If you go down to the woods today
09-22-23, 07:58 AM
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If you go down to the woods today
Couldn't find a thread for this, not a huge surprise.
So I was doing some gardening therapy - clearing some dead wood at the bottom of the garden.
The maintenance guy chopped down an old tree least year and left some wood under the trees at the bottom of the garden,
thought I'd move it the the wood pile and clear up the trash a bit.
Under several logs and buried in mud was some skanky old 'bottle':
I was quite surprised, not many bikes in the flats and certainly not a Bianchi.
Unfortunately it is so old it has cracks.
Marked 'gmc' and 'padova' on the base.
Contents looked like old tea, didn't taste it.
So I was doing some gardening therapy - clearing some dead wood at the bottom of the garden.
The maintenance guy chopped down an old tree least year and left some wood under the trees at the bottom of the garden,
thought I'd move it the the wood pile and clear up the trash a bit.
Under several logs and buried in mud was some skanky old 'bottle':
I was quite surprised, not many bikes in the flats and certainly not a Bianchi.
Unfortunately it is so old it has cracks.
Marked 'gmc' and 'padova' on the base.
Contents looked like old tea, didn't taste it.
09-22-23, 08:57 AM
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Teddy bears are notorious litterbugs.
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Montana, where men are men and sheep are lying little tramps.
Montana, where men are men and sheep are lying little tramps.
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09-22-23, 10:39 AM
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...and to think that riders in the early Grand Tours drank out of bottles this grubby.
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09-22-23, 01:28 PM
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09-22-23, 02:05 PM
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That's possible, but even the roads that they had to ride on were often unpaved, so there wasn't a support car.
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Ed White's presence be simply everwhar...
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Ed White's presence be simply everwhar...
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Beats finding an ear.
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So -- you're going to sell it on eBay?
"Lovely patina"
"Lovely patina"
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