Jameshow
Veteran
I go on holiday and my bench as it's called with all the screws bolts drills etc gets miraculously tidied! I say it's my tidiness that does it......🤣
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I go on holiday and my bench as it's called with all the screws bolts drills etc gets miraculously tidied! I say it's my tidiness that does it......🤣
sevenfourate
Devotee of OCD
- Location
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
……and looks GREAT ! Nice job 👌
It has taken over my life, I’ll be relieved when it’s all finished.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Nothing much as I'm 'in-disposed' but did touch up a scratch on the commuter's seat stay after I dropped an angle grinder on it (it fell out of the tool tray as I moved it).
I only painted the rear triangle, just high build primer and satin black chassis paint, but lots of preparation and patience
sevenfourate
Devotee of OCD
- Location
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
Set-up / parts swapping / mudguards etc and cosmetic tw4tting around on the Bergamont 8 Grandurance is done. Needs the inaugural ride now……
The hills around Lowestoft must have got a bit bigger than I remember for that gearing 👍
Ps nice bike
sevenfourate
Devotee of OCD
- Location
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
I can make the smallest of mole-hills look like a Mountain….😁
Jameshow
Veteran
Those broads bridges are a nightmare!!🤣
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
The cateyes almost double their elevation 😉
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Don't forget that headwinds can be as tough as hills! 
I was on a Costa Blanca cycling holiday once when the daily ride was cancelled due to dangerously strong winds. I decided to ignore the warnings and went out with a mate. The wind really was nightmarish and we were struggling to ride up to the tunnels leading from Benidorm to above Calpe. As soon as I got to the start of the first tunnel, I hit a wall of wind and was simply unable to ride any further forwards. I was standing on the pedals in a 39/29 gear and using all of my strength but could not move. My legs soon gave way and I was blown off the back of the bike, which took off and headed towards the Armco barrier and the gorge below. I lunged for the bike and managed to pull it back down onto the road ...
At that point, I thought "Nah ..."!
We turned and headed back with an amazing tailwind but I was unable to pedal fast enough in my 53/13 top gear. I managed to spin up to 120 rpm which corresponded to 40 mph but then gave up and was doing well over 40 mph freewheeling! (It is a slightly downhill stretch of road.)
When we got back into town, wheelie bins were tumbling past us down the street ...
THAT is definitely too windy to ride in!
On one rare occasion, the wind was coming up the hill and it just happened to be a day when I was doing the loop the other way round, descending from Blackstone Edge towards Cragg Vale - typical!That headwind was so strong that I had to stand up in my lowest gear (then 40/28) in order to get down the hill. When I stopped pedalling, the wind almost blew me backwards up the hill!
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
I cleaned the chain on the bike I'll probably use tomorrow, but I decided to top up the sealant in my good bike's tyres. The back tyre unseated and the valve was blocked when I did so, so I had to insert sealant into the rim and use CO2 to reseat it and unblock the valve. It made a tiny bit of a mess of the tyre as the sealant wasn't deep in the tyre. The front stayed seated though and it was topped up in seconds and repumped up with a track pump, no mess. Hopefully the rear will be like that the next time as I want to put more sealant in it next week.
