StreetCowboy

And one of the pedals failed after less than a year. It was on the way home from the office, and I was able to get home. Next day, down to my local bike shop: ”Flat pedals, please “ ”These one’s are really nice, “ he showed me some mountain bike pedals. ”No reflectors. Do you have any with pedal reflectors? Where I come from, they’re a legal requirement” ”Ok, we have these, for Ten ringgit” ”I’ll take two pairs, in case you’ve none left when the first pair fails. I don’t care how long they last, so long as they’ll get me 10 km home when they start to fail”.

Take some advice from a Scot

There's, like, no harm in giving a "like", bytheway, like, eh?

Maybe lsd should not have been capitalised - that's really before my time.

I am glad that I bought it, because I needed a shopping bike, and I did not see anything else suitable. it was to replace a Fuji Absolute 1.5, which was sadly misplaced, and it is inferior to the Fuji; and also significantly cheaper. I have been consistently disappointed with the Giant dealerships - the Fuji came from an independent neighbourhood bike shop. Thailand may be different. Generally, I think dealerships do not give the same service as neighbourhood bike shops, although before they closed, the Trek showroom staff were great, and there is one local neighbourhood shop that is mechanically incompetent. I bought a Giant in Taiwan, back in the day, and it was the cheapest bike I ever owned, and never let me down. the Fuji suffered from broken spokes as well, and shortly before it was misplaced, I had taken it in for a 100% spoke replacement on the rear wheel.

That's fair.

I recently bought a Giant Escape 2 as my replacement shopping bike. The rear mudguard broke fairly quickly, and they did not have a replacement part available as a warranty repair. I suffered a second broken spoke, after about 1,000 km, and again the shop did not have replacements in stock, but assured me they would call me when they arrive. The frame is too small, but I knew that when I bought it, and I am used to that. It's not as much too small as my mountain bike frame. SC

Anacronyms are like LSD

You might say that traditional characters are romanticised, while simplified characters are functional, but in the days of computer typescript, I believe that simplified characters are archaic, parochial and revisionist.

The cuts don’t go all the way through, (not yet) and there’s still a few thousand km life left in the tyre otherwise.

Young J has joined us on our weekly explorations, and he rides a proper road bike with road bike tyres. Despite his youth, he’s good natured and stoic - he must have some mettle to come back after his first ride - knocked off his bike and poisoned, but still cheerful! Unfortunately, many of our rides involve a bit of - not off-road, but maybe ‘other road’ - sometimes, nearly-new roads… we’ve been on DASH highway prior to opening, prior to surfacing, prior to final concrete pour and at the hardcore formation stage. And sometimes roads that fall below ‘alternative recommendation’ on Google Maps. Summnday was one of those. It was definitely road gravel, and not river gravel, but it was still pedal-deep in places.” And this morning he mentioned the cuts that his tyres had suffered. Not through to the tube, no punctures, but I worry that the slits will pick up muck that will work it’s way into the tyre and make the cut deeper until it results in disaster. So what do you recommend, to keep the tyre in faithful and reliable service? Maybe fill the crack with a rubbery adhesive? Anything hard would probably fall out as the tyre flexed… IMG_4195.MOV

222b. Who knew Sherlock Holmes had a stutter?

Do you bark at cars?

Better an anarcho-cynicalist commune.

At risk of diverting the topic, were I to suffer an interminable repetition of the same day, I hope it would be one of those dreadful hangover days of which you recall little, and nothing of the day before. The headache may be hellish, but better an interminable moment of pain than the tedium of eternal repetition without hope of alternative.

Yossarian did not subscribe to that theory. And he is the most successful bomber of whom I have heard, despite his fictionality. SC

If you need a fork 'n' rest you should man up and go to the gym more

The day went as well as could be expected, the rescue driver found his way to all the pubs, we had a bit of banter regarding beer provisions at stages 1,2 and 3, and I completely forgot the route, but how far wrong can you go when so few pubs sell cider? The Totaliser is still counting, but we’re up to Thb 100,000 for the Shelter, which is pretty good with only four cyclists. And it’s less than 12 months till Pubcycle 2023, if you want to join…

It’s been a while since astrology was considered a science.

And gullibility, if you believe what HR tell you.

Even the happiest stories end. If we are lucky, we can pass on to greener pastures leaving those behind us with a smile on their lips, like the general who said “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist…”

When inflation was 8 or 10% or more. We became used to low inflation, until the governments enlisted the printing presses to wash their way out of the COVID Crisis with a sea of green.

You should demand satisfaction

That is depressing. Ne’er mind, there is peace and tranquility in wanting for ought, and it is often said that the poorest people are the happiest - though rarely by the poorest people, and you will rarely see the affluent actively pursue that goal. But to be someone upon whom the advertisers have given up - that must surely be a relief.

… And you may kid yourself Anyway that you want But you may find yourself Kidding no-one but yourself” I went to the USA once, and if I had to identify one difference that made the USA unique, people there believed their own stories. I realise this is slightly off topic, so perhaps the Mods could amend the thread title accordingly?