What did you buy your ebike this week?

[irie]

The tricky part is remembering you already have it, and not ordering another one when the time comes to use it.

Yeah, done that. More than once. Fook.

 

[Husky430]

A multitasking brush, now that’s a real bonus

Also as a bonus, its fits in the dunny as well. (Bog house)

 

[EMTBSEAN]

95% of my tools are rarely used, but there it is, sitting in the drawer, ready for action.

I might need that tool someday.

There’s an old saying, “it’s better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it” that’s what I keep telling my wife when I buy more tools and I get the rolling eyes look it is a justified look though because I’m guilty of buying tools and never used them or as had already been said buying the same thing twice, it’s an “age thing” excuse and I’m sticking to it

 

[JStrube]

5'10" and 76kg with a big bum, does not compute!

This is what I love about my British brothers... You use standard & metric units in an intertwined manner.
translated: I can half understand what you are saying...

 

[Binhill1]

Got these tyres cheap today I think £ 40 ish . Not sure about the battery saving bit though what you reckon .Got two headsets for price of one as one got lost for a while in the post.

 

[irie]

Got these tyres cheap today I think £ 40 ish . Not sure about the battery saving bit though what you reckon .Got two headsets for price of one as one got lost for a while in the post.

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"Battery Saving Compound", that's a new one to me!

 

[irie]

This is what I love about my British brothers... You use standard & metric units in an intertwined manner.
translated: I can half understand what you are saying...

Being Merkin I guess you'll understand the "big bum" half.

 

[Binhill1]

"Battery Saving Compound", that's a new one to me!

Me too . Hope their better than the Swalbe Ebike John Watt tyres I bought last year.

 

[Binhill1]

This is what I love about my British brothers... You use standard & metric units in an intertwined manner.
translated: I can half understand what you are saying...

3 foot 5mm usually gets the youn engineers scratchingtheir heads. But who invented 10ths of a foot ?.

 

[steve_sordy]

This is what I love about my British brothers... You use standard & metric units in an intertwined manner.
translated: I can half understand what you are saying...

It is a consequence of being raised in an Imperial culture in an Imperial country, but with an education system determined to make us all metric (thank the EU for that!). We have EITHER a split personality on the subject OR a stunning versatility.

There is story that illustrates this well. A guy goes into a woodyard and asks for some 2" x 1" (universally called two by one). The shop guy says we no longer sell 2x1, it's all metric now, will 50 x 25 do? (millimeters).

Yes, says our hero, I'll have two metres please. (See how swiftly he gets with the program!).

The shop guy says is that 6' or 8'!

 

[irie]

... We have EITHER a split personality on the subject OR a stunning versatility.

I would say one of those is appropriate, my wife would however would choose the third option which is "crazy as a box of frogs". Can't disagree with that tbh

 

[steve_sordy]

Further to the metric vs Imperial. Bikes are as bad.

We have bar diameters in mm, but are actually inches, just stated in mm. Tyre widths are in inches, wheel sizes in inches, but rims are in mm. Seat posts are in mm. The chain is half inch pitch (calling it 12.7mm although accurate is by the by). If the original designer had been French, he/she would not have chosen a fractional size like that, he/she would have gone for the nearest whole mm. There must be more examples.

 

[steve_sordy]

I have the metric system, or more accurately the SI system (Systeme Internationale) to thank for my career success.
When I was at school, I was taught in the imperial system and I never really understood physics and mechanics. We had the same terms for weight and mass and some seriously weird units for lots of other terms (slug-foot anyone?) Consequently, I never understood whether I was supposed to multiply or divide by 32 (feet per second per second) to get the right answer.

I didn't do too well in the exams and I thought I was a bit thick. When I went to Technical College to study engineering, all the teaching was in SI. The Si system has a coherent set of units (better than the metric system) and is very easy to understand; no problems of knowing whether to multiply or divide by the acceleration due to gravity. All of a sudden everything made sense! I got 95% - 99% in all my exams for two years and got the Henry Brown Prize for meritorious work, with only one given each year. From thinking I was a bit thick to that prize turned me around. I went on to get an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering and lots of well-paid jobs and early retirement at 57. And all because of moving away from the Imperial system. But I still prefer to drink beer in pints, it is a human scale quantity.

 

[Binhill1]

I have the metric system, or more accurately the SI system (Systeme Internationale) to thank for my career success.
When I was at school, I was taught in the imperial system and I never really understood physics and mechanics. We had the same terms for weight and mass and some seriously weird units for lots of other terms (slug-foot anyone?) Consequently, I never understood whether I was supposed to multiply or divide by 32 (feet per second per second) to get the right answer.

I didn't do too well in the exams and I thought I was a bit thick. When I went to Technical College to study engineering, all the teaching was in SI. The Si system has a coherent set of units (better than the metric system) and is very easy to understand; no problems of knowing whether to multiply or divide by the acceleration due to gravity. All of a sudden everything made sense! I got 95% - 99% in all my exams for two years and got the Henry Brown Prize for meritorious work, with only one given each year. From thinking I was a bit thick to that prize turned me around. I went on to get an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering and lots of well-paid jobs and early retirement at 57. And all because of moving away from the Imperial system. But I still prefer to drink beer in pints, it is a human scale quantity. You lost me quickl

I have the metric system, or more accurately the SI system (Systeme Internationale) to thank for my career success.
When I was at school, I was taught in the imperial system and I never really understood physics and mechanics. We had the same terms for weight and mass and some seriously weird units for lots of other terms (slug-foot anyone?) Consequently, I never understood whether I was supposed to multiply or divide by 32 (feet per second per second) to get the right answer.

I didn't do too well in the exams and I thought I was a bit thick. When I went to Technical College to study engineering, all the teaching was in SI. The Si system has a coherent set of units (better than the metric system) and is very easy to understand; no problems of knowing whether to multiply or divide by the acceleration due to gravity. All of a sudden everything made sense! I got 95% - 99% in all my exams for two years and got the Henry Brown Prize for meritorious work, with only one given each year. From thinking I was a bit thick to that prize turned me around. I went on to get an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering and lots of well-paid jobs and early retirement at 57. And all because of moving away from the Imperial system. But I still prefer to drink beer in pints, it is a human scale quantity.

You lost me quickly there Steve so I must be thicker than you .

 

[steve_sordy]

You lost me quickly there Steve so I must be thicker than you .

You just have a different super power!

 

[EMTBSEAN]

I hate metric, I measured up in mm for a new back door for our house and cocked it up, it came 2" too big

 

[OldnSlow]

I hate metric, I measured up in mm for a new back door for our house and cocked it up, it came 2" too big

I thought everybody knew, a standard doorway is two metres two inches tall?

 

[EMTBSEAN]

I thought everybody knew, a standard doorway is two metres two inches tall?

I only wish that was the case, my home is a very old stone cottage built in the 1800's where the only things that are straight are what we've fitted in it, spirit levels weren't invented when our house was built, or the builders (and I use that term very loosely) couldn't afford one I think they must have used the transparent hose pipe method with half frozen water or wonky string lines don't get me wrong we love it as its quirky but is also challenging when we tackle any home improvements, lets just say its interesting, and we're glad its not listed

 

[Koban]

Torque ON & Dirt Jumper had last week new (Magura) brake day. Today it was time for the Spectral ON CFR LTD. Set of Magura MT7 Raceline. Combined with Shimano XTR M9120 levers and Magura MDR-P rotors.

Now all bikes have the Magura Raceline setup

Still some work to do... .Mount motor covers, bed-in brake pads etc...

 

[The Hodge]

I guess that I've been lucky over the years that I've never needed one out on the trail ..but bought a spare mech hanger to go in my back pack ..
Tempting fate?

 

[steve_sordy]

I hate metric, I measured up in mm for a new back door for our house and cocked it up, it came 2" too big

2" too tall or 2" too wide?
One is a fixable problem; the other is a disaster!

 

[steve_sordy]

I guess that I've been lucky over the years that I've never needed one out on the trail ..but bought a spare mech hanger to go in my back pack ..
Tempting fate?

Consider it as a talisman. As long as you carry it, you will never need it.
The downside is that the longer you carry it around with you the stronger the wish that you had saved your money, the stronger the urge gets to sell it, give it away or leave it behind. As soon as you do that, you will need it, 20 miles from home in a sleeting rainstorm.

 

[steve_sordy]

..........................we love it as its quirky but is also challenging when we tackle any home improvements, lets just say its interesting, and we're glad its not listed

I can take care of that for you! Go on let me, let me. Think of how much it will go up in value; there is always some tosser from the big city who has a dream to live in a listed building.

 

[Binhill1]

I guess that I've been lucky over the years that I've never needed one out on the trail ..but bought a spare mech hanger to go in my back pack ..
Tempting fate?

Think I bust one at Glentress in about 20 years ordinary bike riding. Two broken on Levo in the past year along with dérailleurs.

 

[KODAKHODAK]

Finally bit the bullet and bought Somme Crankbrothers DH Mallet pedals - only two runs over the weekend and slowly getting used to them!

 

[VWsurfbum]

PSA; Sports direct are selling cheap 5:10's, so I bought some dry weather shoes in the hope of using them some time this year.

 

[Tubby G]

PSA; Sports direct are selling cheap 5:10's, so I bought some dry weather shoes in the hope of using them some time this year.
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I’m not surprised they were selling those cheap

 

[Bones]

PSA; Sports direct are selling cheap 5:10's, so I bought some dry weather shoes in the hope of using them some time this year.
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When the circus arrives

 

[Binhill1]

Hey come on lads their ok for a tenner or am I thinking tennis.

 

[VWsurfbum]

They have dull colours too.