Riding an old Dawes fixed wheel with slick 25s, rollers are elite parabolic rollers, nice and quiet downstairs just creates a hum if I use them upstairs

I used to get horrendous headaches after riding, one of my mates recommended having squash as well as water and it massively helped. Something to do with the salts I think

I’m on the Devon/Cornwall border, but far to drive for a shim 😳

I would book the leave first and make sure it’s approved, then on the day before it starts hand in the notice stating your last day is x date.

Where are you based? Anyone with a lathe could knock one up, I could do it but won’t get a chance to get to send it if your not local (which is quite likely)

I have an on/off love affair with mountain boarding.
I can’t ride a skateboard at all, like not even on flat tarmac but I can mountain board ok, had a go on a proper track and it’s great fun.

Wrist pads are a must along with all the normal, knee elbow etc.
Electric boards seem to be taking off massively but so do the prices.
From what I’ve seen there’s long and short lengths for differing heights/ weights/ styles but not massively critical

Shared on the family cycling UK page on Facebook.

I drain my pool to just below any pipe work (about 10” below full) then disconnect and thoroughly drain the pump and heater.

The water will go green and look like a swamp, I shocked it once at the start of this season and it was crystal clear again 48hours later.

I made myself a front loading cargo bike before the kids arrived for getting out and about with them knowing I’d have no time without them. Perfect for kids and the odd shopping but if I was using it just for shopping every now and then I’d go for a trailer.

I also built a 6ft long flatbed trailer so towing that plus cargo bike is longer than most normal vans, you get loads of space from cars overtaking.

I’ve carried everything from a guinea pig hutch, complete with live guineas to double beds and fridge freezers

SMIDHY doesn’t have the same ring somehow

Pee in the sink

Poo in the shower and waffle stomp it down

From what I’ve heard it had encountered problems up the line and had come back down and switched to the “right line” so would be permissible to travel at line speed, which could be 75. (This is from a forum I was reading earlier)
I used to maintain the power cars involved and my last job whilst working for gwr was to do a brake test on one of the trailer cars involved.
Puts life into perspective.

I used to work at a train depot with a leaky roof above an expensive electrical machine, the repair was clear polythene sheet spread out as an “under roof” with a hose fitting at the low point with a hose going to the drain nearby. It was awful but it worked.

There is a picture on “on the tools” I think

I live in Plymouth and always have, love this place of the country and its good for moors or sea.

I work in Truro, Plymouth and exeter and there’s a distinct difference in feel between the three “big cities”

The motorway finishes an hour before you get to Plymouth, driving in Cornwall takes forever and can be horrendous in summer.

I’d happily move down into Cornwall although jobs are limited

3, bought first house when I was 19, done it up, converted from two to three bed, sold for a profit. Bought next house and redone every room, wasn’t going to move but young twins and a surprising valuation and bought where we live now. So 3 houses in 9 years

Infuriating, no clear answers just loads of childcare this, childcare that. And clearly cutting off people and muting them when not wanting to have any more questions.

Anyway my most suitable childcare provider is in the Bahamas, see you in two weeks!

What a load of tosh

I knew someone who had an old corsa and the camshaft snapped, looked like nothing wrong until we took the rocker cover off……

Where was the last place you had the key?

Isn’t that just an overpriced miniature polytunnel?

I bought a polytunnel about two months ago 8mx4m for less than the cost of that……

I have a sunrace 11-42 on my cargo bike with 3×9 for massive ratios, seems ok and looks like you can get bigger now

I have a 50 litre compressor, think it’s sip. I was given it by my local car garage as it had noisy main bearings and he had bought a new one, i havent changed the bearings and its still going strong (and rattly) for the last five or six years.

Ive plugged it in through a timer so I just leave it on knowing it’ll only kick in between 9 and 6 when the air gets low

Ikea hovag

I made the cargo bike itself….

I used the rear triangle from a BSO and made from the seat tube forward but I based it on the bullitt geometry.

I built a cargo bike then put an electric motor kit on it. It’s been a life changer tbh, I went from just riding to work, 3 miles a week to riding everywhere with my twin boys and put about 5000 miles on it in three years.

Ive spoken to someone with a UA and they really rate it. You can get waterproof canopies for the kids which help. I made one for mine which means it’s an all year thing.

Test ride them if you can, and when you do don’t look at the front wheel! All the cargo bikes I’ve ridden are super stable at high speed I guess because of the long wheelbase.

Ive got 3×9 on my cargo bike, It’s got an 11-42 cassette so 1×9 is probably feasible on the cheap with money left over for a dropper.

Ive got a cheap copy of the above single wheel trailer, it doesn’t affect handling much, like panniers do, fits down trails without too much worry and is actually pretty good off road.

The parts that attach to the really long we skewer were poorly made and it would lean from side to side because of the slack. I cut them off and welded rose joints on, can hardly tell it’s there.

I also use a two wheel trailer on my cargo bike which is 6ft long for picking up big stuff and that does affect handling (probably the weight more than anything) but is super useful along with being hilariously ridiculous.

I hired a stump grinder last year, was quite a big one and think it was about 60 for the weekend. Iirc recently cut stumps took longer but ones that had been down for a while took little to no time. I ground a stump at my mums about 6ft across in less than 5 mins (May have been rotten though)

Its a right pita, 3 yo twin boys at home, wifes a teacher wfh 99% of the time. I’m working full time (unable to wfh unless I can fit a train on the drive) if I’m on lates I get up at 6am with the boys and sort out breakfast, break up fights, play, phonics etc and then do lunch while my wife works upstairs, then I go to work at half 1 til 11. Wife puts the boys to bed and does a bit more work.

If I’m on earlies I start at 5am until half 2 so my wife deals with childcare and works until late in the evening.

I read somewhere that it’s actually a shortage of packaging as it comes from China and companies are struggling to get hold of it.

Sounds like tri bars

TRI (mobile train fitter) its a weird quiet time atm, haven’t been near a train for a while, just sat waiting for incidents.

A local fencer to me does featherboard fences for £55 a metre. Thats plymouth so location prices probably vary vastly

Congratulations, we’re two years in after adopting our twin boys. Hard work but worth it.

My cargo bike is basically 2wd, hub motor on the front wheel and human power rear?!

Its helpful getting up muddy slopes that you normally wouldnt make it up with slick tyres. Tbf just putting a mountain bike rear tyre on would Make more difference.
Wouldnt like the extra weight of a hub motor on a normal bike though.

I have a bakfiets type bike which i made, my twins are now three and id say the perfect age for longtail bike.
Ive heard good things about yuba bikes and xtracycle.
If you’re anywhere near Plymouth you’re welcome to try mine to check options

I have a bandsaw, chopsaw and grinder. I pick which to use in that order, bandsaw is quiet, no sparks, square cuts and self operating. It can be used upright with a table for plate etc. Or horizontal for chopping. If you’re budget and space allows id pick a bandsaw anyday.

If i was buying a bike specifically id consider a rodford built big billy or maybe a tern gsd.

I use a front loading cargo bike (like a bullitt) for my 3 yo twins, i also made a rear rack for it which extends out to the rear of the rear wheel so both of them can sit there if needed. (Google cycletruck caddyrack) i also have an old bmx saddle clamped to the top tube so in theory i could fit 5 toddlers on it, wouldnt like to try it though but i easily take both boys in the front box and my wife on the rear rack.

We had motorola monitors which you could link two cameras to, however you couldnt buy the cameras seperately 🤦‍♂️. I fixed the camera above the cots on the ceiling pointing straight down.
We adopted our twins at 11 months so no experience of the younger year to pass on