Regrets, I have a few...

[wiggydiggy]

Had you been watching too many Jean Claude van Damme films?

Probably too many Huckleberry Hound cartoons

 

[briantrumpet]

Loads but one that really galls is not buying a QUAD 22 and a pair of QUAD 11 Valve amps when I was offered them

Reminds me - I probably ought to get my Quad 606 repaired.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

The best stories rarely come from things going perfectly to plan. 😉

A bit like when I fell off a cliff in Germany! 🤦‍♂️🤣🚑🤕

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

Not getting into cycling for fitness until I was 43 and only then discovering proper South Downs hills were less than an hour away, despite living in Southampton since l was almost 19 and always having a bike of some description.

https://intervals.icu/ reckoned I had a VO2 of 55.9 in '22 aged 48, who knows how much better I might have been in the 90s, considering I was pretty fit back then mainly through Taekwondo training.

 

[raleighnut]

Reminds me - I probably ought to get my Quad 606 repaired.

QUAD still have a service dept, in Huntingdon, pretty much the least expensive repair option*. They may uprate it to 909 spec, depends what needs doing (easier to chuck a couple of new boards in than faff about)

As for me I use a pair of 303 poweramps wired mono on the input lead with one channel driving the tweeter and one the mid/bass speaker. With each poweramp only being fed one channel 'stereo crosstalk' is zero, this means I have a left speaker amp and a right speaker amp with 4 pairs of speaker leads connected to my Bowers & Wilkens 602 s3 with the 'shorting bars' removed from the 4 speaker terminals at the back

* comes back with a 12 month factory guarantee

 

[Accy cyclist]

Not our army but before I aged out of the conditions I seriously looked at the French Foreign Legion, in the end I decided not as I wanted to stay close to my parents.

Was never a desire to disappear, I just kind of liked the idea of having opportunities that you wouldn't get anywhere else.

I had thoughts about joining the army or the navy when I was in my last year at school, but a few years before that my parents wouldn't let me join Accrington sea cadets, or the army cadets in nearby Blackburn, meaning I didn't get a taste of military life so I could decide to go for it or not before signing up, which is hard to get out of as we know, should you regret it. They were too protective, which I understand, but it did make interacting with large groups a bit difficult in later life and still does.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Joining this forum is a bit of a regret sometimes, I won't deny! 🤣

 

[Accy cyclist]

But I did it my way!

A few regrets throughout my life..

▪️Selling the 2nd house I bought with the previous MrsPete. It was a late Victorian/early Edwardian semi-detached 3 bed 3 reception house that hadn't been touched decorationwise since it was built! Still had working gas lights throughout (fed by lead piping behind the plaster💥)
2 cellars, one with a WW2 bomb shelter & tunnelling dug by, I think, squaddies billeted there. It emerged half way down next doors garden.
A 120' garden enclosed by 6' flint walls with a thatched cottage at the end.

▪️Not keeping hold of a 1960`s full campag Youngs racing bike, given to me by Ernie Young himself as my dad's shop was next door, 292 Lee High Road. (I also went boat fishing with him once & caught a bigger fish than him 😂)

▪️Getting rid of my 1952 A40 Devon that an old chap I used to chat with in Cliffsend, Thanet, gave me as he couldn't drive anymore and he knew how much I admired it..

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I'm sure there's more regrets, should I put my mind to it..

Oh, and when I was 14, not snogging Leslie Frost when I had the chance... ♥️

Heck! I'd love to live in that house and drive that car Pete!! 😍
@Drago!!! 'Yes lord Accy'. My slippers please.🧐 😉.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

STOP HUGGING ME!! 🤣

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

STOP HUGGING ME!! 🤣

@raleighnut - 🤣