It’s so dark in here no one can see I’m nekid

I’ve just doubled dropped two M&S slices. It was too messy to slide the tray back in the little box, honest

It’s not painted red is it? There’s gains to be had right there.

That’s a shame. I’ve basically not ridden since mini zbonty arrived nearly 5 years ago and have the waistline to prove it. A decent straight steerer fork may tempt me back as no intention of buying a new bike.

One day… the clues in the username

Still have my frame, but it’s been in need of a rebuild for nearly 20 years. I did manage to acquire a 1” ahead P2 for it last year off a STWer. If I ever get it built it’ll get ridden on the same loamy, wooded singletrack of 25 years ago- but without the Judy XCs (which snapped in the aforementioned woods, along with my wrist in a tree stump collision)and some better tyres.

I’ve had to pull socks out of my panniers and pull them over my trainers in the past cos I was freezing.

On my 2nd puncture on a commute home I realised the electrical tape I was using as a rim strip had perished and the rim holes were causing the flats.
The bodge I arrived at was to get my pants out the bag and use the elastic waist band rims strip. No knife on me so ended up using the tiny Phillips on my mini tool. Felt a bit daft shredding by pants at the trail side but pleased with my bodge once I got going again.

That’s got a look to it. Not seen anything quite like it. 70s chrome vs ubiquitous dark grey that things had after.
We had a huge silver amp in a house share 20 years ago that looked the biz and hurled out some big noise

I’m a music fan more than a hifi buff but alot of my stuff falls into the retro camp.
I’ve got some B&W DN5 speakers I think, from 1976 that cost £4 from an old lady at a boot sale. Running of a Technics SUA700 amp I got in about 91 and a cheap Technics DD deck off gumtree.
I’ll skip past the 6x 1200/1210s I have in my possession currently.
Best Buy was a complete 1984 system that appeared in my local record store in 2013. Turntable stand/speaker stands. Castle speakers. Naim Nait1 amp. LP12 with Ittok arm. All for the princely sum of £400.

That looks like my browser- STW & Discogs. Don Rendell ‘niiiice’
Oldskool/Jungle/early Dnb can do very well price wise.
Early 2000s LPs (all genres) often silly money as vinyl was on its arse and not many copies pressed, so you don’t need huge demand for prices to rocket.

I think the Leftism valuation is a bit optimistic!
Anyway enjoy them when you get set up

As above I used Wickes loft legs/tongue and groove board in the autumn. Very solid I’d say.
Took most of a weekend to do it on my own and a fair amount of effort!
I had an extension bar in the drill and prefitted screws to the legs. Still got 1/3 of it to do when I can be bothered..

I was bombing down a hill on the bike late at night past some dodgy flats on a raised bank to my left. Top gear, full tuck, focussed on carrying speed through the lights ahead and I felt/heard something whoosh past my head. A split second later I heard 2 presumably beer bottles smash behind me.
I’m sure they’d have knocked me out if they’d hit me. I wouldn’t have known a thing about it.
I was @&£”%#+ livid.

I’m in the same boat as Troutwrestler: immunosuppressant meds for eczema, asthma sufferer, 47. Had the shielding letters but have continued working and can’t work from home.
I got a (surprising) call on Monday morning from the GP surgery and went to a vaccination hub they were organising and had the Pfixer jab. On the initial call they said they’d done the over 80s and we’re finishing the over 70s. I got the impression they were using up a batch.

I worked at a club in the mid 90s and said hello to Rob Warner who i spotted and knew from MBUK etc. He introduced me to Peaty(who I didn’t recognise) as they were out in the lash in Reading. I told them to come and see me and I’d sort them out with free beers all night. They were pleased with this arrangement! This was 25 years ago and we didn’t exchange numbers, sorry OP.

@binners Wow that black Grifter takes me back. I got one and then BMX’s appeared 5 minutes later. Forks were very bendy

I broke mine about 25 years ago coming off in the local woods. My first bone breakage at the time.
It was ‘set’ by a clearly inexperienced nurse at the time. It has never been right since.

I get twinges etc and it is significantly weaker than my right arm/wrist. Infact i had an arm wrestle with the ex a couple of years ago and while she was never going to win i suggested we stop as i thought it might ‘go’!

I stumbled on that last night and I don’t watch much tv. Great show.

Sad to see these places going in the way they do. A real spirit and force for good squeezed out by councils and corporate great.

I used to love skating as a kid. Playing street hockey, roller discos, just bombing about. I remember when fashion brand Kickers opened a largish shop near me in Kentish Town and the staff used to whizz around on skates to serve you😎

I’ve got a small, now very dented gold Lorreal can at the bottom of my tool box. Because I’m worth it.

I might have to return to olde grips after some cheap lock-ons from eBay and On-One don’t lock on.

Some of those old ghetto blasters can fetch a few quid.
I bought a few bits at a local auction a couple of years ago including a monster Hitachi ‘D5500m’ tape deck from 1979, that they only made 100 of. A solid piece of engineering that weighed over 15kg. What I didn’t realise was it was missing the remote which had the play/stop buttons on it. I chucked it on eBay for spares/repairs as I couldn’t operate it and a German enthusiast bought it for over £500. There’s one on there for £2k at the moment.
Madness I know: you could buy a set of wheels for that..

I enjoy music however it’s delivered. At work/on the train it’s streaming. At home it’s mostly vinyl.
I don’t know about participating in and revival as such, but I did buy a late 90s Pioneer tape deck a couple of years ago for £10 with loads of bells and whistles that’s worth £300 odd.
I never chucked my tapes out- been great fun putting them on. From bedroom mixtapes to dj sets from the radio and recordings of early 90s pirate radio. I’ve also got a couple of amazing Andrew Weatherall (RIP) sets from when he played at a friends club that I know nobody else has got or heard.
So for me they hold some great music/history/nostalgia but you sneery types sneer away!

To follow up my Simplehuman vote. I forgot about the bags. Yes they are good but quite pricey so I did’nt buy more than one pack.

Brabantia- the Hope Tech of bin tech? (busy warranty dept)😂

I got a Simplehuman brushed ali thing from JL. Maybe £60-80 I can’t remember but worth it as it works well and still looks decent. I can’t think of another household object that you use as often so worth going half decent and I’m by no means a kitchen gadget type and the my small kitchen is probably the size of the average STW en suite!

There’s a lack of birds in my street. Mainly down to the fact there are loads of cats. I’m not a fan!
My son and I saw a grey squirrel in the garden last week (first one I’ve seen in ten years!) and I was well chuffed.

I do wish I’d bought something with less crappy cranks and a decent headset/stem. And a bit lighter…

Timely thread. My son had been going great on his balance bike but it was starting to look a bit small for him. I rather hastily bought him a Cuba pedal bike in time for his 3rd birthday and he wasn’t ready. Fast forward and we’d had a couple of dabbles without success and he wasn’t having fun. Then last Saturday it clicked for him in about 10 minutes. A bit of pushing to gain momentum. Then on Sunday we went out did a mile or so into town, carried in to his grandmas for cake and squash in the garden then all the way back home.
5 miles! I only had to carry him the last 15 metres too

Assumed I’d find a thread here.

Gutted as everyone else. Followed him closely since the early 90s. Got loads of his output and have seen no one else play as often let alone such a broad range of musical styles. From London, Croatia, his own Convenanza festival and all stops in between. A very hazy yet memorable night at his studio, the Rotters Golf Club, where Richie Hawtin played and David Holmes and Primal Scream we’re staggering about.
No one better at putting on one record after another. Or a perfectly executed spin-back!

‘Another technical section’
(Let’s ride over some sticks)😂

What no PSA?

Visited the old man in Brighton this weekend. Lovely yesterday. Very lively, but fun on the beach this morning. Lots of beach patrol/coastguards on muppet patrol. Train home after lunch with no delays, home 2.5 hours later. All good

Chainspotting over Dirt if we’re talking old stuff

Great vid. Go Alfie!

I had a spell as a bike messenger in London and first job every day was going to a ’tile’ distributer in Battersea and delivering samples to architects allover the city/up to Camden. Basically, ‘we’re going to fill up your bag with bricks. Off you go’
Madness!

Replacement chain looks a bit pre-loved

I built the Roger Musson one after reading his book. It works a treat and cost me £1 for the wood.
There’s a nice sense of pride in building your own wheels on your own home built jig.

Always been a constant feature in my life for nearly 30 years.
A couple of Technics upstairs, then a deck in the lounge and one in the dining room.
Quite a ‘lot’ of choice in terms of what I can listen too aswell!

The Thursday before Xmas a drunk driver demolished the wall of a guest house near my place at 11pm. Whilst the police were in attendance, parked up, lights on etc a second drunk **** went up the back of the police car.
Imagine what sort of reception they had! Two for the price of one atleast.

Blimey redmex, was it in use on a building site?

I had my first experience of this a few weeks back. Nursery call me up and asked me to collect the boy, treat and return. Bit of a pain 4 days over a couple of weeks. Tried a couple of shampoos/lots of combing. But the eggs are tiny and hard to spot and reinfection is just as likely… so I shaved all his hair off😂
He still looks cute/cool and will be nit free for a while

I’m at exactly this stage with my son 3+4 months old. He was scooting past kids on Isla (pedal) bikes at the bmx track (:
I bought a Cuda on his birthday which is ok but too big for him and a bit porky.
I then sat him on the Wiggins Macon 16″ last week. Possibly a smidge too big still but not much. he put a few pedals in round the shop and squeezed the brakes. Anyway it felt really light, nice build and i could’nt really fault it at £140 (£154 today). I wont be spending £350 on his first bike. I’ve seen a few Carrera Cosmos out and about and they looked good but a bit weightier when lifting one up.

I’ve got one of those later Syncros stems with the hinged bar clamps still in everyday use on my commuter.

Keep it going I say. It’s an outer ring so has more teeth/greater contact area.
I’ve only got triples and use the middle mostly so I’ve only experiences slippage on a middle ring.