The Retirement Thread

[numbnuts]

I've been shopping, got in just before the started
No self raising flour in Sainsburys......well not now, I took the last two

 

[classic33]

I know. I even managed to put clean bedding on the bed. That's no mean feat

You've made yer bed, you can lie on it now.

 

[ColinJ]

And believe it or not, we are very nearly half way through March for goodness sake

I was thinking that last night. I was still feeling in winter mode until the weekend when I had my first inklings of spring.

My lumpy little singlespeed ride on Saturday woke me up from hibernation and I only had the heating on part-time yesterday. (This relatively poorly insulated house doesn't hold the heat well so the heating tends to be used late September to March.)

So the sun doesn't always shine in Spain, we obviously lent it to Wales ☀️😂 We have rain forecast most of the week.

I was on my annual mid-March cycling holiday on the Costa Blanca one year and overheard 2 other cyclists chatting while we were at the evening buffet at the hotel...

Cyclist #1: Hi John! What are you doing here with us - I thought you preferred Mallorca?

(Irate) Cyclist #2: Mallorca? MALLORCA... Don't mention effing Mallorca to me!!! We went as usual last year and were out in the mountains when we got caught up in a freak blizzard. We were all in summer kit. Several riders ended up in hospital with bloody hyperthermia hypOthermia. It snowed for the whole week. Last time I go to Mallorca in March!!!

 

[rustybolts]

Is that a £1 coin on the cobbles, to your left?

he is gone back to look !

 

[welsh dragon]

he is gone back to look !

He is such a tightwad

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Its a glorious spring day, bright, sunny with a bit of a breeze and its not to cold, I've been for a bimble, 25 miles riding my Brinklow loop, I was still on the winter bike, my fixed, and still in winter kit but it won't be long and the summer bike can come out of hibernation. A thoroughly enjoyable couple of hours out on my bike.

 

[Mo1959]

First spits of rain have arrived. Hopefully manage another walk though. I did think about a bimble before lunch but the legs aren’t really up to running and cycling on the same day any more.

 

[classic33]

he is gone back to look !

He'll not be up yet, you're in with a chance of beating him to the spot.

 

[Chislenko]

Its a glorious spring day, bright, sunny with a breeze and its not to cold, I've been for a bimble, 25 miles riding my Brinklow loop, I was still on the winter bike, my fixed, and still in winter kit but it won't be long and the summer bike can come out of hibernation. A thoroughly enjoyable couple of hours out on my bike.


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To be honest Dave whilst I was out this morning on my winter contraption I was thinking why am I not on the "summer / good" bike. Roads were dry, mud free etc so would have been ok.

I tend to do it by months though, summer April until end of September, winter October to end of March, regardless of the actual weather!!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Anyhoo. Dishes done. Vacuuming done. Bedding done. I have been a busy bee again. I must be careful not to overdo it.

I've stripped our beds and done two lots of washing, as well as getting out on my bike, I've also been a busy bee. Doctors this afternoon, I've got to see the nurse and have my blood pressure checked, last time they couldn't get a true reading and I had to do my own and take down the surgery.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

To be honest Dave whilst I was out this morning on my winter contraption I was thinking why am I not on the "summer / good" bike. Roads were dry, mud free etc so would have been ok.

I tend to do it by months though, summer April until end of September, winter October to end of March, regardless of the actual weather!!

I usually switch to the winter bike at the end of October when the clocks change and switch to my summer bike end of March when the clocks change

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Up early for me this morning so I decided to go for a ride at about 9:30

got my bike out and it felt funny wheeling it out of the shed
Yup - flat back tyre

gave the tyre a good looking at and found a small hole/slit with a sharp stone in it
CLEARLY that was the problem - no other signs of anything
so I took the inner tube out and blew it up then left it while I had a cuppa
all was fine - stayed inflated - so I assumed that the goo inside has self sealed it and now that the stone was out it wouldn;t automatically get re-opened again
so I put it all back together and blew it up to full pressure
I had other things to do so I decided to go to some DIY shops and get 'stuff' mainly trunking for the wires from some new solar powered outside lights.
got back and the damn tyre was flat again
in fact even flatter!

so I did it properly - bucket of water and all that - and found a teeny tiny thorn hole - took a while to get the damn thing out of the tyre

looking at the tread it is probabluy more susceptible now due to thinner rubber as the tyre has got worn down a bit

 

[welsh dragon]

Meat feast pizza and fries today

 

[ColinJ]

I usually switch to the winter bike at the end of October when the clocks change and switch to my summer bike end of March when the clocks change

That is similar to what I do. I am still riding my singlespeed bike but my pal on the ride on Saturday asked why I wasn't on my best bike. I didn't really have a good answer!

If I had been on the Cannondale I would have chosen a longer/harder route.

I enjoyed that ride so I think I will do another similar one in a day or two. I have thought up a route variation which I could cope with on singlespeed...

Instead of continuing up the Cragg Vale climb and coming back via Littleborough, I could turn left just as I get to the moor, and take lanes over the hilltops then drop down into Sowerby Bridge. I could return to Hebden Bridge from there on the resurfaced Rochdale canal towpath/Calder Valley Cycleway, and have coffee and cake with my Hebden Bridge pal. Afterwards I could come home on the road or the towpath.

The sun is shining. I think I will go out and do my slightly extended Metro loop now.

 

[Dave7]

Has anybody missed me ??
No, thought not......story of my life.
Phone packed in last week. Tried all the google ideas with no success.
Took it to a repair shop today to find out it was a software problem. He was able to download a fix and bingo..... I am back on line .