The Retirement Thread

[PaulSB]

Birthday Greetings @Mo1959 🥂

A good ride today, 30 miles in 1:58:46 including 2450 feet of ascent. It's a very beautiful evening so I'm going up to the allotment to do a spot of planting and sow lettuce etc.

I fancy watching DI Ray at 9.00 but Mrs P is playing 🎾 so the question is do I risk it.

Came home to a speeding ticket. In my defence I genuinely didn't know it is a 30 limit but that's no excuse. Paperwork says I may qualify for a Diversionary Course. Apparently there are now four variations of the Speed Awareness Course so I'll wait to see which if any I get offered. Otherwise it's £100 and 3 points. 😢

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Happy Birthday @Mo1959!!!

So - today - ride done - needed to check bike out after cleaning it up a couple of days ago - gear change was totally gunked up and chain had some links that would hardly move at all
all sorted with some degreaser and a chain cleaner
except that one of the bolts for the chain ring wouldn't go back - thread totally k*******d - so ordered new ones from Amazon - arrived the next day
Was hoping it would stop some creaking under power but still no change - works better and easier to pedal though

And voting done - plus buying shoes with my wife
just re-read that - are you allowed to sell your wife??

anyway - just remembered that I need to adjust the indexing on the bike - better go do that before I forget again!

 

[gavroche]

Bon anniversaire @Mo1959 . Enjoy your day.
I cycled 72 kms today and felt I could have done more. The training for the C2C in July is going well.
Recovery day tomorrow .

 

[Mo1959]

Nearly time for the final part of DI Ray.

I might watch this too. https://www.tvguide.co.uk/detail/44865/67004432/sudden-death-1995

 

[Paulus]

Nearly time for the final part of DI Ray.

I might watch this too. https://www.tvguide.co.uk/detail/44865/67004432/sudden-death-1995

I'm only up to episode 2 of DI Ray, it's very good though.

 

[PaulSB]

DI Ray. No spoilers please, I have decided to wait for Mrs P.......discretion being the better part of valour!

I've just eaten a packet of cheese flavoured seaweed crisps. Remarkably good.

 

[ColinJ]

DI Ray. No spoilers please

In fact no spoilers for any show/film/series, at any time, please!

Spoiler: Pretty please!

I didn't watch The Sopranos until about 5 years after everybody else had been raving about it and Breaking Bad was after about 3 years! I still haven't watched Gone With The Wind or The Sound Of Music!

 

[GM]

Happy birthday Mo, hope you've had a great day 🎂🥂

 

[classic33]

I do hope you're not telling us something with this post?

Possibly.
Been for the walk, back in long enough to boil the kettle, make a cuppa and now get the weight of the legs.

'til the morning at least.

 

[mikeIow]

Would one tackle dense, foot high damp grass?

Satellite delay here…..I don’t know any petrol mower that would tackle that: you need a strimmer or brush saw!

Main point of a robomow is to keep the grass in shape with no grass collection needed….you would need to lower it first, but from then: happy days!

& HB Mo 🥳🎉🥂👍. lovely day for a celebration! Well….it was brutally hot here in the Midlands 😎👍

 

[classic33]

Nice, I don't grow nothing except old

Not even a pot plant?
Daisy or sunflower?

 

[classic33]

It's been very quiet here today I wonder why

Everyone making the best of "summer", now it's appeared again, before it disappears as quick as it arrived.

 

[classic33]

Birthday Greetings @Mo1959 🥂

A good ride today, 30 miles in 1:58:46 including 2450 feet of ascent. It's a very beautiful evening so I'm going up to the allotment to do a spot of planting and sow lettuce etc.

I fancy watching DI Ray at 9.00 but Mrs P is playing 🎾 so the question is do I risk it.

Came home to a speeding ticket. In my defence I genuinely didn't know it is a 30 limit but that's no excuse. Paperwork says I may qualify for a Diversionary Course. Apparently there are now four variations of the Speed Awareness Course so I'll wait to see which if any I get offered. Otherwise it's £100 and 3 points. 😢

How'd they trace you?
Your bike has no plates, and you can't be fined for speeding on a bike.

Tip, not a get out.
If you go through the area regularly, check the size of the signs. Under 290mm, or over 350mm, and the limit can't legally be enforced. Local council found out to their cost, having bought the cheaper smaller signs and then having to replace them with legally sized signs.

 

[12boy]

Went for my first ride since 3/15. A tad over 20 miles and less than 9 mph on a onespeed Brompton. Very enjoyable. My sitbones have list their usual insensitivity, however.

 

[PaulSB]

Went for my first ride since 3/15. A tad over 20 miles and less than 9 mph on a onespeed Brompton. Very enjoyable. My sitbones have list their usual insensitivity, however.

Ouch!