Mundane News

[TVC]

We have been to the pub for tea. Only one pint of Old Original for me, I must be going down with something.

 

[Illaveago]

The kitten has been having a good game of football with a ball made of scrunched up aluminium foil. Some of his antics make Gwen feel a bit kitten ish too, she attacked a cardboard roll making sure it was dead.

 

[TVC]

Önundarfjörður, West fjords. Iceland

 

[classic33]

Worst of the weather has passed.

 

[mybike]

Just get a 44 chain ring. Hertfordshire is flat.

You are mistaken.

 

[TheDoctor]

Just get a 44 chain ring. Hertfordshire is flat.

Provence isn't, nor the Montagne de Reims, or South Wales. I've taken the Brommie to all of them, and the Alps may be next.
While I agree that compacts are horrid, on the Brommie it would give me my usual everyday gears on the 50T ring, and a climbing / touring set on the 34T. Plus, I've probably got a compact knocking about.

 

[raleighnut]

Provence isn't, nor the Montagne de Reims, or South Wales. I've taken the Brommie to all of them, and the Alps may be next.
While I agree that compacts are horrid, on the Brommie it would give me my usual everyday gears on the 50T ring, and a climbing / touring set on the 34T. Plus, I've probably got a compact knocking about.

Will the tensioner cope with a 16 tooth difference?

 

[TheDoctor]

For riding, yes, apparently. You need to put the chain on the big ring for folding.

 

[Haitch]

Just come back from music lesson. Or rather I haven't. Arrived five minutes early. No one else there. Set up instrument and look at it intently. Visualize the tension in the strings, how they will sound under my command. Look around and still no one there. Ask music teacher in another room, and yes my lesson is definitely going ahead. Return to instrument and place myself in the score as a semi-breve. Imagine the grip needed to play it. Notice it's all gone quiet downstairs. Bugger, everyone else has gone and I'm locked inside the music school. One and a half hours later I am liberated. I bet Pablo Casals never suffered for his art as I have this evening!

 

[HertzvanRental]

Tomorrow=Hampshire =grandkids=lack of peace!

Looking forward to it though!

 

[TVC]

@The Velvet Curtain, in your dealings with Iceland did you hear of a bloke called Dick Phillips? He was part of an expedition that crossed Iceland by bicycle in 1958, four guys riding steel single-speed bikes and carrying all the provisions they needed for 14 days' travelling, plus an inflatable boat! I went to a talk given by him last year when he was, I think, about 80. He's very eccentric but utterly charming and funny. And still riding his bike .

New to me, I'll have to look him up. We saw plenty of people on touring bikes when we were there. The roads are pretty empty and there are plenty of dtop off spots.

 

[classic33]

He and his colleagues thought they were the first people to cross Iceland by bike, then afterwards they found out that someone called Horace Dall had done it solo in the 1930s. But he had had a lift across an inlet on a ferry, so they were the first expedition to do the crossing unsupported. You might find Dall easier to google, there's a film out there somewhere and Dick Phillips helped to put it together, I believe.

http://www.cyclorama.net/viewArticle.php?id=112

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Tomorrow=Hampshire =grandkids=lack of peace!

Looking forward to it though!

He he, I know about that lack of peace thing. My daughter has 3 of her own and a step-daughter to boot. I've just spent the day up there. I'm now officially wrecked.

 

[Gravity Aided]

A poor quality owner?

Seriously doubt that.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Morning all. Another -4C overnight but this time a foggy start to the day. It hasn't burnt of yet and has an ominous look to it.

Off to Ikea again today.... Long day ahead of me. Lots of choosing to do.