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Can I butt in just for a moment to say:-
 Thanks for the mag Tony. I enjoyed the trip down nostalgia lane.
Tom

I would just like to post this in defence of my driving.

 When I was younger and travelling about with a group of friends I also had my parents with their trailer to move about. Dad wouldn't or couldn't drive and so, being an only child, the job fell to me.

Now if the group moved say a hundred miles or so, my trip was three hundred miles. First moving one trailer and then going back for the other.

If I didn't get there in a reasonable time the ones already there would have their pick of the best areas to work so it was important to me to get the two trailers moved asap.

Old habits die hard.
Tom Snr

Thanks Laxie but unfortunatly it looks a bit too small. Anyway it would be a shame to break up that pram just for a wheel. It looks to be a good age and as such might be worth a bob or two. If I were you I'd put it on eBay and let 'em bid for it.

Can anybody tell me what went wrong with my picture posting please?

Tom

Thanks folks for sorting the pictures--What did I do wrong?

Laxie. Thanks for the offer. Would it be possible for you to measure the wheels diameter? Did it originaly have rubber tyres? I supose it must have. Anyhow is there a groove to take the belt? Thats what matters.

Thanks again
Tom

tikay's picture of the grinding bike brought back a number of memories and has inspired me to get on with a project I've long promised myself I would do one day. Thanks tikay

Mrs R and I spend much of the summer-or what passes as summer now-a-days-,tootling round the canal system in our thirty year old CaraCruiser. But during the winter months I like to find something to keep my from spending too much time sitting in front of this laptop or watching TV.

In the passed I've built an aviary or some bird breeding cages, and on occasion I've spent the winter tidying up an old boat or caravan. Anything to get me outside and doing something. The little boat I have at the moment is in good nick and I've done what needs to be done to get it through the BSS (boat safety scheme) and so was at a loose end..

Making a grinding bike will be an ideal project for me. I'll have to get abot a bit, visit car boot sales and such to track down the right bike and the old prom wheel that I'll need. This I think will be the hardest part. The bike I would like to find would be an old sit-up-and -beg with 26" wheels and rod brakes. The pram wheel needs to be from an old pram-the ones that had fairly big wheels. I've found a picture of one but weather or not I can post it here remains to0 be seen.

I've never made one of these contraptions but have seen many made and have used my dad's on countless occasions. It would be easier if I were to use some of the modern bits and pieces available today but I want to do it the way it was done when I was a boy. Using the things that were about at the time. We'll see how it goes.

I'll post a blow by blow accont on here with pictures when I learm how.


If I've done it right there shoukd be a picturer of the type of pram wheel I want. Fingers crossed
Tom

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You'll have to write it Tom.

Red here on my dad's computer. The old guy on our table was Con "The Dazzling Cornelius" Cronnin. A great player with more moves that Michael Jackson.

And yes, we do have a bit of history but no animosity. It's all in good fun.

I use a flash drive for storing files Tom. Much quicker, much easier to use.  mines 256mb. I seem to have put loads of stuff on it and I've used 9%. Put an Icon on your desktop to access it and you can drag files to it.
redsdad

What a job I had to log in. My username was reds-dad with the hyphen but when I tried to use it the little man who sits inside my computor and who's sole purpose in life is to make my life difficult told me the name didn't exist.
I admit I haven't been on for a while but I didn't think he would have forgoten me. If it doesn't exist I thought I'll reregister with it but when I did I was told the name was already in use. A quick search brought up my last post but although I tried to point this out to my little gremlin it was to no avail. I couldn't log on with it because it didn't exist and I couldn't register with it because it did. I evntually removed the hyphen and the little man accepted it, I sure I heard him snigger. Anyhow I'm back on now even if I did have to abandon my hyphen. I hope I've posted this in the right place. If I havn't you know who to blame. Catch you all again-if I can remember my password. The little man said he'd Email me with one when I was trying to log on at first but he didn't.