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• #77
Go to sleep Nelaii!!! haha feeling any better?.
says you?! you bailed on the others last night to catch up on sleep?! Never heard that story about Hannah, haha!!! much mockage coming up...
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• #78
Had a few close shaves when the canal was my regular commute.
Beware autumn wet leaves and cobbles.
And ice.Keeps the heartrate up sometimes.
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• #79
Friend of mine used to live on narrow boat near Little Venice years ago.
He told me that once he saw a dead dog in the water and reported it to the Waterways people.
Some Waterways bloke comes along and fishes out the dog, then puts in a black binliner, adds a couple of rocks and chucks it back in!!Haha, shades of a classic peep show episode.
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• #80
Rather than come to my friend's aid, this guys logic was to take his phone out, raise it above his head to keep it dry, then jump in the canal, to keep himself safe from the muggers. Once my pal was finished with being mugged, the guy in the canal asked for help to get out, which was politely declined.
I can't even begin to imagine the thought process behind that!
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• #81
Rather than come to my friend's aid, this guys logic was to take his phone out, raise it above his head to keep it dry, then jump in the canal, to keep himself safe from the muggers. Once my pal was finished with being mugged, the guy in the canal asked for help to get out, which was politely declined.
Ahahaha, that's amazing. Karma in action.
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• #82
Thanks - I will do. feel totally fine 72 hours later - so fingers crossed.
suggestion to change your name to splash?
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• #83
This thread is comedy gold.
Glad you are all well.
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• #84
I went in at the end of last summer. One night, dark, with my girlfriend, after a few beers. Came down the ramp at De Beauvoir, around the corner, saw some peds on the path so rode around them on the far side from the canal (next to the cafe, which was closed, and Route Canal). Once I was past them, I started to merge back onto the tow path. Didn't see there was a small curb there (to separate the cafe from the tow path, I guess. Absolutely dumb) and it knocked me off balance and I went in. Good laughs for everyone. Lost my glasses, hat, and knackered my fairly new HTC Desire.
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• #85
Final installment: we got the lock back using our massive magnet on a rope. Bit slimy with water weed and rats' wee. But otherwise fine.
Thanks everyone for cheering me up!
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• #86
lol. Quality thread!
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• #87
should we get t-shirts made?
"I haz tasted the canal"?
or
"le splish"
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• #88
DId this 2 years ago after riding along the canal 16miles aday 5 days aweek..
Coming around the corner I heard a noise and drfited off course coming upto
a bling corner. Some one came around the corner and we did the left right left dance
he went into my back wheel which catapulted myself, bike and bag into the canal.
water was upto my chest I managed to pull myself and bike out no problem.
His wheel smashed into picecs I was wet we called it even.
I cut my hand and bruised a rib really bad in a sbit of shock I rode the 4miles to work
soaking wet as it was a sunny morning.
I pulled my phone apart and let it dry out for a day and it was fine.
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• #89
Final installment: we got the lock back using our massive magnet on a rope. Bit slimy with water weed and rats' wee. But otherwise fine.
Thanks everyone for cheering me up!
Glad you got your lock back. I was going to suggest you contact the Lock keeper for help.
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• #90
Glad you got your lock back. I was going to suggest you contact the Lock keeper for help.
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• #91
Inaugural (post)outing as a Regent's Canal diver. Two years ago I was new to commuting in London and thought the canal path would be safer. Ridiculous notion on a 23c hybrid as I now know. Approaching the Camden flyover, from W, I somehow hit a mooring post and launched massively into the middle of the wet bit. It was spectacularly busy. Apart from a minor thrutch when my shoulder bag dragged me back under, the crowd's applause on the bridge was justified. They even helped me find my bike in the f$cking freezing water.
Lost a mobile, bag of groceries, and the notion that canal paths are for bikes. Have since given up surfing and ordered up a BJ which I'll be bugging you about how to build in the relevant fora.
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• #92
don't underestimate weil's disease..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/26/weils-disease-andy-holmes
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• #93
weils disease is very serious. it can cause death. something definately to look out for. the only good thing is its not very easy to catch. working at a kayaking club which has been running for almost 30 years, in the whole time we have had two cases of it, both being instructors who worked at other sites around london, and we have the kids jumping, and rolling kayaks all summer long.
but it is worth getting checked if flu-ey symptoms begin.
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• #94
Also water inside your frame - well done on getting the lock back splat, but if the inside of your steel frame got wet you should use some of this:
Or some motor oil if you're feeling poor.
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• #95
according to a police diver friend of friend, its the huge and hungry ex pet snapper turtles that are scariest thing about the canals.
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• #96
this thread's great.
who knew so many forumengers had tried canal?
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• #97
yea canal is good,even if a little dirty.
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• #98
Also water inside your frame - well done on getting the lock back splat, but if the inside of your steel frame got wet you should use some of this:
Or some motor oil if you're feeling poor.
Thanks. Good suggestion as I am a little worried about the frame's inside. I started to take the seat post off but it looked bone dry so didn't take it off. But maybe I should.
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• #99
weils disease is very serious. it can cause death. something definately to look out for. the only good thing is its not very easy to catch. working at a kayaking club which has been running for almost 30 years, in the whole time we have had two cases of it, both being instructors who worked at other sites around london, and we have the kids jumping, and rolling kayaks all summer long.
but it is worth getting checked if flu-ey symptoms begin.
Two weeks after my dip in the canal - no symptoms of Weil's disease and am not growing green algae on my skin.
So - guess I am ok!
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• #100
Can you help find my friends lost bike?
My friend had just finished off a bike. A nice little Viking single speed with Chta Leigh chain-set, white Blumel's lightweights mudguards. 27" wheels. It's not a very expensive bike, but she really loved it. It was her first build and it's maiden voyage.
Unfortunately while riding along the canal on NYE she lost her balance on the cobbles and fell into the canal at the top of a bridge. It was quite a stressful ordeal to fish her out as there was no toe path and the middle of the night. She was lucky to get out unhurt after falling from such a hight. She was quite battered, brused and in shock.....not the best start to the new year, but at least she is alive.
She returned the next day and could clearly see the bike. we returned an hour later with rope, but the bike had been fished out by someone. she is gutted, and would love to be re-united with her bike. It was at the edge of Victoria park, at the T point of the canal. Between Bridge Wharf, Bow Wharf and Tilburg House.
Any help please?
A friend of mine got mugged on the canal by victoria park late one night last summer.
He was riding along and had just overtaken one pedestrian, then was stopped by 2 undesirables. Turns out the person he overtook had nothing to do with it, and on spotting the mugging going on infront of him....
Rather than come to my friend's aid, this guys logic was to take his phone out, raise it above his head to keep it dry, then jump in the canal, to keep himself safe from the muggers. Once my pal was finished with being mugged, the guy in the canal asked for help to get out, which was politely declined.