Zwift Chat

[theboxers]

Well thats this months mission completed. Chance to win some headphones .

 

[Norry1]

Well thats this months mission completed. Chance to win some headphones .

Likewise

 

[bridgy]

It’s taken me over a week to build it back up since I got it back from the paint shop as I’ve been doing it one component at a time basically. But now it’s ready for Cambridge and looking great, even if I’m going to be a big puddle on the floor!

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Still looking great - have you changed anything on it since last year's TOC?

 

[Randyberlin]

very dependant on how hard tomorrow goes - chimney wall to demolish berty dibnah !

This post just cost me 10 minutes watching a YouTube of a fire burning at the bottom of a chimney stack.

 

[CXRAndy]

very dependant on how hard tomorrow goes - chimney wall to demolish berty dibnah !

Lucky those down south have heard of dear Fred

A true character

 

[berty bassett]

This post just cost me 10 minutes watching a YouTube of a fire burning at the bottom of a chimney stack.

you should watch some of his stuff - he was a very interesting bloke - bloody nuts but interesting

 

[bridgy]

Just set up Thursday's race - decided to go for the Surrey Hills course to fulfill the requests for something hilly and over an hour (only London or Watopia are options for Thursday so we can do the Innsbruck course another time).

I reckon we should follow this with a flat TT course the following week

 

[<Tommy>]

you should watch some of his stuff - he was a very interesting bloke - bloody nuts but interesting

They repeated one of his series’ a couple of years back during the day and it became compulsive viewing when I was working from home. It was him going back over old projects he’d done and talking about the industrial revolution at the same time.

I take your point Andy about the north south divide. But I’d go a little further and say the reason he isn’t celebrated more around the country is a reflection of how little value we put into engineering in general in this country.

 

[<Tommy>]

Still looking great - have you changed anything on it since last year's TOC?

Pretty much the same. Different colour saddle. I keep meaning to put a chunkier looking stem on it but the perfect one alludes me... I have lighter wheels I put on sometimes but for Cambridge these ones a pretty much ideal.

 

[berty bassett]

They repeated one of his series’ a couple of years back during the day and it became compulsive viewing when I was working from home. It was him going back over old projects he’d done and talking about the industrial revolution at the same time.

I your point Andy about the north south divide. But I’d go a little further and say the reason he isn’t celebrated more around the country is a reflection of how little balue we put into engineering in general in this country.

It’s good that you start flicking thru the channels and plump for one of his programmes thinking maybe I can watch this , then end up you can’t take eyes of what he’s up to

 

[bobinski]

Still looking great - have you changed anything on it since last year's TOC?

Unfortunately the rider has changed for the worse

 

[bobinski]

Lucky those down south have heard of dear Fred

A true character

We do have telly down here mate

They repeated one of his series’ a couple of years back during the day and it became compulsive viewing when I was working from home. It was him going back over old projects he’d done and talking about the industrial revolution at the same time.

I take your point Andy about the north south divide. But I’d go a little further and say the reason he isn’t celebrated more around the country is a reflection of how little value we put into engineering in general in this country.

Spot on.

 

[<Tommy>]

Unfortunately the rider has changed for the worse

It’s a fair comment. I was thinking the same thing myself earlier

I was a little hung over this morning but it was a pretty crap effort all the same. I need something to click into gear fast!

 

[CXRAndy]

I take your point Andy about the north south divide. But I’d go a little further and say the reason he isn’t celebrated more around the country is a reflection of how little value we put into engineering in general in this country.

Very true. He reminds me of my Dad in a lot of ways, who left school at 14 went back to night school college and became a draughtsman whilst serving an apprenticeship metal fabrication. My Dad was a engineer draughtsman all his life whilst progressing onto board level management.

He went back to college in his sixties and learnt the basics of Autocad when he returned to self employment after being made redundant in his mid sixties., I used to marvel at the paper engineering drawings my Dad did and I really enjoyed technical drawing at school.

 

[kipster]

Just set up Thursday's race - decided to go for the Surrey Hills course to fulfill the requests for something hilly and over an hour (only London or Watopia are options for Thursday so we can do the Innsbruck course another time).

I reckon we should follow this with a flat TT course the following week

Thanks for the invite Paul, I'm going to struggle (again) to make it this week.