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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Has Beyonce got big thighs or slender thighs?
Sara_H
Guru
My son had a very similar experience very recently at his primary school leavers presentation evening. Every child gets an award for something. When they did best sports people, he didn't get an award, despite being the most prolific sport person in the school who's collected them many trophies and medals in many different disciplines. He was absolutely heartbroken (as was I sat in the audience sat watching him sob being consoled by his mate). It actually ruined his last day at primary school!
Sara_H
Guru
They're quite big, but well formed,toned and smooth, whereas mine are more like soft downy pillows - handy for tired men to rest their heads, but doesn't look good in a short skirt/shorts situation.Has Beyonce got big thighs or slender thighs?
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Ah!
My thighs are getting more like Beyonce's so perhaps not much good for tired women (or men!) to rest a head on, but I don't often get asked to provide head support these days anyway ...
Sara_H
Guru
Eat more cake just in case such an occasion arrises.Ah!
My thighs are getting more like Beyonce's so perhaps not much good for tired women (or men!) to rest a head on, but I don't often get asked to provide head support these days anyway ...
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I'm eating lots of cake (and chocolate), but it isn't making up for the lack of beer!
Sara_H
Guru
Hmmm. I'm not sure I can offer any further build up advice. You'll have to put up with well honed thighs.
NorcoRichie
Senior Member
Couldn't cycle for about 3 weeks due to work, holidays etc. Excitedly got back on the bike and found that all the fitness gains i had made over the last 6 months have completely gone
numbnuts
Squire
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
I don't think I have had a disappointment with cycling maybe I'm lucky or that I'm easily pleased and don't expect too much
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S.Giles
Guest
I can't think of any disappointments right now, but one of my favourite cycling moments was... getting a beautiful gold Moulton Mini for my birthday at the age of eight, my uncle having won some money on the horses. I loved it and rode it for years before eventually selling it to a neighbour's son who'd obviously been eyeing it up for a while. I guess the kids in my neck of the woods weren't as tough as the kids in the OP's area.
I seem to remember it costing £25 at the time, which is equivalent to about £380 today.
Steve
I seem to remember it costing £25 at the time, which is equivalent to about £380 today.
Steve
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
In the mid-90s I was clicking on well with a Saracen mountain bike - until it was stolen.
I replaced it with a Schwinn, but the theft all but put me off cycling until I bought the Brompton in 2010.
So my biggest cycling disappointment is allowing a criminal to deprive me of 15 years' riding.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
It didn't bother me as much at the time as it does now! I got the insurance money and bought my first stereo system with it and was more interested in music at the time than doing long bike rides.
Looking back though ... if I had really got into cycling in my teens, I think it would have changed the course of my life. I would have travelled more, met more like-minded people, and been healthier.
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
My bike was stolen by the n'er do well son of my neighbours at the time - caused a bit of tension as you may imagine.
I thought if I was seen on the new bike he would only do the same again, so I decided to stop cycling for a few weeks, which turned into months, which turned into - you know the drill.
Health is a big regret, one can never be sure but it is overwhelming likely I would have been much healthier had I continued cycling.
Colin_P
Guru
Nothing, it has been perfect except...
Some small Raleigh kids bike, a Tomahawk, a couple of Grifters, and Olympus 5 speed racer and then a Pug 10 speed. Passed the cycling proficiency 1st time back in 1979. A perfect cycling childhood the only blip being coming off at high speed and breaking my collar bone on day 1 of my last ever school summer holiday.
I've still got the Pug, well I re-bought one after getting rid of my original one. I deeply regret that. Also now have a modern hybrid which is ok but would like to get a modern road bike.
The only thing stopping me getting a modern road bike is the lack of these...
When, why and how did the duel lever brake setup ever get resigned to obscurity. I love them.
Some small Raleigh kids bike, a Tomahawk, a couple of Grifters, and Olympus 5 speed racer and then a Pug 10 speed. Passed the cycling proficiency 1st time back in 1979. A perfect cycling childhood the only blip being coming off at high speed and breaking my collar bone on day 1 of my last ever school summer holiday.
I've still got the Pug, well I re-bought one after getting rid of my original one. I deeply regret that. Also now have a modern hybrid which is ok but would like to get a modern road bike.
The only thing stopping me getting a modern road bike is the lack of these...
When, why and how did the duel lever brake setup ever get resigned to obscurity. I love them.
