the recovery

[byegad]

No self portraits are needed Mark, your picture tells it all.

P.S. How's the garden pond fishing this year?

 

[n-ick]

Yo Cosmi,
tha' wants to decorate tha' cave wi' Pot Noodle; different pots will give tha' different shades.
We have an old 50kg sack of Polenta, is this of use?

Surely such mass consumerism will spur on the RECOVERY, without loss of interest.

The League of Tricyclist Gentlemen is aghast with news of trike obtainance delay.
It may be time to blackball you , be ready to return tattoo, keys,£500 deposit and a front hub.

 

[markg0vbr]

well i have spent a lot of time smurfing the net and there are only a few things left to ponder.

trail at 32lbs 3" shorter than road, gearing about right, seat at lowest setting is 39 degrease, but folds so getting in house would be easy, it is supposed to make the frame stiffer as well, if going with bar-end shifters and bb7 brakes ect same as road equipment about same price.

road at33lbs gearing same as trail seat is at 37 degrease a 1/2" lower but should not be that big a problem getting in house
lard
expedition 35lbs gearing a bit higher than the other two, big back wheel so ride should be better? same hight as road, but would i have problems getting it in the house? would have to slide boom in and out when putting it in the car, not a massive problem as they are quick realise but still, potential for problems.


i am leaning toward the trail with bar-end shifters, i have not found any hints yet as to what the new road spec will be or when.

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[n-ick]

Yo Cos,
nae mind smurfin t'net.
Get slapping Pot Noodle on t'walls.
Blackballing meeting coming up soon ,
has tha' anything to plead ?
Send money soon .

Will t'new machine aid RECOVERY?

If tha's going for a class machine, then sell t'house and get a Vortex.
Way t'weather's going tha' might get a right vortex 2morrow.

 

[byegad]

My Trail is a 2011 model, so has the adjustable/foldable seat back. It is stiff and climbs well, a couple of gears in real terms higher than my overloaded QNT. So a bank i climb in a 17" gear on the QNT is easily possible on a 22" gear on the Trail. I geared the Trail down for big hills but for a strong rider the original gearing won't be far off. Avoid BB5s like the plague, an extra £55 as you buy will get you BB7s and I fitted bar end changers, and a new rear dérailleur for less than the but new upgrade fee.

TBH the twist grips make the already twitchy low to mid speed steering even more twitchy. Why they fit them I'll never know.

Compared to the QNT the steering is heavy, but with a much better turning circle, and the handling at speed is as good, although still with heavier steering.

 

[markg0vbr]

My Trail is a 2011 model, so has the adjustable/foldable seat back. It is stiff and climbs well, a couple of gears in real terms higher than my overloaded QNT. So a bank i climb in a 17" gear on the QNT is easily possible on a 22" gear on the Trail. I geared the Trail down for big hills but for a strong rider the original gearing won't be far off. Avoid BB5s like the plague, an extra £55 as you buy will get you BB7s and I fitted bar end changers, and a new rear dérailleur for less than the but new upgrade fee.

TBH the twist grips make the already twitchy low to mid speed steering even more twitchy. Why they fit them I'll never know.

Compared to the QNT the steering is heavy, but with a much better turning circle, and the handling at speed is as good, although still with heavier steering.

£150 for upgrading to bb7, Shimano Deore LX SGS Rear Derailleur, Shimano Dura-Ace Bar End Shifters, Truvativ Elita EXO 165mm Triple, Truvativ GXP bottum bracket, 30/39/52 (just the 42 for a 39), Super Guard 130BCD chain guard.

difrence
bb7 £20
Shimano Deore LX SGS £5
Shimano Dura-Ace Bar End Shifters £10
Truvativ Elita EXO 165mm Triple ?
GXP bottum bracket £6
39 t ?
Super Guard 130BCD chain guard £5
lard £0.65
so about £55 at the factory

post delivery
£55 bb7
£20 Derailleur
£1.99 lard
£50 end shifters
i probably would change one of the front rings, so about £5
£125 post delivery with out chainging Truvativ Elita EXO 165mm Triple, GXP bottum bracket, Super Guard 130BCD chain guard.


i hate twist grips i find them almost impossible with my bad hand, any type of moisture or lard, i would have to wear grip gloves and the seam to eat changer cables. just about every one on a trike that uses them has the gear change shudder from behind it looks like they are swerving around a invisible pot hole.

 

[n-ick]

Yo Cos,
good choice dude. I have grip twist changers,my mobile queue monkey and horizontal disadvantaged mechanic is quite quick at supplying and changing them.

I can see no invisible pot holes on the road to RECOVERY.
Are the signs there or is it yellow lines and no entry?

We have huge shining black humming monolith in the garden, would be of use to tha' ?

 

[byegad]

The SRAM twist grips are nice quality, but because it's direct steer a move sideways on the bars is a steering input and I found it difficult to keep a straight line while changing. I rode it a few times with them and was getting better at not turning while changing but a double shift was impossible as I couldn't keep straight when both changers were moved. I fitted friction only bar ends which ran me around £50 from SJS cycles. I had a brand new Deore rear mech' in my parts box which I fitted as the pull Ratio of the SRAM mech made it very hard, but not impossible to set up, the pulll of the changer being only just enough to get all 9 gears and then only sometimes.

BB7s are £55 a side to buy, the Upgrade before purchase is £55. Worth it, every single penny.

 

[markg0vbr]

Yo Cos,
good choice dude. I have grip twist changers,my mobile queue monkey and horizontal disadvantaged mechanic is quite quick at supplying and changing them.

I can see no invisible pot holes on the road to RECOVERY.
Are the signs there or is it yellow lines and no entry?

We have huge shining black humming monolith in the garden, would be of use to tha' ?

yes but you first have to catch your mobile lard monkey and at you considerable advanced state of decrepitude this is likely to course a embolism or horrible piles.

if it is the monolith i put out for the bin men last night you can keep it, as it has all the waist sink of my perpetual motion generator that has been running now for 5 years and just keep producing increasing amounts of q energy, which blows up any thing that tries to use it, in fact any idea's on how to turn it off without turning 50 cubic miles of the earths crust inside out at a molecular level would be welcome.

 

[byegad]

Show your perpetual motion machine to any half way decent Physicist. One or the other will evaporate in a puff of logic. IF you're lucky and like every other perpetual motion inventor, a bit mad, it'll be the machine.

 

[n-ick]

Yo Cosmomodo,
we have a large black hole in the front garden, would would this be of any use?
It is currently putting out Hawking radiation and several flocks of pigeons have been sucked into it.
It has also slowed time down in Middle England.

This above all other considerations will perpetually aid the route to
RECOVERY.

Once again I would refer you to next year's diary and
any special events that should be Marked.

 

[markg0vbr]

easter!

normaly as soon as you put a load to a perpetual motion machine it slows down and stops! this increases speed but not all is hunky dory, a light bulb dose not get bright it gets dark, as in the absence of light.
it has no particle plication so i have just left it as a curiosity.

i went in to the office today! and am going in tomorrow, i was in there from 14:00 to 16:40 the office chairs are a pain and kill my hip.
going in tomorrow at 10: to 15:30 ish, doing phones and dater entry.
if i can manage that long.

 

[n-ick]

Yo Cosmos,
wow!! back with the wonderful world of work and how to avoid it.
Dater entry looks good, do have a wrap around eyepiece like on Startrek?

I saw a roadkill body beside the road, it had 4 legs and feathers, was it yours?

 

[byegad]

Work is the curse of the drinking classes. Lard is he curse of the semi mechanical man. Wanting a third trike is a sign of terminal trikitis vulgaris.

 

[n-ick]

Yo Cos,
are you in one of these cells?

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