Annoying Habits Of Family Members

an capall

an capall

Senior Jockey
Joined
May 2, 2003
Messages
5,591
Location
Dalkey
You know when your son comes to you and asks, "Dad - can I borrow your bike, I am starting to train for a triathlon" and you happily agree, because it is very constructive for a young man to do triathlons, and he uses ithe bike twice and you never hear of it again, and you take it out for the first time since he has used it, and you are hooring down a hill into Dun Laoghaire in the rain and you touch the front brake and realise the cable is snapped.

You know when you return home, change your underpants, and then ask your beloved 2nd born "exactly when were you going to inform me I had 50% of my brakes, old bean" and he looks up from the match and grunts " oh yeah, meant to tell you about that."

Do offspring have souls?
 
Tend to agree with you AC. Its something i've noticed over the last 10 years that the word 'lend' or 'borrow' has come to mean something else in the language.
 
On the one occasion I used the front brake first I went over the handlebars and was just lucky there was nothing coming in the other direction. After that I always applied either the back brake first or both at the same time but I always adjusted the front so that it engaged less quickly than the rear. I've never had a second accident, touch wood.
 
Blimey, how posh are we today? I used to just belt around on a succession of bikes where you stuck both brakes on at the same time, and hoped the little brake pads hadn't fallen off the last time you'd ridden it. Anyway, braking going downhill is for wimps.
 
I've got this wonderful picture in my head of a Talking Horses' cycling rally, with all the men wearing bicycle clips and the ladies with their skirts tucked in their knickers. :what: :shy:
 
Originally posted by Lee Chater@Aug 27 2006, 08:10 AM
A proper cyclist would use a fixed wheel :P
Click to expand...
I confess, I don't consider myself a 'proper' cyclist although I was never off my bike from the age of 11 to about 25 and a periodic user (of the bike, not anything else) thereafter. Old Faithful is still in use during the hols.

I've got this wonderful picture in my head of a Talking Horses' cycling rally, with all the men wearing bicycle clips and the ladies with their skirts tucked in their knickers
Click to expand...
:blink:
 
Originally posted by an capall@Aug 26 2006, 07:08 PM
You know when your son comes to you and asks, "Dad - can I borrow your bike, I am starting to train for a triathlon" and you happily agree, because it is very constructive for a young man to do triathlons, and he uses ithe bike twice and you never hear of it again, and you take it out for the first time since he has used it, and you are hooring down a hill into Dun Laoghaire in the rain and you touch the front brake and realise the cable is snapped.

You know when you return home, change your underpants, and then ask your beloved 2nd born "exactly when were you going to inform me I had 50% of my brakes, old bean" and he looks up from the match and grunts " oh yeah, meant to tell you about that."

Do offspring have souls?
Click to expand...
NAW.
 
Mock yee not , I ended up in hospital for a week which included involuntary plastic surgury after I went into a pothole whilst carrying a laundry bag and a fiddle :) I couldn't sue because I had too much luggage but I was just short of needing a transfusion and in a very bad way . I've only got 50% use of my left hand now because of nerve damage .
 
A freind of mine was nearly killed coming off a bike in one of the Royal Parks a few years ago;he went into a pothole in one of the designated cycle tracks. He doesn't remember anything aobut the accident but was in hospital for a while, and it badly affected his memory
 
Hmm, falls on the head tend to do that I find!!! I've been the same ever since I woke up in the John Radcliffe one afternoon....
 
Back
Top