might give the free app a whirl actually.

3 quid – thats two litres of fuel or approximately 60 miles!

pp – what was that MPG app for the iphone? looks nerdy – i like nerdy 🙂

@rootes1 – your end of hire conditions sound a lot like the pish set of options we were given – work for a large outsourcing company by any chance?

I had a major barney with HR about it, not least of which because they couldn’t advise me at all on the scheme they chose to administer themselves over cyclescheme. every response I got was a c+p from their FAQ, but the point was the FAQ told us bugger all so thats why i was asking 🙁

The 10% to return a bike was ludicrious and whilst no-one in their right mind would take them up on it i pointed out it was patently unfair to hire something for a period and the have to pay to give it back – basically if you wanted to walk away it should have cost nothing, but they were making people pay more for the hire regardless.

I am still very tempted to push their button on the P11D and see what HMRC says but to all intents and purposes the company still own the bike so i presume they would report you and try to recover the bike too? The thing is if you add on the taxable benefit you’d end up paying RRP for the bike so i guess you could lose the lot.

i had one of these a-holes on the phone one night. Strung him along until i said a new web page had opened up. When he asked what it was i read out http://www.gettae****.com

the plonker asked me to spell it before i fell about laughing.

next weeks news:

NZ Truckers wife in dutch oven tragedy.

i’m with stupid <- (ideal for top tubes)

lube me, love me.

it aint road tax, its VED.

OP – hope the owners find him safe and well.

No, but… that would be a child. Would you make similar comparisons about a canoe?

you appear to suggest a dog is just a possession to be lost like any other lifestyle accessory. An inanimate object and a living creature are entirely different so its hardly a comparison.

The OP said the owners were distraught and i can understand why they would be.

would you make such jokes about a missing child?

wikipedia updated already 🙁 very sad.

^the very same! I see someone has had a go at sounding like Barry Norman in the comments section too 🙂

Class!

an 80’s film about kids using radio controlled planes and choppers to defeat a bunch of bad guys. made me want a plane real bad.

press any key to boot from CD….

no, i chose to boot from CD, why do you insist that i check my work?

pah.

he’s right the brakes need attention – the front brake is hanging off! the mind boggles at the tripe some people will buy and sell on ebay.

Excellent! All they need to do now is start making good beer.

+1

their sanctimonious marketing style keeps me away too.

Ox – its normally the oncomers who have a hairy fit and give you the digits.

I’ve made some overtakes on a wide single carriageway road where oncoming people have swerved towards the white line to illustrate their anger – quite possibly the most stupid thing ever.

I’ve witnessed the same heading for the ferry at Cairnryan

I had the dubious honour of watching an empty milk tanker overtake my mother driving at 35mph on the road from Auchenmalg to Port William when we were down there last time.

I vowed to take my own car regardless of the cost of fuel to save any future embarrassment.

i hot-smoked salmon on the (gas) barbie last year. took about 6 hours and was a right faff but it was bloody lovely. Maybe thats because it was midnight and i hadn’t eaten, but i thought it was good..

the key it seems to to get the temp right and keep it there and make sure you dont run out of smoke. sounds easy but quite hard in reality.

thats the one not wearing the scarf btw.

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Archie, c. 5 weeks old. He’s 9 months now and trying to rule the roost. Great wee dug.

A lot more to this than just matey boy being paraded down the street

do tell, i tend to find that the newspapers rarely have the full story

i’d love an RS4 but i think the insurance renewal on my clio will be enough to make the rs4 a pipedream for a lonnnng time. insurers are taking the piss at the moment imo

modded RS4? sounds ace – details?

Also try Sky insurance, ive had quotes from them before.

has a look of the 90’s Klein frames to it -this sort of thing

i agree the finish is pretty bad and it looks nothing like focus ST orange!

speckledbob – Member
Again the Welsh are overlooked

That’s cos we don’t drink…….

no, thats cos the scotsman and the welshman agreed he’s getting the first round in and sent an advance party.

i’d also like to visit every MBA bothy in Scotland and make sure they have enough cash to keep them in good order. I’ve only visited a few but I am amazed at the locations and the quality of some of them. I love thinking about the history some of these wee places must have witnessed.

@deep_ river its the early bird who’ll catch the worm for this one then 🙂

If i get there and you’ve already moved in then get a beer in the cooler for me?

incidentally is the quality of the paint job ok, just not colour accurate?

two-tone is in this year*! get it laquered and some graphics online and i’ll say you didn’t do too badly out of it, especially as you didn’t pay for it.

*maybe

i’d tour the Scottish coast, looking for the perfect seaside cottage. then i’d buy it and do a real life monty halls adventure, minus the film crew.

unless of course your porn stash is left to someone in your will. then your best mate will probably find it.

with your solicitor hopefully, or under the bed miles away from your porn stash

time for a name and shame i think.

unless you are going to call the polis, which is what i’d do.

i’m not sure i’d bother. you might find your mayonnaise comes in a seperate pot from the others if you do.

I love the ‘£9m – that could have bought a lot of trails’ crowd. The FC are trying to diversify and broaden the appeal of their lot – not appease a load of cyclists.

emmm, they cant market GT as their flagship centre for MTB in Scotland source and not expect people to grumble about 9 million spunked on a visitor centre.

You think the peel centre is a waste of money but you want a chairlift?

i lol’d 🙂

Even a decent bog there would cost buttons.

Ha! from an organisation spending 9m on a visitor centre? The toilets at Carron Valley cost upwards of £30k….