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BigdummySteve wrote: Fri Feb 26, 2021 1:22 pm
Verena wrote: Fri Feb 26, 2021 8:10 am To be fair, this is all well confusing :roll: :
Strangely I find life even more confusing as I get older if I think about it, so I don’t :-bd
Think of it like my breakfast this morning, obviously you need your toast and proper salted butter, then you have options, you can opt for marmalade in which case your probably going to pair it with a nice cup of coffee. Alternatively I could go down the marmite route paired with a strong cup of Assam tea. Neither is wrong, just different options which compliment each other.

The rack option will be deployed for gentle trips with my lad, carrying two bags and other stuff to keep it civilised. The other option will be a Revelate vole seatpack which is only about 6ltr and my sleeping bag stuff into a small handlebar pouch.
Thank you. Food analogies always work for me :-bd
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Glenlivet rum cask whisky - lack of works Xmas party resulted in receiving this instead :-bd

Granite strap for strapping stuff
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Brought a piece of art (IMO) for Butcher. From a lovely ebayer too who described it as 'spring not as tight' cos thats what the shops had told him (trying to sell him a new mech?)... Spring is lovely and tight*. Butcher (the bike) will be so proud...

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Oh... and a paint chipped IF Crown Jewel (grovelled some dosh off the missus and indicated that I'd get rid a bike or 2) made its way to mine this aft too :grin: (life complete).

*Well ok, upon extra fiddling and stroking it, I know where the bike shop was coming from. Nothing to write home about though...
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Please sir me sir,
I've got a front wheel rack as we, sir.
Thank you sir!
It can carry AMn bicycle, aswell sir.
It cost pa-pa a lot sir,
Pa-pa says it's the best sir,
Does it count, sir!

:grin: X_X :-bd

* handle bar 'man' bags next... Spoon wooden stir.... :grin:
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Again not the postman but after dropping my wife off at work
Last night I locally picked up a pair of 29er wheels on fatbike hubs
fot My Salsa, it's taking time but I'm getting both bikes ready to
Go back out again :-bd
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Repaired Joystick. As has been said many times, good service. The whole back pulled out of the body when I extracted the charging cable. Mk14. There and back in a few days. Warranty. Well done folks.
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Another sit mat. I have a few and the family all have them as well. I find them amazingly useful but somehow I've lost my well loved yellow multimat one, which for me is the best balance of features. Think it's got caught up in the house move madness. Anyway, a blue one has arrived and will get a lot of use. Hooray
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Cheap lycra shorts for use on the turbo.

And a set of Raceface chainrings for the fatbike. Not required immediately but I'm building a stock of parts on account of current and predicted shortages.
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Some proper nice steak knives
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Sold my Canyon somewhere at the start of lockdowns last year and it funded some safety apparatus for work (so I'll not need to shave my beard which I do love dearly). A few years ago I sold on my Indy Fab for reasons I can't remember properly but potentially to fund the Canyon roadie frame.

Always looked fondly at the Indy Fab Crown Jewel and knew I'd never be able to get my hands on one as they're just too far out of my league (though my car does cost less than my bike/bikes which is a positive... Earlier in the month (last) I helped a mate do a littlw fundraiser (mainly just raising awareness) about some refugee families living on a construction site and struggling to make ends meet.

Some might call it karma, I call it Alhamdulillah (all praise Allah)... Wait... let me get the lovely flower wallpaper out of the shot, as it shouldn't sit well with an Indy Fab...

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Oh my word... ain't you gorgeous

The headbadge... carnt forget the headbadge.
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To top it all off. During the short (work) trip to go collect, a mate had messaged me. That I need to pick up the wheels he'd been holding onto. Totally forget about them, and it turned out he had 3 DA wheels (but worn but freehub good and the front both roll beautiful) and some part used top end cassettes (ten speed).

Happy days (or Alhamdulillah as I'd say :grin: )...
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Some nice bibshorts from LeCol - got a Strava voucher to use up!
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...and dropped off a wildcat framebag for the anthem, courtesy of the classifieds - should give me a bit more carrying capacity in the frame.
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Some superstar components 29er wheelset, own brand hubs on WTB i29 rims :-bd

Deore BB and some brake bolts too arrived earlier in the week
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That Indy Fab is nice Shaf :-bd What’s your plans with it?
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... and dropped off some breadboards, s PSU and some PCBs. Time to start building a MFOS WSG, or it will be when all the components turn up.
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K1100T wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 6:35 pm ... and dropped off some breadboards, s PSU and some PCBs. Time to start building a MFOS WSG, or it will be when all the components turn up.
I wish you hadn't posted that rabbit hole of a site
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Dave Barter wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 6:56 pm
K1100T wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 6:35 pm ... and dropped off some breadboards, s PSU and some PCBs. Time to start building a MFOS WSG, or it will be when all the components turn up.
I wish you hadn't posted that rabbit hole of a site
I probably shouldn't tell you to Google Molten Modular DIY, or Look Mum no Computer KSOMO either... 😂
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K1100T wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 6:35 pm ... and dropped off some breadboards, s PSU and some PCBs. Time to start building a MFOS WSG, or it will be when all the components turn up.
So nice to see my hobbies cross forums :lol:
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K1100T wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 6:35 pm ... and dropped off some breadboards, s PSU and some PCBs. Time to start building a MFOS WSG, or it will be when all the components turn up.
Bread boarding that takes me back... To IT training in the 80'S (When hardware knowledge was as important as software knowledge for a technician...). When TTL (74xxx)& Cmos(4xxx) logic chip, microprocessor Z80A, 6502 was a weeks wages. You can buy a shed load for that. A almost lost art...
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... and delivered a load of components.

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Bread boarding that takes me back...
I'm assuming it's not a variant on this?

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With an almost perfect second hand Pace winter active jacket to replace an ancient Polaris one on which the zips have gone but is still my go to cold weather choice hope this one is as warm and last as long if it does it's unlikely I will need another .
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Ooooh, are we doing phrasing?!😁
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An Ergon saddle to try on my fat bike. I used to put up with a super hard Selle Italia seat but after multiple repairs with the glue gun it's finally given up the ghost. I thought I'd treat myself to something a bit cushier next (especially as I'm now riding the bike on longer runs since I got the 29er wheels to go on it as well).
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K1100T wrote: Wed Mar 03, 2021 12:41 pm ... and delivered a load of components.

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Like white van you look for one then hundreds turn up at once. I hope its all preformed legs an colour codes orientate thd the same direction. Through hole as so old skool technogy. . :lol I bet a, single 32bi microcontroller controller could do all that with a frozen support component. You do mad writing and debugging the code though.

I once had to troubleshoot. A mates maplin time delay loop kit in 1982, never again. In the end Idesoldered every thing and started from stratch it was easier.... "Minimal experience required" Ha- NOT!
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