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I went to lmnh earlier(maybe too early) hurried to make it nearer to 7 but arrived at like 7:20 really sweaty, wasn't feeling with it so left after a bit.
On the way back was passing by poynders and noticed a girl riding a single speed or hub geared with roller brakes, bmx helmet with skulls on.
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My 510 gives a good amount of time, left work at 6pm fully charged and rode to lmnh with a couple of stops and then home via balham got in about 9:30pm, flicked it on now to check and it says 80%. Not noticed a sudden jump down in the battery it's pretty accurate so far, have done the ride home from work which is about 30min 8% battery as I left work and made it.
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Seems a bit too east...
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I think you'll find it is offensive when used offensively, and absolutely fine when used in private with a friend who you know will not be offended.
HTH. You're not particularly clever are you? Or are you trolling? Don't bother responding. Ignored.
So you are fine with it so long as they don't make public displays of affection?
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Is anal amigo still ok or is that too pro/anti homosexual? It's dual use so you can be all like "hey my anal amigo, how you doing bud?" for a friend or all "fuck, what an anal amigo" as a homo slur.
So glad we have jeez here to sort all the confusing words out, he isn't being a knob wrangler or anything.
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Could someone edit the tennis post after my one. Some things you just can't say.
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Seems to have been working since, shifting could be a little smoother but meh going to cycle over to a friend on the weekend and dig about in an old parts bin for a mech
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So depressing :(
Does she find her job rewarding and/or enjoyable though?
Extremely. She trained as a nurse and then got stuck a couple of years ago between being newly qualified and not having 6 months experience, most of the interviews she made would have someone who had just been made redundant from a similar role in another hospital or even just different department so loads of experience and she had no chance, yay side effects of cuts. She decided to take a step down from being a nurse to be some sort of support worker(crazy long job titles I can't remember). She really enjoys it tho and all the people she cares for sound nice, pay is more than I get so she always has more money left after all the bills lol
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Yers. That's if you even bother trying in the first place. Where the fuck are you going to flag them down? Stand outside the building you were in and hope one goes past? Try to wave one down from knee-height by the side of a main road with people twice your height surrounding you? Not bloody likely. It's a bit like buses - they're all kitted out to be wheelchair-friendly but you hardly ever see anyone getting on them with a wheelchair, and it's not because there's hardly anybody in the city who needs a wheelchair, it's because they're still a massive ballache to use even with their fuzzy little headboards and their kneeling step.
I was being slightly facetious in my response to Apollo though, but that's because his question was facetious. Of course I wasn't saying all disabled people are poor, that would be absurd. They are, however, twice as likely to be living in poverty than people without a disability, so they're even less likely to be able to get cabs everywhere than "normal" people are, and "normal" people are priced out of the things themselves. Of course there are people with disabilities who aren't poor, I'm one. But it's not so very long ago that I was one of those disability-linked poverty statistics myself, and it's purely through the whims of chance that's no longer the case.
I didn't understand the whole buses thing until a few months ago when my partner started working in a carehome scheme thing for disabled people who are in that "almost 24/7 care" grey area in that they need help daily and need someone on call but aren't considered 24/7 so need to share staff. She started having to take them out but more with the instruction to be there and let them do things as much and as independantly as possible. Her observations on buses had been that request stops will be ignored so often it was "easier" to go to another stop, another tactic by drivers is to claim the ramps are broken, when they did eventually get on a bus the driver would radio in a delay and the route would often cut short and then the next bus would become full as all the able passengers boarded first and they would have to wait ages before they got going again. Lastly the levels of animosity are fucking huge, everyone gives disgusted looks when someone takes a minute to find an oyster card let alone the whole ramp up/down ordeal.
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Disabled people who have limited mobility can't afford to take fucking taxis in the first place
It might look like a specially designed red minibus type thing but it's actually a black cab honest...
www.tfl.gov.uk/modes/dial-a-ride/
Oh also has anyone ever attempted to flag down a cab while in a wheelchair? good luck getting them to stop for you
Edit - didn't see the next reply mentioning you have some disability
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An extra night in the drunkest, sleaziest, most gamblingest city in the US and this is all he can think to do?
I think he was locked inside...
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hmmm congested 2 lane roads will become magically uncongested 1 lane roads while also catering to a station being "busier than heathrow airport"...
Underlaying plan must be to triple the congestion charge lol
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Hope you don't mind the bump, looking forward to this.
http://bikesandbloomers.com/category/exhibition-lmnh/
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I used this for price finding.
www.satnav-discounts.co.uk/gps/product/cycling-gps-latest-releases/garmin/garmin-edge-510/
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Good to see people, bad I was too late for pizza again.
Thanks for that link harvey, it's got the chain as close as it's getting to perfect without using one of those single speed converter/tensioner/fake derailuers.
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Cycling up brixton hill and chain jumped off and into the wheel which then sucked up the rear mech, it happened a while ago and I bent it back with limited results. Mech is well and truely dead now as I got the very last of the jockey wheels off and it's folded in about 3 places it shouldn't.
So I went to my box of spare parts and junk and pulled out a mech from another bike I have which I took off recently as part of making it single speed, it's a hanger fit mech but seemed to work enough when hooked on/over the wheel axel and then tightening the bolt down lots so it won't move, the small screw fits above enough that I could move it to press on the top of the dropout where it would naturally be pulled towards. Took it for a short test ride up the road by me and back and that went ok.
I basically need to do 12-15 miles on it like this, 6 to work and 6-9 home, home via a shop. Going to set it into one of the middle gears and just not even shift on it.
Accident waiting to happen?
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http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/bryton-rider-40e-gps/rp-prod122404
Seems rather awesome of a deal, somewhere between a garmin 200 and 500 in terms of features.
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Which bodeans did you pick?
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New brake lever(s), only need 1 tho.
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Not bad weather, brake levers just arrived so should be able to ride over on the almost finished mtb this week much like I planned to the other week. Not sure what I will do about a seatpost tho so fun fun fun.
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bf hardline(cops vs robbers) beta open
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4 posts too late
3 sheets to the wind mebbe?
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What size are you? Aiming for a good fit will greatly improve any bike and an ill fitting bike will be uncomfortable and unenjoyable to ride.
Are you able to build it up yourself or are you looking for something from a shop? I have to be honest bikes aren't very technical so most people should be able to build them if they have swapped an inner tube and adjusted a brake in the past but if it's via a cyclescheme or you just like to be sure is upto you.
Would avoid most/all under £200, I made that mistake and it's slowly costing me more as I'm just ending up rebuying parts as they fail, bike budget is huge now tho as have been saving £30 a week on travel for work for months, gf won't let me keep more bikes at home tho.
Also have a good think about bottle mounts and panniers. You can get ones that fit without frame holes but they are a bit naff, using them daily isn't fun.