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So, I thought I'd give the bike an end of season strip and rebuild ready for next year. It was cold out and the garage has got a car in the way so...... Makeshift workshop.
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You put a workmat down, what's the problem? 😉
tell her to open some wine and chill
I see nothing wrong there 🙂
I can't see a hammer? Or any empty Stella cans? Your idea of an end of season strip and rebuild is obviously quite different to mine 😀
You read the instructions when fitting new bits?
Wierdo.
Put the camping stove in the garden. That way she can stay warm while she cooks your tea and she'll think how thoughtful and caring you are. Everyone's a winner.
Wife would have chilled with a bottle of wine but couldn't get to fridge or corkscrew...
I see nothing wrong there
That's what I said. I even pointed out that I had a torque wrench so nothing could go wrong. If anything that just made her more angry. Can't win.
You put a workmat down, what's the problem
Even looks like he washed the bike [i]before[/i] he took it in there!
you need to bolt a vice to that worktop 😉
You do look [i]exactly[/i] like a small child / puppy who's been caught doing something naughty, though 😉
You put a workmat down, what's the problem?
+1
we have tiles in the kitchen so no need for workmat 🙂
Have you plugged the sink. Taking a bike apart is fun, unlike a sink U-bend, in search for parts 🙁
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You do look exactly like a small child / puppy who's been caught doing something naughty, though
😆 Absolutely. She did start screaming 'Outside! Go on! Outside!' and threw a crank onto the lawn for me to go and fetch... I presumed.
Dude you need to get that sorted, your missis needs to know who is the boss in you house!
And next time get it all cleared up before she gets back
You read the instructions when fitting new bits?
I never did ( know it all ), untill last night. fitted a new campag mech to my cross bike. Two hours of insanity followed because I couldn't get the gears to index. Finally the instructions came out, seems I'd clamped the gear cable slightly wrong !!!!! 30 secs later all sorted. Going to read them all from now on !
The wife was not impressed.
that would be because you did your bike first I assume then because I can's see owt wrong with what you are doing, apart from the instructions being out and distinct lack of Perroni bottles
Blue pedals?
Blue and yellow looks good. 😉
did she find the parts that were being cleaned in the dishwasher?
the chain sitting in petrol in the sink?
the brake pads being reconditioned in the oven?
Blue pedals...On that Yellow frame ??? No wonder she was not impressed
I don't see any problems at all. She should appreciate how you've improved an otherwise bland kitchen.
Looks much better. My bike lives like this in our living room.
I always do a rebuild in the springs after a winter of mud and grit. Although after this summer a monthly rebuild would have been more appropriate.
end of season
Eh? Are we not allowed to hunt them now?
At least you weren't washing bits in the dishwasher
Good setup.. You are equal distance from the kettle and wine rack (beverage choice dependant on how well the service goes 🙂 )
I agree with all of that, but there's one hell of a lot of white going on in that 'space'....how did you manage not to get finger marks on: kettle, door edge, worktops? And, after positioning the mat, manage to stay within it's confineds??
Petrol in the sink, that's a bit old skool if you ask me? Have you tried: old washing bowl, neat fairy (you know what I mean) on the chain, tooth brushing (again, you know what I mean by that), rinse off, then blast through with GT, dry then re-lube - sounds protracted but not really, plenty of blue roll as a splash guard and all's good.
Personally, I would not have brought petrol into the house. Other than that, I don't see a problem - no, wait...cardboard on the gas hob! H&S 1974.............
At least you weren't washing bits in [s]the[/s] [b]HER[/b] dishwasher
8/10... I can't see the coffee machine!
Clearly her "chain" allows her to get out your way so what's the problem??
(ducks..)
Awesome! 🙂
Socks + Laminate flooring x GT85 over spray = Someone doing the splits
Where's the beers?
The red marks on the wall, are they grease covered palm prints from where you had to steady yourself after said GT85/sock slippage?
Having reread your original post I have identified the problem.
'Your' area isn't as nice in winter as 'her' area.
It's time to pimp the man cave, starting with a heater!
You had a car in your bike shed????
That's just wrong!
Standards are clearly slipping here, people.
The VALVE! The LOGO! LOOK!
One of my mates had a motorbike engine on his lounge carpet for about a month, just standing on some newspaper with obvious leakage through it. His wife didn't really seem to mind 😯 .
problem is how did your lass make your tea,and wash pots up ❓
I see nothing wrong with this, especially as you've used the kitchen.
My other half still hasn't found the dirty grease mark on the sitting room carpet where I dropped a pedal while doing a similar piece of work.
Generally I use the kitchen but wanted to watch the footie while I did it 😀
ah, I see the problem. She can't get to the sink to wash up any more. You should have left her a small corridor to get through
I feel for you mate, all i did was come in piss wet through from my commute last night and put things on news paper to dry and my gf went off her head the news paper print will apparently come off on the carpet, news to me 🙄
To be fair if i did that I think I'd give her a heart attack (runs off to check life insurance policy) 😀
Aye no beers and worse............bottled water in the wine rack.
Also - what is this "season" of which you speak?
Nothing wrong with that, I don't see how you've managed to make such a mess though, terrible work ethic there!
That photo just needs a card and you could go on [url= http://www.dogshaming.com ]DogShaming.com[/url] 😉
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Clean yer chain with her toothbrush the next time and then the time after that she will be so thankful that you didn't clean the chain with the toothbrush she will be happy ( clean it in the dishwasher)
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I always do this, but your kitchen looks a lot newer than mine. Our next house WILL have a workshop/garage though.
You're short on wine, send her out for some.
and water the plant on the left, looks a little limp..
the garage has got a car in
What kind of sick perverted weirdo are you?
I once dropped a crank arm with the pedal still attached on the laminate floor in the sitting room there was a perfect imprint of the pins. She never did notice. Now the sitting room has carpet and we have a conservatory and as long as I clean up she doesn't mind me using it.
end of season strip and rebuild ready for next year
What is this "Season" you speak of?
EDIT: someone else spotted this earlier, sorry
How do you ride with no legs?
Not only does she look severely unimpressed, I have to say she looks a little bit masculine for my liking. Don't mean to be rude or anything...
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Shaggy about to reach for that pot of grease, by the looks of it.....
You should have deflected her comments by asking what was for dinner and when she would have it on the table ready for you.
legend wins for having pron displayed on the laptop.
I'm dismayed at the sparkling water in the wine rack. Disgraceful!
WD40 next to the kettle? Do you find it tough to get going in the morning, a wee shot in the the brew....
Do you box up, all the parts for winter ?
Covered in straw?
Do you box up, all the parts for winter ?
New parts for summer.
I knew I'd regret posting it.
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Phh. You don't need a workshop, you just need to grow some and tell her its just as much your kitchen as it is hers, and you'll do what you like in there..!
Did my first bike build in the kitchen. Well, it was a second floor flat, and everywhere else had a new cream coloured carpet. Subsequent to that I've had a cellar and now a garage.
I'm about to embark on teaching myself to build wheels. Which is obviously best done in front of the TV. Wish me luck..!
The car should be out in the road where it belongs....
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Is that a house or posh garage 😕
Unfortunately for you, I'm having a very quiet afternoon...
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😀
spokeydokeys, a rainbow and teddies next please 🙂
Firstly...is there an 'end of season'??
Secondly, I think you've done a great job of protecting everything...so she should be grateful and go fetch you beers if anything. 😉
This is what my kitchen looked like last weekend after a muddy ride, the g/f's only complaint was that I was only cleaning [i]my[/i] bike and not hers too!! 😆
I've just been busted.
Girlfriend has been away for 2 days and just phoned her at home...
"You've been tinkering with your bike in the conservatory haven't you"
It was all clean and tidy but there was a Nukeproof shaped 'hole' that had been cleared and i'd not put her bike back against the wall.
Schoolboy error 😀
one end of our kitchen looks like that all the time 😳
Strip down like that with no blood. You must be some kind of bike maintenance god.
First thing I would have probably said to the wife, if she came home at that point, would be "this might require stiches", while bleeding profusely into the sink from a knuckle wound.
Unfortunately for you, I'm having a very quiet afternoon...
This is better.