(its a rebadged Audi A4 B7 Avant BTW)

And it shows that it’s a 10 year old design. A few folk at work have them and they feel pretty dated.

Thoroughly looking forward to our annual pilgrimage to see the living legend that is Graeme Park at Christmas. Among many other things, the old Fantazia House Collection mix he did was top notch.

I had considered that JP, but on the contrary assumed it meant that as I was working those hours I was accepting them (at basic salary).

Ourmaninthenorth, I’m not complaining about working the extra hour, I have done it without complaint for years. My work are going back on a deal we had relating to my notice period, and I’m looking for an “angle” to defend myself.

TSY – agreed to pay in lieu of notice if I finished a project. Now changed tune.

Some good advice as I expected.

I wasn’t that clear at the start, I do have another job and I’m starting it soon, so rocking the boat with my current lot doesn’t bother me in the slightest. I had planned to part on good terms but they have made that impossible. On that basis I am attempting to defend my position, and thought an overtime claim could be a way of doing this.

Thanks all for the contributions anyway.

Don’t patronise me TurnerGuy. I have worked for years whatever hours I am required often in the middle of the night on big crane lifts, road closures, whatever.

As I said at the start, I am trying to fight my corner in the face of poor treatment by my employer, and I’m looking for an angle.

I suspect that as TJ says, the very fact that I have done it for years without hesitation is probabaly going to be the issue here.

I’ve had them marked down as expensive fashion items since they came out; until, a month or so back at Inners I without warning went over the bars at high speed and landed pretty much on my head. I was lucky and had no obvious injuries, however I got a real fright plus I had a stiff neck for days.

It did make me think. I don’t go mental buying bike stuff, but my DH bike cost me £4k, helmet £250, etc. I imagined how daft I’d feel lying in the Southern* with a spinal injury, wondering to myself, “Would £300 have prevented this?” Even if it wouldn’t necessarily have made any difference, I would wonder if it would have. I got one the next day.

*My missus broke her neck a few years back (she’s fine now), a spinal injuries unit has some sorry soles in it I can assure you.

Are you and Hora just using the same reply for both threads now?

There snow point complaining.

You’re on the wrong thread Hora; it’s the Dale Farm thread that you were moaning about the reporting.

I think this post takes the award for least newsworthy event turned in to most-hand-ringing thread.

A non-event all round.

In civilised Argyll they’re safe as houses; but I take your point down here! Not very easy to steal mind, although I suppose the chavs good smash one up fairly easily.

I don’t know the specific of Delamere but generally the plant they use to harvest timber is eye-wateringly expensive to buy and run, with the owners/operators usually paid by the load-to-the-roadside. The nett effect is the machines run long, long hours. It’s not unusual to see machines working 5am – Midnight in my part of the world, with the operators living like hermits miles up forestry roads in caravans.

Ha ha, yeah fair point.

Love the colour combo huws.

From this:

To this:

And everything in between. I know I keep banging on about it, but a true do it all bike (as is any decent 5″ or 6″ bike these days I suppose).

Winter tyres ARE snow tyres

I meant in contrast to the metal-studded tyres described.

I’m saying there seems to be an impression that they’ll give magical levels of grip when in reality the only stuff that’ll grip on snow/ice are chains or studded tyres

I’d totally disgaree with this based on an experience I had last year. Two Golfs one my mates, one mine; about six inches of snow on the road up to my parents house (a mile or so, very steep in places). He had winter (winter, not snow) tyres I didn’t; he could hill start, brake, drive virtually as if the snow wasn’t there. I couldn’t and had to abandon.

Mine had wider profile to start with which I kow wouldn’t have helped, but the difference was astounding.

Two Golfs, one stuck, one not!

Hmm, now what…

I didn’t think they’d changed anything other than the components, but I’ve got very little to base that on.

Defo a 135mm on the older frames, for the life of me can’t remember my BB shell size though (mine’s an ’09).

I love mine, great do it all bike. I do long days, kid-trailer pulling and everything in between on it. Bit of a grind up the steepest hills, but makes up for it the rest of the time.

http://www.hilti.co.uk/holuk/page/module/product/prca_rangedetail.jsf?&nodeId=-99921&selProdOid=422689

We use these at work, they’ll go through anything. A little excessive in this instance and about £1300.

Cheers. They just emailed me to say they were going live again.

Any advance on those suggestions? Sold out. Best I’ve found so far is £100 without helmet mount.

Thanks

Have you got a link to it for £90 Steve? Cheers

Benz – sorry to be thick but this light malarky stuff is all new to me, what battery combo do you go for with that as I see it doesn’t come with one.

Cheers

While I agree the pimped-up RR Sports/X6s/Cayennes etc are ridiculous, the rest of this thread is just the usual crap that has been done to death.

I drive a leased BMW which seems to many on STW to put me somewhere on the social scale between sex offenders and the rioters. It’s boring. I’ve “got” a BMW because it is cheap to run, safe, comfortable and decent to drive; the same reason 99% of people have got German cars.

To be honest I might have a spare as I use a Maxle on mine, but the wee one is asleep in the room with all the bike stuff. I’ll check tomorrow.

You get a long one with a Chariot trailer, so I’d imagine you’d get one of their spares. SJS would be a good shout for that.

My GD gets a bit sticky fairly quickly, but it so easy to service it really isn’t an issue. I think it’s worth every penny.

Check all the connections on the hoses and lance are fitted properly. It’ll keep pumping if it’s losing any pressure at all.

Hope Hospital’s a nightmare for parking. There is loads of on-street parking between there and The Quays, though I’m not sure it would be described as “safe”.

“Before the downhillers decided image was more important than performance. The fact that DHers don’t wear skin suits about sums up what is wrong with the “sport”.”

Change the record…

“Property Rental prices will rise by 10-15% on the back of it, like the old days when Pizza Expresses used to open people knew the area was up and coming.”

Noted! Luckily I’m just starting to think about moving, and will have before my landlord clicks. Unluckily, there won’t be a brand new Booths nearby at the new place.

“Property prices will rise by 10-15% on the back of it, like the old days when Pizza Expresses used to open people knew the area was up and coming.”

I’m renting :-(

I am loving this pro-Booths chat, not long now until one opens yards from me. I’ve never even set foot in one before

The Booths in Salford is days away from opening. Just across the road, cannae wait.

Langollen is a great track however I’d imagine chairlift/gondola will be a pre-requisite. I’m also not convinced that road in would be ideal for a World-Cup-esque event.

I hope he gets away with it and is laughing all the way to the bedroom

:D

Once it’s all done and dusted I’d get a laptop and projector set-up in the bedroom and get all the hand-wringing from this thread plastered all over the walls while I was “collecting my fee”. Between moans of pleasure I’d chuckle at all the pent up frustration.

Afterwards I’d sit there with the missus and use the laptop to decide which BMW or Audi to spend her sales bonus on.

Can anyone explain this rare phenomenon, you don’t see it much, but you do see it;

Large empty motorway (M74 on a Sunday afternoon for example), small car in outside lane cruising along. You come up behind them and move in to outside lane to come up behind them. They instantly see you and move over (good awareness). You pass and while you are going back in to the inside lane, they move immediately back in to the “fast lane” and maintain their cruise.

I find it very bizarre, but also quite entertaining.