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Old Oct 16th 2016 | 5:02 am
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lol I just purchased this \/ is the right steps for a healthy heart
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Old Oct 16th 2016 | 5:09 am
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lol I just purchased this \/ is the right steps for a healthy heart
It's a write-off too, you can use it for surveillance.
 
Old Oct 16th 2016 | 5:09 am
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Originally Posted by dbd33
It's an ostentatious house, disproportionate to the lot size, but I don't think it's truly a McMansion. There's a symmetry there indicating a clarity of vision. I don't like it but it does look as if someone designed it. The second link though, that's right on the money, intersperse those with small attractive houses on huge lots awaiting sale, lot division and tree removal, and you have Indian Road.
I was here last weekend.

https://goo.gl/maps/BekyuyJWwS72

I imagine that the single family houses on the left and right won't be around for long. When I was @ U of Waterloo as a student the whole street single family homes, some rented out to students others were family homes.

I hope for the builders sake that there is a constant stream of students wanting to move in !!!

https://goo.gl/maps/onGXX4sJHz42

This to me is the height of ugly suburban sprawlburbia

https://goo.gl/maps/MCXX9XsGCmQ2 there goes your weekend mowing all that lawn until the next week when you mow it again.
 
Old Oct 16th 2016 | 5:13 am
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Originally Posted by caretaker
It's a write-off too, you can use it for surveillance.
Maybe not a write off, but yes we have used bikes to follow bikes, just this year we did this. /@)
 
Old Oct 16th 2016 | 5:27 am
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Originally Posted by magnumpi
lol I just purchased this \/ is the right steps for a healthy heart
That looks like a gel saddle cover...a must

A bike with mudguards...I can't remember the last time I saw one.

What's the funny looking thing on the handlebars?
 
Old Oct 16th 2016 | 5:34 am
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Originally Posted by BristolUK
That looks like a gel saddle cover...a must

A bike with mudguards...I can't remember the last time I saw one.

What's the funny looking thing on the handlebars?


A covert bell/frequency scanner/IR camera/Supersensitive microphone/Low light video camera......all in one- Argos sell them
 
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Originally Posted by BristolUK
That looks like a gel saddle cover...a must

A bike with mudguards...I can't remember the last time I saw one.

What's the funny looking thing on the handlebars?
Iphone holder, a 1st world must on a bicycle to track my distance and speed with the App Oink said to use.

Yeh a classic bike with chrome, another online buy, a $20 Kijiji bargain

Saddle still hurts a little even with that on.
 
Old Oct 16th 2016 | 5:47 am
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lol I just purchased this \/ is the right steps for a healthy heart
Why did you get a girls bike?
 
Old Oct 16th 2016 | 5:52 am
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Originally Posted by Oink
Why did you get a girls bike?
Is a classic mans bike my friend, it's tall, no girl is guna get on this one :@) even I have to stretch

To be honest I was after a beech cruiser bike but this came up at almost free so it was a no brainer for me
 
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Originally Posted by Partially discharged
Good spot. I grew up about 10 km from where they filmed that show. The look of the towns is virtually identical from where I lived (Hadfield vs Hayfield, Derbyshire). Back when BBC Canada was actually worth watching I would watch that show and actually think the channel was worth subscribing to.
I love the show. One of my favourite comedies. I love Pauline and her pens lol
 
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Originally Posted by Novocastrian
Laughably enough, a friend of mine (my wife) was also taken into hospital yesterday. She's a tall (fairly) slim lady of 64, a retired school teacher and until yesterday in good health. She had what we now know was a trip on a rut in the paving, resulting in an awkward fall onto concrete, now being called concussion and two fractured elbows by the brain surgeons and the fracture clinic doctors.

Marron, eh?
Not good. Wishing Mrs N a speedy recovery.
 
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Originally Posted by magnumpi
lol I just purchased this \/ is the right steps for a healthy heart

Going to ask Santa for one of these. The front truck has a special articulation mechanism so the ride is more fluid. Should be good to bomb about on in the spring while getting some exercise.



 
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Originally Posted by Oink
Going to ask Santa for one of these. The front truck has a special articulation mechanism so the ride is more fluid. Should be good to bomb about on in the spring while getting some exercise.

https://s9.postimg.org/uoozkvdan/Car...wallow_001.jpg

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Great suggestion
And for lazy days ...
https://boostedboards.com/introducin...boosted-board/
 
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Great suggestion
And for lazy days ...
https://boostedboards.com/introducin...boosted-board/

Those look great but a little spendy atm, especially when the technology is rather new and reliability might be an issue with what seem to be glorified prototypes.
 
Old Oct 16th 2016 | 7:23 am
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Originally Posted by Stinkypup
A covert bell/frequency scanner/IR camera/Supersensitive microphone/Low light video camera......all in one- Argos sell them
No grenade launcher? pfft.

Originally Posted by beckiwoo
I love the show. One of my favourite comedies. I love Pauline and her pens lol
I somehow lost track after the first series...I'll have to catch up.
 


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