@juliew2010 I take multiple tablets twice a day, if I didn't have phone reminders I would forget for certain!

@juliew2010 put a daily alarm on your phone

@kinetix luckily it's not frequent. I bought the trike in 2016 and have had one rear flat and four front ones, all on the left - the gutter side.

Tuesday's trike ride had a short interlude as I fixed a flat tyre.

As I came to the lights outside the Southern hotel the left front tyre went down. I dragged the trike onto the grass, got my tools out, and tipped the trike on its side.

The left front tyre is the one that takes a beating and gets the most punctures. The good thing about a trike is a front tyre puncture can be fixed without removing the wheel.

I don't know what punctured the tube, I visually examined the tyre and felt around the inside and outside and could find nothing.

As I worked I had three different blokes walk by and ask if I needed help.

I fitted the spare tube and pumped it up and was on my way.

Today I rode out to the FarmFest site at Kingsthorpe for the last day of 19th National Historic Machinery Rally. The weather was fine but windy.

I rode west from Toowoomba on the  Cecil Plains road. I was supposed to turn onto Brimblecombe Rd, but missed the sign and kept riding on. When I realised that I'd gone too far I checked my map app and decided to turn off at Biddeston and loop around until I reached the highway.

I pedalled along until I came to an intersection where a man on an adventure motorbike waited for me to pass by. I stopped for a chat and he told my if I turned there, and took the first left after the road turned to gravel, it would end at Brimblecombe Rd. So that's what I did.

I arrived at the FarmFest site at one. The ticket office had closed, so if I hadn't bought a ticket on line I could have got in for free!

For the next couple of hours I rode around the site looking at the wide variety of equipment on display. Steam traction engines, steam rollers, a steam truck, vintage trucks including one with caterpillar tracks at the back. There was also a display of miniature steam engines, and there were some vintage cars.

I stopped to sketch a Rumley OilPull,
oil cooled, kerosene fuelled, tractor.

At three I rode home via Brimblecombe Rd and the Cecil Plains Rd. The ride was 76.5 km all up.

#RecumbentTrike #Cycling

On Sunday I drove to Esk for a ride on the Brisbane Valley Rail Trail with TRBUG.

The weather was overcast but not cold. Some parts of the trail were wet and I ended up being peppered with muddy spots.

The ride was very bumpy in places. It went well until 10 km before Esk when my left front wheel started oscillating madly. I quickly braked to a stop.

The bolt that connects the tie rod end to the hub had disappeared.

After a bit of discussion on how to connect it up so I could ride back to my car, an Allen key was suggested. So that's what I used.

I now need to find a replacement bolt.

@voltagex yes, Richard Chamberlain was really good!

The Bourne Identity is such a good movie.

This morning I went for a ride over to the Toowoomba airport to attend the David Hack Classic.

The weather was good and there was lots to see. I slowly pedalled around checking out the classic and vintage cars, and aircraft.

I sketched the replica Spitfire and part of a Ford woody and caravan.

@waterfeature thanks

This morning's trike ride followed my usual route until I detoured to the eastville shops. I bought a capaccino then rode back up to Picnic Point. I parked the trike on the grass and did another sketch of the water tower.

#MastoArt #art #sketching #PenSketching #watercolour #watercolor #PleinAir #UrbanSketching
#cycling #BikeTooter #GreenspeedTrike #RecumbentTrike #eTrike #BafangBBS01 #Toowoomba #ToowoombaRegion

Chinese social media content trolls the US policy of reindustrialisation.

Life drawing at Toowoomba Art Society on Monday night. A new Sailor Fude fountain pen with non-waterproof ink and waterbrush.

A vintage racing car was parked on the street up from my home. I walked up with my sketching kit and a camp stool. I sat on my side of the street in the shade of a hedge to sketch.

The car, a Maxwell, had a Wade supercharger with two carburetors in front of the radiator. It wasn't connected but only strapped in place

@MarkDeasy @Jakra sounds reasonable

@Jakra @MarkDeasy I reckon our Liberal party is equivalent to the Republicans. Our Labor, which once upon a time was left wing, is now centrist and equivalent to the Democrats
One Nation, Trumpet of Patriots, et al, are full blown MAGA

please boost

@keira_reckons if he'd said "big stinker" I would have been forced to agree with him!

Just because the rest of you have given up on this old sci fi aesthetic, doesn't mean I have to. I need it into my veins through intravenous drip please.