The Retirement Thread

[Dave7]

I was in love with Kathy Kirby as a youngster.

Curvy Kathy.....I can understand that.

 

[BoldonLad]

I liked Hermans hermits and the Monkeys. And the Dave Clark 5.

So, you were a groupie?

 

[Deleted member 1258]

From my Facebook page this afternoon


STOLEN after i'd stopped laughing

An air traffic control tower suddenly lost communication with a small twin engine aircraft. A moment later the tower land line rang and was answered by one of the employees.
The passenger riding with the pilot who lost communications was on a cellular phone and yelled "Mayday, mayday!! The pilot had an instant and fatal heart attack. I grabbed his cell phone out of his pocket and he had told me before we took off he had the tower on his speed dial memory. I am flying upside down at 18,000 feet and traveling at 180 mph. Mayday, mayday!!"
The employee in the tower had put him on speaker phone immediately. "Calm down, we acknowledge you and we’ll guide you down after a few questions. The first thing is not to panic, remain calm!!"
He began his series of questions:
Tower: "How do you know you are traveling at 18,000 feet?"
Aircraft: "I can see that it reads 18,000 feet on the Altimeter dial in front of me."
Tower: "Okay, that’s good, remain calm. How do you know you’re traveling at 180 mph?"
Aircraft: "I can see that it reads 180 mph on the Airspeed dial in front of me."
Tower: Okay, this is great so far, but it’s heavily overcast, so how do you know you're flying upside down?"
Aircraft: “The pee in my pants is running out of my shirt collar." 😅😆😅😆😅

 

[12boy]

I have never crushed on a lady musician although Elke Sommer in the Pink Panther rang my bell. I once saw Brian Auger in a jazz club in Denver and enjoyed that. Also enjoyed Pentangle although only through Vinyl. And one of my long time favorites was Sandy Bull, never very popular but an excellent musician in my opinion. Almost 16C at 7 this am but there is some rain and snow very soon. The heavy wet snow in April is essential in terms of greening up the mesas and preventing forest fires in August.
Yesterday I managed a puny 2 miles in Niko Niko running. Hopefully as I get used to it I can add miles without hurting myself. Be well and safe.

 

[Mo1959]

Jeez, I should have kept my sensible head on and rested. My knee is gowping now

PJ’s on and not moving again.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Just back from lunch. Very good indeed, gin and tonic aperitif, couple of bottles of red, couple of bottles of sparkling Bouvet. Chose a rum baba as pudding, not realising that it came as a small individual sponge with icing and a glass of rum containing a fresh raspberry 👍😎🇫🇷

 

[ColinJ]

Jeez, I should have kept my sensible head on and rested.

Indeed!

My knee is gowping now

Get well soon, sore bits!

PJ’s on and not moving again.

What is it with women and PJs? My pal arrived late yesterday afternoon and had changed into the PJs she keeps here by the time that we ate at 7 pm!

I decided to treat myself to some bike bits. I originally built my singlespeed bike from old scrap parts that I had lying round. I was very hard up at the time and it saved me lots of money. The thing is, I really don't like some of those parts...

The handlebar in particular annoyed me. Its drops are too deep and the wrong shape for me so I barely use them. The bar is also too flexible. I pull hard on the brake hoods when climbing steep ramps and I can feel the bar flexing as I do so. This is in contrast to the stiff compact oversized bar that I fitted to my best bike. I really like that setup so I have just ordered a similar new handlebar and stem for the singlespeed bike. I shopped around on ebay and managed to find a new stem and a good quality used bar for a total of £25.98, including p&p.

I discovered that I can get deliveries made to a shop in the centre of Todmorden. I pass that on the way to get my Metro so I will use that option in future to avoid having to wait in for ebay deliveries.

It just struck me that I have very tatty old bar tape on the bike. Time to treat myself to some new tape! I may keep the old tape under the new tape to get a luxurious double-thickness of tape. Like this...

 

[Dirk]

Just back from lunch. Very good indeed, gin and tonic aperitif, couple of bottles of red, couple of bottles of sparkling Bouvet. Chose a rum baba as pudding, not realising that it came as a small individual sponge with icing and a glass of rum containing a fresh raspberry 👍😎🇫🇷

Surprised you could see straight enough to type after that lot.

 

[ColinJ]

Just back from lunch. Very good indeed, gin and tonic aperitif, couple of bottles of red, couple of bottles of sparkling Bouvet. Chose a rum baba as pudding, not realising that it came as a small individual sponge with icing and a glass of rum containing a fresh raspberry 👍😎🇫🇷

So now the 6 of you are well sloshed...?

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Indeed!

Get well soon, sore bits!

What is it with women and PJs? My pal arrived late yesterday afternoon and had changed into the PJs she keeps here by the time that we ate at 7 pm!

I decided to treat myself to some bike bits. I originally built my singlespeed bike from old scrap parts that I had lying round. I was very hard up at the time and it saved me lots of money. The thing is, I really don't like some of those parts...

The handlebar in particular annoyed me. Its drops are too deep and the wrong shape for me so I barely use them. The bar is also too flexible. I pull hard on the brake hoods when climbing steep ramps and I can feel the bar flexing as I do so. This is in contrast to the stiff compact oversized bar that I fitted to my best bike. I really like that setup so I have just ordered a similar new handlebar and stem for the singlespeed bike. I shopped around on ebay and managed to find a new stem and a good quality used bar for a total of £25.98, including p&p.

I discovered that I can get deliveries made to a shop in the centre of Todmorden. I pass that on the way to get my Metro so I will use that option in future to avoid having to wait in for ebay deliveries.

It just struck me that I have very tatty old bar tape on the bike. Time to treat myself to some new tape! I may keep the old tape under the new tape to get a luxurious double-thickness of tape. Like this...

I've got to change the rear shifter cable on Eastway, the shifting is very hit and miss now, fortunately I've still got the rear changer part of the cable set I brought when I replaced the left brifter a couple of years ago, Like you I've got very tatty bar tape, every time the tape got tatty I just wound a layer of electrical tape round the bar, so it'll be a good time to put some nice tape on it.

 

[welsh dragon]

Indeed!

Get well soon, sore bits!

What is it with women and PJs? My pal arrived late yesterday afternoon and had changed into the PJs she keeps here by the time that we ate at 7 pm!

I decided to treat myself to some bike bits. I originally built my singlespeed bike from old scrap parts that I had lying round. I was very hard up at the time and it saved me lots of money. The thing is, I really don't like some of those parts...

The handlebar in particular annoyed me. Its drops are too deep and the wrong shape for me so I barely use them. The bar is also too flexible. I pull hard on the brake hoods when climbing steep ramps and I can feel the bar flexing as I do so. This is in contrast to the stiff compact oversized bar that I fitted to my best bike. I really like that setup so I have just ordered a similar new handlebar and stem for the singlespeed bike. I shopped around on ebay and managed to find a new stem and a good quality used bar for a total of £25.98, including p&p.

I discovered that I can get deliveries made to a shop in the centre of Todmorden. I pass that on the way to get my Metro so I will use that option in future to avoid having to wait in for ebay deliveries.

It just struck me that I have very tatty old bar tape on the bike. Time to treat myself to some new tape! I may keep the old tape under the new tape to get a luxurious double-thickness of tape. Like this...

They are comfy and you can slouch and slob in them.

 

[Exlaser2]

I was just reading about Phililpa York aka Robert Miller who raced in the grand tours regularly doped on cortisone another substances in the 80's and said she didn't consider it to be cheating as lots were doing it and she didn't see anything wrong with it because if others are better than you she had the right to try to be as good as them. She stole medals from others simply because she wasn't good enough and felt it was her right to do it. No wonder people of both sexes are leaving the world of sports. I feel sorry for them. Rant over.

Think you must be a little late to this party , you do know Lance Armstrong took drugs too 😂😂.
The sad thing is at that time most riders doped and the best riders in teams were expected to dope most .
If you ever want to know the inside story of riding at that time was really like I cannot recommend Tyler Hamiltons book ‘ the secret race ‘ enough. It’s a great read and really give a honest in site into what it was like inside the teams at that time . You doped or you were unemployed. 😕 As a side issue it explains how ruthless Lance was to his friends , never mind his rivals .

 

[numbnuts]

I see I haven't been missed
I've not been very well
I'll post my obituary later...........

 

[welsh dragon]

I see I haven't been missed
I've not been very well
I'll post my obituary later...........

We did mention you went AWOL

 

[classic33]

Jeez, I should have kept my sensible head on and rested. My knee is gowping now

PJ’s on and not moving again.

You took them off to go walkies!