At this time of year more charities launch appeals for funds on TV and Radio. I do not want to discuss the merits of any charities or the subjects of their appeals. What does interest me is when the charity says to gove a specified amount. I've just seen an appeal from CRISIS saying "to give £29.80 ....[then telling me how to do that]. Its not just Crisis and I only mention them as they were the last charity appeal I saw.

Perhaps its just me, but if I am going to give to a cause..

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A thread specially for 'persons of leisure' and independent means, or those with aspirations.
How do you while away those lazy days?
How do you cope financially?
When did you retire?
Is retirement what you expected?
How long did you take to adjust?
Etc.

Tell us what you are up to today or what plans you have.
Or just have a bit of silliness to while away those lazy hours.

I've been busy today. Hilly 15 mile ride in North Devon, took dog for a stroll along Saunton Sands, cut the front lawn..

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...thread.

How about a topic discussing all things regarding the great game.

Chat about anything from Arsenal to Accrington or John Terry to Terry Yorath.

I'm just happy as my team Norwich City have made it through to the 5th round of the FA Cup !!!

Looks like its time to get a new pair of tires.

Current pair, Vittoria Zaffiro Pro Graphene 2.0.

Any recommendations for something even better?

In 2025 I noticed the drive side crank on my Vado was a bit wobbly. Turns out this is a common fault caused by issues with the manufacturing tolerances. In true steve30 fashion, instead of sorting it, I left it to gradually get worse and worse. Eventually, the splines on the crank and the splines on the spindle (pictured) were very worn.

I bought a replacement crank, which was obviously far less wobbly than the old one, but that left the issue of the spindle. Short of replacing it, or..

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[Admin edit: Part 2 of this thread can be found here - https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/mundane-news.173256/}

Hill Wimp said:

Seasonal depression has hit.

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Sending you and

I know many of you have relatively pedestrian titles like 'Guru' or 'Uber Memeber', but for those of you who have added their own personal title, what does it mean?

Up until recently, I had 'Mediocrity Manifest' as mine. It was a play on the 'This is democracy manifest!' quote by that Australian guy who was filmed being arrested many years ago now.

My current title is.. 'Time is dead, long live time!'.

This came about one day as I was thinking about time travel and time generally. It..

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It's long bugged me that there's no thread for, simply, the rugby, in the way that there is for, say, football or cricket. So apologies for the presumption in mooting one, but I honestly couldn't find anywhere to post.



And I can't believe I'm the only one who saw Ireland v All Blacks yesterday.

I was brooding about this in a back-of-mind sort of way when I came across a post by somone called Unionfan who said so exactly what I felt, and it was so honest and so heartfelt that..

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Two Glaswegians, Archie and Jimmy, are sitting in the pub discussing Jimmy's forthcoming wedding.

"Och, it's all goin' pure dead brilliant," says Jimmy.

"Av goat everythin organised awready, the fluers, the church, the caurs, the reception, the rings, the minister, even ma stag night".
Archie nods approvingly.
I've even bought a kilt to be married in!" continues Jimmy.

"A kilt?" exclaims Archie, "That's magic, you'll look pure smart in that. Whit's the tartan?"

"Och," says Jimmy..

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Ever feel that speaking your mind would cause more problems than it would solve? Want to speak it anyway? Here's a place to do it. I'll start.


I know you're the boss, but please don't turn up at the start of a shift and start trying to run things. Since I've been called out here I have got everyone working to a system and we are back on programme. When you turn up you disrupt the shift and have divers working on the wrong task and in the wrong place. It means we have to work harder to..

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Review and score a film that you watched last night. It can be old or new. On TV, DVD/Blu Ray or cinema. Popular or obscure. Any film you like!

Last night I watched "Drag Me to Hell". Been wanting to see this for a while and watched it on DVD. A very good and pretty funny in parts horror flick from Sam Raimi (Evil Dead, Spiderman), it tells the story of a loan officer who rejects the pleads of an old gypsy women whose home is going to be repossessed. The gypsy women puts a curse on..

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Whats the chance of it arriving & being of any merchantable quality?

https://haines.store/products/carga..7TksI0RI2dbUj2GgplIj7pfbkGlPDoo2UhOksv5P12FEc

I already have a smaller version but the kitcar won't fit inside, it's designed for a trike motorbike, but that was just sub £200 so sub £30 seems to be one of those if it's too good to be true type of things.

There's a little thing that doesn't bother us at first, like a little foible we find endearing in a loved one until it grows beyond tolerance and makes you want to plunge a red hot poker into thei....but then becomes a MAJOR annoyance.

I'm going to go for the trivialest (is that a word? It is now!) thing that causes the most annoyance; i-pod and i-pad. Not the items themselves but their words! They are TOO similar and inevitably lead to you saying one when really, you are trying to say..

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For seven years, I've done Zwift on single speed, with a dumb trainer. Originally I was on fixed, but I switched fairly soon to a power-meter wheel with a single-speed convertor. I've finally got a smart trainer (Elite XRT) and Click and Cog. When I got the latter, I noticed the 14T sprocket, which is generally a fairly high gear in the range. I've always been in 50*19, basically because that's the gear I use on fixed on the road. So ideally I'd stick with the 19T sprocket because I can..

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I’m going to Rouleur Live this weekend and was planning to cycle to the venue from Waterloo and back. Has anyone ever parked their bike at the Truman Brewery before? How secure is the parking? Thanks.

A challenge, which will get harder if and when the thread progresses.

No gates, churches, railings, water, bridges (or from any other themed threads - I'll admit I'm a prime culprit, and enjoy looking for such regular back-drops).

Looking for novelties here. The sillier and more unusual the better. No repetition or hesitation allowed. Deviation is definitely de rigueur.

If I had a 'My bike in front of a polar bear' photo, I'd kick off with that. But I haven't.

Over to you..

Pointless & impractical!


Great for popping down to the shops.. 🤔

Anyone built wheels like these? If so how do you go about measuring the spoke lengths? I believe it's called paired lacing. The wheel I've got is a bog standard 32 hole hub and the rim I have is just like the ones in the pic, which I've copied off the internet.

Apologies if mine is a somewhat high falutin example, but:

Liv Ullmann isn't Swedish.

She's Norwegian.

Well had an absolute mare of a weekend and all my own doing . Anyway question and I’m finding it hard to get a size , need a wheel hub stud for a Mazda 2 2016 1.5 petrol . Interweb is a mass with different descriptions . Me thinks it’s M12 x 1.5 48 mm ? Anyone know for sure

Locally I’ve seen a nice carbon road bike for sale, it’s from around 2012 and appears to have had little use.

What is the cycle chat consensus of using older good condition carbon frames as a daily? Who’s still riding a carbon bike they got back 10-15 years ago?

I’d obviously give it a thorough inspection before riding, just looking for people’s experience in general. I’m used to riding and looking after 20-40 year old steel and 15 year old aluminium bikes but carbon is a new one for me.

Encouraged by

@twentysix by twentyfive

(whatever that means - maybe a factoid in that itself)
as in:

Blue Hills said:
am tempted - but I fear it will go the same way.

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Twentsixbytwentyfive: There is a danger but insist on the "True" part. The "Silly" thread is "over there".

A thread on actually TRUE odd factoids.

Being a voracious reader and media connsumer I have come across quite a few lately but had nowehere to dump them.

Will do next time I do - so over to you..

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