End of month and down on sales contracts! Caldwell guys in stoke and Crewe were terrible for it, sell you something, put something else through the computer ststem and let another dept clean up the mess or fob them off! Business contract guys were on £10k a month and more in what some describe as the good old days!

18 issues pretty much still to read but least it will age well, a small investment for a timeless print for a sport I have dedicated years to. It will add nicely to issue one of mountain biker I have , all the early 90’s mags and mtb pro’s.

Its a shame its gone but also nice to have been part of, especially since issue one and it will be sought after in some years time but I’m keeping mine

Also like half the deaths have been from truck and half of them from tipper trucks pretty obvious the current design of trucks is unsuitable for mixing with cyclists.

It may have been said and i will probably antagonise a few but its true in my mind from experience

Truckers (on a whole) aint the brightest or most gentile of folk, tipper drivers (muck shifting guys) are the lowest form of trucker, the ones not trusted to drive lorries, have crashed them or just qualified. They are the sort who drive all day, and drink all night. There are so little margins in muck shifting that they are always rushing to get an extra trip done in the day as it makes a big difference to their take home as most of the trips go to cover costs, so if they get 6 trips in instead of 5 they may take home £120 instead of £80.

With this in mind they drive like ass holes and pay so little attention its untrue, and hence the skewed number of deaths by them. If it was a visibility thing then they would cause half as many deaths as Articulated trailered trucks cause. I dont know exact figures but know its considerably more than them.

Now car drivers are to blame too, and cyclists are also to blame, me included, however im a lot better rider than someone new to commuting and have been in dodgy situations, however i know what to look out for and im better equipped to get out of a situation if it occurrs.

However back to the point, JUST AVOID TIPPERS LIKE THE PLAGUE and take on board what i say, its through experience of meeting them continually, not on the off chance i met one prat.

Condolences to all taken this week too, its played on my mind a lot when around traffic this week

the Norwegian fishing forecast suggests its going to drop to minus 5 ish if that helps

To add to this was a stumpy with a brain and for=x forks in Ashton Under Lyme Cash Convertors and a specialized Tarmac in red with 105 on that were both a little suspect at the weekend

Another young woman at the wheel too, and drunk! Again!

So sad, poor bloody kids!

Well quite. But that’s immigration over the last 14 years. What about all the immigrants that arrived in the wake of the Second World War? You know, that little period of 54 years prior to 1999?

Yes, a large amount of them are hard workers and undoubtedly do contribute; but where I live, there’s an awful lot who don’t work and are quite happy to sit on their arses claiming all the benefits that they can, whilst at the same time running criminal rackets such as drug dealing, extortion, fraud, prostitution and child exploitation.

And another thing (and I know that they aren’t your words), what exactly constitutes a “UK Native?” please?

This is an ongoing arguement for those that live amongst it versus those that live away from where these problems occurr.

In my view being in the midst of it it is correct that there are problems and anyone arguing against that is somewhat naive.

First generation Indian subcontinent immigrants were vital and have worked damn hard for what they have, the offspring were lucky in that the times they were born into were generally speaking good times economically (look at pensioners now as a whole, those who worked are reaping the rewards now in that their property has risen massively in value, availability to make good from investment and had high interest rates to top up savings)however this in my eyes has led to a split where a large percentage have carried on working hard while a fai amount have done little to contribute. However the third generation seem to expect everything on a plate and want it without working, hence the higher than average levels of drug, extortion, financial crime surrounding these areas. It does exist and its is a problem.

However we also need to look at home too and it works the same for uk citizens who are also massively happy to sit at home and bleed the system.

Integration hasnt worked in the whole in the NW for example, and i imagine its only a matter of time before the riots as seen in the likes of Oldham are repeated. There is very little love for immigrants in these areas, and that is from a mixed demographic too.

But while its hidden out of the way in NW towns it doesnt matter, so long as the cotswolds, oxfordhire and berkshire folk are releived of the problem then it doesnt matter.

For me, im adding to the problem as we are moving well out of it as its not somewhere i want to bring up kids and i cant even afford to insure a sensible car due to the effects of the above (£2600 for a diesel estate is crazy) and its just going to get worse and more segregated.

That said though, i wholly agree that the new wave of immigrants is a positive and we would struggle without them, though we need to be careful not to allow a repeat of the above with this era and also do something to change our own blood into hard working folk, factories running at break even, pits reopened, anything to bring back a sense of value and community which has been lost here

Ourys again

Prob more likely you need new top hats

Big time its postcode, you don’t even want to know what the actual cost of insuring my accord is in Oldham! Lets just say its more than all the mentioned prices with 5 yrs NCD and clean liscence at 32!

We move very soon thank god to a completely different postcode!

Put a hedge up and it won’t be seen!

Its the daily mails canny reporting showing aerial shots of them which sends shivers down your spine!

Same with fracking, every shot you see has a drilling rig in it, well ok that will be there for 3 to 6 months but not for ever, you will just have some head works and a manifold, however its always twisted.

Now compare these examples to wind turbines!

Or you could do a full wall like I’m planning when I move

Are you talking about the custom os maps which centre on your chosen postcode? They come rolled and I’m sure you can get them framed too on the OS site, if not try ikea possibly

Was just about to say Paul’s cycles for a super six, mates just got one in gate post size for about £1100

Wife said Tesco were doing an iPhone for £20 month but might be just existing customers

I have always asked why I should work for them? Simple but its a two way process!

Once Interviewed a guy when I was a rec con and asked him about a previous job with little detail on his cv. Turned out he spent all day replying to text messages from desperate blokes thinking they were texting bored house wives! Impressed that he could get £300 out of some sole punters in one day, I found him a job!

Uselesshippy, is it classed as a commercial MOT? If so what do you find is the main difference? Just have to take it to a council place and pay £125?

Sorry Kristoff, useful tool for tax this is

Oh VAT is poayable as its been claimed back. Private buyers are charged VAT on cars too but its not claimed back through a business so not charged on sale.

Auction cars from lease companies now have VAT added as its been claimed back on relinquising the asset similarly so buying a car at auction is now not cost effective for you and I.

If there is no VAT then they either bought it privately or havent claimed it back so lost out to the government

(I believe)

Kristoff your tax is out of date!

Just thought id check a transporter against the crafter for tax and both seem to be £220 so no probs there.

I tend to avoid multistoreys and trail centres so still no real issues, think i might have sold it to myself.

Bling van for half of what a transporter costs!

Seemingly the same width as my accord so should fid down the drive to rear garden in the new house too

Not seeing much difference

useful comparison

Very similar width, 0.4m longer, 0.3m higher

Yeah they arent quite what i had in mind!

Nothing else cropping up in Europe then?

That will come back and bite you if you need to claim though, been there and got fought out, not by them but another

Parcel force has £200 insurance included so often a cheaper option than topping up insurance cover

Alternatively get a tmobile dongle ABG buy a SIM card for £5.99 off eBay which gives you a months usage. It says 500mb but also unlimited usage and I have got upto 1.5gb in a month and it still works

There was a hit and run in greenfield too on Sunday, only slight injuries though luckily

Where abouts are you Andy? I can tell you where John Lewis auction all of their damaged stock if you fancy a decent one cheap instead(top tip being get one with a damaged panel and cover with calendar as you know why its there then)

I love the reduced counter in Waitrose, all too posh to be seen diving in so i just clear it out!

There aint many up north though, not that im disappointed, we still have the means to buy a loaf of bread for less than £3

Were moving so needed to do a quote and sheilas wheels seems good, half what im paying now, covered for storage in home or garage, covered for accidental damage and covered for overseas travel, but not covered for damage overseas, which is fair enough.

Anyone ever trashed a bike through a stack and claimed out of interest?

Sod the weather making news, that met office computer takes 1.2MegaWatt of power to run! **** a dook!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=251366171023

I would have edited that one but i forgot

Hope are well fat so might not fit!

Doesn’t this happen every year? Its when you go Hoover up the last conkers

Hardly a breeze in Manc

You clearly need a carrying device

E111 first and foremost as this will cover most if not all medical work

Are you by any chance on the same time as about 600 others on that 6 second segment?

Glad to see its upto 500 nearly, come on guys get behind this for a bloody proud and long suffering father

I notice you have 3 stems, all USE for sale, was that purchase also confusing for you?

I have two warped xt rotors as shown in the picture, I’ll do you a deal on them!

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Jamie to the rescue!
I need to send a Gore jacket and Wingnut for repair, not far off £200 I guess. Goodness knows how much it will all cost to post.
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£11.19 thanks to Jamie

I just leave them on, set of conti winter contacts picked up at my decent local part worn place for £120 for 245/45 17s all round was a bargain, what’s the point in changing them?

German tyre rules are great for us and the tyres were epic, car felt like a 4×4

Surely starting with group 1 insurance models is the way to go

And then postcode will effect it hugely so maybe ship them off to grannies address in the country