This is relevent to me right now!

Some drunken idiot rammed me and my car will be taken away for assessment today. Obvioulsy I’m keen to understand whether there might be any structural damage – aesthectics wise it’ll need a new bumper but not much else.

Can I tell the insurers that I do not want them to write it off if just basic repairs needed? I have read the above about buying back from them etc but when do my options run out and when do the insurers ‘own’ the car? Do they have absoulte authority to write it off (structrual issues aside)?

Its Direct Line and so far they have been very efficient, haven’t asked them these questions as yet…

MB??

I have given my statement to the police but have not as yet received a reference number as such. Car is booked in for assessment and any repairs that are needed and insurers are providing like for like hire car. I have legal cover apparently so insurers are getting their company to give me a call in a day or two to discuss injuries. I assume its quite difficult to get to see a GP at the moment though? I’ll chat with them and find out what the options are and points noted about the longer term impacts.

Thanks

Its your face…

Has anyone ever come across an instance when the insurance company, having been told, then did something to retrieve a stolen bike?

Just wondering…

I have a Chumba HX1 on ebay at the moment – would that suit?

The most important thing you said was Bupa. This will get you seen and re-seen in timescales that the NHS just can’t match (in my area anyway). Get to know your specialist nurse, she/he will be more useful to you than the consultant for on-going treatment and questions. Not dissing the NHS, the team that have helped me have been excellent, to the extent both the nurse and consultant retired due to burn out!

For me methotrexate helped a little but became (after 2/3 years of tablets) unbearable due to the nausea. I’m talking a couple of days of constantly feeling like you’re about to puke after each dose. They tried me on injections in case it was a tablet reaction (i.e. me!) but just as bad.

My salvation was Humira (that is a brand name I think). Cost a lot of cash at the time so there was a reluctance to let me have it but it has been transformational for me. One injection at home every two weeks and some other tablets daily. Rarely use the anti inflam tablets now.

Key to getting it was being honest in the quarterly review questionnaires that they ask you to complete (describing pain levels and mental well being). I was being too ‘stiff upper lip’ about it all so the data suggested I wasn’t doing too badly. A conversation with the nurse on how to explain the pain and 6 months later the Humira was prescribed. It might be easier to get it now as the patent has expired.

I have AS btw

Well just 9 days after my latest off my whole left side is one big black and yellow mess (I’ll spare you all the gory pics). I really should get x rayed but I’m able to walk around so doubt the hip is broken? Not entirely sure what can be done anyway should I have cracked or chipped a bone in that area?

In addition to the pain, it has cost me: –

My dignity
£90 new lid
£120 lost oakleys (Goyt area if anybody found a pair!)
£18 Exposure helmet mount

Just riding along…

good call LeeW – will head M40 but use the toll road and M42

Cheers, luckily only heading as far as Cotswolds but just hate that M6 to M5 route

bruneep – them helmets is cursed! I had the same, I now have a Met Roam and will wait and see if that is a bit less crashy…

Where would his car insurance leave you? New rack and fully repaired car!

I think a new rack and forget the car would be a good compromise all round.

Uhmmm, I’m in good company it seems! The thing that gets me most is my worst crashes are on simple terrain, adjusting something, not noticing the damn rut, general enjoying it too much amd lacking concentration.

There must be something worng with my riding style though as I hit the floor before I even know its going pear shaped!

Coaching will be sorted…

I define a crash as something that results in a lot of pain and/or damage to the bike or gear!

Wobbles and landing softly in the undergrowth just count as comedy.

Could I ask a couple of questions please…

Me and the daughter have finished the Lunchbox and had rag around the block number 1 session with no body shell! Is there a really simple online guide for centrering the servo? Deff right hand bias at the moment!

We were lucky to find a simpleton’s guide for the transmitter set up – would still be scatching our heads with the instructions provided!!

Secondly, I’m sure paint has been mentioned but there’s SO many pages now!! Are there good, cheaper spray paints available other than the Tamiya ones, as they’re silly spendy?

Thanks

I’m struggling to get anything under £550!

If people go from the Langsett end, do you bother with the final descent to the bridge or just pick a point to stop and turn around? Coming up from Fairholmes, the first bit is always a push for me!

Thanks for link STR – bit bigger unit than I wanted but ordered. £80 cashback is a result!

I’m keen to minimise clutter – never gonna be as tidy as STR though!!

Next problem is stock – most places sold out!!

Are the subscription ink services cheaper than just buying as and when? HP don’t accept after market cartridges I think

Thnaks all – appreciate it

So getting a walk in bath (they don’t have a seperate shower) fitted is simply not an option? I would have thought that would be the easier option for keeping people in their homes rather than in care etc?

Ah I see, didn’t realise they’d done away with magsafe in newer models. Thought it was just an option to charge from a monitor and make the desk tidier! So if I want to charge the laptop from the monitor…I need a new laptop!!

timmys – i meant ditch the magsafe. As I understand it, with a USBC monitor I can run a USBC cable from it to a laptop and that will power the laptop? WIll it work USBC at the monitor end and an adaptor to plug into the thunder on the laptop?

Sorry if I’m being dense

I have a question related to this also. I have a 2015 macbook pro so ports are HDMI, USB and Thunder.

I have just bought a USB C monitor hoping to use that as the power source. Then I realised that the Macbook didn’t have USB C!! Will a USB C to thunder allow charging of the laptop or would that only work USB C to USB C?

Thanks all – interesting about the PS4 specific requirement, I would have got that wrong straight away!!

Jabra look nice and Currys appear to have them at £129 so I’ll take a look. Guessing xm4s will be ££££££

captain assume they do not have noise cancelling though? Looks like Samsung owns AKG?

Can you subscribe to Project? Thought that was just the office package?

Any idea about how they work with TV sound tho?

Will look at other brands. Was hoping the Sonys come down in price as they are replacing the XM3 soon. Bose fit my head slightly better but the Qc35 still seem high on price.

Cheers Rusty, shop replied this morning asking for a photo so will see what they come up with. Will take you up on those though if no joy. I saw the ally ones online actually and have ordered a set (said Mr No Upgrade) but delivery will take a while.

First one I thought of has already been mentioned twice!! The Salem’s lot floating vampire kid…

A function of my age at the time of watching I’m sure but its the scene that lingers…

Could anybody that has built a Lunchbox please assist?

Just started building this with the offspring today and only just got to the body mounts. There’s only three chrome ones on the plastic sheet holder thing – it looks like one’s missing!

Can anybody confirm this please or will there be another one in another colour to be found somewhere? We think we’ve checked everywhere!!

It was in a sealed plastic wrapper as well so no way its been lost by us. Howes Models very helpfully wouldn’t answer the phones and have now switched on the answer machine…

It is a bit lazy actually. Swollen piston? Maybe back to sram for service. Last night’s ride it didn’t happen, seems to be only on real stop, start stuff. Thanks all for responses

Thanks – will break it I think.

tennis – I was trying to be subtle, however since you asked…

Chumba HX1 with 36 Talas and Hope/Stans wheels. Bit niche for ebay maybe?

Love this bike always been a fraction small for me and I prefer the feel of a larger bike. Will definately replace it with another long travel hardtail – just can’t decide which yet.

Quick chat with offspring – Lunchbox, barings, spare battery and stick controller (I iz old skool) on the way. Guy in shop said that he’d sold over 600 lunchbox kits during lock down!! Probably 300 via here!

uhhmmm been recommended the Rising Fighter rather than the Lunchbox – any thoughts?

Both…?

Useful to know of the option to go left (uphill for a while?) – I always do the off camber single track. Saw a guy come from where you describe with a chainsaw in his backpack! “Clearing a tree”…

Booked in for Saalbach but like nbt above I’m wary of bubbles, of which there are many in that resort (even elevators at resort level).

OK, I’m sold on the Lunchbox. To save me from 1200 posts and to learn from others that have already indulged…

Do I just buy the ‘kit’ from Howes models with the fast charger, plus the upgraded bearings? Or should I also get a second battery?

Any ‘consumables’ that I should get ahead of time with a view to inevitable crash damage?

Is the size of the population really the issue? Surely its the moron ratio, at which we are ‘World Class’.

T&T won’t work if people are too entitled / stupid to follow advice.