Great stuff, cheers. What rope did you use?

Like the sailing pulley one bucketboy, any chance of close ups and spec for the pulleys? What mount is it you’ve got the GoPro tripod mount on?

Any problems with speed due to size of pulleys, or is just cause land was quite flat in your clip?

Ha ha, I’ll give you that one.

wwaswas – the waterwheel’s my old boy’s work, he’s moved on to windmill now. Oh to be retired!

D45yth – noted, it was flying by the bottom. Wheels made rig too cumbersome anyway.

Ha ha, yes fair dos!

Bit grumpy, got the man flu. Sorry.

“He’s not saying he didn’t do it'”

Oops you’ve forgot to quote my

“Edit: And no, I shouldn’t have opened it”

Silly you :(

He’s not saying he didn’t do it.

Thought this was going to be a brutal faux-grief thread; it’s only marginally better.

Edit: And no, I shouldn’t have opened it.

Edit: Too tired and ill for the Internet. Have fun folks.

Is the wifi backpack working properly then (iPhone as view finder)?

960 and the fastest (60?).

Edit – hmm, maybe not

Cheers. I used a 30 day free Sony Vegas trial. Not had camera long, so need to bite bullet and buy a license as per bigh. I went for MP4 but I really was feeling in the dark (I’m a total IT idiot).

Incidentally, discovered last night that car sucker I used at the start of my edit works a treat on a snowboard.

Edit: Really like the wee short non-onboard edits MS.

As others have said, vary the shot. Wee edit here with various shots on way up Snowdon (but not down as couldn’t be arsed stopping as much :-( ). I’m no expert (clearly) but works well for a novice.

Chest mount, sucker mount and also wee tripod for ride-bys.

Sorry stilltortoise, just noticed your post. Holy thread resurrection Batman! Very good with the tractor billy!

A few detail shots hopefully do the two colours justice. Sterling Silver much better in flesh than I was expecting.

And if someone can tell me why the hell you can’t use gift vouchers in the Private Sale, I’d be grateful!!!

Great stuff, ta

They’re definitely not huge, A4 Avants, however I get the Missus, 2 year old, 0.25 year old, weekend kit and caboodle (including pram and biking kit) in mine no bother. Bike on the back obviously.

177PS TDI SLine, fairl bit of poke, 40 odd mpg with all the crap on board and a decent cruising sped.

Thanks mate, much appreciated advice.

I’m glad to say I work for a very large German outfit, and none of the bad stuff above is familiar. I used to work for a fairly large US outfit, and ALL of the bad stuff above is familiar!

Will try that, ta.

Genuinly sorry to hear that.

We were up the top there at the end of last year messing about on the slag heaps and the wife turned up in a 4×4 (we thought to bollok us). Actually she just wanted to say she really wanted to encourage more young people to come to the area and to enjoy our day; but in future could we let her know as they are sometimes blasting!

Agree that existing eyesores aren’t a reason to build more eyesores; however not sure a 20mm thick steel cable with the odd terified punter dangling from it fits that description.

Been really impressed with the silver actually. Thought it was a gimmick initially, but looks great and holding up well.

Sterling Silver with (neon) orange rims to keep you grounded; for the win!

Don’t get what her/everyone’s beef is. Follow the rules, fly cheap, simple as that.

Regularly get to Carcassonne for absolute buttons, but don’t expect to get there with anything other than a small bag and sore knees from that shiney bit of plastic from the seat 3″ in front of me.

I saw Mario Balotteli’s camo painted Bentley on the news tonight and thought I’d seen it all; this lot make Premiership footballers look like Parisien artists in the style stakes though.

A bit of editing (user error) and a bit of poorly fitted chest harness on very rough ground. Still on the learning curve…

“Me too. Is the Gopro camera still in the car park?
POSTED 4 HOURS AGO #”

Ha ha, fair dos. Every one of my mates said that!

I had an Action Cam a few years a go and it was a total PITA. I rarely used it due to all the faffing, getting it mounted right, external recorder, etc. I was put off on-board cameras for ages after that .

Got a Go-Pro now and haven’t looked back. Easy to mount, no hassle, got a wee tripod for Camelbak to give a bit of variety. then I either:

1) Use iPad SD card reader (rip off incidentally), to do a very basic edit and stick in Vimeo, etc. Takes 10 mins over a brew.
2) File for posterity as others have said. Takes 5 mins.
3) Do a bit of an edit (I’m no Spielberg as below shows, but does the job).

Never seen a “DH bike” with a sidecar before. Saying that, I think there was something in MBUK years ago…

A couple of years ago we got our three regional offices/yards together (Glasgow, Manchester and West Thurrock) to try and foster a bit of team spirit as up until then they all moaned about each other. It was in the Bolton at Reebok Stadium’s corporate hospitality.

The Glasgow lot were a bit boistrous early on (heckling Director’s during speeches, etc) but weren’t much hassle as they had got pished so early on the bus down they were pretty subdued by the evening.

There was niggle from the moment their eyes met between the Mancs and Essex Boys; culminating in the manager from darn sarf (an ex-Royal Marine PT Instructor) trying to fight the Northerner yard man who was a bare knuckle boxer. It was a comedy scene with about 5 folk hanging on each of their arms as they punched each other really slowly. Luckily the MD (68 year old fella) defused the situation by pouring a pint over a bouncer’s head. Then one of the lads shat himself in one of the corporate lounges.

The next day was Christmas Eve, and when I left there were about 10 folk from different ends of the country staggering about an empty, rainswept car-park. Busses long gone.

Ah; Christmas parties…

Quality!

“From personal experience I’d say the latter (famous last words, eh? ) – best climbing, d/h capable bike I’ve ever had (as you know, there have been one or two ).”

I’d agree, however I have never, ever seen one that wasn’t cracked. Mine’s now a shed ornament.

“With wind farms they can just adjust the blade pitch to reduce the power. “

Turbines can do that, but they don’t in this context (that I’ve seen).

Shameless plug for my pal’s outfit. :oops:

http://www.cairngormadventureguides.co.uk/

I used to ride up there every week with the Craig McMartin (Freeflow) boys until I moved darn sarf, and saw neds on one occasion. They tried to throw a bottle at us, but it was a woeful attempt and we rode off.

There’s trouble everywhere if you look, I wouldn’t let it put anyone off, despite the doomsday predictions of the OP.

Sorry I don’t know the name of it (or have a map handy), but the cycle/walking path up to Boat of Garten was ideal for my trailer last year. Also did one of the routes round the Rothiemurcus, got a map from Bothy Bikes, which aside from the odd step on to a footbridge was again ideal for the trailer.

Sorry for the shitness of my geography…

Thanks all, much appreciated.

Fair point.

No, but it’s above the garage. Do you think it would ridiculously Heath-Robinson to have a waste pipe appearing through a garage ceiling and routing over to the wall (where the main waste is)?