Malcolm Park Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 July is Le Tour de France month, the greatest cycle race on the planet, so the theme is Pedal Power. I’m looking for any pedal powered transport in action, let’s see who wins the yellow jersey. I will kick off with this. Good luck all! Geraint Thomas speeding up Whitehall.. Hero Ride on The Mall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dufushead Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Sprint finish in Stratford-upon Avon of the Aviva Women's Cycle Tour Warwickshire stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inchiquin Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Riding high: Looking rough at the end of a long ride: Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynne Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Amsterdam Museumplein (Museum Square) Amsterdam Magere Brug (Skinny Bridge)Kinderdijk near Rotterdam.wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManWay Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Excellent challenge, not into racing, but love my bike! Angler cycling along Roker Pier, Sunderland Trick Cyclist knocks little boy's hat off Panned shot of lady cyclist on veteran bicycle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abiyoyo Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 My three ones: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Congrats on your well deserved win Malcolm! Fun challenge and some great ones already! Here are three from me. 1) Mountain biking on Molokai, Hawaii 2) Couple trail riding on the island of Nevis 3) Riding in paradise, Nevis, West Indies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdh Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Female Riksha Rider with a dying Kermit mounted... Taking a ride through the German meadows Riding in the Rain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 A young well-wisher with a Union Flag at the top of my street, Tour de France/London A trenchant opinion next to the Olympic park, London Pay-nothing-and-display ticket on my bike, Mechelen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Morley Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Great challenge – cycling is a long-term passion of mine. I hope it is OK to include a couple of oldies. The pic of Eddy Merckx has done well, including a licence that popped up this morning. Track cycling; Herne Hill track, London, UK – 1967 Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome; UK Cycling National Championships, 2009 Eddy Merckx; cycling World Championships– 1970 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Kiwi power-pedalers touring Vancouver, Canada Reclining power-pedaler at Car Free Day festival, Vancouver Pedal Power on Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 I could have sworn I didn't have any but there is one.....It is pretty typical of Greenwich Village with the unlikely corner of Waverly and Waverly and bikes locked to the fence. Lots of these fences have notices that bikes will be forcibly taken off......Many NO BIKES signs but not here. Maybe they belong to the resident. DPE3A9 Bicycles parked at the corner of Waverly Place and Waverly Place, Greenwich Village, NYC Paulette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Crean Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Ok here goes.... Carnival power! No pedals power! Panning power! Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotoDogue Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Nigel Sylvester and Futura 2000 at the Bowery Mural Cyclist making deliveries during a winter storm. Bicycle commuters on Riverwalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DickJ Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Bicycles in front of hotel, Copenhagen, Denmark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Woods Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 My three Well loaded in India Our son who knows exactly what puddles are for The Kingdom Trails in Vermont Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Winter commute, Brisbane, Australia Curious quokkas checking out bicycle, Rottnest Island, Western Australia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariaJ Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Here's one, at the Skagit Valley Tulip festival in Washington State. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Curious quokkas checking out bicycle, Rottnest Island, Western Australia Wow, these large critters ambush bikers? Cheers, Philippe ..and eat them. Helmet, tight shorts, GoPro and all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Not sure if mine will win the yellow jersey Cyclist riding The Muur van Geraardsbergen / Grammont, part of the Tour of Flanders and the chapel Our Lady of the Old Mountain, Belgium Cheers, Philippe Thanks, Philippe, you've just provided us with a stop-off on our annual trip to Germany. It's about time we did more in Belgium than just pass through again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Curious quokkas checking out bicycle, Rottnest Island, Western Australia Wow, these large critters ambush bikers? Cheers, Philippe I never heard of these beasts so I Googled and from mentalfloss.com I found this... "Journalist Kenneth Cook learned the hard way when he tried to befriend a quokka along a dirt road. Cook noted the animal’s “small, mean mouth,” but decided it was probably too small to do much damage. “It was a malicious-looking beast,” he wrote in his 1987 book Wombat Revenge, but he wasn’t afraid. He offered the little animal a piece of apple, which the quokka spat out, and a crumb of gorgonzola cheese. The quokka popped the gorgonzola into its mouth, chewed, and then, Cook says, “fell down in a dead faint.” Convinced he’d just poisoned the creature and determined to save it, Cook zipped the quokka’s body into his backpack, left a little room for air, swung the pack onto his back, and pedaled his bicycle frantically down the road to find help. After a few minutes of bumping along at breakneck speed, the quokka began to revive, and blearily climbed out of the backpack, claws first. Afraid to turn around in case he lost control of his bike, Cook sped onward. The quokka grabbed his neck and began shrieking in his ear. The bike kept going. The shrieking quokka sank its teeth into Cook’s earlobe and hung there, dead weight, like a large, furry earring. Disoriented, the journalist steered his bike off a cliff into the ocean. Surfacing, he looked around and found the quokka standing on the shore, glaring at him and snarling. The story seems incredible, but Cook is far from the winsome creature’s only victim. Teddy-bear ears and doe eyes aside, these animals are ready, willing, and able to fend for themselves. Each year, the Rottnest Island infirmary treats dozens of patients—mostly children—for quokka bites. " Hmmmmmm. I bet you thought you were joking! Paulette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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dustydingo Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Curious quokkas checking out bicycle, Rottnest Island, Western Australia Wow, these large critters ambush bikers? Cheers, Philippe I never heard of these beasts so I Googled and from mentalfloss.com I found this... "Journalist Kenneth Cook learned the hard way when he tried to befriend a quokka along a dirt road. Cook noted the animal’s “small, mean mouth,” but decided it was probably too small to do much damage. “It was a malicious-looking beast,” he wrote in his 1987 book Wombat Revenge, but he wasn’t afraid. He offered the little animal a piece of apple, which the quokka spat out, and a crumb of gorgonzola cheese. The quokka popped the gorgonzola into its mouth, chewed, and then, Cook says, “fell down in a dead faint.” Convinced he’d just poisoned the creature and determined to save it, Cook zipped the quokka’s body into his backpack, left a little room for air, swung the pack onto his back, and pedaled his bicycle frantically down the road to find help. After a few minutes of bumping along at breakneck speed, the quokka began to revive, and blearily climbed out of the backpack, claws first. Afraid to turn around in case he lost control of his bike, Cook sped onward. The quokka grabbed his neck and began shrieking in his ear. The bike kept going. The shrieking quokka sank its teeth into Cook’s earlobe and hung there, dead weight, like a large, furry earring. Disoriented, the journalist steered his bike off a cliff into the ocean. Surfacing, he looked around and found the quokka standing on the shore, glaring at him and snarling. The story seems incredible, but Cook is far from the winsome creature’s only victim. Teddy-bear ears and doe eyes aside, these animals are ready, willing, and able to fend for themselves. Each year, the Rottnest Island infirmary treats dozens of patients—mostly children—for quokka bites. " Hmmmmmm. I bet you thought you were joking! Paulette If I submitted a photo as far removed from reality as that piece, there'd not be a big enough "digitally altered" button to cover it And as for quokka's "biting" . . . well, as the article referenced above says, "The animals can be approached so closely that they regularly NIP the fingertips of children who get too close" . . . digitally altered indeed If you want to talk about really dangerous Australian animals, cyclists should beware the . . . drop-bears!! dd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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