This happened to me. Dad caught the buggers pranging my car, checking out the damage and then trying to leg it. Confronted them, they copped and it seemed all would be OK. Then they flatly denied being anywhere near the area. My insurers were useless – basically told me "he's denied it so we can't take it further". Only on my insistence was anything done. Details he left gave wrong address and phone number. Eventually got to court 18 months later with a very peed off judge threatening him with purdgery(sp?) charge if he continued to lie.

The court baliffs treated their whole family like long lost mates (they were regulars). The stranger thing was that he was insured anyway – just thought it would be fun to drag the whole thing through the legal system.

EDIT: Sorry, my point is that you will need to be able to ID the driver, a vehicle can't be prosecuted!

What Mountain Bike did a test recently of hardtails around this price. Decathlon won it I think but Boardman scored well. Think MBR are doing a similar test in the current mag

did you ask to move tables?

Just booked a course for later in the summer – here's hoping that I'm not beyond help!!

Take a look inside all of the doors – normally a label somewhere giving manufacturer details. Might be in bottom of utensil drawer? Apologies if you've done this already. Alternatively, unhinge one and take it into B&Q, Wickes etc
Pretty shoddy doors to have done this – they are usually membrane pressed and sealed from water ingress.

EDIT: I was too slow – but at least someone else agrees…

Nope – wasn't that – could there be anything else causing this or time for return to Mojo?

Gee – I'll look again – thought I had turned both to fully off already. Cheers

Ahhh – makes sense now! Guilty of following the masses rather than thinking for ourselves!

I did this last weekend and am a bit confused…we rode from the bike shop and started FTD (I think). Got to a junction with Monkey off to the left and FTD straight on. We rode the Monkey and then went back to the same junction and rode straight on. Neither time did we go down the rocky chute on the photo earlier in this thread. The only uphill switchbacks that I remember were the ones straight after the Weirwolf drops and we didn't cross a railway line which a previous Cannock thread had mentioned.

WHere did we go wrong???

EDIT – there were some guys working after the (downhill) stepped switchback and we had to divert straight down the hill – they said it was only a small diversion though…

I was under the impression that good used stock is pretty thin on the ground at the moment? Certainly a mate in the trade has told me that which is why I was offered prices for my cars not much less than I paid for them 18 months ago. Guess it will be location specific and what mood the sales guy is in at the time. How long has the car been in stock?

Having yet to pop my ss cherry, how exactly does the set up work? What would I need to do to change what I have into a ss (apart from lose the gears and possibly smaller forks!)

Agree seatpost is a shocker, works on a previous hardtail but an aberration on this bike – saving for something a little more conventional and attractive (don't think the budget will stretch to a Gravity Dropper though.

No coconuts and sunny Cheshire based – no idea about the sweet peas – gardens are for building bikes!

cheers all

I had arranged a demo through Orange years back – they agreed to send it to a well known Lake District shop for me to try over a weekend (free of charge). Travelled up there (couple of hours as I wanted to try it on good hills) and was promptly told they wanted 40 odd quid and I could only have it for a few hours! They had already booked it out to someone else for the rest of the time. Needless to say, my two grand was spent elsewhere…

Interested here too – I managed to round a bolt off last night! Still have the head of the bolt to try a pliers attack!

This won't help at all but I'm just a tad taller than samuri and went for the 19.5 – mate had the 17.5 and I found it cramped. Mine is an older frame though ~ 2006 – the geometry has changed since I think?

Me too…tho have been before 'pre-monkey'! Do a search as there were some pretty useful vids of the new stuff a week or two ago

Or so I thought…another illusion shattered!

Thanks – seems from a bit of online searching, pictures of the shorter stems do show a raised lip. Just seems odd, and a little ugly, to me.

Cheers

no one?

Call him, bung him a tenner for his troubles and let him do the second chance thing

Now sorted

Thanks all

To avoid hi-jacking this thread could those in the know take a look at my thread concerning TZ7 AVCHD vids and Macs?

Thanks

Surprised nobody's mentioned the same people that "re-discover" their faith 5+/- X years later when the kids "just have" to attend the church run school!!

Not sure anybody's getting 'giddy' – maybe your rides are more exciting than ours? Personally I prefer privacy and given that there were 1000s of trees right behind her…

Have also had the pleasure of passing a lady whose manfriend was taking pictures that her mother wouldn't have approved of. We were later subjected to a survey about National Parks and access rights – the last question was "Have you seen anything particularly interesting today?" A detailed explanation met with a puzzled look from the elderly interviewers!

no one?

Good points: –
Nice people
Lovely location
Challenging trails (maybe too much for me!)
Plenty of food and drink options for such a small place
DH option if that is your thing
Uplifts for part/most of the morning rides

Less good: –
Accommodation pretty basic (some like that)
We had young lad as a guide – great rider, crap guide
Take all your own gear – they claim armour and decent hire bike availability – not in our experience.

Lots of people recommend them and we had repeat customers on our trip. Personally I'd try another outfit but a great part of the world to ride

I just bought the TZ7 for 199 at Amazon – early days but seems top notch. I also wanted it for video which you may or may not use? Currys do the TZ65 for the 149 as well.

I like Glan Llugwy Guest House

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Basic but friendly – top end of the village, has some off road parking

If memory serves – do you not have to get a ticket for the late bit of the Sportmans? Long time ago that we had a stag do in Ambleside so things might be different now with the licensing changes…

Photos "in and out" and preferably third party present (agent) are your best bet. You'll know for next time.

I'm a landlord (not really by choice) and its more stress than its worth. We've been lucky, 2 out of 3 tenants have been fine. The one in the middle was a nightmare. Law seems heavily in favour of tenants these days. Don't give up if you feel you are in the right.

Seems to me that its people that are a PITA, some are tenants, some are landlords. The exception is ALL agents are such.

Wrong – added him to a list of people I wouldn't buy from. However, just get your cash back and don't waste any more oxygen on the guy.

Timc – very easy I'm afraid :) Sometimes wonder if I appear to all others as this huge neon blimp that says SHOOT ME!! You probably got 50 of your 70 ranking points through me jumping at your knife!

What's the deal with rank 70 anyway – what happens then? Do you go back to 1 or just stay at 70? Really should have tried to learn how to play rather than "following a friend" and getting slaughtered.

Sorry Texas – I turned down the friend request before I read your post! I get the occasional weirdo that I like to avoid!

Quick question – is it possible to change class during a game (other than one man army)? Sorry – another one…can you choose to spectate? I seem to end up doing this sometimes when I actually am trying to join a game?

Far too much time! Fivespot_McSlim rank about 64. Attrition rather than skill – have no real idea what I'm doing and rarely play anything other than Free for All. Kill ratio finally over 1.0!!

As already mentioned, Which? has done many a test on these things and reading the report taught me a lot. British standards testing not including side impacts for a start. Which? testing standards do.

The results suggest that isofix "generally" performs better but that is not to say that some belt mounted seats aren't better than some isofix models.

I'm not saying that Which are perfect in the way they carry out their testing regimes but they do provide some sound scientific basis upon which to base your decision. IMO isofix is way quicker to swap between cars and they can be belt mounted if you don't have the fixing points. I have one of each (didn't have isofix at the time of first sprog) and prefer the isofix for its solidity and ease of fitting (Britax like others on this thread). Having said that, the Maxi Cosi Tobi looks more comfortable and feels fairly solid for a belt mounted option (performed well in the Which? study).

From a safety perspective just yank the belt mounted models sideways (and imagine the door traveling in the opposite direction) for a comparison on side impact performance. Side padding also important as amazingly some seats have very little of this.

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The new Panny TZ10 has a GPS built in (I think). Not what you need now but might be help for future or others?

Ten Ten Hei (sp) in Brewer Street is a good cheap japanese eating house. ANother one opposite should it be closed. Don't worry about being City based – some great walks round there at the weekends when all the b(w)ankers have gone home to their castles in Surrey. Ripper/ghost tours good fun.