my mates just got one from Si
Lovely bike, looks fantastic
felt nice to ride
very light
felt a little short for me 5’10” and it was a medium I think
I would get one if I didnt already have a nice exclusive Ti bike 😉

the juicy pink stuff in the middle of a pork chop is poison, the fatty stuff round the outside – thats the bit to eat

Mike_D
Who you refering to? Me?

and I once refilled my Coke in KFC without checking if there was free refills

That’s a good allowance iain1775. What list value of car do you run?

I’ve estimated you get about £7.5k in your pocket, which should cover full running costs of a half decent car.

Really?
How do you work that out?
I pay tax at 40% on the 6500
Fuel costs around 11pence per mile, I get 17p (difference to 40p just affects next years tax code)
How do you end up with me having 7.5k in pocket at end of year?

But yes I am much better off now that i was when I had company car and fuel card. My tax code is far more favourable now

I got an 11month old Hyundai i30 Premium with 8k miles on clock for 10k. Has more bells and whistles than my old company Beemer used to
I will pay the initial loan off comfortably from the allowance over 2 years, keep car another 2 whilst raking in the allowance, should get me a decent deposit for next car, when this one will be handed to the wife and her existing car sold
Im not really fussed by flash cars, been there done that but being company cars I never owned them outright. Happy to run around in this for a few years, it has comfy seats and cruise control, thats enough for me up and down the M6 to Scotland!

£6,500 per year taxable car allowance, paid same way as salary
car has to be 5 yrs or younger
17p per mile (claim difference upto 40p /25p as others have said from HMRC)
I do on average 15-20,000 business miles a year but when Im in the office its only 5 minute drive / 15 minute by bike so its cost effective for me to have opted out of the company car scheme

Harrys Pancakes at the harbour for lunch
Boulder beach penguins and Simonstown
Cape Point
Table mountain (cable car up, walk down)
do the open top red bus tour
trip to wine lands
there is a diamond cutting place somewhere in the financial district (I think) that filled an hour
whale watching (not sure if right time of year)
don’t go swimming with the sharks its just wrong!
and above all Robben Island

damn forgot all about it and am now 2 hours late!

yes I’d seen that

edit – no never seen that

edit – sorry I had really

edit – didnt realise it was 15 minutes though

edit – fun this isnt it 😆

edit – don’t think I can keep this up for another 12 minutes

edit – think I’ll come back in 11 more minutes and try to get one final last second edit in, wonder how accurate my timing will be

I got 10% of CRC and £5 off £25 at Wiggle both ping into my inbox within 30 seconds of each other last night

Shame I had just bought everything I need from Merlin 10 minutes earlier 🙄

Who plays “Lord Sugar” in that one then?

That Ryanair bloke?

not seen it yet but on basis of those pics it looks a bit pokey 😉

I only got mine yesterday
was on verge of phoning up to check if my sub had expired
last 4 months have all been late and after Ive seen it in the shops, not too impressed at the mo TBH

Rubbish
This is the ultimate trail tool

Does all that will(*), and more, and it looks like a hedgehog!

(*apart from repairing divots)

I would suggest using a specialist ticket reselling site like Seatwave instead of ebay

oh Im not a fair wetaher biker
or even a fair weather biker
but Im yet to find a rear mudguard that is particualy useful in keeping me dry, and pretty much nothing that will keep my lower legs dry whilst remaining comfortable, so I don’t see much point in one

An Open Letter to the Managing Director of Cross Country Trains

Getting unnecessarily wet and muddy is stupid

Best stay indoors in front of the Telly Box then!

none of you
bikeradar forum is funnier

I dont know if there is more plastic IN the frame or ON the frame in that pic!!

Me – just a Neoguard unless its really wet then maybe a front Crudcatcher too, but mainly to keep it out of my eyes / mouth
Getting muddy and wet is part of mountain biking

depends on the train
the older (Diesel) ones yeah you get no signal
used to be same on the EatMidland trains between Sheff and London

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BBC_children%27s_television_programmes

the place in this thread has them £3 something for 4
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/anyone-ordered-from

try duke video

there was an ebay store selling blu-ray cheap but they didnt actually have it in stock

yep got one of those Oxford locks from the Nottingham shop a couple months ago
Very very solid
Gold sold secure mark as well, bargain at £15

It may be a bit of a trek from New Mills to Derby but there is a jewller on Green Lane (Janet Field I think) that did my Tag Heuer last year, including pressure testing on site, did it next day where as other jewellers where saying it had to be sent away and would be 4 months and cost over £80!!

follow me was a disapointment, and the soundtrack was complete crap
not as big a disapointment as Find though, thts way too much talking then about 30 seconds of the Skye helidrop

yep Im an unhelpful smartarse 🙂
however Didzy on your other ‘Joplin’ thread I posted you a link to an alternative 27.2mm uppy downy post – The Rase Black Mamba

just enter any old info
I registered with the canadian itunes store to download Follow Me a few months ago
Apparently I live at the Apple store in Toronto, and I have the same phone number to, how spooky!!

Rase Black Mamba (cool name)
http://www.rasebike.com/rapid.htm
may have to import it from States though but its purely mechanical so less to go wrong / easier to service

Heres a pic of my uppy downy seatpost

+

+

(not my hands btw)

Works a treat, is lightweight, only three moving parts and keeps the social side of riding and a breather as I can have a chat when using it

I always make sure my frame has an up to date ‘Made in Taiwan’ sticker on the toptube

that is a golf ball its stood next too isnt it?

Ikea
got a load to make fridge magnets with
Glue’d small pebbles from the beach onto them, cost nowt, took seconds, went down a treat at craft fairs, some people really will buy any old crap!

I have a contour
I want a Go Pro but holding out for the 960

Contour is just too limited on mounting options and weatherproofing to make it any good for MTB in my opinion
Helmet mounts – tricky to fit flat plate / velco straps on a curved vented helmet and therefore wobbly footage
Stick on mount – flat and cant really go anywhere other than a pisspot lid unless you have huge tubes on your frame
Handlebar mount – badly designed impossible to tighten with gloves and puts camera too exposed above the bars, also camera on handlebars Im not keen on as the slightest direction change looks like a huge jump in direction
The cradle that lets you use a standard camera fixing is good, but then you need additional mounts as well, I ended up making my own frame mounts to attach it to seat clamps and bottle cage bosses but then the camera is again exposed and the last thing you need is mud and grit in the sliding record switch (easy to operate but very tempermental once dirt has got in)

Only thing the Contour has going for it is the rotating lens and sighting lasers, both of which with better mounting options I could do without

I now only use it on my helmet, any other places, its not weather proof enough to cope
If they did a chest mount though….

The Go Pro chest mount is by far the best mounting option, the lens is a wider angle, the waterproof case is miles better and the HD footage seems comparable

I second Dogcamsport as a good source of info

moto gp is better 😉

blah blah blah 3 pages of political/military/economic muterings on STW that have no doubt moved on to the legality of war and if pilots should wear crash helmets and other bizare issues etc (what tyres for an aircraft carrier landing)

So Excuse me if like the majority I ignore all that
and simply point out

British Engineering
Developed with no backing from HM Treasury in a time of financial cutbacks & powered by Rolls Royce Engines.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uViBVqVT43s&feature=related

or

44 years on this is the best the Americans can do
A friggin’ transformer with a limp dick for an engine!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GjrPvSBGXE&feature=related

from a purely non military view I know which one I prefer

RIP ‘The Harrier’ 1966-2010

id say that was a normal in depth mbuk wrecking crew bike test judging by some of the pish they write in their “reviews” 😉

trail_rat
halifax must have changed because my policy wording mentions nothing like that. Bike is covered away from home so long as locked up, in boot of car (locked) in a shed etc

after weeks of giving up I got through to the Hopeless Morons, Retards & Cretins department straight away this morning
to then be told a cheque was in the post to refund the excess tax Ive been paying for years, and my tax code was being changed to a more favourable one
Happy days
They didnt actually answer my original question I rang up for though!