the recovery

[markg0vbr]

we have some bikes with generators victims volunteers will peddle there giblets out to run the lights ect.
the flat knot is studious in getting as little as possible historically correct!


There have been a lot of rumors about this but now most of what we all thought is confirmed. Catrike is streamlining their product offerings for 2012. The Dash and Musashi are gone (but due to popular demand you can order the Musashi through the end of the year). The 9-Speed and R-Spec options are also gone. Catrike blames low sales of those particular trikes and options for the changes. My educated guess is that there is also a need to streamline production in preparation for possible new models. Some less noticeable changes are a price increase to $2150 for the Villager and Trail models due to increased material costs and a switch to twist shifters on all but the 700 and Expedition. More details can be found here. Updated with some remarks from Mark Egelend at Catrike…

· Pocket remains unchanged and at old price $1,950

· Trail and Villager will go to $2,150

· The Speed remains in our lineup (this is the Catrike Paulo rides after all). Price remains the same at $2,350 and dedicated group will be the 27 Twist

· Road remains in our lineup as is at $2,350 with the dedicated 27 Twist group. A new version is in the works without a pre-determined launch date or price.

· We will keep offering the Musashi until end of 2011. We have experienced a lot of interest for it, it is a great bike and we can keep filling orders until all spots are filled.

· We make the R group until we run out of stock

· The Dash is no longer available

· 9 Speed Group is no longer available

· Dedicated groups start October 1st

don't like the going to "the 27 Twist" i think i will phone up on Monday, yes there is a new road but no date as to when!

 

[n-ick]

Yo Cosimo,
once again the depth and clarity of tha' expertise is a wonder.
I wonder if there will ever be RECOVERY?

We have a cardboard box full of old bits, is this of use?

 

[markg0vbr]

at wooler there will be a sort of beetle drive but using the good bits of riders to make a Frankenstein monster.
it has been going around and around back and forth and i am settling on the catrike speed, a full on speed trike and the ice for touring.

 

[markg0vbr]

i have done 5 days in the office 4 x 6hrs and 1 x 4hrs and feel like i was kicked by a donkey for the entire time, last nights walk to the back door to enable ingress of the normsky normanoff was straight out of the ministry of funny walks.

i will phone up about the new trike today but have spotted this, My poseble new trike.

i have been doing absolutely no research for the flat knot re-enactment, if some one would like to do it, it will be some thing for the members to ignore / totally screw up and hopefully make the entire thing a bigger farce. any one with historically correct costume my well be picked on relentlessly as a nurdenstine!

 

[markg0vbr]

a very dashing man wrote a book i will read it next week http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5136
no news on the siege engine i am hopeful, please send lard and pile ointment mother!

 

[n-ick]

Yo Cosimodo,
tha' must slow down and not show up steady office working. Surely by now it must be time to book off some double sick time.

The Comittee of Gentlemen Trikers is in favour of re-anactment , but in historical order.
We are keen to start with the Big Bang, then dinosaurs,
then the crucifiction, the moon landing and finally Cosmo falling off his bent. In your absence we have volunteered you to play all parts, including the final trials of testing escape velocity.
We are to film these events as part of our Olympic presentation.

Surely a good dose of Wooler water ( passed by the comittee) will aid RECOVERY.

 

[markg0vbr]

Dear Mum, thank you for the pile cream and lard, can you label the jars next time as we had a bit of a accident this morning and i spent the rest of the day smelling like a fry-up. please don't send any more balaclavas as 23 is all i can use for the time being.
i have been asked to do "big bang II" but think i will turn it down, for another offer i have in the pipe line from the KGB, they want me to blue lard glue lard then when the photographs of blue lard with the Viking helmet flippers and snorkel is published his reputation as blue lard, will be shot.
last weeks trip to blue lard was a total success the price of lard will rocket.

 

[n-ick]

Yo Cosmio,
tha' art indeed a paragram of sado machischism.

With that in mind, Spud has developed a lard based facial hair
removant. This much we have established;
-it must be applied at boiling point,
-use of a mirror is not advised for some time,
-tha' must keep away from all small animals, again for some time.

As an unwilling volunteer , we have the first batch ready for
trials
at Wooler city.

Surely this above all other applications will put you in
pole RECOVERY position.

I beleive the comittee has received blackballing requests.Have a care sir.

 

[markg0vbr]

i have been approached be a want to be recumbernaught from the Netherlands, he wishes to acquire my high racer, the bike
but i would have to dismantle it and pack it all up and have it shipped over. this in it self is not a massive problem, but some thing i have not done so unaware of any pit falls along the way.
when i got the bike out for the photo shoot i was so tempted to go for a ickle ride up and down the road, it is like a drug, it was calling to me, i did attempt a sit/ not stand up on it while holding on to the hand rail, feet on crank in riding position was bliss but getting in to and out of that position was a $*$£"£) er "pain" i would be ok on it if i did not have to stop or start off.
i think i will have to turn the chap down in Holland he sounds a nice bloke but it will be a pain, literally! sorting the bike out for shipping and i would much prefer to have some one come and have a go on it and be confident they are 100% happy rather than some one how has just seen some photographs.

i did a 30 mile ride again yesterday the screen is amazing in showery / torrential rainy, windy horrible weather it just makes the rides comfortable, with just a wind stopper gilt on i was at perfect temperature, in the heavy down pours i just put my zip up jacket on back to front and tuck the front "now the back" in ether side of the seat, this keeps my chest dry "my legs are protected by the screen" but allows plenty of ventilation to my back through the seat.

i have also moved my lights to under the cruciform to see what they are like there the low angle should work well at showing up the road surface.
the hand bike is in dry dock with a flat tyre " only the bit at the bottom but i don't like just using 4/5 of the circumference as when the laws of physics notice what i am doing it can get a bit snotty about is and pout for days.

i did order some inner tubes on Friday that got here Saturday 123miles 5hrs "i nipped out to the shop, cant have been gone 5mins" yep card in letter box cant deliver parcel! ggggrr it will take three days and me going the 7 miles to pick it up as they are only open for 27 minuets every alternate Wednesday unless the moon is in its third quarter then i will need three letters from the pope one oz of picksy dust and a tulip to be allowed to make a appointment to go and request my parcel be handed over.

copy of latest missive to mater.

the copy of drain unblockers monthly you sent was interesting and have passed it around the office with some appreciation from the recipients. something in a lighter vane might be better next time. i think you have been reading the knitting pattern upside down again as the socks you sent appear to have two heels.
the cake was good but please stop putting hacksaw blades in it as the boss says i am allowed out now as long as i keep tugging the string around my neck.
next week one of the long-term inmates gets his release he has done 38years and looks a bit shocked all the time since he got the news he keeps mumbling things and giggling, i found him in the stationery cubbed doing some thing with one of the box-folders i will not describe but it will haunt me for the rest of my days, i think he is instertutanalised and needs a good long sit down chat with the speicher with possibly a cup of hot sweet tea.

next week i am going to be filing some of the old job reports one about blue lard is quite interesting and will take several days to cross reference as the donkey crops up in several case's.

 

[Speicher]

If he is good and sat down with me, he would not need sugar in his tea. I am sweet enough as it is, thank you.

I also have a fascination with Box Files, so we would have something in common. 38 years is a life sentence, is he out on Probation? What was his crime?

 

[markg0vbr]

I also have a fascination with Box Files, so we would have something in common. 38 years is a life sentence, is he out on Probation? What was his crime?

you don't put........ stickers on them do you?

he wondered in to trading standards one day and appeard to have a bit of knowledge about the subject so they kept him.
the first rule of local authority office club is shown no aptitude for any thing, the second rule of local authority office club is agree with every thing the boss says, the third rule of local authority office club is never have a initiative thought, the fourth rule of local authority office club is always know where your lard is.

 

[Speicher]

I am dismayed to learn that I am not el gullible to join the LA la Hofficer's Club. Of the four rulements, I could only comply with the fourthly one.

No, I do not put stickers on my Box Files.. ....whatever next? I do admit to writing the name of the content of the spine of the Box in large lettres in a very soft, 9B, wooden writing implement so that it is not messy to amendise the name of the content. One simply utilises a large eraseur, not gallons of Tippetex. I am sorry if that relevation offends you.

 

[markg0vbr]

but .... but tippetex is liquid gold i even use it on my word-processing attempts! the head of department keeps scraping it of the screen, it makes it very hard to get anything done you know.
the box file mountain was last indexed / shoved very hard so the door would close 4 years ago as there is yet another impending move of office it needs sorting asap just in time so when we get the new office it can all be randomly shoved in any space available and left to turn in to compost.


next week after my office accident prevention course i will be allowed to swap the round nosed scissors for some grown up one as long as i promise not to run with them.


"a very soft, 9B, wooden writing implement" errrr iss it red with a rubber on the end?
back in a bit must have a not stand up with wet flannel on my head.

 

[Speicher]

"a very soft, 9B, wooden writing implement" errrr iss it red with a rubber on the end?
back in a bit must have a not stand up with wet flannel on my head.

No, it is about seven inches long, black and there is no rubber on the end. So I do not think that it is yours!

I have had it a long time, but do not use it very often because it is so soft.

 

[n-ick]

Yo Cosmofficio,
just in time, the Spud has perfected a range of useless ofice gear. This included the thigh driven pencil sharpener, the foot operated stapler and a most curious device ( the sound annhilator),whereby you cannot hear any phones ringing. Well he's developed that to the extent whereby you can't hear anything . This has the advantage that you won't be bothered by questions or phones.

We have had word from the Netherlands ( Dutch league of flat recumbent tricyclism) , that not only are they seconding blackballing , but wish to apply for extradition. A gentleman would have invited said eager cash laden lowlander to his garret and sent him away happy, but releived of his Euros. Take note sir.

In all these manifestations , I note with alarm that RECOVERY is not only being overlooked but thwarted.
Are tha' there yet?