Once more into the breech dear friends .....

[Fab Foodie]

It's earliesh for a Saturday, it's p155ing down, dark, slightly windy and dark and am about to ride 55 miles down to Frensham from Abingdon ....and one of my overshoes zip has just gone.

Let's roll!

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Has the zip itself failed, or just the puller? I've had problems with overshoes' zip pullers breaking (because they seem to be made of very soft, breakable metal), and so I replace them with a small key ring, which is even easier to use than the original puller.

 

[screenman]

Just use your spare pair. Surely everyone has more than one set of the essentials, if not they should have.

If not get the gaffer tape out, now that is a must have in every household.

 

[snorri]

Fab Foodie, a sporting hero, a legend in his own lifetime, anyone who cycles in slight wind as daylight strengthens has to be respected.
Just as long as it's not my buttocks he's aiming for.
breech
Pronunciation: /briːtʃ

/
noun
cannon behind the bore.
back part of a rifle or gun barrel:
buttocks.

 

[Scoosh]

It's earliesh for a Saturday, it's p155ing down, dark, slightly windy and dark and am about to ride 55 miles down to Frensham from Abingdon ....and one of my overshoes zip has just gone.

Let's roll!

Is he nearly there yet ?

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Is he nearly there yet ?

The wind is in his face..
he now has 58 mile to go

 

[Scoosh]

GO @Fab Foodie ! Power on ! SHUT UP LEGS ! ALLEZ ! ALLEZ !

 

[Fnaar]

Safety pin. Looks punky too.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

For pity's sake people....

















it's "unto".

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.

 

[ufkacbln]

There is an answer to the zip in the Royal Naval School of Engineering Manual

This comes under the definition of something moving where it shouldn't so the answer is:

 

[ufkacbln]

PS....

The second Page of the manual is things that don't move when they should... in this case the solution is:

...and:

 

[ColinJ]

Just use your spare pair. Surely everyone has more than one set of the essentials, if not they should have.

If not get the gaffer tape out, now that is a must have in every household.

Mine were falling apart and I did use gaffer tape to repair them. @DiddlyDodds saw them and took pity on me. I met him halfway round his Sunday ride last weekend and he gave me a spare set!

 

[AndyRM]

For pity's sake people....

















it's "unto".

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.

I'm particularly glad you nailed the grammar. Standards, dear boy, standards!

 

[hoopdriver]

The zip on my Enduras went within the first few rides. Not at all my favourite brand. Still looking for overshoes that work well with size 48 shoes.

 

[ColinJ]

The zip on my Enduras went within the first few rides. Not at all my favourite brand. Still looking for overshoes that work well with size 48 shoes.

Well, I was not going to, er, look a gift overshoe in the zip!

I'll see how I get on with them. The toe section on these looks a lot tougher than the fronts of my previous pairs and that is where they normally wear out.