Little Things You Hate

Ebikes (or anything with a motor) allows the dick to be a dick much faster and with a lot less effort. That's the issue. Treating pedestrians as slalom skittles while hoofing through them on a meat powered bike requires a level of fitness and perseverance few dicks possess.

Anyway, my hatred is reserved for e-scooters; fuck my taxpayer dollars going towards your facial reconstruction because you rode it like a moron (seemingly the default setting) without proper protective gear (ditto). Either sign a waiver or wear a full face like all the one wheelers do.
TISM clearly knew what the future held and campaigned to take the fight to the scooters before it got out of hand

 
That’s actually not too bad. Adelaide suburbs I live in 30 min south of CBD have gone mental. Empty 600sqm block down the road went for $650k a year ago. o_O
Ahhhhh, so you know it well. I grew up in Morphettville opposite the swimming centre. It was the heartland of the Housing Trust semi-detached home.
 
Ahhhhh, so you know it well. I grew up in Morphettville opposite the swimming centre. It was the heartland of the Housing Trust semi-detached home.
Yup, housing trust people all being pushed out far south or north and cramming the townhouses in.
 
Three things pissing me off lately more than ever:
-E bikes. For fucks sake I'm so sick of these fucking things being pushed as the standard bicycle. I don't really care if they are great because your grandfather has a sore tore and it gets him out on a bike, they're motor bikes and 92% of the kooks riding them are a menace.

-Recreational fishing. I live in a coastal town and we have lots of walkways adjoining creek mouths to the sea and the big blue sea. Why is it that every motherfucking mouth breather needs to park their unemployed arse in these places with bags of rubbish aimlessly throwing plastic lures into the ocean and NEVER catch anything? All these fucking morons do is leave their rubbish everywhere for the ocean to absorb. We have a big jetty in town in a relatively protected harbour and these fuckers dangle their shitty baited hooks fifty feet below them hoping to catch something. They don't, they never do yet they persist in chucking their bait bags everywhere. I would have not an ounce of objection to local council's banning fishing where people can see you. The lazy heaps of shit chucking their rubbish everywhere would be useless to go elsewhere and hopefully we'd put a stop to the rubbish everywhere you look.

-Smoking. Geez man, bring back the legal sale of vapes! At least your floral scented vape smoke didn't stink so damn much. Ciggie butts everywhere, people smoking at places where you're eating & drinking, people at social events nicking off for a smoke.............just quit you losers.
 
I've nabbed a roll of this (courtesy of my enterprising nature ;)), when I get a chance to trim it to size on the lathe I will give it a go.

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I've been using this recently. I got it in a mad rush one night when I realised my rim tape was fucked a night before a ride and only bunnings was open. It is 48mm wide so you need to trim it but it takes 5 minutes with a blade between pages in a book and rotating the roll pressed against the blade. It is nice getting the width just right once you get there.

 
I've been using this recently. I got it in a mad rush one night when I realised my rim tape was fucked a night before a ride and only bunnings was open. It is 48mm wide so you need to trim it but it takes 5 minutes with a blade between pages in a book and rotating the roll pressed against the blade. It is nice getting the width just right once you get there.

First roll of bunnings tape I trimmed was with a Stanley knife.

After that I made up a trimming tool out on an old hacksaw blade and a tool holder so I can clamp it in the lathe tool post.

https://www.rotorburn.com/forums/in...eet-and-general-metal-fab.256133/post-3579282
 
would something like this work? (3D printable.. or strip+blocks).. less easy to store tho..
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Bike shops charging ,$1000. to 1200 for a major bike service @ $ 187 an hour labour then telling client it's Cheaper to buy a new bike.
We no longer have a bike shop in town ,so thinking we will do bike repairs because mostly it is quite simple, mostly it is the drive train ,specific parts will take a while to get.
 
Bike shops charging ,$1000. to 1200 for a major bike service @ $ 187 an hour labour then telling client it's Cheaper to buy a new bike.
We no longer have a bike shop in town ,so thinking we will do bike repairs because mostly it is quite simple, mostly it is the drive train ,specific parts will take a while to get.

That is astounding! It also shows they read & enacted chapter 7 of "How to go completely broke and close your business in 3 easy steps". What a stinker of a shop.
 
The decline of the LBS has been happening over a long period. The hourly rate is pretty ambitious but those bills won't pay themselves I guess.
 
Bike shops charging ,$1000. to 1200 for a major bike service @ $ 187 an hour labour then telling client it's Cheaper to buy a new bike.
We no longer have a bike shop in town ,so thinking we will do bike repairs because mostly it is quite simple, mostly it is the drive train ,specific parts will take a while to get.
Feeds into the notion that we are consumers. If something breaks don't fix it...throw it in the bin and buy a new one.

Finding a decent bike mechanic is a challenge. I have a mate who's running his own repair shop and he's flat out, and also can't find anyone to work for him.
 
I don't watch commercial television, I don't really watch any TV series or movies. I just don't feel like it. Little thing I hate is I can tell I'm being judged in some social circles for not having watched X, or Y. I don't care...but apparently I'm meant to?
 
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