And today I did......

[firedfromthecircus]

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Took the Inbred out for a spin, finally got the lack of gearing dialled in and its great!

FIFY.

 

[velomaniac]

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Started building my Epicyclo inspired gravel bike. That is a bike with big baloon tyres in the form of Schwalbe Big Apples 29 x 2.35". The bike I'm building looks like it has cartoon tyres shod with those, they're huge :shock: Proper comfy and compliant tyres though even if they only just fit the forks I'm using, about 1.5mm clearance all around

 

[jimo746]

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Took the Inbred out for a spin, finally got the lack of gearing dialled in and its great!

FIFY.

Ho F**king Ho!

But yes, not a grumble from the drive train, so confidence boosted
Previous few outings included some *ahem* rather painful chain deraillments :shock: and a snapped chain :facepalm:

 

[keithyr]

was down at Raceland in Tranent lst night for annual works gokarting event I organise.

what a hoot, 70mph twin engine karts on an outdoor track .......in the rain.

 

[RobMac]

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A magic moment yesterday
I had a wild Robin eating from my hand, I was sitting in a walled garden owned by the local council. I'd gone there to have lunch (filled roll and a bun) and the Robin hovered like a humming bird and pecked at my roll in my hand 4 or 5 times. I swear I'm not kidding you, then it went to the ground between my feet and took the crumbs I'd left so I took a little corner off my roll and the Robin got stuck into that as well straight from my fingers :shock:

Superb

 

[kaiser]

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On a wee road trip. Yesterday we pedalled from Corran ferry round the coast to Mallaig, over to Skye and up to Kyle of Lochalsh. Sometimes you get dreich days and sometimes you get DREICH!!!! days. It was most definitely the latter. Fortunately the sun is out this morning, so it's Plockton then over the Bealach to Applecross then up near Torridon.

 

[velomaniac]

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Today I had a wee go on a home build cargo trike called Percy with a powerful hub electric motor. Its built for shifting up to 80kg of soup from the kitchen its made to cafes around Edinburgh. Definitely a weird riding experience the cargo portion is at the front with the two wheeled box and the steering is a bit tiller style. Unfortunately to give it straight line stability it has a slight rake to the steering angle which means the trike leans the opposite way to which you are steering which can give you unsettling moments and the possibility of cowping the cart. Fun though and its putting silly home bodged contraptions into my head :roll:

 

[DynaCol]

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Velo's mobile soup kitchen! That would be perfect for keeping us warm at Baltic bawbags next year, the cliff path would be a struggle for you though with gallons of soup sloshing about

 

[keithyr]

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A magic moment yesterday
I had a wild Robin eating from my hand, I was sitting in a walled garden owned by the local council. I'd gone there to have lunch (filled roll and a bun) and the Robin hovered like a humming bird and pecked at my roll in my hand 4 or 5 times. I swear I'm not kidding you, then it went to the ground between my feet and took the crumbs I'd left so I took a little corner off my roll and the Robin got stuck into that as well straight from my fingers :shock:

Superb

so whit yer saying is ye were giving a burd a richt guid fingering eh....goan yersel ya auld tart!

 

[old_coyote_pedaller]

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Nowt wrong wae that, as the old saying has it, "a finger in the bush is worth a burd's hand across yer pus", that's no right, feck it, ye ken whit Ah mean. :mrgreen: