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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    not that it was warm yesterday but last night 0c

    Grrrrr FFS
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    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • keyser__soze
    keyser__soze Posts: 2,067
    Managed to get a couple of hours off duty for a ride on Monday, found having a little'un to look after has dented my descending bravery somewhat, though nearly got taken out by a Range Rover down the appropriately-named Jackass Lane, which I was crawling down on the brakes all the time having had a few near misses there in the past thanks to idiot drivers. Turn the corner and found another rider hadn't been so lucky and nearly got Hoogerlanded, having been forced off the side of the road into a barbed wire fence/hedge by said same Range Rover. Turned round to check he was ok, fortunately he was. Checked bar camera for numberplate when home and found it'd run out of battery about 10 mins before, despite being fully charged :( Oh and to cap it all off, someone's gone and added roughly 10% to every climb in Kent (tho more likely that's down to the spare 10kgs I'm carrying since last riding some of them)
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  • kiwimatt
    kiwimatt Posts: 208
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    Dinyull wrote:
    Oven: element is readily available (if it's the right model) for £20, to have an Engineer come out and replace it is going to cost more than a new oven would cost. I'm happy to attempt to fix it myself but fuckaduck, if I can't then I'll get a new oven for £120 instead of paying an Engineer £180 for the privilege.

    Unless it's much more difficult than mine, just diy. I'm hopeless and managed to do mine with instructions from the youtube of the place that sold me the replacement part.

    This. You can fix pretty much anything with YouTube. Tool kit and a certain overconfidence that you can't break it any worse than it is already all that's needed
  • dinyull
    dinyull Posts: 2,979
    kiwimatt wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    Dinyull wrote:
    Oven: element is readily available (if it's the right model) for £20, to have an Engineer come out and replace it is going to cost more than a new oven would cost. I'm happy to attempt to fix it myself but fuckaduck, if I can't then I'll get a new oven for £120 instead of paying an Engineer £180 for the privilege.

    Unless it's much more difficult than mine, just diy. I'm hopeless and managed to do mine with instructions from the youtube of the place that sold me the replacement part.

    This. You can fix pretty much anything with YouTube. Tool kit and a certain overconfidence that you can't break it any worse than it is already all that's needed

    Thanks for reminding me I need to buy the part first :oops:
  • wolfsbane2k
    wolfsbane2k Posts: 3,056
    The big C
    Intent on Cycling Commuting on a budget, but keep on breaking/crashing/finding nice stuff to buy.
    Bike 1 (Broken) - Bike 2(Borked) - Bike 3(broken spokes) - Bike 4( Needs Work) - Bike 5 (in bits) - Bike 6* ...
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Wolfsbane2k wrote:
    The big C

    oh matey i hope you dont mean what i think that is :?
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • wolfsbane2k
    wolfsbane2k Posts: 3,056
    itboffin wrote:
    Wolfsbane2k wrote:
    The big C

    oh matey i hope you dont mean what i think that is :?
    Yeah, took a big part of my family away overnight after diagnosis a week ago, and it also has its fingers on my OH.
    Intent on Cycling Commuting on a budget, but keep on breaking/crashing/finding nice stuff to buy.
    Bike 1 (Broken) - Bike 2(Borked) - Bike 3(broken spokes) - Bike 4( Needs Work) - Bike 5 (in bits) - Bike 6* ...
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    so sorry to hear that, thoughts are with you and your family mate
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,495
    Sorry to hear that. Best wishes to you and yours :?
  • slowbike
    slowbike Posts: 8,498
    Wolfsbane2k wrote:
    The big C

    :(
    that's crap ...

    You haven't elaborated on the situation and you certainly don't have to... but I just hope it's been diagnosed early enough for treament to be an option and that it's effective.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,821
    Wolfsbane2k wrote:
    Yeah, took a big part of my family away overnight after diagnosis a week ago, and it also has its fingers on my OH.
    So sorry to hear that. Hopefully if it's only got it's fingers on the OH it will get sorted, all the best to you and yours.
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  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Wolfsbane2k wrote:
    Yeah, took a big part of my family away overnight after diagnosis a week ago, and it also has its fingers on my OH.
    So sorry to hear that. Hopefully if it's only got it's fingers on the OH it will get sorted, all the best to you and yours.

    Indeed best wishes.
  • rower63
    rower63 Posts: 1,991
    Wolfsbane2k wrote:
    The big C
    dammit, hoping for the best
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  • MrSweary
    MrSweary Posts: 1,699
    Wolfsbane2k wrote:
    The big C

    Thoughts are with you and the family.
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  • grant2307
    grant2307 Posts: 135
    RLJ that I almost collided with last night who proceeded to act like it was my fault.

    C**t
  • keyser__soze
    keyser__soze Posts: 2,067
    Only a Ginger wrote:
    Banks

    I'll see your banks and raise you estate agents :roll: Seems there's a feud between the two local branches and as a result our place isn't getting pushed by the closer branch in the area we actually live as the sale is being 'managed' by the 'main' area branch which is further away in a crappier area. "Secret shopper" with the closer branch asking about properties in our area, at our price, with our facilities, "nope, we don't have anything like that, but you could try these other totally different ones" :roll:
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  • Djd3737
    Djd3737 Posts: 82
    Plane tree pollen......my throat
  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    fleehouse2 wrote:
    Plane tree pollen......my throat
    Aah. That's what it is! I was hacking and spluttering all the way home.
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    hopkinb wrote:
    fleehouse2 wrote:
    Plane tree pollen......my throat
    Aah. That's what it is! I was hacking and spluttering all the way home.

    me too walking back from lunch, nasty
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    how comes i dont get that at home in the middle of the countryside surrounded by forests?
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • Djd3737
    Djd3737 Posts: 82
    itboffin wrote:
    how comes i dont get that at home in the middle of the countryside surrounded by forests?

    Plane trees are grim, and really common in London, with their trichome fibres being the stuff that sticks in your throat. I live in the countryside too and no issues with anything out here.
  • meanredspider
    meanredspider Posts: 12,337
    Apple. They finally sent me a reconditioned phone having entirely forked mine (with IOS 10.3.1) after 2 weeks of ranting at them. You'd have thought they arranged a multi-trillion Mars habitation mission rather than got some chap from Eastern Europe (who hates Apple, he was happy to share) to drive 3 or 4 miles to hand the phone over to me and take my phone back.
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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    Monday morning prep failure.

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  • tangled_metal
    tangled_metal Posts: 4,021
    Is it a rant to complain about a driving instructor or his/her trainee passing me at a decent speed so close I felt the turbulence and got a bit of a pull from it? It has to be one of the closest passes I've had since the time I found myself between the front and rear trailer wheels of a truck. :shock:

    I don't really mind close passes, so long as I survive them, but this presents me with an issue. If it was the trainee then IMHO the instructor should have stopped the driver and given a talking to. If the driving instructor was without trainee then should that instructor be teaching anyone to drive? He/she could be teaching the next generation of drivers to be dangerous around cyclists. Does he teach them verbal abuse of cyclists too?

    Sorry for the rant but instructors should be teaching respect for all road users. If this isn't taught into new drivers then what chance do we have for seeing an improvement in the future?
  • philcubed
    philcubed Posts: 260
    Tangled Metal wrote:
    Is it a rant to complain about a driving instructor or his/her trainee passing me at a decent speed so close I felt the turbulence and got a bit of a pull from it? It has to be one of the closest passes I've had since the time I found myself between the front and rear trailer wheels of a truck. :shock:

    Reminds me of the time I was going round a roundabout on my bike and a car shot onto the roundabout at speed as I was passing that junction. I braced myself for impact it was that close. I looked back and it was a driving instructor, who was giving me hand signals that are not in the highway code! I tried complaining to the company but they weren't interested unless I could give the licence plate, even though I gave a description of the car, the time and place so they could work out which of their drivers it was.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,821
    Walking out of my house and see a bloke manoeuvring out of a parking space with a baby on his lap. Shake my head assuming he's gone back to 1970's ideas on road safety and carry on to the garage. Come out the garage and the guy had stopped half out of the space and was just getting going again. This time he still had the baby in his lap but also had his phone in his left hand. He then set off down the road doing something on his phone as he goes. I was so surprised I didn't react at the time, really should have said something.
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  • davis
    davis Posts: 2,506
    fleehouse2 wrote:
    itboffin wrote:
    how comes i dont get that at home in the middle of the countryside surrounded by forests?

    Plane trees are grim, and really common in London, with their trichome fibres being the stuff that sticks in your throat. I live in the countryside too and no issues with anything out here.

    Are they the trees that smell quite like *ahem* "romance"?
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  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    davis wrote:
    fleehouse2 wrote:
    itboffin wrote:
    how comes i dont get that at home in the middle of the countryside surrounded by forests?

    Plane trees are grim, and really common in London, with their trichome fibres being the stuff that sticks in your throat. I live in the countryside too and no issues with anything out here.

    Are they the trees that smell quite like *ahem* "romance"?

    Nothing to do with trees, but noticed your avatar - I went to see Leftfield at Brixton on Saturday. They were fcuking brilliant. I still can't hear properly.
  • rower63
    rower63 Posts: 1,991
    davis wrote:
    fleehouse2 wrote:
    itboffin wrote:
    how comes i dont get that at home in the middle of the countryside surrounded by forests?
    Plane trees are grim, and really common in London, with their trichome fibres being the stuff that sticks in your throat. I live in the countryside too and no issues with anything out here.
    Are they the trees that smell quite like *ahem* "romance"?
    haha no that's Horse Chestnut
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  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    fleehouse2 wrote:
    itboffin wrote:
    how comes i dont get that at home in the middle of the countryside surrounded by forests?

    Plane trees are grim, and really common in London, with their trichome fibres being the stuff that sticks in your throat. I live in the countryside too and no issues with anything out here.

    Are Plane trees the one that produce the little gritty stuff that gets in your eyes? Keep getting stuff in my eyes in London, doesn't happen anywhere else and only at this time of year
    It's just a hill. Get over it.

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