Hot tip for lightening bike

tardington

I have just up-ended my panniers, and put back in what should be there. This has left:

A potato
A small tin of beans (these two were my lunch from yesterday but I was too busy)
A book I'd lost
An apple
Yesterday's guardian G2 section
about 50 packets of chewing gum that had haemorraged bits of gum all about he place
Some spare batteries
My head torch (also been looking for that)
A miniature of Southern Comfort I got given at christmas
My xbox memory card (also lost)

The bike seems so much lighter!

patchy

you mean you think you don't need the southern comfort?

dirk_van_gently

ROFLMAO

Having in the past used panniers, I too have experience something similar. However yours Tardie was just brilliiiantly funny.

I now use the outer "rucksack" of an old hydration system to carry my worldly goods, there is a lot less space, so I don't carry so much, it promotes a frugal approach to luggage.

Random Vince

i just go past my girlfriends on the way to uni and leave my stuff there that i don't need with me (so have lock, memory stick and note book with me)

she meets me in my lunchbreak with shorts, t shirt and trainers and badminton rackets

i do i win?

Stig-OT-Dump

Since Christmas I gave up alcohol for a month (well 3 weeks), watched my diet and ramped up my exercising.

Now my commute is already some 14lbs lighter.

If there's a prize, can I have the southern comfort, tatty, beans, gum and also a big bar of toblerone?

Please.

chronyx

You had me laughing at potato (Simple things)

I mean...WHY?

A - W

What size are these panniers?

tardington

Btw, I had put the potato in there and forgotten about it... I mean, it didn't just appear!

Um, they are the universal panniers (the small ones you can put on the front). I never take them off the bike, though, so I generally keep putting things in and forgetting to take them out.

Possibly a wee rucsac would be better?


NB I have drank the souther comfort, it was very nice.

prj45

tardie wrote:

Btw, I had put the potato in there and forgotten about it... I mean, it didn't just appear!

WHY DID YOU PUT A POTATO IN YOUR PANNIERS FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!!

ANSWER THE QUESTION!!!!

prj45

(and next time, can you find some panniers in your panniers please)

tardington

For EATING! With the the beans!

gtvlusso

Isn't it easier just to eat a few less pies?

cee

gtvlusso wrote:

Isn't it easier just to eat a few less pies?

What, than a potato and beans?

tardington

Well, I try and eat healthily! And, um, windily. :oops:

Although I had a haggis pizza (only in scotland) last week again, I was farting like a demon...

patchy

Stig-OT-Dump wrote:

Since Christmas I gave up alcohol for a month (well 3 weeks), watched my diet and ramped up my exercising.

Now my commute is already some 14lbs lighter.

If there's a prize, can I have the southern comfort, tatty, beans, gum and also a big bar of toblerone?

Please.

really? i hate you, i think i've put fat ON since Christmas. ok, so i needed beer to help me through a hellish January at work, have been slack at exercising and living on carbs carbs and cheese, but still...