Monkey Monster - question

DonDaddyD
DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
edited August 2010 in Commuting chat
Monkey monster,

The women who was with you during the London 2 Brighton, what bike was she riding?

Does she like it/is she happy, impressed by it.

Thanks in advance.
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    Ever heard of PM?
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  • Big Wib
    Big Wib Posts: 363
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Ever heard of PM?

    but then he wouldn't get the pages of debate & opinion over whether said bike is any good.

    (and the rest of us would miss the opportunity to see him being wound up :lol: )
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Yep,

    But this is commuter chat, open for all commuter related off-topic ramblings...

    So cave be with you!
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Big Wib wrote:
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Ever heard of PM?

    but then he wouldn't get the pages of debate & opinion over whether said bike is any good.

    (and the rest of us would miss the opportunity to see him being wound up :lol: )

    Exactly!

    I'm here to benefit all of you!
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  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    Yeah, this is the shiny new chat forum... :twisted:
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  • kelsen
    kelsen Posts: 2,003
    Did you really think DDD's question had anything to do with bikes? Bom Chicka Wah Wah! :lol:
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,411
    kelsen wrote:
    Did you really think DDD's question had anything to do with bikes? Bom Chicka Wah Wah! :lol:

    Yes, now that I read it back, it is a bit isn't it?
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Yep,

    But this is commuter chat, open for all commuter related off-topic ramblings...

    So cave be with you!

    it's a question for one person or worded differently a Personal Message
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  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    Clever Pun wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Yep,

    But this is commuter chat, open for all commuter related off-topic ramblings...

    So cave be with you!

    it's a question for one person or worded differently a Personal Message

    yeah, but to be fair, the thread title is "Monkey monster - a question".

    No law that says you must read the thread.....
    (avoids temptation to use rolly eyes emoticon)
  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    Heh heh, its was the Marin Corte Madera and she loves it

    http://www.marin.co.uk/2010/bikepage.php?ModNo=10CM

    female spec frame geometry wise
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    edited August 2010
    Clever Pun wrote:
    it's a question for one person or worded differently a Personal Message

    OK, its time I kicked knowledge. The ether, the things you need to learn yo!

    'The power DDD'

    Well you see I see threads like this:

    thread.jpg

    At one end there is a beginning, a question.

    At the other end, there is the conclusion.

    In the middle there is a journey, woven beautifully.

    We are currently going through the journey, which for the time being is fun. Monkey Monster will eventually come into the thread with an answer. The thread will either end there or the thread will become tangled with difference of opinions and others will share their views. Then the thread will become knotted, Spen666 will post about some legal yarn that will require Greg66 some rope and salt to unpick and then we will arrive at the end where someone level headed will post something to either settle or kill the thread.

    Through the tapestry of discussion I will have gotten the answers I need and sure I could have simply asked "What bike for the wife?" But this is much more fun.

    Just because a question is directed at one person to begin with, it doesn't mean others cannot answer or share opinions on the answer given.

    Capice?
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Perfectly clear. Except you've arrived just after everyone else has gone home. :wink:
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    Heh heh, its was the Marin Corte Madera and she loves it

    http://www.marin.co.uk/2010/bikepage.php?ModNo=10CM

    female spec frame geometry wise

    What made her get it, better than the Vita?
    Food Chain number = 4

    A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Clever Pun wrote:
    it's a question for one person or worded differently a Personal Message

    OK, its time I kicked knowledge. The ether, the things you need to learn yo!

    'The power DDD'

    Well you see I see threads like this:

    thread.jpg

    At one end there is a beginning, a question.

    At the other end, there is the conclusion.

    In the middle there is a journey, woven beautifully.

    We are currently going through the journey, which for the time being is fun. Monkey Monster will eventually come into the thread with an answer. The thread will either end there or the thread will become tangled with difference of opinions and others will share their views. Then the thread will become knotted, Spen666 will post about some legal yarn that will require Greg66 some rope and salt to unpick and then we will arrive at the end where someone level headed will post something to either settle or kill the thread.

    Through the tapestry of discussion I will have gotten the answers I need and sure I could have simply asked "What bike for the wife?" But this is much more fun.

    Just because a question is directed at one person to begin with, it doesn't mean others cannot answer or share opinions on the answer given.

    Capice?

    Taxpayers money... :twisted:
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Heh.
    Food Chain number = 4

    A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    Heh heh, its was the Marin Corte Madera and she loves it

    http://www.marin.co.uk/2010/bikepage.php?ModNo=10CM

    female spec frame geometry wise

    What made her get it, better than the Vita?

    It wasn't too expensive, reasonably specced and fitted her body size comfortably than others she tried. Not sure she tried the vita tbh - i know she tried A sirius but not sure if it was the vita. She shopped via cycle surgery.
    As an indicator of how much nicer it was - she still purchased it even though it was white... Cleanliness was overridden by it being so nice - which for a girl was quite impressive.
    Le Cannon [98 Cannondale M400] [FCN: 8]
    The Mad Monkey [2013 Hoy 003] [FCN: 4]
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Thanks!

    My conumdrum is that Ms DDD now wouldn't mind a bike (bought for her) but yet is still too self concious to try them out at bike shop... :x

    Guessing her ring finger size is easier. :x :x :x

    Buying a bike is cheaper! :P
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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Ever heard of PM?

    It's the forum FUZZ!


    Scatter!
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,411
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Thanks!

    My conumdrum is that Ms DDD now wouldn't mind a bike (bought for her) but yet is still too self concious to try them out at bike shop... :x

    Guessing her ring finger size is easier. :x :x :x

    Buying a bike is cheaper! :P

    Even with you there to reassure, and put a stop to any talking down from the staff? Actually, getting the wrong sized ring is probably easier to sort out than the wrong sized bike. You can't really pop the bike into the LBS to get it re-sized. Also, the wrong sized ring will still probably have the desired effect, but the wrong sized bike will probably not get ridden.
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Thanks!

    My conumdrum is that Ms DDD now wouldn't mind a bike (bought for her) but yet is still too self concious to try them out at bike shop... :x

    Guessing her ring finger size is easier. :x :x :x

    Buying a bike is cheaper! :P

    OK, well, you must be able to work out how tall she is if you don't already know... which frankly you ought to!

    So then it's a matter of finding out her leg length. Simplest way would be just to measure/ask, failing that check her jeans for leg length sizing, or measure the leg length of a pair of trousers that fit her and go from there.
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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    DonDaddyD wrote:

    Guessing her ring finger size is easier. :x :x :x

    Make your eyes water?
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Even with you there to reassure, and put a stop to any talking down from the staff?

    Mate wars have been fought for less.
    Make your eyes water?

    Yes. She wants platinum but she's getting gold. Wilier will stop making the Izoard this year and I always promised myself that frame, but I cannot afford the Izoard and a ring...
    OK, well, you must be able to work out how tall she is if you don't already know... which frankly you ought to!

    Like most women she's 5foot something. 5'5'' is the standard male answer.
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    A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,355
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Make your eyes water?

    Yes. She wants platinum but she's getting gold.

    Whoosh
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,411
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Even with you there to reassure, and put a stop to any talking down from the staff?

    Mate wars have been fought for less.

    How about an LBS that isn't entirely staffed by blokes - like Pearson?
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    you may be on to something there....
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    A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    TailWindHome wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Make your eyes water?

    Yes. She wants platinum but she's getting gold.

    Whoosh

    Ahem.....
    Fixed gear for wet weather / hairy roadie for posing in the sun.

    What would Thora Hurd do?
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Greg T wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Make your eyes water?

    Yes. She wants platinum but she's getting gold.

    Whoosh

    Ahem.....

    Oh!
    Food Chain number = 4

    A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    @ DDD - Cycle Surgery hold Women Only events. http://www.bikeenvy.co.uk/article.php?id=204

    Also the missus has a Spesh Vita and seems to like it. It's certainly holding up well.
  • kelsen
    kelsen Posts: 2,003
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Yes. She wants platinum but she's getting gold. Wilier will stop making the Izoard this year and I always promised myself that frame, but I cannot afford the Izoard and a ring...

    Is she aware of this, or have you gone ahead and made an executive decision?

    Because the very first time you pull out that ring, and it isn't what she expected, the tears of joy you were expecting will instead be a flood of tears, and even if she's able to hide her disappointment, everyday from that day onwards she will look at that ring and it will remind her of how you let her down, and that thought will fester away inside her in the years to come, and it will be used to fuel every argument you have between you, until one day she finally comes to the conclusion that you do not truly love her, and that day, DDD, is also the day you wake to find out that Wilier has made the world's most expensive folding bike!

    So consider your choices at this moment in time very, very carefully, because what you decide may have devastating consequences on the rest of your life...

    :twisted:
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    kelsen wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Yes. She wants platinum but she's getting gold. Wilier will stop making the Izoard this year and I always promised myself that frame, but I cannot afford the Izoard and a ring...

    Is she aware of this, or have you gone ahead and made an executive decision?

    Because the very first time you pull out that ring, and it isn't what she expected, the tears of joy you were expecting will instead be a flood of tears, and even if she's able to hide her disappointment, everyday from that day onwards she will look at that ring and it will remind her of how you let her down, and that thought will fester away inside her in the years to come, and it will be used to fuel every argument you have between you, until one day she finally comes to the conclusion that you do not truly love her, and that day, DDD, is also the day you wake to find out that Wilier has made the world's most expensive folding bike!

    So consider your choices at this moment in time very, very carefully, because what you decide may have devastating consequences on the rest of your life...

    :twisted:

    Lol! That made me laugh.

    There was this one time we had a proper argument. I left the flat, when I got back I expected to see my bike in pieces destroyed by her rage.

    It wasn't. When I told her she said she'd have done in the X-box. I would be more okay with that....
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    A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game

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