Mundane News

[Illaveago]

I've split chains with a nail and and a nut too on plenty of occasions, although never at the roadside. It's how my Dad taught me. I didn't know a chain splitter was a thing until I started reading forums like this! I have also used the nut and nail method on much bigger chains on balers, potato harvesters, etc.

In a photographic book showing the photos of Robert Chapman, who was a prolific Irish photographer and also a keen cyclist c1910, there is a serious of photos of him and the people he was riding with stripping a singlespeed freewheel and doing something to correct a problem with the pawls with rocks and whatever tools they could improvise in the snow, somewhere very remote in the Wicklow mountains. Today, he would just phone for someone to pick him up!

Ah! Back in the good old days we had semaphore!

 

[Illaveago]

Morning.
It is sunny here but there is some thin cloud.

 

[Illaveago]

Do they do roof bars for a Bugatti Veyron as I want to carry our bikes on the roof ?

 

[oldwheels]

A grey drizzly day just as forecast.
Matches my mood this morning.
Nothing urgent to do today but I am in the process of botching up a mount to fit my camera on the front of the trike.
It is a very strange fitting on the trike and probably unique to Hase bikes so nothing I have fits.
My first distillery Littlemill was the oldest legal distillery in Scotland and everything was pretty worn out until after a couple of years it was all replaced by new stuff.
During that time I became expert at bodging things to keep them working as it was essential to keep the place running 24/7.
Interesting times and in fact quite enjoyable.

 

[Mike_P]

Posties mobile app is telling me the delivery today of a push fit bottom bracket from Merlin will have generated 205g of CO2 emissions on its journey. There will not doubt be emissions of the expletive variety when it comes to be fitted.

 

[biggs682]

Time for a second cuppa

 

[tyred]

The Continental tourists must have come back as I note an increase in "foreign" coins in circulation recently.

 

[PeteXXX]

Pleasant little ride across town, up a bit, then back home. Errands completed.
Bins haven't bin emptied yet.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Been out for a morning ride. Plenty of poppies on the No Mow May verges

 

[PeteXXX]

Been out for a morning ride. Plenty of poppies on the No Mow May verges

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Ours Council does No Mow May and several other of the months, too 😂

 

[pawl]

A grey drizzly day just as forecast.
Matches my mood this morning.
Nothing urgent to do today but I am in the process of botching up a mount to fit my camera on the front of the trike.
It is a very strange fitting on the trike and probably unique to Hase bikes so nothing I have fits.
My first distillery Littlemill was the oldest legal distillery in Scotland and everything was pretty worn out until after a couple of years it was all replaced by new stuff.
During that time I became expert at bodging things to keep them working as it was essential to keep the place running 24/7.
Interesting times and in fact quite enjoyable.

I remember reading to repair a puncture if you hadn’t a spare inner tube you could pack the tyre with grass

 

[cookiemonster]

A very long weekend here in Hongkers.

No work until Monday.

 

[biggs682]

Nice sunny lunchtime stroll completed

 

[pawl]

Our councils contribution to no mow May

 

[rockyroller]

Been out for a morning ride. Plenty of poppies on the No Mow May verges

happy insects