Ahaar, show me the pirates!

[Richard]

Richard- isn't that a parents night mare . their young daughter running away with a beach bum, or worse 2.

Amen, my friend ... we raised two daughters ...

[Martin Milner]

Truth is I just hate using telephones - unless I'm wearing my tinfoil beanie to stop "them" messing with my brain.

I got along to TRU on my bike and picked up most of the smaller new Pirate sets, and a couple of doubles. I left the big lighthouse on the shelf, mostly because it was just too big to carry home on my bike, and partly because TRU didn't have any of the new crop of Specials, so when they are available from Playmobil UK, I'll add a few to the lighthouse and save the postage.

As for wear and tear on the bike, I got a puncture when I was nearly home 8-(

My cycling is not really to save gas or reduce my carbon footprint, it's just my way of life. I've been living in Ealing almost all my life, and cycling for life-7 years.

In '73 when I was seven, there was a major petrol crisis and rising fuel costs, so I started cycling to school every day (my mother no longer running the family's 2nd car), and I haven't been without a bicycle since.

I had a second-hand car for about 5-6 years, and enjoyed using it to escape into the countryside at weekends, but didn't use it on a daily basis, and eventually it got too expensive to keep fixing, so I reverted to using my legs.

[LHAAP]

I got along to TRU on my bike and picked up most of the smaller new Pirate sets, and a couple of doubles. I left the big lighthouse on the shelf, mostly because it was just too big to carry home on my bike, and partly because TRU didn't have any of the new crop of Specials, so when they are available from Playmobil UK, I'll add a few to the lighthouse and save the postage.

I'm glad that you found the sets

I had a second-hand car for about 5-6 years, and enjoyed using it to escape into the countryside at weekends, but didn't use it on a daily basis, and eventually it got too expensive to keep fixing, so I reverted to using my legs.

A car is wonderful to have if you can afford it but if your driving needs aren't big then a bicycle is way better. I have a scooter because it's cheaper compared with a car, both the price for the vehicle itself and the fuel it uses - and I need the freedom it gives to make longer trips 

[Timotheos]

Tim- that motif is now becoming the way of the future . You will realize this when petrol is $10/gal.

Hi Ras

I was just joking.  I hate driving.  Everytime I hop behind a wheel it is a statistical liklihood I will be involved in a major crash-up.

Bike ways in St Charles are crud though--but getting better with new roads.  Biking around here requires daredevils (or cranks) to vie with 55 MPH traffic.

When I lived in Livermore CA for a summer my coworkers were amazed I traveled everywhere on bike or mass-transit.  I could actually get to downtown San Fran faster than them if I made all the connections at the right time.

Out here in the midwest, though, you'd have to be a masochist to do the bus system.  Our metrolink follows a single artery and isn't an option unless you work near one of its stops.

The "Green Dream" hits some hard realities out here.

-Tim

[Rasputin]

The biggest joke is the picture you, richard and martin made of the ideological playmobil collector.

He wears a tinfoil hat , paranoid that the " them " are going to get him, he rides a rusty old beaten up bike searching in vain for that new blue box at TRU hoping to hook up with a princess and ride away on her unicorn 

[Richard]

The biggest joke is the picture you, richard and martin made of the ideological playmobil collector.

A bicycle "built for three" ... We'll let you sit on the handlebars, Ras ... 

[Gustavo]

The biggest joke is the picture you, richard and martin made of the ideological playmobil collector.

  I missed that one ... Where's it?

G.

[Rasputin]

If you don't mind i think a trailer with my clone would be more suited

[Gustavo]

Oh by the Hebrew god! ... What happened to his knee?!

G.

[Richard]

ARE WE ALL OFF TOPIC ... ?? ... 

I went back to see what the topic was for this thread ... 

There was no topic !!! ... 

We should ALL turn ourselves in to the nearest moderator !!! ...   

This was the message I got ...