Pic of the Day

[GrandPaBrogan]

An evening Horse and Dog walk ..

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Oh, stop it!

You're such a "shark" tease!! ?
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[Pivot]

I am still shopping for my eMTB... in the meantime, does this count?

 

[GrandPaBrogan]

I am still shopping for my eMTB... in the meantime, does this count?
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Not too sure... but I suspect that the sight of soap suds could get @Zimmerframe a bit excited...

 

[Beezerk]

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Lovely, what beach is that?

 

[Ace Freely]

Rat Pac, Cle Elum Washington Stare.

 

[MrBrownstone]

Today. Built with tires. The finest kind.

 

[GrandPaBrogan]

^ Those broken branches poking out of the tree trunks look like jungle booby-traps in some Rambo movie! Hope that's the only one you have to make sure you don't crash into. Yikes ?

 

[HORSPWR]

NO...1940 rider.looking for an even more comfortable “easy chair”saddle!

Found it..!!!!!

 

[HORSPWR]

Fuckin big chair that mate ! ?

I think it's a gallows!

 

[MrBrownstone]

^ Those broken branches poking out of the tree trunks look like jungle booby-traps in some Rambo movie! Hope that's the only one you have to make sure you don't crash into. Yikes ?

leaving booby traps keeps out the riff raff haha.

 

[Zimmerframe]

leaving booby traps keeps out the riff raff haha.

They do that around you too ??? There's a few trails here which have booby traps randomly hanging - I've still not worked out why ..

 

[steve_sordy]

^ Those broken branches poking out of the tree trunks look like jungle booby-traps in some Rambo movie! Hope that's the only one you have to make sure you don't crash into. Yikes ?

I carry a folding saw in my backpack. On my regular riding area, if I see anything like that and it is where I could imagine myself hitting it, I cut it off.

I was out with two buddies two weeks ago and one introduced two of us to a new trail he had found. It was absolutely ace. He warned us about a low branch that was at below head height and obscured by foliage. He wasn't kidding I only just made it underneath and the guy behind me was knocked off his bike. So I cut if off. It was about 4.5" diameter, long and heavy. The trail is much safer now.

 

[AdamM]

Stick of the day!
No damage somehow...

 

[Hobo Mikey]

Wow you were lucky no damage. I would go buy a lotto ticket.

 

[MrBrownstone]

Stick of the day!
No damage somehow...
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holy smokes you lucky!!!

 

[MrBrownstone]

lovely 23 miler before work this morning. Weather and trail conditions can’t be beat. BMC baby!!!?

 

[klevtik]

Some local trails

 

[Nicho]

An evening Horse and Dog walk ..

That's not a horse or a dog................................it's a bike.

 

[Nicho]

An evening Horse

How do they differ from morning horses?

 

[MrBrownstone]

Aaaaaand a 24.5 miler before work this morning. So fast so fun and never another soul to be seen.?

 

[GrandPaBrogan]

leaving booby traps keeps out the riff raff haha.

They do that around you too ???

I'll see your ONE booby-trap ... and err uhm... raise you...
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a MILLION booby-traps!!!

We were headed to Queenstown, NZ during our MTB South Island holiday last April 2019. We were driving through the Cadrona Valley when we came across this barbed-wire fence!

There's a few trails here which have booby traps randomly hanging - I've still not worked out why ..

I actually worked out one possible explanation as to why something like this could happen. Here's the short version (pre-Covid):
• Back packer German tourist decides to walk from Wanaka to Queenstown. Trust me, most of the ones that walk seem to be German. Got a bit hot so decided to have a change of clothes by the roadside. Took her bra off, hung it on a fence to repack her bag... but then forgot all about it, when she headed off in a hurry.
• A day later, a bus load of Japanese lady tourists pulls over for a cafe stop, right next to the said fence. Trust me, the bus load tours are almost always from Asia. They see the bra, and think that it's a New Zealand tradition... so they all do it (cross cultural mix-up). Time goes by and several bus-loads later... ta da... the mother of all booby-traps!
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[#lazy]

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I'll see your ONE booby-trap ... and err uhm... raise you...
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♥♠♦♣
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a MILLION booby-traps!!!

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We were headed to Queenstown, NZ during our MTB South Island holiday last April 2019. We were driving through the Cadrona Valley when we came across this barbed-wire fence!



I actually worked out one possible explanation as to why something like this could happen. Here's the short version (pre-Covid):
• Back packer German tourist decides to walk from Wanaka to Queenstown. Trust me, most of the ones that walk seem to be German. Got a bit hot so decided to have a change of clothes by the roadside. Took her bra off, hung it on a fence to repack her bag... but then forgot all about it, when she headed off in a hurry.
• A day later, a bus load of Japanese lady tourists pulls over for a cafe stop, right next to the said fence. Trust me, the bus load tours are almost always from Asia. They see the bra, and think that it's a New Zealand tradition... so they all do it (cross cultural mix-up). Time goes by and several bus-loads later... ta da... the mother of all booby-traps!
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I’m hanging a pair of the mrs undies on the front tomorrow ?

 

[GrandPaBrogan]

I’m hanging a pair of the mrs undies on the front tomorrow ?

I don't know if it's necessarily gonna work over there.

There's something about New Zealand... and barbed-wire fences... and No.8 wire.
Drives tourists crazy and works like a magnet.

Here's another one we came across few days later. Can't remember exactly where... some obscure back country road near Ophir, Central Otago. Same story I guess... some tourist bought a cheap bike that inevitably broke down. Couldn't be bothered to push it and get it fixed so just left it leaning on the fence and continued his NZ adventure on foot. Then other camper van tourists drove past and saw the bike and thought it was a NZ tradition (cross cultural mix-up)... you know how the story goes... ?

 

[HORSPWR]

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I'll see your ONE booby-trap ... and err uhm... raise you...
.
.
.
♥♠♦♣
.
.
.
a MILLION booby-traps!!!

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We were headed to Queenstown, NZ during our MTB South Island holiday last April 2019. We were driving through the Cadrona Valley when we came across this barbed-wire fence!



I actually worked out one possible explanation as to why something like this could happen. Here's the short version (pre-Covid):
• Back packer German tourist decides to walk from Wanaka to Queenstown. Trust me, most of the ones that walk seem to be German. Got a bit hot so decided to have a change of clothes by the roadside. Took her bra off, hung it on a fence to repack her bag... but then forgot all about it, when she headed off in a hurry.
• A day later, a bus load of Japanese lady tourists pulls over for a cafe stop, right next to the said fence. Trust me, the bus load tours are almost always from Asia. They see the bra, and think that it's a New Zealand tradition... so they all do it (cross cultural mix-up). Time goes by and several bus-loads later... ta da... the mother of all booby-traps!
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There's a couple of big suckers in there, would've loved to have seen the owners ?

 

[DeezNutzz]

Y’all about a lot of E-Power

 

[Errol1098]

 

[Hobo Mikey]

About an hour ago No I never went across the fields, there’s a single track road just to the right of pic.

 

[jsharpe]

Potential Indiana Jones moment. Not the place to get distracted with the view or bad timing with a bunny hop

 

[Pivot]

Potential Indiana Jones moment. Not the place to get distracted with the view or bad timing with a bunny hop

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I see some nails sticking out

 

[Zimmerframe]

I see some nails sticking out

They're safety nails. If you fall, hopefully one or more will rip through your flesh and hold you in place, so you don't plummet to you death !