Every now and again someone tells me, or tells the world, that things were better in the good old days, when I did breathless following-on-the-bank GoPro videos on my bike.And in one key respect things were indeed better in those days: I was younger :-)
In case you're too young to remember, Mays 2022, Saturday M1 is a good example of the genre. And who could forget those wonderful "pick up" moments when you got to see the towpath and my front wheel.
That video also illustrates a minor problem: CUCBC aren't happy with people filming. Technically, as not a member of the university, I'm not bound by their rules. But as a law-abiding (cough) citizen rule-breaking does distress me a little.
But the real problem is the inevitability, at some point, of something terrible happening. Particularly on wet days the tow-path becomes sloppy; and people's dogs jump out randomly; and people jump out randomly; and bank parties stop in the path or clear badly when bumps happen; and one day I was just going to fail to take a corner and cycle straight into the river. Or something. I had dreams about it.
Quite arguably, the drones - even with my top-quality wurbling - aren't as thrilling, even on the rare occasions when my thumb slips on the height control and I nearly take someone's head off. But they do offer much better race coverage; the ability to go back and forth is particularly good, or so I think.
Note: the date of this post - 2005 - is of course wrong. It is actually from 2025, and written in response to that Rowbridge. The reason I backdated it - or so I assume; I've actually forgotten my thought processes but I'm reasoning by analogy with stuff I've done elsewhere - is to push the post away from the top of the stack so that "regular readers" don't see it in the stream. Another example is the about me post. I think I push all "undated" posts into 2005. I've actually started doing some prehistory, and intend to do more "when I get a moment", so there is for example a post about 1989.
Something has gone wrong with the dates, I think. Surely you didn't actually write this in 2005?
ReplyDeleteYou are of course right. I'll add a note explaining why.
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