slightly wasted morning...

[DooDah]

My life the same. Planned around the kids. Getting up before them give an hour's ride, a couple of hours at midday to make lunch. 8pm onwards is mine. Sometimes it feels like a split shift

I know that feeling. I have before 7.30am, between 12.30 and 2.30pm (at weekends) and after 7.30pm. Actually, once dinner is cooked and paperwork done (self-employed), make that 9.30pm. SO normally do my fettling late evening which means I am tired, and it gets frustrating. Bike is normally in bits for several days, until I get more than an hour to work on it.

 

[David Haworth]

mine is 25 months old now and supremely chatty. narrates her entire life at us. she does enjoy a bike ride, but only a short one. after a while she gets bored though and just wants to go home. if I'm going to get a decent ride in, it tends to be either if she's with grand-parents or after she's gone to bed.
still, occasionally I'll get this kind of smile...

actually, the rack I chose was the topeak babysitter rack. I've currently got the old child bike seat still on my old bike as it's one of those ones that attaches to the seat-tube and I really dont want that heavy, ugly lump on my shiny new bike and it's a pain to add and remove so I just leave it attached to the old one. I don't know if I'll end up getting the matching topeak child seat for the new bike but getting that rack means my options are open. also, it was one of the cheaper racks that evans sell (£26 vs the £36 for the normal topeak rack) so it's not like I over-paid for the privilege. at some point, I'll try and get a quick-release rack bag to go on top. for normal use (tools, food, scarf etc).

 

[Andrew_Culture]

mine is 25 months old now and supremely chatty. narrates her entire life at us. she does enjoy a bike ride, but only a short one. after a while she gets bored though and just wants to go home. if I'm going to get a decent ride in, it tends to be either if she's with grand-parents or after she's gone to bed.
still, occasionally I'll get this kind of smile...
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actually, the rack I chose was the topeak babysitter rack. I've currently got the old child bike seat still on my old bike as it's one of those ones that attaches to the seat-tube and I really dont want that heavy, ugly lump on my shiny new bike and it's a pain to add and remove so I just leave it attached to the old one. I don't know if I'll end up getting the matching topeak child seat for the new bike but getting that rack means my options are open. also, it was one of the cheaper racks that evans sell (£26 vs the £36 for the normal topeak rack) so it's not like I over-paid for the privilege. at some point, I'll try and get a quick-release rack bag to go on top. for normal use (tools, food, scarf etc).

What an awesome photo!

 

[David Haworth]

just to bump the thread, I finally managed to do that fettling this evening. still no second bottle cage installed, as I haven't gone and bought a new one, but the rear mudguard is now on, the rack, the little light mount at the back of the rack, and the garmin GSC-10, mounted underneath the chainstay due to the hydro brake hose being on top.

I did bob round the block for a quick test ride (in slippers) and it felt noisy and creaky at the back which isn't ideal and it's still not quite right as I think the mudguard is sometimes slightly rubbing on the tyre, but I'm not sure where, I suspect at the top so I'll have to go back to it, but I felt I'd done enough for the evening. will have a closer look another day.

here's a pic of my steed:

hmm.. need to take the cateye mount off the seatpost I guess

David

 

[Jdratcliffe]

Very nice !! - there is never enough time to fettle.. :-(

 

[Biker Joe]

Nice steed

 

[Eribiste]

Looking at the bike from that sofa would make you feel completely stressless...