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Re: Recumbent cycling

Grunt Futuk — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 11:11:49 -0000

I am sure I could master it given sufficient time - I was almost there when came a cropper. In fairness to me, I chose a bad bit of road, but it did set me back. I will revisit the three wheelers in due course as standard bikes are really not comfortable for me. Any recommendations?

Re: Recumbent cycling

Grunt Futuk — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 11:10:07 -0000

The featured rider from the video above will be in touch with you. I have passed to him to sell the bike. He is a cycling nut, although on diamond.

Re: Recumbent cycling

Nigel Bradder — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 10:52:35 -0000

If you think this is difficult you should try the kingcycle or streetglider. You should get a trice, at least you wouldn't fall off it.

Re: Recumbent cycling

Nigel Bradder — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 10:51:04 -0000

I'd love to have one of these, please get in touch if you want to sell it for a reasonable amount. Nigel 07989 964321

Re: Recumbent cycling

Grunt Futuk — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 04:08:02 -0000

Hi Nigel. Yes, I did buy one, under the cyclescheme (subsequently I bought it out of the scheme because I left the employer concerned). I was lucky and bought one new from old stock in a small specialist cycle shop. Given ICE stopped making them a few years ago, getting a new one was remarkable.

I have hardly used it though. It has done less than 100 miles since my purchase. I struggled to learn it, and hurt myself. I already had knee problems. I should have purchased a trike frankly.

Time to sell it.

You can see a video of my daughter's boyfriend giving it a go: http://youtu.be/PPuTKkp8Rdo

Re: Recumbent cycling

Nigel Bradder — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:09:21 -0000

Did you buy this bike? I tried one of these a few years ago and loved it to bits! I've been riding 2 and 3 wheel recumbents since 1996! I'd like to buy one of these if someone wants to sell one if the price isn't too steep!

Re: Broke my ICE B1I only purchased this a few weeks ago, my first recumbent. Bought as new from old …

Grunt Futuk — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 06:13:52 -0000

Delighted to say my bike is fully working thanks to my oldest daughter's boyfriend, who knows a lot about bikes, fixing it up with the new parts and giving it a much better service than the shop I bought it from did. It was an old stock model and needed a good oiling.

Shame my knee is not fully recovered yet,

Re: Broke my ICE B1I only purchased this a few weeks ago, my first recumbent. Bought as new from old …

Grunt Futuk — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 06:15:18 -0000

Pleased to say they are sending replacement parts. They did though say they had doubts about this being a fault as they have not seen it before and the images suggested to them considerable lateral force has been applied.

The only lateral force would have been me trying not to fall off, so I am not best pleased by what they have said but as they are sending the parts they are clearly giving me the benefit of any doubt.

Given they stopped making this bike a couple of years ago and it has sat in Smiths Cycles for a good while, I do wonder, despite it being sold as new, just what treatment it might have had over the last couple of years.

Having used this bike for only a few hours so far, thanks to bad weather, work commitments, and an injured knee (from an earlier attempt) I am not best pleased the bike failed like this and am very concerned for the future, especially as they have said they have no more replacement parts after this. Will be interesting to see how they will deal with the 3 year warranty (and 6 year manufacturer liability for manufacturing faults) if there are further problems. Hopefully I am worrying unnecessarily and in the unlikely event that any other problems come up in the future these will be dealt with in good faith.

Re: Recumbent cycling

Grunt Futuk — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:49:06 -0000

and other great review: http://www.bentrideronline....

Re: Recumbent cycling

Grunt Futuk — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:19:01 -0000

Another great review: http://www.recumbentjournal...

Re: I was looking for a free open source video editor for Linux and came across OpenShot Video, which…

Geoffrey Coan — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:28:02 -0000

Incredible.

I quite like Acapella (having many years ago been to see the Flying Pickets performing live in Manchester). Could never have the patience to put together a video like this.

Hats off to the author though

Geoffrey

Re: A journey to Sweden

Grunt Futuk — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:01:12 -0000

My time in Sweden has come to an end, and, sadly, I never managed to stay over for a weekend and have my wife join me. I liked the place so much though that we have committed to having a holiday there sometime.

Re: Blinded by a bee sting

Grunt Futuk — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:02:47 -0000

It is worth saying that the staff at her university, Imperial College London, were magnificent in support to both my daughter and to my wife and I. They provided a flat next to the university for my wife and I to stay in at no charge whilst we supported out daughter, and did everything they could to reduce stress for all concerned.

Re: Blinded by a bee sting

Grunt Futuk — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:59:57 -0000

The great news is that she fully recovered vision in both eyes some weeks later. A brain scan showed no damage. The last part of recovery was to the colour vision, for a while she could see only in black and white.

Re: Youngest daughter goes to uni

Grunt Futuk — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:15:06 -0000

Both of my daughters returned home for Christmas, first time home since starting, and both seem very happy with their universities and accommodation. As my wife is also at university (commuting though), the holiday was a strange period given they all head their heads in books revising for exams.

Re: Youngest daughter goes to uni

Geoffrey Coan — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:17:39 -0000

A monumentus day for both you and your daughter. I can still remember being "left" at University by my parents, I was in halls of residence so it wasn't quite the scramble to find decent accommodation, but even so it was an emotional time.
Sounds like your daughter has fallen on her feet. One big step and that that ...

Re: Natural Photography

Grunt Futuk — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 07:33:09 -0000

Thank you Chris. You are very welcome to reference (or quote with link) this post.

Re: Natural Photography

Chris — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 01:57:07 -0000

Very well put Stuart, I hope you don't mind but I just used your entire comment as a response to some folks that are telling me that my HDR photography is not natural.. :)

Re: Join me on Google+

Alanna Hill — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:40:24 -0000

:D Thanks!

Re: A journey to Gym & Swim

Grunt Futuk — Thu, 26 May 2011 08:12:16 -0000

I am pleased with the transformation so far. It is expensive on clothes though as I had to buy smaller trousers and will need to buy even smaller again soon. (For the record, I bought trousers around 6 weeks ago size 48" waist - I could not get into the 46" - and last weekend I bought jeans and needed 42".)

Re: A journey to Gym & Swim

otterspace — Fri, 20 May 2011 08:29:16 -0000

An amazing transformation already. It is surprising how quickly there has been a noticeable difference. I am sure you will keep it up as you seem to be feeling so much better.

Re: Not excited about my new car

Grunt Futuk — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:18:59 -0000

The good news is... I really like the car. A big change from the Mondeo certainly, but a lot of fun. I am still working my way through the manual to understand how to work everything (there is a lot of stuff) and reading up on driving techniques to maximise the fuel efficiency of my driving.

Here is a good example of the sort of videos available: http://youtu.be/3XxB6ma7qu8

Re: Portait of me taken by my wife

Håkan Dahlström — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:53:19 -0000

Hello! Ah, you're a Nikon photographer. I'm a Canon. ;-)

Re: Snipping on auctions

Grunt Futuk — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:28:29 -0000

I just cannot be bothered to stick around near the end of an auction, especially knowing that I may lose out just because of network delays... as I said, it is not like a real auction, and anyone with a higher limit will be me anyway. Not heard of hammersnipe.com.

I do buy a lot of things on buyitnow though, just like you do. It tends to be for high value used items (e.g. camera lenses) that I use the auction tools.

Re: Snipping on auctions

Geoffrey — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:09:51 -0000

Most of the time these days I tend to purchase buy it now items on ebay, or manually bid towards the end of the auction (but the number of times I forget to do so you wouldn't believe).

For really important things I want to buy off ebay I snipe as well using