What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

'Wish this was a Focus'.

[RoadworkUK]

"You can go fast,

 

I can go anywhere providing there's a fully equipped workshop and numerous replacement bearings on tap."

[tonedepear]

Wine earlier in the week + ebay = waking up this afternoon (I'm working nights this weekend) to find I've bought a new bike frame. Oops. Bit of a bargain, but still, it's the wrong size for me, and I'm going to have to go to Manchester to get it at some point.

[155V6]

Flicking through the TV channels today,there was a French programme about drifting on Motors TV.As well as all the normal BMWs & Jap stuff,there were a couple of old Opels & an Alfa 75

[Lord Sterling]

Wine earlier in the week + ebay = waking up this afternoon (I'm working nights this weekend) to find I've bought a new bike frame. Oops. Bit of a bargain, but still, it's the wrong size for me, and I'm going to have to go to Manchester to get it at some point.

 

Not a good combination. I once found a bike frame dumped in a small stream behind some houses. It hadnt been there long and was one of those XL framed mountain bike things but had been completely stripped of parts, I did seriously consider fishing it out and slapping on bike bits, but I thought better of it.

[tonedepear]

Wine earlier in the week + ebay = waking up this afternoon (I'm working nights this weekend) to find I've bought a new bike frame. Oops. Bit of a bargain, but still, it's the wrong size for me, and I'm going to have to go to Manchester to get it at some point.

 

Not a good combination. I once found a bike frame dumped in a small stream behind some houses. It hadnt been there long and was one of those XL framed mountain bike things but had been completely stripped of parts, I did seriously consider fishing it out and slapping on bike bits, but I thought better of it.

 

Going to go and fetch it tomorrow PM, so that if it's too small or shit or I don't like it I can wodge it back on ebay and bid on the Genesis road frame ending tomorrow night that I really want!

[M'coli]

^^^ This one?

Nice!

[tonedepear]

Yes!

 

(This is the one I won)

[M'coli]

[Dribble]Ribble![/Dribble] I've always fancied a made-to-measure Ribble bike, but at the shape I'm in at the moment it would have to have a curved top tube - to clear my gut!

[tonedepear]

[Dribble]Ribble![/Dribble] I've always fancied a made-to-measure Ribble bike, but at the shape I'm in at the moment it would have to have a curved top tube - to clear my gut!

 

I had a Mercian bike built to fit me 13/14 years ago, which of course was stolen along with my Carbon fibre hardtail MTB a week after I moved to Sheffield. They were both fabulous, and of course, not insured. 9 years on I'm finally rebuilding my collection. Sort of. I have a genesis Vapour, which is awesome and red, and a Trek 4100, which is the closest to a proper bike the insurance company would provide when the other 2 got nicked. More than anything in the world, I miss my Diamond back though. DBR WCF VErtex. Was just the best thing in the world. Lighter than my road bike, XT / XTR, and those green michelin wildgrippers that you could get back then which were fantastic.

[M'coli]

Hmmm... I never spent much on bikes when I was properly into them - I really couldn't afford it as I I ended up using cycling as a method of getting from from A to B. When my Peugeot Premier* got written off in a hit-n-run, the most I could afford was to fit all the parts onto a Trek 880 MTB frame I'd hauled out of a skip a year previously - I set my 10 mile TT PB on this in 1998 and vowed not to upgrade it until I had beaten my PB. The frame broke in September 2008 due to rust, so I'll never know if I'll get to break it! Me Ma bought me a Dawes road bike to replace it a month before she died; it's the best bike I've ever owned, and sentimentality means that will never change. I don't cycle enough these days to justify something fancy. I'm too old, too fat, too unhealthy and too unlikely to appreciate it because I don't use it enough.

 

*Bought for me brand-new in 1987 by Pop - I wanted a Puch because it fitted better and felt better quality but it was £10 more, what a tight bastard he was - and it flexed like bejayzus, I had the frame replaced under warranty because it split on me and I went through front derailleur cages twice a year, i.e. every 3000 miles, because the flexing frame caused the chain to wear them out, no matter where you placed the lever. I borrowed a friend's mountain bike when I was over in St. Andrews and was astounded by how stiff the frame was!

[RoadworkUK]

I love it when I do things I love doing. Just been writing on my blog about driving the Merc SLS, and I'm actually buzzing with excitement from re-living it.

 

I think bed might be a good idea.

[Pete-M]

http://www.touretteskaraoke.com/

 

I've been crying laughing whilst trying not to for the last 15 minutes. Brave bastard to do it, but it is GR11.7.

 

Also, I don't have a spotted thread, but I saw these two within 10 mins or so the other day.

 

[tonedepear]

 

IMAG0693 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr

[Station]

http://www.touretteskaraoke.com/

 

I've been crying laughing whilst trying not to for the last 15 minutes. Brave bastard to do it, but it is GR11.7.

 

"Santa Claus is coming down your Chim FUUUUCK! OFF! -ney tonight!"

 

It's funny and I suppose that's why he does it, but that looks like a terrible thing to have.

[ashmicro]

Wimbledon is over. THANK FUCK.

[M'coli]

Wimbledon is over. THANK FUCK.

They lied though - they said it was the last day of Wimbledon, but the bastards have one planned for next year too!

[Cavcraft]

Even better news that Murray got knocked out.

[Pillock]

Even better news that Murray got knocked out.

 

As in failed to reach the final, or KERPOW! BLAM! knocked out? Either one is good, but one is better

[autofive]

 

Old 1 at Spennymoor

A Black and White image dated 1968, showing Berriman's Chip Van in use at the final site in Spennymoor.

This has now been restored, and will be on display in July 2011 outside Davy's - the coal fired chip shop.

Source: Beamish Museum

 

ive gone railwaytastic tonight

choo wooooo

 

and being looking at local pics on a trainspotters forum - some of the pics contain car parks - expect a thread soon

[Cavcraft]

Sod the eBay thread, this is far too good for that...

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LE-MANS-CARLS ... 5517939771

 

[Guest]

Sod the eBay thread, this is far too good for that...

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LE-MANS-CARLS ... 5517939771

 

 

[eddyramrod]

If you look up "abortion" in the dictionary, there'll be a snap of that... But, somebody must have liked it, to build it in the first place. No accounting for taste...

[CreepingJesus]

Actually that Carlsberg-libra does make me grin. There's a bit of me (which presumably feeds on self-loathing) which would.

There's two problems with it: 1)That hood's hellish, and 2)It'll be the better part of 2 tons, so the inevitable traffic light GP's won't work out well. Even against an Aixam.

[Negative Creep]

NOT, BUGATTI, FARARI,PORSCHE,LOTUS,ZONDA, ASTON MARTIN

 

Thanks for clearing that one up.

[Cavcraft]

'If Carlsberg made cars... they'd have had to have drunk 97 gallons of their piss weak lager to even think this would look good'

[Cheggers]

Mmmmm...bikes

 

my trusty steed:

 

[cort16]

Sod the eBay thread, this is far too good for that...

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LE-MANS-CARLS ... 5517939771

 

 

 

 

That it so horrific I was hoping for some a hint of irony somewhere in the ebay advert. I didn't find any.

[messerschmitt owner]

calibra convertible +

= world a better place

[Guest]

The world would be a slightly better place if the pikeys were still sat in that Transit when it was crushed