Podcast 123 - No-name full suspension mountain bike guy
Added 2022-08-28 17:01:02 +0000 UTCJonny has spotted a very specific character in a small town and Richard gives his verdict on RADwood.
Also in this episode, the MMA platform, how to watch '80s music videos while using an electric toothbrush, elaborate efforts to avoid waking everyone, professional fighters named after rear suspension designs, a Freddie Mercury jacket tribute Jeep, the made-up sounding town of Eaton Socon, DJ Khaled has annoyed Jonny again, the technical limitations of trying to take out hated musicians with a fire fighting plane, Pebble Beach FOMO, a camper van jammed fridge debacle, and what does Vince Clarke's doorbell sound like?
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We have our very own NNFSMTBG in Fleet where I live. He is called Phil, is around 50, beige of tooth, and is someone who once took far too much acid and never quite returned from it. He is a nice enough guy although has taken to always wearing lycra biking shorts as he rides his NNFSMTB from pub to pub. You only ever see him in pub gardens, where he is usually sat making awkward conversation. The awkwardness stems from the acid intake, it is always very stilted and difficult if you are the person being talked at!
Snowy
2022-09-05 17:19:12 +0000 UTCOn the subject of the car audio coats, I remember a kid at school proudly wearing a market stall knock off which had 'Technicals' on the back but in the Technics logo style.
John Hammond
2022-09-03 07:44:51 +0000 UTCThe NNFSMTBG is usually called Spider, Spud or similar. Being originally from Brighton, there’s more than the fair share of them, once upon a time around The Level park (the Band, The Levellers were from this area, also a bunch of dog-on-string crusties…).
TD
2022-09-02 11:54:37 +0000 UTCI think Jonny’s Queen knowledge comes exclusively from the completely in accurate movie Bohemian Rhapsody.
Robert McDonald
2022-08-30 19:00:48 +0000 UTCMMA is surely an initialised recreational pharmaceutical. Like E but speedier probably more harmful too. At least E doesn't risk a foot in your gob much.
Chris Rayner
2022-08-30 12:53:34 +0000 UTCIt's been a few weeks but I am still chuckling at "Felate Sheikh" frequently
Charles Clark
2022-08-29 22:49:27 +0000 UTCOh Jesus
Radon Racing
2022-08-29 15:31:56 +0000 UTCAlternatively "aquired" mountain bikes are the preferred transportation of the homeless in Portland.
david marden
2022-08-29 13:54:54 +0000 UTCComments at the time included “surely some kind of racing bike would make more sense”, to the ‘objectively sound but subjectively very bad’ joke about not being able to switch off the driver aids.
Jonathan Miller
2022-08-29 13:37:36 +0000 UTCJon of “Eletre launch, People’s Front of Judea band” previous podcast mention fame here. Was surprised not to hear this special edition Evora mentioned during the Freddie Mercury discussion. I’m not sure anyone got an answer to why it happened. https://www.evo.co.uk/lotus/evora/11920/lotus-evora-freddie-mercury-edition?amp
Jonathan Miller
2022-08-29 13:34:25 +0000 UTCEaton Socon is close to the infamous 'Black Cat' roundabout on the A1. The source of many a traffic bottleneck over the years. It is also home to Lakes garage, the massive Volvo graveyard on the Northbound side of the A1 by the Eaton Socon sliproad. It has been there for at least 40 years. I originally come from a bit further down the A1 at Biggleswade and our resident random on a bike was known as 'bullfish'. He looked like a frazzled version of Frank Burnside from 'The Bill' and he predated suspended mountain bikes so his whip was a tired Raleigh shopper that had two speed settings: stationary whilst grifting and Mach 1 for travelling around, often in wheelie mode.
John Hammond
2022-08-29 10:00:13 +0000 UTCFloat bowls were particularly dry luckily
Jamie W
2022-08-29 08:13:15 +0000 UTCCareful not to flood your SUs...
Sean Hamerton
2022-08-29 00:23:16 +0000 UTCWell that's my evening buggered, lurching from one late 80s pop hit to another. Being born in '84 these were all familiar first hand, and later in life from cheesy 80s nights in the early '00s. Bloody marvelous.
Sean Hamerton
2022-08-29 00:22:47 +0000 UTC@Richard Vince Clarke studio tour from a few years ago. https://youtu.be/5t1aO9fJGE8
John P
2022-08-28 22:10:33 +0000 UTC“Tell me about Radwood then you slut” nearly made me backfire my late night snack
Jamie W
2022-08-28 20:30:49 +0000 UTCI should also add that Eaton Socon isn't a town. It's an area of St Neots town, and is a slightly less desirable place to live than Eaton Ford. Sorry, Eaton Foooowrdahs. Eaton Socon is famous - and I use the word quite wrongly - for being mentioned in Nicholas Nickleby as 'Eton Slocomb' (definitely a Hungarian rally driver). Samuel Pepys also stayed in Eaton Socon, and many of the roads are named after him, which is weird because Pepys never mentioned it in his diary. I assume because Pepys thought it was a shithole.
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2022-08-28 20:17:20 +0000 UTCI've only had to have a dodgy nap once. In 2011 after getting back from Germany in the early hours with a mate, to his place in Kent, I had to drive the three hours back to the Midlands in my Land Rover Series III. Despite the noise and vibration of the 2.25 animal at 55mph I could feel myself struggling so pulled over at the services. I could hear a fight going on somewhere so popped the sliding window, reached out and locked the door (because the driver's door wasn't lockable from the inside in 1977, obviously). I've felt more secure in tents, the door could've probably been opened with a spoon and the windows are only retained by pop-riveted catches that would likely come off with mild force. Also, Cobra Monaco seats aren't great for sleeping in but I survived and almost immediately sold the SIII to buy a Disco 1. On the positive side, driving down a completely deserted M25 in the wee hours, at 55 with no chance of being pinged for speeding is a surreal and wonderful experience.
Matt Tester
2022-08-28 19:45:57 +0000 UTCI live in Cambridge and our “no name full suspension mountain bike guy” actually rides a front suspension only no name thing but carries a full size 90s casette player on the handlebars at all times, blasting something unintelligble. He also wears a leather jacket even in 35 degree heat. I have not seen him enter a narrowboat though.
Sergey Baskakov
2022-08-28 19:37:24 +0000 UTCAnother excellent pod, first time in 35 years that I heard a wheelie being measured by cranks. There was a guy we knew who literally wheelied for 1/2 a mile. Interestingly he also grafted an 80's "Racer" front wheel and forks onto a 70s Raleigh Chopper, the upshot of which you simply had to lean back slightly to wheelie, otherwise you had to lean hard on the bars to keep any sort of front wheel contact.
Graham Dallas
2022-08-28 18:40:43 +0000 UTCI build boxing rings for live events. We used to do MMA rings but they are seriously hard work.
John P
2022-08-28 18:12:41 +0000 UTCWhat an extraordinary piece of Smith and Sniff synchronicity. Richard
Smith and Sniff
2022-08-28 18:07:23 +0000 UTCYes, Eaton Socon is real. In fact, Eaton Socon was also the home of the 1997 Ford Escort Ghia X with two copies of Sadé's Diamond Life in the autochanger.
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