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  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    I seem to have opened a can of worms here.
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  • DrLex
    DrLex Posts: 2,142
    Have I wandered into Mumsnet?
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  • slowbike
    slowbike Posts: 8,498
    DrLex wrote:
    Have I wandered into Mumsnet?
    Nope - Dadsnet ....
  • anonymousblackfg
    anonymousblackfg Posts: 2,029
    DrLex wrote:
    Have I wandered into Mumsnet?

    I don't think so, no one has posted anything about back door activities available to Dads on a visit to Centre parks
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  • DrLex
    DrLex Posts: 2,142
    8-) Tied with the peni$ beaker thread for WtF amusement.
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  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    On another note, looking back through the thread and looking at my sig.

    I haven't bought a bike since 2014!

    That's 5 years ago.

    I mean wtf?
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  • tgotb
    tgotb Posts: 4,714
    elbowloh wrote:
    On another note, looking back through the thread and looking at my sig.

    I haven't bought a bike since 2014!

    That's 5 years ago.

    I mean wtf?
    Wait until he gets older. In the last 12 months I have bought the following for my daughter:
    - New road bike frameset to replace the one she grew out of last Summer. She's now grown out of this one, and I'm about to have to buy another.
    - CX frameset to replace the one I bought 2 years ago
    - Track bike
    - MTB frameset to replace the one I bought 2 years ago
    - New CX/MTB shoes (2 sizes)
    - New road shoes (2 sizes)
    - New gloves to replace the ones she left in her helmet at school, hanging on her bike, on a windy day

    In her defence, she can't help growing, and she does way more non-commute cycling than I'm able to fit in...

    Thank goodness for eBay; although I seem to spend half my life building bikes, and the budget for new cables is not small, I do seem to be able to sell her old frames for much the same as I paid for them...
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  • drhaggis
    drhaggis Posts: 1,150
    elbowloh wrote:
    On another note, looking back through the thread and looking at my sig.

    I haven't bought a bike since 2014!

    That's 5 years ago.

    I mean wtf?

    Let me help you:
    • Check nursery costs
    • Check public school fees if you don't like the state one in your area
    • Check university tuition fees...

    As a (not very empathic) coworker once said, "If I didn't have kids, I could afford a new massive flat TV every month!"
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Yep. All that lovely sleep we're supposedly getting is ruined as we're up all night panicking about the cost of nursery fees.
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,072
    Dont worry you'll get your own back once they're teenagers I'm always smiling when we do the ready for school wake ups
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  • wolfsbane2k
    wolfsbane2k Posts: 3,056
    Got physically skimmed today by a chef under naval training in a white van - shoulder rubbing with sheet metal moving 20mph faster than you ain't fun.

    Driver got out 15 meters up the road and started screaming at me - I'd just started moving again after slamming on the brakes.

    Thank feck for cameras - while pointing them out to him made them even angrier, it stopped him approaching me.
    Intent on Cycling Commuting on a budget, but keep on breaking/crashing/finding nice stuff to buy.
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  • frogonabike
    frogonabike Posts: 157
    Wolfsbane2k wrote:
    Got physically skimmed today by a chef under naval training in a white van - shoulder rubbing with sheet metal moving 20mph faster than you ain't fun.

    Driver got out 15 meters up the road and started screaming at me - I'd just started moving again after slamming on the brakes.

    Thank feck for cameras - while pointing them out to him made them even angrier, it stopped him approaching me.


    Sounds like a good one! Do share :D
  • DrLex
    DrLex Posts: 2,142
    Footage to the Senior Service? The Navy seems to take dodgy motoring issues seriously - captain of the new aircraft carrier, Cdre Cooke-Priest, recently got taken off his ship after allegedly fiddling his car mileage.
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  • tgotb
    tgotb Posts: 4,714
    DrLex wrote:
    Footage to the Senior Service? The Navy seems to take dodgy motoring issues seriously - captain of the new aircraft carrier, Cdre Cooke-Priest, recently got taken off his ship after allegedly fiddling his car mileage.
    Apparently he was letting his wife drive the company car...
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  • DrLex
    DrLex Posts: 2,142
    Ford Galaxy, apparently. Maybe moonlighting for Addison Lee?
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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    DrLex wrote:
    Footage to the Senior Service? The Navy seems to take dodgy motoring issues seriously - captain of the new aircraft carrier, Cdre Cooke-Priest, recently got taken off his ship after allegedly fiddling his car mileage.

    Surely "chef under naval training" is another way of spelling "CLINT"?
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  • wolfsbane2k
    wolfsbane2k Posts: 3,056
    Wolfsbane2k wrote:
    Got physically skimmed today by a chef under naval training in a white van - shoulder rubbing with sheet metal moving 20mph faster than you ain't fun.

    Driver got out 15 meters up the road and started screaming at me - I'd just started moving again after slamming on the brakes.

    Thank feck for cameras - while pointing them out to him made them even angrier, it stopped him approaching me.

    Heh. Turns out this was one road over from from where Hampshire police were doing a close pass/ safe pass initiative as well.
    Intent on Cycling Commuting on a budget, but keep on breaking/crashing/finding nice stuff to buy.
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  • DrLex
    DrLex Posts: 2,142
    Ben6899 wrote:
    DrLex wrote:
    Footage to the Senior Service? The Navy seems to take dodgy motoring issues seriously - captain of the new aircraft carrier, Cdre Cooke-Priest, recently got taken off his ship after allegedly fiddling his car mileage.

    Surely "chef under naval training" is another way of spelling "CLINT"?


    Ah; capisce - completely over my head this morning. I can’t get past “see you next Tuesday” or the word itself. Although your comment does bring to mind that excellent cake, iced “HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLINT!!!” with inadequate kerning.
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  • cruff
    cruff Posts: 1,518
    Wiped out

    Riding at 35k/h, car overtook me then pulled straight across to get into a car park. Literally no time to react other than scream "CUUU" and clamp the anchors on for about half a second. Bad bruising and road rash on hip, arm and knee but nothing broken. Bike appears relatively unscathed (bar tape f***ed and potentially the bars themselves - not had a proper look yet, saddle scraped up, pedals scraped and maybe power meter pod damaged). Bibs and jersey ruined though :?

    Absolute, utter muppet. Two independent witnesses, luckily - and she admitted it straight away. Rather than actively trying to kill me, I suspect she was either in her phone or distracted by her kids in the back

    Thought I'd broken my elbow to begin with but luckily an orthopaedic surgeon happened to be passing and checked me over before the ambulance got there

    Think a call to Leigh Day is in order...
    Fat chopper. Some racing. Some testing. Some crashing.
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  • jgsi
    jgsi Posts: 5,062
    She'll probably call it an accident when actually it is just plain old careless driving with the consequences you've suffered. I do believe most drivers think you just bounce off the road tarmac like on a duvet until they see the blood.
  • cruff
    cruff Posts: 1,518
    JGSI wrote:
    She'll probably call it an accident when actually it is just plain old careless driving with the consequences you've suffered. I do believe most drivers think you just bounce off the road tarmac like on a duvet until they see the blood.
    We'll see what happens when her insurers get the letter from Leigh Day. The two independent witnesses who saw it happen will mean she's screwed if she tried to blame me, and the incident itself is as cut and dried a case of careless/dangerous driving as you can get.
    Fat chopper. Some racing. Some testing. Some crashing.
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  • thistle_
    thistle_ Posts: 7,218
    Cruff wrote:
    JGSI wrote:
    She'll probably call it an accident when actually it is just plain old careless driving with the consequences you've suffered. I do believe most drivers think you just bounce off the road tarmac like on a duvet until they see the blood.
    We'll see what happens when her insurers get the letter from Leigh Day. The two independent witnesses who saw it happen will mean she's screwed if she tried to blame me, and the incident itself is as cut and dried a case of careless/dangerous driving as you can get.
    Glad you're ok though.
    Did you report to plod?
  • cruff
    cruff Posts: 1,518
    thistle (MBNW) wrote:
    Cruff wrote:
    JGSI wrote:
    She'll probably call it an accident when actually it is just plain old careless driving with the consequences you've suffered. I do believe most drivers think you just bounce off the road tarmac like on a duvet until they see the blood.
    We'll see what happens when her insurers get the letter from Leigh Day. The two independent witnesses who saw it happen will mean she's screwed if she tried to blame me, and the incident itself is as cut and dried a case of careless/dangerous driving as you can get.
    Glad you're ok though.
    Did you report to plod?
    Yep - online, the same evening. Says ten days for them to contact me. If I don't hear back from them I'll go into my local nick to follow up.

    Did a TT last night - which was painful. Peeling the skinsuit off the road rash afterwards was... 'interesting' - but at least I had the pain from bruising on my shoulder, hip and elbow to take my mind off it :roll:

    Closer inspection of the bike shows numerous issues - unsurprising with the speed of the crash. Rear mech is probably shot - it shifts, but not reliably, and jerks under any load. The bar tape is ripped off and carbon bars look like they might be damaged where they've been exposed to the ground and scraped it. Right shifter scored where it hit the deck. Two scratches on frame, probably from stones on the ground where it bounced. Saddle ruined on right hand side - looks like the bike slid some way on it when I came off on the deck. Wheel out of true, though remarkably the spokes all look ok.

    Bike itself is rideable, but any shift under load causes the chain to skip over cassette - mech hanger looks straight, so probably needs reindexing, but not sure I'll bother if the rear mech needs replacing anyway.

    Irritating as I have a target race coming up next week :x
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  • sgt.pepper
    sgt.pepper Posts: 300
    I wish my LBS would hurry up with my bikes. Now have three builds I'm waiting on, and I like the guy too much to say 'please hurry the F up.'
  • mtb-idle
    mtb-idle Posts: 2,179
    Cruff wrote:
    Wiped out

    <snip>

    ...

    Sorry to hear that but glad that generally you are okay. Where was this as a matter of interest?
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  • cruff
    cruff Posts: 1,518
    MTB-Idle wrote:
    Cruff wrote:
    Wiped out

    <snip>

    ...

    Sorry to hear that but glad that generally you are okay. Where was this as a matter of interest?
    Cheers

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  • wolfsbane2k
    wolfsbane2k Posts: 3,056
    Cruff wrote:
    Wiped out
    <snip>
    Think a call to Leigh Day is in order...

    Flipping hell, sorry to hear about that :(
    Hope you make a full, rapid recovery ,and that leigh day are able to sort an interim payment quickly to get the bike back up to useable standards via an LBS for the race (if not a new bike entirely...)
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,866
    itboffin wrote:
    Dont worry you'll get your own back once they're teenagers I'm always smiling when we do the ready for school wake ups
    It's even more fun waking them up during half term. Should I wake the lad up at 7am when he's been out into the early hours and ask if we can go to the pub? He did that to me about 15 years ago and they say revenge is a dish best served cold :lol:

    @Cruff: Ouch! Glad you're not too badly hurt considering. Is the bike carbon? If so I'd think it would be replaced as I doubt anyone would be willing to declare it safe.
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  • slowbike
    slowbike Posts: 8,498
    Cruff wrote:
    Bike itself is rideable, but any shift under load causes the chain to skip over cassette - mech hanger looks straight, so probably needs reindexing, but not sure I'll bother if the rear mech needs replacing anyway.
    Colleague got knocked off moons ago - the rear triangle got shifted sideways - so no amount of re-indexing solved his issues. Might need a new frame to sort yours too ... worth checking!
  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    Hanger might look straight, but might not be.

    A few years ago, my bike fell over on the train, slow-mo style. Everything looked ok.

    Later on, mid-ride it was shifting a bit odd. I stopped at the top of a hill, then when i started off again the hanger snapped and smashed the the mech into the spokes. Luckly spokes were ok, but i had to MacGyver the bike into a single speed for the journey home (with a few episodes of the chain coming off every few miles). New mech, chain and hanger required. Hanger took 2 weeks to source (i now keep spares at home and 1 in the saddle bag).
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