Dr Nick wrote: and shed loads of flap discs and cutting and grinding discs - as my micro-weldathon on my camper continues

A grinder makes me the welder I ain't

Zippy wrote:

Dr Nick wrote: and shed loads of flap discs and cutting and grinding discs - as my micro-weldathon on my camper continues

A grinder makes me the welder I ain't

so true. I took evening classes at agricultural college 30 years ago, and I'm still only competant

RIP wrote:... with me rail tickets for a sort-of-C2C jape in August. Ride from Port Carlisle to Tynemouth via Alston and Consett. Wonder if that cheeky barn with straw is still there from last year. Train from Milton Keynes to Carlisle and back - £17 each way, insanely good value. Even more bonkers is £3, yes the princely sum of THREE QUID, for Newcastle - Carlisle.

All I need now is those nice extra tarp Y-pegs that 'Madness kindly offered me .

Will be posted tomorrow reg last night shift tonight

A grinder makes me the welder I ain't

Uhm, I come from a family of engineers / fabricators, with a few past coded welders amongst them. While I can weld, my old man used to say, "Don't tell anyone you can weld, you can't, you simply join bits of metal together"

I like that

Cheers Stu, you're a gent

A Chief Engineer I once worked for got chased out of the assembly shop for referring to some welding as rabbit turds.

My code is due a refresher in September and to be honest my backside is like a rabbits nose over it as i too have only been sticking 2 pieces of metal together ,since I swapped jobs , now the boss has decided it's good to have someone with a ASME 9 cert even though at the most all I do now is stick a couple of bits of chassis rail together

RIP wrote:Cheers Stu, you're a gent

Been called many things reg and now I know how gent is spelt I'm quite upset , I always thought it was spelt to#@er

Good job I didn't call you a "scholar and a gent" or that would have confused things even further.

And of course, to clarify, I meant Stu there, not Stu .

I got a new hat today. My old one gave up the ghost last weekend at Stonor Supercar Sunday. I know wearing a panama marks me out as a pretentious middle class douche but I'm starting to suspect that is what I actually am.

Thing is, about cars, I just need mine to be comfortable, get Radio 4, start every morning and be able to tow my caravan and two horses in a box ... I really don't care what it looks like. My boy is heavily into motors though, and bullied me into taking him to the car show. It was mostly Ferrari and Lambos. Which are spectacular, but just about money. But in amongst them, every now and then, there was an utter gem, which was about love. Like this:

Nice hat Tim. Reckon you should wear that on all your bivi bike trips instead of a lid. Would lend a certain stylish air to the proceedings I feel.

Reg mate there's a way to fold and roll a panama that Ive been trying to master for 30 years, I cannot do it.

And brought.....stuff for the kids, a wizzy guitar effects pedal for son number one. He delighted Mrs D by learning David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust almost note for note after one lesson. Git ! While I was a relatively decent bass player I had to work REALLY hard, son just coasting

Myself? Just a blow torch to free a stuck bolt on the calliper mount on the motor. Boringly there is nothing I actually want or need for the bike or setup. I’m not sure if this is good or bad come to think of it I’ve actually reduced my kit....must think of something to buy, suggestions welcome

Face it Steve mate, you've finally reached Peak Bike/Bivi Stuff. Same here, not bought anything for ages. Comes to us all in the end. Our time here is done (*).

(*) til next week anyway.

PS. Anyone out bivvying in this thunder and lightning? Quite impressive out there.

All quiet on the weather front here, I did enjoy my last thunder storm bivvy though

I rushed out to the back garden. Felt like I was part of an artists impression of a music festival as the sky was lit up in fantastic ways followed by a great rumbling of thunder that wobbled my mat. Super cool! Finally had the chance to test out my tarp rigging skills in rough conditions after all this boring nice weather. Can report that I did not get wet

The post brought a pair of wolf tooth pliers - I love the fact quick links fit in the handle so you can carry a spare 11spd and a spare 10spd in there. Some Wolf Tooth headset spacers.
And my new style Cumulus 250 quilt arrived too. Very light and I like the amendments to it. Looking forward to using it.

Am impressed if you were actually tarping in that Ben - any artyfarty lightning-flashing-over-your-bivvy pics to share with us? A wobbly mat sounds quite fun in some indefinable way - like a water bed bivvy or something.

No pictures of lightening as it was too quick for me. I do however have the arty farty prints from the WRT including a spooky one of the Mawddach estuary as the temperature inversion rises like a sea of ghosts

Not the postie, but TNT. My new frame

My little Legend HCx from someone on YACF and a BRS-3000T which I shall try very hard not to bend when hot

a new bike for this weekends TINAT in that there wales . nowt like leaving it to the last minute
IMG_20180526_123335673 by paul burty, on Flickr

... with some Y pegs from a very nice gent, sorry I mean to#@er , of this parish. Thank you.