I had a bird sh*t on me last week.

I’m not taking her out again…

Cougar – Moderator
I hear the inventor of predictive text has died.

His funfair will be hello on sundial.

The better punchline for that is ‘his funfair is next Monkey’ – I dunno, it just flows better.

Anyway, did you hear about the dyslexic bulimic who choked on her own Vimto?

Here’s one for all you hipsters
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To Mark: Do Northern lads really like gravy on their chipps?

To Chipps: How do you feel about that?

Not got any Rapha.

for Castelli Gabba II s/s I needed to go a size up.

I’m 6’2″ (dunno what that is in metric) and slim build at 13st 4lb or 84kg

He was on his way back from sessioning (or seasoning as MrSmith put it) the escalators at his local tube station

Leith possibly has the least to offer

you clearly don’t know your way around Leith Hill then ;)

I use these locks for security on my up and over door. Quite effective but not too obvious. All you see is two keyholes on the front door

They would really be stuck without me

nobody, absolutely nobody is indispensable although I imagine that Obama may well be saying this to his missus at the moment (but he would still be wrong).

book all your available remaining holiday and once that it agreed then hand in your notice

If you see a group of Crows, they are Ravens. If you see a Raven on it’s own it’s a Crow.

+ what coffeeking said

a great win

try a hard reset[/url] (save your data to an external drive first)

Rollerball (the original)/Whip It

EDIT: oh and good call re Wizard of Oz/Apocalypse Now, that’s probably the best, most left-field call so far.

I took my wife and kids to Afan, I rode and they went off to the Mumbles. They loved it.

maybe all his friends were…

ooh, another house I viewed in Epsom had a crack around three sides of the upstairs bay window that was so large you could see daylight through it: not around the actual window but the supporting wall beneath it, I kid you not.

Oh that’s not a problem said the young female estate agent. Yeah, right.

my mate (and yes I know this is a ‘my mate’ story) but he’s a straight up guy.

In his previous house he started digging the garden over as his wife is a keen gardener. Pretty soon he hit metal. Strange…

He dug around it and found more and more metal.

Finally found the edges and it was a car roof. he dug down at the sides and it appeared to be a whole car buried in the garden – I say appeared cos he didn’t bother digging the whole thing out. He just showed the wife and they agreed to cover it up again and they ignored it.

They moved.

in fairness to the OP I think he replied quite well in his last comment

EDIT: I was Neil G’s lover

1976 – a house that had been a nursing home that had gone bust, been repossesed and then occupied by squatters and then empty for two years.

My parents, me and my brother and sister go to view it. Great house, six-bedrooms, 250 ft garden, lovely location but man it was a total mess inside.

The patio doors had wooden slats nailed across them just like you see boarded up windows in the movies.

The whole house stack of p*ss and there were six cans of air freshener by the front door.

You picked up one each as you entered and carried it around with you and kept on spraying. I can still smell that brand now.

Ended up buying it and my dad renovated it, he was a bit of a DIY whizz. I remember helping him knock down breezeblock walls that had been erected to create corridors in the bedrooms.

I also remember the first thing we did was pick up all the carpets and take them to the local tip in the back of our Ford Anglia estate. I was hanging my head out the window to try to get some fresh air (and the summer of 1976 was mighty hot so boy, did they hum something bad).

Took years to renovate it but my parents eventually sold it for an absolute mint.

great thread! OP, don’t believe everything you read on the intranet (or in the newspapers for that matter).

This feels like one of those letters to Points Of View: “I didn’t see the programme myself but I feel offended that other people may have watched it etc. from Disgusted of Cambridge.”

Won’t someone think of the children!

that’s true. I think I’m in the Specialized Bicycle Company group which is why i get so much kudos from randoms in Brazil or Portugal for my daily commute into work

EDIT: today for example

I’m a little bit paranoid about security

although not totally paranoid otherwise you wouldn’t be uploading all your rides and posting on forums on the world wide web? (There’s a reason it’s called that BTW).

For me I have the same approach as taxi25. I follow some randoms, some randoms follow me. I give kudos to some randoms, some randoms give me kudos back.

I don’t really care.

I’ve also met some lifelong riding buddies through meeting previously unknowns for an MTB ride.

Here’s the last one – this is really spooky

When bike commuting, I’ve found that i spend more time doing things like…

– Changing into suitable bike clothing
– unlocking the bike
– attaching the lights
– attaching the pannier bags
– locking the bike
– removing the lights and bags
– Changing into work clothing

That’s what we would probably refer to as scope creep, that wasn’t a requirement of the OP’s question :wink:

But anyroad, I’m lucky enough to have secure, underground car parking, manned 24/7 plus CCTV and security pass controlled.

I locked my bike the first day I commuted in 2009 but just leave it unlocked in a rack every day since then.

Also means I can leave my lights on etc. although I do remove my Garmin.

I also hang my sweaty or wet gear over the frame during the day to allow it to air/dry out before putting it on again for the commute home.

I’m never sure what some of the other commuters carry with them. they have 2 panniers, a rucksack and other stuff. I’ve carried less with me on an unsupported ride from London to Paris.

silly me, I thought you were looking for semen based recipes 8O

seanst89 – Member

@MTB-Idle can’t seem to find a contact for you? If you could give me a shout that would great

Sean, email me at muddyfox at gmail dot com.

benp1 – Member

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Mine is an adventure bike

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One of my commuting buddies has just bought one of these (commuting buddy in that I met him and only ever see him thru commuting. Know his first name – Chris – and where he joins/turns off my commute but nothing else about him)

He’s still building it up and was saying that the rack on the front was a curious arrangement in terms of how it fits onto the axle.

Any comments/tips/Heath Robinson type fixes that work that I can mention to him next time I see him?

sean, give me a shout, I’m in Ewell, just down the road.

Halfords???? It uses someone from Halfords as a reliable source of information?

I first commuted in March to October in 2003 and 2004 and then more seriously all year round since 2009 to date.

I’ve done about 6,000 to 9,000 London commuting km’s a year since 2009 depending on how I’m feeling/what the general weather is like.

What’s the perfect commuter? for me it’s a bike that is reliable, fast and maintenance free.

I’ve used:

Bianchi Via Nirone – nice and fast but very stiff Alu frame makes it uncomfortable on those potholes. the Campy gruppo is pretty unreliable too. I’ve broken four right-hand shifters on the commute over the years. Rim brakes make it scary in the wet. Never fitted mudguards to it so try to avoid the rain anyway

Specialized Allez Comp alu frame – just as fast as the Bianchi but much more comfortable with the zertz inserts in the forks and seatstays. I really like this bike but it’s perhaps a bit small for me. Only broken one right hand shifter on this during that time. Rim brakes again can be troublesome when it rains. Fitted Crud roadracer 2’s to it for year round commuting.

Trek 1200 converted to singlespeed – not as fast as the two above (I can’t spin my legs fast enough on a 50:18 gearing) but the frame is comfortable enough for alu and singlespeed makes it much easier to clean and maintain. you guessed it, rim brakes again. Again, fitted Crud roadracer 2’s to it for year round commuting.

dialled bikes Prince albert – steel with 700c wheels – only used this a couple of times when the other bikes were out of order. Very comfortable i.e. steel plus 140mm revelations up front plus the disc brakes offer unrivalled stopping power in the wet but the MTB gearing and upright positioning made it painfully slow.

Raleigh steel framed road bike circa mid-1980’s – this was my first commuter bike in 2003/2004 and really got me into road riding. Steel frame and forks were comfy enough although the non-indexed gears with shifters on the down tube were painful. Gears never worked well and i ended up being either in top gear or bottom gear with no in between and I blame this for developing my low cadence.

so to summarise, dropped bars, decent gearing, comfort and room for mudguards are probably my priorities

EDIT: Oh and of course puncture proof tyres. All the above is pointless if you spend all your time at the side of the road.

Conti Gatorskins all the way for me

Don’t you just wait until a month beforehand and then take up someone else’s place when reality hits home/they realise they haven’t done any training etc.?

I’m sure there’s been people trying to give away entries here before and on other forums (yes, they do exist)/in the workplace etc.

Just bought a Gabba 2 short sleeved jersey last month.

I’m 6’2″ and 83 kg’s or 13st 5lb.

Everything I read suggested a L would be fine. Fortunately another guy in my office had a L gabba so I tried it on. I know they are supposed to be like a second skin but this was ridiculous.

So I went for XL. Fits fine.

cheers all, wife has been Type 1 diabetic since aged 13 and I’m well aware of the laxative effect of artificial sweeteners :twisted:

interesting comments all round.

I can’t easily find the detailed ingredients of High 5 zero tabs online to compare. Will dig out the tube when i get home this evening and see if they are any different.

Perhaps they have the same impact but I just don’t notice it when I’m out on the road rather than sitting at my desk.