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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Hill Wimp said:

Seasonal depression has hit.

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Sending you and

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Morning Slackers, can't believe its this time and nobody's posted. Chilling at home doing nothing today. Wet and windy out. Have a nice day.

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Fubar said:

Meats? MEATS?

No, absolutely nothing wrong with that.

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Maybe

A friend mentioned a group and I actually misheard it, i thought he said The Charlie Daniels Band. When I got home I got my smart speaker to play some.....I was really impressed.
The 1st track was well known, The Devil Went Down To Georgia but the rest were unknown to me.
I thought it was a sort of Jerry Lee Lewis meets Country rock.
I have always been a Jerry Lee Lewis fan and enjoy some (not all) country stuff.
I will certainly play some more.

A Nissan Note on the A1..

I read something recently about this car (was it on here?).
Early 1970s one of the lads in the factory were i worked owned one. It was a lovely shiny red and looked like it would do 0-60 in 3 seconds.
No idea how he afforded it, i owned a rusty old mini 750cc.

Earlier in the year I bought a double 46T chainring for my Thorn Club Tour by mistake, not realising this would be slightly wider than the triple it was to replace.

Is there likely to be a problem using the wider outer chainring other than sitting a bit proud by maybe 0.2mm? Both chainrings are Shimano SG—X
Thanks

I've been dabbling in 3D modelling for a couple of decades now, never as a fulltime job although I've done a few bits and bobs freelance over the years. More recently i started putting together some stuff for a coffee table style art book based on the early colonisation of Mars. This is going to be a very long term project as I'm creating pretty much everything from scratch, including textures etc!



Alongside this, at the start of the lockdown I bought a cheap Ender 3 Pro 3D..

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Salmon steaks with new potatoes, broccoli, peas and asparagus, a sprig of parsley and a squeeze of lemon.

What did you get up to in the kitchen?

Whilst we still have some


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collected a nice little spike in my tyre, it is the bontrager gunnison pro xr tubeless ready, the tyre sealant dried out. i was gonna fit a regular patch on the inside, but as i sanded it a little some kind of a light cord already coming off the inner surface. how can i patch a tyre like this? i don't think the patch will stick. use fresh tyre sealant? it is a bit of a stupid design having the cords that shallow.

Sometimes a bad joke can better than a good joke.
Its Friday time to get the ball rolling:

What do you call fake spaghetti? An impasta.
RIP boiled water. You will be mist.

Why are elevator jokes so good?
Because they work on so many different levels.

I always used to get small shocks when touching metal objects, but it recently stopped.
Needless to say, I’m ex-static.

Beer for them as wants it. Who wants what?

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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Bent the front mudguard on my commuter bike recently so just fitted a new one using the fixings from the old one which had already been bent around to suit the disc brake.

This was achieved using:

Tool kitKitchen as workshopMug of teaRock and roll on the stereoMinimum swearing

I'm bringing forward my plan to replace my 105 50/34 chainset with a GRX 46/30. I was going to wait until the current chainset was well and truly worn out but I've become impatient.

The bike has 105 R7000 (11s) mechanical at the moment. I'd like to keep as much of that stuff as possible. Mainly to make the job easier. I intend to replace the cassette and chain at the same time so I make a new start with all new stuff.

The rear mech shouldn't be an issue capacity wise as the capacity..

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I really don't get tubeless, to me it's an unnecessary load of nonsense, but I was wondering: People seem to broadly reject waxed chains, saying it's too much work. Why is that? Here's my point of reasoning: In my opinion tubeless is mostly and option in extreme cases, like cross-country or even cross-continental rides and professional bike racing, when a flat may be the difference between winning or losing, or carrying your bike 20km to the next larger city. Exceptions may be mountain..

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I have to admit that I am very fussy about my cycling shoes, in fact if truth be told, I'm very fussy about most things.

But once I find something that either fits or works, then I tend to stop with that product to the bitter end, be shorts, tyres, helmets or shoes etc etc

Now as I have wide feet, my shoe of choice is the Sidi Mega, size 43 fitted with the blue Specialized Body Geometry inserts, for me this is a absolute perfect combination.

Sadly the time has come where I..

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I've finally found a frame that I can restore to make a 28" wheel touring bike, and we're having trouble removing the old components. In particular the chainwheel screw thread , were we would normally insert the removal tool, is completely gone.

The frame is from VSF Fahrradmanufaktur and is a rare early butted example, made from Chromoly, so it's worth fighting for.

How would others on the does anyone have a recommendation how to remove the chainwheel? I can get the outer two gears off..

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Howdy, fellow cycling enthusiasts! I have been cycling since I was 4 years old, and still going strong at 69.
Really got "hooked" on long-distance cycling while stationed in Britain in the late 1980s. Was able to participate in many CTC and Audax
rides throughout the United Kingdom. Am still riding my vintage 1988 Bianchi Volpe Tangent roadbike... got over 30,000 miles on that machine.
Looking forward to learning more from you and sharing a few stories.

If you're not up to reading long, rambling, missives then you can skip to the last paragraph 😊

This morning (Thursday) I was in a bit of a conundrum. Six days ago I took delivery of a new camera (my second hobby is photography) and have been spending those days getting it set up the way I want it. I had made a tentative agreement with my photo-buddy to go out yesterday and check it out but the weather wasn't looking great so we didn't go. This morning the weather forecast is for a beautiful..

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