I have noticed that most of these 'Poots' are through exotic and interesting terrain. In contrast I thought I would take you on, what is, my monthly Streatham>Waterloo commute; a 'Com-mootal.

Here is 'One Man on a Brommie!'

Brom waiting and eager to kick off in Streatham

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Backstreet Streatham. Property DNA? Mutant Houses! How does it work? I'll tell you.

If a burglar breaks in, the building takes a DNA sample, analyses it and then using a heuristic algorithm talks to the intruder, "I can't let you do that, Dave!" and proceeds to starve the room of oxygen whilst singing "Daisy, daisy, give me your answer do!"

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Brom waits to cross the 'Sarf Circular'; part of the ring of pollution encompassing London.

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Brom likes pubs. He takes me to many but we resist the Windmill on Clapham Common.

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The cycle lane through the common.

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A cycle-lane, of sorts on a sensitive bridge.

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Can you guess what this is? The Thunderbird II launch pad, a ski jump or solar panels to power a train station?

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I'm not at liberty to tell you what goes on in this building; hush, hush, official secrets act and all that.

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Woman on a racer; lovely calfs - Embankment, Lambeth. I whizz past her, because I can.

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The corridors of corruption. The clock at the end is Saint Stephen's Tower which contains Big Ben, a bell.
Spiney Norman is still looking for Dinsdale.

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nice brommie i wish i could afford 1 :D, that building has a ramp!, rawr hedgehog!

woah nice journey! i wish my bike journeys would be that interesting!, your brompton fits very snug under that seat. if you cross a elephant with a giraffe and a pyramid you get a elephant on stilts balancing a pyramid on its back! :D genius :D

Yes indeed! I cannot recommend a Brommie enough - It's like riding ART! If Michelangelo were alive, what would he pootle about on?

Sonic!

I can recommend a Brommie bigtime! :P

Thanks for the London tour Nigel. Some very nice bits that you DONT get to see as a tourist :) You sure do eat healthy compared to what I had on my recent trip to Sumatra.

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"Will that be with comb, or no comb, Sir?" :) Pic - C Wee

Fellow Brompton owner too...

Is 'eye of newt' in there. That meal has to be for some voodoo ritual. :eek:

Nigel is a voodoo expert

He practices on pedestrians lol :P

So Nigel, you commute from an expensive pad in London to a low paid job in Southampton? Surely you have that backwards! SouthWest allows folders at all times, and even those stopping trains have space for full size bikes too. I reckon they might be the best of the train companies for this. Next time I don't get on the fast train, I'll try my Mini under those seats....

I didn't measure the space under the seat but to the top of the Brom saddle is 66cm and the height is about 32cm.

I actually eek a living in the 'Smoke' and it's a commute in that I do it regularly.
As for an expensive pad in London, you obviously don't know Streatham.

Eat your heart out, Spiny Norman..

Brill. I always thought that, if God had a bicycle, it would be a Brompton, whereas Satan almost certainly has a Downtube...

I doubt that God would ride anthing that didn't come with a wicker basket on the front, and as for the devil, orange just wouldn't cut it, - have to be black or red for Beelzebub ! But either way, he still has the best tunes.

Actually, I do, but I also know that it's considerably more expensive than a similarly salubrious area hereabouts, for instance. However the "london, Southampton" thing had me thinking you lived here and commuted to london.

Myself and a number of friends spent some time discussing what God's car would look like. Clearly it would be chopped, lowered and with ridiculously wide tyres (in a 50s way, rather than a barry boy Saxo way), but instead of black with flames, it would be blue with clouds. In other news, Downtubes in Devil Black were so popular they've sold out. Now only available in Holy White and Acid Casualty Orange.

"Acid Casualty Orange."


Yes.


Mulleady was quite taken with the orange bike at the weekend. I thought it looked a bit 'sporty'.

Wonderful Pootling Nigelme!
Although I'm sad to see you didn't take a snap outside Cynthia Payne's old 'pad' ;O

I must take some myself next time I'm out..

four words for that oldiesonfoldies..... eww! a chickens head! :D

I have pictures of Madame Cyn's place but they're only fit for a very different type of forum. :innocent:

Can't help but think that the oily chainwheel is dangerously close to that white dress!

I have both! What am I?

An 'unspecified deity' can afford the best but as long as 'one of his fallen angels' is on a folder he's alright by me. ;)

I would appreciate it much if jokes did not include the name of God. :(

Jur, he did not included the name of God, God is like Dad, but Dad is not the name of every Dad, God's name depends on which god are you talking about.

But just to say I don't feel my Downtube could be driven by Satan, because I feel like in HEAVEN when I driving my 8FS, very cool bike! Yan should be a God messenger, for all of us wanting a nice bike in an affordable price.

Regards

Thanks Tovar you are right. :) I suppose I should have made it clearer, it's about more frivolous referral to God.

But I definitely don't want to make any further remarks... just wanted to let peeps know how I feel...

Pootle away! :thumb:

We have the devil visiting Oz right now, he's not riding a Downtube though, but he's dressed in a white dressing gown and red shoes....."All I have to do in click my heels 3 times and say.."There's no place like home?" :innocent:

more pootling! :D i love the pic's :D

Here is a tip for pic facilitation. Only costs about US$0.50: http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=135378

(This is also good for snapping pics of cars parked in the bike lane. If it is a taxi or limo and you are NYC, you can report it to the TLC: http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/pas...omplaint.shtml)

Yes, I'm all for religious pleuralism, but the evidence is difficult to refute: http://www.venganza.org/. Note the FSM's appearance on PubMed and in a cactus on Potrero hill in Potrero Hill. (SF is the home of the most devout followers. Coincidence? I think not.)

(*Not directed at anyone's views. Just here for fun. Everyone loves a sighting, no?)

Just a small appetite whetter to the pootle thread...

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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...............

Jur, Looks like the Yeah got the serious 'treatment' .. You two look great!!

i like the reach :D