable dream thread. But did I have the courage to do the same - to create a best of best thread, with posts stitched together from whatever moribund sepulcher they could be rescued? I knew where to turn for inspiration.... Yes, yes, I would do it.... And so, I give you - DOCTOR FRANKENSTEIN'S THREAD! Cobbled together from the salvaged remnants of the long dead and more recently demised - and, perhaps, in the spirit of my compatriot doctors, the imminently fondly remembered. Perhaps I should put the ball into scrum, as it were, with a couple of examples of my own...