I’ve loved. But never been in love. subtle but significant difference. But my philosophy is to do what makes one happy. everybody is different, and shouldn’t have to conform to society’s expectations.
Had a caddy (until it was downgraded to a Berlingo last week by my boss, gutted) and it was always poor in the snow and ice. I put it down to the harder tyres (rubber and construction) and torquey engine.
File sizes are pretty big. You’ll need a 8 or 16gb memory card. You also have to have a decent spec PC (graphics card) to play the 1080p clips. Laptops struggle unless they are pretty decent.
I lost my Fenix in France, must ge ta new one soon. Great torch. There are much cheaper ones, but great quality and customer service is apparently quite good.
FFS! You've not going to be the star witness in some international pikey trial. All you're doing is phoning in a flytip letting the council know that there are name/address details at the site.
I was thinking more like making use of the bank and CC details kind of revenge!!! Which would be a step too far if it wasn't the person's actions…. and probably illegal!
There was stuff dumped at the same spot last month, that had been cleaned up. And they have fitted CCTV to a site close by. So the council are on it. Problem is it's a stone's through from lovely North Belfast… so no shortage of undesirables that don't give a ****.
Medium petrol engine with small turbo is the way to go! No lag, power from 1500 rpm to 7000 rpm, no horrible tractor noises and no clouds of nano particles 🙂
Conor, VAG 1.8t 20v owner. Also VAG 1.9tdi PD owner.
Seb was very lucky in the first heat. He could have been knocked out very easily if it had rained any more!!!
Well done Webber… but Hamilton's final lap was a flyer. More than a second faster than anybody else on the same lap!!! If the weather is like this tomorrow it will be a great race. My money is on Hamilton for the win. Sutil should do well too if it get wet. Disappointed show be Ferrarri. And loved the way Barrichello out qualified Schumacker 🙂
Use it all time. Just make sure you get the dimensions and weight correct. And add 10% to make sure. Much handier as we have a collection at our work every evening. No trips to the city centre post office at lunch time!
After using EBC, Goodridge and Superstar pads in various Shimano brakes over the last few years, I'd personally stick to the Shimano. EBC are good but don't last, Goodridge OK…. and the superstar last the least amount of time and destroy your rotors. Cheap crap. Shimano are th emost expensive but after burning through two sets of superstar in five days in the Alps, I stuck the (9 month old) OEM Shimano stintered back in and they happily did another 7 days in the Alps. And they still have life left in them.
My mate is in new York at the minute and is bring me a gopro hero HD home. Works out at £190 with the helmet mount kit.
The reason I picked hero HD was:
1. wanted a new digital compact, the HD takes good photos.
2. I mountain bike, snowboard, surf, kayak, snorkel… the gopro can do all that.
3. My mate has one and I've seen and used it in the flesh and watched the raw results. Stunning.
4. I've used another friend's standard hero wide. It's pants compared to the HD. Well, not pants, OK, but when you compare the footage the HD is in a different game all together.
5. I can get the housing to fit UNDER the visor on my FF helmet… so I don't look that much of a knob 🙂
6. They are tough and loads of spares readily available.
Some class photos there. Think I'll get a waterproof camera! I live beside the sea (dirty Irish sea though) but love the "proper" coast out west. My auntie says they catch lobsters and crabs using a bucket and brush!
I'm off work today. About to head out and watch Inception for £3. Special price on a Tuesday. The 3D screenings are the same price as standard, £3 on a tuesday and £5 rest of the week. Nice cinema as well.
I never clean a disc rotor unless I've been working on the bike and there is a risk of contamination. the more pad material that gets deposited on the surface the better!
Agreed. The Senna bit should have been it's own 1 hour long show. It was funny to see Lewis laughing like a child and being speechless!!
And I really like the Cruise/Diaz bit. I normally flip over when the guests are on as they are dull as dish water but once Clarkson did the corporation plug the movie thing they were really funny and entertaining (mostly Cameron Diz though!). The look on Tom Cruise's face as Cameran set the fastest time was priceless!! It was a kinda "oh yeah, well done… damn you bitch I'd better beat you!!"
THere is nothing to stop one team mate letting another through. It's just the team isn't allowed to instruct the driver to do so. It was an obvious pass. And I think Massa did it deliberately to show his distaste. It is likely that Mass has been told "be a good boy" in his contract. I.e, if your team mate is behind you and is faster, let him past. And we'll let you know when he is faster…..
I'm on a 40 hour week. Nothing unusual there. I get more annual leave (29 days p/a, goes up to 31 next year) than most people in similar positions who would be on a more standard 37.5 hour week so balances out! It's up to me how I manage my hours. Sometimes I actually work 40 hours. But not often 🙂
I've owned one for three years (2001 4×4 turbo elegance estate)
Good car, but.
1 set of disks last month
1 dual mass flywheel/clutch a few months ago
has an electrical fault that causes it to lose power whilst doing 90mph on a French motorway on the way to the alps…
some intermittent faults that can't be tracked or sorted
fuel gauge doesn't work properly
terrible fuel economy when loaded up (28-30mpg on way back from alps with three bikes on back)
wallowy, poor handling (4×4 estate is 4cm higher on the springs than standard, great for when you fill it up)
realatively shallow boot due to the haldex coupling underneath.
ignition coils blow regularly
Cheers. These were on a German Girl's Intense Socom, don't think she was a sponsored rider. And all the laser etching was there so not an aftermarket job… my search continues…
I'm not sure if there's any truth in it, but I was told if you put a club or race team name on your entry form (or I suppose if you use a race license rather than a doctor's letter) you get a better qualifying start position. I put a club name, and was on the fourth row so it's possible. There are some big bottlenecks, but I don't reckon qualifying starting position would stop you getting in to at least the Megachallenger if you were good and fit enough.
The front row is reserved for teams and certain riders and groups, the rest is determined by the order in which you registered. Last year I was on row 2, this year row 4, year before row 5. Mates registered at the same time through the one activesport account and they were one number apart and on the same row. So it's down to order of registering.
The row on which you start isn't as critical as you think. Mate Danny started from the back row two years ago and still qualified for the mega. Mate nick had a fall at the start line and was pretty much last by the first corner, he managed to climb back up and finished 45th iicr.
It's all down to agression and pedalling at the start. You can make (or loose) 50 places in a couple minutes.
Watch me pass about 50 riders (2 rows) in a few hundred metres before crashing out (entirely my fault, a mincer got in my way!)
I DNFed in quali after two crashes, two punctures and a broken brake rotor.
Mega = fast guys
Challengers = good/average bikers
Amamtures = mostly average riders and some mincers
Affinity 1= 100% mincers, and 90% English 🙂
Affinity 2 = 80% special needs roadies and 20% riders that didn't finish quali.
