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That's down to my fitness, not the bike.

the riding position and the lack of gears will make it harder to use....

I never ever had a problem with that before dude. I rode a BMX for the first 16 years of my life then ditched it for drugs and partying, but during my 20s (when I was 12.5 stone and lived in London) I used to ride for miles with no issues. In fact, just to prove a point I rode my Haro Shredder from my home to Box Hill and back (28 miles).

Every time I used to have a bike with gears I would break it. Seriously, my bikes live a very hard life. So to that ends I never got on with mountain bikes (riding down stairs bent the derralier (sic) into the spokes) so I always chose BMX.

Most of riding a BMX is just standing there any way. Once I get strength back in my legs that, and the bike, won't be an issue.

why would you ride down stairs on a mountain bike?

all that being true.. but my point is still correct

Because that's what I used to do dude. I was sponsored by JAD bikes for a while and rode a lot of street.

I bought the Ripper because at the back of the beach where I was sitting there is a path that runs for a couple of miles in both directions. So I can just take a nice slow ride either way and get my legs back to full strength

I can also maintain it properly, unlike mountain bikes (I fucking HATE gears and gear cables and so on).

You can get electronic gears these days

If the man don't want a bike with changeable gears, he don't want a bike with gears, whatever the gears may be.

I read it as 'nipper' and thought it was a kid's bike.

I used to love going to Bognor / Littlehampton as a teenager. Margate/Ramsgate etc may have had miles of sandy beach, but you had to walk about a mile out from the waters edge before you were deep enough to swim.

That looks amazing JC, good on you.

I just end up breaking them. Or they fall out of tune and the chain grinds, or makes that annoying clicking sound. Or skips etc. Maybe if some one had taught me exactly how to tune the things I would have had more success on mountain bikes.



I'd never been to Bognor Regis before I moved down here. I'd been to Littlehampton loads of times and that used to be pure sand. They've slowly started throwing in handfuls of stones now though.

Last summer was a bit crap really. The summer before though? I spent two weeks in the sea. Absolutely loved that summer

Jas - thanks ! I'm hoping I get to do more of it this year. The winters are terribly harsh. I mean, rattling windows and howling winds. Summer is the pay off, and last year was a bit poo.

You know full well that this isn't the way this forum works. JC doesn't like, what he thinks he likes. He likes what other people will recommend...

And he should get an Xbox.

It's my brother's birthday today. His wife has bought him tickets to the snooker final afternoon session on bank holiday Monday. He's invited me.

Result.

Excellent! Should be a good trip out !

A big yay for me.. I have a new lady in my life

Is it The Queen? I noticed The Queen is trending on The Twitter so it is probably that.

Yes... i was keeping it quiet....

Is she from the other running group?

I believe they call it 'ruling class', not 'running group'.

We've all seen Kov's Crown Jewels.

Maybe...

Don't go getting yourself banned from another one

I know...

Yay for Glastonbury ! had a few issues (like getting stuck behind a poo tractor for 45 mins, the food was crap at both places we ate and our noses were really stuffy all the time we were there) but mainly enjoyed it very much. Don't think I want to go back but it's nice to have been to that part of the world.

Today I've had final written confirmation that I'm being made redundant, had my leave date confirmed in writing, and got my redundancy calculation which is an agreeably large number.







I may [1] already have secured alternative employment and agreed a start date immediately after I finish here.


[1] Definitely

No holiday?

Good work!

I can't delay the start, and I've already got a few days booked in the next month.
Plus I don't have too much work left to do so I can have a fairly relaxed few weeks.

Nice one dude

The downside is that Mr Russell will have to put up with me showing up at his office soon

Superb!

Some awesome Yays!!

Oh yeah I bought a book called Crap Taxidermy. It's fucking hilarious

Oh and grats Zoidy. It's nice when life goes smoothly

The downside is that you'll have to soon put up with being in the same office as Russell.

I was going to pop by the office with the baby this week, but I decided to delay it until you are fully installed so that I can say hello properly, whilst I'm still on maternity leave (you'll see no end of me when I'm back...)

I look forward to meeting all three of you at last

Awesome news zoidy - really chuffed for you.

Oops, meant to say, well done, and looking forward to meeting you!

I was going to put an unrelated post along the lines of "yay, they've finally filled that position that nobody has wanted for ages to pick up all the crappy work that nobody wanted to do," to try and be funny but instead I'll settle for a congratulations

Is he the boss of you?

Yes, no, maybe... I don't know.


Can you repeat the question?

Sit up straight, and get some bloody work done.

#tallpersonproblems

Thanks.
By the time I get out of here it'll just be me sat in an empty building as all the staff move to their new office or get made redundant.

Why not try to get put on garden leave and double dip?!

Unfortunately our new owners need me to do a proper ordered handover of all the IT systems. I'm doing this at quite a rapid pace so I'm hopeful I'll be able to get out a week or so sooner, but it's still dependent on them agreeing.

I'm doing everything I can to escape faster.

Had my quote for a big project confirmed this morning. If I can stick to deadlines I'll be earning half of my 2015 freelance income in just 2 months.

Finally changing my anxiety meds from Pregabalin (fat JC very addictive) to Buspar (not fat JC nowhere near as hungry).

Thankfully I've not had any rectal bleeding or sudden unexplained death yet. About the worst side effect so far has been the hiccups

Good luck with your new meds, JC.

I came off one of mine last month so only take 4 a day now rather than 6 (was a day and night dose).

Four day weekend, full cooked breakfast, Foo Fighters came on the radio, pulled pork slow cooking. Win.

My stomach just rumbled reading this