I had one of these. Its proper awesome and you should buy it.

Whoever mentioned master of none – so true, and a phenomenal soundtrack to go alongside it!

Just been on their website.

Self proclaimed “Leaders of the new school” – in sock and t-shirt design by the looks.

Scrap it.

Let the cycle begin again. Subaru forrester

Just spend some time and actually learn GIMP. Its not hard – its just not that intuitive to begin with. Figure out what you want to do and then hit up youtube and the manuals.

Easy.

I may have gotten off easy as it was very much a first offence – never had a ticket in 15 years until now. If anyone is really interested I’ll dig out the paperwork and see what it says.

I did look into what controls “smart motorway gantry signs” and as it turns out 90% of them are computer controlled. They can be triggered by something as simple as an abnormal load going a bit slowly among other things. Turns out they’re not very smart.

My driving habits have changed though – aint got a spare £1k knocking around, would be shafted if I got a big fine.

Got a couple of their shorts, and their bib thingy for winter riding. Really rate these, they’ve put up with some rite hammer. Ride 6 days a week in all conditions.

Bought some of their gloves recently. Split down the seam on index finger after one ride.

Agree with uphillstruggle- the waist cinch bands are basically pointless.

I got popped last month.

63 in a 40 “smart motorway” section of the M6. All lanes open and no other traffic at 2am.

£100 fine and 3 points. Was expecting worse.

Dont speed folks.

sweaman2 – did you used to have a grind rail set up in your garden over winter?

Been to banff a couple years in a row now, think i recognise it.

No we don’t.

If it’s ever changed, it will ruin everything, trust me.

Agree 100% – seen it too many times before. Change it if you want to send everyone to facebook groups.

Yeah nothing to do with window positioning.

An old house converted in to flats with each room nicely airtight is a great breeding ground for damp.

And the landlord wont care – you’re still paying right?!

Stronglifts 5×5 – get the app!

Biking on the other nights in the week!

Go speak to your neighbours – find out who they are on and if its any good.

Nowt much more miserable than having to argue with a shitty ISP.

You need trail running shoes – do not under any circumstances buy her shoes that she hasn’t tried on.

Take her to a good trail running shop, get them all tried out. Even better, delay until just after christmas and get them in the sale.

6 months or so clear.

To anyone going the vape route – get a good one. Get one that you can change the settings on. Dial it in so it hits the spot. Lotta people go for the cheap supermarket vape option, and they’re shit so they dont keep using them.

I have a 2014 129. Added 140mm pikes, just like failedengineer, bikes a ripper.

“There are only two solutions which will save us from imminent extinction.

They are:
2) A ban on the use of money, but permanently.

Gimmie the house for free then?

I tried both – prefer the battery in the backpack. Bit awkward getting the backpack on and off without yanking the cable, but better than the alternative.

I was impressed with the amount of cables, tie downs, straps and cable management stuff came with them. The bar mount works well – ill be getting a gopro/tripod attachment so I can mount the helmet light a little better.

I just got 2 sets of evolva X5 from amazon – one for the bars and one for the helmet. Didn’t want to drop decent cash just to try out night riding.

They’re pretty good. Controls are a bit annoying, and batteries might not be the best quality – I wouldn’t leave them charging in my house unattended. But I can ride, full speed for 5 or 6 hours with them.

Recommend as a cheap option!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Evolva-Future-Technology-Runtime-Original/dp/B015FFO5DM

+1 for hiring a car

Get the levada map that covers the whole island, they are awesome – Could easily spend a week just wandering along them!

A week is the right amount of time – its not a massive place.

Working in locations all over Iraq for 4 years, occasionally in the UK and rest of middle East.

Skype sucks if the internet is poor – a conversation involving both parties repeating “hello?” And “can you hear me?” Is worse than no chat at all.

Traditional phone calls whenever possible, but 90% of the conversation is WhatsApp. Great for pictures, video and chat.

The key is it has to work – if whatever your using is buggy and slow and can’t work for fluid conversation then it’s worse than text messaging.

Longboarding is super fun, but:

At some point you are going to wreck yourself. Hard. Its inevitable. Usually I dont mind wrecking, but road rash is awful, broken bones, broken teeth, bruising so bad that you will think you’re internally bleeding. These all take a long time to recover from, eating into valuable leisure time. Oh, and did I mention cars? A small pebble in the road will **** up your life etc etc. The UK sucks to ride due to a patchwork of drains, cheap road surfacing, rain etc etc.

After a couple of these wrecks, you will seriously re-evaluate whats fun about longboarding. The longboard will become a (cool) ornament in your house. Its the cycle of longboarding life.

If you do decide to go for it, learn to ride on one of those “built in 2008 road networks for an industrial estate where none of the buildings got built” – No cars, and nice smooth asphalt.

The multi port headphone sockets are for the in-house/plane noise cans. You can plug your own in to the socket as normal, with or without an adapter.

You can do this, but for some reason (maybe just wear and tear) you might often find that the sockets are fractions of a mm larger than the normal 3.5mm headphone jack. This results in sound cutting out of one or both ears, until you give it a wiggle – can be annoying.

Just to add to my previous post – your airline may provide cheap noise cancelling headphones in 1st or business class depending on the flight – I know that emirates and quatar do.

You can suck up the first leg, then nick some when you walk through as business/first will be empty.

They dont work as well as the expensive bought ones, but they are miles better than the cattle class ones. Only downside is they are hard wired to the standard airline plug.

Nah, gimmick innit.

Nope.

I fly long haul for roughly 40hrs a month. Noise cancelling headphones are an essential. Yeah, they don’t completely silence voices/screaming kids etc (but they do a good enough job). They do basically eliminate engine noise (or any constant type noise). You can actually watch the movies etc without having to crank the volume to full. If you look at any commuter flight you will see anyone who flies regularly will be wearing them – because they work and they make flying so much nicer.

I have 2 pairs of bose (QC3 and QC35) – dont just use them for the flights -offices, trains, busses etc all benefit. If you’re on a budget go for the sony ones.

In ear headphones suck to wear for more than a few hours.

If you have airmiles or whatever then you can pick them up in duty free or whatever.

Make sure you buy a widget that swaps the 2 pin output from the IFE into the stereo pin of your headphones.

Good call – most come with the adaptor but check first.

Owner of a chemistry degree here – I would advise against it – I Just left an O&G job in a “Dangerous” country. Little in the way of new work incoming, and the bigger paying danger money jobs are drying up fast and wont be coming back. Cheaper local labour is taking over in order to make margins, so options for travel are also drying up too.

Depending on your academic/professional background OP, the wider ground engineering sector might be worth consideration. Portsmouth has a very well regarded applied geosciences group with MSc courses in subjects such as Engineering Geology. Graduates go on to work in the mining, petroleum, civil and renewable sectors. (declared interest: I teach on the course). Interestingly, we have been receiving applications from people working in the O&G, and Mining sectors, apparently wanting to re-focus their careers away from these sectors.

edit: I see neilfurrows post has been uploaded whilst I was typing – I concur with his comments.

Solid advice right here.