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mybike

Grumblin at Garmin on the Granny Gear
Forsooth.. 👍🏼

If I start posting in rhyming couplets ....
 

mybike

Grumblin at Garmin on the Granny Gear
I did some painting on the hull of my model corvette this afternoon . I first painted some white primer and then I had fun masking out sections to make the dazzle camouflage. It was certainly confusing trying to figure out where each section went . I decided to go for a pretty colour scheme of blue and white.

Up to decals on the Hurricane. Just varnished.

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pawl

Legendary Member
Does that mean all the Everesting records are now redundant, so if I have a go tomorrow I'll be the new record holder? :okay:

DPD delivery arrived from PlanetX with a year's supply of KMC 11 speed chains that were on offer, to beat any Brexit price rise with the 15% tax increase on goods from China, a couple of musette bags and my Christmas present from SWMBO - a PlanetX torque wrench as they were on offer for £20.

Her? She's getting some niceties .. that's "niceties" not "nice ties" :tongue:


Glad you posted that.Ordered nine and eleven speed KMC chains
 

Ming the Merciless

There is no mercy
Location
Inside my skull
Does that mean all the Everesting records are now redundant, so if I have a go tomorrow I'll be the new record holder? :okay:

DPD delivery arrived from PlanetX with a year's supply of KMC 11 speed chains that were on offer, to beat any Brexit price rise with the 15% tax increase on goods from China, a couple of musette bags and my Christmas present from SWMBO - a PlanetX torque wrench as they were on offer for £20.

Her? She's getting some niceties .. that's "niceties" not "nice ties" :tongue:

How many chains is that?
 

Ming the Merciless

There is no mercy
Location
Inside my skull
it's cold today. don't know how anyone rides in this weather

Decent clothing and it’s a blast.
 

Kryton521

Über Member
fascinating! OK, I'll bite, where does the term "son of a gun" come from?
Sailing ships, away at sea for years at a time, officers were known to turn a blind eye to women that, "came aboard". Although never signed as crew, or officially allowed rations, they were smuggled on and remained, probably below decks for the entire time.
As nature does sometimes the women would fall pregnant. If the baby was a boy, it would be listed as, "son-of -a-gun", in the ships manifest. As no one would be known to be the father
 

DCLane

Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
How many chains is that?

Given between us we run 8 11-speed bikes - :eek: - I bought 8 chains. The PlanetX hillclimb bike is unlikely to need one but you never know; it's used for about 25 miles a year but my son still managed to snap one this year at the start of a hillclimb.

I still need to get some 10 speed chains as we've 6 of those but they weren't on offer but we've just changed several of the bikes' chains. I didn't include that I'd also bought a couple of chains for the 7 fixies / Sturmey Archer bikes we've got to be used on my track bike and a green one for the old Raleigh I'm working on.

Anyone want to buy a bike? :whistle:
 
Yup, the murk has returned here too...

Spent the afternoon sawing, splitting and moving wood. Moved some of the dry stuff in the garage into the bins in the house, and put the freshly cut and split stuff in the garage to dry. After the rain, frost and fog of the last few days, the wood is sopping wet...

Also, the chain has come off the saw and the bar is stuck. I tried tackling it, but everything is a bit too hot thanks to the engine, so will wait till tomorrow or Thursday. When it's cool, it should be much easier to disassemble, clean out all the oily sawdust, re-seat the chain and then reassemble the whole shebang.

And now for a :cuppa:
 
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