Upset and confused

Kieran_Burns

So I'm umming and ahhing about whether to get a 3rd bike on the cycle to work scheme: the Boardman CX at £999 looks a lovely bike.

I'm chatting to a colleague at work about this, and he agreed it might not be a bad idea.

Then he said...

he said...

<breathe>

He said "That's a good idea, you can have a new bike and sell the old one"


I had to leave the room for a while, it was all too much.....

Matt.K

Doe he have kids?

Ask him if he'd have sold the first one when it's little sibling came along?

Although comparing bikes to offspring may be going a little bit too far.

Gussio

Matt.K wrote:

Although comparing bikes to offspring may be going a little bit too far.

Depends....

prawny

Gussio wrote:

Matt.K wrote:

Although comparing bikes to offspring may be going a little bit too far.

Depends....

Yeah, bikes are way more important. I can't wait for my kids to leave home, I'd be gutted if my bike left.

Bunneh

you can also use their rooms as storage for yet more bikes!

CiB

prawny wrote:

Gussio wrote:

Matt.K wrote:

Although comparing bikes to offspring may be going a little bit too far.

Depends....

Yeah, bikes are way more important. I can't wait for my kids to leave home, I'd be gutted if my bike left.

I can't wait for my kids to leave home. <trims superfluous words from original sentence>
:arrow:

itboffin

Matt.K wrote:

Doe he have kids?

Ask him if he'd have sold the first one when it's little sibling came along?

Although comparing bikes to offspring may be going a little bit too far.

Great idea

*wanders off to find wife*

gb155

Kieran_Burns wrote:

So I'm umming and ahhing about whether to get a 3rd bike on the cycle to work scheme: the Boardman CX at £999 looks a lovely bike.

I'm chatting to a colleague at work about this, and he agreed it might not be a bad idea.

Then he said...

he said...

<breathe>

He said "That's a good idea, you can have a new bike and sell the old one"


I had to leave the room for a while, it was all too much.....

WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM ???????

Kieran_Burns

gb155 wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

So I'm umming and ahhing about whether to get a 3rd bike on the cycle to work scheme: the Boardman CX at £999 looks a lovely bike.

I'm chatting to a colleague at work about this, and he agreed it might not be a bad idea.

Then he said...

he said...

<breathe>

He said "That's a good idea, you can have a new bike and sell the old one"


I had to leave the room for a while, it was all too much.....

WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM ???????

I'm not sure, we're not on speaking terms now...

TimeEventParadox

ooohhhh!! that is nice, with a big fat capital N.

Trying to work out how I sell the idea to her indoors

Unfortunately I can't do C2W as I'm a contractor.

rf6

Why would he say such a thing?

You should do something to cheer yourself up.

Maybe buy a new bike??? That'd work.

woodford2barbican

Some people are just unfeeling monsters. You need to buy yourself another bike to repair the harm to your feelings.

cjcp

TimeEventParadox wrote:

ooohhhh!! that is nice, with a big fat capital N.

Trying to work out how I sell the idea to her indoors

Unfortunately I can't do C2W as I'm a contractor.

Ask Her Indoors if she sells a pair of shoes before she buys new high heels? There we are then.

shouldbeinbed

There are some people out there with no grasp of cardinal cycling mathematics.

My wife for example cannot grasp that n+1 is vital to the natural order of things and is essential for the sun to rise tomorrow and avoid a pestilence of biblical proportion being rained down from above.

neither has she got the simple equation: shed no longer has enough room for bikes = buy more shed,

she holds the heretical notion that not enough room in shed = sell bike/s

desmosedici

TimeEventParadox wrote:

Trying to work out how I sell the idea to her indoors

Unfortunately I can't do C2W as I'm a contractor.

Put her indoors on the payroll and get her to claim for C2W? :P

g00se

shouldbeinbed wrote:

There are some people out there with no grasp of cardinal cycling mathematics.

My wife for example cannot grasp that n+1 is vital to the natural order of things and is essential for the sun to rise tomorrow and avoid a pestilence of biblical proportion being rained down from above.

neither has she got the simple equation: shed no longer has enough room for bikes = buy more shed,

she holds the heretical notion that not enough room in shed = sell bike/s

Be careful you don't run into the supplemental s-1 limit. (s=no. of bikes for separation/divorce).

Zombie_donkey

g00se wrote:

shouldbeinbed wrote:

There are some people out there with no grasp of cardinal cycling mathematics.

My wife for example cannot grasp that n+1 is vital to the natural order of things and is essential for the sun to rise tomorrow and avoid a pestilence of biblical proportion being rained down from above.

neither has she got the simple equation: shed no longer has enough room for bikes = buy more shed,

she holds the heretical notion that not enough room in shed = sell bike/s

Be careful you don't run into the supplemental s-1 limit. (s=no. of bikes for separation/divorce).

You can only have one wife at a time (Legally) so its fine to change them from time to time.

(W-1)=(n+2)

Jay dubbleU

The man is obviously an insensitive sociopath -

Jay dubbleU

Sorry - my system crashed halfway through that - what I meant to say was the man is obviously an insensitive socio-path who doesn't deserve to be left in charge of children

Stone Glider

Not been very well lately but on the mend. So much so that I took a trip to Decathlon today (didn't like the looks of the Btwin bikes much) but the Boardman bikes seem great. BTW when did the price rise take place? I had agreed with Mrs SG, that is what I claim anyway, that a Carbon Team would suit but now they are £200 dearer :shock:

Am I perverted enough for a crosser? or should I give up the carbon dream but retain my innocence? There is still plenty of room in the garage for another bike, All Mrs SG has to do is leave her car outside.

Jay dubbleU

Stone Glider wrote:

Not been very well lately but on the mend. So much so that I took a trip to Decathlon today (didn't like the looks of the Btwin bikes much) but the Boardman bikes seem great. BTW when did the price rise take place? I had agreed with Mrs SG, that is what I claim anyway, that a Carbon Team would suit but now they are £200 dearer :shock:

Am I perverted enough for a crosser? or should I give up the carbon dream but retain my innocence? There is still plenty of room in the garage for another bike, All Mrs SG has to do is leave her car outside.

You contribute to this forum don't you ? Of course you're perverted enough for a crosser

cjcp

Cross bikes are a ridiculous amount of fun.