The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.

[rafletcher]

Dear cow-orker - please to not be clipping your nails in the office. Save it for the privacy of your mown living room.

[Mr Larrington]

My plan to recce the route to tomorrow's appointment on the Towpath Bike has been thwarted by my left foot being so swollen than I cannot get me cycling shoes on

[CAMRAMan]

Self: when cutting a brake cable outer to length, first remove the inner cable. Tosser.

[Torslanda]

Self: when cutting a brake cable outer to length, first remove the inner cable. Tosser.

BTDTGTTS 

[mrcharly-YHT]

Pick up 'universal' inner. Check type of nipple on bike. Find that nipple on cable. Carefully cut wrong end off.

Anyone apart from me done that? Hands up, anyone?

[LittleWheelsandBig]

*waves hands in the air*

We've all done it, eventually. Both cutting the inner while cutting the outer and cutting off the wrong end. Tiredness usually encourages my stupidity.

[clarion]

Self: when cutting a brake cable outer to length, first remove the inner cable. Tosser.

Yep.  Not for a long while, but I have done it a few times.

Pick up 'universal' inner. Check type of nipple on bike. Find that nipple on cable. Carefully cut wrong end off.

Anyone apart from me done that? Hands up, anyone?

*hand up, sheepishly*

[T42]

Dear cow-orker - please to not be clipping your nails in the office. Save it for the privacy of your mown living room.

I do like that M

[CAMRAMan]

One good thing that came from my stupidity was that it creates a lovely clean cut on the outer cable instead of that bit that snags on the inner sometimes. What I shall do in future when cutting outers is to have a short bit of inner to insert prior to cutting.

[clarion]

I've heard that before as a tip, but completely forgotten.  Thanks for rediscovering

[mcshroom]

I do that by sorting the outer length first and cutting into the excess inner cable (make sure you pull it back a fair way first so you really are in the excess)

[T42]

One good thing that came from my stupidity was that it creates a lovely clean cut on the outer cable instead of that bit that snags on the inner sometimes. What I shall do in future when cutting outers is to have a short bit of inner to insert prior to cutting.

 

[T42]

The nights are drawing in. Bleh.

[mrcharly-YHT]

My cheap headphones have broken, halfway through Pink Floyd's Welcome to the Machine.

[Polar Bear]

Self: when cutting a brake cable outer to length, first remove the inner cable. Tosser.

A long practised method of mine is to retain inner cable offcuts for use when cutting housing.   It ensures that you get a much cleaner cut of the housing and don't have to faff flaring out the end again.

 

[Kim]

Self: when cutting a brake cable outer to length, first remove the inner cable. Tosser.

A long practised method of mine is to retain inner cable offcuts for use when cutting housing.   It ensures that you get a much cleaner cut of the housing and don't have to faff flaring out the end again.

+1

[Kim]

Midge bites.  And horsefly bites.  It turns out I'm covered in the fuckers, and they're all itching like a wossname.

[David Martin]

*waves hands in the air*

We've all done it, eventually. Both cutting the inner while cutting the outer and cutting off the wrong end. Tiredness usually encourages my stupidity.

Cutting the inner whilst cutting the outer is not such a bad idea, as long as you colocate the intended cut sites. The presence of the inner helps to prevent deformation of the outer.

[mcshroom]

Another tip is to do the rear cable first if you are changing both. Ifyou accidentally cut the inner, it should still be long enough for the front cable.

[CAMRAMan]

Self: when cutting a brake cable outer to length, first remove the inner cable. Tosser.

A long practised method of mine is to retain inner cable offcuts for use when cutting housing.   It ensures that you get a much cleaner cut of the housing and don't have to faff flaring out the end again.

One good thing that came from my stupidity was that it creates a lovely clean cut on the outer cable instead of that bit that snags on the inner sometimes. What I shall do in future when cutting outers is to have a short bit of inner to insert prior to cutting.

Keep up at the back...

[T42]

• Children of 14 in France are allowed to ride motorbikes of under 50cc.
• Schools have broken up for the summer.
• It's a warm day so all the windows are open.

The noisy little bastards have been hammering round the village since mid-morning and will likely go on until after midnight. And there's one little swine who comes home at 4 am.

[mcshroom]

Lovely weather for a bike ride this evening, I have a road bike parked downstairs outside my office. My eyes are now already itching and watering because of hayfever. Argh.

I'd bet if the guy who 'has' to have his windows open in our air-conditioned, open plan office would actually shut them (it's warmer outside the windows than in), then I wouldn't be in this position

[T42]

I spent 6 weeks of a Californian summer driving round with a similar colleague in a rental with plastic-covered seats.

[mcshroom]

I shut them just now when he went for a coffee. He hasn't noticed yet.

[Cudzoziemiec]

I spent 6 weeks of a Californian summer driving round with a similar colleague in a rental with plastic-covered seats.

The mention of plastic seats brings back the pain of sweaty legs in shorts sticking to the vinyl seats of my grandfather's Austin Allegro. Detestable vehicle that was!