I don't like living in the English countryside. You can't get a decent Latté, and it smells funny.
Belting along the poo-strewn country lanes today, with a fine aerosol of cow-ordure spraying off my rear tyre, I cycled over one of those round Victorian drain covers the English haven't bothered to replace in 110 years. There was a sudden hiss, and progress came to a halt. A sliver of rusting metal had gone through both sides of the tyre. Tyre and choob ruined.

RUINED!


Net loss: £20.00.

I would bet living in the City would increase your overall cost more than £20.00 each month!

Lou

What the Victorians did for "Snafu21"! on ITV tonight!

I may have to write Her Majesty a stiff note.

What did the Victorians ever do for us? I mean, apart from steam power, electricity, telegraph, indoor plumbing, accurate timekeeping, accurate mapping, the bicycle...

... the colonisation of New Zealand, and the punitive sack of Benin...

I quite like the Steampunk movement, a blend of Jules Verne ( as portayed by Hollywood) and er, something else.

https://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/steampunk/


and of course, the 'Faun' folding bicycle of 1896.

Or the Romans,other than.............................................peace......................

The drain cover was less likely to damage your internal hub gear than a thingy at the back of the bike that changers gears,whats is it called again.

A Disraelia.

Oh, shut up about peace!!

Peace is much over-rated. People spend their money on iPhones, instead of transport infrastructure. Bring on plastic drain covers.

That's true enough. I see all kinds of cool gadgets on the Military channel. Where would we be now without our hostile endeavors?
Now what the heck was this thread about?

Dangers of riding through poo ..

I spent four times as much on bicycles than I did on my iPhone, and according to www.ipayroadtax.com, I spent more than that on transport infrastructure. The difference is that I got to choose what bikes to buy, and what internet tablet, ebook reader, camera, satnav, oh yes, and phone to buy, but I had no say in the type of drain covers.

Drain covers are much over-rated.

But if they weren't there, you'd fall into the drain. In a similar vein, I don't mind the gap at all in tube stations. If it wasn't there, the trains would grind along the platform edge, and maybe get stuck.

Isn't that the term used for Benjamin Disraeli collectible figurines?

I love the way monty python relates to all things human and drain covers

...and I love chinese

....and I want to know why Sid wants to be a woman

Benjamin Disraeli collectible figurines are much over-rated.

Eschew these fripperies. They have no place upon a bicycle.