Perhaps you could return the bubble wrap you ordered for a refund, but in a slightly smaller box... .

stevew wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 9:29 pm I did a forum wordsearch on here to see how much folks talk about brands.

Your MBA should also consider PHD .

stevew wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 9:29 pm I would say there is a lot of love for Alpkit here?

Why?

Shaf'll be along in a minute to explain that one...

sean_iow wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 2:36 pm
I'd assumed that as I can afford a ti bike with carbon Jones loops I'd be a nobleman If I was speaking Middle English my bike would be made of turnips?

A nobleman, you say

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aKfbSHW9uGA

Inflatable 'plane? Nice idea ...

...but it'll never take-off .

Broke it. :sad: Again. :(( Sticking free hub, worn rear bearings and an odd tendency for the rear cable disc brake to lock on fully (despite a change of cable, outer, caliper and pads). And it's always the MTB that fails: the "skip bike" just seems to plod on like the Top Gear Toyota Hilu...

psling wrote: ↑Sun Mar 28, 2021 8:16 am .... f*#¶ing pandemics...

Perhaps that's what will follow a year of enforced isolation caused by the Covid pandemic .

jameso wrote: ↑Sat Mar 27, 2021 8:50 pm Could be a Polentathon for all my spelling's worth some days.

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RIP wrote: ↑Sat Mar 27, 2021 4:58 pm Orange's excuse was they'd just redesigned the frame and the builders had cocked up.

That's not an excuse...that's a honest answer. Don't see many of them, nowadays.

And an e-bike to do the pedalling? :smile: Maybe an e-bike on Pele ton X Zwift's new collaboration 'Alpe d'Tussock' where you have to get off and push both the e-bike and the Peleton unit around the room while the Peleton motivator guy shouts encouraging abuse/banter at you for being soft, slow, a ...

... just do it and you regret if for a way shorter period of time.... Hmmm...with so many interesting choices in life it would be helpful to clone oneself multiple times; to take both choices at each decision, eventually existing in multiple parallel universes and see how all options turn out :geek...

belugabob wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 2:47 pm

I've never heard it called a "metric" before, though .

It alway seems bigger, measured in metric

Verena wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 11:37 pm I didn't know that. That's my birthday. On towel day

You might want to keep that to yourself, should you want presents to retain the element of surprise .

JackT wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:51 pm ....I'm probably well over the halfway point in terms of number of miles I'll ever ride / number of times I'll have sex / [insert your own metric of choice here]...

Defeatist!

I've never heard it called a "metric" before, though .

Whilst looking for jolly japes, cracking wheezes and general excuses for silliness, Reg and I stumbled across this: https://www.thereisadayforthat.com/calendars/2021/03 Forthcoming reasons to be cheerful include... 28 March = national black forest cake day in USA 🥧🇺🇸😋 4 April = international carrot ...

ScotRoutes wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 1:25 pm I retired from my job of 33 years when I turned 50....

How?

The DEFRA page on the gov.uk site states: " How to contact us To contact us regarding policy enquiries (not covered by the above guidance) please email defra.helpline@defra.gov.uk You should clearly label your query by subject area to help us allocate your enquiry to the right team." So I ...

https://i.imgur.com/aObF4q0.jpg Love the cardboard slippers :cool: . Thanks Pete... I have high hopes on him. Invented em himself then made his brother some. Abdurrahman (6). Maybe he'll layer me a carbon frame and give a 5 year warranty that actually lasts the 5 years (sorry, couldn't resist :lol:...

redefined_cycles wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 1:15 am

Love the cardboard slippers .

long rides will always be there. if you are unlucky and catch a lurgy, you wont be. Agreed. Restrictions aren't just there to stop one catching it: they're also to stop one spreading it, inadvertently o:-) . Another thought: if people are already willing to donate to a charity when asked, does the ...

That Pinzgaueur is a bargin. I've been in one, although not armored, a civi version, it was doing demo rides at a show. Weirdly it was at a Land Rover show :???: It was pretty amazing off road, better than a Land Rover - and I say that begrudgingly as a Land Rover owner - maybe that's why they took...

Sometime in the future...or possibly not. Who cares? :roll: (We all do) :wink: More importantly: restrictions have ignited a spirit of ingenious, imaginatively-themed events that probably wouldn't have happened without restrictions. 2020 was the year of the "Backyard Boner"; 2021 seems to ...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51036745252_7a5f47dd37_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51035907468_d4587497aa_c.jpg The Chillerton Radio mast. Amongst the security measures is strobe lighting :???: Presumably to keep out epileptics, it won't discourage the ravers? ... a bonus 70 plate...

Perfectly bonkers nonsense, which apparently is a spot in a forest 1000 miles east of Moscow... What3Words location - Indeed it is, near Visim :-bd . There appears to be a notable absence of executive heritage homes in the vicinity and it possibly lacks the aesthetic variety one finds in the Luton ...