2014 FOC-U Bike Picture Challenge

[dazza]

Good one Red,  well done for braving the wet weather.
Thought it might be poignant as it coincides with remembrance for the 1 st world war.
Just been down to my sister's living museum where they have recreated a first world war trench system.

[nick crisp]

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Sorry about not keeping the scores up to date folks, here's the leaderboard now:

11 challenges completed:
dazza

7 challenges completed:
Fizzy Pies, nick crisp, red98

6 challenges completed:
risticuss

5 challenges completed:
demic77

3 challenges completed:
AllyBally, NorthWestern

2 challenges completed:
HarryHornby, Jdalt

1 challenge completed:
hightower, mr self destruct, robby boy

The challenges so far:
Your bike:
1. next to a flooded field - dazza
2.by a steam locomotive - red98
3. by a gold post box - Jdalt
4. next to a windmill - demic77
5. next to an ocean-going ship - nick crisp
6. next to a reservoir dam - Fizzy Pies
7. by some daffodils at the road side - demic77
8. next to a mine or quarry - Fizzy Pies
9. at a canal lock - demic77
10. next to a military base - nick crisp
11. sign for a Roman antiquity - Jdalt
12. rollercoaster - demic77
13. castle - dazza
14. flag of your country - demic77
15. statue of a great Briton - mr self destruct
16. classic/vintage vehicle - red98
17. national park - nick crisp
18. timber-framed pub - risticuss
19. field of oil seed rape - dazza
20. wooded area with carpet of bluebells - red98
21. reflection in a shop window - nick crisp
22. ice cream van - dazza
23. pier in the background - Fizzy Pies
24. some lambs - dazza
25. watermill - red98
26. biker's cafe - dazza
27. flowering Laburnam - Fizzy Pies
28. fork lift truck - risticuss
29. ancient tree/wood - dazza
30. flowering Wisteria - nick crisp
31. stained-glass window - Fizzy Pies
32. pub with 2 animals in the name - risticuss
33. Lido or outdoor swimming pool - dazza
34. by one of H.M.s prisons - Fizzy Pies
35. next to a yellow car - AllyBally
36. at a vineyard - dazza
37. at an aerodrome - risticuss
38. next to a bowling green - NorthWestern
39. outside a hairdresser's - dazza
40. next to a cricket game - Fizzy Pies
41. old red phone box - NorthWestern
42. famous landmark - nick crisp
43. village handpump - hightower
44. church with spire - nick crisp
45. outdoor market - NorthWestern
46. chavved up car - risticuss
47. clock tower - AllyBally
48. pub or house with flags - HarryHornby
49. non league football club - dazza
50. wedding shop, dress displayed in window - HarryHornby
51. village pond with ducks - red98
52. golf course - AllyBally
53. lifeboat station - robby boy
54. boating pond with boats - red98
55. at work - risticuss
56. pub with a "q" in the name - red98

I'll try to be more regular with the updates now, as I do think it promotes keeping things moving and competitive. However, for the new one for 2015, someone else better take over, as I think I will be too busy for much of the year.

[red98]

Ok next challenge....YOUR BIKE AND A CATHDERAL .....scattered around the uk with most citys having one.......

[NorthWestern]

Out nice and early today popping to Blackburn which has.....


A Cathedral (and isn't a City, unlike Preston which is a City but doesn't have a Cathedral!)

[red98]

Great piccie.... :thumbup......lets keep this going, whats the next challenge  ?

[NorthWestern]

Next challenge, your bike next to a local point of interest. 


So, nothing like "This is Big Ben" but something that the locals are proud to point out, preferably with some means to back it up.  Such as the phone box at Dunsop Bridge being the geometric center of Great Britain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunsop_Bridge (even though it isn't exactly, but the locals will tell you about it all day long).

[red98]

Mmmmmm...goooooooood challenge......thats got me thinking 

[ChristoT]

thats got me thinking 

That's dangerous.  :lol :lol

[red98]

Cheeky foccer  :lol........this really is a good challenge, at first I thougt it easy but the more I think about it its not.....ive got an idea and its going to get me on my bike this afternoon, going to visit the village where I was born that has a well known venue that a lot of you will know for one reason...but all is not what it seams......I'll let NORTHWESTERN be the judge....

[red98]

Ok.not sure if this is good enough or not, but it did give me an extra hour on my fazer  :thumbup.......bisham abbey, training ground for the english football team , been on tv loads of times when theres a big match coming up........everyone calls it bisham abbey, I know different, I was born 300yrds down the road and can remember christmas parties in the "great hall" of this great house.....yes.....its a manor house not an abbey, the abbey was close by but thats long gone now......all the locals call it an abbey, but there not true locals, right on the thames 8 miles down stream from henley the town has been taken over by the rich and famous pricing the locals out of the town.....NORTHWESTERN your challenge, is this good enough ?

[NorthWestern]

Perfect

[slimwilly]

Huh  !!!!! if that qualifies then this should also

Today I took the Husqvarna out for a spin on the wet slippy back roads,,quite good fun (after the initial stupid mistake=oops)  :o



Damn, now I cant get the pic up :\ 
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This common is of local interest to me, my dad reckons I was conceived here,,after he got my mum to drink some Strongbow,,he pretended  his Mini van had broken down :lol

[NorthWestern]

Lol slim yours doesn't qualify for multiple reasons... Where's the fazer in shot, it wasn't the first pic response etc..  Plus seeing your bike has made me wonder why I sold my enduro bike

[red98]

Got to do better than that mr willy.....so, you were conceived on a common......thought as much  :pokefun.... :lol

cheers NORTHWESTERN,  I'll see if I can post a new challenge tonight...cant think of anything at the moment  :o

[unfazed]

Huh  !!!!! if that qualifies then this should also

Today I took the Husqvarna out for a spin on the wet slippy back roads,,quite good fun (after the initial stupid mistake=oops)  :o



Damn, now I cant get the pic up :\ 
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This common is of local interest to me, my dad reckons I was conceived here,,after he got my mum to drink some Strongbow,,he pretended  his Mini van had broken down :lol

Does that make you a commoner? :pokefun

[noggythenog]

Huh  !!!!! if that qualifies then this should also

Today I took the Husqvarna out for a spin on the wet slippy back roads,,quite good fun (after the initial stupid mistake=oops)  :o



Damn, now I cant get the pic up :\ 
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This common is of local interest to me, my dad reckons I was conceived here,,after he got my mum to drink some Strongbow,,he pretended  his Mini van had broken down :lol

Nice story slim.......seriously.......big cred for talking from the heart there.......i shed a few tears.....the poetry of life jus gets me like that sometimes you know......like my dad telling me he didnt inderstand coz he thought hed wiped it all on the curtains.

[hairnet]

gorse hill memorial today and manc cathedral

[slimwilly]

(From Noggy )
Nice story slim.......seriously.......big cred for talking from the heart there.......i shed a few tears.....the poetry of life jus gets me like that sometimes you know......like my dad telling me he didnt inderstand coz he thought hed wiped it all on the curtains

Hahahaha :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol , fuck sake Noggy , your dad should of known net curtains of the sixties had moth holes in them :lol :lol :lol :lol

[red98]

Next challenge......I won the last challenge with a picture of a fake abbey at bisham......so the new challenge is ....


                                                    YOUR BIKE AND AN ABBEY......a real one...

[NorthWestern]

A ruin?