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Post by ian on Sept 16, 2017 20:28:01 GMT
have to get some lower gearing or an engine on it My wife has an electric bike she got to help get mobile after 2 hip replacements. She could leave me behind up hill, but I soon caught up on the flat as pedal power was faster than the electric motor & pushing the motor faster than it's natural speed was just as hard as pedaling up hill. For that reason, when she was fully mobile she switched back to an ordinary bike. We've hung on the the electric one though, it might come in handy as I get older  This problem is not limited to electric bikes; when I was a kid I fitted a cyclemaster in my track bike (didn't call them moutain bikes in those days). It wasn't any quicker than my mates' bikes, and it needed pedal assistance up hill. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2017 20:31:05 GMT
push bike is too much like hard work for me now
i must be getting lazy
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2017 20:34:13 GMT
I had a green Raleigh 'Lizard' that I did my paper round on.  I know that bike.....a mate had one. I always thought it essentially a Mustang but with a green paint job.. |
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Post by noddy6598 on Sept 17, 2017 8:53:48 GMT
Yes Nick. I only remember it because it goes with a funny story. Doing said paper round I came out the newsagent on this particular day, only to see a scrote riding off on it, having nicked it. I walked home, crying like a baby (I think I was about 11 ) and told my dad who was watching football on the TV. He jumped up, shoved me in the car and off we went, hunting for the thief. He was a serving rozzer at the time so didn't take too kindly to his lads bike being lifted. Anyway, into detective mode, he asked me what happened and said 'I bet he's on the canal tow path'. Knowing which way he went we sat in wait and sure enough....'Dad, there he is!' My dad then behaved and cursed in a way I had never seen before. Out he jumped, hid behind some bushes and jumped the scrote as he rode past. He then proceeded to literally drag this lad into the back of our car and sent me home on the retrieved bike. Watching my old man scared me so the lad must have been bricking himself and he was clearly older than me. I still don't know to this day what the old man did or said to him in my absence. He simply maintained, and still does, that he wasn't likely to steal any more bikes anytime soon! Good old Dads |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2017 9:06:09 GMT
good for him
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Post by bodie on Sept 17, 2017 9:23:33 GMT
Yes Nick. I only remember it because it goes with a funny story. Doing said paper round I came out the newsagent on this particular day, only to see a scrote riding off on it, having nicked it. I walked home, crying like a baby (I think I was about 11 ) and told my dad who was watching football on the TV. He jumped up, shoved me in the car and off we went, hunting for the thief. He was a serving rozzer at the time so didn't take too kindly to his lads bike being lifted. Anyway, into detective mode, he asked me what happened and said 'I bet he's on the canal tow path'. Knowing which way he went we sat in wait and sure enough....'Dad, there he is!' My dad then behaved and cursed in a way I had never seen before. Out he jumped, hid behind some bushes and jumped the scrote as he rode past. He then proceeded to literally drag this lad into the back of our car and sent me home on the retrieved bike. Watching my old man scared me so the lad must have been bricking himself and he was clearly older than me. I still don't know to this day what the old man did or said to him in my absence. He simply maintained, and still does, that he wasn't likely to steal any more bikes anytime soon! Good old Dads nice story ps its a long time since I heard the word scrote!  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2017 14:06:04 GMT
scrote must be a thief i think
is it?
brian
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Post by noddy6598 on Sept 17, 2017 14:40:36 GMT
Scumbag would be comparable
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2017 20:55:15 GMT
bastard is better
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Post by Harold on Sept 18, 2017 8:57:04 GMT
scrote must be a thief i think is it? brian Derived from the Latin scrotum milij sacci, Ballbag basically |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2017 10:43:25 GMT
remember one of my mates when we were at school he was all ways laughing and his mother said his ballbag was too full never could understand that
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2017 11:47:45 GMT
Yes I also find that odd as I was always told that empty vessels make more noise. Well that what my dear old man used to say, anyway.
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