Speedy's Cafe - General Chat about anything you like!

[jesskayding]

I got hit by a bike messenger once. He hit me so hard his helmet flew off & I flew like a good 6 feet in the air. How do people survive being hit by a car is what I wanna know...

[jesskayding]

 

 

 

 

Ok, do y'all think my style' would make good Sherlock fan art.

 

 

 

 

To the left is a gouche of Farah Faucet & the one to the right is an ink sketch like drawing of one of Bob Marley's sons. I forget which one he is??

Hey, fan art is always personal. Looks like your take on Sherlock might be really interesting!

Agreed. There's a dynamic energy in your pictures that should suit Sherlock well.

So maybe I'll do one & have it finished by like the end of next week. I'll start a ratings thread, get some votes. See if people like, hate , or are indifferent.

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Love your art work Jesskay will be very interested in seeing the fan art.

 

I may have come up with an compromise on the dressing like Sherlock and risking heat exhaustion. For those interested in doing so could carry the coat and scarf until the last mile or so before our destination then dress up for the final push?

[Carol the Dabbler]

Or just wear a deerstalker?  That does have one advantage over the coat and/or scarf -- it's not likely to get tangled in the pedals.

 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Yeah deerstalker would be great to. It is the most iconic symbol of Sherlock Holmes besides the magnifying glass, a pipe and now the scarf and coat.

[jesskayding]

Fox, you can thank sfmpco for looking out for you.

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Everybody needs someone, I guess.

[jesskayding]

Trust me, I have tons of weight to lose.  Doesn't stop me from riding, and I pass up a lot of people... even had some touring cyclists stay with me over the summer, and two of them remarked that I was fast on my bike.  One of those was from the China youth Olympics.  Say what?  No, I'm a slow poke.  I am sure that when Ben did his ride in 2012, he was peeling down the roads on his speedy Specialized at 15-20 mph.  

 

I am mostly comfortable in the 12-15 mph range, but I travel on a heavy touring bike that us usually loaded with gear of some sort.  The fastest I've ever been is 24 mph, and I might have been able to go faster except for that darn stop sign.  That was a downhill, btw.  The fastest I've ever done on the flats is 21 mph, but that was just to hustle across an intersection.  Really, I hover around 12-15, and when I hit the road full time as a touring cyclist in January, I will probably average 10-12 mph because the bike will be carrying an extra 50 lbs or so of gear.

 

If anyone here wants to follow my cycling adventures, please feel free to do so at:

 

BICYCLE VOYAGER - http://www.bicyclevoyager.com

 

 

I'm liking the blog.

[sfmpco]

 

 

 

I'm liking the blog.

 

 

Glad you like it.  

[sfmpco]

Love your art work Jesskay will be very interested in seeing the fan art.

 

I may have come up with an compromise on the dressing like Sherlock and risking heat exhaustion. For those interested in doing so could carry the coat and scarf until the last mile or so before our destination then dress up for the final push?

 

I think this is possible.  Just tweeted to Sherlockology.  May have to bug them a bit about it, but there's no reason why we can't get Sherlockians to do the ride in 2015.  I will be there again.  Ben won't do it in 2015 because he'll be in the middle of Hamlet.  Don't know if he's doing it this year.  If he is, it's very hush hush.

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Okay! I know a couple of seamstresses. Maybe one of them can whip up a cosplay Belstaff.

[sfmpco]

I would get a cosplay Belstaff but I am hitting the road on the bike and can't keep it with me.  Maybe can store it in Scotland with a friend.  Would definitely overheat in it, though.

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Not something you want to be wearing absolutely. Needs something that can pack rather easily. But it's nothing we have to worry about for a few months anyway.

[sfmpco]

Funny thing is, I have a trench coat already.  I've had one since the 1980s.  It's light tan, though.  Hardly Sherlockian, but trench coats never go out of style.

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Maybe between now and then you can find a dark blue one.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Kinda like John's new coat, you mean?

 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

There's an idea....some riders as John and some as Sherlock. Really can't have one without the other now....can we? What a concept, Carol. They have all the Sherlock look alike contests...what about having a few dressup for John parties too.

[sfmpco]

is it dark blue or is it black?

[sfmpco]

You could turn the Palace 2 Palace ride into a huge Sherlock event all the while raising money for the Prince's Trust of which BC is an ambassador.  So, lots of benefits to it.

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

is it dark blue or is it black?

 

Black, definitely. Or maybe a really really dark grey.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Which coat are we talking about?  I'm pretty sure Sherlock's is sort of charcoal gray, and John's new knee-length coat is dark blue.

 

[sfmpco]

Sherlock's coat is not a solid black which is why it can be confused with charcoal grey or even dark blue.    One thing we can all agree on is the red thread in the button hole... 

[jesskayding]

I'm watching this special on PBS about Polar Bears. Because of global warming, ice isn't freezing as soon as it used to. Their usual prey are seals, but they're not on the shore per ice isn't solid, so the bears go into this town called Churchill in Northern Canada, & feed on humans, dogs & dog food.

 

They walk thru electrical fences. There's a law that keep the people from killing them, so they're using rubber bullets that doesn't always work. Now there's this land owner who's trying to get their local government to allow the people to feed the polar bears out on the coast so that the bears won't feel the need to come into town for food.

 

Wow! Nature truly is a beast. And maybe global warming isn't just rubbish or paranoia. This is serious!

[jesskayding]

Oh. This is sad. A town close by offers incentive to kill the bears eating out of the dump. I guess they pose a threat to the humans there as well. Now the researcher doing this documentary is trying to come up with a noise devise to scare bears away, for a more humane solution. People can't camp anymore... Also they disected some of the bears that were killed, the contents in their stomachs was astonishing! Ketchup packets & garbage bags. So sad, the danger humans have created for ourselves & the hell we've made for the wild animals.

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

My science teacher's son went to all 7 continents. He went to Antarctica for about a week or two. There were no people, only a handful of scientists, and the air was so fresh and clean. But when my teacher's son left and went to a populated area, the pollution made him so sick until he readjusted.