Dr Ferrari's Camper Van (off-topic discussion)

manwithaplan wrote: »

You can't beat cycling (or indeed running) around the kitchen. My wife gets annoyed when I refer to the island unit as 'the infield'.

ooooh, an Island Unit, excuuuuse me Lord manwithaplan .

I have a £10 CRC voucher if anyone wants it, came with my order. £75 minimum spend, valid for two weeks.

Did you know the 'c' in bcmf stands for Campagnolo?

I love Larry David/Curb Your Enthusiasm

60's cyclocross... Some seriously tough dudes.

Lusk Doyle wrote: »

Was Michael Madsen drunk or otherwise on brendan o Connors show just there?

I believe he was, it was trending on Twitter too, so we're not the only ones to think so.

I thought Brendan did very well to keep that interview going...

I've seen that bike around town before, are the forks bent on it? They look strange.

http://www.youtube.com/user/mcfcofficial?ob=0&feature=results_main#p/u/11/u_lgLkogIe0

Not sure why I'm so amused by this, but about 3 minutes in you see Roberto Mancini head to toe in his Altura Night Vision gear. Really enjoy these Inside City videos :rolleyes:

Darkglasses wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/user/mcfcofficial?ob=0&feature=results_main#p/u/11/u_lgLkogIe0

Not sure why I'm so amused by this, but about 3 minutes in you see Roberto Mancini head to toe in his Altura Night Vision gear. Really enjoy these Inside City videos :rolleyes:

I see Ballitelli managed to tie his own laces a little later. Well done him.

Dónal wrote: »

I hope you won't mind if I ask you not to cycle again for the rest of the year.

considering where i live i doubt that would make much difference

furiousox wrote: »

Could've done without seeing that tbh, why post it?

Dont really know, sorry about that. Deleted it now.

Here is something more cheerful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4vST6_clnA

Some of you have seen the various "Three Men on a Boat" series with Dara O"Brian etc. These were loosely inspired by a book of the same name by Jerome K Jerome written in 1889 and he also wrote a lesser known sequel "Three Men on a Bummel" about a cycling tour of Germany about 1900. The prose style is a bit elaborate and archaic for modern tastes but there are some comic gems in it which will amuse modern day cyclists. As an example to show there is nothing new under the Sun ...

Then there are saddles,” I went on — I wished to get this lesson home to him. “Can you think of any saddle ever advertised that you have not tried?”
He said: “It has been an idea of mine that the right saddle is to be found.”
I said: “You give up that idea; this is an imperfect world of joy and sorrow mingled. There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made out of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard. There was that saddle you bought in Birmingham; it was divided in the middle, and looked like a pair of kidneys.”
He said: “You mean that one constructed on anatomical principles.”
“Very likely,” I replied.“The box you bought it in had a pic- ture on the cover, representing a sitting skeleton—or rather that part of a skeleton which does sit.”
He said: “It was quite correct; it showed you the true position of the—”
I said: “We will not go into details; the picture always seemed to me indelicate.”
He said: “Medically speaking, it was right.”
“Possibly,” I said, “for a man who rode in nothing but his bones. I only know that I tried it myself, and that to a man who wore flesh it was agony. Every time you went over a stone or a rut it nipped you; it was like riding on an irritable lobster. You rode that for a month.”
“I thought it only right to give it a fair trial,” he answered.
I said: “You gave your family a fair trial also; if you will allow me the use of slang. Your wife told me that never in the whole course of your married life had she known you so bad tempered, so un-Christian like, as you were that month.

As it is out of copyright, its available in lots of places on the web in pdfs or kindle editions, and worth IMHO seeking out just to read chapter 3