cheers matey!! 8)

totally agree with Frogstomp….

V5 is for keeper and not legal owner.

Like alfabus says it’s grey area. THe local pikeys will do it for bog all in comparison as they will tack it to the old wood, not use a scaffold tower, pay no tax/vat and never be seen again.

A proper company will strip back to tiles from the eaves, lay down a eaves guard systems, use quality PVC-u and make sure it’s continuously vented soffit board too.

Cutting corners and capping the old stuff accelerates the rot and it won’t be long before you have to do it again.

Best bet is to get three bona fide installers and compare the quotes, ask them what product the use Celuform/swish are the dearest and compatible to Everest quality and then you have Kestrel/BCE mid ground and other import stuff which is cheap, has low silver ratio in the PVC-u and will discolour.

stop chasing the latest frames…/quote]

+1

I had a 2011 stereo race and regrettably sold it due to a) not spending enough time to get the right size and b) falling for the 29er bollocks and buying a Rumblefish 2 which I’ve since sold too.

The spec of them is unrivalled and they are very well made, wherever you buy yours from get them to throw in the carbon shock protector as it makes a difference.

When I sold my rumble fish I was going to buy another but Cube have sold out of a lot of their 2011 bike now, wherever you’re buying it from make sure you get a good discount as the 2012 models are due any day now. Incidentally I bought a Lappiere 515 which is a great bike but isn’t spec’d as well as the Cube.

I also have a Cube Peleton road bike which is also excellent VFM.

i kind of agree with Flow in a way (or two)….

I think On One have a lot less input into the R & D than they’d let on and the frames whilst not ‘out of a catalogue’ will be manufactured to their spec but the frames will be sold to other direct sales companies the world over.

No manufacturer could get the economies of scale to produce them cheap enough to (and still enable On One to make enough profit) on the volumes one bike shop could offer.

My experience with them was utter shite, I so wanted to buy from them but they couldn’t be arsed to deal with me because I attended their shop in person, that throws a big spanner in the works for a business that is geared up for web sales. They’re now specialising in bulk spot buying which is great for buyers but IMHO don’t try and make your business bigger until you’ve satisfied the customers got/lost.

That said I ride with a few guys who have various On One’s including the 456C and they are evangelical about them so if the customer service experience is tolerable you will get a very good product.

they will demand six months rent upfront only if they failed to get a rent guarantee policy on you.

I used to live in Ashington and know some great routes on the roads:

Leave Morpeth on A197 North towards Amble, via LONGHIRST then follow B1337 through ULGHAM (pronounced ‘uffam’ ) :lol:

Still on B1337 pick up A1068 to AMBLE.

From there you will be on the ‘Northumberland Coastal Route’ which could take you all the way up the coast to Bamburgh. There are a multitude of pretty coastal towns (lots with castles, we were nasty bastards all those years ago!) like Amble, Craster, Seahouses & Bamburgh and if you want to go further you could go to Berwick Upon Tweed and touch Scottish soil.

I bought my macbook 13″ two years ago and is one of the best things I ever bought. No firewall or crap like norton/avg etc to clog up machine, the LED screen is excellent, it still does well over four hours now on the original battery and it just works a treat. Never had to force it to shut down, never dithers and can handle lots of workload at once.

With regards to your wife’s school work, download open office, it’s near identical to MS office, it’s free and is open source so there’s masses of support. When you save a document you can save it as a .doc and it’s fully MS compliant then. The only thing Open Office struggles with is spreadsheets with huge amounts of macros etc but i’ve never had a problem making the conversion.

Cast Iron bath Vs Orange Five…… think the bath just may about weigh in at scrap dealers for a little bit more :lol:

There’s one somewhere in Norfolk, near Dereham I think where you can go up in it to a visitors platform but a bit shorter at 160ft. Enough to make me dizzy to say the least.

Personally, i think they’re an utter waste of money, hugely subsidised but in comparison to anything else the best option to roll out en masse to help the government get near green energy targets. The wind turbine industry will never be as lucrative as the gas/oil markets but as an example my old fella lives near Wells Next The Sea where (reputedly) the country’s largest offshore wind farm is being built and nobody on shore is seeing any benefit from it at all.

I haven’t and it’s been fine, well apart from needing bleeding every third ride, blown it’s air seals three times but it sits nicely in the frame, when it’s broken…

I can only imagine feeling regrets if you were to give up your own business

and even bigger regrets should he hang onto it if this offer passes him by and then the business drags him down.

I was shafted by the banks in 2007 and ended up bankrupt for £130K, I hate the banks like no other but removing my emotion and hatred for the C U Next Tuesday’s I say take the offer and be an employee. No VAT man, no accountants, no bank managers making you feel like they’re a life support machine and feel the freedom to re-invent yourself….

I did it and even now as I type this 4 years later, on my notice after being made redundant I have no regrets at all.

good luck whichever way you go

i’m 37 and had the strap and the cane as a 9 year old. The pain was unreal and a massive deterrent to getting into bother again. We feared our teachers and when I went home and said I’d been strapped or caned I’d get grounded after a smack on the arse of my mother for being naughty enough to have needed corporal punishment.

My dad left when I was two (had step father but wasn’t very interactive to say the least) but I think what Cameron has been bleating on about today about absent dads is utter bollocks.

don’t rule out a specialised camber…….

nukeproof 760’s

or failing that. something to make you look like a total tool…..

Twelve50 bikes in Frodsham do a Wed night bike ride around there, give them a call and they’ll tell you meeting point and sort you out with everything else…

I’m in a bike club called St Helen’s Wollybacks MBC who regularly attend there and lots of other great MTB venues in N West – http://www.thewoollybacks.co.uk/forum.php

There is also a regular ride around there on a Monday night with some nice people (I think Graeme Jones is one of them) who know it inside out.

Delamere (IMHO) is not worth visiting unless you know your way around the cheeky trails….

my email is in profile or 07885 733038 if you fancy meeting up with a few of us.

oh and upside down motorbike forks – also better for stopping crap going into the seals as it naturally runs down away instead of into the seals.

and it has nothing to do with suspension performance??

If fork seals got such an easier life when USD do you not think every MTB would have them now??

Windscreen £200 pounds to replace.

For what car???

I had a hire car and the **** at work who signed for it didn’t do they walk around properly and didn’t notice the huge crack in the windscreen. Net result was a hell of a lot of phoning around and the cheapest new screen for a Vectra was £540 8O

Hope Hoops, very strong wheels indeed in 29er form, mine are of exceptional qualiteeee

Claim for one bike only and put all expenses for that one bike through the books and claim 10p per mile no problem at all. I used to run a motorbike as a ‘company car’ as there (at the time, not sure now) no system in place to charge BIK for motorbikes as company vehicles.

I now drive a fully expensed company car, never pay for fuel at all and have a nice £26K Avensis car. I’m on £27K base and my GF is on £18K part time and she comes home with more money than I do thanks to the BIK system…… That said, I could never run a car and do the miles I do privately for anywhere near the amount of tax i pay..

Thanks folks, I’d been thinking about Rutland and think we’ll pop in there…

Statistically, many apex predators that have killed humans have a very high likelihood of doing it again.

So kill them all then??

I’m not an animal/eco/wildlife warrior at all but I do think there is plenty of places on earth where we can just let wildlife get on with itself. I don’t go putting my hands in a wasp’s nest so I don’t get stung…

Would it not be similar to the riots in London earlier this year? A peaceful protest hijacked by others whose only purpose is to destroy, thieve and challenge the power of the police. If what aP says is true though it doesn’t sound like it was handled particularly well initially.

The students had a cause, a cause that affects 1000’s of students nationwide. I agree with the element that it would have been hijacked by lots of **** who’ve nothing better to do than show anarchy against the country which is no doubt keeping them for free…..

Armed Police don’t go out huting armed people unless they have previous….. no smoke without fire etc..

as an ex letting agent of over 300 properties I think this is an easy one. A contract is a contract and you have to pay what is on the contract. It cannot be revoked until they have right to serve notice on the 4th month (assuming 6 month agreement).

The repairs are totally separate issue and the landlord is bound to make the repairs even if you aren’t paying.

The agent should pick up the slack in their commission for blatantly being incompetent and not checking the most obvious element of any rental, the price.

THey will however probably put you on notice at first available opportunity so if you like the property/area etc then get negotiating now as you will probably spend the £240 when you have to move in six months time

If it’s not tow bar mounted then I’d go for Thule Aero Roof bars with ProRide bike racks, but that will still be £300 ish. Bikes will almost certainly cover the lights on a Toureag and the Rozzers are clamping down on this so you’d probably need a lighting board which on a Toureag means a VW specific lighting relay and they aren’t cheap either.

John, how does the Rumblefish ride on tighter stuff? Looking to demo one soon.

I’d say ‘good but not anywhere near as good as a 26er’, I’ve just got rid of a Rumblefish 2 and I thought the wheels were flimsy, the Fox RP23 BV shock Trek fitted was low velocity tune and far too soft for a 19″ 29er, Trek wouldn’t change it even though they ad fitted a medium tune shock to my mates Rumblefish 1 he bought at same time.

When I went up to Lee Quarry it was super stable on the fast downhill bits but on tight twistys it showed it flaws…

Here’s my journey!!

Summer 2007, buy a £400 rock rider 8.1 from Decathlon, my first ‘proper’ bike (opinion at the time’
Summer 2009 buy a £650 Specialized Aliez Sport triple road bike (at this time the above bike has done 30 miles!)
November 2009 sell them both (2 rides on the spesh road bike) and buy a Specialized FSR XC and join my local MTB club and sign up for their ‘newbie ride’ to see if I’m fit enough to do the club rides.

At this point I’m 20st10lb 6ft1”.

Go to llandegla on the back of olympic breakfast ten minutes earlier, throw my ring up about half way up the first climb :oops: but not perturbed I carry on and enjoy the rough stuff.

Over the following winter I keep going to Llandegla and get faster, fitter, technically better and after three ‘newbie rides’ where I’m clearly not fit enough to join the club they let me in and I start riding mid week rides and get fitter to the point where I’m not last, still very average skills wise.
November 2010 some scrote steals my beloved FSR XC so I go out and buy ……

Nov 2010 Cube Stereo Race FS… love it to bits but start to tweak stems bars etc as just struggle with geometry… Still riding 4 times a week (now 17st 10) and dong lots of night rides in the mud I convince myself I need to extend the stable and include a HT…

Feb 2011 Niner Air 9 29er HT

Love the bike to bits and it sets me on a path of OMG 29ers are awesome, I need another, I hire the Beard for the day and we do some great one on one training up at Lee Quarry on the Cube, at the end of the day I have a bad tumble at the Eliminator and bust a rib and knee cap. Get a phone call from a mate who’s just done a deal on a Rumblefish 1 29er….

I pop in on way back (frozen peas strapped to leg) and end up buying a Rumblefish 2 29er as a total and utter emotional purchase and sell the Cube

April 2011 Buy a Cube Peloton Road Bike :roll: as I convince myself I WILL get up every morning and do some serious training. it’s been used about three times!

April 2011 I crash the Rumblefish hard at Lee Quarry thus proving its the rider not the bike :lol:

Have issue with suspension on Rumblefish, Trek fit a low tune shock to BIG bike and wouldn’t change it, it climbed like a pig and couldn’t get less than 40% sag, so I decide to sell it

May 2011 I met my new girlfriend and stop riding 4 times a week (pivotal moment)

June 2011 Rumblefish 2 SOLD

June 2011 buy a mates MINT 4 month old 2011 Zesty 514

July sell the Niner Air 9

And as now have the mint Peloton and Lappiere Zesty as my fleet and I genuinely don’t feel the need to buy any more. Apart from that I’m skint, put weight back on and only ride once a week at minute.

Watch out for my book appearing at a LBS (local book store) near you…………

My two year old Toyota Avensis Tourer T4 Sat Nav only has 128Bhp but even with five blokes and five bikes on it pulled really well, loads of leg room in the back and they appear to hold some resale value. Never missed a beat and only had regular servicing from very good dealers.

I wouldn’t touch a VW with a barge pole, the dealers think the cars are second to none and the manufacturer goes into denial about issues at the flick of the switch. The Japanese manufacturers don’t give a stuff about you using their dealers as they obey the block exemption rule, the Germans enforce their warranty like their life depends on it.

I had a mate who had a turbo and wiring loom let go with 50K on clock, VW wouldn’t entertain it because he has one service done at a VW specialist (non franchise). I wrote a letter for him reminding them of block exemption and asking them to point out where in the service schedule the turbo and wiring loom are serviced and they just wrote back confirming they won’t pay. As soon as we sent their legal dept a £5K CCJ claim form they instructed the dealer to sort if FOC.

Jap manufacturers would just sort it our without a two month merry dance…..

right an update, will keep the specifics confidential but as in short we’ve agreed a deal, no tension, no threatening a tribunal etc, they offered me a way out which is very fair, acceptable amount of dosh and benefits. Awaiting a legal document to review with a legal eagle and then I’m off ski :lol:

Sad to be losing my job but life goes on and time to start afresh…

thanks for advice guys!

Right, losing my job yesterday and having re-read this thread has prompted me, I’m off to Stiffkey for a week tomorrow!! I love North Norfolk and lots of chillaxxing time is on the cards…

he is going to do a bit of work on it(service,cambelt,mot etc) and has offered me first refusal when he sells it in a couple of months.

Excuse me directness…… So he’s going to buy a car, spend a shed load of cash bringing it to a decent spec and then sell it to you??

Personally, if you want one go and buy one elsewhere and save the inevitable fall out of him passing you a dud motor.

Another 30bhp over 200 though, who knows where they’re finding those.

The same place Honda has been finding them for years…. In the 80’s a CRX would belt out 167bhp from a 1.6 naturally aspirated engine. Honda without doubt make astonishingly powerful engines that last for years. I’ve had both Civic and Accord Type R’s and loved them, but once the Diesel revolution started I decided I’d go for torques instead.

You have to work revvy engines hard to keep them on the boil, a powerful oil burner can be driven lazy and still shift. A BMW 123D I had was just unbelievable, 205bhp of oomph and once up to about 60 would destroy Subaru’s, was great fun, but then I got into mountain biking and couldn’t afford over priced tarty bikes and a nice motor, so go a company car :lol:

talking Tom which will lead to talking Gina, John, Ben…. all different animals with different personalities but they all take up the nippers time, much amusement..

I’m from Northumberland and get your comment about it being freezing :lol:

Try North Norfolk, my old man lives over there in a place called Stiffkey, absolutely loads to do over there, weather’s normally quite good and Norwich is only 50 mins away. Wells Next the sea has a big caravan park and there are numerous decent camp sites along the coast all the way around from Kings Lynn following the coastline right around to Gt Yarmouth..

yep i paid £85 for mine but still happy 6 months later as it’s still worth every penny…

Decathlon

x 100

Before I took MTB’ing more serious and bought a Osprey I had a decathlon ‘Rockrider’ backpack, it even had a black neoprene cover for the pipe to stop the water getting warm in summer, epic VFM.

Cant help but think that as an investor Id be mighty pissed off with Apple for sitting on $70bn of cash. That’s not going to be doing anything accretive to my returns now is it?

I rest my case.

I suggest you do a search on Apple and working conditions in their plants.

Probably better than Nike! It’s a shame as we have a few high spec factories sitting mothballed (like Hyundai and who can forget the £1bn factory built in Newcastle and closed within a year) in our country from the millennium, wouldn’t you think the government would buy them and do a trade deal with people like Apple to use them? But it’s all about the dollar…..

Fast forward to 2008 and 10 years of a tumultuous journey, the pair were struggling to cope with the demands and growing pains of a rapidly expanding business with inadequate systems and processes.

Well in 2011 it was no different to me, I went there to spec up a 456 Carbon SS with a £1500 budget and after three follow up phone calls they never got back to me. Prior to that I bought some Elixir CR’s and it took them 1.5hrs to process the order. I went back again to look at a 29er and again was subjected to utter dismal service, left standing for ages on my own whilst they all play pass the only lap top that works and in the end went off and bought a Niner Air 9.

I’ve gone through a 9 month £15K spell of buying bikes (and selling the ones I didn’t get on with!) and On One could have easily took £3500 of that, if they had of bothered to remotely appear like they give a dump. If they focused on customer service as much as being up their own ar5e5 then they’d have a customer for life as I actually very much like their whole ethos and product range…

Next week but its getting delivered to my old address as i have moved since and they will not change the delivery address so a 140 mile drive to pick up when it does

If it’s an effort to change an address on a computer before they send the bike out then I’d cancel. You’ve got no hope of an exchange of a physical part if needed…