What are your jeans doing today?

[Double 0 Soul]

3 hours ago, NilsLW said:

Found a wild rhubarb patch while out on a walk today (wearing SC 66s). Became quite a harvest! Any suggestions on what to do with it all?

I don't live too far from an area called the 'Rhubarb Triangle' ( @MJF9 is even closer still ) famed for supplying 90% of the worlds rhubarb.. when i was a kid, our parents would give you a stick of uncooked rhubarb and a cup of sugar to dip in and eat.. like a vegetable sherbet dip-dab .. it kept us quiet .. i much prefer a crumble.

Edited May 8 by Double 0 Soul

[MJF9]

Eh yes, it's near my neck of the woods that... though I don't think they make enough of a fuss of it down my way

You were clearly posh @Double 0 Soul... we'd get a piece of coal to suck on for us pudding

[Maynard Friedman]

Coal? LUXURY!!!

[Double 0 Soul]

I used to get a teaspoon of sugar and caramalise it over the gas ring.. let it cool then lick it like a sweet metalic lolly

[julian-wolf]

 

Wish me luck…

[MJF9]

Track day... for him, not me 😉

Although I think I'm more knackered than Junior MJF9 with all the adrenaline...

[Double 0 Soul]

Got up this morning and Leonard had made a new friend

..made some coffee

WH 506 drying on the line after it's annual wash

..rode up to Burbage

..stopped for a drink, wearing Odd Future Vans

..rode to The Surprise View

..this is where Porsche drivers plummet to their deaths.. y'know, not paying attention, singing along to Maroon 5 on the radio.. just picked the wife up from her bi-monthly session of lip fillers and anal bleaching, rushing to get to the golf club for a Cinzano.. when all of a suden "Surprise!" and you're off the cliff.. and here's you thinking Sheffield's only contribution to society was steel and synth-pop

..it's actually just over the border in Derbyshire but that doesn't quite fit my narative.

..can you spot the chalked out routes? .. Empty Rubicon can came in handy / Keeping Britain Tidy

..Rode through Hathersage to Hope and stopped to drink my coffee at The Adventure Cafe.. my bike was far too cool and aloof to mix with the others.

..lovely oak gate on the way to Edale

Edale

..in the foothills of Kinder Scout

..up the back of Mam Tor

..down t'other side

..broken road 😍

..home pottery in Castleton selling hand made ceramics

..Lady Cannings on the way home

..and when i got home after a 5.5hr ride feeling absolutely exhaused, my wonderful offspring had bought me a big bottle of Lychee Mogu Mogu

..the worlds greatest non-alchoholic drink

[Maynard Friedman]

Love this 🤣

[Double 0 Soul]

The 'Live' photo is hillarious!

[okimoto]

Nice hike to Blackstar Canyon Falls in Socal. Wearing Ooe Yofukuten SOA03 and Blundstones and a Papa Nui A3 cap in their Amoskeag denim

[MJF9]

London

[Double 0 Soul]

Were you driving the train?

[MJF9]

Yeah - keen eye there... the steam engine broke down on the way home though... but was I prepared... changed straight into my Leepros, saddled up and rode home... yee-haw!! 😁

[Dr_Heech]

1 hour ago, MJF9 said:

Yeah - keen eye there... the steam engine broke down on the way home though... but was I prepared... changed straight into my Leepros, saddled up and rode home... yee-haw!! 😁

Budget Hs2 no? 😉

[Maynard Friedman]

HS2 or 2HP?

[rbeck]

Been busy this weekend working on the bathroom. Never hung drywall before, but turns out it ain't too bad in these small sections to do as a one man operation. 

Had to put in some studs for the drywall to hold onto, and had to get creative with this one by the drain pipe by segmenting it. 

Another hurdle was getting the ceiling to sit flush with the original plaster. The walls and ceilings in this place are about (key word is "about") 1" thick with the rock lath and plaster, so I had to use something to shim out the 1/2" drywall. Tried to cut strips of some 1/2" plywood I found in the garage, but it was too thick, so I ended up using pieces of lath which did the trick and cost next to nothing. 

And here's the rest of the walls all done. 

Once the drywall is mudded and floor is in it'll be time to trim in some places and then paint (or wallpaper, haven't decided yet). Decided that instead of trying to match the blue tile we'll just paint the new walls and I'll cut some trim for the transition from tile to no tile. Going to put some shelves and a vanity in this spot eventually.

[ATWM]

kiddos (and parents) getting reps dune climbing over the holiday weekend 

[Double 0 Soul]

It was a shite ride last Sunday.. it was windy as hell so i thought i'd just do a quick loop and only took basic provisions.. because of the wind, there weren't many folks out so i was f'kin nailing it.. approaching a loose rocky section in the center of the trail, i tried to ride up the bermed edges towards the outside lip where folks have walked over the years rather than walking over stones.. these sections are only 8-10" wide, you can nail it if you stay on these sections.. but if you go too fast over this slalom course .. your brain can't figure out your route in time for you to react.. my tyre lost traction and slid down the berm into the stones which threw me off the bike.. Ouch!

The younger me would have been fine but i think your brain has a better ability to compute quickly incoming trail info when you're younger and give you those crucial miliseconds you need to figure out what you're going to do.

I scrapped my frame, my rear derailleur, my knee is all cut up.. somehow my phone in my pocket managed to survive.. i've done more damage to this frame in the last week than the previous owner did over 25yrs

The worse was yet to come when i realised i had a front tyre puncture.. like all bike-nerds i always register the tyre branding centrally to the valve but the impact and loss of air was such that it's dragged the tyre around the rim.. ut-oh.. this doesn't look good

.. the innertube was toast so i had to push home from Fox House.. back up through Burbage.. walking the section from Burbage all the way to Ringinglow village without any footpath .. it was just f'kin hideous.. culvert on one side.. walking for miles through waist high mother-die and nettles.. cars zooming past within inches.. all the time pushing my bike and trying to elevate the front wheel... it took me 2.5hrs!

Today was a little better, albeit..he weather was changable to say the least.. Set off in the sunshine.. f'kin soaked before i even got to Burbage

S&M Bikes / Woolpower

Pan0rama (click on it)

This is a charming little hamlet just outside Hope.. I was looking for the 'Intrepid Brewing Company'

Chocolate boxy

..staying out of the rain in Edale

Ominous

Mam Tor

..had to hide in Odin's Cave to avoid the rain

..back to Hope.. arse wet af because of the spray

Up Fiddler's Elbow.. the very worst climb at the end of a very long day.. even by Peak District standards

i had to push up the mid section.. i may or may not have shed a tear, it was hard to tell in the rain.. the only thing that saved me was 'Believe Soldiers of Twilight the Martin Solveig Vocal Dub'.. was this one of yours @Maynard Friedman ?.. my god what a fkin tune!.. it got me back peddaling with nothing in the tank

..I'm just having a well deserved beer.. featuring PE beer mat

Edited June 1 by Double 0 Soul

[Maynard Friedman]

Quite a day you had there Neal, it was nice and sunny down here yesterday!

I did post that track on here years ago, but I think it was the original mix that I have on this album (worth getting if you can still find it):

[Double 0 Soul]

I think that's^ it.. it'll be whichever version you posted.. back then, i would have just clicked the YT link on the video, taken the url and converted it to mp3.. i've just played the Martin Solveig Vocal Dub and the Club Mix and it's neither of those.. my downloader takes the track name and album artwork from the webz but they don't always correspond to the track.

Duke hooked me up with '4K Video Downloader' years ago after the converter i was using became corrupted.. i use it to convert tracks on YT to mp3 format, store them to iTunes and whack them on my old iPod Shuffle for bike rides (which is what happened yesterday with a new track list) alas, after a decade of good service, it recently became unsupported and the update was put behind a paywall so i can only dload 3x tracks/day. 

Can anyone recommend me a free (and clean) converter where i can just paste a url from YT and it'll convert to mp3 and transfer to iTunes?

Edited June 2 by Double 0 Soul

[LazyS]

I’ve always used JDownloader

[Hopethisoneisnttaken]

On 5/10/2025 at 8:38 PM, julian-wolf said:

 

Wish me luck…

How did that go?

[julian-wolf]

@Hopethisoneisnttaken Hasn’t gone anywhere to speak of, yet

Need to take them in to work to borrow some acetone and use a fume hood, and I’ve been kind of slammed recently so it’s been on the back burner

Will make sure to post updates once they exist, for better or for worse

[Double 0 Soul]

Remember a few pages back.. i was going on about when i first started my apprenticeship around 1990.. and the patternmakers / master craftsmen would arrive at work wearing a shirt and tie with a waistcoat and a jacket.. their sandwiches in a breifcase, they would take off their jacket, roll up their sleeves and pull on a smock to keep their clothing clean.. they was the last of the gentlemen master pattern makers.

I just wore a check flannel and jeans.. much like i do now

..anywho, one of the last surviving master craftsmen of this generation is still alive, i haven't seen him for years because he's been caring for his wife who had dementia, he called in for a coffee on the way to a hospital appointment (i didn't really recognise him at first) i said to him.. next time you're passing, can you drop some old photos in.. which he did yesterday.

He's the guy on the far left in the glasses.. this was English Steel in 1954, he was 23yrs old having just left the RAF and he's now 93.. so when i started my apprnticship in 1990 he would have been 59.. i also worked with the young chap in the middle with the dark hair.. he was 19yrs old when this was taken and still an apprentice himself, he died not long after i finished my apprenticeship.

Edited June 5 by Double 0 Soul

[CSL]

I don't know why but the guy in the middle who you mention, his face is very familiar. Do you recall his name?

[Double 0 Soul]

Yes, he was called Derrick Palfrey, he told me his family name came from Palfreyman (man responsible for palfreys or riding horses / a groom) he lived at Rivelin, he had a wife called Chris, a daughter called Annesley who's a pathologist and a son called Hayden who worked at Richer Sounds. 

[Maynard Friedman]

I think he was at school with @CSL 😆

[CSL]

I was initially thinking someone in old family photos (my grandad was steward of some kind of working mens' club up north) but maybe it's just that he looks a bit like me at that age...

[Double 0 Soul]

Similar thoughts at the end of The Shining? 

[CSL]

Yeah. Kinda...