haven't you ever velted some pot dude, try it, those people in the photo need it , hanging aroung pointing at fish like that, weird

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Nice to see that you're actually occasionally looking at the daily Lamma-zine, besides posting daily, witty witticisms in the forums.

Well, I couldn't find a single hit for velting pot on the entire Internet, so I can safely claim total ignorance of this term...

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LG look at your zine article, you go on about velting pots a lot, including in the headline.

because he's getting svelte

Svelte, me? {*Big Blush*}

Thank you, milady,
but it'll take another 6-12 months, if ever, before I reach the medical "overweight" level (Body Mass Index below 30), down from my former level of "morbidly obese".
This is one of the most "charming" medical terms, IMHO.
It's the medical term doctors like to use instead of just blurting out, "Waaah! You're so fat, you'll surely croak off soon!!"

OK, gotta rush off to my (almost) daily circuit training in the Lamma gym and it's great weather to rent a bike to ride to Sok Kwu Wan... Family trail hikers, beware!

Wannabe "svelte guy" signing off for now...

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Please check the brakes

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Thanks for the advice. I actually refused the first bike they offered me for rental ($15/hour) because the back brakes weren't working well enough. Coming down from half up to the top of the Cable Route I needed both brakes working full on.

My first bike ride in probably over 30 years and I survived! But my bottom is hurting badly now...

Life in YSW has just become quite a bit more dangerous, with me riding a bike through Main and Back street occasionally, cannonball-style...

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Put on a helmet.

maybe it's the passers by who should be donning helmets

Perhaps I could start a business on Lamma selling helmets to those day-trippers...

Then I would have to wake up early for the 7am business owners group meetings. Never mind...

A helmet in this weather? Aieeyaah!
But I was wearing an extremely unfashionable, hillbilly-style straw hat, so popular on Lamma, for sun protection. Does that count? But seriously, I need to look at helmets very soon. My noggin is my most important asset and without it fully functional, the Lamma-zine would become even more incomprehensible and silly.

But if I'd fall I'd hit the road so hard that a helmet would be the least of my worries, I'd need full body armour. Better ride really carefully and reasonably slowly and ring my bell a lot. Yes, I'm starting to turn into one of these annoying bike riders who'll be ringing their bell all the time, demanding that these obnoxious road obstructions, pedestrians, get out of their way immediately!

But sharing the narrow paths with hiking visitors is no fun, better to stay off the beaten path, meaning the Family Trail from the ferry pier to Hung Shing Yeh and Sok Kwu Wan. The entire rest of our island is almost hiker-free and could be a paradise for bikers, if there just wouldn't be all these &^%$#! steep hills all over! But walking up one, you can roll down free the other side, oh what fun! But if you're not really careful, you could end up in a really spectacular, high-speed crash, like something out of AXN Channel's "Whacked Out Sports". But as a consolation prize, you'd be entitled to a free ride in one of Lamma's cool mini-ambulances all the way to the Lamma Clinic, maybe even by helicopter to hospital if you got really, really whacked out...

Minibeast, thanks for the biking exercise tip of riding the 2nd Cable Route from Power Station Beach up the hill to the windturbine. Made it up there almost halfway! Afterwards, the way down, free-wheeling all along the beach in this high-visibility, amazing sunshine is worth the steep ascent before!

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An easier route up is to take the path that branches off just before the kindergarten and fire station.That joins the cable road at the reservoir, just below the turbine.

To avoid traffic, coming from Main Street you could take the path from Lung Wah through Yung Shue Long valley to the fire station.