Arch's bike maintenance paradox

[Arch]

The quantity of stairs between your dwelling place and the bike is inversely proportional to the number of necessary tools and other items you remember to take down with you.

I just wanted to swap the defunct computer on the hack for a new one, or rather the one that had been fitted to the Galaxy which is not getting out at the moment. Three times I had to come back up and fetch something I'd forgotten.

Still, it's done, and the dynamo light problem fixed (wire came adrift), AND I've refitted the front mudguard on the FCR and repositioned the saddle which had slipped backwards.

Which good, but I was supposed to be tidying the cupboard under the sink.

 

[Piemaster]

If you think thats bad, try working up a ships mast. Whats even worse is taking a lot of tools with you 'just in case' and forgetting the one you climbed down for in the first place.


I find it best to leave the cupboard under the sink well alone, at least up to the point when it won't close anymore.

 

[ufkacbln]

If you think thats bad, try working up a ships mast. Whats even worse is taking a lot of tools with you 'just in case' and forgetting the one you climbed down for in the first place.


I find it best to leave the cupboard under the sink well alone, at least up to the point when it won't close anymore.

You folks keep your bikes in some strange places!

 

[Arch]

You folks keep your bikes in some strange places!

You've got me wondering now, if a Brompton would fit under my sink. (I mean it wouldn't now, because of all the junk under there, but if it was empty...)

Another reason to want one.

My downstairs maintenance had the added spice of a light on a timer switch - and it was just dull enough to need the light on....

 

[Headgardener]

If you think thats bad, try working up a ships mast. Whats even worse is taking a lot of tools with you 'just in case' and forgetting the one you climbed down for in the first place.


I find it best to leave the cupboard under the sink well alone, at least up to the point when it won't close anymore.

Do they still have sails on your ship then Piemaster?

 

[Piemaster]

<----- ships mast

Nope. Just lots of radio / satellite antenna, navigation lights and assorted electronic junk.
Still have to fly a red ensign in port though, and as per my avatar something a bit different for last years 'International talk like a pirate day'. Arrrrr.

Having said that there are a very few ships on cargo trades that have auxiliary sails to help out with fuel consumption.

 

[Davidc]

You've got me wondering now, if a Brompton would fit under my sink.

Years (about 35 of them) ago I had a work colleague who rode a Moulton to work - I went round one weekend and while there asked him where it was, he showed me, it was in the airing cupboard! Apparently it kept it dry and stopped it going rusty.

He used to take it up to his office every day at work and locked it to the CH pipes.

I suddenly understood why he was single and lived on his own.

 

[Globalti]

I had the same problem while I was plumbing in the solar panel; it's a flight of stairs then the loft ladder so quite annoying when you get all the way up there, duck under the pipes and then realise you forgot the tool you really needed.

 

[sheddy]

Oh do belt up !

http://www.tooled-up.com/MicroCateg...errer=Google&gclid=CO_nlsX5vqYCFY4f4Qod_CNBIQ

 

[Arch]

Oh do belt up !

http://www.tooled-up...CFY4f4Qod_CNBIQ

mmm, men in tool belts....


Sorry, what was that?

Nah. However well equipped my tool belt, you can be sure I'd be short one cable tie, or something....

Still, going up and down three times was still easier than lugging that bike up the stairs, with the inevitable barked-shin-on-a-pedal at some stage.

 

[Night Train]

mmm, men in tool belts....

mmm, women in tool belts....


Tool belts are useful but it is finding the ones with the right size and types of pockets, pouches and loops to suit your tooling requirements.

I have abandoned my tool belt recently and taken to using a 600mm tuff tub as I can get more in it!

 

[TheDoctor]

Well, yes, but you'd look daft wearing that, wouldn't you?

 

[Arch]

Depends what else he wears with it, I guess.

No, what's needed is a Utilikilt:

http://www.utilikilts.com/company/products/kilts/workmans/

A utili-sporran would add even more storage space.

I do wonder if they appreciate the humour in this statement.... I suspect they do.

"and will keep even the biggest tool tight and secure all through your working day."

 

[Dan B]

Still have to fly a red ensign in port though

Aren't they the guys in Star Trek who get shot immediately as soon as the landing party beams down? I realise they're expendable, but it still seems a bit cruel to hang them from the mast