Home alone: What do you during a Pandemic

**WildWilly** · 04-14-20

I got A D & F. In my defense, I was that way before this started.

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**WildWilly** · 04-14-20

Fixing lunch

**MGD109** · 04-14-20

So in the UK no unnecessary car/motorbike journeys but you can got out for a bicycle ride as part of your once a day exercise. So this is what the dad of a stir crazy 6 year old with oxy kit in his garage comes up with.

Despite all that's going on in the world at least I've managed to make somebody smile. We're just waiting for the chain ring to drive her pedals and a couple of tubes to join her front and rear handlebars and we are go to go.

**WildWilly** · 04-15-20

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**Richard230** · 04-16-20

In San Francisco's virus news is was reported today that the city's school district plans to give all of their students "A" grades in recognition of them not being able to attend school during the lock-down. But will they have learned what was to be taught in those classes, or is this just a "progressive" way of not making students feel bad about not being able to attend school and their teachers not knowing how to teach via Zoom?

**WildWilly** · 04-17-20

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**stephen** · 04-17-20

My wife and I are testing Vodka, Gin and Canadian Whiskey to determine which is most effective in combating COVID-19.

**WildWilly** · 04-18-20

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**WildWilly** · 04-19-20

A little late . . . . . but I'm staying mellow

**Roadpizza** · 04-19-20

Nothing like watching a set or two of Best of Russian Driving Fails to pass the time......just nice to see the US doesn't have the entire population of morons after all

**WildWilly** · 04-19-20

Originally Posted by Roadpizza

Nothing like watching a set or two of Best of Russian Driving Fails to pass the time......just nice to see the US doesn't have the entire population of morons after all

But ours are easier to count. Just count the number of MAGA caps and multiply by 1.

**WildWilly** · 04-19-20

A little online shopping

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**WildWilly** · 04-21-20

You can't see in the pic but his airbag was activated and it knocked his MAGA cap off.

**WildWilly** · 04-21-20

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**WildWilly** · 04-22-20

Thumb Twiddling counts as cardio, right?

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**WildWilly** · 04-24-20

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**WildWilly** · 04-24-20

I try not to look out the window in the morning otherwise I'll have nothing to do in the afternoon.

**WildWilly** · 04-25-20

I've been exercising . .

**WildWilly** · 04-25-20

Also trying to get some sun every day . . . .

**Roadpizza** · 04-25-20

Binge watching Peaky Blinders.....

**WildWilly** · 04-26-20

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**WildWilly** · 04-26-20

Trying to get some gardening done . . . .

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**Selden** · 04-27-20

Is that trike homebuilt, or a kit? Either way, it's impressive.

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**Selden** · 04-27-20

I have to confess that the pandemic has made very little difference in my daily life. My wife and I have been retired for some time, and live in a rural location in a county whose cases have risen from one on March 21 to twenty-nine on April 27. We are both somewhat introverted, so our desire to socialize was already low. The biggest change is that we haven't eaten out since March 21. I'm still riding, but have sworn off USFS fire roads, as our local hospital has only 12 beds.

From prior experience, I believe that day to day tasks at home pose more risk of injury than riding. Knife cuts and burns in the kitchen, tripping over things, power tools, and so on. Last week I replaced rotten boards in a walkway, which involved use of a circular saw, a jig saw, a belt sander, hammers and chisels:

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I also poured some concrete patch to smooth the transition from driveway to motorcycle garage, a relatively safe process that involved no power tools.

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Yesterday was the most dangerous activity, involving climbing a ladder to tie a guide rope around the trunk of a dead 80-foot pine tree, applying tension with a pair of ratcheting tiedown straps, then using a chainsaw to take it down. I cut a drop notch about halfway through, then a cut on the opposite side, leaving about 2" of wood. I left the scene, and within an hour a gust of wind dropped it exactly where I wanted.

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This afternoon my wife and I may go for a short hike on the Appalachian Trail, which is generally deserted on weekdays. Hiking involves a risk of tripping, spraining an ankle or (least likely) an encounter with a bear. In my experience, if you don't mess with a black bear, it won't mess with you.

Life has risks. Being sedentary also has risks.

**Roadpizza** · 04-27-20

Much the same here Seldon. We have some exercising equipment that only takes 20 minutes of time to keep things in shape. You either use it or lose it.

We aren't in any real way suffering through this but, it is of little comfort to know others are not fairing so well.

**Richard230** · 04-27-20

In today's strange pandemic news, flower shops have just been declared an "essential business" in San Francisco. The reasoning is that since pot shops are open and are flowers, then all flower selling business should be open too. I really don't understand who it is that determines what business can continue to operate and which businesses can not. It almost seems like more of a political call than one with any scientific reasoning justifying the decision of which businesses are safe to operate during the pandemic and which are not.

**MGD109** · 04-27-20

Originally Posted by Selden

Is that trike homebuilt, or a kit?

The rear is a standard tandem with "kiddy crank" now driven of the rear chainset. The trike front end was built (not by me) to be fitted to a specific bike and convert it to a trike. A joint on the conversion failed and I picked it up as a broken conversion kit. Due to the difference in the front ends of most bikes the kits are not made/sold as a universal but are one off built for individual customer bikes. Took a lot of work to get it to mate to the tandem.

Here the conversion is fitted to a solo frame it could not be made to fit this frame but you can see the failed joint

**Roadpizza** · 04-27-20

Steve, I have visited the Black Country Museum several times and I recognize some of the settings in the series. Many of them around the black smith area where they were making chains. I can smell the coal burning and sense the the canals nearby. Really helped watching the show. I may look at sewing a razor in my cap... If you are done with Peaky, try Ozark....

Originally Posted by Roadpizza

Binge watching Peaky Blinders.....