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  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    Jen J wrote:
    Just wanted to say thanks to you all.

    I bought my first bike just over 2 months ago, only because I decided to do an Ironman triathlon.

    I really got the biking bug, and after a month or so, found myself with not just a new MTB, but also a third bike, a Giant Bowery.

    Since then, my confidence on the bike and the roads has grown enormously, as has my ability.

    I even managed to start riding clipless on my road bike.

    Although I knew the Bowery had a flipflop hub, it was irrelevant to me, as I was never going to be brave enough or good enough to use it on anything but the freewheel.

    But I changed it to the fixed wheel at the weekend, and I *can* ride fixed. But only with trainers and toe clips. Because only proper cyclists ride fixies whilst clipped in. I would never be able to do that. That would always be out of my reach.

    Yet tonight I have just put my new SPDs on the Bowery. And am about to attach the cleats onto my new shoes.

    Tomorrow, I will be riding clipless on a fixed gear single speed bike.

    In large part, that is thanks to all of you, and to this forum. It's made me realise that actually things are possible, and that things can work, and I can do it.

    Ok, enough of the schmaltz, I'll MTFU now...

    Thanks! Remember, if you fall off, the bike comes with you....
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Jen J wrote:
    WGWarburton wrote:
    Jen J writes:

    > Sorry Grep, you're right. I owe it all to you...

    Is he trying to find himself?

    Cheers,
    W.

    PS this is a Sad Techy joke. If you don't get it it isn't worth finding out why it might be funny if you were a Sad Techy, because you arn't, so it won't be.. :-)

    I don't get it. Should I be proud or ashamed?[/quote

    I'm sooooo old I actually used cpio :?
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    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    cute.

    Congratulations that's quite a quick ascension if you will.
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  • GregP
    GregP Posts: 23
    "Sad techie joke"?

    I *normally* sign myself

    ./GregP.

    (the second "g" seems to be becoming optional)

    The ./ should tell you all you need to know.
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    Train/race: Focus Ergoride SL (2007)
    Mud and nonsense: Commencal CombiDisk (2008)
    Commuting: Brompton M3L (2009) - FCN 13
  • wgwarburton
    wgwarburton Posts: 1,863
    itboffin writes:

    > I'm sooooo old I actually used cpio

    Used? I still do. Not the first tool I normally pull out of the box, but it's the core mechanism in Sun's flash archives, used for rapid server installs via JET & JumpStart...

    Jen J, if it's funny at all it's only because it's sufficiently obscure that you wouldn't expect to be able to make a joke of it at all. "grep" is a UNIX utility for searching files.

    I'm beginning to wonder if itboffin is as boffinish as he makes out... :-)

    Cheers,
    W.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,399
    WGWarburton wrote:
    itboffin writes:

    > I'm sooooo old I actually used cpio

    Used? I still do. Not the first tool I normally pull out of the box, but it's the core mechanism in Sun's flash archives, used for rapid server installs via JET & JumpStart...

    Jen J, if it's funny at all it's only because it's sufficiently obscure that you wouldn't expect to be able to make a joke of it at all. "grep" is a UNIX utility for searching files.

    I'm beginning to wonder if itboffin is as boffinish as he makes out... :-)

    Cheers,
    W.


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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    You better believe Buns I was fiddling with blocks, bits & byte before most of you were born, I really need a change of career.
    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.
  • GregP
    GregP Posts: 23
    When I were a lad it were for globally matching regular expressions. :P
    _______________________________________________
    Everyday: GT Vantara (1997)
    Train/race: Focus Ergoride SL (2007)
    Mud and nonsense: Commencal CombiDisk (2008)
    Commuting: Brompton M3L (2009) - FCN 13
  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    itboffin wrote:
    BTW Jen you forgot to thank your manager and the baby Jesus :lol:

    I read that as "manger and the baby Jesus". All these shop-window Christmas displays that have appeared recently must be having a subliminal effect on me....

    David
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal
  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    GregP wrote:
    "Sad techie joke"?

    I *normally* sign myself

    ./GregP.

    (the second "g" seems to be becoming optional)

    The ./ should tell you all you need to know.

    GregP /dev/null

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