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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2024 12:41:00 GMT
About the same as it was for you when you were my age, if you can remember that far back.
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Post by Humph on Sept 6, 2024 12:42:19 GMT
Heh heh! Keep it up, someone has to pay for my pension. Much obliged etc!
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Post by WDB on Sept 6, 2024 12:48:59 GMT
…and that juicy increase you’ll be getting in April. Just another 124 months till I get my share of that gravy — if there’s any left by then.
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Post by Humph on Sept 6, 2024 13:08:25 GMT
Aye indeed, no slacking now, back to the grindstone chaps…
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Post by Rob on Sept 6, 2024 16:49:23 GMT
I stopped paying your state pension before you started to get it.
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Post by Humph on Sept 6, 2024 16:54:41 GMT
I’m not angry with you Rob, but I can’t say I’m not just a little disappointed…
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Post by Rob on Sept 6, 2024 17:30:47 GMT
Of course I can't get a state pension for a long time and there will probably be caveats and all sorts including delays to getting it. At the moment I'm not due even a full state pension as I miss out by a few years with only the last year I can top-up. And yet I have paid substantially more NI than many. But each full year counts as one.
If I could have taken my final salary pensions funds out in 2019 I'd have got about £500k.... but I was 49. So not allowed. Then interest rates went down so if I did it since I'd get about half. Not sure it was a good idea though because of inflation etc.
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Post by Humph on Sept 10, 2024 13:57:03 GMT
Crud/mud guards back on the bikes day today. They generally come off at mid/end of May and go back on about now.
Vaguely depressing.
It’ll be daytime Christmas films soon…
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Post by bpg on Sept 10, 2024 18:16:32 GMT
Do mudguards cause that much drag for the three months they're off or is that the incentive to give the bikes their annual wash ?
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Post by Humph on Sept 10, 2024 18:21:50 GMT
Just aesthetically challenging really. It’s seen as a bit wussy to fit them at all, but I prefer the disgrace to the continuous jet of freezing muddy water or worse being forced up my fundament in the wetter or colder months.
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Post by WDB on Sept 10, 2024 21:55:05 GMT
Spring and early summer were so wet I never got round to taking mine off. I don't really notice it's there on a dry day, and it certainly helps on a wet one.
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Post by Humph on Sept 10, 2024 22:17:33 GMT
Mostly, I suppose, I took them off when the bikes were to be taken to France. Mudguards wobble about a bit at French motorway speeds.
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Post by WDB on Sept 11, 2024 6:32:16 GMT
Well, if you must put them up there in the wind… 💨🚲 😛
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Post by WDB on Sept 11, 2024 6:58:55 GMT
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Post by Humph on Sept 11, 2024 9:26:09 GMT
Well, if you must put them up there in the wind… 💨🚲 😛 I’ve always baulked at the cost of a towbar plus a rear rack. Which, I admit is sort of ridiculous given the regular use it would get. However, it’s not just a function of tight waddery, as it would also require more faffery in taking it on and off, where the roof rack just stays on . Anyway, my brother in law has thrown a wild card, in so far as he has a Thule towball mounting rack that he doesn’t want and which has been used twice. It’d only cost me a pint or two. Dilemma then would be which car to get a tow bar fitted to I suppose. |
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