I’ve got a Genesis Abyss 2009, whilst not exact same as the Core 40 – it is a great bike and I’m sure the Core 40 will be too.

Good effort Joolsburger, looks great and at just £97!!

like this myself http://www.pointtec.de/zeppelin/7330-1/#/zeppelin/hoehenmesser/ santa may bring it in his swag bag

Showerman, those look great, thankfully more than I want to spend at this stage :wink:

Well, I bought it. Couldn’t help myself

Excellent, is this what happens with a ‘watch habit’?

Hey, those precista’s look interesting, just out of the price range at the moment, need to start gently :wink:

Choose the one you like the look of best. They will all last a lifetime if you look after them

Really liking the Tissot, have said that, I like quite a number on the werner’s site.

Some crackers on that Werners site and very well priced

They are good aren’t they? I have a feeling I have just started another pricey hobby :roll:

No problem, sorry for the delay in replying for some unknown reason I can’t log in at work. If you want photographs let me know and I’ll send some through

Hi Lee,

Would love some photos, if I email the address in your profile would you be able to reply with photos attached, got a couple of questions as well.

Cheers,

but can I ask just one question? see in that piccie you linked to (same as the one on the tissot site) does the minute hand line up with the minute markers in real life or is it like in the picture? am I being too picky?

I think I was being thick asking this question, as of course the hands will line up when the second hand gets to the top – doh!! no offence intended.

Mind if I drop you an email?

I’m getting rid of one of these for £120 if you’re interested.Tissot clicky I bought earlier this year and never took it out of the box, I’ve genuinely never worn it, except when I tried it on in the shop.

Hmm, you’ve got me thinking… especially when…

personally i’d bite leew’s hand off. you’re not going to get more watch for your money than that tissot for £120

someone, well two counting JoB, says that, and I am really interested..

but can I ask just one question? see in that piccie you linked to (same as the one on the tissot site) does the minute hand line up with the minute markers in real life or is it like in the picture? am I being too picky?

Like I said I am really interested in the watch..

Hey, that Luminox looks nice, a bit out of the price range at the moment. I’m just wondering if I can can get away with this Christopher Ward I mean it’s almost £150 :wink:

I strongly suggest that you don’t play Metallica’s cover of ‘So What?’!!!!!

Or any version of So What; I did laugh when I first heard ANWL sing it.

AC\DC is always good…

anyone??

soperman said:

Bike, Suzuki RG250 Mk 11 Gamma with a stage 3 Stan Stephens race tune. Mother of God did I learn to ride when I had that!

I really quite fancy one of those now, or an aprilia

Best bike BTW, 1998 Kawasaki ZX6R (in green of course)……then the kids came along

Funnily enough I only started biking AFTER the kids came along – does that make me a bad dad?

First bike:

First car, a Morris Marina Coupe, like this but blue:

I remember a step test that measured fitness by seeing how quickly you recovered. It was along the lines of:

1 – measure heart rate
2 – step up and down a 12″ box\step\bench (both feet onto top) for 3 mins
3 – rest for a minute, then measure heart rate

calculate (heart rate in step 3) – (heart rate in step 1) and the lower the number the fitter (or more able to recover) you are.

My quick googles and I can’t find a step test like that; I can find plenty others….

Get the point? How many folk don’t go to the Hub cafe at the moment because it is simply over-crowded, or they don’t like the food on offer, or the prices, or the fact that it is full of dirty mountain bikers???

Yep, I understand that and should have worded my post in the manner you corrected it, in fact I probably shouldn’t have made reference to their customer base at all.

Of course, that said and here I agree with you, there is nothing to say the new tennants won’t attract more customers from the current visitor pool and may well increase the visitor pool per se depending on their offering; what I was trying to point out is that the visitor numbers quoted by FCS are no where near the reality.

Yep, I can’t believe those figures either. I have been a regular weekday visitor in winter when there’s less than ten cars in the car park and no one in the cafe. And that’s more often than not

Actually now I come to think of about it, I remember talking to a certain (7stanes) project manager a number of years ago, summer 2007 I think, and he mentioned that Glentress got as many visitors as all the other stanes put together; and that the number was in the region of 128,000 – which I felt was far more believable than what was being claimed.

Mind you we can speculate all we like, T+E are best placed to know the visitor numbers to a cafe and how that has grown, presumably their bid was based on experience and reality, we’ll have to see what happens.

^^ agreed

From speaking to a former employee in the area there used to be lots of people would ride their horses at Glentress years ago but they have moved on to other forests, not like there is a shortage

Steven, whilst I like your posts, the same could be levelled at us; I mean there 100s Kms of available riding but we chose a 17Km loop in a spruce forest, people must think we’re mad to not venture out further into the countryside.

So where are all these extra people going to appear from?

Just thought there’s always the osprey’s, maybe Bill Oddie and his mates will all come up?

Its the visitor figure being touted about that just don’t make any sense. 200,000 bikers a year works out at about 550 a day.

As Emma pointed out, to support the figures would require 502 cars a day and there is only 200 spaces, even if each space is ‘turned over’ twice it still falls short. And Emma was being kind by equalising the car fall over 365 day.

On a busy summers weekend I could just about believe that there are 550 bikers using GT a day, on a wet Tuesday in October I’d be suprised if it was 50.

Exactly which means the shortfall (say 2 days worth, which would be 1000 odd cars) would need to be made up on others days\weekends and as we know there isn’t enough carparking.

So where are all these extra people going to appear from?

I think it is in someone’s fantasy… doubling the carparking won’t help even reach the current quoted number let alone 500,000

I remember the Marin TARA range, I think most people left it in the max travel setting… and that was easy to change on the trail with a quick release lever.

But tbh I’m not really sure why you’d go walking at GT

Wouldn’t be my cup of tea either for walking, but I do know of (older) people who have stopped going there because of the bikes; they can be a vocal lot.

There are still horse and walkers trails there. It will take management but its not impossible to keep ’em separate

agree

If they are going to try and encourage walkers, horsie folk, families etc to go to Glentress then I can see lots of trouble ahead. With the access laws as they are this will surely lead to all manner of collisions. People walking up biking trails etc

Hmmm, tis possible I agree; but as Glentress used to be a popular place for walkers and horse riders who possibly feel they’ve been pushed away, maybe they’re trying to re-dress the balance?

^ They are if you do ’em once a month.

It is used to fill the IFP

Well that’s cleared that up then :? wot’s an IFP?

lol @bigjohn

@druidh, thanks for another site to, ahem, research :wink:

it is a good point (apologies to the OP for my heavy handedness), although if my kids stumbled across that I’d trust them not to go any further, maybe I live in cloud cuckoo land though

hi, as ive just recieved the little ones christmas laptop, its got windows7 on it, she’s 10 so im wanting some restrictions

Can I ask what you’re worried she might do? she is only ten after all… we’ve found trust and respect works in this household, two kids; one 15 the other 13 and no (software) parental control.

[edit] sorry, just re-read that, seems like I’m being smug but I’m not :oops: [/edit]

Maybe I’m being thick (or not paranoid enough), but an essentially anonymous person puts a post saying he works for AWE (which wasn’t actually needed for the post) and paranoia sets in. How would they find out who he was?

No, it’s not the memory allocated. That card simply doesn’t support the right type of video accel which Flash/most web video uses:

Yeah my bad, I hadn’t looked at the spec close enough :oops:

I still standby adding a card and at a punt of £20 for mboy’s card I’d give it a go, especially when given the option of a refund. It made a huge difference to my system when I added a sperate card, but then my PC has a particularly shite onboard graphics system.

@Horse; bite mboy’s hand off – I would if my PC had PCI-E :wink:

Your system has an onboard one of these: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 GPU, On Board Graphic Max. Memory Share Up to 256MB, and given this description onthe nvidia site you’d think it’d be good enough:

The NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6500, 6200, 6150* and 6100* GPUs feature a revolutionary design that delivers best-in-class performance on today’s hottest games and applications. The only GPUs in their class to support Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0, these GPUs power the latest effects without compromising performance. Further, these GPUs include NVIDIA® PureVideo™ to deliver crisp, vibrant video to the PC.

I’m wondering how much memory is being allocated to it, it can use up to 256MB, with this being shared from the system memory.

So how much memory does your PC have? and how much is being allocated (usually through the BIOS) to the video card?

*** agree with alexxx on the drivers front….

£25-30 upwards, although I wouldn’t spend a lot more than this, maybe up to £50

First though, you need to see what type of expansion slots there are on the motherboard and find a card that fits, you may have PCI, AGP, PCI-E..

For me (due to the 5 year old nature of my PC) I was stuck with PCI and most graphic cards seemed to be PCI-E (which replaces PCI, PCI-X and AGP). You can get cards for the older interfaces, just need to search, I was lucky as a mate had an (old) spare one which is an NVIDIA Geforce FX 5200 256MB.

agree ^^^^

Does it have an integrated video card? mine does and has a max memory of 8MB :o, added a PCI card with 256MB and all is well, now get the W7 aero stuff

I know this post doesn’t really answer anyones question, I just wanted to express my happiness.

tis coming over in waves, great when these work init :D

Mine acts as a HD satellite recorder, movie and music collection, bluray player; serves my son’s xbox in his room, the music streamer in the family room which is hopefully to be joined with a an xbox so I can stream movies and HD tv to the projector. Cost £335 in total, the case isn’t cheap…

I’ve just put Cat6 LAN cable throughout the whole house, you’ll need that for streaming video other things.

No you won’t

Silverstone do some lovely cases

Indeed they do, I built my mediapc using one a black of these looks great under the telly http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_contents.php?pno=lc04&area=

I used Halfords own brand only £4.99

Seems alright

you are correct

There are some crackers on here, keep em coming….

Going on 25 to see them in Leeds

now you’re beginning to annoy me :wink: