When you’re on a tight budget it’s surprising what can be managed. If you’ve got to ride in the rain without waterproof boots, a couple of carrier bags, not the ones with holes in, and a few elastic bands to hold them in place, before putting your boots on. Waterproof boots sorted :lol . Had to do that on a particularly wet TT in the ‘90’s. Then along came Gore Tex to make life a lot easier, although more of a threat to the wallet.
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(19-03-21, 06:00 PM)robbo link Wrote: When you’re on a tight budget it’s surprising what can be managed. If you’ve got to ride in the rain without waterproof boots, a couple of carrier bags, not the ones with holes in, and a few elastic bands to hold them in place, before putting your boots on. Waterproof boots sorted :lol . Had to do that on a particularly wet TT in the ‘90’s. Then along came Gore Tex to make life a lot easier, although more of a threat to the wallet.
A long time ago, in a galaxy very close, I had a winter job in a quarry. All of us had carrier bags inside our boots, everyday, irrespective of weather.
No trench foot reported!
(18-03-21, 01:00 PM)fazerscotty link Wrote: For years, I bought my waterproofs from a Farmers supply shop. Two piece, with pockets in the jacket. They were brilliant in the rain (obviously!) and only cost about £6 each time they needed replacing.
I've always got my waterproof stuff from a good outdoor supplier. Reasonable quality, does the job, at a fraction of the price of some of the trade names above.
I've found its sometimes an advantage to be a short arse (sorry, vertically challenged). Often find good quality gear in the sales rack at dealers, just because its a small size and they've not managed to sell it during the season. I picked up a brilliant leather jacket some years ago, I looked at it in the rack and decided that £299 for a jacket was way too much. The wife was with me that day, and a few minutes later, she walked over to me with the jacket. "Try this on" she said. "**** off" I replied, "I'm not paying that for a jacket". Turns out it was £29.90. Still got it and it still looks superb. In the sale rack because it was unsold for a while. I guess my brain couldn't accept that such a garment could be sold for such a low price, so represented the price to my brain at what I expected to see.
Agree, it must be handy not needing to buy a regular size, as bargains can certainly be had, sadly not by me. I’ve a pal who got a short legged Rukka suit from a stand at the Birmingham bike show, just before closing on the last day. It was one less suit for the dealer to carry on the long walk out to the van as they were packing up. The suit fitted him perfectly, you’d have thought it was tailor made.
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"I've found its sometimes an advantage to be a short arse (sorry, vertically challenged). Often find good quality gear in the sales rack at dealers, just because its a small size and they've not managed to sell it during the season. I picked up a brilliant leather jacket some years ago, I looked at it in the rack and decided that £299 for a jacket was way too much. The wife was with me that day, and a few minutes later, she walked over to me with the jacket. "Try this on" she said. "**** off" I replied, "I'm not paying that for a jacket". Turns out it was £29.90. Still got it and it still looks superb. In the sale rack because it was unsold for a while. I guess my brain couldn't accept that such a garment could be sold for such a low price, so represented the price to my brain at what I expected to see."
Yeah, yeah, we've all done it - visit to Specsavers on the cards maybe?
Specsavers....... Now that's another expensive hobby :lol .
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(24-03-21, 10:29 AM)robbo link Wrote: Specsavers....... Now that's another expensive hobby :lol .
Anything, absolutely anything, spelt in the English language is expensive, or so it seems.
(24-03-21, 08:52 PM)fazerscotty link Wrote: [quote author=robbo link=topic=25540.msg324076#msg324076 date=1616578174]
Specsavers....... Now that's another expensive hobby :lol .
Anything, absolutely anything, spelt in the English language is expensive, or so it seems.
[/quote]Exactly. I've a pal who lives in France, and as an experiment we booked return eurotunnel trips for the same date/time/mode of transport(motorcycle). His ticket price was far less than mine.
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(27-03-21, 09:15 AM)robbo link Wrote: [quote author=fazerscotty link=topic=25540.msg324096#msg324096 date=1616615564]
[quote author=robbo link=topic=25540.msg324076#msg324076 date=1616578174]
Specsavers....... Now that's another expensive hobby :lol .
Anything, absolutely anything, spelt in the English language is expensive, or so it seems.
[/quote]Exactly. I've a pal who lives in France, and as an experiment we booked return eurotunnel trips for the same date/time/mode of transport(motorcycle). His ticket price was far less than mine.
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It'll be more expensive to use the Eurostar from that side soon!
(28-03-21, 07:44 PM)fazerscotty link Wrote: [quote author=robbo link=topic=25540.msg324149#msg324149 date=1616832945]
[quote author=fazerscotty link=topic=25540.msg324096#msg324096 date=1616615564]
[quote author=robbo link=topic=25540.msg324076#msg324076 date=1616578174]
Specsavers....... Now that's another expensive hobby :lol .
Anything, absolutely anything, spelt in the English language is expensive, or so it seems.
[/quote]Exactly. I've a pal who lives in France, and as an experiment we booked return eurotunnel trips for the same date/time/mode of transport(motorcycle). His ticket price was far less than mine.
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It'll be more expensive to use the Eurostar from that side soon!
[/quote]Why, what's happening?.
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(31-03-21, 07:38 PM)robbo link Wrote: [quote author=fazerscotty link=topic=25540.msg324181#msg324181 date=1616957081]
[quote author=robbo link=topic=25540.msg324149#msg324149 date=1616832945]
[quote author=fazerscotty link=topic=25540.msg324096#msg324096 date=1616615564]
[quote author=robbo link=topic=25540.msg324076#msg324076 date=1616578174]
Specsavers....... Now that's another expensive hobby :lol .
Anything, absolutely anything, spelt in the English language is expensive, or so it seems.
[/quote]Exactly. I've a pal who lives in France, and as an experiment we booked return eurotunnel trips for the same date/time/mode of transport(motorcycle). His ticket price was far less than mine.
[/quote]
It'll be more expensive to use the Eurostar from that side soon!
[/quote]Why, what's happening?.
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It's asking for British taxpayers to bail it out of financial trouble - but it's still putting € buy the billions into another infrastructure scheme elsewhere in Europe and still wants to pay-out to share holders.
Maybe they’ll set up one of those crowd funding requests. People seem to do it at the drop of a hat nowadays.
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(07-04-21, 08:01 PM)robbo link Wrote: Maybe they’ll set up one of those crowd funding requests. People seem to do it at the drop of a hat nowadays.
Talking of which - I need a new helmet............ :lol
(13-04-21, 08:03 PM)fazerscotty link Wrote: [quote author=robbo link=topic=25540.msg324343#msg324343 date=1617822060]
Maybe they’ll set up one of those crowd funding requests. People seem to do it at the drop of a hat nowadays.
Talking of which - I need a new helmet............ :lol
[/quote]I like your style :thumbup .......fancy one of the new Arai Quantics myself.
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Picked up another Caberg flip front - the Duke II. Just go to transfer the intercomm over from the old one. Then finish the fettling on the Thou. Then keep fingers crossed for the good weather. Then hopefully get a day off to myself.......
(14-04-21, 08:34 PM)fazerscotty link Wrote: Picked up another Caberg flip front - the Duke II. Just go to transfer the intercomm over from the old one. Then finish the fettling on the Thou. Then keep fingers crossed for the good weather. Then hopefully get a day off to myself....... It’s a catch 22 situation. When I worked I had plenty of projects on the back burner that I could afford to work on but had no time. Within six weeks of retiring I wondered where I found the time to go to work, but with reduced income had little chance of seeing out the projects :'(
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Got the possibility of a half day - however, my car has died and now needs replacing......... :'( :'( :'(
(19-04-21, 08:45 PM)fazerscotty link Wrote: Got the possibility of a half day - however, my car has died and now needs replacing......... :'( :'( :'( Oh mate.....feel your pain. In my case, if it wasn’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all. :'(
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(19-04-21, 09:23 PM)robbo link Wrote: [quote author=fazerscotty link=topic=25540.msg324634#msg324634 date=1618861526]
Got the possibility of a half day - however, my car has died and now needs replacing......... :'( :'( :'( Oh mate.....feel your pain. In my case, if it wasn’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all. :'(
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HAHA LOL, I keep meaning to use that one.........but you beat me too it. :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
The other good quip regarding luck is, “ My luck is so bad it’s like a bald man winning a raffle, and first prize is a comb”. :lol
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