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My disappointment is immeasurable and Xmas is ruined.
(TW Bents trailer 💔 29er)
Can you let some air out of the tyre?
Mullet 🙌
Yeah the cheapo trailers don’t fit 29ers been there done that. Fortunately have welder- can weld
You’ll need a full bhuna Bob yak for that
Mullet 🙌
Crossed my mind. It’d have to be a 26er to clear, I reckon. Then again, ground clearance? It’s already on 170mm cranks and is planned for light cross country/gravel/odd woodland etc.
May just try it for size on the 700c tourer, until such a time I can afford to get the yoke modified (am not yr weldy type). At least that way it’s getting used for groceries.
Yeah the cheapo trailers don’t fit 29ers
Pretty sure the Bents is mid-range and pretty good (sturdy, foldable), IIRC the same as the Edinburgh Coop offering? Before all the super-cheap-double-knockoffs arrived on the scene. But yr definitely right about it not fitting. It is an older trailer ie just before 29ers became popular.
A Garmin Instinct Solar.
Not sure if it would work but my friend had a similar issue and got something like this (I think from the USA but not sure)
I bought a downhill/freeride bike in 2007 (when I was very very poor, so was a big ‘long term’ purchase) and within 6 months all my riding buddies had sold or broken their big bikes and taken up long XC rides across Dartmoor. Eventually sold it after 3 years and bought a 160mm Bike for XC (in that time I did the typical gravity rider mistake of building a cheap 4x bike for XC duties).
bought the wrong sized tyre a couple of weeks ago. Meant to buy a 26x2.6 magic mary but ordered a 27.5 x 2.35 wire tyre. Wrong ETRO on the pull down on amazon. Came in a huge box that was almost 1m cubed lol
I needed a new 26" front wheel, so with a few clicks of a mouse a Hope Fortus 26 was purchased. It was only when the wheel arrived that I realised that the 26 referred to the rim width, not diameter!
The bike really works well as a 27.5/26 mullet - no regrets 🙂
On a smaller scale, I normally buy rice in sacks from the foreign food section of Tesco / morrisons. Takes a few months to use up but seems better value given it keeps for years.
I usually take the kids shopping, last outing was a bit fraught. Ended up grabbing a sack of chapati flour thinking it was rice.
So now have several lifetimes supply of chapati flour. I can make a decent chapati now.
It was only when the wheel arrived that I realised that the 26 referred to the rim width, not diameter!
The bike really works well as a 27.5/26 mullet – no regrets
lmao @ accidental mullet winnings. It’s a tossup between that and the accidental chapati-champ 🍻👍🏼
re OP, I couldn’t sleep last night after the Longitude/trailer fiasco, so got up at 1:30am to try trailer yoke on the (700c) tourer/ute. Massive relief. Room to spare for 32c with full mudguard. Happy days.
@tomd, when the first lockdown occurred the MIL used chapati flour to make bread loaves, just as good.
I usually take the kids shopping, last outing was a bit fraught.
IME it is never not the case. One follows the other as night follows day.
Not exactly a mispurchase but my washing machine died on Christmas Eve, so I did a bit of Internet diagnosis, decided it was probably brushes and banged an order in to a Popular Space Parts Website.
They're STILL NOT HERE.
I appreciate it's a bad time of year for postage but I do truly wish I'd selected some kind of expedited shipping. Washing clothes in the bath is getting old.
So now have several lifetimes supply of chapati flour. I can make a decent chapati now.
Also good for
Pori, nan, parathas tortillas etc. My mum uses it for scones. It's basically just flour fire it in anything and see what happens sometimes you need to cut it with plain.
We now buy no flatbread they all get cooked from scratch in the time it takes to cook the main part.
Hungy now.
Thanks for that. Currently is top of the the ‘possible and cost-effective’ list. Similar passed my mind but have never seen such a thing. Just had a nose at a fat bike/BoB page with good reports of similar.
But that’s the trailer-wheel, ie no brake to think about 🤦
About a year ago, we had a brand new Orange Zest 20" returned to us unopened, the Customer expecting a 20" framed adult bike, not a 20" wheeled kid's bike. Mistakes are so easy to make in the bike world (wonders how many people have bought Cane Creek 40 headsets, assuming they'll automatically be the 40 standard, not the 40 model).
Pretty sure the Bents is mid-range and pretty good (sturdy, foldable), IIRC the same as the Edinburgh Coop offering? Before all the super-cheap-double-knockoffs arrived on the scene. But yr definitely right about it not fitting. It is an older trailer ie just before 29ers became popular.
I've got the same trailer. Off Ebay many years ago - apart from the QR axle snapping and being replaced with a stronger one (Edinburgh Cycles, in fact) it has been very useful and very sturdy - I use it for shopping and taking big bundles of garden waste to the "local tip" (woods).
And... I've kept a 26" wheel singlespeed just for the purpose. Bike gets used for nothing else except trailer towing 😀 I've got a 27.5 but that has a boost thru axle so can't even try it.
And… I’ve kept a 26″ wheel singlespeed just for the purpose.
Funnily enough I’ve got one of those (rolling chassis) just waiting for the funds to finish it. This may be time to move the Longitude on and do just that, as my bike-packing plans have been thwarted from day one. 2022 it seems that anything could happen.
the Customer expecting a 20″ framed adult bike, not a 20″ wheeled kid’s bike
The other day a guy stopped me in street as I was riding:
"Oi, mate, what size bike is that?"
"Oh, it's a large frame on this"
"No, I mean the wheels? Is it 24"?"
"These are 29" wheels"
"Oh, right. It's just I've got this bike for me grandson and I'm just trying to work out if it'll fit him"
"How old is he?
"He's 11"
I wasn't sure whether to be more bemused at the thought that an adult bloke would be riding a 24" wheel trail bike, or that an adult bloke would be a good size guide for an 11 year old kid 🤷♂️
On a none-bike front. Me and ms Mac both like to use the same kind a of diary - the Moleskine weekly notebook in XL - we like the 18 month version as its a bit cheaper at this time of year and we use the spare months for extra notes.
This year I completely forgot to buy them until yesterday so have ordered online and waiting for them to arrive.
We've been buying every year them for over a decade now
Every year without fail I buy the wrong ones and have to return them, sometimes I buy the wrong ones twice in a row.
I buy the wrong size
I buy monthly planners rather than weekly notebook
I buy the 12 month instead of the 18 month ones
Sometimes I manage to buy completely the wrong year- like several years out of date (god knows why they're even for sale)
I'm quietly confident that apart from the 'forgetting to actually buy them' thing I've got it right this time, first time ever. Probably not though.
Many many years ago, when records meant vinyl, I went into town to get the album Boston, by the band Boston.
I came back with the album Chicago, by Chicago.
Fortunately it was ok.
Nothing that can’t be sorted with some cutlery and a welder.
We feed the cats using plastic bowls that are 6" in diameter. Mrs P in her usual mad rush ordered some more on Amazon - we now have 6 cat bowls that are 1.5" in size......enough for a quick snack maybe.
^Now am curious to know which cats normally eat from 1.5” bowls?
Also reminded me of a friend who one day forgot to put her brain/specs on and ordered 5 fire-buckets for the campsite and they turned up in a padded envelope lmao.
The mullet was a goer cheers! Can report that Brigid The Rigid was successfully 69er’d and rides like a dream with the new/old sleigh in tow. Tried it out with a load of beer bottles and grocery shop tonight and also towed a load of crap to the tip/recycling. Slacker with the smaller rear-end and so better for the job. It’s trivial to change back to 29er, just swap a cassette and hitch-skewer.
The benefits of a cargo trailer are massive. I always disliked the Carry Freedom or Burley-style trailers because too wide, too-wheeled, poor tracking etc. Now the mis-purchase instead became a perfect match. 29-26-16 (swoons). And the width is more or less a match for the width of the pedals, so where the bike can squeeze through, so can the trailer. This has already been useful in tight alleyways and park-barriers etc.
Can’t wait to rag it around farm tracks and over moors with full plein-air studio, chair, sun-canopy/poles, 5 litres water all towed in a big bucket. So much faster than walking and less effort/more gear.
Also multi-site camping/touring can now be epic. Great excite!
When get the chance I’ll try a 27.5 for size, but if the 69er works as well off-road too then nae bother 😊
That bucket pails into insignificance.
Stunning level of punnery there 👏🏼
My colleague wasnted to order a 24 inch whiteboard. A couple of days later, a big truck pulls up outside and 2 guys carry in the biggest whiteboard in the world- I think it was 6 foot by 10 foot. We're dying laughing, she's dying of embarassment, they explain that they can't take it away without a return note so it's going to be taking up half of the office for a few days at least... Then, just as he's walking out he says, where do you want the other 23?
She'd put "24" in thinking it was the size, it was the quantity.
In the late '90s my work duties included being in charge of stationery supplies for a large office.
We were running low on small Post-It notes so added them to the order. The order unit was shown as "1" so, knowing they came in cellophane packs of 12 and also knowing we got through a lot of them I ordered 288, expecting 2 dozen packs.
We actually received 288 packs of a dozen, so 3,456 small pads because apparently 1 meant 1 cellophane pack, not one pad.
Stationery Co was a bit arsey but agreed to most of them back.
Roll on a couple of months and more post-its were needed and remember what had happened before and still wanting 2 dozen cellophane packs I ordered 24.
I'm sure you can see where this is going.....
Delivery arrives with 2 cellophane packs of 12.
I rang the stationers to ask WTF was going on and was told that a lot of people had been getting confused so they had changed it to 1 being 1 pad and not told us.....
Not me but a colleague on a construction site. He ordered 2.00m of cast iron duct, but thought it was artistic to draw full stops and decimals as small circles. So we had 2000m to find a use for.
I'm still on te tenterhooks at the prospect of @maccruiskeen getting the right filofax this year. 🤔😅
We feed the cats using plastic bowls that are 6″ in diameter. Mrs P in her usual mad rush ordered some more on Amazon – we now have 6 cat bowls that are 1.5″ in size……enough for a quick snack maybe.
In his first foray into online grocery shopping my dad wanted to order some fancy fishcakes that he likes - sold in packs of four. Decides he wants two packs, one for now, one to freeze for later
types '2' in the box - then realises they're actually being listed as a 2for1 - that would be too many - after all fishcakes are nice but who wants to eat 16 fishcakes?
So he replace the '2' with a '1'.... he thinks.
Quite a lot of shopping bags get deliverd - amongst them 21 double packs of fishcakes.
21 2for1 pack for four fish cakes equals 168.
I’m still on te tenterhooks at the prospect of @maccruiskeen getting the right filofax this year.
The box has just arrived but I'm going to have a coffee before I can face opening it!
🤣🤣
Maybe it'll be a garmin instinct solar!
Aside from the usual grocery ordering of comically small shampoo bottles or extraordinary large bags of coffee beans (still happens, 7 years after converting to online groceries…) the last comedy purchase was 3 x identical pairs of pedals from CRC. App malfunction meant it wasn’t clear at all whether the purchase went through. So I resubmitted, twice again it seems. Cue 3x identical parcels rocking up this week… 🙄
Well.... in exciting news that was a really nice coffee - and... the diaries are the right ones. So apart from forgetting to order then in the first place its the first time I've ever ordered the right ones first time.
Almost pointless though - I normally work on 18 - 20 productions a year and the reason for using a diary with extra pages is for all the site measurements, recce notes and and a meetings info that generates. (I only use pencil and some years I go through the first section of notes, rub them all out and start again)
Despite my mantra of "I don't do long jobs" I've been working in the same studio since nov 2020 and will still be there til the summer at least - Last year's dairy is practically empty and I doubt I'll write anything in most of this one. But at least its the right one.
Drunken Taobao (it's like Amazon where I am)
I kept meaning to count the links in the chain on my bike. Not sure I can get away with buying 116 link chains, but need to know. Each time I thought about counting links I added a cassette to my basket in case I forgot when ordering the chains.
I now have 3 spare Shimano MS 12spd cassettes that should last me until 2024/25 minimum, one fresh one on the bike, and only one spare chain, that might not be long enough!
Many many years ago, when records meant vinyl, I went into town to get the album Boston, by the band Boston.
I came back with the album Chicago, by Chicago.
That is excellent!
My father still reminds me of going to the corner shop when I was about 10 for butter. And returning with soap. Don't ask, I don't know why, it was 40+ years ago..
30 years ago I worked in the buying dept of a company that made packaging. One of my colleagues was suppose to order 200kg of paper for (I think) a Kodak job.
She got confused and ordered 200 tonnes instead.
She realised her mistake when it turned up. In 10 artics. From Sweden. Apparently the chat she had with the MD wasn't that pleasant...