TLFOHT is dead long live TLFOHT

[dobbo]

The Lowliest form of human transport aka my mountain bike I bought a few weeks ago is dead, we had a bit of a moment riding home fro the train station. Just after the cycleway, I came to a stop when my front wheel hit a steel Galv pipe sticking 2 inches out of the ground, (looks like where the council have moved a school fence, I came off and missed impailing my stomach on them by around 1 inch. The bike came of worse when my fat body landed on the front wheel bending it and snapping it in two. I am now down to walking, getting a lift off my wife or shamefully riding the bus to the train station.

Love Dobbo in pain

[Gaz_Series6202]

sad to hear about the bike. good to see anothe county/defender getting around Lake Macquarie. My family up there has an '84(ithink) Green County with the 4.2 Stroker running on bags and LPG around Toronto, & big Black ARB Bar. theres a similar one with the steel or alloy one around Toronto too.

[Ben]

Must be karma :p

[lokka]

sounds like a compo claim on the way :D:D:D

[Col.Coleman]

You are right. The front wheel is about 2% of the components that make up that machine:p

Lets see, front wheel, front tyre, front diff. Anything else dangling out in front that's broken:twisted:

You still don't think you need that exorcism:angel:

CC

[dobbo]

sounds like a compo claim on the way :D:D:D

nah just an angry letter considering the amount of kiddies riding that way each day. In todays day and age you'd think they'd have enough sense than to leave poles ground off sticking out of the ground.

[abaddonxi]

Best keep away from the horses.

Cheers
Simon

[dobbo]

Best keep away from the horses.

Cheers
Simon


They send me broke all the time. It would have been cheaper to marry an addict or a shopaholic than a horse rider, at least the folk have got something to show for it, all I have is an endless supply of horse crap.

[Treads]

They send me broke all the time. It would have been cheaper to marry an addict or a shopaholic than a horse rider, at least the folk have got something to show for it, all I have is an endless supply of horse crap.

I have no idea of that which you speak of...... :wasntme::eek:

Ahh, it's a nice feeling when I'm reassured that I'm not the only one :D

[Lotz-A-Landies]

sounds like a compo claim on the way :D:D:D
If not a compo claim, the lawyers will tell you a suit against the Council for the 2" gal pipe sticking out of the ground in a public place. :mad: :mad:

[p38arover]

I thought councils were protected from such claims.

[lokka]

I thought councils were protected from such claims.

Nope if you come to grief on a dodgy bit of there footpath and trip and bust ya self up they are liable as its there job to make sure things are safe for the general public to use and in dobbos case a council maintained cycleway or path way he is well within his rights to take action ....

If your dog (just an example) leaves a present on the nature strip and you fail to take it with you and a ranger watches this happen they are supose to issue you a fine as that lil present your dog has left then becomes a danger to public as somone could slip over in it (or im my dogs case get lost in it) and then that person has a right to take action against council

[rick130]

<snip>
all I have is an endless supply of horse crap.

Ahh, but what lovely roses you can have :p

Which re mind's me of another job I'm supposed to perform, service the float and check out the floor to make sure it's OK......on top of doing the stales/feeding thing for nearly a week starting this weekend...:(

Dobbo, remind me again why we do it ?

[dobbo]

Dobbo, remind me again why we do it ?

Simple when she practices cantering I get to play the horse.

Anyway

$95 new front wheel

$100 service bike and replace bearings on rear axle

I am sore, scabby, stiff and bruised and the worst part. I now have to walk home from the station tonight.

How can one person go from a Land Rover, to a mountain bike to walking to work in the space of a week?

[George130]

Ohhh
Now I know why things are falling into place for me.

Hope you sort things out soon dobbo.

[Disco Steve]

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Hope you ok tho.
Do you want me to fix the bike for ya???

[dobbo]

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Hope you ok tho.
Do you want me to fix the bike for ya???

nah, it's at the bike shop

Besides your a Jinx, whenever your around Ed and myself break stuff.

To top it off I have come down with the flu as well.

I feel like the scrapings of a cat litter tray.