Sledging

[Dicky Ticker]

How many people have gone out and bought a sledge at some time either for their selves or the kids
and never really got any use from it? Seems like a million years since we had any decent snow

[Baph]

Last march was good enough for me to go "sledging" in the car.

Literally, took me a good 45mins to go 5 miles, although there were some worse than me, a good part of that was spent sideways :twisted:

[on yer bike]

My mum had a proper big sledge imported from norway...

Lights, Steering system, brakes, can fit three grown adults on it... used it twice :lol:

once was also the snow in feb/march earlier this year

[Caddy2000]

Living in Essex, it isn't that surprising really is it?

I remember being a kid in Stretton, Derbyshire and having the most wonderful snow. Even for a couple of years when we moved down into Essex there was decent snow, but we haven't had any snow that's lasted more than a couple of day for at least 15 years....

.... Global warming? why not, I can believe it

[Alpinestarhero]

My dad built a sledge when I was 5; an old roof rack with and old cuboard door bolted on. Fast as feck it was!

Matt

[Luckypants]

Cotswold had some really cool folding wooden sledges last year.... £60!

We go Canoggoning, using kayaks as sledges! :D

[tigersaw]

I remember being a kid in Stretton, Derbyshire and having the most wonderful snow.

Me too. Used to go up to the water tower at Horninglow and play all day.

last experience of sledging was approx 10 years ago, new years eve, using bin bags on the cliffs near westerham, where the CB'ers used to go. Malcolm went over a rock face and broke his back, had to be rescued by helicopter. BBC later researched it for their 999 program, but didn't use it.

[Ping]

Ah, we were guaranteed great sledding days in Canada... snowball fights, 4ft high snow drifts...

[anna]

sledges ha ... they are for wimps... we used to get a big sheet of plastic and fit as many of us as possible on it to go sledging on.. although it does start to hurt after a while!

[chazzyb]

Ah, I thought you were referring to the cricket sledging.

[mysteryjimbo]

You'll be lucky. Theres very little snow anywhere in europe. Not even lapland where santa lives!

[Baph]

You'll be lucky. Theres very little snow anywhere in europe. Not even lapland where santa lives!
I'm not expecting any until around April time :lol:

[cuffy]

sledges ha ... they are for wimps... we used to get a big sheet of plastic and fit as many of us as possible on it to go sledging on.. although it does start to hurt after a while!
Ditto
Used go rob the farmers of their fertilizer bags...those were the days :-({|=

Also used a canoe once..**** meself...too fast for my liking :shock:

I also remeber about 25 years ago taking the trucks off my skateboard and fitting the toe clip things you used to get on racers and attempting to use a "skateless board on snow"
It didn't work :( anyway it would never have taken off :roll:

[philipMac]

http://i.a.cnn.net./si/multimedia/photo_gallery/0612/gallery.hidden.gems/images/sleigh.jpg

[anna]

:laughat: :winner:

[northwind]

I used my paper bag.

That is, the bag I used to deliver papers with, not a bag made of paper.

I've still got it... I'll get it out if it snows and I'm feeling durable :)

[fizzwheel]

farmers of their fertilizer bags

Yep me to. 8)

[netsurfer]

You'll be lucky. Theres very little snow anywhere in europe. Not even lapland where santa lives!

Tell me about it :( Meant to be going skiing in 3 weeks to Austria - only 2 of the lifts are open due to lack of snow... none fallen in 12 days now :(

Pete

[Razor]

I broke my femur in a sledging accident when I was 7.
2 weeks before Crimbo too :(

I haven't been sledging since the global warming started.

[Luckypants]

Also used a canoe once..sh*t meself...too fast for my liking :shock:Wuss! Thought your were a rufty tufty rugger type? :D Using kayaks is ace! use paddles to flip spin and jump... can be a bithard on @rse and spine though!

[MidgetMoose]

Sledges are quality...

When i was on holiday snowboarding in Andorra we bought some during the day and when we got in at night we went all the way up[ the slope and sledged down is was awesome!

I split mine (and my back) landing off a jump we made though...

[Stormspiel]

YOU'RE ALL WUSSES

One piece, oil skin fishing suit....big hill.....run , jump ... and most of all scream :lol:

Some slopes near us are easily 1-in-1 angle and you could get some great speed up, i'd not advise the Klinsmann unless you want a face full of snow though :lol:

[Stig]

Used to just use a cardboard box, collapse it down, job done. Even got a new one every year. :wink:

[keithd]

i particularly liked it when shane warne came into bat against new zealand. chris cairns (NZ Bowler) asks warney why he's so fat. his reply was "cos every time i **** your wife she gives me a biscuit"

not that type of sledging?

[philipMac]

i particularly liked it when shane warne came into bat against new zealand. chris cairns (NZ Bowler) asks warney why he's so fat. his reply was "cos every time i f*ck your wife she gives me a biscuit"

not that type of sledging?
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha


Oh man.
And you know he probably that as well. The wind ups that go on at the Aussie crease are legend.
Go on the Warney.

[chazzyb]

i particularly liked it when shane warne came into bat against new zealand. chris cairns (NZ Bowler) asks warney why he's so fat. his reply was "cos every time i f*ck your wife she gives me a biscuit"

not that type of sledging?
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha


Oh man.
And you know he probably that as well. The wind ups that go on at the Aussie crease are legend.
Go on the Warney.

Apparently, on the crease in 1989 Rodney Marsh asked Botham "How's your wife and my kids?". Class, but the Warne biscuit jibe was brilliant! :P

[philipMac]

More quality sledging...
Sri Lankan skipper Arjuna Ranatunga called for a runner during a one-day international against Australia, to which the Aussie wicketkeeper Ian Healey replied: ‘You don’t get a runner for being an overweight, unfit, fat c#nt.’ 8)

[MidgetMoose]

Apparently, on the crease in 1989 Rodney Marsh asked Botham "How's your wife and my kids?". Class, but the Warne biscuit jibe was brilliant! :P

I can't remember the exact reply but didn't botham said something like "My wife is fine and your kids are retarded"

Also i like the one with James Ormond and Mark Waugh

Waugh - "what are you doing out here? There's no way you're good enough to play for England.

Ormond - "Maybe not, but at least I'm the best player in my family"

have we taken this alittle off topic now? :P

[philipMac]

Steve was a bit stylish on the bat alright. Proper blood and guts Aussie.
Did you see his last innings against England? Almost the last ball of the career, blasts it off for a boundary, gets a ton, wins the match for the Aussies.
Walks off the pitch and the ground just erupts... standing ovation.
I was almost lost it. Never mind him. The man was iron.

Seriously. If the sh!t was to hit the fan, and the pressure came on bigtime, you could do worse that be stuck with Steve Waugh.

[Treacle]

The best Sledge that I have had the misfortune to be on was ah old beetle bonnet. Just add alcohol a few friends (with ores ) and you get an absolute ****ing laugh. Happy days :lol:

[BILLY]

sledges ha ... they are for wimps... we used to get a big sheet of plastic and fit as many of us as possible on it to go sledging on.. although it does start to hurt after a while!

We used to nick the dinner trays from school and go sledging with them or use a black bin liner 8)

[kwak zzr]

plastic sheet works a treat! ahhhh them were the days :wink: when snow was propa deep snow :wink: