Opinions on this bike, please :)

[Cubist]

Just a bit

I think it's going to be a bit of a wait, though, because the payment will take a few days to transfer - it isn't instant like it is in the UK now - and then they say allow up to 2 weeks between them receiving payment and shipping it.

I just looked at it again on my laptop (rather than the full widescreen monitor on my PC) and I'm surprised to see how short and tall it looks. And the wheels are round instead of oval. Who'd have thought it

And there we were thinking we'd see pics of you riding it by the weekend.....

 

[VamP]

Ouch

How did that happen?

Sorry for the massive OT lulubel.


An hour and a a bit into an all day ride (heh) I was coming down Ewhurst Hill (it's easily a 40mph hill without pedaling), and approaching the bend at the bottom caught a huge skid as I put brakes on to slow down for the bend. It's totally safe to negotiate that bend in the wet at cca 25mph, but I had to get completely off the brakes to recover the skid (spilled diesel/wet leaves??) so would have been cca 30 in the corner, and anyway.... next thing I know I was scraping myself off the tarmac about 40 yards further down the road. Bike traveled another 20 or so further, and miraculously, apart from scuffs and two flat wheels appears fundamentally unharmed.

Changed the tubes and on I went, with a small detour into Horsham to pick up a couple more tubes. Cut the day a bit short, but still good for 90 odd miles. Feeling a bit sorry for myself today though

Big shout out to the lovely lady in a Disco who helped scrape me off the floor and took me to her house to drink hot tea and work out if I needed A&E or just a bit of MTFU

 

[lulubel]

And there we were thinking we'd see pics of you riding it by the weekend.....

I'd like to get it sooner, obviously, but the option of paying by bank transfer is so much more convenient for me that I couldn't do anything else.

 

[lulubel]

An hour and a a bit into an all day ride (heh) I was coming down Ewhurst Hill (it's easily a 40mph hill without pedaling), and approaching the bend at the bottom caught a huge skid as I put brakes on to slow down for the bend. It's totally safe to negotiate that bend in the wet at cca 25mph, but I had to get completely off the brakes to recover the skid (spilled diesel/wet leaves??) so would have been cca 30 in the corner, and anyway.... next thing I know I was scraping myself off the tarmac about 40 yards further down the road. Bike traveled another 20 or so further, and miraculously, apart from scuffs and two flat wheels appears fundamentally unharmed.

Ouch! That sounds painful. I hope you're not too sore today.

 

[VamP]

Ouch! That sounds painful. I hope you're not too sore today.

Ah, my beloved coated my wounds with manuka honey, which I scoffed at, but feel not too bad today. Went for a little 10 mile recovery ride earlier, and ...managed. Let's just, erm, leave it at that.

 

[lulubel]

Ah, my beloved coated my wounds with manuka honey, which I scoffed at, but feel not too bad today. Went for a little 10 mile recovery ride earlier, and ...managed. Let's just, erm, leave it at that.

Perhaps she's been watching Wartime Farm. They were saying on the latest programme that WWII farmers started keeping bees to supply the pharmaceutical industry with honey, which was used for its antiseptic properties.

Glad you managed to get on the bike, anyway. That's a step in the right direction.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Sorry for the massive OT lulubel.


An hour and a a bit into an all day ride (heh) I was coming down Ewhurst Hill (it's easily a 40mph hill without pedaling), and approaching the bend at the bottom caught a huge skid as I put brakes on to slow down for the bend. It's totally safe to negotiate that bend in the wet at cca 25mph, but I had to get completely off the brakes to recover the skid (spilled diesel/wet leaves??) so would have been cca 30 in the corner, and anyway.... next thing I know I was scraping myself off the tarmac about 40 yards further down the road. Bike traveled another 20 or so further, and miraculously, apart from scuffs and two flat wheels appears fundamentally unharmed.

Changed the tubes and on I went, with a small detour into Horsham to pick up a couple more tubes. Cut the day a bit short, but still good for 90 odd miles. Feeling a bit sorry for myself today though

Big shout out to the lovely lady in a Disco who helped scrape me off the floor and took me to her house to drink hot tea and work out if I needed A&E or just a bit of MTFU

Not a nice place to crash at speed. GWS mate

 

[ultraviolet]

You've not really followed this thread have you?

well, it was late when i posted :-)

 

[VamP]

Perhaps she's been watching Wartime Farm. They were saying on the latest programme that WWII farmers started keeping bees to supply the pharmaceutical industry with honey, which was used for its antiseptic properties.

Glad you managed to get on the bike, anyway. That's a step in the right direction.

Ah no, it's a big thing in the horse community to use manuka on horse wounds, apparently. I consider myself privileged to receive same high level of my four-legged colleagues get. Couple of square feet* of road rash, not a hint of septicemia, so

* possibly a slight exaggeration for effect.

 

[lulubel]

BIKE UPDATE: I've received an email saying it's being prepared for despatch, and will be handed over to the carrier in the next 4-7 days.

You did want updates - right?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

BIKE UPDATE: I've received an email saying it's being prepared for despatch, and will be handed over to the carrier in the next 4-7 days.

You did want updates - right?

You even needed to ask?