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Post by tyrednexited on Jul 31, 2019 9:59:16 GMT
Amazing though that folk from "better" towns have to come in to our no-go areas for basic services like bicycle shops though. Huh. ;-) ...servants' annual one week holiday, Al....
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Post by Alanović on Jul 31, 2019 10:05:41 GMT
Amazing though that folk from "better" towns have to come in to our no-go areas for basic services like bicycle shops though. Huh. ;-) ...servants' annual one week holiday, Al.... Staff? Holidays? Bloody foreign habit. We'll see to that after brexit.
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Post by Alanović on Jul 31, 2019 10:46:11 GMT
BTW, if Boyo Beest had the chance of a shufty in the private roads the other side of AW Cycles, he'd get a completely different perspective to that which you get from looking up Chiltern Road, as he evidently did.
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Post by WDB on Jul 31, 2019 12:01:01 GMT
“Scenes of terrible devastation,” as James Gravadlax would have put it.
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Post by Alanović on Jul 31, 2019 12:41:41 GMT
It's funny that road, the council estate street on the other side of Henley Road is in a better state. It is easily the worst looking non-council street in Caversham.
But if Boyo Beest wants a real taste of da streetz, innit, then I'd recommend a tour of the Dee Road area of Tilehurst and the inner streets of Whitley.
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Post by tyrednexited on Jul 31, 2019 14:27:09 GMT
...servants' annual one week holiday, Al.... Staff? Holidays? Bloody foreign habit. We'll see to that after brexit. ...I'm surprised he still has any left. Living in a remote garret of Dubya Towers is bad enough, but those that survive that are generally seen off by the compulsory nightly net practice......
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Post by WDB on Dec 18, 2019 17:06:19 GMT
I’ve done a bad thing. I’m in the fortunate position of needing to shelter a little extra income from tax, so I was in the company’s benefits tool adjusting my pension contributions to reduce the top line a bit. Then I noticed that the Cycle to Work scheme, which was previously open only to a subset of employees that didn’t include me, is now available to all. In the circumstances, it would have been rude not to.
So I’ve signed up for enough to buy a Portobello, plus some lights and a more town-appropriate helmet. And maybe something less slick than those standard tyres, for when I want to take it to the woods.
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 18, 2019 17:10:52 GMT
....... for when I want to take it to the woods. ....or the odd time you ride it to work?...
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Post by WDB on Dec 18, 2019 19:02:09 GMT
I might occasionally ride it to the station — although I’m not sure that once I’d locked it up it would save any time.
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 18, 2019 20:01:50 GMT
........ although I’m not sure that once I’d locked it up it would save any time.... ...or indeed, the bike, if general experience of stations is anything to go by. When, many moons ago, I used to cycle to work every day, it was always on a "work bike" regardless of the fact that the company cycle storage was well hidden from public view, and I used a lock. I wouldn't risk anything with very much value; too close to bandit country.
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Post by WDB on Dec 18, 2019 20:19:01 GMT
I already have a bike with no value at all, just takin’ up space in the shed. Perhaps I should ride that to the station, in the hope of picking up something nicer with the insurance payout. Not that anyone would bother to steal it, unless they desperately needed a way to get home.
This is a dodge, pure and simple. But a good one.
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Post by Humph on Dec 19, 2019 9:42:47 GMT
Enjoy !
I'm looking forward to getting unnecessarily muddy over Christmas !
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Post by WDB on Dec 19, 2019 11:21:00 GMT
I doubt I’ll get the new one before January but I owe the Friston an outing or two. The incessant rain this autumn has been giving me too many excuses.
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Post by Humph on Dec 19, 2019 11:26:34 GMT
Had her "main" bike fettled last week, fairly major overhaul including new cables, gears, cranks, rings, rear cassette and forks. Like new really now.
Wisnae cheap, but still a whole lot lot less than a replacement bike.
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Post by WDB on Dec 19, 2019 14:57:27 GMT
Good business for your local bike shop too. Bike shops are worth looking after.
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