BobbyBriggs

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• Chain Waxing

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 3 weeks, 2 days

  

  (For cleaning)

• Chain Waxing

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 3 weeks, 2 days

  

  Just use paraffin

• Home DIY

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 month, 2 weeks

  

  Nice shade- where’s it from?

• Owning your own home

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 month, 3 weeks

  

  Quite agree. My upstairs neighbour’s builders put a foot through my bathroom ceiling nearly three years ago . Due to the mess and disruption of sorting it all out I’ve only just got it fixed, as I have been doing some other decorating / plastering work at the same time. I’ll ask for payment next week and that’s totally fine- he’s agreed he was responsible and he doesn’t care in the slightest that it’s taken this long.

• "It's easier on a Grubb" (tandem)

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• "It's easier on a Grubb" (tandem)

  in Current Projects • 1 month, 4 weeks

  

  Yeah it took me a while to figure out how best to set them up. Think I’ve cracked it though. The drum brake on the rear feels like it would stop a train so probably won’t need the two fingered approach too often.

• Tandems of the forum

  in Bikes & Bits • 2 months

  

  Haha good idea! Just need to find a stoker.
  I lightheartedly mentioned to a Bumble date for this evening that I might bring the tandem along as it needed a test ride. She cancelled on me.

• Tandems of the forum

  in Bikes & Bits • 2 months

  

  Now it’s finally functional and back in business, (https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/3006­47/), here’s my grandparents’ 1934 FH Grubb. And also a pic of them setting off on it on honeymoon in 1940.

  Just need to fit mudguards, get a proper rear saddle, and tension the timing chain.

• "It's easier on a Grubb" (tandem)

  in Current Projects • 2 months

  

  Well I’m pleased to report that it’s now built- albeit with a few temporary fixes, that gross rear saddle for example, and I’ve had to reuse the old worn out chainrings for now in the absence of suitable others- and I’ve taken it for a test ride. A few teething problems related to the gears but generally all good. Feels very smooth and responsive. My dad informs me that the last time it was used was 1980 when he and grandpa took it up to the Wayfarer memorial in the Berwyns. Grandpa had a stroke six months later and died in October 1981. Dad - himself now 74- is coming to stay in a week or so so I shall make sure we take it out for a quick spin.

  Guess I can add it to the ‘tandems of the forum’ thread now!

• Wild Camping

  in Cycle Touring and Bikepacking • 2 months, 1 week

  

  Up in Dartmoor the other night, on the way to Cornwall