My wife teahces a kid called McCartney. His brothers are called Lennon and Harrison.

No Ringo…Yet.

They pointed and laughed because abcde is a boy’s name.

How’s it pronounced?

Cat poo.

It’s a pusher. For pushing food onto a fork. I remember my little brother using one. We had great kiddie kutlery from Germany, with scenes from German folk tales embossed onto it.

This is why I love this forum! :-D

Seasick Steve

Another ex-customer here. I won’t be putting money in that rectum’s wallet.

Oof and double oof! Sorry to hear about this. Healing feelings…

Oof!

Someone I know is a fan of Colanyo bikes.

Nah, if it works reliably it’s good. Some old shifters stop “picking up ” properly when they get older, especially when they haven’t been used for this while, but even then they can usually be revived with a good squirt of degreaser and some vigorous shifting through their range.

I’m a foetus.

Have you tried mopping up a man-spillage with those pathetic flowery-box tissues? It takes about eight of them.

By the way, you may find a figure of 8 brace, done up good and tight, helps with pain management,

2 years, 6 months.

Mine aches but doesn’t impact on  my riding.

I’m leaving it as it is for now, on the basis that an op at this stage would be more invasive and painful than doing nothing.

I had a guy haggle to try to reduce the price of a bike rebuild by £10. It was a crap bike. The previous week I’d seen him on the cover of the local paper, collecting a cheque for £230,000 on the post code lottery. I stopped returning his calls.

Missed his brain by 6 feet.

Someone once said, “There’s no such thing as society”.

Bolleaux.

Is that anything like a licence to kill?

Good luck, bud.

Stop bitching about things and move forward and try to positively improve you life.    I really don’t understand those who choose to continue to live in bitterness when they really don’t have to.

Quite agree. Let’s rise up and stick their piggy heads on spikes,

And why do gameshow hosts run onto the stage? If they left the dressing room 10 seconds earlier they could just stroll on.

Like stumpy01 I was just thinking about you and here you are!

We’ve had a multi fuel stove for 20 years (a Stanley). Trial and error revealed ovals to be the most controllable means of running it, but we do trend to keep it on “tick over” and only really turn it up when it’s very cold. It runs the central heating, hot water and you can cook on it.

It’s hard to see how we could run it more efficiently by running it hotter as most of the time it would simply make the house too hot; leaving it turned up overnight means re-lighting it every day – and the start-up procedure produces quite a bit of inneficient burn in itself.

We aren’t on mains gas. Some people on the street use oil (stinky). We’re thinking about installing electric radiators as we have been on a 100% renewables tarrif for donkey’s years.

Contact lens cleaning fluid

I’m in!

Sainsbury’s had Xmas puddings 2 weeks ago.

Shimano HT2 has a precise bearing preload using the “knurled finger tool” thingy and then a pair of low-torque pinch bolts to hold everything together.

Except that thy insist on using a 5mm allen bolt which has to be torqued to 13nm, which is more than enough to round out the bolt head once it’s been done a few times.

Go with what feels right. I spent years riding bikes that were too small because “everybody else” had foot-long seatposts showing and took the mick out of bikes that looked like gates. Then I bought an XL (I am 6’2) and my life has been transformed.

No, it’s resting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMAOem8lEQw

John Finnemore:

Kirates with no licks.

(what happened to embedding videos?)

Why didn’t pirates ever go to the moon?

Because it was toof Arrrrrr

Gpsies

Happy days. Who else here went to the CyB Fat Tyre Festivals? I recall one of them coinciding with the first issue of Singletrack.

Funny, i never had any problem with my tubeless setup for a whole year until my back tyre decided to randomly deflate on the first day of my holiday. Tracked the problem to leak around the valve. Put a tube in for the remainder of the week. On return, stripped wheel, replaced all the tape, refitted valve, added sealant, reinflated, sealed etc. Tyre flat the next morning. Still leaking at the valve. Tried a new valve but still the same. Looked on CRC for different design of valve that might fit better. Find loads of complaints for all sorts about leakage around the valve.

Today, it’s the same discussion on here. Until 2 weeks ago I’d never even considered it.

Eddies in the space-time continuum.

Rubs legs excitedly

Off to the Ardeche on Thursday with mountain bikes!

It’s always a highlighht of the hol to get the local vtt. Guide from the tourist office and see what’s what.  The local walking guide will also offer possibilities. I’ve never been told I can’t ride a path or track in rural France. In fact, most go between the fields, not through them like ours do so you rarely encounter actual farmers.

Sarlat is great and there’s masses of paths to explore.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Roman Bardet

Greek by night