Old blokes who should know better.....

urastus

⚡The Whippet⚡
May 4, 2020
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Tasmania
So if you stay active, eat a good diet, and try to avoid serious injury
yeah, I think for many of us dudes who have led an active outdoors life there are a lot of injuries accumulated. That's why most of us hobble about in old age :rolleyes: 😂 . I've done just about everything to this poor body and have ongoing issues with back, neck, hips, shoulders, knees, one mangled foot. Hence the stretching - but first thing in the morning, it's a slow hobble down the hallway and I struggle to bend over and put my pants on. I'm only 60!
 

Marksou

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Dec 24, 2021
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Llanbedrog
yeah, I think for many of us dudes who have led an active outdoors life there are a lot of injuries accumulated. That's why most of us hobble about in old age :rolleyes: 😂 . I've done just about everything to this poor body and have ongoing issues with back, neck, hips, shoulders, knees, one mangled foot. Hence the stretching - but first thing in the morning, it's a slow hobble down the hallway and I struggle to bend over and put my pants on. I'm only 60!
I feel (and have) most of your pains. Not mangled a foot yet 😬
 

KnollyBro

E*POWAH Elite World Champion
Dec 3, 2020
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Vancouver
I can't remember if I introduced myself here. I'm a 68 year old adrenaline junkie (according to my doctor), who should know better, but doesn't. Last year at Mammoth Mountain, I had an off-trail excursion into the kitty litter (MM is all volcanic pumice when you go off-trail) that resulted in "several" (according to the hospital) broken ribs and a partially collapsed lung. I tried to swerve to avoid a large rock, but you can't swerve in kitty litter! The pumice stopped the bike dead in its tracks when I turned the bars, and of course I kept going. Ironically, I landed on my back on top of the large rock I was trying to avoid.

Recovery was painful, but I was back at Mammoth about 2 months later. My first 2022 visit will be next month. I bought a light duty Troy Lee body armor tee shirt to go with my knee and elbow pads.

I know how you feel and good for you! I have ridden all over Whistler Bike Park and crashed all over Whistler Bike Park resulting in several broken bones and concussions. I see kids riding around with only a helmet and knee pads and scars all over their elbows. I wear full body armor including a neck brace (at the bike parks) which has let me ride away from so significant crashes (I just turned 60) even when its 40+ degrees. A little sweat never killed anyone.
 

dobbyhasfriends

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Sep 19, 2019
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Llandovery, Wales
Anyone got another ebike, this one's broken, again... 🙄
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dobbyhasfriends

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Sep 19, 2019
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Llandovery, Wales
So where do the hot and cold feeds come in?
directly the opposite side of the manifold block to the tap handle itself, they are also preformed and wrap around the back and disappear to a connection to the feeds.
the other remaining connecting follows the same route to the taps behind the bath and goes to where the 'overflow' is, which fills the bath itself.. mental.
theres no backflow prevention built in, the victorians didnt consider that at the time :D
 

billwarwick

E*POWAH Elite
Oct 1, 2018
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1,496
warwick
Its bonkers, but in a good way. Does it have some sort of shower curtain fitted when complete.? Otherwise, the water is going to go everywhere. But I suppose that back in the day, you just got one of the servants to clean up!
 

dobbyhasfriends

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Sep 19, 2019
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Llandovery, Wales
Its bonkers, but in a good way. Does it have some sort of shower curtain fitted when complete.? Otherwise, the water is going to go everywhere. But I suppose that back in the day, you just got one of the servants to clean up!
Once the water connections were all tested I fitted the glass surrounds.. apparently this bath is worth around 25k 😯
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steve_sordy

Wedding Crasher
Nov 5, 2018
9,014
9,443
Lincolnshire, UK
When I was a boy, my Dad was a plumber and he used to do private jobs at the weekend (install central heating, modernise bathrooms etc). He used to put all the scrap (like lead pipes and the lead from inside the wooden header tanks for the pull chain toilets, old brass taps etc) into the old cast iron baths and top up with the old bath panels water damaged plasterboard, rotten floorboards and the like. He used to show the untidy mess to the householder and ask what they wanted him to do with it. They usually paid him to take it away. He would then weigh in the lead and brass at the scrapyard. Our annual two weeks family holiday in North Wales were paid from that scrap. :)

He used to smash up the cast iron baths and weigh them in as well for the tiny amount he could get for scrap iron. He would be spinning in his grave if he knew how much those old cast iron baths were going for now! :D
 

dobbyhasfriends

🌹Old Bloke 🎸
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Sep 19, 2019
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Llandovery, Wales
When I was a boy, my Dad was a plumber and he used to do private jobs at the weekend (install central heating, modernise bathrooms etc). He used to put all the scrap (like lead pipes and the lead from inside the wooden header tanks for the pull chain toilets, old brass taps etc) into the old cast iron baths and top up with the old bath panels water damaged plasterboard, rotten floorboards and the like. He used to show the untidy mess to the householder and ask what they wanted him to do with it. They usually paid him to take it away. He would then weigh in the lead and brass at the scrapyard. Our annual two weeks family holiday in North Wales were paid from that scrap. :)

He used to smash up the cast iron baths and weigh them in as well for the tiny amount he could get for scrap iron. He would be spinning in his grave if he knew how much those old cast iron baths were going for now! :D
waste removal has changed a bit since your dad was on the tools but scrap is still a good way to pay for the family holiday or new ebikes !!its currently at a high for most metals.
cast iron baths are a pain, expensive to repair and very very difficult to remove from most houses. we are putting in a lot of cast baths though, they are pretty fashionable now, especially the roll top ones.
then you get the other type of customers who follow you around and take every piece of tube and brass you remove and scrap it themselves. ive had customers ask me to use my tools to cut open copper cylinders to store the scrap.. (jog on, buy your own ££££££tools) lots of plumbers now write it into the T&C that the scrap is theirs and the price of the job has the scrap value written into it, if the customer takes the scrap the price goes up.. this does also account for the fact that you now have to have a waste carriers license to take ANYTHING away form a job, even your bloody sandwich wrappers.. you gotta buy and maintain that license.. and your van etc etc so yea, I take all the scrap and the last lot paid for mine and Sams wheels.
I could go on for hours.. but scrap, its deffo a 'perk' and a good bunce.. (bunsen burner - earner)
 


Tubby G

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Dec 15, 2020
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yea they are a bit beyond me but ill keep at em until i get em !!!
no comms, I take the audio from both gopro's and make one soundtrack for the video so you can hear it like a conversation..

Aah I see, good editing, it does sound like you’re talking to each other via comms

I can’t hear a bloody word from my partner when riding with her, especially with the full face on. I’ve got some Sena headsets I use on the motorbike, could easily put them on our mtb helmets, but then I quite like not being able to hear her 😆 😉
 

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