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  • Canyon Neuron First Look: A Very Rejigged Trail Bike
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    Pink Floyd
    The Beatles
    U2

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    Now I want one, dammit!

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    We thought the TV tower was brilliant – pick a clear day.

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    That’s a terrible article.

    I haven’t read it, mind.

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    Drizzle in Durham

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    ABBA, reading large volumes of Peanuts cartoons and going to model railway exhibitions.

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    Do the jockeys sit vertical below the sprockets? Otherwise could be bent frame seeing as you have tried two different hangers

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    Mongrel dogs with strings of sausages in their mouths being chased down the street by big, fat, ruddy-faced butchers.

    Runaways with all their belongings gathered up in a handkerchief at the end of a stick.

    Bobbies who bend at the knees whilst saying “‘Allo ‘allo ‘allo”.

    Burglars in stripey tops and masks, clambering over garden walls with bags marked “SWAG”.

    People with toothache wearing a bandage wrapped right the way around from the jaw to the top of their head.

    Postmen, Milkmen and Bus Conductors who wear their hats at a jaunty angle.

    Vicars falling off their bicycles after being distracted by a lady with large and lovely breasts.

    Escaped convicts prowling the streets in arrow-covered all-in-one suits with ball and chains attached to one leg.

    Policemen clipping young boys around the earhole on grounds of insolence.

    People slipping on banana skins.

    Blokes with rattles at football matches.

    Park-keepers and school caretakers in policemen style uniformwho have an inherent hatred of children and anything which might be construed as being fun.

    Big fat women and their small skinny husbands at the beach.

    Cuts and grazes dressed with 2 plasters in the shape of a cross.

    Detectives looking through huge magnifying glasses.

    Did you used to live in Beano Town by any chance?

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    on and there’ll be a crack down

    Would anyone like to speculate on what this crackdown might look like?

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    Lovely day in county durham, if a bit breezy. We haven’t had many this summer.

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    Great,thanks! Will be up that way next easter but i’d expect to find it less welcoming at that time of year.

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    I found my 1984 Sony Walkman cassette player in a drawer the other day. It still works perfectly. I had a lot of pleasure from that. Mp3 and downloading has just never grabbed me in the same way.

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    Over fifteen years normal, no wish ever to smoke again (i sometimes dream I have started and am angry with myself!)

    The only thing stopping me is the fact that it will make me slightly less irritating and annoying to exactly the type of people I really like irritating and annoying.

    You could be grumpy and rude to them instead and blame withdrawal.

    The drift of this thread brings to mind a great joke from Clare in the Community a few weeks ago. Brian is at his men’s group:
    “…and so we are all agreed that pornography is degrading to women and we are all going to stop using it…as soon as someone comes up with a viable alternative.”

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    If road engineers were prosecuted and imprisoned any time a cyclist was killed or injured in an accident involving these sorts of crap cycle facilities, they’d soon stop putting them in.

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    Flew into Honningsvag then on to the Nordkaap, turned south then stopped south of Crete…

    Pretty much what we did – but on a Tandem!
    Alta is a dumpy town but the ancient rock carvings are fantastic. We hacked south over the Finnmark plateau (there are non and offroad options) to Kautokeino. We enjoyed Kautokeino in a middle-of-nowhere kind of way.
    We then headed into Finland/Sweden so can’s say much more about the Norwegian side of things except that it was all amazing seen from the boat heading North!
    You might like to read my book (ahem…)
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/K%C3%B6k-Tv%C3%A4tt-Through-Scandinavia-Tandem/dp/B0046H9ZA4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1294299673&sr=1-1

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    Just turned 50 and actually feeling better about it all than I did 10 years ago!

    Every day/week/month that goes by has me thinking that I’m running out of time

    – but doesn’t that give you a sense of purpose?

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    what’s a salary?

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    Aldi luxury fruit muesli with milk and yoghurt, orange juice.

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    Maintaining a vintage bike in good condition is not compatible with commuting IMO. What you need is another bike.

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    Push a five pound note in and see if there’s any change.

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    Bill Bryson…
    Life and times of the thunderbolt kid had me laughing so much I had to put the book down..

    Me too. the bit about the fly in the soup in the diner almost made me have a seizure.
    Also try Secret Diary of Adrian Mole.
    Reggie Perrin by the late, great David Nobbs.
    1066 and All That.
    Anything by David Sedaris.

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    Oldnpastit – really? That’s good.

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    Why do you think 70kg is your ideal weight Merak?
    I’m 6’2 and 72kg

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    My wife’s car was broken into in Bradford. The thieves took nothing at all, but left behind a box of cassette tapes (all crap).

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    Malvern Rider +1. In the same spirit I will nominate any Hollywood film that involves the hero dying and then coming back to life because someone blubs over the body. Step forward ET and The Matrix.
    The worst film I ever paid money to see was Independence Day.

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    Try fitting a 20″ Schwalbe Marathon onto a Brompton wheel. Actually, don’t.

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    She’s 1 ffs. Give her an empty cardboard box to unwrap.

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    “Mano a Mano” seems to be cropping up a lot lately, frequently used by people (twunts and cockwombles) who think it translates as “man to man”.

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    “win the hearts and minds of…”
    “Our thoughts and prayers are with…”
    “close-knit community”
    “hard-working families”
    “Yadda yadda yadda”

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    Once tried to bleed a Formula brake with the screw still in the bleed port. it didn’t work well.

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    Everyone on our street is getting together for the Hollinside Hullabaloo.

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    Sanny for PM

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    I’ve been looking for a 80’s/90’s 4 x 4 one for a while (fond memories), but I think they are already extinct

    Loads of them still in Italy.

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    Do an impression of a peanut?

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    You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

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    It’s a Poll Tax for cars.

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    27.5 makes the Nuremburg trials come alive!

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    A new low for stw

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    Well it may be yours, but on the other hand, you’re welcome to it.

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    *****

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