Pic of the Day
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Pivot
E*POWAH Master
I am still shopping for my eMTB... in the meantime, does this count?
GrandPaBrogan
⚡ eGeezer ⚡
Not too sure... but I suspect that the sight of soap suds could get @Zimmerframe a bit excited...
Lovely, what beach is that?
Ace Freely
Active member
Rat Pac, Cle Elum Washington Stare.
MrBrownstone
Well-known member
Today. Built with tires. The finest kind.
GrandPaBrogan
⚡ eGeezer ⚡
^ 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
E*POWAH Master
HORSPWR
E*POWAH Master
I think it's a gallows!
MrBrownstone
Well-known member
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
Wedding Crasher
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.
Wow you were lucky no damage. I would go buy a lotto ticket. 
MrBrownstone
Well-known member
holy smokes you lucky!!!
MrBrownstone
Well-known member
lovely 23 miler before work this morning. Weather and trail conditions can’t be beat. BMC baby!!!?
That's not a horse or a dog................................it's a bike.
How do they differ from morning horses?
MrBrownstone
Well-known member
Aaaaaand a 24.5 miler before work this morning. So fast so fun and never another soul to be seen.?
GrandPaBrogan
⚡ eGeezer ⚡
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!
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 ?View attachment 33683
I'll see your ONE booby-trap
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♥♠♦♣
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a MILLION booby-traps!!!
View attachment 33681
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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GrandPaBrogan
⚡ eGeezer ⚡
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...
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HORSPWR
E*POWAH Master
There's a couple of big suckers in there, would've loved to have seen the owners ?View attachment 33683
I'll see your ONE booby-trap
.
.
.
♥♠♦♣
.
.
.
a MILLION booby-traps!!!
View attachment 33681
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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Errol1098
Active member
About an hour ago No I never went across the fields, there’s a single track road just to the right of pic.
Pivot
E*POWAH Master
Potential Indiana Jones moment. Not the place to get distracted with the view or bad timing with a bunny hop
View attachment 33709
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 !I see some nails sticking out
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