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fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Watered the back garden earlier before logging onto work. Roasting out. I now have a path between car parts to the back of the garage so I can get my bikes out 
. Off out on the old MTB at lunch to see if the 'click' has gone since tightening up the new BB shell. It's still dusty from the last time.
. Off out on the old MTB at lunch to see if the 'click' has gone since tightening up the new BB shell. It's still dusty from the last time.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Because it would turn pedicurists into pedants?Why isn't cutting your toenails called toepiary ?
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Time to go for a ride, me thinks ! 
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Just been looking at my Cranes Bill.there looking a bit manky.
I've just given mine the Chelsea chop, they should flower again in the Autumn, and it'll stop them bullying the plants round them.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Hot, breezy and sunny here chez Casa Reynard.
Too hot to be outside, so I have spent the morning creating and printing a new set of dividers for my archive. The original ones (that I made in 1997!) are tatty and aren't really fit for purpose anymore, and I have lost the template I used to make them.
The new ones still need a couple of tweaks, but I don't mind printing the odd one out again. I'm also waiting on some new FF1600 and FF2000 photos from the 1986 Formula Ford Festival that I have managed to source.
Lunch is imminent, and then, later, some bike time once it cools down a bit.
Too hot to be outside, so I have spent the morning creating and printing a new set of dividers for my archive. The original ones (that I made in 1997!) are tatty and aren't really fit for purpose anymore, and I have lost the template I used to make them.
The new ones still need a couple of tweaks, but I don't mind printing the odd one out again. I'm also waiting on some new FF1600 and FF2000 photos from the 1986 Formula Ford Festival that I have managed to source.
Lunch is imminent, and then, later, some bike time once it cools down a bit.
Kempstonian
Has the memory of a goldfish
- Location
- Bedford
Best of luck to all those who are awaiting deliveries!
Want to know the best bit about my recent delivery (two DVDs)? I didn't even need to be at home - the guy just shoved it through the letterbox!
Or maybe the best bit was when I went to put them away and found I already had one of them!
Want to know the best bit about my recent delivery (two DVDs)? I didn't even need to be at home - the guy just shoved it through the letterbox!
Or maybe the best bit was when I went to put them away and found I already had one of them!
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Warm lunchtime walk
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I have to watch a one hourvideo of an American waffling on non-stopessential training video.
When I was working and we had to attend these it was always a challenge to stay awake.
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One time, our training dept ran a few of the John Cleese training videos. They were entertaining.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Lunch negotiated. Had a roll with roast pork, a tangerine, some blueberries, half an avocado and two 
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
East Yorkshire was hot - 70 miles done: https://www.strava.com/activities/5479706121
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Took a 2 hour lunch - didn't have a break Monday and Tuesday. 25 miles off road trails. Fairly interesting little ride.
1 The bloody click was back. 😠
2 Saw a fire engine with it's lights on, coming down to the farm track I was on, couldn't see any smoke, but thought, hang on, if he get's past this junction before me my ride is over. Shot past quick as they were working out where the 'fire' was. I thought, if I get over this little hill, they won't catch me down the other side. Low and behold I saw smoke. Realised what it must be, the farmer stacks waste and other stuff at the side of the path, quite a big pile. It was busy smoking away with the dryness and heat of late, and of course, this stuff generates it's own heat. As I get there, there is another engine just getting out the hoses. Managed to get past fine and let them know there was another engine down the lane.
3 Bloody click. Tried one leg pedaling and found out it was left pedal only and even under low load. Carried on until about mile 4 where I had a good spot to stop. Checked pedal over, smooth and not loose. Grr. Hmm. Got out the 'juice' drink and squirted my bottle on the pedal. Got back on, no noise. Came back about 15 miles later, another squirt, gone - blooming dry pedal mechanism on the SPD's - obviously juice gets to the parts that WD40 doesn't. Liberal soaking on 3 in 1 on the arrival home.
4 Had to ask two e-mtbers to move over so I could pass (didn't hear my bell). Don't think they liked being passed by a 30 year old MTB with mudguards, but I was riding at just over the assist speed. They did catch me on a steep ascent and then try and pass at the top but I big ringed it, and never saw them again. In my defense, the old MTB is pretty speedy over semi rough terrain (like farm tracks and canals) as it's on 2.0 tyres and tight knobbles so it rolls well, and there is no suspension.
5 My pasty white legs looked tanned on return - nope not the sun, coated completely in dirty dust. The bike is grey now !
1 The bloody click was back. 😠
2 Saw a fire engine with it's lights on, coming down to the farm track I was on, couldn't see any smoke, but thought, hang on, if he get's past this junction before me my ride is over. Shot past quick as they were working out where the 'fire' was. I thought, if I get over this little hill, they won't catch me down the other side. Low and behold I saw smoke. Realised what it must be, the farmer stacks waste and other stuff at the side of the path, quite a big pile. It was busy smoking away with the dryness and heat of late, and of course, this stuff generates it's own heat. As I get there, there is another engine just getting out the hoses. Managed to get past fine and let them know there was another engine down the lane.
3 Bloody click. Tried one leg pedaling and found out it was left pedal only and even under low load. Carried on until about mile 4 where I had a good spot to stop. Checked pedal over, smooth and not loose. Grr. Hmm. Got out the 'juice' drink and squirted my bottle on the pedal. Got back on, no noise. Came back about 15 miles later, another squirt, gone - blooming dry pedal mechanism on the SPD's - obviously juice gets to the parts that WD40 doesn't. Liberal soaking on 3 in 1 on the arrival home.
4 Had to ask two e-mtbers to move over so I could pass (didn't hear my bell). Don't think they liked being passed by a 30 year old MTB with mudguards, but I was riding at just over the assist speed. They did catch me on a steep ascent and then try and pass at the top but I big ringed it, and never saw them again. In my defense, the old MTB is pretty speedy over semi rough terrain (like farm tracks and canals) as it's on 2.0 tyres and tight knobbles so it rolls well, and there is no suspension.
5 My pasty white legs looked tanned on return - nope not the sun, coated completely in dirty dust.
The bike is grey now !