A Ride of Guns ‘n’ Roses

Strangest thing while out riding today - I saw someone riding on the other side of the road with what I thought was a fishing rod in a rod bag sticking out of the top of their rucksack. When they got nearer, I realised it was a gun - some sort of a rifle. I would have stopped him to take a photo, but this was in Ashington, where it doesn’t pay to ask questions of people carrying guns.

Suffice to say that he wasn’t as stylish as this chap:

Then a couple of miles later on my favourite bit of diverting cycle route, I near enough rode into this:

So there you go - cycling really is the new rock’n'roll.

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2 Responses to “ A Ride of Guns ‘n’ Roses ”

  1. gnomethang on July 25, 2011 at 9:59 pm

    New Borg attachment from the last photo. Scary though.

  2. dr2chase on July 31, 2011 at 2:34 pm

    I often enough carry some hand hedge trimmers. Several people (including me) hand-prune all the non-thorny bushes intruding into the local MUP as we ride by — helps the eye-hand coordination, helps for practicing balance-in-adversity (especially when riding no-hands).