Mundane News

[oldwheels]

Sun is currently shining but somehow I do not trust it to stay shining as the forecast promises thundery showers again today. Not so windy tho'.

Need to get some stuff for a few days away sorted out and down to the car as I have an early start tomorrow assuming the ferries are running to timetable.
No big yacht events until the first weekend of the Glasgow Fair. This is or was a race over three days from the Clyde to Armadale on Skye. The idea behind it was to give yachts a good start to a cruise to the west of Scotland and the Western Isles for the more adventurous. I crewed on a boat doing this a few times.
The next one is West Highland Week which is based here for a few days. Everything portable had to be removed and they even stole the flag from my workshop one year. The end of the hoist was ten feet off the ground and I thought it would be safe but some drunkards managed to get it down.
Any large group like this is always a problem.
The car rally is even worse but I will not enlarge on that.

 

[pawl]

You must be old ! I can even remember my older brother having one of those mileometer things which you clamped to the front forks which had a thing on the spokes which knocked a gear thing around on every turn .

I had one .Tick Tick I an old Perhaps even ancient 🎅

 

[Illaveago]

You'll not catch me. Can you remember when you first rode a bike? mid 1950's for me, a single speed with solid tyres brought for Xmas by my Dad. On my first ride my Dad showed me what everything did then said "I'll hold the saddle and you pedal", a hundred yards down the road I looked round and he was stood watching me and I was on my own, I've been riding regularly since then.

I didn't get a bike untill much later .
Yes a similar thing with me but it was my neighbour's daughter who was holding me . I told her to slow down and she said she wasn't holding me !
My bike was a blue and white girls Gresham Flyer. It had a carrier on the back which I used to slide onto when getting more adventurous in my riding .
It is how you coped with the second ride that I can't remember. It is something that we must have all gone through but wasn't committed to memory.

 

[pawl]

You'll not catch me up, and I'll never catch @dave r up!

I’m currently in the lead with 82 years.Come on at the back catch up.☹😜🚴‍♀️😜🚴‍♀️

 

[pawl]

I didn't get a bike untill much later .
Yes a similar thing with me but it was my neighbours daughter who was holding me . I told her to slow down and she said she wasn't holding me !
My bike was a blue and white girls Gresham Flyer. It had a carrier on the back which I used to slide onto when getting more adventurous in my riding .
It is how you coped with the second ride that I can't remember. It is something that we must have all gone through but wasn't committed to memory.

Until I got a proper bike with a crossbar,I used to nick my sisters bike I once rode it to a local shop to get something for my mum the shop was only a hundred yards away Parked it pedal on the kerb .Walked home .I had forgotten the bike. It wasn’t until next morning when my sister politely asked where her bike was I’d left it outside the shop.Luckily it was still there.

 

[Jenkins]

You must be old ! I can even remember my older brother having one of those mileometer things which you clamped to the front forks which had a thing on the spokes which knocked a gear thing around on every turn .

Oi - not so much of the old. I had one of those mileometer thingies on my bike in my youth and I'm not yet eligible for a senior rail card.

 

[biggs682]

Off to Numpton with a vacuum cleaner

 

[Jenkins]

Good morning from a bright and breezy Suffolk where the first coffee of the day has been drunk and a small bowl of Lidl own brand Shreddies had for breakfast. I'm just waiting for the washing machine to finish its cycle and then the contents will be pegged out on the line.

At some point today I must get round to changing the filters on the water jugs.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I had one for a few years. Gave it away eventually to somebody who was restoring an old bike. Regretted it ever since.

I used to have one a very long time ago - long since disappeared - but then ''inherited'' one that was on my father's bike. I put it on mine but the constant click from every revolution of the wheel soon became irritating, like some kind of mechanical fault somewhere on the bike. A Scottish Cyclechat member expressed an interest in it so I sent it to him. From what I remember, he had the same reaction to the clicks and also took it off. No idea where it might be now.

 

[oldwheels]

I used to have one a very long time ago - long since disappeared - but then ''inherited'' one that was on my father's bike. I put it on mine but the constant click from every revolution of the wheel soon became irritating, like some kind of mechanical fault somewhere on the bike. A Scottish Cyclechat member expressed an interest in it so I sent it to him. From what I remember, he had the same reaction to the clicks and also took it off. No idea where it might be now.

A bit of fine rubber tube as found on tyre valves in those days was put over the actuator on the spoke to muffle the noise I seem to remember.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

A bit of fine rubber tube as found on tyre valves in those days was put over the actuator on the spoke to muffle the noise I seem to remember.

Now you tell me!

 

[PeteXXX]

I used to have a Playing Card taped on the forks to make a proper motorbike noise..
Ma & Pa must have wondered why they could never finish a game of Rummy

 

[Speicher]

I used to have a Playing Card taped on the forks to make a proper motorbike noise..
Ma & Pa must have wondered why they could never finish a game of Rummy

So you were a bit of a Joker? King of the road? Ace at wheelies? Jack of all trades?

 

[DCLane]

I'm moving son no. 2 back from university today. I'm carrying boxes whilst he packs

Cyclists have a LOT of stuff. Why didn't he take up table-tennis? Or tiddlywinks?

 

[PeteXXX]

I'm at work 😔