FishFright
More wheels than sense
I wonder who first looked at a puddle of hot coal tar and thought " That would make a smashing soap" ?
A design positive....or negative?
- Thread starter Dave 123
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Globalti
Legendary Member
If you could go back to your youth and smell again some old familiar products you would be almost literally blown away by the smells. There is so much elf 'n safety paranoia nowadays that industrial perfumes have changed massively. Smell Brut or Imperial Leather and you will be smelling a mere pastiche of the original as the lovely musks and leathery notes have all gone. Our noses just don't encounter those molecules in normal life and it's said that if we could go back to smell the perfumes of the sixties and earlier, we would be amazed. This is why so many modern fragrances are watery and vaguely fruity.
NorthernDave
Never used Über Member
- Location
- The real Northern Powerhouse
Possibly the same person who was a bit thirsty and decided to milk a cow for a refreshing drink...?
FishFright
More wheels than sense
Cor he gets about a bit.
Biff600
Veteran
.....or the same person that saw an egg fall out of a chicken and thought, "I'll eat that" !!
roadrash
cycle chatterer
- Location
- sitting on the edge of wigan pier
or who dug up a dirty spud and thought I will peel this cut it into thin strips, go kill an animal , melt all its fat , throw the strips of spud in for a bit and I will call them chips, im glad they did though 
Threevok
Growing old disgracefully
- Location
- South Wales
Or the first person to have piles, find a dead shark on the beach and sit on it's liver
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
What I want to know is are the centres of those discs really black on the Spesh in the OP?
Grant Fondo
Guru
- Location
- Cheshire
Oh i thought you meant the bike.
Adam4868
Guru
Yep,it's a special edition,so a special specialized ! I know some don't like it but I do.
https://www.specialized.com/ca/en/s-works-roubaix-mclaren-dura-ace-di2/p/134255
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Or the first person who saw a sprout and thought it edible.
Grant Fondo
Guru
- Location
- Cheshire
Gulp! Well its cheaper than a McLaren (just)
Adam4868
Guru
Pub bike !
Cycleops
Legendary Member
- Location
- Accra, Ghana
Seems very reasonable and practical , have you seen a Rolls Royce option list?
SkipdiverJohn
Deplorable Brexiteer
- Location
- London
Presumably all the born again cyclists rode steel bikes when they were children, and still had fun riding them? I rode steel bikes as a youngster and enjoyed it. I still ride older steel bikes as an adult - and I still enjoy it. The fun factor has always been there - so long as you actually enjoy riding in the first place. All my bikes are smooth and comfortable to ride, even the skip ones, and some of them are reasonably light. Are you trying to say that as a kid you could have fun riding a steel bike, but as an adult you can't?
