Aldi shoe/pedal nettle patch face plant

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despairing wail

I've made that sound too... Pretty soon the clipless will become second nature
to use and the number of despairing wails will dramatically drop ;-)

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Ended up looking like a
plague victim, much to my wife's amusement.

ROTFLMAO... sorry, the mental picture you conjured up almost cost me a keyboard
;-) Seriously - I hope the swellings go down soon - antihistamines are good for
this!

Cheers, helen s

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On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:54:31 +0100, "Gordon" <[email hidden]>

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Like all the other fat middle aged sad blokes I too have become Aldi man
from head to foot. Some years since I last used cleats on shoes but thought
I'd have no probs getting out in a hurry. In fact, once the pedals were set
up I didn't have any hassle until I managed to nudge the front and back
change levers simulaneously on the new Hardrock whilst crawling up a short
steep stretch of the lovely cycle track round Alton Water (near Ipswich).
Result? Instant lock up of the whole shebang, despairing wail, one foot out,
one foot in and a decidedly ungraceful fall to the left.........face first
into the biggest bloody nettle patch on the route. Ended up looking like a
plague victim, much to my wife's amusement. Sensible lady, has refused my
offer to buy her a nice new pair of shoes.

If anyone in Suffolk is still looking for Aldi cycling stuff, try the one in
Meredith Road, Ipswich as they still have loads left including the really
cheap shirts and shorts from a couple of weeks ago. Having paid outrageous
prices for not especially good kit in the past I welcome their efforts. When
I was really into cycling (about 25 years ago) a pair of rubbish shorts
would cost about half a weeks wages, compared with the cracking Aldi touring
ones at three quid. Thought I'd died and gone to heaven

Gordon - returning after many years and too many curries
Specialized Hardrock for the roughish bits
Holdsworth Mistral in 531 with mix of Shimano 105 and Suntour Cyclone, for
the black stuff (bet you young muffins ain't seen one o' them)

Hey, Gordon, my man ............... you sound just like me !!!
I have also started up again after 25 years, I also have 105 kit (on
my fixie) and Suntour Cyclone stuff (on my tandem)

Bloody good kit at Aldi I have to say !!! Well good enough for me
anyway .............

Well you sound nearly like me ............ I aint got a spotty face
like you !!

Good luck mate ............ keep goin!!

ps

I have a spare (new) Suntour Cyclone front mech and lever (braze on)
if you are ever in need !!

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:54:31 +0100, "Gordon" <[email hidden]>

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Like all the other fat middle aged sad blokes I too have become Aldi man
from head to foot

Puts hand up sheepishly (clad in Aldi shirt and Aldi glove)

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On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:54:31 +0100, "Gordon" <[email hidden]>

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Like all the other fat middle aged sad blokes I too have become Aldi man
from head to foot

Puts hand up sheepishly (clad in Aldi shirt and Aldi glove)

When I say head to foot I mean from the pointy bit at the top to the wiggly
bits at the other end. Aldi wooly hat, Short sleeved cycling shirt, summer
cycling jacket, erotically charged bib pants (also available from that very
nice Ann Summers shop at ten times the price and with more holes), Aldi
cycling socks, dem dreaded shoes, and finished off with Aldi gloves. Total
cost less than a chicken biriani night out with far fewer calories and no
f*rts at all.

Gordon
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On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:54:31 +0100, "Gordon" <[email hidden]>

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Like all the other fat middle aged sad blokes I too have become Aldi man
from head to foot

Puts hand up sheepishly (clad in Aldi shirt and Aldi glove)

I'm wearing a Lidl shirt and Tchibo shorts, just to be different.

I fit 'fat', 'sad', and 'bloke' too. Does 31 count as middle-aged these
days?

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Gordon said:

When I say head to foot I mean from the pointy bit at the top to the wiggly
bits at the other end. Aldi wooly hat, Short sleeved cycling shirt, summer
cycling jacket, erotically charged bib pants (also available from that very
nice Ann Summers shop at ten times the price and with more holes), Aldi
cycling socks, dem dreaded shoes, and finished off with Aldi gloves.

I'm failing to get the anatomical picture right here. Your toes are in the
gloves?

Roos

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On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:54:31 +0100, "Gordon" <[email hidden]>

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Like all the other fat middle aged sad blokes I too have become Aldi man
from head to foot

Puts hand up sheepishly (clad in Aldi shirt and Aldi glove)

I might have ridden to work this morning wearing the Aldi
waterproof trousers :-)

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Like all the other fat middle aged sad blokes I too have become Aldi man
from head to foot

Puts hand up sheepishly (clad in Aldi shirt and Aldi glove)

Hello, my name is Helen and I am Aldi woman. The only saving grace is this is
not quite as bad as C&A woman ;-)

Cheers, helen s

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On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:54:31 +0100, "Gordon" <[email hidden]>
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Hey, Gordon, my man ............... you sound just like me !!!
I have also started up again after 25 years, I also have 105 kit (on
my fixie) and Suntour Cyclone stuff (on my tandem)

Bloody good kit at Aldi I have to say !!! Well good enough for me
anyway .............

Well you sound nearly like me ............ I aint got a spotty face
like you !!

Good luck mate ............ keep goin!!

ps

I have a spare (new) Suntour Cyclone front mech and lever (braze on)
if you are ever in need !!

The mech I have on my beloved Holdsworth is the very curious Suntour Cyclone
one that sits *on top* of the downtube, allegedly to reduce wind resistance
(early marketing bollox in my view) but does make it easier to reach. The
really neat bit is that because the front and rear changers are integrated
into one unit the designers linked them so that when you change up on the
rear mech the left hand lever moves slightly forwards ( along the axis of
the downtube, not rotating about its pivot point). It moves the other way
when changing down. The net result is to adjust the front mech, preventing
chain rub and removing the need for manual adjustment. Difficult to describe
in words, but take my word for it, very nifty in use!

As for the spotty face (and left arm) the marks are fading, but the pain
remains. May persuade wife to rub cream into affected area later - also
found some other painful areas she can do as well..................

Gordon

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Like all the other fat middle aged sad blokes I too have become Aldi man
from head to foot.

Beware of too much matching kit, it causes a karmic imbalance that
results in frequent falls. We had a rider who'd been given a Trek
jersey to match his bike, he was off so often he tore the jersey. Once
he'd bought a different one he was fine.

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face first
into the biggest bloody nettle patch on the route.

Round here we're grateful for a nice soft nettlebed, mud puddle or
cowpat. It's the huge knobbly flints that really hurt.

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What goes down must come up again - Confucius' Law of Mountain Biking

31...Doesn't even come close.

With average life expectancy (for males) pushing into 80+, at 31 you are
still young.

At 48 I am well on my way downhill and well past middle-aged, by pure
mathematics.

Oh well, just have to make the years count.

BTW Lidl, Aldi, Tchibo... so what. If it keeps me on the bike, I'm happy.

DG

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Rob said:

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:54:31 +0100, "Gordon" <[email hidden]>

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Like all the other fat middle aged sad blokes I too have become Aldi man
from head to foot

Puts hand up sheepishly (clad in Aldi shirt and Aldi glove)

I'm wearing a Lidl shirt and Tchibo shorts, just to be different.

I fit 'fat', 'sad', and 'bloke' too. Does 31 count as middle-aged these
days?

--
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Train whistle blowing, makes a sleepy noise

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BTW Lidl, Aldi, Tchibo... so what. If it keeps me on the bike, I'm happy.

Damned straight.

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In message <[email hidden]>, Gordon <[email hidden]>
writes

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Like all the other fat middle aged sad blokes I too have become Aldi man
from head to foot.

Beware of too much matching kit, it causes a karmic imbalance that
results in frequent falls. We had a rider who'd been given a Trek
jersey to match his bike, he was off so often he tore the jersey. Once
he'd bought a different one he was fine.

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face first
into the biggest bloody nettle patch on the route.

Round here we're grateful for a nice soft nettlebed, mud puddle or
cowpat. It's the huge knobbly flints that really hurt.

--
];(🙂

What goes down must come up again - Confucius' Law of Mountain Biking

It ain't the pain I'm concerned about. Flints, razor wire and even brambles
produce honourable wounds that generate concern and respect. Try walking
down your local High Street with your face poxed to blazes by nettles and
you begin to realise that the only way to stop the public from mocking,
staring or dragging their kids to the other side of the street would be to
invest in a good handbell and practice bellowing "unclean" at the top of
your voice............

Gordon

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DG said:

31...Doesn't even come close.

With average life expectancy (for males) pushing into 80+, at 31 you are
still young.

At 48 I am well on my way downhill and well past middle-aged, by pure
mathematics.

Oh well, just have to make the years count.

So my 53 ain't lookin too good then ............... ??

Your only as old as the Aldi clad body your feelin :-)

Anyway I'm as fit as a cello ...............

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Gordon said:

Like all the other fat middle aged sad blokes I too have become Aldi man
from head to foot.

Oy! Not all. This fat middle aged sad bloke doesn't have anything from Aldi.
In fact he doesn't even know what Aldi is.

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Alex Salmond - thank you for saying the obvious. Can you repeat what
James VI did, for us poor sassenachs with no acceptable leaders?

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Gordon said:

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face first
into the biggest bloody nettle patch on the route.

Hehe.

(well, if your missus found it funny, it can't have been too serious
to laugh at:-)

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Round here we're grateful for a nice soft nettlebed, mud puddle or
cowpat. It's the huge knobbly flints that really hurt.

Yeah. When I came off on Sunday (see "sheer stress" post) I watched
the big jagged rocks - fixtures in the nice friendly dirt track -
rising up to meet me. One was heading straight for the head at first,
but fortunately I was able to divert it - the same fall in nettles
would on balance have been a good deal nastier.

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It ain't the pain I'm concerned about. Flints, razor wire and even brambles
produce honourable wounds that generate concern and respect.

You tried brambles? My blackberrying produces a general redness of bumps,
blotches and scratches that is neither dignified nor sympathetic.
Of course, part of that is the symbiotic relationship of nettles and brambles.

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Try walking
down your local High Street with your face poxed to blazes by nettles and

Hehe.

Something a bit like that happened to me a very long time ago, as a child.
I don't recollect it generating any particular reaction.

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Nick Kew

Alex Salmond - thank you for saying the obvious. Can you repeat what
James VI did, for us poor sassenachs with no acceptable leaders?

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writes

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It ain't the pain I'm concerned about. Flints, razor wire and even brambles
produce honourable wounds that generate concern and respect. Try walking
down your local High Street with your face poxed to blazes by nettles and
you begin to realise that the only way to stop the public from mocking,
staring or dragging their kids to the other side of the street would be to
invest in a good handbell and practice bellowing "unclean" at the top of
your voice............

Love it - you can come on our Comical Mass ride !

Watch out for the itch that follows the pain though.

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What goes down must come up again - Confucius' Law of Mountain Biking

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In article <[email hidden]>,

Gordon said:

Like all the other fat middle aged sad blokes I too have become Aldi man
from head to foot.

Oy! Not all. This fat middle aged sad bloke doesn't have anything from
Aldi.

Me too until today. I was Mr Lidl.
Today (Sat) I bought a Gilet, waterproof pants and winter jacket.
They still had lots of stock at the Fleetwood Aldi.

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Like all the other fat middle aged sad blokes I too have become Aldi man
from head to foot

Puts hand up sheepishly (clad in Aldi shirt and Aldi glove)

Hello, my name is Helen and I am Aldi woman. The only saving grace is this is
not quite as bad as C&A woman ;-)

Well Aldi woman is somewhat more up to date than C&A woman, given that C&A
(UK) went bust 10ish years ago. Strangely C&A are still going strong in
some other European countries, and I find plenty to buy when I go in there.
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