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Community => Muppets Threads! (And Anything Else) => Topic started by: Andre Jute on December 23, 2013, 06:09:19 pm
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My bike is perfect, except that I want a new seat post to match the Brooks twin rail-adaptor Julian kindly gave me to fix a crude Brooks house-brand fitting that keeps going out of adjustment. But I haven't decided which seat post I want yet. The lugged Nitto Julian has looks good but I can't afford the 45mm setback, in fact I want some set-forward if at all possible.
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Here's a tip if your family hasn't yet got the message. Run your preferred bicycle components catalogue on the television as a screensaver when the family is not watching anything in particular. One good way to do this is to run the YouTube version on your smartphone or tablet, then connect the smartphone to the television with an HDMI cable, then you just select the correct input and let it run. (iPhone and iPad put the vid onscreen without any further input from you.) This method of managing your family's desire to buy you expensive bicycle components is a rough version of subliminal suggestion.
Andre Jute
Boss psychologist
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well Andre my seatpost is perfect i just need a frame to attach it too. ::)
i got 3 stars on the scratch card waste of time,so i'll wait for the lotto draw tonight see if my numbers come up. ;D ;D
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well Andre my seatpost is perfect i just need a frame to attach it too. ::)
i got 3 stars on the scratch card waste of time,so i'll wait for the lotto draw tonight see if my numbers come up. ;D ;D
Jags good luck don't hold your breath. My seat post is also perfect for me.
Peter.
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I'm feeling lucky tonight Peter ;D ;D
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I want my 36T Hebie Chainglider. Oh! And a Trelock ring-lock wide enough to fit my Nomad's large/wide seatstays. The kind that retains its key while riding. The 450 looks as if it would do nicely, but seems t be an OEM-only offering at present.
Best,
Dan. (...who wonders if Santa is similarly affected by Andre's psychological tactics -- and fervently hopes so!)
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Dan. (...who wonders if Santa is similarly affected by Andre's psychological tactics -- and fervently hopes so!)
If you find a reindeer trying to kiss you, it's because it was exposed together with Santa, and the psych worked better on the reindeer than on Santa. Heh-heh.
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Andre, if I could get Hebie to make a 36t Chainglider, I'd happily kiss a reindeer!
All the best,
Dan. (...who reminds Andre that with great power comes great responsibility)
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Hi All,
This is all I would like. . . . . . . . . .
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7380/11527514604_6ca540d788_z.jpg)
Pete 8)
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Pete!
I don't think there's better than that!
I hope you get your heart's desire and then some. Given your experience in Africa, you've already got it! Now, for it to continue...
All the best,
Dan.
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I want a nomad, from panniers, a new tent, stove, mattress, and helinox chair, 3 months and permission to cycle around Europe. I will be getting something else :D
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Pete!
I don't think there's better than that!
I hope you get your heart's desire and then some. Given your experience in Africa, you've already got it! Now, for it to continue...
All the best,
Dan.
Hi Dan,
Thanks, Merry Xmas to you all and a Warm Summer Too
Pete....
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I want to sort my life out enough for me to be able to get away for a long long tour.
As much as I try, life, work and new grandchildren keep getting in the way!
At 60 time is running out. I should have been doing the tour years ago. Never mind. Don't look back, sang Bob and he ain't wrong too often.
I am torn between wanting to do the tour and...........
other stuff.
Anyone else found themselves in this situation?
If so, please advise ASAP!
Many thanks folks and seasons best wishes to you all.
Matt
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All I want is my broadband to be working, packed up this morning and next available slot for an engineer is next Monday. 3G phone to the rescue!
I'd also like my next day delivery from Wiggle containing my 2 new Marathon Supremes, that was supposedly delivered to me this morning, to make its whereabouts known...'cos I ain't got them!
Rant over.
Merry Xmas everyone.
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Matt are you a member of the fellclub by any chance.i am but only managed to get to one meet at watlington i enjoyed it no end great craic.might not be your idea of touring but it ticks a lot of boxes for me.
i don't like solo touring much rather have company, but finding the perfect touring partener, huh thats another story.
i like taking things handy on a tour smelling the roses and all that,for me good weather is number one i get enough crap weather here ;D ;D..yeah 60 years old meself but to be honest when i put the efford in i feel like a kid again.with a bit of good luck i'll get another good bike for next year and i'll hit the roads of ireland solo this time ,plan nothing just go for it see what happens.
love to get back to spain but wouldn't chance it on my todd beautyfull country but a lot of hills. ::)
don't give up the ghost matt we are still young at heart thats all that matters.
have a super christmas stay safe.
anto.
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Thanks for the thoughts, Jags.
Me too. I don't feel 60 and that kinda makes it worse. I know I can do it but I know the clock is ticking.
When I ride my Thorn, the years fall away. It's such a great fit and ride that I have no worries and can enjoy the scenery etc.
I must talk things over seriously with Mrs. Matt and come up with an idea that is agreeable to both of us. Somehow I don't think she will go with the open ended, ride until either the money runs out or the wheels fall off, idea.
Maybe agree for her to fly out when I am a good distance and at the, as yet to be decided, half way point?
She's not a cyclist but knows how much I enjoy it.
Matt
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Well,
Its Xmas morning, and just waiting for the Sun.
Xmas in the Summer is the only way to go!
Must be nice to live at the North Pole! The only place to snow in the mid of Summer.......
Eat well and be Happy..
From the 1st place in the Would to see the new day in...
Its Xmas
Pete......
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Thanks for the thoughts, Jags.
Me too. I don't feel 60 and that kinda makes it worse. I know I can do it but I know the clock is ticking.
When I ride my Thorn, the years fall away. It's such a great fit and ride that I have no worries and can enjoy the scenery etc.
I must talk things over seriously with Mrs. Matt and come up with an idea that is agreeable to both of us. Somehow I don't think she will go with the open ended, ride until either the money runs out or the wheels fall off, idea.
Maybe agree for her to fly out when I am a good distance and at the, as yet to be decided, half way point?
She's not a cyclist but knows how much I enjoy it.
Matt
matt what had you in mind as regards a tour.
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Well,
Its Xmas morning, and just waiting for the Sun.
Xmas in the Summer is the only way to go!
Must be nice to live at the North Pole! The only place to snow in the mid of Summer.......
Eat well and be Happy..
From the 1st place in the Would to see the new day in...
Its Xmas
Pete......
have a great day pete,just been off skype with my son in your part of the world he said it's windy and very cold ;D ;D i was delighted to hear that.
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have a great day pete,just been off skype with my son in your part of the world he said it's windy and very cold ;D ;D i was delighted to hear that.
Hi
The Sun is out how and only light.wind...
Godzone
Pete..
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matt what had you in mind as regards a tour.
Fly from UK in April to Turkey.
Bike East through Iran into the 'stans and then China.
Or Iran UAE Oman and fly to India then Nepal.
If China... then down through Vietnam and then Oz or New Zealand.
A flying start would be good weather wise to get me onto the Pamir Highway before the snow of September/October.
Any thoughts on timing and weather constraints?
Matt
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Hi All,
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5473/11536789516_1f5d8e3153_z.jpg)
Pete 8)
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Fly from UK in April to Turkey.
Bike East through Iran into the 'stans and then China.
Or Iran UAE Oman and fly to India then Nepal.
If China... then down through Vietnam and then Oz or New Zealand.
A flying start would be good weather wise to get me onto the Pamir Highway before the snow of September/October.
Any thoughts on timing and weather constraints?
Matt
yip that would qualify as a tour right enough ,sure hope it happens for you matt class. ;)
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A definition: virtual; 3. Of something that is simulated in a computer or on-line.
All I want for Christmas is a bike (Thorn Nomad) that I can actually sit on. You guys would really be impressed with it!
It would look like Dan's.
Have Andre's Chainglider and tires (or, maybe Smart Sams).
Its' rider (me) would have the courage to bike some of Pete's trails.
It would have Matt's bell. (With "Matt" of "Matt's Old Bird" scratched out and replaced with "Tom".)
It would have all of Jags old gear mounted, plus front panniers.
Its' rider (again me) would have Frank's determination and financial genius.
Its' rider (...) would have JimK,s common sense and impressive mathematical abilities.
Its' rider would have Dan's limitless knowledge of all things mechanical.
Its' rider would write such moving touring journals and write with such a flare that Andre would turn green with envy, and go into an Irish gloom...for a full ten minutes. Heh, Heh.
I would be riding and touring with Dan, Jimk, Matt, Jags, John, the good Doctor: Frog Prince, Richie, Slamming Sammy (love that handle), all one hundred Ians, Pete, el Padrone, honesty, andybe, fisher, macspud, horizon, phopwood, JWestland, revelo. etc., etc...
I would ride to Andre's pub (down the street), and eat the sandwich he once described. And get him to show me the difference between beer and ale. And also why you guys don't re-fridgerate your beer (am I out dated on that).
Anyway that is what I want. Just a couple of bills and a wife to get around. Call me the Jags of the West.
Can anybody tell that I am sitting in a Montana truck stop parking lot on Christmas day with absolutely nothing to do?
Hope everybody got what they wanted and it was not a virtual present!
Merry, Merry, Tom
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Tom, you get my vote for Best Christmas Wish List of 2013!
May all your dreams come true (I'm looking forward to that ride with you!)
All the best,
Dan.
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hah brilliant post another wordsmith on the forum great stuff.
my son has inlaws in bozeman montana what a country so feckin big, i cant get me little brain around it.love to tour yellowstone pk with out front panniers ;D
next time round i'll be using as much lightweigh gear as i can to keep weight and bulk down.
so my choice ain't going to be a Nomad its either the Clubtour, i hate that name where did they come up with that seriously need to change it. or maybe there Audax depends on what dosh i can muster without the wife finding out where i hid it. ::)
anyway Tom i'de be well impressed if you put such a bike together CLASS ;)
anto.
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Dan,
Thanks
Jags,
I am in Billings, MT now, only 140 miles east of Bozeman. Your right, Montana is one big (and beautiful state). I too love the Club Tour. For a long time it was my favorite of the Thorns. I think it is the best all round bike they make. It still might be my choice! I like them in this order, Club Tour (who I think they got the name just right), the Nomad then the Tour. The last two for the Rohloff. The nephew (like a son), needed extensive dental work done, or I would have already been a real owner (vs. virtual). I, like you, are secreting the pennies in what I hope is a safe place.
I got a kick when you and Matt were talking about being 60. Youngsters, God bless them!
Here is one for you:
Matt: In my day when we went to school we had to walk five miles in the snow!
Jags: Well, we did too only we had to walk it barefooted!
Tom: What, you guys had feet?
Tom
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good on ya Tom i just spilled a mouthfull of coffee over the keyboard laughing at that last bit. ;D ;D ;D
yes the clubtour is growing on me right enough, my sherpa was a great bike but it climbed like a dog just to heavey up front IMHO. i hated the feel of it with front panniers,but having said that i come from a lightweight bikes background only into touring maybe 7or8 years still a novice.but solid as a rock otherwise.
next year if all goes well i'll buy the either the tour or audax and travel to parts of ireland ive never been before, maybe head over to galway more or less a straight spin across the country 200 miles or so i live on the north east coast .but thats a dream at the moment have to get the bike first i have everything else even though i sold all my good gear ::)
matt's dream is much bigger that mine more an epic, but i'm only a little fella who can just about read and write, no sense of direction ,stone broke but i'm not complaining i got this far maybe the next few years will be that bit easier. ;D
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Laughing too hard to reply sensipash ckzx
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are you on that feckin vino ;D ;D
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Jags,
I would love to tour the whole of the U.K. My father's side being Scot and mother's Irish. Most all Americans who's ancestors were forced to leave the old country have a warm spot in their hearts and much curiosity for that part of the world. My story began here (taken from A Short History of Patilo Community of Erath County, Texas
"The McPherson story beings in Scotland; William McPherson, born in 1693, was captured as a rebel Jacobite at Preston in 1715, and deported as a prisoner of war to Maryland on the ship "Good Speed" which landed on October 18, 1716. William took up his abode in Charles County, and in 1725 married Barbara Acton. He was an Episcopalian, or Anglican. William and Barbara are known to have had eight children:"
My mother's side were lucky to have immigrated here during the Great Famine in Ireland in the mid 1800's.
But, due to age and circumstance that tour will probably never happen. However, getting the bike and touring around various U.S. spots is doable. I always loved camping as a youth and would love to get Daniel involved. He is only 11 yrs. old and is short for his age. He has a BMX (20 inch tired) and a 24 inch tired mountain bike. I'm thinking of acquiring a decent MB frame (due to the sloping upper bar) and fitting it to him as a tourer using quality parts and the information gleaned from mostly this site. This would probably have to be 24 inch tires also. He is a tireless cyclist, and loves the sport. All that being done we could camp tour parts of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arkansas, all from home. Other, further away places, could be trucked to then toured, IE The Katy Trail, etc.
Anyway, hope you get that Club Tour. Being yours, I know it will be a 1st class looker.
Tom
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But, due to age and circumstance that tour will probably never happen. However, getting the bike and touring around various U.S. spots is doable.
<nods> All encouragement your way, Tom. It can happen. My father got started bicycle touring when he took early retirement at age 63; our last tour together took place the week before his 74th birthday. He turned 96 this last October and his doctors credit his present generally good health to his years of cycling.
Lots of opportunities for Precious Moments together with Daniel, Tom. You'll both love every moment of it, no matter how far or fast.
All the best,
Dan.
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Dan,
Thanks for the encouragement.
Whenever you have spoken of your father in other post, it always drew my interest. My father will be 89 the 9Th of next month. He is well and still kicking up in Kent, WA. Here's hoping those longevity genes have rubbed off on both of us! Yep, the older I get, the bigger the joy of having him around. You know, of course, Daniel is smarter and better looking (especially his teeth) and better acting than anybody else's kid! Ha, ha.
Best to you,
Tom
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I've been too busy with my Xmas cheer to catch up with this thread until now. :P
A definition: virtual; 3. Of something that is simulated in a computer or on-line.
All I want for Christmas is a bike (Thorn Nomad) that I can actually sit on. You guys would really be impressed with it!
This really struck a chord. :(
It would look like Dan's.
Have Andre's Chainglider and tires (or, maybe Smart Sams).
Its' rider (me) would have the courage to bike some of Pete's trails.
It would have Matt's bell. (With "Matt" of "Matt's Old Bird" scratched out and replaced with "Tom".)
It would have all of Jags old gear mounted, plus front panniers.
Its' rider (again me) would have Frank's determination and financial genius.
Its' rider (...) would have JimK,s common sense and impressive mathematical abilities.
Its' rider would have Dan's limitless knowledge of all things mechanical.
Its' rider would write such moving touring journals and write with such a flare that Andre would turn green with envy, and go into an Irish gloom...for a full ten minutes. Heh, Heh.
I would be riding and touring with Dan, Jimk, Matt, Jags, John, the good Doctor: Frog Prince, Richie, Slamming Sammy (love that handle), all one hundred Ians, Pete, el Padrone, honesty, andybe, fisher, macspud, horizon, phopwood, JWestland, revelo. etc., etc...
I would ride to Andre's pub (down the street), and eat the sandwich he once described. And get him to show me the difference between beer and ale. And also why you guys don't re-fridgerate your beer (am I out dated on that).
Anyway that is what I want. Just a couple of bills and a wife to get around. Call me the Jags of the West.
Well, don't know about the rest of you, but I'm on my way! Andre, do us a favour and tell the publican to stock up - we're settling in for a spell! ;D
Hope everybody got what they wanted and it was not a virtual present!
Tom, you made my Boxing Day. I hope you can get back to your loved ones as soon as possible, safely and with Godspeed. You will achieve all that you ever dreamed, of that you can be sure!
Happy Holidays,
Sam
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A definition: virtual; 3. Of something that is simulated in a computer or on-line.
All I want for Christmas is a bike (Thorn Nomad) that I can actually sit on. You guys would really be impressed with it!
It would look like Dan's.
Have Andre's Chainglider and tires (or, maybe Smart Sams).
Its' rider (me) would have the courage to bike some of Pete's trails.
It would have Matt's bell. (With "Matt" of "Matt's Old Bird" scratched out and replaced with "Tom".)
It would have all of Jags old gear mounted, plus front panniers.
Its' rider (again me) would have Frank's determination and financial genius.
Its' rider (...) would have JimK,s common sense and impressive mathematical abilities.
Its' rider would have Dan's limitless knowledge of all things mechanical.
Its' rider would write such moving touring journals and write with such a flare that Andre would turn green with envy, and go into an Irish gloom...for a full ten minutes. Heh, Heh.
I would be riding and touring with Dan, Jimk, Matt, Jags, John, the good Doctor: Frog Prince, Richie, Slamming Sammy (love that handle), all one hundred Ians, Pete, el Padrone, honesty, andybe, fisher, macspud, horizon, phopwood, JWestland, revelo. etc., etc...
I would ride to Andre's pub (down the street), and eat the sandwich he once described. And get him to show me the difference between beer and ale. And also why you guys don't re-fridgerate your beer (am I out dated on that).
Anyway that is what I want. Just a couple of bills and a wife to get around. Call me the Jags of the West.
Can anybody tell that I am sitting in a Montana truck stop parking lot on Christmas day with absolutely nothing to do?
Hope everybody got what they wanted and it was not a virtual present!
Merry, Merry, Tom
Is that what young folk today call.a name.check?
Thanks my friend. I will be giving my bell an extra ping in you honour
Matt and his old bird
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Jags,
I would love to tour the whole of the U.K. My father's side being Scot and mother's Irish. Most all Americans who's ancestors were forced to leave the old country have a warm spot in their hearts and much curiosity for that part of the world. My story began here (taken from A Short History of Patilo Community of Erath County, Texas
"The McPherson story beings in Scotland; William McPherson, born in 1693, was captured as a rebel Jacobite at Preston in 1715, and deported as a prisoner of war to Maryland on the ship "Good Speed" which landed on October 18, 1716. William took up his abode in Charles County, and in 1725 married Barbara Acton. He was an Episcopalian, or Anglican. William and Barbara are known to have had eight children:"
My mother's side were lucky to have immigrated here during the Great Famine in Ireland in the mid 1800's.
But, due to age and circumstance that tour will probably never happen. However, getting the bike and touring around various U.S. spots is doable. I always loved camping as a youth and would love to get Daniel involved. He is only 11 yrs. old and is short for his age. He has a BMX (20 inch tired) and a 24 inch tired mountain bike. I'm thinking of acquiring a decent MB frame (due to the sloping upper bar) and fitting it to him as a tourer using quality parts and the information gleaned from mostly this site. This would probably have to be 24 inch tires also. He is a tireless cyclist, and loves the sport. All that being done we could camp tour parts of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arkansas, all from home. Other, further away places, could be trucked to then toured, IE The Katy Trail, etc.
Anyway, hope you get that Club Tour. Being yours, I know it will be a 1st class looker.
Tom
Wow Tom what a family history you have ,chech out these sites might find them interesting i live 3 mile from there ,william of orange certainly left his mark there.
http://www.battleoftheboyne.ie/
http://www.meath.ie/Tourism/Heritage/HeritageSites/Newgrange/.
maybe one day your kin folk will visit .
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Lotta sympathy here, Tom, for people getting on a bit beyond touring. But plenty of tours happening, and being posted. Many super photographers buy Thorns. Add some description and it's almost as a good as riding along. Slammin' Sam's post is a fine example.
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Thanks Jags, great sites. Enjoyed them.
Andre, no sympathy needed. Been enjoying those articles and the ones posted on crazyguyonabike for some time. Your right, much pleasure in reading the commentary and looking at the pictures.
I noticed you picked up on Sammy's wife's mixte frame. So did I. Did not know Thorn made them. Looks perfect for getting a foot over the bar. Was that your purpose choosing for the beautiful Utopia Kranich? My bet goes for the engineering side of it.
Tom
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Got what I asked for. One Marathon Winter. (I paid for the other one.)