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RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
stem could work, but i like having it within thumb reach as i'm not massively confident about groping around the bike while riding. i'll give it a go. (old bell was bog standard and fit fine, not sure why this one won't.)
today i had to shout MOOOOOOOOOVE at a student who was walking in the cycle lane--i had vehicles to my left so couldn't just swing around. turns out, he was from a group i'm working with this week, but luckily i was in disguise...
Back went click as I was trying to put my jeans on in the shower cubicle. This is not ideal, can't bend over...
Can you reach down with a clothes hanger and hook it round the belt loops to pull them up?
Got them on and had to sit with my head between my legs for a few moments. At my desk with my clippy shoes on trying to decide if I need rescued.
Lie on your back and pull each knee up to your chest in turn, then together.
If I'm not back in 5 minutes I'm stuck on the floor...
Reach up to your desk with the coat hanger and use it to pull yourself up.
Can't even get down. Not sure the coat hanger has been built that'll lift me up.
IWRATS' patent back-fixer: crawl to a door, stand up, lace fingers of both hands together, reach up and hang from the door with your feet off the floor.
If your spinal cord ruptures as a result Admin please delete this post.
hang from the door with your feet off the floor.
Climb out of cavern and go save Gotham?
If you are at work and seriously can't move, get a coworker to ring for help, either in house first aid/health and safety or ring for an ambulance. Other than that you'll just have to get home somehow, taxi might be easiest, work should pay for it. I wouldn't stay at work in this condition. I speak from experience, btw.
Look on the bright side: you're at work and not in Glen Feshie.
Cheers paul its easing off a bit now, I can get up and walk slowly I'm sure it'll be fine.
you're at work and not in Glen Feshie.
On the other had I'm in work... :(
Was planning a trip with my big camera and camp gear out to Loch Derculich at the weekend but I suspect a 15kg pack will be vetoed by mrs steveo
Cycled in today. Stopped in town on the corner of Albany St and Broughton St to help a lady whose chain had come off her Yubo Mundo(??) cargo bike. She had already dropped her child off (empty seat) and was on the phone trying to get help. 2 minute job, and the vinyl gloves came in very handy in keeping my hands free of oil.
Feeling good.
@steveo
But you seem to camp with just the contents of your pockets? What's the other 14kg?
Nice. I have actually used a 5x4" plate camera at work. Please tell me they come with a digital back these days...?
You can get a digital back but it only goes up 645ish (6*4.5cm) which is tiny by comparison. Its much more "fun" when each shot or error costs an appreciable sum of money. And I have made a great many mistakes!
Many great mistakes too?
not nearly enough.
@steveo
Fantastic. Loading your own plates and doing your own darkroom work?
I used to absolutely brick it about putting the film in back to front for the shot of the Queen's guard at Balmoral. I think three of us each checked each side of each of six film holders.
Very Ansel Adams, much kudos. Got me thinking about looking the Hasselblad out.
Fantastic. Loading your own plates and doing your own darkroom work?
No room for a darkroom until I can kick out one or more of the children! Loading the plates is slightly unnerving not putting the darkslide in before removing the plate from the camera after a 20 minute exposure is... Irritating. Packing up and moving on before you realised you hadn't removed the darkslide before starting the exposure, more irritating. Loading the tank and realising you'd just shot with an empty holder! The list of ways to mess up 5x4 is extensive. :D
@steveo how's your back by the way?
It's eased off now but still uncomfortable. Cheers
Discovered that one of the lower hooks on my (other) old Ortliebs wasn't there this morning. Looks like it has been bashed out of the track.
I do have a recollection of hitting a lamppost with one of my rear most panniers yesterday but I can't recall where it was.
Maybe another warranty claim ;-)
I think it was the cool airflow over my back which alerted me to the absence of my bag on Carrington Road, half-way in.
I had the bar bag and bike seat in a pannier so would have thought I was the right weight when setting off. Fortunately, it was a pleasant morning to go back down the WoL the way I had come, though I then had to go the shortest and trafficmost way to get straight to work.
I had the bar bag and bike seat in a pannier
That's certainly a drastic application of Rules #5 and #61.
I seem to have lost the SPD pedals I swapped out for BMX-y flats on the singlespeed at the beginning of July so that I wouldn't need to take bike trainers on holiday. Fortunately I found another pair.
Turns out the nice wicking running t-shirt I was going to wear this evening to go home makes a great emergency towel...
Grumpiness at the guy who drafted me for at least a mile into a very stiff headwind
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