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Re: I Just Wanted To Say... Ya Can't Hijack This!! :-))
« Reply #400 on: March 09, 2015, 07:08:21 PM »
Queensland has an aversion to Public Holidays, and daylight savings and a lot of other things southern states do .. We're kind of the confederacy of Australia...... :p
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Re: I Just Wanted To Say... Ya Can't Hijack This!! :-))
« Reply #401 on: March 13, 2015, 09:32:41 AM »
Maggie just dropped in for a morning snack



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Re: I Just Wanted To Say... Ya Can't Hijack This!! :-))
« Reply #402 on: March 13, 2015, 10:01:44 AM »
I see the standby ST awaiting in the background.....is it farkled and ready for an IBA  :Stirpot
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Re: I Just Wanted To Say... Ya Can't Hijack This!! :-))
« Reply #403 on: March 13, 2015, 10:04:45 AM »
I see the standby ST awaiting in the background.....is it farkled and ready for an IBA  :Stirpot

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Re: I Just Wanted To Say... Ya Can't Hijack This!! :-))
« Reply #404 on: March 14, 2015, 10:00:52 AM »
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Re: I Just Wanted To Say... Ya Can't Hijack This!! :-))
« Reply #405 on: March 15, 2015, 01:40:35 PM »
I did something really stupid today........

The gears on my push-bike were adjusted this afternoon. My 18 speed derailleur system is working as good as I can get on 15 speeds. Why only 15? Well the largest sprocket on the rear gear set didn't pass quality control ( if they had it) as can be seen in the picture. Note difference in height of teeth on the innermost gear.  The limit has been set so it won't change into that gear.

Even the front derailleur needed adjustment as it would only change between the inner and middle gear. Again an adjustment to the limit screw and all three low, med and high gears now work.

Now I have no excuse not to ride it.......but not today

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Re: I Just Wanted To Say... Ya Can't Hijack This!! :-))
« Reply #406 on: March 15, 2015, 08:25:30 PM »
So what did you do that was stupid?  Seems to me you did the best you could with what you had.  That inner sprocket is appallingly cut- no way it was looked at by anyone in the factory who cared.
A wheel as clean as that hasn't seen much work!

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Re: I Just Wanted To Say... Ya Can't Hijack This!! :-))
« Reply #407 on: March 15, 2015, 08:48:47 PM »
So what did you do that was stupid?

Fixed it so I could ride it.........Heather had an idea to buy a bike each in a means to improve fitness. Now the gearing is doing something close to what its supposed to do I have no reason not to ride it. I much prefer to have my two wheels with a motor.......not human powered.......lol

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A wheel as clean as that hasn't seen much work!
It's near new.......been sitting in the shed since before summer.......only used once so far which was when I found out the gearing wasn't set up properly
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Re: I Just Wanted To Say... Ya Can't Hijack This!! :-))
« Reply #408 on: March 15, 2015, 10:47:48 PM »
I agree with Alan.
When I left the Army in 1992 I bought a mountain bike for me and a bike for Alice.
I've been on mine a couple of times. Alice is yet to go near hers.
 

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Re: I Just Wanted To Say... Ya Can't Hijack This!! :-))
« Reply #409 on: March 16, 2015, 06:41:18 AM »
I agree with Alan.
When I left the Army in 1992 I bought a mountain bike for me and a bike for Alice.
I've been on mine a couple of times. Alice is yet to go near hers.

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Re: I Just Wanted To Say... Ya Can't Hijack This!! :-))
« Reply #410 on: March 16, 2015, 09:21:23 PM »
I crashed into a rock the size of a small car on a mountain bike and destroyed a $120 helmet but didn't get a fractured skull. I gave up riding them then as they are too dangerous.
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Re: I Just Wanted To Say... Ya Can't Hijack This!! :-))
« Reply #411 on: March 16, 2015, 09:47:58 PM »
You gave up helmets?????

Personally, I would have got rid of the push bike.
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Re: I Just Wanted To Say... Ya Can't Hijack This!! :-))
« Reply #412 on: March 18, 2015, 10:14:32 PM »
I've never tried riding a rock?

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Re: I Just Wanted To Say... Ya Can't Hijack This!! :-))
« Reply #413 on: March 19, 2015, 09:53:10 PM »
I suppose it is fitting that I put this here.

At the end of January Heather ordered a sport cam via an online E-bay store which we guessed was based in China. Well that item never arrived until today and long after we advised of a non-delivery and a refund paid.

We have no idea where the camera was sent from but the return address is somewhere in The Netherlands and the shipping label seemed to originate from there as well. The funny thing is that South Australia has somehow been transplanted and become a state of Canada which is where the parcel was sent to and then forwarded on to us.


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Re: I Just Wanted To Say... Ya Can't Hijack This!! :-))
« Reply #414 on: March 19, 2015, 10:09:16 PM »
Canadia is different, I would believe Austria, that has happened a few times..
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Re: I Just Wanted To Say... Ya Can't Hijack This!! :-))
« Reply #415 on: March 23, 2015, 11:29:44 AM »
the largest sprocket on the rear gear set didn't pass quality control ( if they had it) as can be seen in the picture. Note difference in height of teeth on the innermost gear.  The limit has been set so it won't change into that gear.
 


The largest rear sprocket is intentionally made with a series of shorter teeth, to assist the chain to jump to that sprocket. Its normal. You can adjust the limit to engage that sprocket for the lowest gear, if you ever get the urge to pedal up trees, or decide to ride over the arch of Sydney Harbour Bridge.
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Re: I Just Wanted To Say... Ya Can't Hijack This!! :-))
« Reply #416 on: March 23, 2015, 12:05:54 PM »
The largest rear sprocket is intentionally made with a series of shorter teeth, to assist the chain to jump to that sprocket. Its normal. You can adjust the limit to engage that sprocket for the lowest gear, if you ever get the urge to pedal up trees, or decide to ride over the arch of Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Only trouble with that theory is that the teeth on the sprocket don't match the gaps in in the chain when it get around to that position. The last bike I had and my first with a derailleur system only had five gears on the back and the innermost sprocket's teeth were the same height all the way around. Anyway where I am I'd be pushing to use the lower gear range if at all.
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Re: I Just Wanted To Say... Ya Can't Hijack This!! :-))
« Reply #417 on: March 24, 2015, 08:24:17 PM »
we went to watch our usual Tuesday night programs on GEM and found crappy cricket on.....that sucks!!!!! to add insult to injury........not even an Australian team was playing.
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Re: I Just Wanted To Say... Ya Can't Hijack This!! :-))
« Reply #418 on: March 24, 2015, 08:43:52 PM »
Sitting waiting for the new episode of Big Bang Theory to come on and The Block is still on.. do they go out of their way to recruit complete numpties to these reality TV shows? Because I've never seen one that has normal people on it, they're all complete forkwits!!!!!  :well  :OldMan  :cuss
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Re: I Just Wanted To Say... Ya Can't Hijack This!! :-))
« Reply #419 on: March 24, 2015, 09:40:05 PM »
The "STARS" of that show just read the scripts that they are given, and get paid for.

NOBODY could be as stupid as they are made out to be?  If they were THAT stupid, they would need written instructions on how to BREATHE!
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Re: I Just Wanted To Say... Ya Can't Hijack This!! :-))
« Reply #420 on: March 28, 2015, 07:13:34 PM »
Ride Report with a difference:-

We decided to ride the pushbike's down the main street today and do some shopping. I had the privilege of towing Heather's dog trailer which had the shopping in. We did walk some of the way back as it's up hill.





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Re: I Just Wanted To Say... Ya Can't Hijack This!! :-))
« Reply #421 on: April 02, 2015, 09:00:30 AM »
Just had a visit with the local vampire. It was a painfully small prick; glad I only have one a year.

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« Reply #422 on: May 27, 2015, 06:53:40 PM »
Go the maroons!
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« Reply #423 on: May 27, 2015, 07:06:44 PM »
Go the Blaroons....  Go the Marues.....
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