Quote from: Slim on August 12, 2022, 02:04:37 PMAn MP3 player fixes those.

Sorry, don't want any of my senses making dimmer.

Bike was quiet today, apart from a faint hint of not quite properly indexed gears. It may have been quieter because I couldn't be bothered to put too much effort in. 30C is just a bit warm. I'd half filled my bidons and put them in the freezer this morning, then topped up with cold water before leaving. They were fully up to temperature after 56 minutes.

Today's 42 miles were as much as I could do with two 750ml bidons, I don't think I passed anywhere to procure any more libations until I was nearly home. Hopefully next week will be cooler. Hopefully next week will be dry.

https://www.strava.com/activities/7632509459/

Hällas - Isle of Wisdom
Armored Saint - March of the Saint

Don't trigger me!

Quote from: dom on August 12, 2022, 12:59:02 PMYou'd rather we'd be like the Seppos then Nick?  Not a clue about anything happening outside the UK.  For many outside their back yard!

Not one bit, I just don't want the BBC to pretend we're from a country we're not. It's the Beeb sucking up to the seppoes to try and make their reporting more accessible to them.

QuoteRe the Second point, to the Russians at the moment, NATO is to their West.  An Eastern expansion to them would mean that Japan was joining!

If only when the seppoes were exhorted to "Go West young man" they'd actually moved eastwards. The world might well be a better place. The Red Indians would be happier

On the Bianchi, I've been suffering a "Tick" noise every pedal revolution when going up a steep hill. In the past this has been solved by taking out the pedals and greasing the threads. Not this time. On Wednesday it was noisier than ever.

So, I took the wheels off and checked the tightness of the lock rings on the disc rotors and rear cassette. They were both slightly loose on the rear, quick tighten and jobs a good 'un. Only trouble is, some quieter noises have now appeared...

Every time there's a full moon these days, the BBC website puts up pictures of it. OK it's a nice shiny full moon. But the said full moon then gets a name, today it's the "Sturgeon" moon. Come on, be honest, have you ever heard of a "Sturgeon" Moon before? Pound to a penny you haven't.

And why is it being called the "Sturgeon" moon? Ah, yes, because it's the Red Indian (I'm, not PC) for it. That's right, the Red Indians who live an ocean away on a different continent. People who in the great scheme of things have bog all to do with the calendrical happening of the lunar cycle.

Excuse me BBC, do you know what the first "B" in your acronym stands for? I suggest you look it up and not in your Funk and Wagnall...

And I could also be grumpy for forgetting to flag up the fact that earlier on in the week on the BBC website it said that the Russians could have been angered by the western expansion of NATO. I put all this down to the world now being run by the victims of BLiars' "Education, Edyoukaytion, Edyookayshun" mantra.

Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on August 06, 2022, 09:31:35 PMClimbing up from Hathersage to Surprise View (Not much of a surprise as I know it's there and it was behind me) I overtook a bloke in rather obvious Le Col cycling clobber. As I was in Rapha I greeted him with "LE COL SUCKS, RAPHA RULES!!!" Hopefully in the week when I'm in Le Col I can overtake a Rapha Rider and repeat things in reverse...

I overtook a Rapha rider today Unfortunately I had my dhb kit on

Yes, I certainly think some people live life on the 'line', and in a lot of cases more fool them. I've always lived within my means and still know where there's bits of fat to cut out.

I remember 15% mortgage rates and I still chuckle at the memory, Mrs S worked in a bank and we only paid 5%

The weekly shopping has certainly gone up - Charlie Bigham meals for one are now £5.50 at Tesco up from £4.50 - but they'd been fairly stable for years IIRC. The Bigham meals are quite often at £5 for Clubcard holders so that's not too bad.

On the energy front I'm currently paying £193 a month*, what that will end up at I don't know, but we're stocking up firewood for the log burner and I'll buy a couple of woolly jumpers for the winter to replace the ones the Moths ate so I can turn the thermostat down.

*It'd be less, but the boy does a lot of 3D printing to try and make a living selling trackside models for model railways and that seems to eat electricity. It seems to me that for every £1 he makes he spends £2 - and we don't see any of it

Sitting out in the sun watching 9 Long Tailed Tits and a Blue Tit on one of our Bird Feeders. With two LTTs watching on from a nearby tree branch. Does life get any better? (Most probably yes - ed.)

On my rides I always do a short loop before embarking on the main body of my ride. I do this as if I've done a bit of work on the bike and done a poor job it'll be obvious in the first bit of the ride.

Today I had to do without, as the Chesterfield inner relief road was closed and traffic was backing up on the diversionary routes which were the ones I would have gone out on. Good job I hadn't worked on the bike then...

So, I went out the opposite to what I'd intended only to find another closed road. I turned round and set off another way to eventually come to a set of traffic lights at roadworks near the top of a hill. Thwarted again. Luckily I didn't have to go through Clay Cross, I wouldn't want to take a good bike though the X, too many feral hoodlums around.

Luckily all these diversions meant I didn't end up looking for random roads to ride down to get the ride up to 40 miles. That's 235 for the week, the best of the year so far.

https://www.strava.com/activities/7599595219

Quote from: Nick on August 06, 2022, 05:07:09 PMtold me I shouldn't really ride it until it was fixed. So naturally I did!

Have bike will ride!

I'd been riding one of my bikes for weeks with what was a failing freehub, when I took it in for a service I said it had only started making a noise recently  Worse than that the rear rim braking track was worn away to the carbon wheels, that could have been wheel explosion time...

Got only my third Fondo of the year in today. Longest ride of the year too at 65 miles didn't quite reach 5,000ft of elevation gain though, but I can live with that. Even set a best uphill segment time today, not done that on any climb this year, I suspect that the few times I've done the climb before have been into the teeth of a Northerly gale...

Climbing up from Hathersage to Surprise View (Not much of a surprise as I know it's there and it was behind me) I overtook a bloke in rather obvious Le Col cycling clobber. As I was in Rapha I greeted him with "LE COL SUCKS, RAPHA RULES!!!" Hopefully in the week when I'm in Le Col I can overtake a Rapha Rider and repeat things in reverse...

https://www.strava.com/activities/7593647022

Mikael Akerfeldt - Clark, soundtrack to the Netflix series.

Sounds like a soundtrack written by Mikael Akerfeldt...

King Crimson, something out of the Road to Red box set

Quote from: pxr5 on August 05, 2022, 09:29:01 PM

Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on August 05, 2022, 09:09:39 PM

Quote from: David L on July 29, 2022, 10:56:54 PM

Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on July 29, 2022, 09:10:01 PMA copy of Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick 50th Anniversary Steven Wilson remix arrived today.

I've tried, Lord I've tried but......I just don't get it 

I've got it, I get it

And today at long last, I got Clark the Soundtrack to the Swedish Netflix series my Mikael Akerfeldt. The first copy sent out to me got lost by the wonderful Royal Mail. Got the refund from Amazon, reordered, and Amazon delivery delivered. They might be an Evil Corporation, but they're not useless like Royal Mail...

Did they package it? I'm still pissed off that they sent me an album like this:

http://betweenthewheels.net/index.php?topic=48.msg5272#msg5272

Yes. Properly, but not over packaged.

I've never had one arrive with the shipping label straight on the LP, but did have one arrive which was just wrapped in a plastic bag.

Quote from: David L on July 29, 2022, 10:56:54 PM

Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on July 29, 2022, 09:10:01 PMA copy of Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick 50th Anniversary Steven Wilson remix arrived today.

I've tried, Lord I've tried but......I just don't get it 

I've got it, I get it

And today at long last, I got Clark the Soundtrack to the Swedish Netflix series my Mikael Akerfeldt. The first copy sent out to me got lost by the wonderful Royal Mail. Got the refund from Amazon, reordered, and Amazon delivery delivered. They might be an Evil Corporation, but they're not useless like Royal Mail...