Statler and Waldorf syndrome...

[hondated]

Cycled 6000 miles last year and all without any notable incident bar one.

Ok b4t I will be ironic as you know you want to tell us all... what was the incident.

[bikes4two]

Cycled 6000 miles last year and all without any notable incident bar one.

Ok b4t I will be ironic as you know you want to tell us all... what was the incident.

Young child stepped out from high-sided vehicle pushing his bike before him - smack! child and bikes x2 ok, but me - over the handlebars landing on shoulder - ouch!!! but could have been worse. Judging from the aggro suffered by many posting on this forum, I have no complaints about this but would instead make note of the great majority of other road users who have given me no cause for angst over the past few years / 20,000 miles of cycling.

[ANTONISH]

Mrs P and I rode to Haywards Heath and back this afternoon. About 17 miles round trip.
We went there to choose and order some wallpaper.
No incidents. Plenty of potholes on the minor roads (due to recent flooding) but we managed to avoid them all.
Nice sunny weather, a trifle chilly.
On the main roads leading into town, traffic was heavy, but there were no unwelcome encounters. Motorists gave us room.
Will that do?

The thought of all that paperhanging would have spoiled the trip for me

[661-Pete]

The thought of all that paperhanging would have spoiled the trip for me

Ah - but then, you see, I quite enjoy paperhanging! What I don't care for, so much, is (a) moving all the furniture (b) scraping off the old paper (c) repairing holes in the plaster (d) draining and taking down the radiators. After that - the rest's a doddle!

What might also have spoilt it for us was the prices (yes, I know you can get cheap-o paper at B&Q's and the like, but it shows its cheap-o-ness!) Prices going up to £100-plus per roll were pretty off-putting. In the end we settled for a design at £22 per roll, and even that seems exorbitant. Hopefully this lot will out-last me....

[ANTONISH]

The thought of all that paperhanging would have spoiled the trip for me

Ah - but then, you see, I quite enjoy paperhanging! What I don't care for, so much, is (a) moving all the furniture (b) scraping off the old paper (c) repairing holes in the plaster (d) draining and taking down the radiators. After that - the rest's a doddle!

Hmm- I don't actually mind doing the preparation it's nailing the paper on the wall that gets to me - anyway can't Mrs P do that? There's a lot of cycling on TV at the moment

[reohn2]

Is it my perception or is the forum, especially this section, becoming more and more a depressing place often full of negatively, moans and rants?

Bong! Irony detection failure!

Moaning about moaning,now that's a proper moaner
Give that man a coconut

[Vantage]

I think that with more people starting cycling and even more starting driving, the incidents will become more often and more posts of that nature will spring up.
Ah the joys of cycling