12 Mile Snow Ride Home

12 Mile Snow Ride Home
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Commando, or cat scan? !

29er Bike Porn

29er
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Old School

Old School
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Toffee nuts.

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In the interests of making my money go further, I decided to take the front wheels from my car and swap them to the rear. This is so that the power steering doesn't scrub the front tyres and wear them out as quick.
Imagine the feeling of sheer joy I experienced when the last nut I had to remove, a locking wheel nut, was seized on.
This is because when I bought the car, it had to have four new tyres fitted, and they were installed by a tyre fitter with the aid of an air socket driver.
I found out the hard way, that locking wheel nuts need only 90 lbs of torque for fitting, and that tyre fitters rarely if ever change the torque setting from normal wheel nut installation.
This is not normally a problem for me, as I already own a decent steel socket bar, and a 19mm snap-on socket. I can get just about anything loose with the right application of leverage. However, locking wheel nuts require the additional application of a security socket. These security sockets, I found, are made out of toffee.
So after purchasing a set of four normal wheel nuts from The Fraud Motor Company, I set about hammering in the now distorted security socket good and proper, and with some degree of sweating managed to release the offending wheel nut.
My car now has properly installed wheel nuts, all with nicely greased threads to ease their next removal.
The offending locking wheel nuts are becoming accustomed to their new home in the bin.

Hmmmm beer.

Hmmmm beer.
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Apologies for my recent on line absence, as things have been very busy recently, and blogging as kind of fallen way down on my list of things to do.

I shall bring you up to date as soon as I know which direction I shall be taking......

That's gonna hurt in the morning.

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Lesson number 1.

Don't think you can use my patio as a rat run motorway, as
I have a secret weapon.

Cadbury Strawberry Dream.

Have it.

Cornwall 2009

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We had a fab family pilgrimage to Perranporth this year, with only 2 days of rain, 2 cloudy days, and 10 days of sunshine. We managed 8 days of body boarding; so much in fact, I came back half a stone lighter, even with all the beer and food!

Tetra Pack Recycling.

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Whilst browsing my Local council recycling website, I discovered that they now have the facility to recycle Tetra packs. They are not providing a curb side collection as yet, but if you pop down to any Birmingham City Council site they have containers for you to "make a deposit".

So I took my household collection of T-Paks at the weekend, along with all my other stuff for recycling. The dustbin here pictured is how many we collected in just 2 weeks.

I am very glad I am longer contributing to these going to land fill.

Check your local council website to see if you can recycle these yourself!

Frag Fest

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Running around the garden shooting each other with BB guns is a real blast!

As long as it is done safely, of course

Bike Security

Bike Security
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Not my bike, but parked next to mine at work yesterday.

I don't remember needing one of those tools to fix a puncture?

Tenori-on

Ever wanted to create your own electronic music, but have no musical training?

First saw this as used by "Little Boots" (Sound of 2009) on bbc news. She herself has a few vids if you search for her on you tube.

I want one.