Operation Saddo - Sod this I'm off again..........

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Touring in Dec....

Suits you sir....


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Arty fatty doo daa ..

My incredible luck with the weather continues.

Bone dry, 12 deg and blue skies.

Cash back


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So I get digs near Riaño.

It’s a lovely place,and I’m sure we’ll know to lots o here.

Photo bumble and a bit of food.

Tomorrow will be a long one as the haul homewards starts.

Still, a lot more bends to carve up before Blighty I’m sure.


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At the convergence of a few valleys, it’s a beautiful place.

Water and hills.

What’s not to like ....


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Pretty place.

Right bed time.

It’s going to be a fab day tomorrow, parade at 0800 with your thermals.......


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Oh brilliant.

Easily best deal ever.

Waterproof and ok to walk in

They look ok too

So all in all a big success


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Day 10

You know I mentioned thermals.......

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When I load bike there are a group of workmen waiting for their ride to work, their look is one of...,

“so bastard inglese is loading his bike in his pants socks and t shirt, fucking idiot.”

It’s a fair point as I check the oat and it’s minus 3, I recon that’s just ice on the sensor and it’ll change.........


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I’m right......

After 500m I look down and it’s minus 6 !!!

Fucks sake......

Is my luck with the weather turning ??

Can I stay dirty side down ??

Will it heat up out of the shadows of high ground ??

Will a Bel Vita sustain me in these temperatures ??

Will my willy unfreeze and get back to full size ??

All these questions and more when you tune in next week .......

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Between the d2d canvassing and leafleting and the mindless Brexit interviews on tv this thread is the only thing keeping me going. But what’s this, a list of questions and a piccy of some ice. I feel short-changed, like a drug addict issued with only half the usual dose. FFS man you need to eat, sleep and ride faster because I’m now (apparently) checking this great thread twice a day!:rolleyes:
 
I don’t do distraught.

I adapt and overcome. :)


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Just catching up, was hoping for some over-"coming" action of the bum-boxing variety (never heard it described like that before)
Shame there's been no willing victims to carry out a purely scientific exploration of just how disappointing or not you actually might be to the female side of distaff. Self deprecating humour aside, we're not always responsible for others disappointment in us, unless we've promised in blood to be exceptional in every respect.
Glad to hear that you're keeping up your rectal hygiene protocols... (with a broom???)
 
So it’s fucking freezing as I wobble precariously along towards the coast.

The road is good and I’ll defo do this in better conditions again.

Saving grace is that it’s bone dry and the snow is only at the side.

As water flows down the hills and crosses the road there are a few mini slicks of ice, I adopt the wings level and Hope approach, it works.

Only regret is I don’t stop to get a photo of the impressive icicles on my left, too cold if I’m honest.


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I look ahead and can see the sun shining on the crest up ahead.

I don’t much fancy going down the other side of this in slippery conditions so I’m hoping that things change.

I need a sign......

Something to make me think of happy things.....

Bikes......

Women......

Whatever.....

As I approach the summit of the pass the sun beams down and then like an oasis it appears.

I know this look......

It’s had many a GS legend visit...

It’s like a beacon of good in a mountainous pile of cold sick ......

It’s this.......


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I genuinely had no idea where it was, but gloves off for pics and it rises to plus 4 deg.

It’s clearly a UKGS sign that all will be right.

I’m so excited I ooze our a tiny bit of sex piss into my badlands pro and decide to celebrate by getting my micro stove out and brewing up.

It’s fucking brilliant.

I love riding bikes......

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Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for a bit of poon tang and all star no limits boning, but I think I’d rather be doing this.

It costs less.....

It feels better......

I don’t have to wash my curtains afterwards....


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Anyway., I hop back on, as the road goes down the temperature goes up.

As I break out of the hills the valley roads are great and it’s about 10 deg.

Honk it north and break out just west of Santander.

I deserve a good coffee so pull over and find a nice little place to have a good break.

It’s very cute and the girl who greets me is a total honey. Her name badge says “spanner”, very appropriate as she’s made my nuts tighten immediately.

Someone once said to me that one day you’ll be riding along somewhere and pull in and you’ll accidentally bump into the most amazing girl quite by chance...........


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Thanks DT and SS

Yes I’m a great believer in living off what you’re surrounded by, whether that be making food in a forest on burning bits of tree, or indeed keeping your sphincter sparkling with the latest in Spanish drain clearance technology :)


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