http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: This year Santa brought me... en Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:55:46 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=3#post-273809 Sat, 27 Jan 2018 20:22:10 +0000 LaidBack 273809@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I reckon it was an out of towner delayed by weather. Prezzies easily carried on bike. Other one was neck warmer. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=3#post-273787 Sat, 27 Jan 2018 11:36:01 +0000 SRD 273787@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>any suspicious characters in town yesterday? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=3#post-273786 Sat, 27 Jan 2018 11:21:49 +0000 Frenchy 273786@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Or incredibly early. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=3#post-273781 Sat, 27 Jan 2018 10:05:23 +0000 gembo 273781@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@laidback seems quite late for Xmas? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=3#post-273779 Sat, 27 Jan 2018 09:49:31 +0000 LaidBack 273779@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Mystery Christmas wrapped presents arrived through shop letterbox.<br /> Mine was cycling themed socks. Irene's one still a mystery / still to be opened.<br /> Random act of kindness and cycling related.<br /> No indication of the postee. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=3#post-273646 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 19:29:34 +0000 I were right about that saddle 273646@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@LaidBack</p> <p>Indeed, the guy has chutzpah by the cargo bike load. I was already looking at moustache and swallow bars when I stumbled on these. Then, reading the blurb I found he'd done just what I'd done - sit on the bike, close my eyes and grip a fantasy ideally-placed pair of bars. 45° it was.</p> <p>@Arrelcat</p> <p>An excellent idea and better than my usual masking tape/hacksaw/file butchery. You don't happen to have such a device? Will barter for French lessons. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=3#post-273643 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 19:14:35 +0000 LaidBack 273643@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@iwrats - Jones H-Loop bars - you've got to admire a guy that basically says the rest of the bike trade is wrong and that his product is the thing to make all these bikes from Giant/Trek/Specialized work! Makes you wonder what the rest of the business is doing and why no one has struck on this before? </p> <p>Very intelligent though as much safer territory than a saddle - these really do divide opinion. The bar on the other hand does change how a bike feels. Not likely that buyers will change back either as they have to invest time and money to fit this item. Plus it's an upgrade most people can see!</p> <p>I can see the logic. Be fun to see if it trends. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=3#post-273642 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 19:06:57 +0000 Arellcat 273642@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@unhurt @IWRATS An adjustable pipe cutter makes a very neat and nicely right-angled job. It'll even do the job on a carbon bar. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=3#post-273640 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 18:59:26 +0000 I were right about that saddle 273640@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>OK, new bars used in heavy Lothian Road traffic. Possibly too wide for town, we shall see but every bit as precise as the 7° bars I'd been using since 2000. </p> <p>Weird optical effect - the bike looks <em>longer</em> somehow. Like the front wheel had shifted forward a couple of inches. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=3#post-273609 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 13:16:30 +0000 I were right about that saddle 273609@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@unhurt</p> <p>A hacksaw will suffice. I have a Dreml with a diamond disc (diaaamond disc cha-cha-cha) but it shouldnae be needed. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=3#post-273607 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 13:14:09 +0000 unhurt 273607@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If you decide to slice the ends off yours I might apply to get mine cut down at the same time (I am just assuming you have an angle grinder) as I do feel a wee bit like I'm riding arms akimbo at times... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=3#post-273605 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 12:59:58 +0000 I were right about that saddle 273605@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Had the first chance to try out my <a href="http://www.jonesbikes.com/h-bars/">Jones H-Loop bars</a>. Installing them was predictably involved as I needed to fit a new stem and grips and lengthen the brake hoses. Blowtorch and hammers involved.</p> <p>Initial verdict...oh my god I've turned my bike into a Land Rover. Ten seconds later...this is <em>nice</em>. This is really rather groovy. </p> <p>There's a few micro-adjustments to make on the tilt of the bars and the positioning of the shifters but they really feel right. Possibly I might cut them down from 710 to 660 but I'll leave that for spring. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=3#post-272459 Mon, 15 Jan 2018 12:00:18 +0000 unhurt 272459@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo exactly! </p> <p>Shared that site with a colleague &amp; friend (<em>not</em> via a work network). This led to the best coffee conversation I have had in a long, long time. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=3#post-272439 Mon, 15 Jan 2018 08:01:28 +0000 gembo 272439@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@unhurt, opposite of my earlier comment to you? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=3#post-272438 Mon, 15 Jan 2018 00:34:48 +0000 I were right about that saddle 272438@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Whole new section to my vocabulary there, thanks @gembo. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=3#post-272436 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 23:20:15 +0000 unhurt 272436@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I... I actually agree with their headline purpose in principle but that webpage hints at a certain... less wholesome interest?</p> <p>Oh my the gallery links. Now I am looking at that suggestive window to see if it's been - well. Altered. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=3#post-272435 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 23:11:08 +0000 gembo 272435@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@unhurt, check out circumstitions.com </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=3#post-272432 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 21:54:15 +0000 unhurt 272432@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I thought I could sneak a difference of meat for conscience sake past you. I was wrong. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=3#post-272430 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 20:50:37 +0000 gembo 272430@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@unhurt, you have added a bit there. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=3#post-272429 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 20:35:19 +0000 unhurt 272429@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Only <em>reasonably</em> certain? I think you need to revisit the Books of Discipline.</p> <p><em>By the contrary doctrine we understand whatsoever men by lawes, counsells, or constitutions, have imposed upon the consciences of men, without the expressed commandement of Gods word, such as be the vowes to chastitie, forswearing of marriage, binding of men and women to several and disguised apparrells, to the superstitious observation of fasting dayes, difference of meat for conscience sake, prayer for the dead, and keeping of holy dayes of certaine Saints commanded by man, such as be all those that the Papists have invented, as the feasts (as they terme them) of the Apostles, Martyrs, Virgines, of Christmasse, Circumcision, Epiphanie, Purification, and other fond [foolish] feastes of our Ladie: which things because in Gods Scriptures they neither have commandement nor assurance, we judge them utterly to be abolished from this Realme: but just FYI folks, sports massages are A-OK, nae problem with them.</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=3#post-272426 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 20:10:26 +0000 I were right about that saddle 272426@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Is there a Presbyterian presumption against massage</em></p> <p>I'm reasonably certain that John Knox would have soldiered on through his minor beach volleyball injuries. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=3#post-272418 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 17:35:38 +0000 Baldcyclist 272418@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@IWRATS It’s my sons date of birth, no cycling relevance at all. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=3#post-272406 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 14:44:41 +0000 unhurt 272406@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Yeah, should get sports massage. Won't though.</em></p> <p>Is there a Presbyterian presumption against massage that I didn't properly internalise? Would it sway you to point out that a good one is definitely a type 2 fun sort of experience? (I'm booking one for payday now. Been ages!)</p> <p>Ooh. A flying armadillo tattoo... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=3#post-272402 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 14:14:07 +0000 I were right about that saddle 272402@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Baldcyclist</p> <p>Nice work. Is the significance of the date shareable?</p> <p>@unhurt</p> <p>Yeah, should get sports massage. Won't though.</p> <p>Nice harpie. Flying armadillo in opposition? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=3#post-272391 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 12:06:31 +0000 Baldcyclist 272391@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It took about 2 1/2 hours.</p> <p>i Was quite relaxed for most of it, almost asleep as I was in quite a comfy position. The pain was there at that point but pretty bearable with occasional sore bits. I got bored, and started to play chess on my phone. Engaging my brain was a clear mistake as the pain became much more amplified at that point. The last half hour was really quite unpleasant to the point she had to stop a couple times.</p> <p>I’d been arguing with myself for the last 5 years or so since I saw this design. I’m quite pleased with it in the end though.</p> <p>Sore this morning, bit like road rash sore, but maybe not quite as bad. Washing it burned.. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=3#post-272390 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 11:30:18 +0000 unhurt 272390@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sore? How long did it take? </p> <p>Sort of want a tattoo but would change mind about image every couple of years. But this could work:</p> <p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Harpy.PNG"></p> <p>@Iwrats hie thee to a sports massage professional. Or yoga. Or both! But keep the h bars because they are ace. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=2#post-272389 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 11:10:53 +0000 Baldcyclist 272389@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTflgt0WkAAD4gq?format=jpg&amp;name=small"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=2#post-271131 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 09:54:20 +0000 gembo 271131@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If not wry I will be Fry's Crisp and Dry </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=2#post-271130 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 09:46:54 +0000 I were right about that saddle 271130@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo</p> <p>My charm is legendary but even I would hesitate to actually ask strangers for handlebar money.</p> <p>I also got a <em>Cuisine Actuelle</em> branded apron and a book by <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Homme_qui_plantait_des_arbres">Jean Giono</a> both of which I will lend to you if you promise to be wry on CCE this year? Madame IWRATS met Giono when she was three. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17289&page=2#post-271128 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 09:36:48 +0000 gembo 271128@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@IWRATS, when you say you crowd sourced your present was the crowd all known to you personally? I love it when the parents of Mrs Garto all pool their fivers and give a John Lewis voucher. It is also nice to get thirty different boxes of chocolates, but I prefer the former </p>