What is new in your little world?

Post by **YourGrandpa** » Mon Feb 19, 2018 2:05 am

My son is kind of like me when it comes to music. He likes a wide range of artists from 80's rock on up to today's hip hop. So who knows. Whatever it is, it's going to sound great.

Post by **scared?** » Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:10 am

no death metal? especially living in florida? MORON ALERT!!!...

Post by **YourGrandpa** » Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:41 am

Cookie monster music. No thanks.

Post by **shaft** » Mon Feb 19, 2018 9:26 am

That turned out nice. Lucky kid. I would’ve killed to have a system like that when I was young.

Post by **Whiskey 7** » Wed Feb 21, 2018 7:44 am

Re: What is new in your little world?

I think I have fallen into the Lego Trains portal.... in buying my railway first 'set'

Post by **Lieutenant Dan** » Wed Feb 21, 2018 5:23 pm

Damn, beautiful setup YourGrandpa, well done.

Post by **Whiskey 7** » Thu Feb 22, 2018 2:59 am

Minor kitchen renovations underway. What fun

This follows on from the works on the hot water service/system. You remember

The air conditioning is getting renovated too next week.

Did I mention we swapped our bathroom shower screens out for new the frameless style too?

Post by **Whiskey 7** » Fri Mar 02, 2018 6:09 am

Having fun in a couple of ways

Firstly the Lego train is great fun to build. I am a Technic fan and still undecided if I will venture further in the Lego train world.

Here’s a speed build of my set

Oh, and the air conditioning works continue and here's a picture of the old and new valves we're replacing. On the left is the original and plastic model where 'motors' have failed and just could have gone out of round shape over the years. The new parts are of metal construction and more rigid. Only problem with the works is that we are cutting 4 holes in the plasterboard ceiling to access these more easily which means dust and more dust then plastering and painting and soon I hope.

Apologies for the cheap and nasty shots taken by my mobile. I am still learning to drive it

Post by **PhoeniX** » Fri Mar 02, 2018 9:29 pm

I keep looking at my kitchen thinking I really need to renovate it, so much hassle

Post by **Whiskey 7** » Sat Mar 03, 2018 4:20 am

PhoeniX wrote:I keep looking at my kitchen thinking I really need to renovate it, so much hassle

Agreed. A real pain but we must do it mustn't we.
Here we changed cupboard doors to roll out drawers and that is so much better all 'round. Only trouble is, we now see some panels that appear faded and that makes the job not quite right.

I guess we'll get the cabinet maker back for a look and ask he quote. Shouldn't be much as we won't need change appliances, sinks or bench-top. Still I cross my fingers

Post by **YourGrandpa** » Sun Mar 04, 2018 3:06 pm

The wife and I road in a charity ride yesterday for a very close friend of mine who was diagnosed with stage four cancer at 45.

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Beautiful day, awesome turnout for a great cause.

Post by **Whiskey 7** » Sun Mar 04, 2018 8:50 pm

Feeling for you and your very close friend. Too young at 45.

Nice pictures of the event. How many motorcycles were there?

Post by **YourGrandpa** » Mon Mar 05, 2018 12:32 am

Thank you... Too young indeed.

There were several hundred bikes.

Post by **Doombrain** » Tue Mar 06, 2018 7:58 pm

Back OT...

New bike day in Friday! Orange RX9 in time for summer.

Post by **scared?** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 2:00 pm

This thread has gone so gay that the shit I'm currently taking is coming out rainbow...

Post by **Κracus** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 5:12 pm

Doombrain wrote:Back OT...

New bike day in Friday! Orange RX9 in time for summer.

I may be in the market for a new bike soon... Although the dirt bike is good exercise it doesn't really provide much cardio. It's been so long I'm not even sure what's a good brand these days, I've never even heard of Orange bikes!

Post by **Eraser** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 6:09 pm

Orange make killer guitar amps. Different Orange probably

Post by **Doombrain** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 6:39 pm

Handmade British bikes. They have started setting in the US and Canada. Simple pivot design, high quality and built to last.

Post by **seremtan** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 6:46 pm

Doombrain wrote:Back OT...

New bike day in Friday! Orange RX9 in time for summer.

what was wrong with the Orange 5?

Post by **Doombrain** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 7:36 pm

Sold the 5 years ago and bought a 4. RX9 is a winter/midweek bike

Post by **PhoeniX** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 11:38 pm

I'd quite like to get into mountain biking.. we hired some bikes on holiday a few months back and it was great fun, though having not ridden a bike for about 15 years I did nearly kill myself.

Where do you find routes etc you can ride? I'm in Derbyshire, I have the whole of the Peak District on my doorstep.

Ideally would need a bike that could collapse into a hatchback also, which might be tricky.

Post by **seremtan** » Thu Mar 08, 2018 6:04 pm

Doombrain wrote:Sold the 5 years ago

eh? you only bought it a few years ago

Post by **YourGrandpa** » Fri Mar 09, 2018 1:10 am

I replaced the factory seats with new Mustang vintage wide solo and pillion seats. Hopefully this helps/fixes the issues with sore ass after 100+ mile straight rides.
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Post by **Eraser** » Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:33 am

That pillion seat looks like you'll slide right off the back.

Post by **Doombrain** » Fri Mar 09, 2018 8:00 am

seremtan wrote:
Doombrain wrote:Sold the 5 years ago
eh? you only bought it a few years ago

I had it over three years. They take a kicking and I wanted something a little more playful.