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Easiest from Sault and a very nice ride, from lavender fields, winding uphill through woods, a steady slog with just the last few km a bit steep, bare mountainside, passing Tom Simpson memorial. Ordinary touring gears fine. My classiest bike ever was a 1965 Mercian Superlight £25 second hand...

Interesting. Could led to secret underground repair cafes - the reverse of Luddites. People meeting in dark fields clutching broken toasters, others tooled up to mend them. :unsure: One way of fighting capitalism - mend things instead of buying new ones?

Usually once a month. Ours is first Saturday I think.

It's called the Scottish Simplex system. Sounds a good idea. I've never had my hands on one to find out.

That is one of the big advantages of trad sash windows. They can be fitted, painted, maintained, cleaned, entirely from the inside. The better way is to have a channel (as you have for the nailed on cheaper version) but drill through to a pocket in the same face which will hold the knot. No...

Ooo-er! Some posh bikes! Mine are a Spa Audax titanium and a Dawes Galaxy Tour (which I did LEJOG on 20 years ago, just before my 60th birthday). Also Audax 100km circuit from Buis les Baronnies and back, via Mont Ventoux. So there! Actually a nice day out at audax speeds, with a spectacular...

In Leek? Thousands of staff? Are local services really suffering from the competition? There's usually about 3 in our local repair cafe. Wirksworth. Perhaps 5 maximum. Once a month for 3 hours. If they get overwhelmed maybe they should go to Leek instead. :unsure:

But this is not because of mutual DIY. THINK!

It's totally normal for people to repair lawnmowers and if necessary help others to do the same. It's known as DIY, maybe you have never heard of it? Stands for "do it yourself". They always have, they always will. Friends, neighbours, even dodgy strangers! I've never heard anybody arguing that...

You do talk nonsense. I've fiddled with kids bikes as a random stranger numbers of times. I've been an active cyclist for 70 years :oops:, using trails as well as roads. Local trails very popular with inexperienced trippers. Quite common to see groups fiddling about trying to adjust brakes etc...

Not angry it's just that you (and @deema) seem to have completely missed the point!

They were standard practice with early boat construction. "Trenails". This was C18 ship:

So if one of your mates asked you if you could help him fix his bike or whatever, you would check your insurance first?

(y) I think of them as "agitated nay-sayers" in partnership with "barrack-room lawyers". :ROFLMAO: Or literally; "reactionaries". It's a personality trait.

Get a grip - you'd only ask for help if you couldn't do it. In the process you might also get shown how to do it next time. I had a Dyson briefly and that used to block up in mysterious ways. I managed to do it myself after a bit of a struggle but I like to think I'm fairly practical. Others...