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Maybe those pics are photochopped, but the Range Rover test ground isn't.
Must be that the trees just grow at a funny angles then 😉
Eh? 😕
Go away and show me something challenging
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hows that for challenging 😆
The white one with the blonde bint driving is ghastly. A Bentley front end on a Range Rover. Sweet baby Jesus...
I saw the photo and thought it must be a spoof thread but apparently not.
S'all twitwaffle innit.
hows that for challenging
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For all the too little clearance comments,you obviously don't know about their suspension do you.It's very clever you know.......
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That'll get the job done...
For all the too little clearance comments,you obviously don't know about their suspension do you.It's very clever you know.......
Go on, what's all this then?
Work for it & find out that way you'll remember it......;O)
No, tell me, I love learning new things.
That the one on the Fort William road DickBarton? Seen one exactly the same many times.
don simon - Member
No, tell me, I love learning new things.
It goes up & down........
The Range Rover Classic is by far the nicest, can't beat the original.I tried to find some pics of the camel trophy specced ones but failed.
It goes up & down........
So that'll allow the bling-bling to do this then?
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Every school's a day day....
pretty much Tyre & wheel dependant,but yes if you don't mind scuffing your alloys
Here ya go.
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But the Darien Gap expedition was far more hardcore and historical;
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Sambob - yes, the very same...I thought it was the only one but according to [url= http://www.roadtransport.com/blogs/big-lorry-blog/2010/03/the-worlds-ultimate-4x4is-a-tr.html ]this site[/url], it wasn't.
pretty much Tyre & wheel dependant,but yes if you don't mind scuffing your alloys
No s**t? I'd have assumed that you'd never get such a low profile tyre over the rocks, and even though we drove a RR thogh a couple of feet of mud, the even wider bling-bling tyres would have problems in mud and nice to know that the front body work won't catch when attempting the 45º ascent or drop. might be worth getting one after all.
Like I say, I love learning. Thanks
Who was it on here who posted a pic of his (Diahatsu?, something Japanese anyway)4x4 pickup airborne with both sets of wheels about four feet off the ground and spinning like crazy after cresting a rise ? Now that was off-roading 🙂 I can't remember who it was unfortunately cos i'm beered.
If it was you can you post it again please?
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More modern take on the cuthbertson conversion above.
I'd think what a plonker too, because I think someone who uses the wrong tool for the job for the sake of fashion/making a statement/ whatever is a bit of a wally.
I don't get that. Someone uses a bicycle to pop to the shops, and they'e using the 'wrong tool for the job'? 😕
Do they need to own a specific bike just for popping to the shops? Are they not allowed to use whatever they want?
The point, which some of you seem to have missed, is that people are free to make their own choices, as much as you are. is not it nice we live in such a diverse and varied World? 🙂
Judge not others lest you be judged yourself...
I'd like someone to explain the 'Elfin is jealous' tag above, actually. Jealous of what?
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I don't get that. Someone uses a bicycle to pop to the shops, and they'e using the 'wrong tool for the job'?
Well fair point, but it would be the wrong tool, wouldn't it? A low, slack, gravity orientated, not particularly comfy £5000+ DH rig would be a darned sight less useful on a trip to the shops than say, a nice toury, roady type of bike, with say, a rack?
Like I said, I'd think plonker, but I defend the right to be a plonker absolutely. There's plenty of things I do that I'm sure people think I'm a plonker for, and that's up to them. I'm not going to lose sleep over it!
Edit; I think you miss my point; the freedom to think someone a plonker is as important as the freedom to chose what bike/pimped rangerover to take to the shops.
It wasn't there last time I went, was gutted.
That Landrover is more my cup of tea.
The RR is a bit of a joke these days, an expensive one & let's face it, a pretty common one these days. Plenty of folk second mortgaged to get them no doubt.
don simon 😀
I know I shouldn't, but....elfin - aren't you being a bit judgemental of folk expressing personal opinions?
Anyway, back to sweet range rovers.
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aren't you being a bit judgemental of folk expressing personal opinions?
No I'm not actually. Just questioning why people think that way, is all.
Seems to be an awful lot of 'my choices are sound and justifiable but other people's aren't and therefore I'm superior to them' type attitudes on here.
the freedom to think someone a plonker is as important as the freedom to chose what bike/pimped rangerover to take to the shops.
Fair point. But you do accept that others have that same 'right' to think what they like about you, yeah?
Fair point. But you do accept that others have that same 'right' to think what they like about you, yeah?
I think I already did...
Like I said, I'd think plonker, but I defend the right to be a plonker absolutely. There's plenty of things I do that I'm sure people think I'm a plonker for, and that's up to them. I'm not going to lose sleep over it!
Do they need to own a specific bike just for popping to the shops?
No - but if it's an expensive dh bike and they only use it for popping to the shops, then that's just silly. They've made a free choice to look like a plonker. I don't have an issue with somebody using an expensive dh bike to the shops if most of the time it gets used for its intended purpose (you'd have to wonder whether they couldn't afford a cheap shop popping bike if they can afford an expensive dh one, mind).
I might have bling bikes, but I don't think you could accuse me of not using them for the design purpose. Maybe you could explain why somebody would think I'm a plonker for owning a high end TT bike to ride TTs fast and a high end XC MTB for going fast in off-road races?
Oh, and back on topic
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No - but if it's an expensive dh bike and they only use it for popping to the shops, then that's just silly.
Only in your opinion it is, let's face it.
I would consider it somewhat extravagant, but I woon't judge the person unless I actually knew them personally. You don't know someone's reasons for their choices, unless you know them.
Maybe you could explain why somebody would think I'm a plonker for owning a high end TT bike to ride TTs fast and a high end XC MTB for going fast in off-road races?
Personally I don't really care, but some might think that unless you're a top pro rider, having such high-end bikes makes you a 'plonker'. I know I've read similar type views on here! Y'know, when folk bang on about 'ATGNI Weekend Warriors' owning 6" travel 'All Mountain' bikes to pootle about in Surrey...
As for Range Rovers; they're primarily spensive lifestyle vehicles, not utilitarian off-roaders. They're aimed at those who want a big, powerful motor but don't necessarily want to drive across mountains and deserts in them. A fact borne out by the sheer number that are driven exclusively on roads.
How many people on here own those big 'divers' watches, y'know, the ones with all the dials and work down to 300m underwater and that? How many of them actually do any diving?
Isn't that exactly the same thing?
You can buy a popular yet relatively inexpensive bicycle in this colour:
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How many people on here own those big 'divers' watches, y'know, the ones with all the dials and work down to 300m underwater and that? How many of them actually do any diving?
Isn't that exactly the same thing?
Why yes it is. And I would tend to think them plonkers too. In fact I think I pretty much expressed as much in the recent relevant thread. Such is my right, and I'm sure plenty of people thought that I was a plonker for that [shrugs].
More modern take on the cuthbertson conversion above.
Here's another take on the cuthbertson.
A mate of mine had a hand in developing these Versatracks.
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I'm a big fan of the classic shape of the first Range Rovers, I just bought a Discovery in virtually this same blue.
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Only in your opinion it is, let's face it.
I'd be surprised if it wasn't the opinion of the majority of people.
Personally I don't really care, but some might think that unless you're a top pro rider, having such high-end bikes makes you a 'plonker'. I know I've read similar type views on here! Y'know, when folk bang on about 'ATGNI Weekend Warriors' owning 6" travel 'All Mountain' bikes to pootle about in Surrey...
You're completely missing the point, elf (or maybe just using a strawman). A 6" travel bike for pootling in Surrey is also using something for what it's not designed for and where something different would be more suitable. How about you give me a link to a thread on here where people are actually disparaging about non-pros using high end bikes for exactly what they're designed for.
Evil gas guzzling things with most not going off road, they're a waste of resources imho.
A quite interesting psychological study was done into who buys different kinds of cars and SUVs etc, and in the UK people who desire approval often tend to buy SUVs, where in the US people who are more into doing thier own thing and independently minded buy them.
I do like the classic old shaped Range Rovers like in the pic just above this post though.
If global warming and climate change and being as environmentally considerate as possible weren't relevent, i'd quite like an old Landy like the blue one a little bit further up.
Can't feel like i'd be able to have a clear concience with one as things are though, which is no great hardship.
Tim
PS, I do try not to just keep upgrading my bike bits all the time as well btw. :~)
A 6" travel bike for pootling in Surrey is also using something for what it's not designed for
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It's. A. Bicycle.
If someone wants to buy a spensive 6" travel 'All Mountain' bike for riding around Surrey, a canal towpath or popping to the shops, why shoon't they?
Likewise if someone really wants a spensive 4x4 or other flash unnecessary motor, or wear a big 'divers' watch, why shoon't they?
Sometimes, right, I ride a mounting bicycle in That London, what does not in any way have any mountains. Why? Because I can, and I really don't give a toss what others think of me, as fortunately I'm not that insecure...
Anyway shoosh now cos I'm bored and NCIS is on.
If someone wants to buy a spensive 6" travel 'All Mountain' bike for riding around Surrey, a canal towpath or popping to the shops, why shoon't they?Likewise if someone really wants a spensive 4x4 or other flash unnecessary motor, or wear a big 'divers' watch, why shoon't they?
No reason. Free world and all that. Everybody is free to be a plonker.
It's a free world. But I personally think the blingin townie range rovers, and the big divers watches, are just vulgar. I don't really understand this aspiration for something so ridiculous just for status or attention. You can pick up a used one for about 10k now so you don't really have to be loaded to get the rap star look these days
I prefer things understated and less in your face. Which goes for bikes too. I quite like the off road pics though, would love to give proper 4x4 a try one day
Elfin I can see your point about the bike comparison, but I'd only think the bloke on a dh bike riding to the shops was a wally for the risk of getting it stolen, as surely nobody in their right mind would buy it for that sole purpose
Looked forward to nice car thread, walks away disappointed that someone's turned it into a debate and to show off their own supposed superiority.