Seemed like a good idea at the time

[Sandra6]

For some reason (perhaps the sun!)I thought it would be a good idea to take the wheels off my hybrid and give them, and the rest of it, a really good clean.
I also thought it would be possible to do it in the time it took the red peppers to roast for the soup.
It wasn't -and it wasn't.
I am giving up thinking.
Fortunately I have a second bike as the hybrid doesn't have working brakes at the moment.

 

[Fnaar]

Use the peppers as brake blocks

 

[Sandra6]

The soup was good.
The bike has been fixed by someone who actually knows what they're doing - seems the wheel wasn't on straight

 

[mark st1]

The soup was good.
The bike has been fixed by someone who actually knows what they're doing - seems the wheel wasn't on straight

Sounds like you now have the required qualifications to become a Halfords "workshop manager".

 

[BigonaBianchi]

soup can be more important than bikes sometimes

 

[vernon]

It seemed a good idea for a mate of mine to get me to help him dismantle a Triumph sprung hub from as it needed more than one pair of hands without the correct service tools. One massive boing!!! later and springs and bits flying everywhere including one that embedded itself 1/4" into a wooden beam in his garge, we discovered the folly of his notion.

It was a good job that we were immortal teenagers at the time as we escaped unscathed.

The hub was never reassembled....

 

[classic33]

It seemed a good idea for a mate of mine to get me to help him dismantle a Triumph sprung hub from as it needed more than one pair of hands without the correct service tools. One massive boing!!! later and springs and bits flying everywhere including one that embedded itself 1/4" into a wooden beam in his garge, we discovered the folly of his notion.

It was a good job that we were immortal teenagers at the time as we escaped unscathed.

The hub was never reassembled....

Why did you lose a few bits?

 

[vernon]

Why did you lose a few bits?

We weren't brave enough to try.

 

[classic33]

We weren't brave enough to try.

What happenned to the "Immortal teenagers" bit!

 

[vernon]

What happenned to the "Immortal teenagers" bit!

We were intelligent enough to learn from mistakes. That's what made us immortal unlike our mate 'Crasher Pete'.

 

[Sandra6]

Sounds like you now have the required qualifications to become a Halfords "workshop manager".

Did I not mention my promotion?!