Mundane News

[Levo-Lon]

Have you tried peppermint and licorice? I highly recommend it,

Drinking coffee after cleaning your teeth....all i can taste is licorice? Is this the same for everyone?
Or am i the only person with a taste bud anomaly

 

[Levo-Lon]

Riding to work today on a E- mtb.. As the wife has ordered a new one, i spent a couple of hrs last night altering the Trek for me to ride it.
It may help with fatigue as i did 22000 steps yesterday clearing leaves and my normal duties ..
So hopefully the 14 miles cycling should be a bit easier.
Plus i want to stop my van use as much as i can.

I still think its cheating

 

[Illaveago]

A house on the corner next from my parish church is always a showpiece. If the weather cooperates, I'll try and get some of the foundling fleet out there for the festivities. But this house just rotates through the holidays, spreading the joy of whatever season.

Ooh! That's fancy! Can you choose which room has the sunshine throughout the day?

 

[Illaveago]

Drinking coffee after cleaning your teeth....all i can taste is licorice? Is this the same for everyone?
Or am i the only person with a taste bud anomaly

It doesn't affect me.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I need a shave.

Shaved.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Well it's still taken me 29 mins to bike to work.
I'm still sweaty but that was interesting.
If you keep over 15 mph it's all you and I did a lot of the way.
Good head wind, I'm not shattered.
E-bikes love em or hate em it's the future I'm afraid

 

[Andy in Germany]

Well it's still taken me 29 mins to bike to work.
I'm still sweaty but that was interesting.
If you keep over 15 mph it's all you and I did a lot of the way.
Good head wind, I'm not shattered.
E-bikes love em or hate em it's the future I'm afraid

Eldest Son's employer deal only in E-Bikes now, because Stuttgart is hilly and has lots of wealthy people. On the other hand it means there are more Bakfietsen and similar as people find they can use them on hill easily.

Also, the people (locally) who are getting E-Bikes are the sort that will very quickly make a lot of noise if they don't like the bike infrastructure, which is poor in Stuttgart, so hopefully that'll make a difference too...

I don't think Ebikes will feature in my future, but hopefully I'll be benefiting from them indirectly...

 

[MikeG]

Have you tried peppermint and licorice? I highly recommend it,

I'm sure it's delightful.......









......but it ain't tea.

 

[MikeG]

.........Or am i the only person with a taste bud anomaly

I have anosmia (no sense of smell), so food tastes rather different for me than for most.

 

[Illaveago]

Well it's still taken me 29 mins to bike to work.
I'm still sweaty but that was interesting.
If you keep over 15 mph it's all you and I did a lot of the way.
Good head wind, I'm not shattered.
E-bikes love em or hate em it's the future I'm afraid

It would be good if they made an attachment so that you use your electric drill to power your bike.

 

[MikeG]

.........I still think its cheating

It is.

 

[Andy in Germany]

It would be good if they made an attachment so that you use your electric drill to power your bike.

You'd need one heck of an extension chord.

 

[Illaveago]

£ 42,000 for a pair of trainers!


I bet they'll still smell like a dead rat after a while.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Minor logistical project this morning as we needed to get the bike frame we're working on to my work so the resident metalworker can braze on lugs for gear shifters on the bottom bar.

Elder Son and I were going into Stuttgart at about the same time, but as I cycle to the tram stop and don't have a travel card for that bit, whereas he, the stinker, has a card for all of Stuttgart and region because he's officially a student and therefore takes the bus, he carried the frame for the first bit, we travelled together to the main station, then I took the frame onto the bus and he caught the train to bike building school. Still not sure how we'll get it back, but I'm sure we'll think of something.

Incidentally, if anyone has a bike with levers on the bottom bar and can measure the distance from headset to levers, even roughly, I'd appreciate it.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I've just been given a set of drop handlebars by someone I know, with a sticker (in English) saying "Important! Always wear a protective Helmet!"

Elder Son's comment: "What? even on the bog?"