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  • Spanish Bikepacking Diary – Day Three Continued
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    Very popular in Korea, new apartments have it built into concrete floors, turn it on, wait for a few hours and turn it off, floors stay hot for ages, or turn it on, pass out pissed on the bed, wake up 8 hours later, feeling very dry, and find a floor almost too hot to stand on.

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    Tumi laptop clutch and Columbia roll on carry bag

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    Its lots of sounds with her, fairly advanced vocabulary, a 4 year old talking about opinions and transformations, but unfortunately, probably me who only gets its all.

    Mum going to speech therapy would possibly work, but as an ESL learner, more than likely a lost cause.

    Not sure how long it takes to go back to basics and get her on the right track. In my mind it is with learning the L sound so she can at least say her own name, but I’m sure the therapist will have different opinions once we have sorted one out.

    Lots of google advice, and online SLPs available>

    Feel like a right twunt at the moment, knew it was an issue, but always presumed it would sort itself out.

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    However – with the more flavoursom beers being a bit spendy here, although the local brands get you through an evening good enough – I would rather buy a bottle of JW Red, for the same as it costs me for 4 bottles of beer and drink that instead.

    Outcome does tend to be somewhat different to having drank four beers though.

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    When I am purely looking for strength to cost vs flavour, I go for a nice chilled Special Brew

    With a more limited selection just now available here, if it is on tap, I’ll take a Trappis – 10% 6quid a pint.

    Or if it is from the shops – ESB/London Pride/London Porter are all around 2.80 a bottle so good value.

    I’ve recently been chugging down some giant cans of russian beer – 1l badboys, they are quite nice and old school

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    What you need is a tire boy – you simply get them to wear all your tires as if they are belts, if you need more space you can send them outside while you are working in your cave.

    They have the added attribute of being a good burglar alarm, although if the burglars do get in then they have a habit of running away, which then requires you to release the hounds to get them back.

    With all the dog posts on here, it shouldn’t be a problem to choose the correct dog though.

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    Fresh today.

    Used spray anti persperant before bed, showered, a roll on and I am smelling fresh.

    Was it the dettol or the hand soap, who knows, but I no longer stink, today anwyay.

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    ^ In the interest of keeping people updated, I have trimmed the jungle back, carefully so as to not have to regrow and itch. Showered, using dettol soap followed by dettol liquid soap, and for good measure after getting out, I put some neat Dettol in a small pump bottle I had and gave a quick pump under each pit after drying on a fresh towel, the last bit burns a bit, but hopefully by morning there won’t be a pong.

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    all tailored for me in the last month, Egyptian cotton

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    Emotional balance? So my pits are telling me that the job in Burma I am eyeing up is one I should apply for. I would never have guessed it from that.

    I shall continue writing my application then.

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    What was he wearing?>

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    ^ I was considering dettol this evening while washing the dishes. I can’t decide if smelling like a care home, or having stinking pits is worse. I think it might be worth a shot though.

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    ^ I do, nivea black and white spray

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    Woah,!

    That’s a little bit TMI there, Houdini…

    It’s another use for the tube of old kitchen rolls.

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    ^ was that the comic book store?

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    ^ a possibility, I did use to get bad fungus infections on my hand, and a wierd one on my body that took that Noxema shampoo to rid of it, that was fairly regular

    Maybe it has migrated to my pits. Why doesn’t my crotch smell as much? I can get fairly close for a sniff, and it doesn’t smell owt like my pits.

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    ^ considered that, although last time I did that, I went to far and was reminded of when I shaved my pubes when younger to make them grow back thicker and faster for some reason.

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    Shirts are washed daily, work wear is dry cleaned weekly, I suppose it is possible the washing machine isn’t washing my shirts very well.

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    You should go and ask your colleague if he leaves pebbledash around his toilet at home, and in future to clean up after himself.

    M360 – the first time I ever used a squatter was in a Malaysian border town, in a guesthouse with shared bathroom, about six people in the room.
    Squatted on the toilet, was really pleased with myself, only to find I had completely missed and crapped down the back of it. This wouldn’t have been so bad, but the toilet itself was raised up about a metre or so, and the crap was right down the back on the floor

    Second time I gave them a shot, I successfully managed to drop it all in my underwear which was all the way around my ankles, rather than strategically held up by my knees.

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    Right solid steel wheel it is then.

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    Pop into the bogs at any cycle event (if said event runs to bogs) and you’ll see a bunch of blokes hunched over. Bend a bit and it will come out of the top. Bibs stretch.

    This what I am now imagining but with cyclists in lycra.

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    Cable hydro R1s

    GG/Juin Tech were looking for regional distributors at the bike fair here, asked if they were selling them, and they happily did,

    Their sales page on their facebook has them for around 100GBP, may be able to import them directly and hope customs doesn’t care.

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    I just picked up a set from the maufacturer at a fair, so bargain price of 80 quid for the set.

    Just one feels a bit softer

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    I email myself the angry emails I would send or say to people, and read them later in the day or next day to see how angry I still am.

    This works well, until you send the angriest of emails to a member of staff who has just handed in their resignation to you.

    That went down well.

    Dug myself out of that one by showing him half a dozen I had never sent to him and others.

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    Any idea how to bleed these?

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    I never knew what bonking was until I tried to do 130km ride this summer – missed my lunch stop, got into a strange mindset of not wanting to stop at any of the scabby food shops, couldn’t eat any gels as after three or so, I was just going to chuck them up.

    Last 50km, cutting it short were tough, and a horrible place to be.

    About 13km from home, I had to stop at a garage to see if they a shop, only filling station in the whole of the area that didn’t.

    Lying on the floor, on the edge of the forecourt, not sure if I was going to puke, die, cry or laugh, a lovely attendant came over to see if I was ok and offered me some water.

    I shouted and swore my way through the last 13km, which must have been a suprise for the group that rode past me with me cursing away at myself and my knackered shoulders and legs.

    Never want to experience that again, it ruined the ride for me, although in hindsight it was good fun.

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    I imagine I would spend my time between being royaly wasted, and convincing myself it was a bad idea to get wasted again.

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    Cheers – just picked up at the Bangkok International Bike Show – Juin R1’s for the princely sum of – 80 GBP direct from the manufacturer, who was there looking for a distributor.

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    When you forget you have to get a visa for one’s boy, and have to leave them behind at the airport. Who is going to carry the bags now?

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    Sadly I remember using the bench grinder where I worked on a Saturday to make the Tioga pedals I used a bit more grippy. I also used a bread knife to cut the Cheng Shin tyres in my ’94 GT Talera to make them grip a bit more. In my defence I blame MTB Pro and MBUK.

    Yes.

    I remember using some snips to cut bits out of my tyres to make them grippier.

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    I’m disappointed that you aren’t expected to be sitting staring at your sisters widening baby hole, shouting ” Go on sis, push it out”

    I wouldn’t go, it will be shit, wait a year or so, then go see the baby, at least it will be doing something interesting.

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    What you want is a CR500 with some lights fitted to it.

    AT – told the local price here is 550,000THB – so around 9kGBP

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    ooh, i forgot, a souped up saab 9000

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    is it open at 6am though

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    To make 15k rent, they would need to sell 131kg of cereal at 4 quid per bowl.

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    You need to sell a lot of bowls to pay £10-15k rent / month!You need to sell a lot of bowls to pay £10-15k rent / month![/quote]

    See that is where they went wrong. If they had just had a mobile pop-up cafe it would have all been fine….

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    Lucky Charms

    So a 480 gram box of lucky charms is 5GBP. 35g appears to be the serving size on a box – so 14 servings per box, plus milk not sure what per pint cost is.

    4 quid per bowl. I’m in the wrong game.

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    Yeah but don’t go to Cereal Killer Cafe – it’s not open at 6am.

    i assumed the comment regarding the queue of clubbers meant ravers

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    how many grams in a serving of their cereal?

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