Monday; be like Johnnie too-good, don't you know he never shirks

pinno

Another glorious week teaching toots. Poor things.
More waiting and hoping for a vaccine.

Sungod: no bubbly, no cycling. No cycling, no bubbly?

Had to tighten the spring on the door so Jack can come and go without leaving the door wide open letting in Siberian draughts. Two cat flaps and a gate spring. This things you do.

Good luck with sonny boy Hoppy.

lincolndave

Morning, cold , strong wind , white over no good for cycling
Tigger walked just warming up with a cuppa.
Have a good day

johngti

Been shirking too long this lockdown. Youngest son provided the shenanigans through the night, up early, going to write a list while watching the expanse. Staff briefing at 8.15

sungod

'ning

february, meh

looks very icy, no ride, cafe stroll, maybe go to the park, perhaps a webex, do stuff, laze

pinno said:

...
Sungod: no bubbly, no cycling. No cycling, no bubbly?
...

that's crazy talk

tlw1

Meh

thistle_

tlw1 said:

Meh

Agreed

seanoconn

Bloody cold 🥶

pinno

oxoman said:

Pinno...you need your beauty sleep. .

About 4 months. Which is impractical.

MattFalle

Cold and snowy.

Job application receipt received, just told boss that I've applied for promotion course over eastern europe thing but if i can get on both then its a winner.

now to drink coffee before trying to explain Scope of Practice to people who don't want to understand it.

pinno

Those Eastern European lads are baaaad news.
You get the whole rainbow - Oligarch's, sons of oligarch's, ex Stasi, Ex KGB, sons of Stasi, sons of KGB, double agents.
Borscht and Vodka innit.

haydenm

Pinno, they are talking about everyone 65+ getting one before the end of this week up here so good luck! Being old I would have thought you'd be right at the front of the queue

Morning, cold and sunny here. Very windy and lots of fine snow coming in but I can't imagine it'll accumulate. Cracking view of the hills though, must be a fair dept of snow up there now, really wishing I bought that decathlon AT ski set up.

In other news, I spent last week building my new Condor Fratello (disc/thru axle) and I love it so much I did 11 reps of the hill behind my house on Saturday. I was going to do a proper ride but it was 25mph+ gusts from the East and I'm only allowed 5 miles out of the county. I had the choice of riding 20km east into the wind, or riding 175km to Stranraer one way and never coming home....

sungod

cafe stroll haiku:

not that much snow yet
it casts the cold icy streets
in a leprous aspect

pinno

haydenm said:

Pinno, they are talking about everyone 65+.

Cheeky f***er

haydenm said:

175km to Stranraer one way and never coming home....

One way is half of that. You are right though.

homers_double

Frosty this morning, and that was just Mrs HD. Serves me right for having too much wine whilst arranging a skiing holiday. Its bad news when I sheepishly asked where we were supposed to be going...

Not much to do around here, run later I suppose.

haydenm

pinno said:

haydenm said:

Pinno, they are talking about everyone 65+.

Cheeky f***er

Ben6899

johngti said:

Been shirking too long this lockdown. Youngest son provided the shenanigans through the night, up early, going to write a list while watching the expanse. Staff briefing at 8.15

Hoping you become a regular here, John!

Ben6899

haydenm said:

new Condor Fratello

Pics.

But make sure it has phat carbon rims and if it doesn't, make sure that none of the MFs have your address.

thistle_

Ben6899 said:

haydenm said:

new Condor Fratello

Pics.

But make sure it has phat carbon rims and if it doesn't, make sure that none of the MFs have your address.

And a slammed stem with negative rise.

hopkinb

thistle_ said:

Ben6899 said:

haydenm said:

new Condor Fratello

Pics.

But make sure it has phat carbon rims and if it doesn't, make sure that none of the MFs have your address.

And a slammed stem with negative rise.

Saddle to bar drop of at least 60 cm too. Else it's good for nowt except the hammer, the fire and the neighbour's garden.

seanoconn

pinno said:

Those Eastern European lads are baaaad news.
You get the whole rainbow - Oligarch's, sons of oligarch's, ex Stasi, Ex KGB, sons of Stasi, sons of KGB, double agents.
Borscht and Vodka innit.

Eastern European women on the other hand, minus the steroids 😃

Could murder some Borscht and vodka right now.

haydenm

Ben6899 said:

haydenm said:

new Condor Fratello

Pics.

But make sure it has phat carbon rims and if it doesn't, make sure that none of the MFs have your address.

No carbon rims yet but I'll be remedying that in the summer, I'll keep these wheels and put some narrow-ish gravel tubless tyres on and get something carbon and 40mm ish for road duties.

Apologies for the steerer length, the reason I bought this frame over anything else was that it has a low stack so it's fun to ride but also takes wider tyres than my other bikes for long distance stuff. I need to keep the ability to raise the stem until I know I'm happy with it.

It weighs ~9.2kg currently but those are heavy tyres and wheels, amazed at the quality of the frame over my CdF

Ben6899

haydenm said:

amazed at the quality of the frame over my CdF

It's a beauty. And what a great photo.

I have an Italia RC and until I got my custom steel job, it was hands down the best frame I'd ever ridden.

sungod

second stroll haiku:

snow falls but not much
monochrome predominates
bought a pineapple

orraloon

In the spirit:

clippers are ready
first attack on shaggy mop
nothing should go wrong

Time to man up and JFDI 😳

Ben6899

Snow falls, work from home
Locked down, one more espresso?
Repeat tomorrow

haydenm

Ben6899 said:

haydenm said:

amazed at the quality of the frame over my CdF

It's a beauty. And what a great photo.

I have an Italia RC and until I got my custom steel job, it was hands down the best frame I'd ever ridden.

Cheers, thats near the top of the dead end hill rep hill by my house, 120m or so with a max grade of 18% or 19%. I'd like to fine another one but it's so damn good for training! There's some good hills around here but not so many options for lanes and things unless I head south where it's flatter.

The Italia looks amazing, my brother has an older rim braked fratello which I've always been jealous of, I can definately see me owning more than one condor. I would be tempted swap my Argon for one of their aggressive bikes, like the Italia RC or Super Acciaio but the OH will kill me

hopkinb

sat in the spare room
radiator tries its best
while the boy's torn a new one

hopkinb

Some top end bellowing going on. I put up one of those Ring security cameras in the back garden yesterday. Can you guess who was caught on camera at 1 a.m. having climbed out of his window? Not that the camera was required yesterday, what with the snow leaving ample evidence.

Stevo_666

haydenm said:

pinno said:

haydenm said:

Pinno, they are talking about everyone 65+.

Cheeky f***er

Watch out, he'll be round on his mobility scooter and whack you with his walking stick.

Morning All, been on a call with Sith Ifricans where it looks annoyingly warm and sunny. I now have to head out for a hound walk with Strifey who doesn't fancy driving to her usual venue due to the weather. This is despite me losing a couple of fingers to frostbite scraping the snow off the car.

Ben6899

hopkinb said:

Some top end bellowing going on. I put up one of those Ring security cameras in the back garden yesterday. Can you guess who was caught on camera at 1 a.m. having climbed out of his window? Not that the camera was required yesterday, what with the snow leaving ample evidence.

I've obviously missed a few posts, but are you having trouble with the lad?

Ben6899

haydenm said:

I would be tempted swap my Argon for one of their aggressive bikes, like the Italia RC or Super Acciaio but the OH will kill me

Do it.