The Retirement Thread

[Exlaser2]

Wells is lovely. Some of our friends have a cottage there and we have had few holidays in it over the years. Two other pluses , It has a big garage to put bikes in 😀 and they own a beach hut.
I have to say I had never realised how expensive beach huts can be . I could have bought a new car with what they paid 😂😀😀

 

[classic33]

Morning. Lovely long lie. I have these at the back of the cupboard and take one occasionally as they are the only thing that helps but they make you still feel a bit groggy first thing. I might take one for a few nights in a row and see if I can get a good sleep pattern established.

Wordle was a real struggle then a word to try popped into my head so got it in 4. Thought it was going to be a fail.


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Wouldn't a long lie, lovely or otherwise, be more comfortable somewhere else rather than the back of a cupboard?
True, it'd make it harder for folk to find you, thus leaving you alone. However, they'll find you in the end.

 

[PaulSB]

Good morning from a beautiful Lancashire day. Much as I wanted to cycle I decided I should work on the allotment. Done about 90 minutes and popped down for coffee and chat with Mrs P. Doing things today will free up much more time in the weeks ahead.

I'm helping run the bar at the village club late this afternoon. Always a good chance to catch up with folk.

My football team lost- again - yesterday. I think we can say the dream is now over for this season. At least we get a couple of derbies with that lot down the M65, otherwise known as Burnley.

 

[classic33]

Well I suppose we all have different tastes

Which is yours?

 

[SpokeyDokey]

My nice new brake levers were delivered on time by the most amazingly chirpy van driver. He seemed reluctant to get on his way until he had made sure that I was having a nice Bank Holiday and was looking forward to opening my parcel!

(I thought they didn't get paid much and were supposed to be stressed out all the time? )

Anyway... I cleaned the bike and took the old handlebar and stem off. It was then that I realised that I should have ordered new brake cables too. The old inner cables are frayed and don't have enough length left for me to cut the ends off and still have enough to use. The outers are 20 years old and there was too much friction in them. I'm about to order some but will the mighty Amazon Prime do next day delivery on a Bank Holiday weekend? [Adjourns to Amazon..] Yes - the cables will soon be on their way and will arrive tomorrow PM!

I only signed up for Amazon Prime for a month or two to watch the last couple of series of The Shield, which had been dropped without notice by Netflix. I decided that it is actually a very good deal so I stuck with it. Once you get used to free next day delivery, anything else is just annoying! And I keep finding things to watch on Prime Video without having to spend extra renting premium movies or shows.

Prime is excellent.

We easily save the cost alone on 'free' postage let alone all the viewing content.

Whilst we have Netflix too we find that we watch more on Prime.

 

[GM]

Morning all... Feeling quite envious of 'The Fridays' that did the ride to Whitstable last night, a perfect night for it. Have any of you done night rides? I know me and Paulus did couple what seems donkeys years ago

@Dirk Wells has got a fabulous beach with a nice long walk along the breakwater to get there if you're up for it.

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Don't forget the suncream folks!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I've been for a bimble, 28 miles ridden down to Offchurch and back, I combined the beginning of one long ride with the end of another long ride using a small lane I rarely use to give me a very pleasant short loop. Out early, 8 am, on a very nice sunny morning, it was a bit fresh at first but warmed up nicely as the ride went on, I was under dressed at the start and a bit cold but by the end I was overdressed and tending to overheat so I recon I got my clothing about right. My Eastway is going a storm and humming along nicely smooth as silk and quiet as a mouse, I can feel the difference the overhaul I gave it makes, I can lean into my stroke without the chain jumping and the gear change is much improved, the change went off a little bit late in the ride as the new cables settled and I had to tweak the adjuster a half a turn so I'll do a little bit of fine tuning before my next ride. So a thoroughly enjoyable outing on my bike on a lovely spring morning.


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[Dirk]

Picked up a bit of shopping in Wells first thing then took doggie for a walk over Barrow Common near Brancaster.
Drove down to the Crab Hut in Brancaster and had local crab rolls for lunch with ice cream for pud.
Went to find Lord Nelson's birthplace and then on to the Lord Nelson pub for a drink.
Seen loads of hares and Muntjack deer in the fields around here.
Currently sitting in the bar used by Nelson when on shore leave.

 

[pawl]

Which is yours?

D toast
Marmite or Marmite and Peanut Butter

Coffee F.

Do you deliver Don’t mind if the toast is cold.I prefer it that way.

 

[ColinJ]

I had my breakfast out in my sunny back yard and then did some bike fettling out there while I wait for my brake cables to arrive.

I tried the 'dinglespeed' conversion on my bike but it leaves too much slack in the chain so I will abandon that idea until the day that I buy a frame with horizontal dropouts, when I will revisit it.

I am back indoors for a while now.

ETA my Prime delivery is 16:15 - 18:15. It is usually nearer the earlier time. I hope so this time too, so I can finish rebuilding my bike and go out for a test ride while we still have some sunshine.

It finally feels like spring here. I want to really get back into my cycling now - I haven't done a long ride since November 13th!

 

[ColinJ]

Hmm... YouTube just suggested various videos to me. One caught my attention - 'Why can't you Asian squat?' How odd!

I watched it and kept thinking 'That surely is not difficult for most people?'. My body is very inflexible but I was convinced that I would have no problem doing it, so I gave it a go. Yes - easy peasy!



Can you do it?

It seems that it might be worth doing it a few times a day. I spend way too much time semi-recumbent.

 

[classic33]

D toast
Marmite or Marmite and Peanut Butter

Coffee F.

Do you deliver Don’t mind if the toast is cold.I prefer it that way.

Tea'd be cold as well.

 

[Exlaser2]

Which is yours?
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D, C, D . Works for me 😀

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I had my breakfast out in my sunny back yard and then did some bike fettling out there while I wait for my brake cables to arrive.

I tried the 'dinglespeed' conversion on my bike but it leaves too much slack in the chain so I will abandon that idea until the day that I buy a frame with horizontal dropouts, when I will revisit it.

I am back indoors for a while now.

ETA my Prime delivery is 16:15 - 18:15. It is usually nearer the earlier time. I hope so this time too, so I can finish rebuilding my bike and go out for a test ride while we still have some sunshine.

It finally feels like spring here. I want to really get back into my cycling now - I haven't done a long ride since November 13th!

I haven't done a long ride since spring last year, I was seriously tempted today when I got to my turn in Offchurch, and turned for home to go straight on and keep going, a coffee in the cricket pavilion cafe in Lighthorne would have been lovely on a day like today.

 

[ColinJ]

My cables arrived shortly after I made a pot of coffee. I'll have a couple of mugs of that before getting back to work.

I'm still thinking about the dinglespeed. I just noticed that I didn't get a perfect chainline for the second ring and sprocket so that would account for some of the noise when I tested it with the bike upside down. There IS still a bit too much slack in the chain, but I am tempted to shift the sprocket over by one spacer and give it a test ride.

First things first though... coffee, brakes, bar tape!