Recalcitrant Pedals

gtvlusso

EKE_38BPM wrote:

I used to know a good catholic girl in my teenage years. She had very strict, very catholic parents and wasn't allowed out to parties unless adults that they knew were there and definitely not pub or clubs at all.
On the weekend of her seventeenth birthday she was allowed to go to a church 'disco' in central London with some friends. She ended up being impregnated by an Italian exchange student in Hyde Park and was a single mum by the age of 18. Apparently she went from first kiss to impregnated in about three hours.
True story.

I should not laugh, but you now owe me a new keyboard.....

:-) :-)

spasypaddy

have you tried using the frame for leverage?

Kieran_Burns

spasypaddy wrote:

have you tried using the frame for leverage?

I used this for leverage:

Applespider

Last time I couldn't get a set of pedals off (after using a pedal wrench and jumping up and down on it), I went to the local Evans and asked if I could borrow a longer wrench to give it a go. The guy in the shop took pity on me and used a very large wrench and brute force to get them off... and then fitted the new ones free which was v nice of him. Lesson - give the bike to a burd and get her to take it to an LBS!

redvee

Kieran_Burns wrote:

spasypaddy wrote:

have you tried using the frame for leverage?

I used this for leverage...

You want a bigger hammer on it, like this.

EKE_38BPM

gtvlusso wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

I used to know a good catholic girl in my teenage years. She had very strict, very catholic parents and wasn't allowed out to parties unless adults that they knew were there and definitely not pub or clubs at all.
On the weekend of her seventeenth birthday she was allowed to go to a church 'disco' in central London with some friends. She ended up being impregnated by an Italian exchange student in Hyde Park and was a single mum by the age of 18. Apparently she went from first kiss to impregnated in about three hours.
True story.

I should not laugh, but you now owe me a new keyboard.....

:-) :-)

Update: I've spoken to a mutual friend and it turns out the girl in question (who we used to call "Preggers") was 16, not 17 when she got knocked up.
The scary thought is that her kid is now older than I was when he was concieved.

natrix

Rick Chasey wrote:

Who'd have thought I'd be a mod.

You look more like a rocker than mod 8)

tailwindhome

@OP

Have your knuckles been torn to shreds by the chainring yet?

rolf_f

EKE_38BPM wrote:

"PIN number" also bugs me as PIN stands for Personal Idendification NUMBER.

Yes, but talking about PINs just makes people think you are referring to pointy things. It's the fault of the people who called them PINs in the first place. They should of course have referred to PI numbers......... (ahhh, no that doesn't work either...)

In anycase, they are a bit of a misnomer as they don't really identify any person at all.......

veronese68

Rolf F wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

"PIN number" also bugs me as PIN stands for Personal Idendification NUMBER.

Yes, but talking about PINs just makes people think you are referring to pointy things. It's the fault of the people who called them PINs in the first place. They should have course have referred to PI numbers......... (ahhh, no that doesn't work either...)

In anycase, they are a bit of a misnomer as they don't really identify any person at all.......

Pie numbers are like bicycle numbers. The required number is P+1. Mmmm, pie.