The Retirement Thread

[classic33]

We have had CWR in Oz for some time and it seems to do ok in 40C and higher temps.

Gets too cold here, you have problems with it contracting. They try to do it for average temperatures, not extremes that don't happen very often.

 

[classic33]

Forty years ago today, I was sat at home after an alternate coast to coast ride in one day.
Started at roughly the half way mark, and set of for Blackpool along with a bunch of kids from the local play centre shortly after 8am. Got back around 5pm.
Just over 130 miles in that time, riding at the speed of slowest rider. £112 raised by me in sponsership.

First long distance trial of homebuilt 36 speed bike, and no issues with it. A few years later superseded by the 105 speed. Ridden to Holyhead, and then from Dublin to Tuamgraney via Killaloe the following morning.
Over 300 miles in less than 24 hours.

 

[Exlaser2]

Classic car show with the Volvo tomorrow.

Glad to see you back 😀

 

[Dave7]

Well I will say good morning while I am up and it is morning.
24° forecast for us which is waaaay too hot for me.

 

[PaulSB]

Forty years ago today, I was sat at home after an alternate coast to coast ride in one day.
Started at roughly the half way mark, and set of for Blackpool along with a bunch of kids from the local play centre shortly after 8am. Got back around 5pm.
Just over 130 miles in that time, riding at the speed of slowest rider. £112 raised by me in sponsership.

First long distance trial of homebuilt 36 speed bike, and no issues with it. A few years later superseded by the 105 speed. Ridden to Holyhead, and then from Dublin to Tuamgraney via Killaloe the following morning.
Over 300 miles in less than 24 hours.

That's tremendous. A 14.5 average, at least, with youngsters. You rode to Blackpool, turned round and rode back again. If I've understood you correctly?

We're planning Morecambe to Scarborough in July. The chat is to attempt an average of 15 with a group of six working together. The expected elapsed time is 11 hours. 128 miles with a moving time around 9 hours.

I may be misunderstanding some of this. To me 36 speed means 36 cogs on the cassette. Or are you referring to a 12 speed cassette with a triple chain ring?

Am I very wrong? Confused? And 105?

 

[PeteXXX]

Morning campers 👋

 

[Mike Ayling]

Gets too cold here, you have problems with it contracting. They try to do it for average temperatures, not extremes that don't happen very often.

Gets pretty cold at night herein the desert.
Adelaide to Darwin
Perth to Sydney

 

[Mike Ayling]

That's tremendous. A 14.5 average, at least, with youngsters. You rode to Blackpool, turned round and rode back again. If I've understood you correctly?

We're planning Morecambe to Scarborough in July. The chat is to attempt an average of 15 with a group of six working together. The expected elapsed time is 11 hours. 128 miles with a moving time around 9 hours.

I may be misunderstanding some of this. To me 36 speed means 36 cogs on the cassette. Or are you referring to a 12 speed cassette with a triple chain ring?

Am I very wrong? Confused? And 105?

Me too!

 

[Drago]

I have risen!

 

[Paulus]

Good morning all fellow retirees.
It looks a bit cloudy out there at the moment, maybe we will get a drop of precipitation today.
The first of the bin lorries will be down soon.
MrsP and myself are off down to Victoria today to meet a couple of friends we met on the trip to Canada and Alaska a couple of years back. They have won a competition and are staying in London for a couple of days, so we are meeting up for lunch. We meet up a couple of times ayear normally.

 

[PeteXXX]

There are some clouds in the sky over Hamtun but no rain forecast until, possibly, a few drops this afternoon ..

 

[PeteXXX]

My Gmail account managed to file an email from itself into the Spam folder 😂

 

[welsh dragon]

Coooeeee. 11 deg here. A high of 22 deg is forecast. We also have a weather warning for possible stormy weather.

We had some rain past night. Not a vast amount but it put a bit of water into the water tanks.

Stay safe peeps

 

[Tenkaykev]

Good morning from an overcast Dorset. A possibility of rain today, my fence panels painting was well timed for once. I have swapped the hedgehog food from Felix to Purina ( it's the only dry food that they had in our small local Tesco ). Seems popular as one of the local cats managed to get its head inside the feeding station before admitting defeat.
Icing my ankle and drinking coffee before deciding on today's chores.

 

[Drago]

Rained overnight here in Poshshire. Heavy rain with chunder and blunder forecast this avo.

Think I caught a bit too much sun yesterday, got a bit of a headache. Have to go out this morning to look at a car for Daughter #3 but this afternoons visit will be reluctantly cancelled.