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• #3127
Been to several places in East Africa where they will quite happily use bank notes then rinse them in a bucket of water provided for this very purpose, or as the case might be in posh places rinse them under the tap. Kinda puts you off the finger food buffet at first, but hey ho, when in Rome...
Foffa thread (apparently) >>>
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• #3128
Can't wait until the cashless society is a reality. Money is filthy, even when it hasn't wiped an arse (or several hundred).
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• #3129
I mostly live in a cashless society apart from a couple of days after I get paid.
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• #3130
So that's why all the 50 shilling notes are all so grubby. Ew. And perhaps why I get the squits so regularly.
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• #3131
I mostly live in a cashless society apart from a couple of days after I get paid.
I hear ya
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• #3132
Just got home. I was riding fixed on a long but very narrow dike road when this huge range rover came towards me. I was riding around 40KM/h / 25MPh when I noticed him. I slowed down a bit expecting him to ride over the "sidewalls" (don't know the english name, it's not tarmac) so I could pass, which he didn't. The $%$ didn't give me any room. He kept riding in the middle. I'm not capable riding on the stuff next to the road on my bike. That would result in me ending up in the river next to it. I had to stay on the tarmac. My shoulder hurts like hell but at least he won't be able to use his mirror.
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• #3133
You mean the hard shoulder?
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• #3134
Think he means the verge ed
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• #3135
According to google image search, the hard shoulder is still tarmac. it's more like a sort of concrete cobblestone. If you drive over it with a car then the whole car is shaking. got about 12 inches on both sides of the tarmac. tarmac itself is just wide enough for a single car. 2 cars can pass when they both go over that "cobblestone" and in the grass with two wheels.
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• #3136
Sounds like some of the roads my sat navs been sending me down in the van
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• #3137
Think he means the verge ed
The joke. You missed it.
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• #3138
I'm not well so meh ill get my coat
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• #3139
Not quite oh shit, more oh shit I am a dick....
Day 3 on tubs and the front keeps on loosing air during the day. Yesterday after work I thought I would cure this by topping up the front with the remaining can of pitstop I had in my bag from Fridays flat (well it worked so well on Friday what could possibly go wrong !)
I let a little air out of my tyre and applied the can, rubber foam everywhere.....fcuk this did not happen on friday. to compound the issue my healthy 90psi tyre is now at about 20psi.
Okay no problem, I will cart it round to Evans and pump it up there. After all, i don't have a flat, just me pissing around with a can of foam.
Walk it out of the car park and up onto the road. Being a lazy sod I jump onto my bike and scoot around to evans (I work in the wharf, so have to follow the one-way system round). Front is a bit floaty but not totally flat......until I hit a pothole
fcuk fcuk fcuk......Get to Evans and inspect the tyre, I now have a 2-3mm gash...fcuk fcuk fcuk. Search the shelves and I am in luck, they sell some tyre foam. not pit stop but it looks like it'll do....£7 later I am outside the shop with the foam attached.
It proceeds to piss out of the hole in the tyre, out of can, out of the adaptor pretty much turning the pavement and a window of Evans into the prettiest Christmas scene.
But.....it fills the hole, only to 40psi but I can ride it. manage to get home (12miles) before it finally lets go totally. Tub trashed and me full of regret...
Why oh why did I just not leave it alone, it was perfectly fine before I started to fiddle...
depressed myself further at home by watching a 10min youtube vid of tub replacement...5 day process !!!! WTF
Lucky I have 3 other front wheels to get myself around on and a spare tub to fix it with, looks as though a weekend of solvent abuse is on the cards
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• #3140
This is basically why I will never switch to tubs.
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• #3141
I got them on a vintage bike ('79 Ciocc see my profile). I love the gluing etc. and when p_n_t_r_d sowed mine up. I love how they feel when you ride them.
But I don't like the out of use time. And there will be thanks to the glass littering classes. Arseholes.
So pair of clinchers for winter. Keep heart maddernj and have a look at the tubs thread here if you need some help/encouragement :) E-bay is good for tubby deals people selling off single tires.
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• #3142
Yeah I bough the Masi that was floating around on here for a while. The few rides I have managed with pumped up tyres have been great, I have a pair of open pro ceramics (36h) in the garage that I think i will get built up on some DA for winter use and save the tubs for summer.
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• #3143
Glass with a bit of rain was enough to do my front Gatorskin in.
Not much an ow-shit, had potential for it though:
Going down a steep (1 in 2) short ramp to make a hard left (shortcut many cyclists use) to get back on the road.On the ramp some guy decides to start overtaking me on the right, but it's not very long (about 8 meters) so he'd either need to cut into me forcing me to brake hard before turning, or swerve over the road while turning left (it's a 180 degree turn) endangering himself and possibly wiping me out too in the turn.
A muttered "Yeah overtake me right here in the corner, why don't you stupid idiot" did the trick.
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• #3144
Tell me more about this "the bicycle"
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• #3145
Group of eight/ten Scottish football fans yesterday morning just off Edgware Rd/George St junction. About half of them veered off the kerb in front of me while looking the other way up the road. Grabbed anchors and then swerved into opposite lane (I know) and just missed a plumber's van coming the other way - I don't think the driver even noticed me, as he was looking down (mobile phone?).
What still puzzles me is why the Scottish fans would be looking the wrong way up the road - it's not like they drive on the other side !
Fair play to them afterwards though - all apologised to me and then gave me some good banter when I was standing at the next lights!
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• #3146
Tell me more about this "the bicycle"
Eh, whose "the bicycle"?
^ Lucky you, if white van man had got you it would have been a rowdy funeral.
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• #3147
Sorry, it was in reference to the spam post that got deleted.
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• #3148
Darn, no invite to talk about my bicycles then.
#Foreveralone:)
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• #3149
I swear they should make a law that if any driver shows any sign of road rage they have to go on a mandatory anger management cause.
some taxi driver cut me up, i tap the bonet of his car as i squeeze past in the tiny gap, the guy honks his horn like a right a*shole, revving up the side of me and everything, i'm ready to hop the curb in case he tries to run me over, he over takes me and cuts me up again, as i swerve round the car he jumps out the car wanting a fight, i manage to ride away though, if i was less experienced i would of been knocked off. c*nt.
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• #3150
Cctv?
^^ Yesterday at a restaurant in Mombasa:
Me - "Excuse me Mr. Toilet Attendant, is there any toilet paper?"
Mr TA - "No, you can just use your hand."
Me - "Yeah. I'll just go get some serviettes."
So that's why they have the tap and a bucket in each cubicle.