Used to have a white one. Black is better.

Saw a city boy here in Edinburgh on that Pinarello.

Rapha was also present.

Standard.

Used to do it all the time in the single days. Visit Bob Marleys Magic Cloud then see Interpol or Bunnymen.

Not so much any more though.

I have YouTubed motorbikes.

Sigh. I’ll need a bigger shed.

Anyway, I only learned what torque was reading Robert Prestons “Its all about the bike”.

Simpleton.

Neeeeeeeow

Duffer: That’s the one. That “F1” sound. By the way, I have no knowledge of anything motorised.

Not my specialist subject.

+1 for our continental friend here.

Roads were built for bikes, take the power back etc etc.

Renthal Cycling Dept

Shimano Cycling Dept

Angela’s Ashes. They’re all well poor.

Trying to avoid the usual “violence is stupid” response but…

The first finger pointing bit boiled my piss watching it. Having flashbacks…

Shouting and pointing at a well shiny lady is no way to behave, leave that to the police.

Edinburgh

Edit: beaten

Renthal Bike Dept

Shimano Cycling Dept

A person who takes paid redundancy, starts a consultancy firm then gets hired as a third party by previous employer. Very clever.

Or, someone who knows stuff.

Deleted all my news apps and stopped reading daily updates and buying newspapers. Listen to 30 mins of BBC4 Today in the morning.

Ignorance, of most things, has been bliss.

Thanks Binners, +1 for that!

I love Downhill.

This season will be the best for a long, long time now the promising young guns have really come of age:

Bruni,Therion etc. Smashing.

Contemporary vaudeville.

Poke the poor, watch them run around.

The same level of hatred could be levelled at the wealthy folk on This Is Chelsea, it is in this household, but it’s more popular to vicariously share in the miserable circumstances of some than the fortuitous events of others.

Pish.

Horses

People who ride horses

People who object to rule 1 & 2.

I’m sure ill change my policies when I recover from this mornings equine fancier – bike interface.

Sorted.

Gee, Mick & Tracey, Bingelli, Wallner.

SQUIRREL!

Seems broken, can’t register. I can log in and get last years team though.Very odd.

Great. Listening to radio 6, cooking lots of stuff, watching it rain on the birds in the garden. Happy days/

Thanks for everyone’s comments today. I will put my ducks in a row and write “a thing” but I’m cream crackered and have CPS washers to fish out the hoover.distractions

Jen says thanks too. As far as being an all attentive carer, well, that is definitely in the honeymoon period.

I have a sore throat so will be making a sign reading “Yes, dear?”

Love, indeed…

Oh yes. Mince up, smash down, beer in, coast home.

On one chaintug turned to cheese.

Buying Surly one. Slot Dropout Inbred is the culprit.

Word @ bullheart.

Her strength is now the standard by which every act is judged by me.

If anything gets me up those shingle slopes it’ll be

“Well this is more fun than cancer.

Mrs. C is home after her first, hopefully only, operation today.

She is now recovering under my full fussy supervision.

FORWARDS

I smoked Marlboro for years because I drank Jack Daniels and fell asleep to a Duff McKagan and Izzy Stradlin poster every night of my teens.

Not so much subliminal messaging, more LOOK HOW COOL WE ARE.

Being a romantic rockstar sycophantic narcissist damaged my other organs, but freed my mind, maaaaan.

Edit: But now if I smoke it’s Old Holborn cause it reminds me of my dad and grandad, so there’s another influence.

CRC or on one or Merlin. Often the caliper comes OEM and you get it sans cables, but that has advantages.

BB7. The road ones obviously.

-fin-

I have a 2.3 DHf 60a and it’s shockingly tacky compared to the 60a High Roller it replaced.

As I’ve said, I’m interested in the 42a to see if I can ride on the ceiling.

Edit: 60a High Roller 2.35 Exxo blah blah on the back now.

So, that.

RT 58?

Magazine is pish, website as bad as Rocky Roads, we never got Finally 4, not even a rumor of # 5, Perkins off doing better stuff for other people.

I use vital for gravity news. Pinkbike for photos and edits. How they front a race team I’ll never know, even though it seems to be all Reidys work anyway.

Only check up on Dirt to see if it’s better. Never is.

Holyshit. The chain. Holyshit.

On One tidyness down the stairs. 15 quid shock pump, bunch of the El Guapo stuff.

It’s my new favourite place, or it will be once they get on with a “collect in store” service.

OI, BRANT, COLLECT IN STORE!

Edit: The welds on a 456Evo are lovely close up. Think it can be my third on one.

Just put Sonic 1 & 2 and GTA on the missuses one.

Good for that 😀

I have this with my Rebas and have been ignoring it. Particularly noticible on the lift for a manual.

Good to have an answer.

Service it is!

Then there’s the kick from the government regarding the fact that she’s better off being unemployed than staying on SSP.

The money bits the angry bit. I’m on minimum wage and fortunately have a mum and dad bail out bank for things like this, how we would manage otherwise I can barely fathom.

Thanks to you all for kind words & wisdom.

I’m the one that slams his fists on the table, declaring everyone is a moron, storms out and slams the door.

That meeting is why I don’t have a proper job.

We always talk, And laugh. Love is a condition made up by people who want to feel the indescribable. “Love” doesn’t cover how I feel for Mrs.C.

If you watch gogglebox, there’s an old couple, not the poshos, who sit in Lazee Boy chairs and natter on. I’d like that.

It’s a modern world with skewed values, five marriages between my mum and dad.

I’m the lucky one.

It’s important that Mrs.C isn’t actually “my wife”. I just call her that because we’re “married without the marriage”.

The real difficulties come not with the cancer but with the choices made creating embryos.

Technically,we will be having children next month. Very odd, and very humbling to meet people trying for a family. Our shit is bad but, believe me, when you spend your days in cancer wards and treatment centres you are grateful for life’s slightest grace.

I have a lifetime left to reflect, but I don’t dwell on hypotheticals anymore.

There is no time to ruminate on “what ifs”.

Edit. Agnostic, me. Very spiritual. Even more so now.

There’s all sorts of stuff to deal with but the difficult bit is dousing the hypothetical.

FERTILITY IS NOT A TRIVIAL MATTER,

Is pretty much the summary of my week,

Also, women bear the burden.A significant fertile burden, Ultimately, we are just ****. In a cup.