@uberuce, is the box ok?plastic shards?
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Posted 11 years ago #
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Box is very exploded.
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Would it have been easier to zip tie a paddle on the long axis of the bike?
Yes, when I've needed to do this since (once or twice only), I just tape the shaft onto the top tube and let the blades sit above the wheels.
Although it is odd, because when you turn the bars, a large part of the front of the bike doesn't turn any more!
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Self-Hijack: Dave, I scribbled on the inside of the hitch on my Carry Freedom with a pencil the other day and it's now slick as you like for connecting/disconnecting, even with the bike not parked directly upright. I will report on the longevity of this graphite lubrication as and when.
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Mrs Twinspark was asking after me kindly yesterday, although completely baffled as to how twinspark had the first clue I'd done it.
A woman who'd been walking her kids to the park had stopped to look with that Am I witnessing something here cast to her body. She turned out to be a parent at the school too.
Colleagues laughed and/or winced. Not too impressed by the dressing applied. I'd not seen it till my boss changed the dressing for em and took the obligatory photo-for-Titter and it looks like there were some steristrips lying on the ground which I fell on. In the nurse's defence, the other wound complicates matters.
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No idea how I missed this thread the other day. Glad you're okay!
The box was a Really Useful 84 litre jobbie, which I was taking home because it was unwanted at work and *deep breath because of irony pain* a near-perfect fit for my trailer.
This made me laugh out loud in the office. Brilliant.
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I love the smell of the gum they use in steri-strips in the casualty dept. It's like concentrated Elastoplast smell.
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Sanitary towels and gaffa tape generally do the job. Although it does make for a slightly unorthodox bike first aid kit.
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This made me laugh out loud in the office. Brilliant.
I didn't get past "84 litre jobbie" before I stopped reading and started chortling
Posted 11 years ago # -
Just a bruise update. The ghouls will need to head over to Twitter and look at my profile picture stream for the contents of the dressing.
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You really don't do things by halves Uberuce.
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Bet you wish you didn't mass so much now eh? Get well soon mate.
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Oooops indeed!
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Self-Hijack: Dave, I scribbled on the inside of the hitch on my Carry Freedom with a pencil the other day and it's now slick as you like for connecting/disconnecting, even with the bike not parked directly upright. I will report on the longevity of this graphite lubrication as and when.
Sir, you are a genius!
I must ask though - what grade of pencil is optimum for the task?
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Presumably towards the high B end of the scale for enhanced graphite content?
Also works well on sticky D-lock mechanisms - sharpen a pencil into the holes and try and avoid dropping the work shavings in as well...
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The only pencil to hand was an HB, but plainly this merits further study.
It's mentioned in the instruction leaflet for the Carry Freedom, Dave, so I can't claim credit, except for the fact it's talking about the old mechanical hitch's moving parts, not the acrylic's inner surface.
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I've periodically used grease, on the grounds that any degradation of the material is likely to come a distant second to mechanical trauma in terms of lifespan limiting factors. Will have to give this a go, as it's getting tight again.
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Rugg: Bet you wish you didn't mass so much now eh?
88kg/1.78m = 49.44.
49.44/1.78 = 27.8.
27.8 = overweight.Come back, BMI, all is forgiven...
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BMI is one of the worst possible ways to evaluate your condition.
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Think 'we' have had a similar 'conversation' before.
Posted 11 years ago # -
I doubt I'll ever get tired of throwing monkey poop at it.
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