I have a Joystick but use a Cateye EL410 on the commute helmet. As you said, just need it to be seen rather than blind people.

julianwilson – Member
-It may hurt.

He’s lying. It will hurt 🙂

Wherebouts’ you thinking of racing?

What pressure you running? I drop mine to 90 (from 100) when it’s damp. Makes all the difference.

So far so good, I reckon I’ll be able to keep this up for the next 19 days till my wife gets home, I reckon there’ll be a noticable difference in my appearance/physique by then

Most importantly of all, make changes that’ll be sustainable long term, plan to change the way you eat for good not just for the next 19 days..

As we all know it’s easier to put on than take off. We don’t want you coming back here after Chrimbo weighing 110kg!

Good luck fella, I should be joining you.. 😉

Will point the wifey towards this when I get home (she’s runs a Sports Science / Physiology / Biomedicine etc degree course).

Fruit & Fibre cereal Muller corner yoghurt pork sausages (quite low fat according to the packet)

I do know she’ll say drop these though (too much sugar / salt / fat / sh!t) in favour of aforementioned porridge (maple syrup if you need it) Bio Youghurt (i.e. Yeo Valley) and non-processed meat (chicken, fish – i.e tuna steak would be a good alternative to sausages)

Looking forward to reading progress (not so sure about the pics!) 🙂

Have done several 🙂 Last one had several hundred years worth of paint and stripping it revealed some amazing detail so it’s worth it.

If it’s removed / removable then get it blasted.

If not and you do have to resort to paint stripper then forget nitromors -nasty horrid stuff!

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Good luck. Keep us in the picture. If one thing this has hopefully shown you’ve plenty of friends here if you need a chat 🙂

Oh and 70 bikes is a drop in the ocean, there are whole teams of theiving scum like this bloke still out there. More than 3200 bikes were stolen in Bristol last year (that’s just the ones reported to the Police)- 9 per day.

Fair enough..

I too was being more than a bit sarcastic. “Intelligence” and “Bristol CID” in the same sentence is going a bit far 😐

To be fair to Bristol’s finest they have set up a cross District team to try and tackle the problem. One of them posts on here I believe..

Following up the point made above though, what have they done to track down who was fencing them on? Who else has been nicked? How many have they recovered?

sharki – Member
At least this result, means the police are taking bike theft seriously.

Eh??? He had previous and nicked 70 bikes before a member of the public spotted him. If the police had been taking bike theft seriously they’d have been collecting intelligence and been straight on his case as soon as he started stealing again, not wait for someone to spot him in the act.

Now it’s up to the CPS to give thief’s a proper sentence,

He’s got 6 months and that was up to the judge.We’ve a few crackers one’s in Bristol. Within guidelines he could have got anything from a community order through to 5 years.

Veronica Pollard, of the Bristol Cycling Campaign, said: “People love their bikes as much as they love their cars”.

No we don’t Vicky, a car is a box on 4 wheels to get you from A to B. A bike on the other hand is something you can love

Irwin had previous convictions for the theft and attempted theft of cycles, and had previously been jailed for three weeks and had a suspended 12-week sentence activated.

I think I’ve met this kid.. Him and a group of his mates tried to stop me once on a footpath / cycleway near where he lives. Should have punched him a bit harder!

What’s your budget? Old house? New? Pub? Other interests?

Bath. Or one of the fine surrounding villages. Everything you could want in the City. Great schools, primary and secondary.

Great riding on the doorstep (routes and company :D) plus Quantocks, Wales, Mendips, Salisbury Plane, Marlbourough Downs, Cotswolds etc etc all easy distance..

Great pics, thanks for sharing 🙂

Is he a good driver? Sign him up to take the IAM Advanced Test (£139) all in. He’s then guaranteed to get cover at a decent price

http://www.iam.org.uk/membership_of_the_iam/

http://www.iamsurety.com/

Cheers 🙂

gamo – Member
I have just got a mk5 and my mate has a maxx2,mk5 is definetly brighter and has a better beam pattern, i’m impressed with mine!

Better as in spread? I’m more after a narrow directed beam – the Enduro I have is wide, gets me into trouble commuting on the Bristol Bath Railway Path as even on lowest setting pointed down I get accused of blinding on coming riders..

ourmaninthenorth – Member
Slight Q: where are those prices from?

Current Evans prices but gets complicated – I’ve a voucher that gets me either 15% off the new or 10% off the old

http://www.evanscycles.com/categories/bicycle-accessories/lights/rechargeable-lights

Quoted run time on both 3hr / 10hr / 24hr…

Me struggling too the NT specifically exclude it, might be worth giving them a call though: http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-avebury/w-avebury-parking.htm

~You’re planning to ride it there (to Streatham) and back I guess? How about a loop?

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/200k-in-a-day-2-days-200-miles

I’m still failing to get worked up over the Ryder cup. Should I?

Apparently yes if you need to use the M4 into Wales..

Funny enough this came up at post ride pub drinkies a few months back, someone spotted the letraset label with NoK, blood and ‘organ donor’ details on the inside of my Giro and asked why I bothered.

A few years back a member of the road club was found unconcious (and later slipped into a coma) at the road side with no ID whatsoever. Police called our Secretary and it took a few calls to potentially very worried loved ones to establish who he was.

Surf-Mat – Member
Well thanks for that Andy – and as stated clearly before, you often need to slow down more than expected for some bends and less for others.

I would not corner hard if I couldn’t see properly – there could be anything around any bend. Hence why I’ve never crashed or got near to crashing. Some corners have great sight lines so you can take them quickly.

You’ve just assumed I was taking every corner too fast as has every one of the bitter geeks here that has hung onto that tiny point and banged on and on and on about it.

If I am such a “dangerous” driver, why was I invited to be an IAM trustee last year by the new MD? And why have I been an IAM member for 12 years? And how did I comfortably pass the Police course I did at Portishead?

At least you’re right about the R32 though.

Aaah, I may wellhave driven with you then.. 😉

Admittedly I didn’t trawl through every 130 posts, but neither did I assume you were “dangerous” or anything else 🙂

Tinners – Member
plus1 Gachet and Molgrips
LOL @SmugMatt, soft lad.
A few pages back, I dared so suggest that our little egotist might be a bit foolish to be tussling with RS6s on a public road. I’m not against spirited driving, but the fact is that you can’t race against such high powered cars on the public road without reaching frankly ludicrous speeds. I know – I’ve done it on the track and I’d never drive like that on the road. Any way, Cornwall’s answer to Senna came with an euphemisticaly comical description of “out cornering” his RS6 (which was, presumably, driving Miss Daisy at the time to be doing anything other than mental speeds). Anyway, getting to the point, I was recounting his exploits to a few friends at the weekend, one of whom is a professional driver (shall we say) and we came across this little nugget:

The only time you “win” is when some gimp usually in a 2.0TDI Audi or Golf decides to try and prove himself (or more increasingly herself) by driving up your backside when you can’t move out of the way on a dual carriageway or motorway. So as the traffic clears, it can be fun to leave them for dust. Safely.

(Don’t you just love the single word “Safely” at the end? LOL). Now besides being a toe curlingly embarrassing statement, it gives another insight into the mentality. We also wondered what chapter of “Roadcraft” he was referring to with that manouvre.
So don’t get wound up lads. File under “Internet braggart” and ignore.
In answer to the original poster, I’m sure you’ll love an R32. I’d be very wary of buying anything without a service history, but at the least I’d get somebody in the know to give it a thorough looking over. Repairs can also be very costly when cars like this reach a certain age – cambelt changes, exhausts etc. But as long as you factor this in to your running cost, then fine. Great cars. If you go for it, I hope you get a good one.
Now back to a bit of humour…..

LOL

Go away for a couple of days and come back to find STW has turned into Pistonheads 😕

Never owned a R32 but last but one ‘Associate’ has one (had it for a few months). I had the indeed pleasure to drive it on various roads, including twisty Bs* Nice stiff chassis, plenty enough power, reasonable steering feedback.

*Not of course experienced your driving Surf Mat, more than happy to take you for a drive if you fancy a few pointers 😉 But Safe Driving Rule No 1 (appears in the HC and Roadcraft 6 times) “Always be able to stop within the distance you can see to be clear” – unless you’ve magic x-ray vision that can see through bends, it’s the limit point that dictates your speed, not supposedly how well the car corners 8)

This is thread is now just for the reassurance of those that care.

Well said sharki, if anyone happens on him, if he happens on this thread even, just to let him know that we hope he’s ok and are thinking about him and (some) people do care.

My giant Giant:

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Shanks in tights:

<i>very expensive</i>

Not in comparison to my (now v.old, tempremental but lovely and warm sounding) hardware 🙂

Novation is great, good friend is a developer / programmer for them, the Hartnoll's rave about them too.

Not heard SubBoomBass – will look it out.
Have fun 😈

I've come from a different background to you (guess where the forum name comes from:-)), I use soft versions of classic synths I owned and knew well.

You need to learn the basics to get the best from them but have a look at these guys ranges:

http://www.native-instruments.com

http://www.arturia.com

Cheers sharki,

There's a facebook grouptoo for latest news:

plumber – Member There certainly seems to be a lot of shit music to see these days

Your staying at home to watch Strictly[/url] eh plumber? 😉

It's that time of year again, dark nights approaching and all that. Here's last years thread, with pics

+1 for H17
And +1 for Goldfrapp, back to playing the Academy, I quite like the Colston Hall Gig,

THL possibly – they're supposed to be touring in support of first new album for 10 years – £30 though!

Plus Hurts, Joanna Newsom and 'local bands'

Sadly not now 'Ou Est Le Swimming Pool' (tho I saw them supporting La Roux). As mad as their name suggests, lots of energy, great live. Their front man killed himself a couple of weeks back after an incident at a gig…

RIP Charlie Haddon

Starrman28 – Member
Andy, how are you? Have you been about NH5 lately? I was only talking today about sorting a ABW trip to Cwmcarn. You be up for it?

Hi Dave, Did pop over to Oak to check out the showers. Defo. on for that trip. TooTall on here and I have been talking about getting a ABW Cycling Club off the ground… New rack on the (new) Mondeo – so can take 4 bikes.

So see you at Conham Dog Sh!t Dump then Chas if not before. Cobble Wobble a 'possible for me, ditto ToB Stage 5 finish Glasto on Weds.

Starrman28 – Member
Hi Chas, you racing? What about SB is he still flying round? The bike is in the Garage ready to go……………just need a free weekend..:)

I went past Purdown on Sunday and my legs went weak at the thought of that climb.

Lap 1 it's fine, lap 15 is different 🙂

'Free weekend' pass allowing hope to be there too, will put the word out

Cheers DD YGM

You know what they say… Big hands..

..Big feet.

Size 49 here and I swear by Troy Lee, their XXL is supposed to be a 12 but quite generous

Have you measure your hands? Around the knuckles in inches = glove size = Size 12 = 12 inches

You'll be wanting this thread.

TooTall – Member

Tis true I live on the flight path into Bristol, am not a big fan of their planned expansion, but I have you know I definitely don't live 'in an estate'

Bl00dy middle class NIMBYs ruining a perfectly good expansion plan!

Too right 8)

Appropriate to this thread work I'm about to start on this