StreetCowboy

Don’t cycle when you’re paralytic with drink. If I were you, I would listen more to the people who have had accidents than those who have not… Good habits are hard to emulate, but with advice, you can spot bad practice before it becomes a habit.

Some people have nothing better to do with their lives than look for examples of political correctness over which to be outraged. It is how they reinforce their prejudices and build up their own self-image. You don't need a magnet to see the irony of it. SC

Please replace "bland" with a less pejorative term

Back in the day, people would have had the common sense to not rise to the click-bait.

I think if you are happy and diligent about doing your own maintenance you will have no complaints, and you will be able to give great advice like (this bike - x km between pedal replacement, that bike, y km and not yet). Despite all my complaints above, I would not condemn Giant bikes. If you trust the advice of strangers on the internet, maybe you deserve what you get. The best that you can expect is guidance on where to look

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.