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Set my alarm early this morning expecting there to be hordes of cyclists lining up outside my local Aldi (I worked at a Go Outdoors for a few months and every weekend there would be a queue of people waiting for the store to open, weekly discount voucher in hand for whatever we had on offer) but decided I hadn't had enough sleep so hit the snooze button. I popped in this evening instead and managed to get a yellow winter jersey for commuting, some winter gloves and loads of the £2.99 and £3.99 socks. I was hoping for some merino clothing too but they only seemed to have L and XL left, even M may have been a bit big for me.

They didn't have any mascarpone so I went to Tesco afterwards.

#csb

Hark! What evil thorn
with its spiny red tip through
yonder front tyre breaks?

Lycra clad strangers
picking up the Aldi deals
share a friendly smile

Oh, such beauty in
white light shining on my chain
from my friend behind!

Shopping on my back
Damp smell of the river Thames
Means I'm nearly home

Oh, and:
https://youtu.be/Y7CyZGlI4yE

Did you hear about the pirate that was sponsored by Apple?

He had an i-Patch!

Damn, I want to raid the jar of Biscoff now!

I sooooo hope single speed guy is reading this!

Woah! Don't know what happened there!

New tag is at a place where you can buy stuff for cycling (and presumably 9 other sports).

Right, let's get this thing going again. Rules are:

Look at the last tag
If you know where it is, or can find out... get yourself and your bike there
Take photo of your bike at the location
Go elsewhere and take a photo of your bike at another location
Post both photos on here
Tell people where the old tag was
Don't tell people where the new tag is
If needed (obviously non-obvious), offer obscure clues as to the new tag location

Bike Tag Guidelines:

Old and new tags must have the same bicycle
Old tag isn't taken until the new tag is posted (post them at the same time)
Tags must be within the Oxford ring road (-ish)
Tag locations must be freely accessible to the public
No reflection porn
No blank or near blank walls

Old tag was Farmoor Reservoir, a bit outside Oxford but cool location.

How many of these have rideable/walkable towpaths?

This thread is making me want to dust my boards off again, I was crap when I was younger and would be even worse now but you only live once. Watlington bowl is just down the road from me so I might give it a go.

Fat Mike has made his fortune off of middle class kids who "want to be an individual, just like everybody else", I would have thought he'd embrace the hipster movement. Alot of today's hipsters were probably skate punks in the past anyway.

Really feel like I should do this ride seeing as my username is a mutant kangaroo that was drawn in a Worthing basement in the 90s. Sadly I'll be in Dorset for father in law birthday shenannegans :(

I'm actually loving the Kelper Galactic splatter paint job. It reminds me of the MTBs I would lust over in shop windows as a yoof in the early 90's.
http://www.brothercycles.com/assets/Galactic_8-940x627.jpg

Signed and shared.

Yes! Does sharkpit ownership mean I'm classed as a member already?

Not really, I was a premium member for one year but let it lapse and never bothered renewing. There are plenty of caches out there that aren't "premium member only", certainly enough to keep me going.
I'm not sure what you get on the official geocaching app but independent ones like c:geo on Android are great to use and have enough features for all but the most anoraky of geocachers.

I'll PM you, crazyfields.

Dibs the fuji bars.

What are the reach and drop measurements of the ITM bars? I'd be interested if they're quite compactish.

Why is every tiny event these days called a "fest" or "festival"? A village pub puts 2 local singer/songwriters on under a gazebo in the beer garden and suddenly the Lamb pub in Brightwell has "Lambfest" or "Brightfest". I swear every village in this part of Oxfordshire has at least one, often two "festivals" every year. What ever happened to fairs and fetes?

How about a forum geocaching ride one day?

I just missed out on winning a music quiz because I couldn't name a Lumineers song.
It would have been nice to get first prize but Ho-Hey!

Drat. Would love to do another bridges ride but I have a family event that weekend. When will Bridges XXI be?