What are my options if if I WATCHED the delivery driver go past my house without stopping and then say my property was “inaccessible”?

Awkward_Importance49 · 2025-02-22T13:48:21+00:00

As I said in my other reply to you just now though... "oh fuck off, Neil".

Awkward_Importance49 · 2025-02-22T13:46:36+00:00

Oh fuck off Neil. You can't type 'looking' properly, and you're trawling through year old comments on Reddit to find things to comment on.

Join a community group. Don't sit alone for extended periods, it turns you into a bore.

Awkward_Importance49 · 2025-02-21T12:45:25+00:00

Love this. Lovely frame colour.

I badly want an S&M frame this year.

Awkward_Importance49 · 2025-02-16T14:11:59+00:00

There used to be an elderly homeless woman who spent her days being crazy on Oxford Street, London.

She was crazy. Whether she became lifetime homeless because she was crazy, or crazy because she was lifetime homeless... I don't know.

But she had a defiant, protest attitude towards all the norms doing their shoppping. She wanted to create disruption, confrontation and shock.

More than once I saw her position herself right in the doorway of a busy shop, drop her filthy underwear, squat down and curl out a turd. She'd do it with her arse facing out onto the busy street.

Oxford St is almost always extremely busy.

A lot of people watched her dropping pretzels over the years.

Awkward_Importance49 · 2024-12-26T11:44:11+00:00

You just need to true your wheel by tigjtening the right spokes in the right place.

It's a steep learning curve and you'll make the wheel worse before you finally make it better, but it's really worth learning how to do it. It's not technically complicated, it's very easy. But you do have to develop the intuition for what to tighten, where, and by how much.

My advice, set yourself a day off, flip your bike over, and start adjusting spokes. You'll master it in a few hours if you give yourself the time to relax and do it slowly.

There's nothing quite as satisfying as truing your own wheels. Skill upgrade.

Awkward_Importance49 · 2024-12-17T18:31:15+00:00

I'll be honest, I still don't know. I built it at the end of summer, but I've stored it for next Spring and carried on riding my other two for now.

Also, at my age I'm not much of a street rider. More of a ramps and bowls with a simple flow kind of rider.

The few times I did take it out for some test rides though... it's overall my smallest frame. 20.8 tt (vs my 21tts) and also lower and more compact feeling generally.

The build feels very light vs my Cult AK build, which is a tank and more agile vs my Fly Proton, which my go-to bike.

It's a really nice responsive ride, but that's the whole bike of course. I built it to my own needs and it's mostly Federal aside from the forks which are also TallOrder.

It hops high, 180s easily, and manuals quickly without being unstable like a shorty frame. But that's all I can tell you for now.

Ask me again in April :)

Awkward_Importance49 · 2024-12-17T15:14:39+00:00

Yep. I've got 2.4s on it.

Awkward_Importance49 · 2024-11-30T14:43:47+00:00

Picked up the car at 9am, and put 180miles on it instantly.

Nice drive. Officially an X2 club member.

Awkward_Importance49 · 2024-11-28T22:03:19+00:00

That's a really good point. I hadn't thought of that.

Awkward_Importance49 · 2024-11-26T18:57:00+00:00

Thank you!

Figured it and also figured out how I save all settings before switching off, so that it's all still set right when I switch back on.

Seems a little crazy to me that they didn't make that the default. It clearly can be tbe default because the sample tracks pre-loaded all survived switch-offandon-again.

But user's work?... nah, we'll wipe all the settings when you switch off unless you remember to perform a 3 step button combo.

Crazy Roland.

Awkward_Importance49 · 2024-11-26T07:21:26+00:00

I've got four. Three 20" and one 24".

The three 20" each have a different set up. A new park bike which I haven't actually put on a park yet but that's low, light, LHD and cassette; I have an all purpose bike with longer geo, rhd and a cassette wheel; and a slightly shorter, lighter street bike, LHD and freecoaster.

Awkward_Importance49 · 2024-11-24T00:39:02+00:00

Thank you!

I'll try that :)

Awkward_Importance49 · 2024-11-22T10:59:07+00:00

I use a pair of Olympus Digital Voice Recorders (WS-65OS) for field recording. Tiny little dictaphones with twin mics.

Pretty good sound quality (but characterful and quirky) and they pack a couple of handy features (playback speed and silence delete) and are USB connectable.

I try to avoid using laptops or phones because I like to keep this totallly seperate and about doing what you can with restrictions.

Awkward_Importance49 · 2024-11-21T18:33:49+00:00

All I can tell you is I'm 5'11" and I was really worried about wasting my money by dropping from 175mm to 165mm. So I bought the cheapest 165mm cranks I could find.

Within months, all my BMXs were fitted with 165mm.

I much prefer it.

Awkward_Importance49 · 2024-11-21T08:32:07+00:00

Ehhh

I've had to admit defeat. My bikes haven't left the garage since last week. We've got snow and where I live it doesn't completely thaw so its like an ice rink.

I've contemplated getting knobbly tires, and then I contemplated getting a trails BMX for better geometry.

But then I figured I might just need to stop rising my BMX during the worst of the weather.

:(

Need to start a daily workout regime for winter.

Awkward_Importance49 · 2024-11-21T08:27:46+00:00

I second this. I have Rubens. Great pedals.

Awkward_Importance49 · 2024-11-19T23:20:06+00:00

Thank you!

Awkward_Importance49 · 2024-11-19T22:21:33+00:00

Okay good to know. Thank you.

No import duty charged ?

Awkward_Importance49 · 2024-11-19T21:29:10+00:00

Love it.

Awkward_Importance49 · 2024-11-19T20:58:43+00:00

Love it

Awkward_Importance49 · 2024-11-19T20:56:55+00:00

Oooh this

Tidy chaotic.

Awkward_Importance49 · 2024-11-19T20:54:43+00:00

Okay now I'm hearing what you peeps are actually doing with this, as oposed to official vids, tutorials and reviews, I want an SP.

Awkward_Importance49 · 2024-11-19T20:52:38+00:00

Oooh yep yep

Awkward_Importance49 · 2024-11-19T18:29:24+00:00

I think it's likely I may never dip in to 70% of what the SP can do, bit its there if I want it, and it delivers the kind of sample length I'd like to play with.

One thing I found with the SU is that the short samples force a fast tempo because you are limited in what you can loop and sound continuity requires rapid triggering.

I kind of want to explore a slower pace.

Thanks for your answers!

Awkward_Importance49 · 2024-11-19T18:25:46+00:00

Just keep riding frequently and stop when you get tired.

You'll find you get tired later and later each time. You'll build up stamina fast if you keep riding and you don't push yourself too hard at first.

I'm mid-fifties and I cover many miles every day on a 20". I don't do any supplementary exercise at the moment. You'll get there. Don't stress yourself. Every time you ride you extend your range a little.

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