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Free bike tyres!  Well, free apart from the mandatory fitting charge (no fitting them yourself), and nearly having to shell out for busfare home, as it was a little touch and go whether they'd be done "while I waited".  All thanks to the latest Continental tyres promo, to wit their "tyre amnesty".  Repent of your previous choice of pneumatic rubber ( Read more... )

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Torn between the "chain breaker" icon for state of bike, and "cat" for the sunbeams.

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Just to break up the monotony of the biketrip updates (hi, Myles!)...  Minor panic when my current best approximation to a computer broke a second hinge -- or to be precise, when a second corner of the back of the display, just above the hinge proper, cracked right across and all the way through.  Not a huge surprise, as after the first one went, ( Read more... )

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Getting plenty of practice in changing bicycle tires; after removing one from my buckled front, and replacing it on the new one, I ended up doing it all over again when I found out that not only had I been sold a wheel without fixing nuts, it wasn't even doing to fit properly, and had to get another one from the other bike shop. Apparently I need ( Read more... )

I think we somewhat got short change on the nice weather here; granted the weekend proper was very sunny, but a lot of today and Friday were huckuva murky. Still, it would have to be the nicest weather we've had since... well, actually, last Whitsun weekend. Maybe those Crazy Christians and their moveable feasts were onto something? (Sounds ( Read more... )