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I should add....I had surgery pretty much two days later to fix my jaw. So no more front teeth gaps and metal plate in my chin! Be interesting at airports in the future...
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Yeah, ruined my plans to go for the Randonneur Round the Year Audax award. I know it doesn't have to be done in a calendar year, just 12 consecutive months would have been fine, but I missed two relatively easy 200 km audaxes, one in Jan and Feb.
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Ouch, sympathies from someone who had a similar-ish accident ~4 years back, GWS and get back on the metaphorical horse as soon as you can!
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Yeah, I wil try get back on the bike soon, but can't really until I can improve my diet (sloppy diet is hopeless for getting calories in me, but great for losing weight!). And also when my jaw heals up and doesn't "rattle" and "float" around at every little bump! It's getting there though. My teeth will be the expensive thing sadly.
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Bargain! Congrats
yea but its just like me to buy everything under the sun to make it work...when I could have just got the pack from new and have everything I need in one go...and for less £.
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I ******* hate this country!
I'd be better taking my turbo and asking someone to hose me down, with cold water, whilst I trained inside a walk in freezer.
I'd be better taking my turbo and asking someone to hose me down, with cold water, whilst I trained inside a walk in freezer.
Caporegime
I have a ride on Strava from way back when called “I may as well have set my turbo up in the shower” or words to that effect.
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On the note of derailleur adjustment it's actually a JIS screwdriver that's the perfect fit for them, whilst a Phillips will work a JIS will get much better bite and you're less likely to ruin the head. 
Ice cream? Plenty of calories to be had there! Also numbing properties from the cold?
In all seriousness, sounds pretty tough, hope it isn't too long a road to recovery! GWS
Haha yeah, with anything like this the shifters are always the most expensive part so sourcing a deal on them (or second hand) will really determine if it's worth while. As mentioned buying a complete bike and stripping might even be cheaper than buying the components lol :/
Rule #5.
The Race Matrix. Won't bother again as my use case is obviously not great for them, got 4x the life (or more) out of the Shimano pads which came from new.
Interesting, I'd heard of JIS before and understood the differences before, but never appreciated it was still in use on modern components!On the note of derailleur adjustment it's actually a JIS screwdriver that's the perfect fit for them, whilst a Phillips will work a JIS will get much better bite and you're less likely to ruin the head.
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I remember those days from four years ago, told not to eat anything chewy for ~3 months to let my remaining (most chipped) teeth re-settle after the titanium plates were inserted to put my maxilla back together again... Really enjoyed my first steak! Complications with my hand swelling up and losing all joint mobility until the amazing specialist unit at Salisbury's Odstock Road hospital did their magic, meant I couldn't get on a bike until ~4 months after the RTA, my eyes were on stalks for the first few weeks when I passed through junctions and alike.
When i was in my teens a car pulled out on me from a junction and sent me clean over the bonnet, somersaulted, landed flat on my back with not even a scratch or a bruise.
I think I even (stupidly) apologised to the car driver!
If that happened now I'd be like a dropped jigsaw all over the road. I get very tetchy still now when cars emerge from the left!
I think I even (stupidly) apologised to the car driver!
If that happened now I'd be like a dropped jigsaw all over the road. I get very tetchy still now when cars emerge from the left!
Wise move, probably gives you a critical extra 1 second to consider your options, as opposed to staying snug against the kerb and getting absolutely **** all time to do anything other than brace for impact.
I do think as a regular cyclist you almost start to get a sixth sense type feeling of when someone is about to do something stupid.
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Yeah I'm happy doing it myself it's about the fact that their paperwork says they've done it, and more about the fact that their warranty is contingent on 'adequate servicing'... By them. That's what I'm really worried about, if there's something wrong and they try to defend some fundamental issue with "oh but it hasn't been serviced etcetera", I don't want to have to go to small claims court to prove it (because I'd probably leave it and do what I should've done in the first place, pay triple and buy from a good shop in the first place)Halfrauds always pretty poor at that. Their trained monkeys are trained to setup a new bike on a stand, sometimes to really tight tolerances, so as soon as it's got some weight on the saddle and some pressure on the wheel things rub.
My Carrera I bought from them in 2009 went back 4 times to 3 different Halfords mechanics due to chain rub (for free). Being an utter noob and getting sick of taking it back I learnt how to do it myself through trial and error in probably less then a total of 2 hours of fiddling spread over a week of commuting after each fiddle. :cool
Valuable skill and certainly worth learning yourself. Once you do you're already more advanced than the majority of Halfords mechanics (who only seem to build bikes from instructions, not ride them, in my experience).
Bargain! Congrats
Yep. It's not only that. It may give the idiots that don't look properly a better chance of spotting you.
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Wiiiiiiiiind! Maybe time I got an ebike!
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Haha yeah, first outdoors ride in a long time and the headwinds were brutal. Made 10 degrees like like minus 10 as well.
Dhb softshell I bought did a fantastic job of keeping the top half of me warm though, shame my feet felt like they were blocks of ice
Dhb softshell I bought did a fantastic job of keeping the top half of me warm though, shame my feet felt like they were blocks of ice