NATURAL ANKLING wrote: All this vagueness Should be corrected Before they leave school and make it mandatory to do the basics, cooking, sewing, washing clothes, bike maintenance, putting up a tent and spending a night at it. Its not rocket science.
WOAH! steady on
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"All we are not stares back at what we are"
W H Auden
When I was a child I loved playing with my brother's Meccano, took my alarm clock to bits (and got it back together again), eventually took my bike to bits though I needed my dad's help for the really strong-arm stuff. Most of my working life has been spent doing fairly intricate mechanical stuff, and I do all my own maintenance though sometimes get my husband to lend an extra pair of hands.
However when I look at Manc33 and XAPBob's recent posts [Moderator note: posts moved to viewtopic.php?f=15&t=105564] my mind simply can't cope - I switch off completely and move on to something else. So it seems to me perfectly reasonable that there are people who have the same reaction when faced with a bicycle repair.
LollyKat wrote:However when I look at Manc33 and XAPBob's recent posts my mind simply can't cope - I switch off completely and move on to something else. So it seems to me perfectly reasonable that there are people who have the same reaction when faced with a bicycle repair.
Its all relative.
We'll always be together, together on electric bikes.
I can get halfway up the stairs at the Trafford Centre with my walking stick before needing to stop for a rest so my legs can recover. A 50 mile ride however is perfectly doable even having been off the bike for 2-3 weeks.
Bill
“Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.” ~ Eddy Merckx It's a rich man whos children run to him when his pockets are empty.
Some roads aren't very safe for walking on. I once had to rescue my husband when he stripped his bottom bracket 5 miles from home. By the time I got to him he'd pushed, scooted and freewheeled half-way on small quiet country roads, but the last bit is a a busy, fast, two-lane but narrow rat run with no pavement. It has long hills and blind summits - I try not to cycle on it and was very glad that he didn't have to push his bike on it.
Vantage wrote:I can get halfway up the stairs at the Trafford Centre with my walking stick before needing to stop for a rest so my legs can recover. A 50 mile ride however is perfectly doable even having been off the bike for 2-3 weeks.
And you'll still be quicker than what are apparently the slowest lifts in the world.
“Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.” ~ Eddy Merckx It's a rich man whos children run to him when his pockets are empty.
,there's something like a stuck record for some folk on here 
