The Retirement Thread
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PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
I've never ridden a Ribble but rode a Dolan Dual for several years, it's still in the garage, and it was a wonderful ride.
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
I was looking at them and nearly bought one a few weeks ago, but went back to look and they no longer had the smallest frame size, or I probably would have got one.
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
I'm sat outside with a glass of red. The birds are singing, there isn't a breath of wind, it's warm and I can hear the sound of leather on willow as the cricket club have practice. A perfect summer evening.
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
Is that your garden? It’s lovely!
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
It's not all my garden. We live on a row of terraced cottages, there are nine and we are fourth in the row. My garden is the bottom left foreground, the rest of the picture is across other gardens. The real beauty is there are no hedges or fences.
To live here you have to accept everyone knows everything about you and what you're doing.
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
This is the view straight up my garden but basically we all share.
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
And this is my allotment. The yellow looking stuff on the right is garlic coming ready for harvest.
172traindriver
Legendary Member
It never ceases to amaze me how many people get out in the winter on what you would term best summer bikes worth thousands.
The 2 brands we have mentioned above are well known for producing reasonably priced excellent winter bikes that tick all the boxes.
I could never contemplate trashing my best bike on winter roads
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
And our row. My house is on the right.
172traindriver
Legendary Member
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
It never ceases to amaze me how many people get out in the winter on what you would term best summer bikes worth thousands.
The 2 brands we have mentioned above are well known for producing reasonably priced excellent winter bikes that tick all the boxes.
I could never contemplate trashing my best bike on winter roads
No neither would I. When I retired I bought myself a beautiful Cervelo C3. I've since upgraded it with carbon wheels and tubeless. It's unlikely I can ever afford such a thing again and I would never take her out in the winter.
Her name is Carys which I imagine @welsh dragon will get!
classic33
Leg End Member
Old almshousing/houses?
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
Is it a conservation area? Looks very nice and peaceful.
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
We live in a Lancashire mill village. There are 33 original cottages, a primary school, reading room, chapel, cricket club, bowling green and the mill owners enormous house. The village is on the banks of the Leeds Liverpool canal. Around the village there has been development meaning there are another 45 more modern properties, fortunately these don't impinge on us. The village was originally built by the Parke family to entice local workers to their paper mill which manufactured very high quality paper and bank note paper. Most of this has now been knocked down to make way for a development, 25 years ago, of new houses and what remains is used by various companies, mainly car related. It,s currently scheduled for housing development.
The mill owners were Methodist so there is no pub. Everyone went to chapel twice on Sunday. Up to the mid 60s there was a team employed to maintain the outside of the houses, everything was painted the same colour etc. lovely front gardens. The school and chapel were built to benefit and "educate" the workforce. There is/was a reading room which was effectively a small library again for the villagers. The upper floor of this building had a fully sprung floor for dancing. Kathleen Ferrier often performed there - she was born a few miles away.
I do appreciate how lucky I am, though we didn't know this 38 years ago when we arrived!!
