tdr1nka
Taking the biscuit
- Location
- SE London, Bandit Country
...and toe grips!
Cycling tightwads
- Thread starter neslon
- Start date
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mr_hippo
Living Legend & Old Fart
Some of us are 'baby-boomers' and we were brought up with the wartime motto 'Make do and mend' and we have passed this attitude onto our kids who, hopefully, will continue passing it on.
I used to ride with 'Plastic Brian' so called because his overshoes and over mitts were Co-op plastic carrier bags. Does this make him a lesser cyclist? Some people can and do go too far - Big John with his inner tubes that had more patches than tube!
Your rear light has a scratch on it - do you think we care? Supposing that on a Sunday, I went into a cafe and there were three bikes outside - yours with your new rear light, Tynan with his garden wire mudguard fix and Arch with her knitted brake lever covers, would I notice your new light? I'd look at Tynan's and think that's a good idea, must take some wire with me and I'd possibly ask Arch for the knitting pattern!
I used to ride with 'Plastic Brian' so called because his overshoes and over mitts were Co-op plastic carrier bags. Does this make him a lesser cyclist? Some people can and do go too far - Big John with his inner tubes that had more patches than tube!
Your rear light has a scratch on it - do you think we care? Supposing that on a Sunday, I went into a cafe and there were three bikes outside - yours with your new rear light, Tynan with his garden wire mudguard fix and Arch with her knitted brake lever covers, would I notice your new light? I'd look at Tynan's and think that's a good idea, must take some wire with me and I'd possibly ask Arch for the knitting pattern!
tdr1nka
Taking the biscuit
- Location
- SE London, Bandit Country
In the immortal words of the late, great Alan Coren;
"I love Sainsbury's, they keep the Riff-Raff out of Waitrose."
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"I love Sainsbury's, they keep the Riff-Raff out of Waitrose."
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tdr1nka
Taking the biscuit
- Location
- SE London, Bandit Country
My front wheels are 2 x 15" cheese stuffed crust pizzas!
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BentMikey
Rider of Seolferwulf
- Location
- South London
I don't even have a saddle on my bike...
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
spindrift said:
Terminator
New Member
BentMikey said:
Whatever rocks your boat bud.
Maz said:
Just wandering home from a friends house two streets away on Wednesday evening, I came across a perfectly good mountain bike tyre (not a lot of use to me) and a chain. Lots of bike detritus round and about this city.
On the same walk home we also found a hypothermic, very underweight hedgehog. Not cycling related at all, but as I seem to have taken on nursing this creature back to health before releasing it (having been to the vets with her and taken advice from a wildlife sanctuary), thought I'd mention it in passing.
