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by yakdiver
4 Feb 2024, 3:33pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: of a rotor lock for bikes?
Replies: 9
Views: 894

Re: of a rotor lock for bikes?

I use one on my trike disc brakes and at home in the garage I have an alarmed one I use
by yakdiver
3 Feb 2024, 12:12pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: Bicycle insurance
Replies: 19
Views: 1246

Re: Bicycle insurance

I can't get insurance on my bikes/trike as I keep then in a lockup garage, but it's about 100 yards away from where I live.
All said bikes/trike are ground anchored with heavy chains and padlocks, alarmed and pressure senors under the carpets and heavy duty garage door defender. The alarm is silent, but sends a text to my phone, but that means I have to tackel the intruder(s) myself....so far so good.
by yakdiver
24 Jan 2024, 3:37pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: ** The NHS Thread **
Replies: 80
Views: 4558

Re: ** The NHS Thread **

22nd January , After waiting nearly two years to see a dermatologist the day has come.......
only to be told that “I'm only the assistant dermatologist and can only take photos and then when it's looked at will send you a report” {FFE - family-friendly edit }, I give up.
by yakdiver
13 Jan 2024, 3:12pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: State Pension
Replies: 258
Views: 20664

Re: State Pension

Mick F wrote: 12 Jan 2024, 2:45pm Nothing to stop two or even three OAPs living in the same house. Share the rent and the expenses.
I would hate it if I had to share, I have lived on my own since 1989 and quite like it, alone, but never lonely.
As for the state pension, I don't get te full amount, little bit short, but I manage with housing benefit due to the fact my working life was cut short as I had an accident therefore my works pension in pittance at £38.70 per month, but with my injury retirement allowance I find it enough, but I haven't been on a holiday in years and any large purchase I have to save up for.
If only I had stayed at home on the 14/07/89 I may have been alright today, or is our life mapped out for us before we are born ?
by yakdiver
10 Jan 2024, 5:35pm
Forum: Electrically assisted pedal cycles
Topic: Battery lock
Replies: 18
Views: 1243

Re: Battery lock

My battery fits on a slide horizontally (rack battery) so I extended the slide and now a motorbike disc lock to stop it being taken, OK yes they can with an angle grinder, but it's the best I can do or lug the battery around with me.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363335302976 ... UO7Q-saeYw
by yakdiver
27 Dec 2023, 10:48am
Forum: Health and fitness
Topic: Hearing Aid Advice
Replies: 23
Views: 1736

Re: Hearing Aid Advice

My main reason for me not wearing them on the bike is the replacement cost NHS £70 !!!!
OK I can hear enough like emergency vehicles ect so I don't really need them on a ride
and not been able to hear Mr Car Drivers verbal abuse is a bonus :lol:
by yakdiver
24 Dec 2023, 11:29am
Forum: Health and fitness
Topic: Hearing Aid Advice
Replies: 23
Views: 1736

Re: Hearing Aid Advice

I have found wind noise a problem with my NHS hearing aids. - yes me too so I don't wear them
by yakdiver
10 Dec 2023, 11:30am
Forum: Non-standard, Human Powered Vehicles
Topic: Winter Trike Training (Wahoo Hub)
Replies: 10
Views: 1495

Re: Winter Trike Training (Wahoo Hub)

ONETAL wrote: 10 Dec 2023, 11:02am
yakdiver wrote: 9 Dec 2023, 11:27am Sportcraft Trike Trainer, can you use an ordinary bike roller on a trike ?
or are they differant
I use Elite rollers with the front roller taking off, it works fine. If your trike has bigger than 20'' front wheels than you should get away with not having to remove that.
Thanks for that
by yakdiver
9 Dec 2023, 11:27am
Forum: Non-standard, Human Powered Vehicles
Topic: Winter Trike Training (Wahoo Hub)
Replies: 10
Views: 1495

Re: Winter Trike Training (Wahoo Hub)

Sportcraft Trike Trainer, can you use an ordinary bike roller on a trike ?
or are they differant
by yakdiver
5 Dec 2023, 6:34pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: Rear Indicator Kit
Replies: 15
Views: 1830

Re: Rear Indicator Kit

I have indicators front and rear on my trike and up to now people do take notice of them.
I have a 12v supply so I used motor bike ones and they are about 10 inches apart at the rear, and 31 inches at the front
by yakdiver
2 Dec 2023, 11:54am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: How's your weather?
Replies: 1939
Views: 93956

Re: How's your weather?

rjb wrote: 2 Dec 2023, 10:10am Gritters are out in Somerset.
Council cutbacks. :(
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Ha Ha :D never seen a gritter in my area and I've lived here 20 odd years, yet it is on a major bus route, when the roads are bad they cancal our route and we have to walk up to a mile to the main road this has been going on for years.
When I asked the council about it all I got told "our priority is to grit the motorway and keep that clear"
by yakdiver
25 Nov 2023, 10:42am
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Bradson 5b pillar drill
Replies: 19
Views: 1387

Re: Bradson 5b pillar drill

I've got one like that, my faher was given it by an old carpenter when his electric drill broke I was 11 or 12 I'm now 72
by yakdiver
17 Nov 2023, 10:43am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Braverman: Rise of the Fascists
Replies: 1301
Views: 71343

Re: Braverman: Rise of the Fascists

reohn2 wrote: 17 Nov 2023, 9:00am
pete75 wrote: 17 Nov 2023, 8:57am
yakdiver wrote: 16 Nov 2023, 12:26pm Don't worry readers news travels fast "No Rwanda" so the migrants are being pick up mid channel once again
So what? Amongst the range of problems the UK faces, cross channel migrants are almost irrelevant.
I heard a woman in the audience on QT yesterday say the UK should push the boats back to France,perhaps that's what Yakdiver has in mind?
Yakdiver didn't have that in mind, not crossing the channel saves lives and saves paying 8 million a day which we can not afford.
Yesterday the crossing started very early in the morning and was still on going and 22:00, the numbers are not out as yet, but I think 600 - 700, the other day we had 615, this can't go on.
by yakdiver
16 Nov 2023, 12:26pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Braverman: Rise of the Fascists
Replies: 1301
Views: 71343

Re: Braverman: Rise of the Fascists

Don't worry readers news travels fast "No Rwanda" so the migrants are being pick up mid channel once again
by yakdiver
15 Nov 2023, 6:18pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Braverman: Rise of the Fascists
Replies: 1301
Views: 71343

Re: Braverman: Rise of the Fascists

reohn2 wrote: 15 Nov 2023, 3:08pm
yakdiver wrote: 15 Nov 2023, 12:19pm Rest in Peace Great Britian............2023
It's been in decline these past 13 years under moronic rule,the worst governments in living memory!
And you think labour will put it right :lol: