Mundane News

[tyred]

Ah, that's a bummer.

I discovered that the item I had planned on bidding on previous weekend wasn't withdrawn. The reason it vanished was because it was put on a "Buy it Now" by the seller at a vastly inflated price as I discovered last night whilst running one of my regular searches. Shame, as I liked it, but at that price I'm not biting. £15 would be fair for a department store "own brand" item. £40 most definitely isn't. I get the feeling it will sit there gathering dust for a while.

The item was cheap enough for what it was (700c wheel with one of those Sturmey-Archer combined dynohub/drum brake). In reality, it's one of those things I'd like to try to see how it works in practice but don't really need.

Every time I ride my vintage Elswick with drum brakes, they work so well despite being nearly 100 years old, I hanker after a winter bike with drum brakes. In reality, the canti brakes on my Pioneer have stopped me successfully all winter.

 

[tyred]

Been a busy day. I had taken advantage of the good weather to strip my bed and dry the sheets outside. I went and did my grocery shopping after work, then went on a very pleasant 34 mile single speed ride, taking in some new to me roads.

I had left the dishes and sorting the bed out until I returned from cycling which was a mistake as I couldn't really be bothered washing dishes and fitting sheet and duvet after a longish ride! Now done, but I was tempted to use my sleeping bag and sort it all out tomorrow!

I think I need to fit new brake blocks to my Pioneer.

 

[tyred]

Boy racers are circulating again. I wonder will they miss the fence tonight.

Telecom people were there nearly all day working at the damaged box. Luckily, I use wireless broadband or I would probably have been off air.

 

[Mike_P]

It was an office day so the early start meant feeling not up to much once home, but dinner and another attack on the lawn weeds livened me up to do 10k on the indoor folding bike thingy. Asda at lunchtime was a disappointment with no 5 bags of oranges.

 

[tyred]

It is time to retire to the bed chamber.

 

[PeteXXX]

I'm nearly up.
It's ♻ and Garden Waste Bin Day today.

 

[biggs682]

Tea brewing
Suns out
And a trip along the A45 to Numpton later what's to look forward to

 

[Illaveago]

Morning.
It is grey here.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I think I was overoptimistic when I turned the heating down last week. It's now decidedly chilly indoors. The temperature outside is bound to rise if I warm it up inside, isn't it?

 

[Illaveago]

My wife is having some WI members round later for some sort of meeting . I don't know if they have fallen out with the FI group or not !

 

[biggs682]

Well first cuppa went down well
On line shopping delivery due
Some blue sky patches

 

[oldwheels]

Another bright sunny day with little wind but still from the north so pretty cold.
Very cold at night due to the clear sky and I noticed last night that it looked like a full moon.
Nothing planned today but I really must get the folding mobility scooter out for more testing.
Being a short wheel base trike the steering terrifies me and needs a bit of practice as it wanders down a camber almost out of control.
It was pretty cheap tho' the battery is not too good and costs about £500 to replace. I only need a modest range of about 5 or 6 miles so it hopefully will do me but this would have to be tested in practice and is a bit of a problem as I do not wish to be stranded a long way from base with a duff scooter.

I envy @tyred in being able to find roads he has not been on before. This is only possible to me by going to the mainland.

 

[biggs682]

Online food shop delivery has been made .
sun shining still

 

[tyred]

Another bright sunny day with little wind but still from the north so pretty cold.
Very cold at night due to the clear sky and I noticed last night that it looked like a full moon.
Nothing planned today but I really must get the folding mobility scooter out for more testing.
Being a short wheel base trike the steering terrifies me and needs a bit of practice as it wanders down a camber almost out of control.
It was pretty cheap tho' the battery is not too good and costs about £500 to replace. I only need a modest range of about 5 or 6 miles so it hopefully will do me but this would have to be tested in practice and is a bit of a problem as I do not wish to be stranded a long way from base with a duff scooter.

I envy @tyred in being able to find roads he has not been on before. This is only possible to me by going to the mainland.

We are blessed with a lot of minor roads around here and I have many I haven't been on. It can be difficult to know what actually is a road that leads somewhere else and not a dead end in someone's farmyard or remote dwelling. After getting a telling off for trespassing once, I stopped going down the unmarked ones in case I've got it wrong.

I read somewhere that the west of Ireland has more miles of road per head of population than anywhere else in Europe. Don't know if it is true but it's certainly believable.

 

[PeteXXX]

We are blessed with a lot of minor roads around here and I have many I haven't been on. It can be difficult to know what actually is a road that leads somewhere else and not a dead end in someone's farmyard or remote dwelling. After getting a telling off for trespassing once, I stopped going down the unmarked ones in case I've got it wrong.

I read somewhere that the west of Ireland has more miles of road per head of population than anywhere else in Europe. Don't know if it is true but it's certainly believable.

My experience of Irish roads, albeit quite a few years ago, was that the road on the map might change from a 'proper' bit of tarmac up to the county border before changing to a poorly maintained farm track as only one county considered the road important enough to spend money on..