Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
Changes worth celebrating, that have happened in my lifetime
- Thread starter All uphill
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Carol Vorderman. Life was so dull without her.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
Internet banking, BACS and cashless transactions.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
The cordless vacuum... it changed my life.
- Location
- London
you do too much hoovering.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
The 26 chainring and 32 sprocket... hills that made me walk in my 20s with my 40/25 can't beat me now!
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
I've never hoovered in my life, but I have Ewbanked, Electroluxed, Henryed, Vaxed, Dysoned and G-Teched so far.
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
Surely the first time that phrase has ever been said to a bloke.
- Location
- London
maybe he's transitioning.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
And you can read in the dark plus Lovely Wife uses hers to light the way when she goes for a pee in the night.
And you can read in the dark plus Lovely Wife uses hers to light the way when she goes for a pee in the night.
Unfortunately, i haven't yet upgraded to the lit screen ones.
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
Well it's much much easier to work with now, much better thought out etc etc. NC machines have made a difference as has improved Al alloy (remember the old cast Aluminium cranks that snapped - not any more) and thank a deity of your choice that Cotter Pins have gone as well as those old caliper brakes that didn't work at all in the wet. Short reach dual pivot so so much better. No experience of discs tho' which I'm told are better again. Oh - and remember the nightmare of removing a 5 speed block with 2 ill fitting dog teeth and a slipping adjustable spanner...... So very much easier now with splines and stuff. And what about LED bike lights? Transformational compared to those dreadful Never Ready things. Oh and pedals are so much better. Never need to fettle a pedal bearing at all now compared to the days when I lost bearings out on the road. OK so the basic overall design of bicycles looks like the Safety Bike which evolved after the High Ordinary. But really things are an awful lot better.
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
I have a 24 on the front and have recently changed my cogs so I can put a 36 on. Currently just sorted another wheel with up to 32 on. So I can spend all day in the hills. Time was I had 26 on the front and a 25 cog at the back. I wonder why I chose my CC name?
Before 26x25 I used to get totally trashed in the hills straining on those stupidly too big gears that were the norm when I were but a wee laddie (in my 20's) and didn't know any better. TBH - the industry doesn't help. I now make up my own 16-32 (or 36) 9 speed cassettes.
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