The "Excuses" Thread
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Re: The "Excuses" Thread
Postby master6 » Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:51 pm
Sorry Lizzy, I have misled you. I am retired. Relying on you to keep the country runningLizzy wrote: Well, that's put my kvetching into some perspective, master6. Hope that situation improves for you soon.
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Re: The "Excuses" Thread
Postby polishbiker » Fri Dec 16, 2011 6:02 pm
when i am oncall and need to pick up a laptop from work - once every 5 weeks
when the weather is quite bad
other than that i ride to work 5 days a week.
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The "Excuses" Thread
Postby Max » Fri Dec 16, 2011 8:30 pm
KonaCommuter wrote:I didn’t ride today because I failed to set my alarm. So I woke with a start, got ready and drove to work. It wasn’t until I was clocking on that I realised that I was over an hour early for work (It only takes me about 15 minutes to get there). No wonder my wife was giving me a funny look this morning
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Re: The "Excuses" Thread
Postby Trepidious » Sat Dec 17, 2011 5:18 pm
I tagged onto the back, realised he was on some pretty decent equipment. No problems, I can handle that - my commute is only short so I've passed more expensive bikes than that.
I look a bit closer, the bloke's got some well-developed calf muscles. I'm starting to have second thoughts about passing him at this stage, he wasn't really pushing the pace but it was a reasonable speed.
I look a bit closer again and caught sight of a tattoo on the inside of arm - olympic rings. Wasn't close enough to tell if it was a temporary tattoo but I was pretty sure by this stage it wasn't . I sat back and tried to keep with the rider through the hills before my turn-off. My pride didn't take too much of a beating, I kept an even distance behind him but I got the distinct impression he was cruising whilst I was coughing a lung up...
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Re: The "Excuses" Thread
Postby Mulger bill » Sun Dec 25, 2011 11:34 pm
She enforced this decree by not waking me from my pre nightshift nap until 20" after the time I would have had to leave.
I don't mind the wet.
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The "Excuses" Thread
Postby osrg » Mon Dec 26, 2011 9:04 am
Still trying to remove the image from the memory!
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Re: The "Excuses" Thread
Postby master6 » Fri Dec 30, 2011 8:45 am
Change hands........you might even gain a stroke......stinhambo wrote:I think I've broken my hand
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Re: The "Excuses" Thread
Postby PB12IN » Fri Dec 30, 2011 3:07 pm
Page 16, Dec 26 2011Comedian wrote:I don't have excuses because I commute virtually every day. I'm just putting this up as a subscription so I can see when you slackers phone in with a note from Mummy!
How a year changes thingsComedian wrote:I went to Christmas breakfast at a friends house. Christmas lunch at my sisters house. Christmas dinner at my brothers house on the Gold Coast. Drove back... nearly fell asleep. I woke up at ride o'clock, thought about it... and went back to sleep.
btw, my normal excuse is that my little girl kept me up till 3 hours before the alam went off, so i was to tired to ride to work, not bad when i only work 2 days a week.
and my rear wheel on the flat bar is out of true and cant seem to straighten. and i'm not parking my road bike at southport, good by bike in less than 20 mins.
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Re: The "Excuses" Thread
Postby Mulger bill » Mon Jan 02, 2012 7:59 pm
Really hot and humid this morning. By the time I got home from my 0730 leg stretcher I was chafed to biggery and curash almost totally failed to do its magic.
Me leather saddle was more than a little damp too.
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Re: The "Excuses" Thread
Postby stinhambo » Thu Jan 05, 2012 10:32 pm
Profit!master6 wrote:Change hands........you might even gain a stroke......stinhambo wrote:I think I've broken my hand
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The "Excuses" Thread
Postby Comedian » Mon Jan 09, 2012 3:27 pm
hey... Cut me some slack here... I rode over 12,000k between those comments.PB12IN wrote:Page 1, Dec 14 2010
Page 16, Dec 26 2011Comedian wrote:I don't have excuses because I commute virtually every day. I'm just putting this up as a subscription so I can see when you slackers phone in with a note from Mummy!How a year changes thingsComedian wrote:I went to Christmas breakfast at a friends house. Christmas lunch at my sisters house. Christmas dinner at my brothers house on the Gold Coast. Drove back... nearly fell asleep. I woke up at ride o'clock, thought about it... and went back to sleep.
btw, my normal excuse is that my little girl kept me up till 3 hours before the alam went off, so i was to tired to ride to work, not bad when i only work 2 days a week.
and my rear wheel on the flat bar is out of true and cant seem to straighten. and i'm not parking my road bike at southport, good by bike in less than 20 mins.
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Postby blossy84 » Mon Jan 09, 2012 4:50 pm
BUSTEDComedian wrote:hey... Cut me some slack here... I rode over 12,000k between those comments.PB12IN wrote:Page 1, Dec 14 2010
Page 16, Dec 26 2011Comedian wrote:I don't have excuses because I commute virtually every day. I'm just putting this up as a subscription so I can see when you slackers phone in with a note from Mummy!How a year changes thingsComedian wrote:I went to Christmas breakfast at a friends house. Christmas lunch at my sisters house. Christmas dinner at my brothers house on the Gold Coast. Drove back... nearly fell asleep. I woke up at ride o'clock, thought about it... and went back to sleep.
btw, my normal excuse is that my little girl kept me up till 3 hours before the alam went off, so i was to tired to ride to work, not bad when i only work 2 days a week.
and my rear wheel on the flat bar is out of true and cant seem to straighten. and i'm not parking my road bike at southport, good by bike in less than 20 mins.
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Re: The "Excuses" Thread
Postby blossy84 » Wed Jan 11, 2012 10:29 pm
I missed my bike
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Re: The "Excuses" Thread
Postby bosvit » Thu Jan 12, 2012 6:17 am
But as they say in the classics erin, it's the thought that counts....blossy84 wrote:I couldn't ride today because I had an appointment after work. It wouldn't have been a problem getting there, but I had to get back home and then to my netball game within 40 min of the appointment finishing. That wasn't going to happen, so I drove instead. Turns out appt finished 50 mins earlier than expected so I could have rode after all.
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