What are you doing this weekend

[ColinJ]

Aaargh - it's a pity I missed this.

I was through Hebden at 3pm and again at 4pm collecting the tow bar rack. I'd have popped in with my youngest.

It's tomorrow! Mind you, I could have wandered out for a coffee today if you'd been stopping off. It's been a bit quiet apart from a 59 minutes 55 seconds phone call from my sister - she likes to get the most from her free 1 hour calls!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I'm doing as little as possible, although I might faff about on the bikes later.

 

[G2EWS]

Currently in St Omer, Northern France where we have been for a few days, eating and drinking far too much!

The car is loaded with a few hundred bottles of wine and there are about 100 bottles of whisky and other spirits which await us at the ferry when we join it at lunchtime today.

So a rather full Land Rover will heading back to Wiltshire this afternoon.

So need a bike ride, but will have wait for the Monday commute.

Regards

Chris

 

[Red Light]

Nah - I look at a 1/2 full glass and think it is near enough 3/4 empty. Life - don't talk to me about life!

The question that I used to ask when I was younger was "Is there life after birth?" ...

Some people think the glass is half full
Some people think the glass is half empty
Some people think they used the wrong sized glass.

 

[Red Light]

Been doing tax returns all yesterday so think I'll probably go for a toddle out with the CTC ride this afters to forget about the experience.

 

[Red Light]

An amusing juxtaposition yesterday by CC:

 

[Nij48]

Heading off for my first 30 miler at about 1

 

[Night Train]

I'm going to vacuum out the puddle of water in my car and then see about building up a pair of wheels for Arch's cycle trailer.

 

[TVC]

I'm going to vacuum out the puddle of water in my car and then see about building up a pair of wheels for Arch's cycle trailer.

Living the dream on your birthday

 

[biggs682]

just picked up a pr of retro dual position brake levers and a nice alloy stem and old fashioned 6 speed block from local car boot , nearly bought a shimano 600 crank set but only drive side no left hand crank

 

[Night Train]

Living the dream on your birthday

The puddle turned out to be huge, so the carpets are up, much toweling was done and now I have a fan heater in the car trying to evaporate off as much as possible.

Changing Arch's trailer wheels to run on aluminum rims have saved 10oz per wheel, 1 1/4lbs for the pair. Makes then much lighter to carry with either her heavy or lightweight trailer.
Well worth doing.

 

[Arch]

The puddle turned out to be huge, so the carpets are up, much toweling was done and now I have a fan heater in the car trying to evaporate off as much as possible.

Changing Arch's trailer wheels to run on aluminum rims have saved 10oz per wheel, 1 1/4lbs for the pair. Makes then much lighter to carry with either her heavy or lightweight trailer.
Well worth doing.

Absolutely! Especially when I have to carry it up 2 flights of stairs at home. Plus whatever I was carrying on it!

 

[ColinJ]

Update: Bromptonfb and a pal are riding over tomorrow afternoon and I am going to walk into the town centre to meet them. They are going to have a pint (or two? ) each and I will have a coffee. It is nice to be out and about again, even if it is only for an hour at a time.

Pennine-Paul turned up too!

We had a good chat, with a decent busker playing behind us literally providing the background music.

We also saw a south American guy making stone sculptures in the river.I hadn't realised that he is the effectively a busker too but there was a donations box for him at the riverside. People standing on the old packhorse bridge above him applauded when he managed to balance a particularly tricky large stone on top of a smaller one, and he had made another of the impressive-looking pebble arches that I mentioned in a post a week or two ago.

I did feel a bit jealous that I wasn't able to cycle on such a fine sunny afternoon, but I got out of the house under my own steam again and caught up with some of my CycleChat pals' news.

Cheers, lads!

 

[laurence]

the weekend didn't go according to plan.

saturday, mooched around the london wetland centre as girlski wasn't working. just after getting a text saying she was home and my reply of 'just looking for snakes, be finished soon' i found a grass snake under a refugia - probably one of the last sighting for the year. took some face shots for ID and then noticed its tail... or lack of it.

probably a cat attack, there was only bone left, but it was below the vent, so no body damage. having found one dead grassy and a fatally injured one under refugia this year (both showing signs of being catted) i decided this wasn't going to be number three.

took the snakey back to girlski in a plastic takeaway tub from the staff kitchen. consulted a reptile vet i know on twitter and bathed the wounded tail in salt water. took it to the RSPCA animal hospital where they refused to treat it. snakey is currently in a bigger box in my bedroom, enjoying the heat mat (old snake enclosure from one of my pets) and will go to a vet tomorrow to have the damaged fixed - amputation and wound sewn up.

i'll probably look after it all winter as it will brumate soon and then, if it survives, it will be set free in spring.

so, rather eventful, in a way.

 

[Eribiste]

Winning the lottery and ordering my Enigma Excel, prior to doing my first 50 miles on Sunday's Bredon Hill Bikeaway.

I failed to win the lottery, how can this be? As a consequence the titanium bike plans remain on hold. Never mind, I managed the last bit!