Cheers for that.

I don’t really understand why Rapha appears to instil so much hatred

I think a lot of us are more amused/bemused by them. Personally I kind-of admire their chutzpah selling stuff like those quilted shorts.

I think a lot of you are bemused by life in general TBH 🤡 🤷‍♂️ (and thats not aimed directly at you, but more generally speaking)

If people want to spend £’s on clothing that makes you want to ride more and be comfortable then let them do it, it’s not your money their spending is it? or maybe it is… Only you know.

Rapha have been through a massive transformation over the years, form small self funded outlet and online to stores to clubs and now into more cycling markets. I see no reason why they wouldn’t want to keep expanding and keeping the money flowing in, do you?

Admittedly the MTB market isn’t actually where I thought they’d go. But hey, there are plenty of folks riding Swinley who chug up in T5’s and pop out some flagship/premium branded MTB to roll down some gravel track neatly groomed that you could ride out on a CX’er as easy. But hey, people like riding what they like don’t they. Or are they forever in a quandary what to ride and decide on a bike based on a forum half full of naysayers whose only comments seem to mock anyone spending money on kit which enables them to ride out on a bike once a month.

We all know you hate the marketing, frankly that’s not a surprise in the slightest. Anything “insta’d” in off grey pallet and you’d choke on your shreddies or a morning. You may hate the lengthy landscape shots of people riding bikes up an Alp, complete with missle and drizzle and neck scarfs pulled tight around the chin… But hey, it was cold when they took the shots, and they rode up the Alp whilst some photographer shouted at them from a window of an estate car.. so almost like real life riding on the road then…

If you feel it’s too expensive for you to warrant spending money on clothing, ride in what you wear now. No one cares about you nor what you ride in. Care less about what others wear and get on with pushing MTBs up hills.

This place is right on the edges of sanity, sometimes bordering insane.

@poopscoop

Which Club house closed?

He has a way of “preaching” without the Preaching.

I like him.

And there are plenty of people like him around, you just don’t mix with them or they’re too busy helping others.

👍

If the car is still in your posession, chances are even if they pay out the write off they’ll tell you to scrap it, you could have the full money and the car if that happens.

Not always the case is it.

The new categories for damaged insurance payout cars allow some categories to be fixed and back on the road with minimal repair work…

Cat pinching would come under one of the lesser categories as it isn’t structural.

Buy it back, de-cat it. Drive it till it dies.

I think we need subtitles when he comes on.

Well that sort of attitude belongs in the 1970’s.

KO Boomer.

We’ve been using the Road range for CX for years, then they came out with Ginduro stuff thats adapted to moar pockets… but essentially the same stuff.

The only thing I can think they’d release is a pair of baggies in XXXX…

At least one of them is a motor journalist that can drive, other than that freddie looks like he’s calmed down a bit (but it is the first one of 6 so I reserve the right change my mind) Don’t like McGuiness at all.. I think we need subtitles when he comes on.

6/10

The only really interesting bit was why they bungijumped a car and Freddie did it. It wasn’t;t funny and didn’t show/prove anything.

Actually

5/10

If I get any, I’m going to staple two of them to lyingblohards eyelids.

Daily Mail readers think it’s a documentary…

without being all about ripping legs off, which seems to be the Rapha CC ethos.

Thats simply not the case, nice to see you’ve made wild supposition based on some media internet warriors boredom tapping on a Thursday night whilst waiting for their Mum to finish making them beans on toast for supper…

Does anyone actually think their trip computer is accurate?

Mine is yes, I’ve checked it.
On both.

Bows down to the art of good safety systems eh..

Too many cats killing birds.

Lexus and Toyota hybrids have been having their Cats cut out.

The cars not been knicked per-se, mighty annoying all the same.

Is that it?
So it flaps it swing tips a bit?

Iss disssapoint.

I found Quies wax ear plugs the best.

Yep, these are the best.

Maybe they agreed to it because they want shot of him?
🤷‍♂️🤪🤪🤪🤗

Gravel-grinders.

Brilliant.

A) did you have to lock up when braked?

B) was their manoeuvre dangerous to you and other road users?

If so yeah report it and send the data to plod. If they do anything that’s a bonus, don’t rely on em’ cos they’re too busy texting mates and woefully understaffed.

Dicks, are always dicks. Best leave em’ to it and begon.

They have a good-ish reputation

Erm… where on earth did you hear that?

Hmmm… looks like someone forgot to put some decent glue in that joint dunnit.

I can’t comment on your sons ability to handle an instrument, but that is fixable and fairly easy to fix at that.

If you are looking into a warranty, best be wary of the to-fro of claim/counter claim.

If I were you, I’d get it fixed and thrash it.

Overvalued

IMO too, but I’m not a fan of Tesla. They have however been the only manufacturer to provide a charging infrastructure, which I think is a brilliant thing to do.

Certainly considering Ionity put their charging prices up 500% to 70p per KWhr, when Teslas superchargers cost 26p.

Ionity note their shareholders as VWGroup/BMW/Merc… so they’ve obviously developed a TOM that makes up for the lack of service costs with higher User costs.

Neat model, if you use Ionity that is.

Most of the Boat/Motorboat reports exist because they don’t log mileage and therefore some other form of service record/certificate of authenticity must exist.

ECU hacking is fairly easy to do on most cars, the software exists to hack the information because dealerships worldwide have access to the data held within the vehicle. It’s not difficult to apply the same tech from those systems and clone some software that can be applied to the/any vehicle.

But whats that going to say? “spent most of its life in Sainsburys carpark just off J5 of the M1/recorded top speed of 43.3333333mph on the A34 between the M4 and Abingdon”

Altering mileage and service interval information is already a thing, you can all up pretty much anyone who advertises “Mileage correction” who has the latest tech to do such a thing.

Surely a legacy app is the sensible option. Keep an old version of the app for old hardware and everything works on that.

Newer hardware runs on the newer app and gets updates etc.

This is what I’m thinking. I reckon some Dev in a shed is creating an App as we speak, for just this scenario. You may have to buy the App and subscribe to it like you do to Sonos… But market forces apply here. Theres literally 000’s of potential customers who just want to keep what they’ve got running and faced with an upgrade which could (incl the 30% discount) run into £4k would happily buy some App or Tech that keeps what they have.

And probably release before Sonos eat some Media Pie and create one of their own…

That model isn’t well know for being called the Land Rover Recovery for any reason whatsoever…

Not an uncommon ask in my industry, but we stopped agreeing to it about 10yrs ago due mainly to the extended period we’d still be paying for the employee to sit at home.

I know someone on Garden Leave ATM, and like all GL situations I’ve been involved in the employee has to be able to come into work when asked, for a length of time asked by the employer.

Why your “friend” want’s to be paid for sitting at home for an extra 4weeks is IMO just a way of getting more holiday leave FOC.

GL is normally issued when a bout of redundancies are being sought when some large restructure is in flight, to that end the employer is the one who decides whether it’s a viable and cost effective way of effectively making the role redundant (and the employee sitting in that role)

Best of luck, be interesting to see how this plays out for your friend.. Get them a log in and tell us how it pans out for them.

Ford Ranger he gets 22 mpg

We had a 2013plate for the farm over two years,  and it was rubbish on more than just the mpg figures. Glad to get shot of the heap.

I reckon a simple set-up to how you like it would be all you  need. Possibly look at the strings and change them for a good brand. Often cheaper guitars come with very cheap strings. After all it’s the feel that makes you want to play it. innit.

Ohhh.. better fill the feeders 🤠

Anyone who’s been around this marketplace knows only too well that Fender charge a price for a certain type of guitar no matter where you buy it from.

I’m slightly unsure of the CMA’s angle TBH, since most vehicle manufacturers employ similar market support methods to sell their vehicles.

RRP is RRP, you may get more “extras” from dealership to dealership but he RRP is just that, or you loose the franchise.

Lets see the CMA employ similar tactics across the UK’s vehicles dealership network… then I’ll be impressed at why the CMA exist.

Isn’t she the person that said the Steroids weren’t hers? Think I read something on Cyclocross Mag about it the other day..

Make loads, sell em…

Korean made vehicles are far better put together than you imagine. You may think they’re “undesirable” or “cheap” but you need to go sit in one and test drive one.

Badge snobbery must run in the family eh 🤪🤷‍♂️

Wasn’t that long ago you were bemoaning the same question when hopping out of your 1series, but times moved on in so many ways that it’s best to try for yourself the options put before you.

If it’s mainly your wife’s car, let her choose it.

In my daily, Long term from new: 63mpg.

In my pub car: 35mpg.

I go to two ways with this:

a) Split it equally

or, if you don’t want to do that

b) Tell me what I owe, cos I’m not fannying about working it out

Is my approach.

However I have been on the end of some very tricky situations in the distant past. Like your Mrs, I’ve had a few who have insisted on re-calculation of the bill and I came up with a solution. That is: if someone wants to pay for only what they’ve had, then we all re-calculate based on that. It has two outcomes 1) it pisses a lot of people off 2) the person who started the whole scenario understands it’s their actions that caused the delays.

Life is too short, but possibly the person who offered up £17odd may indeed be short of cash, if that was the case then your Mrs could have said something to get to understand that situation, or that person is so short of cash they shouldn’t have joined in…

Hey ho.

Are we allowed a few more? It’s kinda difficult to limit it to One innit.