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Taipan wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:22 pm Forgot my phone, which is also my wallet and I don't know if I can make it home on the amount of petrol I have. I hope so, as I don't have a phone to call anyone out if I don't! :hmmm:
Borrow an old fashioned £10 note from a colleague :)
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Keeping a tenner under the seat, or in a side pocket of your jacket, can be a really good idea.

Ditto hiding a front door key somewhere near your gaff.

S'all I'm saying.
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Yorick wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:33 pm
Taipan wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:22 pm Forgot my phone, which is also my wallet and I don't know if I can make it home on the amount of petrol I have. I hope so, as I don't have a phone to call anyone out if I don't! :hmmm:
Borrow an old fashioned £10 note from a colleague :)
No one carries cash! :crazy:
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Got an unexpected offer of a cuppa from the Gremlinette. :thumbup:

Still waiting 2 hours later... :thumbdown:
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Taipan wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:36 pm
Yorick wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:33 pm
Taipan wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:22 pm Forgot my phone, which is also my wallet and I don't know if I can make it home on the amount of petrol I have. I hope so, as I don't have a phone to call anyone out if I don't! :hmmm:
Borrow an old fashioned £10 note from a colleague :)
No one carries cash! :crazy:
Cash is king :)
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gremlin wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:36 pm Keeping a tenner under the seat, or in a side pocket of your jacket, can be a really good idea.

Ditto hiding a front door key somewhere near your gaff.

S'all I'm saying.
The Keys for my (wife's) Bonnie have a £20 note in a little holder. Mrs D gave it to her Dad cause he was always getting stuck somewhere on his broken down bike.

The twenty quid note in there does date from about 2001 though :think:

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Taipan wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:36 pm
Yorick wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:33 pm
Taipan wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:22 pm Forgot my phone, which is also my wallet and I don't know if I can make it home on the amount of petrol I have. I hope so, as I don't have a phone to call anyone out if I don't! :hmmm:
Borrow an old fashioned £10 note from a colleague :)
No one carries cash! :crazy:
I've got 200 quid in my back pocket, pop round and I'll gladly lend you a tenner
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MrLongbeard wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:58 pm
Taipan wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:36 pm
Yorick wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:33 pm

Borrow an old fashioned £10 note from a colleague :)
No one carries cash! :crazy:
I've got 200 quid in my back pocket, pop round and I'll gladly lend you a tenner
With 200% APR interest, obvs ;)
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gremlin wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:36 pm Keeping a tenner under the seat, or in a side pocket of your jacket, can be a really good idea.

Ditto hiding a front door key somewhere near your gaff.

S'all I'm saying.
All my bike jackets, tank bags, backpacks etc have a stash of change for coffees and emergencies.
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:52 pm
gremlin wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:36 pm Keeping a tenner under the seat, or in a side pocket of your jacket, can be a really good idea.

Ditto hiding a front door key somewhere near your gaff.

S'all I'm saying.
The Keys for my (wife's) Bonnie have a £20 note in a little holder. Mrs D gave it to her Dad cause he was always getting stuck somewhere on his broken down bike.

The twenty quid note in there does date from about 2001 though :think:


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I always used to keep a £10 note in my toolkit or under a side panel etc, but haven't bothered in recent years. TBF its the first time i've ever forgotten my phone and I fill up every 3rd day, so even with forgetting it the odds were still in my favour. Ho hum...
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Yorick wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 1:07 pm
gremlin wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:36 pm Keeping a tenner under the seat, or in a side pocket of your jacket, can be a really good idea.

Ditto hiding a front door key somewhere near your gaff.

S'all I'm saying.
All my bike jackets, tank bags, backpacks etc have a stash of change for coffees and emergencies.
I just checked my bike jacket pockets and there is a total of 3 quid in there. On the X-ADV that will get me teh 30 miles home easy. :thumbup:
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Taipan wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 1:41 pm
Yorick wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 1:07 pm
gremlin wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:36 pm Keeping a tenner under the seat, or in a side pocket of your jacket, can be a really good idea.

Ditto hiding a front door key somewhere near your gaff.

S'all I'm saying.
All my bike jackets, tank bags, backpacks etc have a stash of change for coffees and emergencies.
I just checked my bike jacket pockets and there is a total of 3 quid in there. On the X-ADV that will get me teh 30 miles home easy. :thumbup:
that's enough for about a litre and a half... I seen to remember at one time most pumps had a minimum vend amount of 2 litres...
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Taipan wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:22 pm Forgot my phone, which is also my wallet and I don't know if I can make it home on the amount of petrol I have. I hope so, as I don't have a phone to call anyone out if I don't! :hmmm:
I personally don't own a phone or a wallet. :lol: Luckily for me though, cash is king. Even if it just a fiver, I always have some cash on me. And my shed keys. If I was lucky enough to be out but unlucky enough to run out of petrol I have breakdown cover but no phone. :lol: It makes life more exciting. :D
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Dixiethedog wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 2:56 pm
Taipan wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:22 pm Forgot my phone, which is also my wallet and I don't know if I can make it home on the amount of petrol I have. I hope so, as I don't have a phone to call anyone out if I don't! :hmmm:
I personally don't own a phone or a wallet. :lol: Luckily for me though, cash is king. Even if it just a fiver, I always have some cash on me. And my shed keys. If I was lucky enough to be out but unlucky enough to run out of petrol I have breakdown cover but no phone. :lol: It makes life more exciting. :D
You don't have a phone?

Wtf do you do when you go for a shit?
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Rockburner wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 2:08 pm that's enough for about a litre and a half... I seen to remember at one time most pumps had a minimum vend amount of 2 litres...
Pff, where you been man, inflation is down partly fuelled (no pun intended ;) ) by a drop in petrol prices. Taipan clearly knows this, 'cause his £3 will get him more than 2 litres now.
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You don't have a phone?

Wtf do you do when you go for a shit?
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:lol: I generally sit on the toilet and let nature take its toll. :lol:

If I feel that the experience is going to be drawn out, I may take a copy of the periodical magazine booklet "The Chap" along with me for the ride. :D

A jolly good read for when one is taking his ablutions. More entertaining than one of those dreadful mobile telephone machines. :lol:

https://thechap.co.uk/product/the-chap-manifesto-2/
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In answer to my last post above, I sometimes take my pipe and enjoy a good shag whilst sitting on the toilet. In a gentlemanly way.


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Today I have done my back a mischief

Currently sitting with a hot water bottle behind me. I have also just sneezed which was agony.
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Got on the bike and teh low fuel warning was on, so I knew I wasn't making it home! Gentle bimble to the texaco garage on The Highway where £3 got me over 2 litres and it put me 2 bars on the fuel gauge. Made it home just as it went to 1 bar. Phone collected and tanked brimmed ready for next Wednesday. Phew! :thumbup:
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Taipan wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 5:40 pm Got on the bike and teh low fuel warning was on, so I knew I wasn't making it home! Gentle bimble to the texaco garage on The Highway where £3 got me over 2 litres and it put me 2 bars on the fuel gauge. Made it home just as it went to 1 bar. Phone collected and tanked brimmed ready for next Wednesday. Phew! :thumbup:
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