Cycling infrastructure

Hi Hadge, at the risk of hijacking your thread – I spoke to BETD a year or so ago about the possibility of getting a stronger hanger for my Boardman FS Pro. We discussed making one that wasn’t drilled and countersunk for the (inessential) mounting bolt. I was told this could be done when a batch was being manufactured but never heard any more. Is it someing you could look into for me? I break about 6 a year!

Townes and “dry” not two words I thought I’d ever see together!!

Dry sense of humour I meant!

Re. Hendrix, ther was a lovely documentary about him a year or two back where Paul McCartney described seeing him at his first UK gig in 1967. He came on and launched into a rendition of Sgt Pepper, which had just been released. Macca says he was jumping around saying “wow, wow! Jimi Hendrix is doing one of my songs!”

Standard issue at the BBC was the portable Uher. Mono only, if I remember correctly. We used Revox in the studio – huge things about the size of a dalek. They must have gone somewhere to die.

Has Guy Clark died? We saw him just a couple of years ago. marvellous. We also saw Townes Van Zandt at Cambridge folk festival and he was so good we went back for his second set. What a dry man.
Have also seen The Cardiacs a couple of times, most notably at the Stonehenge Festival 1984. I thought they were playing their songs backwards.
For me it would have to be J.J. Cale, anything really, just sad I never got to see him.

you couldn’t go into a bank like that

But the thing is, what are you guarding against? Someone in a motorcycle helmet may be a bank robber with a getaway motorbike outside. How many banks have been robbed my muslim women with their faces covered? (Getaway camel outside?)

Done! Bumperoo.

^Joe Cocker

Crabs in your beard?

based on weight recycled.

Wouldn’t it be better to produce less waste?

Riviera Bikes in NW Italy. Lovely riding, caring people.

Well, you can only do what you can do.
Start a Grot Shop?

Grammar. It’s grammar.

Yes but…it’s just a thought in your head and you don’t have to believe it.

Why does nobody in East Enders settle down to watch East Enders?

Can you still get Clark’s Commandos?

It’s cycling’s tastiest discipline…

The omnomnomnium

John, I do exactly what you describe. You do need insurance. This cost me £500 this year. If you don’t you can guarantee that the night your garage gets broken into you will have a £1k bike in your care and it will be taken. I know. Otherwise, working from home = low overheads. I got some grant funding to buy tools etc and to get some Cytech qualifications though I had to pay the VAT which more or less negated the funding. I would say that the business pays to run my car, 20% of my household expenses and leaves a profit of around £5k pa. I don’t advertise hard, mainly a website and word of mouth. I could do more and be busier. True, you get some crap to work on but also some good stuff. I have considered charging twice as much and doing half as much to eliminate the riffraff. If you are time rich, you can afford to do a thorough, bespoke job and you will get repeat custom.

Mods!

Agreed with you guys. We live 6 miles from the nearest MaccyD and the wrappers turn up all over the country lanes around here, not to mention monumental numbers of beer cans, soft drink cans, plastic bottles and even wine bottles. Given that a significant proportion of the population think this is an acceptable way to dispose of rubbish, it’s hardly surprising a proportion of sportive riders think chucking gel wrappers is also ok.
Solutions? A tax on non-returnable packaging to pay for the clean-up. Bar-coding of packaging from drive-through outlets with vehicle registration details so fines can be sent to the registered keeper if the packaging is found on the verge.
Re. Gel wrappers, dunno. I do know that when I rode the Eroica in Derbyshire this summer. I didn’t see any.

Bb30 needs to be kept clean. Remove the crankset, pop the seals off the bearings and regrease. Clean everything and reassemble with plenty of grease to keep the dirt and water away from the bearings. Do this regularly (I do this every 6 weeks or so on my road bike). Takes 10 minutes. No more creaks.

Barista – what is that, some kind of hip hop lawyer?

7/10 btw

Drone? Say hi to Steve and Judith for me!

I thought the first one was a considerable improvement on the original.

It’s a good job I didn’t step on it.

thanks jed26 and ned, there do seem to be as many points of view as patients/medics!

Thanks cw, doesn’t sound pretty. I will speak to the gp today.

Curiously, they Leave it to heal naturally but then try to save money by not providing a proper brace, thereby reducing the chance of it healing naturally. They did, however, admire the brace provided by the Italian hospital and advised me to keep wearing it. “They must have a bigger budget than us”, said the nurse.

I’m a bit surprised to have been sent home for 3 weeks to see how it goes, after the Italian doctor said that it needs an operation. If I had stayed they would have been doing it tomorrow.

Good afternoon, Spleenie! I hope you are feeling better today.
Here’s the rock that did the damage…

We were at the Eroica festival in Derbyshire and saw almost no litter the whole weekend, so it can be done.

Because you’ve put a shimano cassette on a campag freehub?

In journalism it’s called a leading question. (Ex Beeb reporter here)

Tv tower
sony Centre for a dose of 21st Century consumerism
KDW department store for 20th century take on same.
Holocaust memorial and museum
Good place to explore by bike.

Pisspoorius

^ah yes, some of the prints of the films were pretty shonky and the intro music got more and more warped.

^Ooh god, yes – she was an early crush.

Independent hostels tend to be more competitive, closer to the original ethos.