What Have You Fettled Today?
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EckyH
It wasn't me!
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- Nottuln, North Rhine-Westphalia
Otoh it can make sense if there are methods and concepts properly adapted to the new job. As a former Unix sysadmin eg. I've learned good practises how to find the root cause of a problem. That knowledge helped me today in my job as a homehusband to liberate a scarf of the spouse out of the vac hose - without any damages or injuries.
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Andy in Germany
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- Rottenburg am Neckar
Does he not realise he is no longer in the car industry then ?
I find some people bring their old job with them and indulge in absurdities to the annoyance of others.
I know what you mean: I think he's just had one customer too many getting stroppy about a slipping chain after they told us not to replace the cassette, or similar.
OTOH, if you had been a windows sys admin, you probably would have bought a new vacuum cleaner, a new scarf, and potentially a new spouse.
EckyH
It wasn't me!
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- Nottuln, North Rhine-Westphalia
Punkawallah
Veteran
Is this when words like ‘backpfifengeshicht’ are used?
Elybazza61
Legendary Member
Dt 700's back on the Stayer all road and mudguards adjusted so I can now get 35's in without any adjustment, had a quick play with a qr wheel to see if a 38 would fit but it's a 'maybe' at the moment until i pop a 38 on a ta wheel.
While messing with the tyres I took the time to give the qr 700 wheels a proper clean as I had just stashed them away when stripping the Trek commuter down so they are now all clean and in wheel bags ;they will store in the loft with the Trek frame to make a bit more room in the shed, dunno if they'll ever get used again though.
Also realised I have loads more stuff that needs sorting and probably getting rid of as there are still four storage boxes of various bits' pair of Halo Vapour rims, a pair of Windspace carbon tub rims, two boxes of tyres , a bag of mostly B&M dynamo lights, four different racks (a Pelago, two Tortec and an old Nimrod front rack) and then four other wheel sets although they are all with different tyres to swap around with.
And there is the Trek steel hybrid/tourer in the loft with more parts
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While messing with the tyres I took the time to give the qr 700 wheels a proper clean as I had just stashed them away when stripping the Trek commuter down so they are now all clean and in wheel bags ;they will store in the loft with the Trek frame to make a bit more room in the shed, dunno if they'll ever get used again though.
Also realised I have loads more stuff that needs sorting and probably getting rid of as there are still four storage boxes of various bits' pair of Halo Vapour rims, a pair of Windspace carbon tub rims, two boxes of tyres , a bag of mostly B&M dynamo lights, four different racks (a Pelago, two Tortec and an old Nimrod front rack) and then four other wheel sets although they are all with different tyres to swap around with.
And there is the Trek steel hybrid/tourer in the loft with more parts
.
Spent the day yesterday building up an early 1980’s Condor from a bare frame and a few knackered bits into this. It’s turned out really nicely. Sadly the original wheelset was beyond saving.
I built it with my Daughters BF, he’s going to use it to commute through central London. It’s nice they like this older stuff.
I built it with my Daughters BF, he’s going to use it to commute through central London. It’s nice they like this older stuff.
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Punkawallah
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Nice job.
sevenfourate
Devotee of OCD
- Location
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
Gorgeous ! did the fact its free help persuade him ? 😁
Probably, he learnt quite a bit yesterday! I haven’t done a bike in a day for a while, hard work, but very rewarding
All uphill
Still rolling along
- Location
- Somerset
Chairman Hippy
sevenfourate
Devotee of OCD
- Location
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
Sounds like you’re also converting a previous ‘non cyclist’ (?). Either way - great job on the bike. And getting someone out in the fresh air 🙏
