saturday like the end and the way

sungod

'ning

nippy but bright

ride, cafes and cake, laze, bubbly

beansnikpoh

Breakfast. Lounging etc. Might head out in the world's worst hire car. 30 quid for the weekend and it shows.

sungod

beansnikpoh said:

Breakfast. Lounging etc. Might head out in the world's worst hire car. 30 quid for the weekend and it shows.

best to get a convertible, i remember back in the 80s barrelling around arizona in something like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K89dChsgznw

seanoconn

sungod said:

beansnikpoh said:

Breakfast. Lounging etc. Might head out in the world's worst hire car. 30 quid for the weekend and it shows.

best to get a convertible, i remember back in the 80s barrelling around arizona in something like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K89dChsgznw

With your attorney? Did you pick up any hitchhikers?

pinno

I imagined something a bit mire like this seen as Beans isn't stateside.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGBE0QMXi1Y

beansnikpoh

Ha. Found a monastery, with a museum. Mini is moaning. Mission accomplished.

Stevo_666

Clear and sunny here, although the sun had plenty of time to rise before we got up. Our resident helper is doing pancakes for brekky, then it's off out to do a few bits n pieces in town.

pinno

Where are you Beans? Crete/Greece/Cyprus (at a guess).

sungod

bet it's warmer than here, brrr, nippy

beansnikpoh

pinno said:

Where are you Beans? Crete/Greece/Cyprus (at a guess).

Corfu. Just for a weekend. Then off to isla de sungod for the first week of half term this time next week.

beansnikpoh

sungod said:

bet it's warmer than here, brrr, nippy

Not quite scorchio, but a v acceptable 25°C.

tlw1

Sunny here but in the shade thanks to the trees.

Manflu has come back so just a walk rather than a run today. Out in mongleton I mean congleton with friends later - should be fun

Wheelspinner

Day of mixed meh. Looks like I've sold a bike frame, and perhaps a few components. Hoping to sell at least 2, possibly 3 more frames, and will cherry pick the component bits and pieces to keep and sell the rest if I can.

Bl00dy bike parts obsolescence works both ways - still people who want the "old" technology stuff to maintain their bikes, but limited market for some things. Who buys QR wheels these days for example?

pblakeney

Wheelspinner said:

...Who buys QR wheels these days for example?

People without thru hole frames.
People like me. I buy new though.

tlw1

oxoman said:

Afternoon folks. Ride ridden, back fuxxed and knackered. But it was fun even though it was hard work at times. Scratch is well and truly itched, would I do one again. 🤔possibly.

I quite fancy a gravel event ride

pinno

pblakeney said:

Wheelspinner said:

...Who buys QR wheels these days for example?

People without thru hole frames.
People like me. I buy new though.

Ditto (and best of all it's often heavily discounted).

Bought a 2 year old pair of Fulcrum racing zero's (rim brake) with supposedly shot ceramic bearings for £350. I was the only bidder and that's partly due to people who can't fettle but mainly due to the fact they weren't disc.
Wheels are A1 BTW and the bearings were over stressed. Mehtinks the left collar slowly tightened as it wasn't nipped up properly. Nothing else.

pinno

Elderly neighbour's daughter (68) was complaining that her extension was playing up. I took the back of the plug off and discovered this:

pinno

oxoman said:

Oh dear, looks tad rough from here. I'm assuming they'd stripped all the plastic off from the looks of it. 10 out of 10 for bodging if they had.

Yep, no insulation from the stripped outer cable.
I guess it's fine if she wanted a random de-fibrillation facility.

beansnikpoh

Stopped torturing the family until tomorrow. So an afternoon by the sea. Now a sundowner. Then dinner.

beansnikpoh

There she goes.

veronese68

Evening folks,
Reasonably busy day for a Saturday, finished kitchen bits that weren't done yesterday due to extended pub based accident. Been over to the old dear's to do a few jobs there. Now relaxing.
That looks glorious B³. Well done Oxo, looks like fun. Must admit I quite fancy something like that too. Presumably being gravel rather than MTB it wasn't too technical. I think I've said before I used to get funny looks riding off road paths on my CX, now they're all at it.
Well done for saving the neighbours young daughter from electromocution Piña. Was it bought from a shop like that or was a previous bodger trying to kill her?

pinno

veronese68 said:

Was it bought from a shop like that or was a previous bodger trying to kill her?

She said she was given it.

Wheelspinner

pblakeney said:

Wheelspinner said:

...Who buys QR wheels these days for example?

People without thru hole frames.
People like me. I buy new though.

Not so common for MTB these days though. Would be ok if the hub adapters were readily available, but “out of stock” is normal.

pblakeney

Wheelspinner said:

pblakeney said:

Wheelspinner said:

...Who buys QR wheels these days for example?

People without thru hole frames.
People like me. I buy new though.

Not so common for MTB these days though. Would be ok if the hub adapters were readily available, but “out of stock” is normal.

Ah! I missed the forum title due to the layout giving me all new posts.
Dare say road manufacturers would like the same situation. Change forcing new purchases. I’ve said it before, all industries are copying the computer tech model of forced obsolescence.