What does your day look like?

[Tubbsy]

Yeah, fond memories of riding red rattlers home from school, with the doors you could manually open while the train was in motion and stand there half in and half out of the carriage. Always a bit of a buzz.

 

[Mr Crudley]

Once again, Thank you @Oddjob for putting me onto this place!

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More interesting Viet tasty things.

Behold the impulsive buy of Avocado ice cream, espresso coffee, brown pearls, shredded coconut and coconut pudding.

 

[Oddjob]

More interesting Viet tasty things.

Behold the impulsive buy of Avocado ice cream, espresso coffee, brown pearls, shredded coconut and coconut pudding.

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Wow you have gone umm... native isn't the right adverb... Eurasian.

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[pink poodle]

Ooohh....parked near the intercity train toilet block up's the dodgy scale.

Not true! Toilet in opposite end. This would have been the guard's or driver's compartment in the old days. That part of the compartment is now all sealed up. When traveling with a bike, this is the holy grail of carriages on an old train. It can also be a popular spot for creeps and wierdos.

The amount of kms these trains have done must be huge. Makes the new questionable trains even more questionable.

Best colour scheme ever. Funk those trains.

Many many many kilometres. They've certainly done their work.

Yeah, fond memories of riding red rattlers home from school, with the doors you could manually open while the train was in motion and stand there half in and half out of the carriage. Always a bit of a buzz.

My parents thought a 1 hour each way train ride for years 7-9 would do a teenage poodle the world of good. How wrong they were. Unsupervised teenagers on an old red rattler was a recipe for trouble.

 

[Mr Crudley]

Wow you have gone umm... native isn't the right adverb... Eurasian.

Yanguizi the Barbarian works for me
I have been visiting this little cafe for some time now and sampling their menu of awesome tasty treats.

 

[Mr Crudley]

Not true! Toilet in opposite end. This would have been the guard's or driver's compartment in the old days. That part of the compartment is now all sealed up. When traveling with a bike, this is the holy grail of carriages on an old train. It can also be a popular spot for creeps and wierdos.

Many many many kilometres. They've certainly done their work.

They are fine trains. always habdy to have a bathroom on hand for those longish trips. They still have the bike hanging hook there too?

 

[Oddjob]

Yanguizi the Barbarian works for me
I have been visiting this little cafe for some time now and sampling their menu of awesome tasty treats.

But that's the problem. You're becoming less gui-gui.

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[Mr Crudley]

But that's the problem. You're becoming less gui-gui.

Well, potatoes and steak haven't ever been really high on my to-do list

 

[Mr Crudley]

Yeah, fond memories of riding red rattlers home from school, with the doors you could manually open while the train was in motion and stand there half in and half out of the carriage. Always a bit of a buzz.

Just a joy to ride at the middle or summer and dead of winter. I am not a huge fan of air conditioning everywhere but those red rattlers were tough trains in many ways.

 

[pink poodle]

Just a joy to ride at the middle or summer and dead of winter. I am not a huge fan of air conditioning everywhere but those red rattlers were tough trains in many ways.

All the doors and all the windows open was the way to roll, winter or summer.

Well, potatoes and steak haven't ever been really high on my to-do list

 

[Mr Crudley]

All the doors and all the windows open was the way to roll, winter or summer.

Most of the time they were down. Spot on. Still remember very well getting slowly baked on the way home in summer from the city.
A hot, humid armpit smell slow ride.

If your cooking @pink poodle then I'm all in. Trying to find a slow red rattler to take me to God's country at Newcastle as we speak.
The rasta wooden thing - is it a salt and pepper shaker or table place holder has me won over.

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[Oddjob]

Most of the time they were down. Spot on. Still remember very well getting slowly baked on the way home in summer from the city.
A hot, humid armpit smell slow ride.

Go to London and you can have that year round on the tube.

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[Mr Crudley]

Go to London and you can have that year round on the tube.

I can wait happily wait for that 'experience'

 

[Dales Cannon]

Went for a paddle (again) and about 100m out a stingray, maybe 1.5m across, flew across the bow above head height. First thought, that was cool, second thought, that was a bit close, third thought some time later, what the hell was chasing that?

 

[Freediver]

Went for a paddle (again) and about 100m out a stingray, maybe 1.5m across, flew across the bow above head height. First thought, that was cool, second thought, that was a bit close, third thought some time later, what the hell was chasing that?

 

[dirtdad]

When traveling with a bike, this is the holy grail of carriages on an old train. It can also be a popular spot for creeps and wierdos.

You know what it means when you can't spot the creepy weirdos anymore right...
You are the creepy weirdo.

 

[silentbutdeadly]

Went for a paddle (again) and about 100m out a stingray, maybe 1.5m across, flew across the bow above head height. First thought, that was cool, second thought, that was a bit close, third thought some time later, what the hell was chasing that?

You're lucky it didn't case the landing...

 

[pink poodle]

You know what it means when you can't spot the creepy weirdos anymore right...
You are the creepy weirdo.

That has always been the case here. Without trying I am often the reason people change carriages.

 

[beeb]

I feel I am the new leader in the MTB Direct absurd packaging sweepstakes (the dropper post in there was the only thing in this order):

 

[Mr Crudley]

I feel I am the new leader in the MTB Direct absurd packaging sweepstakes (the dropper post in there was the only thing in this order):

This packaging stupid really does my head in. Considering that people always grumble about shipping taking too long know that 1/4 full boxes full of air are being ferried around is hard to deal with.