In a neat reversal, I once wrote off a ford by driving it through a BMW 😉

What an awesome build. Look forward to seeing how it fares on the water 👍

Great PSA. Cheers 👍

Omaha beach Vs Omaha Nebraska is a confusing one

Aboyne: sounds like it should be in Ulster, not Deeside

I’ve been on and off this site for about 20 yrs. Seldom post, just a lurker; but checking in with your journey has been awesome and inspirational.
Glad you’re home safe and sound and glad you’ve had an amazing experience after a brutally tough patch. I look forward to future installments. Someday I’d like to do a big mission of my own.
More power to you, TJ 👏

I have my eye on one of these: https://www.paulscycles.co.uk/m1b0s182p8674/MARIN-NAIL-TRAIL-7-27-5-2018

That cube looks great value too.

Have you checked right at the back for lions and witches and that?

Narnia business!

this guy did…

The ‘cycling’ forum. Tanking swathes of the UK’s economic productivity for about 20 years. 😉

Standadised pallets
Was gonna say the shipping container but I see it’s about number 3 on the list! Without pallets the container wouldn’t be that useful. And where would we be without hipster, reclaimed-wood furniture projects?

Radar/sonar and eventually gps
Identifying/eliminating risks in transport, stopping things crashing into each other in increasingly crowded air/sea spaces, enabling huge growth in transport and travel. Vastly increasing (to the point of destruction, sadly) fishing yields. Aiding geological surveys etc.

Gonna subscribe to that podcast – looks excellent. Thanks

Omfug.

But seriously… vertical sided, dark, cold, manmade water features: flooded quarries, canal lock gates, that sort of thing. Wonder if it was those scary public information vids of the 80s that did it?

Where do you live? I’ve got one you can have for nothing if you’re somewhere near Fife.
I bought it second hand about 18 months back but have literally only used it twice, as my son quickly nailed riding his own bike and my daughter gets fomo if she’s in there on her own.

Great job, nothing ghetto about it!

I took the coward’s way out and chucked a rapidfire trigger shifter on my drop bar commuter 🙂

You can get these brilliant little cylindrical things which you can burn to give a temporary lift from life’s vicissitudes. Think they’re called ‘benson and hedges’ 😉

What a charming specimen. Why o why must our brightest and best always emigrate eh?

Just watched the first half hour so far. What a dude-and what a mighty walk! Thanks for the link

no, I work in Angola

– brilliant comeback! Shut that line of enquiry down quick.
Great thread 😀

For my part, I used to work with a Portugueser who microwaved leftover bacalao about once a week- that gear is pungent!

Woody Allen
John Martyn

I once put my khaki chinos over the edge of the sink at work while I got ready. Trouble was, I triggered the automatic tap with my hand on the way past, soaking the whole crotch area and most of one leg. Lot of sitting down that morning, to hide what looked like a map of Argentina made out of urine. 😳

Alamy is very good but it’s a stock library. If you want to licence your images for editorial or advertising use that’s probably your best bet… not the same as selling prints for people’s walls though

Zenfolio do it. Think photobox and smugmug too. You’ll be able to set your own prices etc- but publicising your shots will be up to you.

Something like 500px might offer you a better ‘shop window’ but will likely charge a lot more

Looks really great. Exterior is very sharp. Windows look very cool against the minimal render.
Did you blog the process? I’d love to do a similar build someday

Good question; 10 is quite hard! Not in order, some of my most-listened would include:

Rakim
El-P
MF Doom
Ghostface
Nas
Guru
Q-tip
Roots Manuva
Kool Keith
Pharaoh Monch

Excellent drunkpost 🙂
Think you’re right. A majority of folk have limited aptitude for critical-thinking at the best of times. Couple that with info overload and deliberate blurring of fact or proper analysis against lists of fluff and sidebar-of-shame type bollix. Add the endless check-and-re-check cycle of asinine social media copypastas and folk basically construct their own fairytale bubbles of ‘news’.
A shite haircut or a man with a pint of ale in hand seems to have the power to stick in the minds of more people than objective truth.
I fear for the future of journalism and serious politics.

Thanks, OP. Had been waiting for these to get cheap again after missing out last time.

New-car-humble-brag-willy-wave eh? -99 man points. Reading a manual: +56 old-man points. No right of appeal.

Still, at least your bum will be warm while you rock silently and contemplate the fultility of existence.

Do you wear gloves to drive said car?

Those lamps are great (both the concrete one and the he wooden. Kayak/flanagaj do you guys sell your stuff online anywhere?

Get a haircut; get a job; get off my lawn etc. etc. 😉

Some great suggestions already

Beatles, abbey road
War on drugs, lost in the dream
Massive attack, protection
Nas, illmatic
Stones, let it bleed
Carl Craig, landcruising
John Cale, Paris 1913
Kanye, mbdtf
John Hopkins, immunity

A short-sighted mate used to be known as “Buddy Yamaha”, from his time labouring on building sites as a youth…

Glasses on = Buddy Holly; glasses off = caricature Japanese man.

Excellent thread!

[edit] Oops – misread the question

Mine were a similar age and also did this. Difference being I’d put about 10k miles on them in all weathers. Braking surface was practically see-through! I was happy to retire them at that point as they’d had a decent innings.

Definitely would not have expected it after light use, if well stored etc.

You didn’t clean them with anything particularly noxious did you?

Hope you get sorted – at least a hefty discount on a replacement would be nice.

Our local homebase gives me a headache due to abysmal lighting. Could it be similar?

Do you understand though, NealGlover? ‘Cos it doesn’t sound like you do.

If the man has a decent reason to feel that way, that’s good enough for me. I was merely giving a relatable example from my part of the country.

I have to assume the strip is blue and bears the crest of a struggling giant from the West of Scotland? If that is the case; with all due respect to the rugby fans and English folk commenting ‘bad dad’ etc, you’re wrong and don’t understand the heavy symbolism at play.

This is not a simple football strip. If you’re even vaguely leftie or right-on in any way this would be like letting your kid wear the confederate flag on a trip to the southern US.

If the boy chose to wear it himself then you’d begrudgingly accept that – but it’s not something to be foisted by anyone else.

If you wonder why many right-thinking Scots don’t like the union flag understand this: it has nothing to do with England or anti-englishness. It’s because it has been entirely co-opted up here by bigots. It’s become a symbol of a sort of watered-down fascism. The shirt even more so.

The irony is not lost on me that all this makes me a massive bigot myself. I don’t care. I like football. I want any Scottish team to do well on the European stage. I like Glasgow. Some of my friends are Gers fans (though most of those have grown out of it). There are lots of nice bears fans in the same way I’m sure there are lots of UKIPers who aren’t bats**t crazy – but that doesn’t mean I’d ever consider voting for them.

I have a young son who I love and I want him to do things that make him happy… But I wouldn’t want him to wear the blue of Rangers.

Treme +1

Generation kill

I recently used anyvan.co.uk – brilliant idea and I got quality service. Not sure if it’ll work out cheap enough for long distance though. If you’re lucky, someone will be doing a similar route so can carry your stuff for a small detour.

1×9 here. 51t ring with 11-27 cassette. Get over plenty hills with that though I am a bit of a grinder and the low end of the cassette doesn’t see too much action if I’m honest.

A 50t narrow/wide ring would be nice if I could find one.