Flay me neck!

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Today I are been mainly riding the touring bike. A new Brooks B17 is
breaking my raes in so I thought I'd give it a decent start by riding
both ways (25 miles each way).

All very well, but I now have a crick in my neck from all that
unnatural bending backwards. Bah! I am not used to this head-down
raes-up riding any more. And quite right too.

Peripherally related: last week I rode my fixer to New Work on Tuesday.
It has a Brooks B17, which is blissfully comfortable. On Wednesday, I
rode my mountain bike (up the towpath). It has a Brooks B17, and gave
me a gruesome affliction, the details of which I shall spare you on the
grounds that it may be dinner time. In addition to three^w four visits
from the P+nct+r+ Fairy[1].

Fortunately, the discovery of a spare 559 inner tube in the cupboard
under the stairs allowed me to use the Speedmachine again, with its
spiffy new SON-equipped front wheel, and I it 72 km/h on the way home
today :-)

However, the new fixer will also sport a B17. Ergo I am this:
apprehensive.

1 - Vredestein S-Licks are Fine Tyres for smooth towpaths such as
prevail inside the M25, but out in the wilds of Faaaarkin' Essex, they
are made of Sterner Stuff. Fortunately, Halfrauds were doing a "Buy One
And Get A Free Inner Tube" offer, so it now has a beefy Conti on the
rear. Though since the towpath route is 7 km longer than the road, it
may be some time before I attempt it again.

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Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/>
Flies are the work of Stan, and should be killed by all means available.

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:43:00 +0100, Dave Larrington
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Peripherally related: last week I rode my fixer to New Work on Tuesday.

You toil no more in the Nut Mines? Or have they sunk a new shaft?

Guy
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85% of helmet statistics are made up, 69% of them at CHS, Puget Sound

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On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:43:00 +0100, Dave Larrington
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Peripherally related: last week I rode my fixer to New Work on Tuesday.

You toil no more in the Nut Mines? Or have they sunk a new shaft?

Indeed. Got made redundant at the end of June, by which time I already
had New! IMPROVED!! Jobbe lined up. Now at Pearson (publishers,
include Penguin, Longman, Addison-Wesley, Dorling Kindersley ect. ect.)
in Harlow. It is 28 lumpy km each way and my legs are unused to such
cavalier treatment :-(

AND the Evil Squirrels have finally paid me the other Several thousand
of the BRITONS' pounds on which they have been sitting for the last
month. I oughter of charged the abtsrads interest.

--
Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/>
A complimentary biro(tm) is /not/ to be sniffed at.

Dave Larrington said:

AND the Evil Squirrels have finally paid me the other Several thousand
of the BRITONS' pounds on which they have been sitting for the last
month.

NEW BIKE!

"Bob"
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Email address is spam trapped, to reply directly remove the beverage.

Dave Larrington said:

Indeed. Got made redundant at the end of June, by which time I already
had New! IMPROVED!! Jobbe lined up. Now at Pearson (publishers,
include Penguin, Longman, Addison-Wesley, Dorling Kindersley ect. ect.)
in Harlow.

You omitted the most excellent Prentice Hall, who are publishing my
masterpiece and are therefore the only one that matters!

What do Pearson do in Harlow? I thought their UK interests were of
a more newspaper-like nature, with the FT and economist! The ones
I do contract work for are elsewhere.

--
not me guv

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What do Pearson do in Harlow? I thought their UK interests were of
a more newspaper-like nature, with the FT and economist! The ones
I do contract work for are elsewhere.

Have lots of users who ask too many dam' fool questions?

It's mostly Pearson Education in Harlow, plus us IT bods; all manner of
sales and admin and bean counters and so forth.

Now, everybody, why is my broadbean connection up and down like the
proverbial? Is it likely to be the crappy modem dying on its donkey, or
is it just like that sometimes?

--
Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/>
Is it an Audi A4?

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Dave Larrington said:

AND the Evil Squirrels have finally paid me the other Several thousand
of the BRITONS' pounds on which they have been sitting for the last
month.

NEW BIKE!

But yes. The majority of the bits are already on the premises. I just
need a frame to attach them all to (see threads passim re Schmidt hubs).

--
Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/>
If you want a bicycle, buy a bicycle. If you want something that folds,
buy a deckchair.

Dave Larrington said:

Now, everybody, why is my broadbean connection up and down like the
proverbial? Is it likely to be the crappy modem dying on its donkey, or
is it just like that sometimes?

Possibly. I had a really unreliable connection a couple of months ago.
In the end the router just stopped responding. I bought a new one and
it's been fine since.

Dave Larrington said:

Now, everybody, why is my broadbean connection up and down like the
proverbial? Is it likely to be the crappy modem dying on its donkey, or
is it just like that sometimes?

Radio news this morning (Friday) said that there had been extensive power
cuts in London yeaterday due to high demand. The supplier (EDF?) has
asked employers to turn off the aircon in office buildings to reduce
demand. Even if the exchange has a UPS, many street cabinets need power,
and don't.

Mike

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Dave Larrington said:

Now, everybody, why is my broadbean connection up and down like the
proverbial? Is it likely to be the crappy modem dying on its donkey, or
is it just like that sometimes?

Radio news this morning (Friday) said that there had been extensive power
cuts in London yeaterday due to high demand. The supplier (EDF?) has
asked employers to turn off the aircon in office buildings to reduce
demand. Even if the exchange has a UPS, many street cabinets need power,
and don't.

Ah. Broadbean dies due to the wrong sort of heat. It's been stable
today, but only running at half clip. On a good day I get 4 Mb/s; this
evening it's 1.8.

Bah!

--
Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/>
Barley, barley, barley, world cruise. You never see a farmer on a bike.

Dave Larrington wrote on 28/07/2006 18:41 +0100:

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Ah. Broadbean dies due to the wrong sort of heat. It's been stable
today, but only running at half clip. On a good day I get 4 Mb/s; this
evening it's 1.8.

Its all them folks contending to get onto Lostminutes.com to escape to
somewhere cooler like the South of France ;-)

--
Tony

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using
his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
- Leonardo da Vinci