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Confessions of a Cycle Commuter
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Posted 6 years ago #
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Lovely morning, so decided to go through Dalmeny estate and was feeling good until I barelled over the cattlegrid at the bottom of the hill near the house. Heard a clunking sound and looked round to find that my right pedal had shorn off. This happened about a year ago on my other bike.
The bad news about this happening at the bottom of the hill meant I had to get up the hill on the other side and then to work with only a tiny greasy pin to put any pressure on. Was a much slower last 3rd of the commute.
Got to grab a new pair of pedals on way home tonight...
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@paddyirish - phew - at least it was only the pedals that was broken - was it ice on the grid??
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I came to a very sudden stop with a clunk this afternoon. I'd been gaily battering along using pedal assist. Luckily I was in the gutter so the car behind wasn't directly on me. A bungee had come unhooked from my basket and wrapped itself round my rear wheel. Could have been a right disaster but I look to have gotten away with it. *touch wood* Then about 2 mins later I got a close pass on a corner with oncoming traffic. I was oddly zen about that but quite happy to end my ride before a third thing happened.
Posted 6 years ago # -
@rider73
just wear and tear - there was no impact but obviously the shock went through the wheels to the pedals and that was enough to be the straw that broke the camel's back.
Got a new pair of pedals fitted at Harts and then got visited by the Marathon Plus p*&^%£e faerie on the way home. Lots of folk offered to help (thank you), but I got it sorted reasonably quickly
A lot of drama for a day, but at least it was a good day for it to happen. The thought of it happening when it was freezing and windy isn't a nice one.
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"Marathon Plus p*&^%£e faerie"
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
thats bad
thats given me nightmaresalthough does that mean they are leaving me along - i've not had any in a while...
Posted 6 years ago # -
Don't: put a 3/4 full bottle of kefir in your pannier without checking the lid is completely secure.
If you must, don't then ride home over ALL the setts.
It does wash off, I suppose?
Posted 6 years ago # -
Kefir the alcoholic yoghurt?
Hmmmmmmm…
Posted 6 years ago # -
It's fizzy, not alcoholic! I think you're thinking of kvass?
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Wiki says up to 2% alcohol.
I used to make it in Int 1 biology. It was the demo for immobilised enzymes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kefir
Kvass isn't based on milk.
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The kefir I saw had no dairy in it? I am guessing like Yakult it is something rotten? Lime leaves or some such? As a possibly healthier option than ginger (lemonade).
They were making it in Baba Budan the donut place. My last trip advisor review for them was titled Donut Forsake Me Oh My Darling.
At the moment Baba Budan are selling a wee bowl of soup and an enormous veggie sausage roll .(served cold but works) for four quid. The will put that up but you are full until late afternoon tiffin for getting yu home. Also good coffee, or lemonade and amazing donuts. You do not get access to the kefir. That is a staff thing. Most likely Vegan version
Posted 6 years ago # -
Perhaps it was Water Kefir which Wikipedia tells me is called Tibicos:
Posted 6 years ago # -
Kefir is very mildly alcoholic. (FWIW kvass is too, but it's not dairy.) Signed, your resident Eastern European.
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Confession: not only did I not know that about kefir, I've also just realised that in Kenny Roger's classic The Gambler The Gambler DIES AT THE END. How... how have I sung along to this a 1000 times without realising that his final words are in fact his FINAL words, and he has gained the best that one can hope for & died in his sleep?
Now I need to know what he died of. Tiredness? Bad shared whiskey? Smoking? Exhausted by giving wise advice to random strangers on trains?
Posted 6 years ago # -
how have I sung along to this a 1000 times without realising
A man sees what he wants to see and he disregards the rest.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Fentimans, the superior Geordie lemonades are also very slightly alcoholic (botanical brewing process or something)
Kenny Roger's and the First Edition sing I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in. In The Big Lebowski, soon to be twenty. Would I have known that was Kenny unless I had bought the sound track album?
Posted 6 years ago # -
Do we need a 'Do we need a favourite Country song thread' thread?
Posted 6 years ago # -
Don't do it. It'd be like Sophie's Choice.
Posted 6 years ago # -
I'm going to town honey, what you want me to bring you back?
Bring a pint of booze and a Johnny B Stetson HatOr
I'd rather drink muddy water, sleep in a hollow log
Than live in Atlanta and be treated like a dogOr
Just a deck of cards and a jug of wine
And a woman's lies make a life like mineOr
We got married in a fever
Hotter than a pepper sprout
We been talkin bout Jackson
Ever since the fire went outblue yodel 8, then blue yodel 1 both Jimmie Rodgers, lost highway Hank and Jackson - June and Johnny
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I wear my grandmas ring on my finger
She had a tooth of gold
And just before she died she said
Son you can have the tooth
But do I really need to goLyle Lovett Creeps Like Me- it gets much darker!
Posted 6 years ago # -
Lebowski already is 20 in the US. Back then the release date varied around the planet.
Saw it in a late night when it came out. Laughed from soup to nuts. Still do. Management isn't a fan.
When the Twin Towers were attacked in 2001 George W used the same "This aggression will not stand" phrase that his dad is heard using at the start of the film. The date on the Dude's cheque is 9/11/91.
Posted 6 years ago # -
March 6th US, May 1st UK, for Il Duderino
Posted 6 years ago # -
Went to Glasgow. Have just realised I forgot to check out the Tim Hortons for donut testing purposes.
Posted 6 years ago # -
All this Dude chat I looked out the DVD for a spot of abiding.
Posted 6 years ago # -
All this Dude chat and I want a white russian.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Lovely day outside, but an attack of the mental urghs meant it was spent mostly under a blanket. That's not the confession. That confession is that I'm now slightly more up to date with The Kids, having spent the afternoon reading a free copy of The Hunger Games.
Posted 6 years ago # -
@unhurt
I read that on a Greyhound bus from Kamloops to Vancouver. It's good isn't it?
Posted 6 years ago # -
Not quite deathless prose but cracks along at a great pace. Hopefully the next ones will show up in the free book swap at work or in the Colonies...
Posted 6 years ago # -
Can probably swap for a flymo
Posted 6 years ago # -
This sounds like a good deal.
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