Good colour matching, but you forgot your name :)
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Posted 14 years ago #
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Hehehehehe! We need to print these off for namebadges at meets!
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Stepdoh: "Good colour matching, but you forgot your name :)"
Fixed that now. Good template.Posted 14 years ago # -
Spoke cards! Or is that a bit too EFG again?
Posted 14 years ago # -
Classic - will have to get on to this at lunchtime!
Posted 14 years ago # -
I have no pictures of me on wheels, so It'll just have to be me looking mad at lunch.
Couldn't work out how to get the gimp to rotate the image, to I'm just square on. C-
Posted 14 years ago # -
Great template, but for the technological biffs amongst us how does one go about editing a .png file?
(in a "Neil" voice; "oh nooooooo, technofear!!!")Posted 14 years ago # -
Ace Job by Kaputnik there!
I just opened it in a picture editor (photoshop or The Gimp) and wrote over the top, then pasted my ugly mug in.
then just rotated by 10 degrees :).PNG's are just a moderner version of GIFs, and despite rumours to the contrary are not a plan by the government of Papua New Guinea to take over the world.
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A PNG also lets you use a 16 bit colour palette, rather than the 256 colours that a GIF is restricted to. It should open and edit in paintbrush or any similar editor. Until 2004 you risked being sued by Compuserve or Unisys if you used GIF due to the proprietary nature of how it compresses the image... That is why PNG was developed, as a royalties-free format.
I didn't save as a JPG to avoid getting any compression artefacts in there.
Posted 14 years ago # -
Spotability (5)
+2 normal, tired and late route-variants but normally use just the normal one
+1 I start off north and end up south but usually go a bit further south than I need to
+1 gingery beard; +1 unpleasantly sweaty even in cold weather at low power levelsRuggedness (5)
+5 (only resumed in May after moving house) but have never ceased for seasonal reasons, only mechanical onesAWESOME POWER (7)
+1 snapped downtube, +1 crimped steel rim, +1 snapped chain; +1 accidentally reflexively stopped when a dog tried to run under my wheel at Bingham, +1 bunnyhopped over large cluster of migrating snails on the Innocent this summer; +2 recent noteworthy life-enhancing stopsCopenhagenalismness (4)
-1 helmet, -1 visiblish tops (and rucksack cover when I remember to deploy it) though no visible Lycra, -1 glubs; -1 >3 gears; -1 only half-length low-clearance mudguards as that's all I can get to fit; -1 no basketCommutabulosity (5)
+3 only walk in when (only) bike out of action - no powered alternatives
+1 EH6 to EH1
+1 though I really need a better pump for on the move rather than current crappy max.80psi emergency mini-thingLuminescence (1)
+1 AA/AAA-powered Cateye/Electron mix - nothing blinding but BS-compliant and safeExperience (25)
Solid use from childhood through teenage-paper-round-years to mixed-campus studentdom, a couple of bike-in-cupboard gap years when I only lived 2km from work and -3 unplanned dismounts (1 car, 1 bus-oil-patch, 1 ned-shove)I can never remember my ftp login details so the picture version shall follow later.
Posted 14 years ago # -
Spotability 5
Ruggedness 10
Awesome power 0
Copenhagenalismness -1000000000
Commutabulosity 4
Luminosity 2
Can't do the photo thing!
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Posted 14 years ago # -
Dave, from that pilot's eye view, your bike looks like you forgot to put clip the gunsight on it!
Posted 14 years ago # -
Nicely done, Dave. I think you're the only one who's actually allowed to not put a name at the top. :-)
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My score is not worth publishing in such exalted company. I do, however, claim a '1' for Awesome Power having once braked quite hard to avoid a rat that was crossing the towpath.
It was definitely a rat, and not a water vole.
Posted 14 years ago # -
Not only is the card untitled, but when you get it out of the pack, you'll lose it immediately!
Posted 14 years ago # -
These cards are cool beyond belief nice one Kaputnic.I can't even begin to make it work on my computer and after a very good night at the pub i'd be a fool to try................maybe coffee on mmw IS a goood idea,,,,,,,,,,,,ni nightT xx
Posted 14 years ago # -
shouldn't the recumbent cards be landscape instead of portrait?
Posted 14 years ago # -
Like this?
(apologies for the slightly naff card design, I couldn't quite make such a nice one!)
Black card obviously, the colour that blends indistinguishably around town and country.
Posted 14 years ago # -
So who's claiming joker in the pack?
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Posted 14 years ago #
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So who's claiming joker in the pack?
Alexei Sayle?Posted 14 years ago # -
CCE TOP TRUMPS ¦
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¦ Maninaskirt ¦
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¦ Spotability - 8 ¦ (1 same time, same place, +3 Bike Day-Glo yellow full suspension, +3(!) with denim miniskirt, +1 commute S of Princes St)
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¦ Ruggedness - 5 ¦ (Don’t cycle when clocks are GMT, only BST)
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¦ AWESOME POWER - +2 ¦ (nothing broken, no animals saved (except a kamikaze squirrel that tried to leap through my spokes! – suppose that was an emergency stop too – another +1))
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¦ Copenhagenalismness - 8 ¦ (no lyra, hi-viz, gloves, clips, waterproofs, warm clothing – but do have helmet though ->-1. Also have loads of gears but no mudguards or basket – is that another –1 ?)
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| Commutabulosity- 3 ¦ (+1, bike as one form of commuting, EH2 to EH14 +1, carry repair kit, levers + pump)
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¦ Luminance - 0 ¦ (Don’t need lights in the summer!)
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Surely you get an extra Copenhagenalismness point for a skirt??
Posted 13 years ago # -
"Alexei Sayle?"
"I think there was one single paperback that everybody who cycled owned; this book did contain a few brief sections on maintenance, cycling clubs, safety and so on, but I seem to remember that what obsessed the author more than anything else was different ways to kill dogs."
Anyone know what this book is??
Posted 13 years ago # -
Surely you get an extra Copenhagenalismness point for a skirt??
Only if worn with correct fashion match of tights, knee-high boots and knitted beret :)
Posted 13 years ago # -
Smudge,
I suppose, I should claim a bonus point for that!!
Thanks for that!
maninaskirt
Posted 13 years ago # -
Alexei Sayle is quite well known for his love of cycling.
One of his short story collections includes a story about bikes.
Are you thinking about Richard Balantine's book?
Posted 13 years ago # -
Everyone should have/must have read Richard Ballantine's "Richard's Bicycle Book", in which he eulogised with equal enthusiasm about Burrows recumbent trikes :-) and precisely how to fend off dogs with bicycle pumps. :-(
Posted 13 years ago # -
I haven't. Sounds bonkers though. I like it already.
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