[Closed] Broke up with my boyfriend........

This thread has brightened my day!!

I'm feeling a bit sorry for myself, sitting in a hotel in Rio. I got caught in a rip current this morning and thought I was a goner! A mate who is a Triathlete helped me out. My wedding ring got ripped off and lost in the waves. My fabulous missus didn't care about the ring when I told her, just concerned for me.

WG - the right person is out there. Enjoy Aus, enjoy the Yeti (Santa Cruz man myself), and life will sort itself out. Like me, it sounds like you have a job you enjoy, and that makes such a difference in life.

Chin up!!

Just a thought, you're somewhere very warm with a Yeti; I hope he's either shaved or had a full-body wax, otherwise it'll be heatstroke time!

sitting in a hotel in Rio. I got caught in a rip current this morning and thought I was a goner! A mate who is a Triathlete helped me out

Another reminder I have a very boring life.

motozulu - Member
motozulu - Member
Thanks Zulu...
..I'm just gonna sit in the corner and gently weep,
Apologies Ron, actually that blouse matches your eyes...or errr... something....

Mate you should of seen who was wearing the top before we did a t shirt swop,

Sometimes my work rocks!!!

Without pictures this is worthless

Just had a scan through them and trust me when I say the ban hammer would be well and truly swung in my direction

Two pages of laughs since I went to sleep you lot are very funny!

Due to the limited rear seat space, i did have to compromise somewhat on my choice of "Bond girl" for the trip:

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Flat Eric!!!!!!

Gutted Ron - was hoping to put a couple of deposits in the w*nk bank for later. 😀

Surely that's not a bog-roll holder Max? Although having seen Clarkson driving around with a toilet on the side of a 5 series nothing would surprise me.

Is that a loo-roll holder attached to the rear window? 😯
[edit] bugger, beaten to it by seconds! 🙁

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It's the laser designator for the missiles obviously..............

What you can't see is the coat hanger attached to Flat Erics hand, we used to make him "wave" to Austrian drivers, which we would "flash out the way and overtake (they have terrible lack of a sense of humour!)

Doing our bit for AngloAustrian relations! 😉

motozulu - Member
Gutted Ron - was hoping to put a couple of deposits in the w*nk bank for later.

I am not a sex object* for you to fantasise about** I do have feelings too***

Cheeky pic with tall ladies

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*er actually yes I am
** er actually yes I am
*** maybe not

Huge amount of chortlage 🙂

Hope you had a good ride WG, Claire's looking forward to that night out when we return from the middle of nowhere

Right, better get the tent down before it starts raining again...

This thread reminds me of my single days when out in a club... imagine this thread is a dance floor... there's a couple of girls on the dancefloor and eventually one by one all the blokes in the club congregate arond the girls likes moths to a light 😆

Obviously I hope the OP is coming to terms with her new found freedom; let's be honest though... if the OP was a bloke most if not all of us would be saying go out get drunk, have a good time and get back in the saddle and erm... get some action. Now at least in the OP's case she is a girl and it is 100 times easier for a girl to go out and pull than it is for a guy. 🙄

A little light DIY for those quiet evenings at home:
https://www.lelo.com/news/meet-gsm-lelos-cleanest-greenest-vibe 😉

When I had Yeti[s], I once met a girl with a beautiful smile. She's blonde, and quite fast too 🙂

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Nicole Cooke signed your yeti? That is cool! I hope its lacquered over.

wurzelcube - Member
This thread reminds me of my single days when out in a club... imagine this thread is a dance floor... there's a couple of girls on the dancefloor and eventually one by one all the blokes in the club congregate around the girls likes moths to a light

Been reading it from the start and over the last few pages I've realized that I'm getting drawn in to how all the people are replying in different ways. It's amusing,entertaining,creepy (I'll take that one from elsewhere on this thread) and intriguing to read how different folk are replying to WG. The reply's are there to be read and although they're written in plain english it's fun to see straight through it all,look at the big picture and read it in another way. Also the way pics start randomly start appearing. It's fun to watch.

Not sure if I'm explaining it very well but it kind of goes back to Wurzels comment above. ;O)

buzz-lightyear - Member
Nicole Cooke signed your yeti? That is cool! I hope its lacquered over.

Countzero! Lol!

Zokes, was a good ride thanks tho decided to smash my pedal into my leg, and slide down a rock on my arm! 😕
Tell Claire I'm looking toward to the night out too, especially now I'm single! 😀

Hey Wheelie, the following sentence will fast forward the "healing process" your going through.

[b]He could have sold your bikes for his habit[/b]

See, told you. FTFY. Over him already eh! HTH 🙂

SuperVee 3000, signed by Missy Giove

Ok, that's pretty cool

Also the way pics start randomly start appearing. It's fun to watch.

You may of course be reading it wrong.

OP, you'll do fine. It sucks no doubt.

You'll learn from it, grow from it, toughen up a wee bit and move on.

Like others have said, you're in Oz with your Yeti. Which is good a reason as any to get on. Get out there and have some fun and be glad you got out of something as soon as you did. Just don't waste your time lamenting over what could have been and get on with making something else 'be'

Jodafett, you're right that did help! Glad they are here with me safe and sound!

Piemonster, you're right too, and I'm planning on doing just that! No one gets me down for too long just don't have it in me to be angry forever! Looking forward to moving on, just hope I don't keep falling off my bike like today!!

Well I'm just glad it's all good. Been a very funny/good thread and with a seemingly happy ending.

Even dear Ernest seems to have calmed down 😉

Also, I have seen probably the best user name off the internet - 'Adjustablewench' - genius. Almost as good as my mates.

Jenny Tulwought. 🙄

Not living up to my name this morning, too hungover

Not adjusting to anything other than horizontal at present :-/

Just to prove the bikes are safe here they are (if I get this to work) [img] http://www.flickr.com/photos/94460004@N03/8604835945/ [/img]

Oh crap I'm so bad at that ha ha ha!

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Give up its obviously far to complicated for me! Anyway thank you everyone who has been part of this thread you have all made a massive difference to my mood in the past few days!

I find photo bucket easier than Flickr as it actually gives you the img link

Cue someone coming along and fixing it for you...

Thanks, or just go via the first pic that someone fixed for me!

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you need to type as below for these to work - nb substitute SQUARE BRACKETS for my curved ones

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That was really hard. You need to go to the pic's page on flikr. Hit share, choose HTML/BB code, and then cut the line between and including "http" and ".jpg". Past that bit between (IMG) and (/IMG) using SQUARE brackets. If it doesn't work, pick another bit between it's http and .jpg - it seems to give two when you ask it for the HTML/BB code.

Argh bike photo fail, as the garden looks tidy, what are the masses going to pick fault with now?

as the garden looks tidy

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Morning Mr Taz,

Good to see you are still on form, I did amend my comment as I thought "as the ladies garden looks tidy" would of not actually been appropriate at this time on a Sunday*

*i know how religious you are

Thanks gofasterstripes! 😀

Ron jeremy, lol!

*i know how religious you are

true, I am a bearded prophet of singlespeediness and my religious Sunday observances include, accepting the penance of hangover from my lord beers bounteous gifts last night and sourcing a UK manufacturer of Ti cogs in a boone stylee. Also preparing for joining the One cog brethren in the forests of dean tomorrow.

Also preparing for joining the One cog brethren in the forests of dean tomorrow

Arse, distant lack of brakes upon my trusty steed means I shall miss this one, oh and the mounting pile of paperwork* that I need for Tuesday as I have been rather lazy these last few days.....

(*believe it or not I have to go through nominees, and organise my votes for the Erotic Trade Awards)

adjustablewench
Not adjusting to anything other than horizontal at present :-/

You want to be careful AW, that sort of thing can get a girl a bad name........... 😉

BTW, Wheelie, nice Yeti 😉 Now we just need a pic of you on it pulling a massive, er, wheelie !

ron jeremy

as the garden looks tidy, what are the masses going to pick fault with now?

I'm sorry to report that the "narrow" fill-in-the-gap section of tiles in that picture is playing havoc with my OCD...........

Argh bike photo fail, as the garden looks tidy, what are the masses going to pick fault with now?

Background not white (or off white).
Drive-sides to the wall.
Cranks not aligned with chainstays.

That enough? 😛

I can't believe I'm the first to spot the tyre logos not lined up with the valves. What were you thinking, Wheelie?

@ maxtorque...it hurts my eyes too in fact it was the first thing I noticed. Maybe I'm just too anal when I build.

@WG. Glad to see things are getting better however slight the increments may be. Having a few peeps on here making you laugh is a positive. Things will fall into place.

You're riding flats and have a hardtail so its another yes from me.

I do think someone has stolen the seatpost from your yeti however......

Bikes look good to me - and im am resisting the urge to see where my tyre logos are in relation to my valves . . . .

Bikes look great - just waay too clean that's all. 🙂

The Yeti is cool, but I [i]love[/i] the Cove! I still have a Handjob in the shed... (S****)
(Frame, that is 😆 )

Ha ha! That tile thing is weird, not sure why anyone would do that? Hmmm Australians are a bit odd.
As for the tyre valve thing, I have no excuse, that is just absolute laziness on my part!
The yeti does have a seat post if you are worried its been stolen. And the bikes are just that clean cause there is only dust here!
Oh and although my name suggests I may be good at wheelies I am in fact terrible at them, still practicing!

Have you taken any pics on your rides out there? Picture of sunny dry rides would make a change from the norm 🙂

I'm in Sydney in May. If you want to meet up with a fat 49 yr old father of two then let me know.

Maybe not...... 🙂

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Zokes took these on a recent ride we did.

adjustablewench - Member
Have you taken any pics on your rides out there? Picture of sunny dry rides would make a change from the norm

dry sunny ride today, just a tad on the bloody freezing side of things

You know what me and the photo thing clearly just not going to happen!

Wheelie good

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Zokes took these on a recent ride we did.

Click IMG

Clear the, 'http://' out of the script prompt box

Put your,

in to the script prompt box

preview the post , and you should see

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Still have snow on the hills around here, no riding for me today it was all about children and chocolate.

I'm sure you'll get the hang of the picture thing WG - and plenty of eager helpers on here if you cant

maxtorque. fair do's. That looks nice. shame I'm not a gayer. It is an aspirational STW dreeeaaam. wooooooow. Is that it is it. What we are all supposed to aspire to. bollocks. Take it home maxtorque, doesn't cut my mustard, even if I was uber gay!

SQUARE BRACKETS!

As Ron said Photobucket is much, much more simple. Look at photo, copy link below it, paste to thread. It even puts the brackets in for you, thus:
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Me on a Yeti in Oz acouple of years ago. Actually just bought the plane ticket to go back again this year, with a different Yeti, really excited already! Oz and a Yeti are just the best things ever.
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(appologies for slight thread hijack, but if anyone else on here is heading out to Stromlo for the 24hr Worlds, with or without a Yeti, I would love hear from you, email in profile. End of hijack)
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Anyway, that piece of cake on the table, do tell us more. Not had a good cake thread on here for ages. Looks like a brownie with a little clotted cream, love the crusts on brownies, and in the sunshine with a bottle of wine too!

Oh did someone say brownies, now there is an entirely new thread.....

Mmmmmm, cake, coffee, wine, sunshine.
*sigh* I could get very used to that... (Wistfully looks into the distance)

It's what UK trail centres are missing: a winery that also does brownies (pictured) and wood oven pizzas

(And before anyone says it, yes, the Soul is mine, and yes, I'm fully aware the brake hoses need shortening.)

Missing a winery - but more importantly sunshine and warmth. Really hope we get a heat wave this year....or maybe I could just ask for a transfer to oz with work...

It was a chocolate and raspberry brownie to be exact, with cream, soooooooo good!

Adjustablewench, do it! What just happened with my ex sucks, but I love Australia, it's a beautiful place and the people are great, and for those reasons I'm so glad I came here!

For those who still have problems with Flickr use this method as it does the hard work for you.

Flickr

Flickr follows the same rules as above but they have added a button to retrieve the BBcode.

Find the photo you want on flickr
Above the photo there are two boxes “actions” and “share this”
Drop the menu in “share this”
See “grab the HTML/BBCode” and click.
See two buttons below the script, “HTML” “BBCode”
Check “BBCode”
Paste this code into the Singletrack forum post box

Would really love too but like the old woman who lived in a shoe I have too many children which would make it a logistical nightmare. One day when the have all left home I am packing my bike up and going travelling (they have all been warned!).

Thank you drac!

AW, when you get the chance make sure you do!

Have you done a tally chart yet of how many proposals and offers.
This must be one of the most read and responded to threads. Only thread that would have had more responses would be if you were in blighty .

I can remember several multi page threads where someone on here needed help/support/cheering up. It's one of the great things stw is good for.

WG, as an aside from your new found admirers, if you wanted to see some more reasons to stay in oz a bit longer, have a mosey over to my Flickr. Photos from our last few days camping now there - we've found yet more wonderful parts of the world, and you'll need to use the second gear lever in your car to get here too 😉

Having looked at all the pics i have now definitely put oz on my list of places to ride - and your pics are amazing zokes. i'm really pining for the sun now.

You forget how nice the colour blue is when you haven't seen it for a while, all grey in Sheffield atm with snow on the hills still

I can remember several multi page threads where someone on here needed help/support/cheering up

andrewh

My breaking up from girlfriend thread

Is she Fit?? What? Too soon? 😉

Yes. And no, about a year and a half ago;-) (no Yeti though, she had a Spec Stumpy) I'm back to normal happy me now, but you guys on here were a help at the time, sometimes it is easier to talk to strangers.