Mundane News

[Moon bunny]

I am in York again.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I think we got the weather that you'd had. The rain started in Kent, crossed the Thames estuary, through Essex and Suffolk before carrying on to annoy parts of Norfolk as well.

With nothing better to do I ended up changing the bedding and putting the removed bits into the wash. While the machine did its thing, I ironed yesterday's washing (despite not normally doing domestics on the weekend) before heading into the shed and playing at being bicycle repair man with this being the end result...

That looks more like a Planet X bike than an On One. I think of On One as being the MTB brand for their bikes but that looks more like a gravelly version whichI thought were Planet X branded frames. Tidy though.

 

[Speicher]

With inflation running at over 10% I don't think it would be a good idea to delay it .

I paid some extra Voluntary contributions to make sure I made the number of qualifying years for a full state pension. A few years later they reduced the number of years you needed.

 

[DCLane]

Back from a looong day's driving; West Yorkshire > Nottingham > Llangollen > national hillclimb > Trevor for lunch / Pontcysyllte Aqueduct > Nottingham > West Yorkshire

Son no. 2 tried but was nowhere near the front runners. Onto next weeks BUCS National Hillclimb near my parents on Saturday.

 

[Jameshow]

Back from a looong day's driving; West Yorkshire > Nottingham > Llangollen > national hillclimb > Trevor for lunch / Pontcysyllte Aqueduct > Nottingham > West Yorkshire

Son no. 2 tried but was nowhere near the front runners. Onto next weeks BUCS National Hillclimb near my parents on Saturday.

Where do you find a list of hill climbs for this year?

I'd like to try one are there any low key ones you can turn up o and ride?!

Yorkshire based..

 

[Jenkins]

That looks more like a Planet X bike than an On One. I think of On One as being the MTB brand for their bikes but that looks more like a gravelly version whichI thought were Planet X branded frames. Tidy though.

It's the Pickenflick frame which was their Ti cyclocross offering, but I picked it up with the forks included for a price that I couldn't turn down and added my own choice of bits to make it a flat bar instead.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I paid some extra Voluntary contributions to make sure I made the number of qualifying years for a full state pension. A few years later they reduced the number of years you needed.

This rings a bell with me. I think I did an impromptu life expectancy calculation (ILEC) because it gave an estimate about how long it would take for the payment to actually make life more comfy. But if you die - life's one and only uncertain certainty - you don't end up with more. So, ILECs completed, I settled for slightly below the full pension because I figured I was likely to be shortish on longevity. Besides, I reckoned that I'd stop drinking unhealthy amounts of alcohol when I got near-end-of-life-old so it would be cheaper and I wouldn't need so much beer money.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

It's the Pickenflick frame which was their Ti cyclocross offering, but I picked it up with the forks included for a price that I couldn't turn down and added my own choice of bits to make it a flat bar instead.

Aha, that explains it. Mind, I'm still surprised it's not Planet X branded.

 

[Reynard]

*SNORE*

Apart from the honey badger.

 

[Jenkins]

Aha, that explains it. Mind, I'm still surprised it's not Planet X branded.

I think that when this was introduced, the On One branding was for all the off road stuff and Planet X for the road stuff. Now gravel bikes are trendy, they've brought them under the PLanet X umbrella leaving On One for MTBs

 

[Jenkins]

*SNORE*

Apart from the honey badger.

I gave up watching.

 

[classic33]

I sometimes open a drawer or a cupboard and find spaces that were not there before.

Today I have been editing paperwork from donkey's years ago. Not much of that to go in the bin, as I keep any pages that have only been printed on one side.

Has it appeared anywhere else?

 

[Speicher]

Has it appeared anywhere else?

I will go and look!

 

[DCLane]

Where do you find a list of hill climbs for this year?

I'd like to try one are there any low key ones you can turn up o and ride?!

Yorkshire based..

You've just missed the end of the hillclimb season as the National is the final official event. However, Cycling Time Trials has lists of events: https://www.cyclingtimetrials.org.uk/ (select 'Open Events' and then filter by 'Type'). There are some club events outside the official CTT route, select 'Club Events' and then 'Region' however Yorkshire's finished for 2022 as it's getting cold).

There's also other hillclimbs organised by various clubs in Yorkshire which won't go through CTT. Have a look at these groups on Facebook:

Yorkshire Cycling Federation: https://www.facebook.com/groups/115408488629431/
UK Hill Climbing: https://www.facebook.com/groups/135440410622636/
Yorkshire Time Trialling: https://www.facebook.com/groups/178520497512240/

For a CTT event you will need to be a member of a CTT affiliated cycling club, even if it's not local; i.e. my club (Ravensthorpe CC) has a couple of club members who only joined so they could do CTT events.

To have a first timer "go" a Club event is fine to do. But you'll get a similar level of support at an Open event. The next event local-ish is going to be Ilkeston CC's Boxing Day hilllcimb - https://www.facebook.com/ilkestoncc and scroll down. I'm planning to be there with son no. 2. What we'll be riding is likely to be "unusual"

One note of caution: the desire to lighten the bike can get very obsessive

 

[Reynard]

I gave up watching.

That's the advantage of listening. You can multi-task