I'm getting on a bit now - 60 - so November to February is out, other than local use of hack bike. I cracked today, she said she was going out all day, good I thought, I know what to do. Its cold here so I went down the garage got a sheet of 4 x 8 old wall board, laid it down in the middle room over the carpet and turned the heating on to maximum Hawaii-style heat! Then for 4 hours I cleaned, adjusted, oiled, polished and generally lavished total love on my beloved bike! I feel better now and March is only around the corner.
I'm getting on a bit now - 60 - so November to February is out, other than local use of hack bike. I cracked today, she said she was going out all day, good I thought, I know what to do. Its cold here so I went down the garage got a sheet of 4 x 8 old wall board, laid it down in the middle room over the carpet and turned the heating on to maximum Hawaii- style heat! Then for 4 hours I cleaned, adjusted, oiled, polished and generally lavished total love on my beloved bike! I feel better now and March is only around the corner.
Please, please don't tell her will you!
She'll find out somehow you mark my words. Maybe it'll be the lingering smell of lubricant, maybe a fragment of cotton from the rag you used, maybe the dirt under your fingernails.
I'm getting on a bit now - 60 - so November to February is out, other than local use of hack bike. I cracked today, she said she was going out all day, good I thought, I know what to do. Its cold here so I went down the garage got a sheet of 4 x 8 old wall board, laid it down in the middle room over the carpet and turned the heating on to maximum Hawaii-style heat! Then for 4 hours I cleaned, adjusted, oiled, polished and generally lavished total love on my beloved bike! I feel better now and March is only around the corner.
But that's what homes are for, the looking after of bikes in the winter months :-)
Cheers, helen s (with a bike in the library right now)
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:32:54 +0000 (UTC), in <[email hidden]>, "PK"
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dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers said:
(with a bike in the library right now)
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Library!!!!!!!!!!!?
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:37:01 +0000, dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers
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Library!!!!!!!!!!!?
pk
Yup - I have a room which is used as a personal library
I have this vision of madame sitting in a buttoned leather wing chair, in front of a blazin fire. Wearing a smoking jacket embroidered with the club badge, sipping Earl Grey. She is reading periodical magazine bound in fine kid leather, full of tales of derring do by muscular young men racing their velocipedes over the Alps. In the background a skivvy is black leading the precious Bianchi.
My trike is currently resident in the living room, coz Cosimo the Stealth Baron (who normally lives in the conservatory) is in the kitchen having his brakes replaced...
My trike is currently resident in the living room, coz Cosimo the Stealth Baron (who normally lives in the conservatory) is in the kitchen having his brakes replaced...
Mine's in the garage, which is currently at freezing point. It did get brushed off, towled over and re-oiled after its trip out in the snow though.
Its started to snow again now, but I'm too full of cold to want to try it again.
- Richard
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