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You could travel over with a
You could travel over with a cheap bike the same colour, then come back with the “same” bike.
From near my mom’s hometown.
From near my mom’s hometown.
Chaos as day-trippers overrun Welsh beauty hotspot in heatwave.
It was reported that numerous cars were parked illegally along the Llangower shoreline blocking residential driveways and preventing farmers from accessing their fields.
More like drove it off the wall.There appear to be a great many motorists who accidentally put their cars in first-gear instead of reverse (or vice versa). How do you do that?
I did it a few times when I first got my MINI. 1st is left and forward, reverse is more left and forward. There’s no collar to push up, nor any need to lift or push down on the shifter.
My previous few manual transmissions were five speed, so reverse was where 6th is on this one. First was just push left as far as it goes, then forward. My Subaru allegedly wouldn’t even let you try to stupidly go 5-R without passing through neutral. I never tried.
If you can name the 3 (original) Rentaghost characters and sing the song then you ride a Mercian King of the Mountains with a Brooks B17, toe-clips, a Carradice saddlebag and your large flange wheels are 36h rear and 32h front.l-r Mr Davenport (c18th gentleman), Bob Mumford (recently deceased ordinary bloke), Timothy Claypole (court jester)
🎶At your party, be a smartie just hire Rentaghost
We’ve got freaks and fools and beasts and ghouls
At Rentaghost 🎵
That’s as best I can do without looking it up.
A pair of Rene Herse tan walls for the bonus to anyone who can (i) describe their special powers and how these are activated and (ii) the name of their landlord.
I don’t know that stuff, but I left the UK at eight years old in 1979, so I never saw the show after that, but I still have the general tune of that theme song stuck in my head, along with Andy Pandy and Rupert.
Bus drives into the river at Eastleigh. Facebook comment – “How?!?”The driver of the college bus that drove into the River Itchen this morning has been branded a “hero” after he told an eyewitness that his “accelerator was jammed”.
Pedal confusion, perhaps? The brakes on that bus should be able to overcome the engine. And if it has a clutch, just push it in and let the engine rev away.
Hahah no – I’m now wondering if it was in Fake Heroes about Douglas Bader. It was ! Allegedly to a bunch of school girls.Here’s Stan Boardman doing a long version of the joke on Des O’Connor Show – got him a ban from ITV and more or less ended his career:
Well, at least he wasn’t arrested for a public order offence.
The Rene Herse TPU tubes have
The Rene Herse TPU tubes have metal valve stems and (I think) removable cores.
I carry a Tubolito one as a
I carry a Tubolito one as a spare for one of my tubeless bikes, but haven’t had to use it yet. I have about 17,000 miles (not) on it, rolled up in my tool roll. It’s under half the bulk of a butyl tube.
chrisonabike wrote:
(Not news but only because I can’t unsee these things now) what appear to be the parking lots appear to take up more space than the buildings (OTOH perhaps the business is to do with vehicles?).
Not really, it’s an R&D lab for a company that mainly makes big yellow machines. I’m in the engine test lab.We are utterly car dependent, but it’s a good thing we’re nowhere near housing as we have dozens of smokestacks. No bus service, surrounded by 45-55 MPH roads with no bike infrastructure or even shoulders. Maybe five out of 1000+ people ever bike to work. I’m by far the most consistent at it.
chrisonabike wrote:
I think the “elf and safety” perspective is a useful one.This. I work in a large facility with six main buildings and internal roads. The speed limit is 15 MPH because there are also pedestrians going between buildings. The speed limit for forklift trucks indoors is “a walking pace” for the same reason. In the 25+ years I’ve worked here, we’ve cut way down on driving between buildings. It’s only supposed to be allowed when carrying heavy or bulky cargo, tools, etc.
Outdoors or indoors, vehicles are no closer to pedestrians than they would be on a city road with a pavement.
Aerial view. The east-west dimension is just over half a mile.
