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Post by Humph on Apr 8, 2017 16:32:39 GMT
My Sunday best bike is poorly. Intermittently lost drive last weekend. Rear hub body knackered. It's in for repair and this weekend I'll have to use an old one. Something very unusual happened while I was pottering with the old one this morning fettling it for a trip tomorrow. "She" randomly said "Why don't you just get a new one?"
Why not indeed when that particular hurdle has been dealt with so effortlessly !
But new bikes are even harder to decide on than new cars. This may take some time. Much research. Much agonising. And, I know that what I'll end up wanting, and deciding I can't live without, will cost about twice as much as I can justify and about 4 times as much as "She" would imagine.
This is is actually going to be very hard.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2017 17:44:10 GMT
If "She" didn't set a budget is that your problem ?
This morning we went to pick our new spectacles. Still smarting over the bill but by golly they were worth it.
You probably only have one decent bike left in you, you old burgher of Edin, go for it.
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Post by Humph on Apr 8, 2017 20:54:54 GMT
Hmmm, true enough, but I have learned to mistrust those occasions when I am being encouraged to buy myself something not inexpensive. It usually means that very soon afterwards, another significant purchase is mooted or indeed revealed, which I would have previously resisted or scorned...
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Post by Hofmeister on Apr 9, 2017 10:18:20 GMT
Hmmm, true enough, but I have learned to mistrust those occasions when I am being encouraged to buy myself something not inexpensive. It usually means that very soon afterwards, another significant purchase is mooted or indeed revealed, which I would have previously resisted or scorned... Everything has it follow up price and consequences. Sanctioned or otherwise. |
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Post by Hofmeister on Apr 9, 2017 10:20:03 GMT
If "She" didn't set a budget is that your problem ? This morning we went to pick our new spectacles. Still smarting over the bill but by golly they were worth it. You probably only have one decent bike left in you, you old burgher of Edin, go for it. Ditto. Bill for two new pairs of spex (including all the freebies and offers) over 800 quid! (mind that did include a pair of prescription ray banns) |
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Post by Ted on Apr 9, 2017 12:05:11 GMT
I was gricing the Jowett website yesterday and there was a mint 1920s 2 seater and dicky.
I mentioned it to Die Fuhrerette in the evening and you should have seen the mega-pouty look of disapproval on her mush !
It got even poutier when I mentioned it was a click under £30K
I really don't think she wanted us to have it.........I had no intentions either !
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Post by Humph on Apr 9, 2017 15:22:27 GMT
Now y'see, this is all very complicated to explain, but stick with it if you can be bothered...For many many years, mountain bikes had 26" wheels, it was the law, well, not the the law exactly but it was accepted as such. No one questioned it. Then a few years ago, someone, no one seems to know who, but someone had an epiphany. It was discovered that bigger wheels, while less manoeuvrable, rolled through dips more easily and therefore more downhill speed could be achieved and maintained without going a over t on steep descents. Eventually that became the law.
Well, y'see, today, I was riding my old bike, yes indeed, one with 26" wheels. Once upon a time it was regarded as a very fine piece of kit. I began to become nostalgic about what a good bike it was and how capable it was when set against modern machinery, how whippy the steering was, how light the front end, how easily I could stand it on its back wheel. This was indeed a pleasurable ride. I wasn't missing my new bike at all.
Then we came to an especially steep descent, a mud and scree slope which, while not long, no more than 500 yards or so, is very steep in places with drop offs and tricky little 2' wide gulleys which my new bike just bounces and rolls through at full tilt.
I quite forgot that the 26er doesn't do that. It just buries its nose in the gulley and catapults you off the front if you don't slow right down and hop the front wheel over it.
You know when Superman sticks his arm out in front of him and flies effortlessly through the sky?
Yeah, well, very briefly, just before the impact...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2017 15:50:29 GMT
 This sort of thing? |
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Post by Humph on Apr 9, 2017 16:24:19 GMT
Pretty much.
I'm treating the injuries with Chablis.
Purely medicinal.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2017 16:36:51 GMT
Can't have been that serious then. Had it been really serious it would have needed gin.
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Post by Humph on Apr 9, 2017 17:31:06 GMT
Chablis now finished. Gin seeming desirable...
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Post by tyrednexited on Apr 9, 2017 17:44:42 GMT
Chablis now finished. Gin seeming desirable... ....now for that to happen to me, a whole tanker of Chablis would be required........ |
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Post by Humph on Apr 9, 2017 17:53:20 GMT
Beggars and choosers old chap, beggars and choosers...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2017 20:04:42 GMT
Ouch!
I once and only once went proper off road cycling, somewhere in the hills after a very dry period. I enjoyed it to an extent until I went 'A over T' over the top of the handlebars and bashed my helmet on a piece of rock....
If nothing else I could justify a new chain, pedals and helmet, as those got damaged. But I am very much an easy off-roader now.
On Monday afternoon, I cycled with my son about three miles to a beach and then decided to cycle back to the apartment along the beach. For parts where the sand was moist, it was quite firm, but we ended up pushing about a third of the way home, into the teeth of a northerly wind that blew the sand so hard, I swear the bike now has less paint on it, and I got a free defoliation of the legs, arms and face.
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Post by WDB on Apr 12, 2017 20:40:55 GMT
I stopped reading at 'bashed my helmet'.
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