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Andrew_Culture

Internet Marketing bod
To the thieves who just stole my lights (including my long-awaited Cree that had just arrived from China) there's something you need to know about the contents of the saddle bag you also stole.

The bag is worth a tenner new, that bag has been through two winters. It is far from new.

The rear light was part of a set from a 99p shop.

The puncture repair kit cost 99p and needs refilling with everything. The tyre levers are lethal, if you aren't careful they become sprung- loaded eye-gougers with the slightest amount of beefy use.

The inner two inner-tubes cost £1.98 each. They ain't great but they should get you home. Not sure how well they'll work on your Sports Direct BSO.

The multi-spanner thing in the bag is terrible. It came with a Raliegh MTB I bought when I was 14. If you get any use out of it you must have greater mechanical sympathy than I do.

Those two silver canisters in the saddle bag might look like the nitrous-oxide 'laughing gas' you do with your mates but they are in fact Co2. Huff them and you will die.
 
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XRHYSX

A Big Bad Lorry Driver
To the thieves who just stole my lights (including my long-awaited Cree that had just arrived from China) there's something you need to know about the contents of the saddle bag you also stole.

The bag is worth a tenner new, that bag has been through two winters. It is far from new.

The rear light was part of a set from a 99p shop.

The puncture repair kit cost 99p and needs refilling with everything. The tyre levers are lethal, if you aren't careful they become sprung- loaded eye-gougers with the slightest amount of beefy use.

The inner two inner-tubes cost £1.98 each. They ain't great but they should get you home. Not sure how well they'll work on your Sports Direct BSO.

The multi-spanner thing in the bag is terrible. It came with a Raliegh MTB I bought when I was 14. If you get any use out of it you must have greater mechanical sympathy than I do.

Those two silver canisters in the saddle bag might look like the nitrous-oxide 'laughing gas' you do with your mates but they are in fact Co2. Huff them and you will die.
How do you attach your saddle bag to your seat? my one has two heavy-duty cable ties discreetly wrapped around the Velcro fasnings, wont stop them empting the thing but may stop them just ripping it clean off the bike,
 
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Andrew_Culture

Andrew_Culture

Internet Marketing bod
How do you attach your saddle bag to your seat? my one has two heavy-duty cable ties discreetly wrapped around the Velcro fasnings, wont stop them empting the thing but may stop them just ripping it clean off the bike,

Not a bad idea! Annoyingly I snipped off the CREE torch I had attached with zip ties and replaced with my new CREE headlamp just before heading out! I'm looking at clippy saddlebags so I can remove them when I leave the bike. I need lights right now so I'm off to the 99p shop later today.
 
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Andrew_Culture

Andrew_Culture

Internet Marketing bod
Maybe not toxic but blummin' cold if you get a lung full straight from the cannister. I doubt if frozen alveoli do much for respiration.

This entirely.
 

VamP

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OK. I would have thought punk rockers would find better stuff to inhale, but I am happy to be educated.
 
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