The Retirement Thread

[Tenkaykev]

Waiting for “ Pete “ from Parcelforce to deliver Mrs Tenkaykev’s new Ron Hill cropped running bottoms. I’m watching a graphic of his little van making its way around the area.
This live tracking malarkey is quite useful. Our local bus company has it for all its services, we can see exactly where our bus is in real time and head for the bus stop when its a couple of stops away 🚏

 

[gavroche]

Bonjour tout le monde. Mrs G is home and I am her dedicated nurse for the time being so going for a ride may prove difficult at the moment. It is a good thing we have posponed our C2C until the end of August as it will give me time to get fit again I hope.
She is doing well but sore of course and her appetite is very low. Doctors say it will take a couple of weeks before she feels back to normal again.
TdF to start on ITV4 at 2.45.

 

[Exlaser2]

Thanks Mo. I generally replace mine every 3-4 years and always after a crash. I'll take a look at those but first I'm going to see if my current helmet, Kask Mojito X, is still available as it suits me very well.

My other half loves her Kask Mojito . I think they were discontinued but were so popular Kask bought them back a couple of years ago . No idea if the design is the same .

 

[12boy]

Gavroche, hope for a speedy recovery for Mrs G.
I read somewhere all bike helmets have to perform to the same standard and only really differ in style and ventilation. There are 2 types here....ones with a hard shell, ie Nutcase, and the ones like Mo has shown. But all the hard shell ones are alike to each other and the thin skinned ones to their type.
Be safe and well.

 

[welsh dragon]

I have been pottering. Mr WD has cleaned the chimney so we are all ready for winter .

My son dropped by for a natter and a cup of coffee so that wasted a couple of hours as well

 

[PaulSB]

My other half loves her Kask Mojito . I think they were discontinued but were so popular Kask bought them back a couple of years ago . No idea if the design is the same .

The Mojito X, which I've just binned, is replaced by the Mijito 3 which I've just purchased. I looked very closely at Abus, which have good reviews, but opted for the Kask on the basis of better ventilation, good internal adjustment and the previous one was very comfortable.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Theres too much sport on, currently my Good Lady is watching Tennis, I'm listening to the cricket on BBC Sport and I keep flicking over to CrashNet to keep an eye on the F1 from Silverstone, and the Tour De France is on.

 

[ColinJ]

Theres too much sport on, currently my Good Lady is watching Tennis, I'm listening to the cricket on BBC Sport and I keep flicking over to CrashNet to keep an eye on the F1 from Silverstone, and the Tour De France is on.

With Eurosport/GCN/Discovery Channel etc. there is so much cycling coverage these days that it is almost impossible to keep up. It would easily be possible to find 5-6 hours a day, or even more. I don't want to watch that much of anything! Even skimming through the highlights takes too long so I now restrict myself to the 3 Grand Tours, single day classics, and a few interesting one-week stage races.

Still waiting here. My afternoon ride has been postponed a week because a thunderstorm was forecast. If I can get a 7 km dry Metro ride in I will.

I nipped out and thought that perhaps the forecast had been wrong. It started peeing down just as I was getting home! No thunderstorm, but I was still pretty glad not to be up at 400 m in it.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

With Eurosport/GCN/Discovery Channel etc. there is so much cycling coverage these days that it is almost impossible to keep up. It would easily be possible to find 5-6 hours a day, or even more. I don't want to watch that much of anything! Even skimming through the highlights takes too long so I now restrict myself to the 3 Grand Tours, single day classics, and a few interesting one-week stage races.


I nipped out and thought that perhaps the forecast had been wrong. It started peeing down just as I was getting home! No thunderstorm, but I was still pretty glad not to be up at 400 m in it.

The only one I watch usually is the Tour De France, then only the high lights program.

 

[Dave7]

We have a climbing rose which has been doing really well.
The last week it has been looking sad so I have just been down the garden to see it.........Black Leaf, all over.
So I deadheaded them, got the spray and gave them a good dosing.
I was just finishing when a big black cloud came over, the heavens opened and it p*ssed down.
Instructions are.....once a season only. I may have to ignore that.

 

[rustybolts]

Wordle in 2 ! did anybody ever guess correctly and get it in 1 ( the first ) attempt I wonder

 

[Mo1959]

Wordle in 2 ! did anybody ever guess correctly and get it in 1 ( the first ) attempt I wonder

There’s been a few. I suppose if you stick to the same starter word long enough you might eventually get lucky.

 

[Dave7]

Wordle in 2 ! did anybody ever guess correctly and get it in 1 ( the first ) attempt I wonder

MrsD in 3.
Me in 4

 

[classic33]

We have a climbing rose which has been doing really well.
The last week it has been looking sad so I have just been down the garden to see it.........Black Leaf, all over.
So I deadheaded them, got the spray and gave them a good dosing.
I was just finishing when a big black cloud came over, the heavens opened and it p*ssed down.
Instructions are.....once a season only. I may have to ignore that.

There's another two seasons left in the year!

 

[classic33]

I think we might have. I'll check. Thanks.

I'm sure you'll have banana's somewhere. Use the inside of the skin on affected areas.