What are your jeans doing today?

[Double 0 Soul]

Get it patched..

Edited November 11 by Double 0 Soul

[reallypeacedoff]

I like that! Where did you get that?

Will get it patched with some spare denim I have lying around and then maybe do a patch on the top...

[Double 0 Soul]

They're on Etsy.. ships from USA

Ow! .. I had a nice Indigofera patch i could have sent you, i've just been rummaging through my boxes and i've found the matching bandana, i just can't find the patch.

[Geeman]

Holy Shit! Glad they caught the guy. 

[exaptavist]

On 10/6/2024 at 6:02 PM, Double 0 Soul said:

Got up this morning and made ... some breakfast..

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Psilocybin for breakfast  

Can't believe this post went unremarked.

Edited November 14 by exaptavist

[Double 0 Soul]

How's it going stranger.. ?

I knew i'd lure you back one day

 

[exaptavist]

 hello mate

I'm alright. Entertained as ever by your exploits.  You need your own channel!
Been trying to avoid being drawn back in.
Hope you're doing well. Loved the garden makeover.

[Double 0 Soul]

Glad you're well

I'm back after a hiatus over the summer.. i'll probably disappear again when the sunshine comes back

Are you still darn sarf?

[exaptavist]

Better out on a bike or over the moors than cooped up over a screen!

Yes, far from the honorary homeland. Though I still get to visit the North occasionally, Leeds, but don't worry, my mate isn't orange.

Funnily enough I was in Sheffield this time last year, went to see Left Field at the O2, though I suspect you'd know it as Roxy's 

 

Edited November 14 by exaptavist

[Double 0 Soul]

I rode up to the old Ski Village yesterday from Kelham Island

It was built on the land which used to be Parkwood Springs where folks would live next door to the heavy industry where they worked .. you'd pop out your front door and into the foundry next door.. "see'ya toinght love" kids would play on the slag heaps, you'd be lucky to live to 40..

..the land was flattened in a slum clearance and folks were relocated to places like Park Hill or Kelvin Flats, it's still toxic af and constantly monitored.

When i was a school kid, i did a 24hr ski- (well snowboard) -athon at the Ski Village for Comic Relief.. i say 'did' we just got stoned and fked around for charity.

It was the largest artificial ski resort in Europe at that time.. our freestyle Olympians trained here.. when the business hit hard times, it was torched.. by 2016 it had suffered a further 50+ arson attacks.. you'd often see the hillside in flames.

In the early 2000s it was just wasteland.. i used to go to allnighters here, namely NY Sushi or Phonetics, watching the sun rise over the city while the ground shook with base was a sight to behold

Last time i was here in 2015 it looked like this..

Then a traveling community moved in for a few years (unofficial trailer park) till the council evicted them.. the gates are missing now, i think they got weighed in for scrap... just massive boulders keeping vehicles out

..and now, it's been given back to nature.. a 2km urban MTB trail has been dug around the perimeter.. zero help from council funding, just goodwill of the peeps.. local boy Steve Pete shows us how it sould be ridden

..and us mere mortals

..looking down the last remaining bit of dry ski slope, keeping it on theme.. sleeve of a Full Count sweatshirt

..iphone 4 pano over the city

..

[exaptavist]

The Kelham Island Brewery was rescued from closure was it not mate?

One of my abiding memories of Sheffield when I was there early 2000 was catching the tram from the Glossop rd stop down to Hillsborough, going to what was then Ingle’s boxing gym run by Ryan Rhodes. My first encounter with local colloquialism being greeted by the driver with a cheery “o’reight luv” (or would it have been “a’reet”?). Anyway, approaching Kelham Island would be announced by a long emphasised “Shaaalesmoor”…

..Little did I know years later that area would become an important location to me for other longstanding reasons. No, not ladies of the night, but the joy and utter superiority over all other of Yorkshire real ale.

Edited Sunday at 09:53 PM by exaptavist
reducing oversized text!

[exaptavist]

Trip down memory lane.

Sheffield, as ever yet also increasingly, a curious mix of dereliction and development. But also steeped with history, architecture and, my reason for stopping, long standing traditional booze holes. Well, maybe not the former - long since and still closed, but the latter I was delighted to find, open. Doesn’t serve Kelham Island Brewery, but makes up for it with a superb range of alternative local ale.

 

[Maynard Friedman]

I’ve only just put 2 and 2 together, good to see you around @exaptavist 🐽

[exaptavist]

🤫

😄 hello mate

[smoothsailor]

Did a whole lot of framebuilding in my jeans, LVC 1901

made another cargobike and converted rimbrake frames to disc

 

[bod]

Pausing for a quick cuppa at work

[rbeck]

German engineering, baby. Look at how little room I have in there for any wrenches lol. 

Changed my rear brakes, feeling good about it too since I didn't need to go to my dad for help for once. 

Rotors were toast and took a lot of PB Blaster, acetylene, and brute force to break free of the hub. Love road salt so much 😑. 

Also washed my jeans like 2 days ago because I wasn't thinking about having to do my brakes when I started the wash lol.