I hate

new perfume that smells like shower fresh torn cardboard

Whatever the smell equivalent is to a flashback, the rank odour of Ikea’s cardboard reinforced cupboard cubes just did that.

They smell very strongly like vomit, very likely from an acid used to reconstitute their cheap cardboard.

Ooh, The Mavis's too!

https://www.destroyalllines.com/tours/tism-death-to-art

Aww man... I see Machine Gun Fellatio on the list too!

Dunno what the fuck Ben Lee is doing there.

Wonder if he figures he's lived down calling himself Australia's best songwriter yet

hedge trimming season leaves me sad yet again. three great big thorns in my front tyre from the last ride. then yesterdays ride managed to get home but 20 mins afterwards went back to the bike flat front tyre again. haven't taken the tyre off yet but expecting another deluge of thorns in the tyre. gonna have to find some chunkier tyres for a month or two till the thorns have been washed away or crushed under car tyres. an inner tube per ride is gonna bankrupt me.

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/282074 ?

Trimming suggests care and attention is paid to the job. It isn’t, it’s basically hedge thrashing.

Farmers are, by law, obliged to clean up roads after doing the work but of course they never fucking do because they are selfish cunts.

well i've decided to go to a heavier more puncture resistant tyre on the front for a month or two to counteract the thorns. extra 300g weight on the front wheel will mean a bit heavier handling but less punctures. switch back to the lighter foldables in december or once the back roads clean up a bit.

i'll never go tubeless, i'll happily fix a hundred punctures before choosing to spray a tub of gunk that ends up all over everything into the rim. it's just never appealed to me and all i ever hear is nightmare stories about tubeless. also i don't really ever run tubes at low pressure. i'm a pump them up to 3 bar and just live with the slight extra harshness.

Here’s the tubeless secret hack…get your lbs to set them up.

Let them handle the jizz tsunami

3 punctures that required any attention in 8 years since tubeless

Multiple punctured inner tubes and a failure to understand how to repair a punctured inner tube sounds like a nightmare to me.

Where does the sealant tsunami come from? Is that people trying to seat a tyre with
sealant in it?

I haven’t tried but suspect it’s not wise to Google ‘jizz tsunami’ (although if you do fancy doing that then fill your boots, literally)

For about 10 years I have been hating the posh girl affectation of swapping “e” for “a”

As in “incradable” or “avery time “

It’s filtered down to the girl in the chip shop

At least she didn't swap it out

Yeah there’s a kind of influencer version where you pour sealant into the tyre before you try to seat it rather than seat the tyre, inflate it, deflate it then add sealant throughout valve (with core removed)

Online applications which are multiple pages and you can't see all the questions until you are on page 6 of 7.

Pages 1-5 are really obvious things like name/address. Page 6 requires actual thought, why do you want to apply to this thing, so you have to go away and come back later once you have written the required 500 characters. Page 7 is probably just a final confirmation but who knows?

I’ve done somewhere in the neighbourhood of a hundred or so tubeless setups using both methods, never had a sealant tsunami. Are folks not whetting the rim so the tyre seats more easily?

Plan: train to New Mills, cycle up to Glossop and over snake pass while it’s still closed to traffic
Reality: get to Sheffield station and sit on a cunting not moving train for a fucking eternity until you eventually lose what little window of time you had and then sack it off to go for a ride locally instead.

Fucking UK trains, what a crock of bollocks. Did get myself up Pea Royd Lane tho, so it wasn’t a total waste of a morning. But still. Wankers.

an inner tube per ride is gonna bankrupt me.

Pro tip: patches are way cheaper

What a bummer.
Still, Pea Royd is no bump in the road, so, respect.
Was it anger or pure talent that got you to the top?

You can buy patchs in bulk and bigger tubes of glue too. Which helps to reduce costs.

Was it anger or pure talent that got you to the top?

Neither! 31t front, 36t rear. Spin to win!

Or even wipe down the beads with a mixture of sealant and washing up liquid in water.

When you see eBay listings and the photos are screenshots. Either take new photos or learn to crop!

Men — and it’s always men - who cycle along snotting and spitting into the centre of the road without looking to see who might be behind them. Disgusting road goblins.

Not to mention, you’re cycling along a 40mph road, it might be sensible to shoulder check at least every now and then just for self preservation.