i once saw porcupine tree play the whole of the up the downstair album to eight people in a small venue in carlisle.
they did look a bit shocked by the turnout.
solid post that chap.
the other part of that i guess is that the more you ride the less arsed about your bike you are but if life gets in the way more time is spent pondering the finer points of a head angle
i broke my metatarsal on exactly the same day that wayne rooney did before the last world cup and i remember that mine took the same lengh of time as his did to heal even though he had all sorts done to it. and that was as near as 6 weeks as it could be really.
i could ride my road bike after about four ( carbon sole on the shoe mind you)
best of luck.
cut it as clean as you can then get it as round as you can then shave the plastic of the leading edge with a knife (get an adult to help with this) but to be fair it’s still a right fek on.
it has nothing to do with age not being able to ride my bike or stay fit in someway has always done my head in.
as you get older more stuff gets in the way. but that is a result of the choices you make, if you wanted to you could have had yourself tied up with all kinds of stuff and no free time by the time you reached your early twenties.
thing is though if the ring was sprocket was clear of the splines i dont reckon you would get the lock ring on anyway. 😕 hard to say without a butchers at it.
not sure whats been said in the rest of the thread but just so as you know my most regular non crying off hardcore reliable riding mate is 54 and in the last ten years he has shown no signs of slowing down. best of luck with it.
with all the strong opinion on how rubbish the writing is in the various mags that are discussed on this forum it always baffles me why the god’s of quality and class never get their shit together to do a better job of it. 😕
as a nation theses days we are a bunch of permanently distracted self obsessed tossers go see anything live theses days and no one pays full attention, phones out, talking, trying to find their crazy friends must go to the bar again need another bog trip etc etc.
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