+1 on planning approval, that is most important.

Regarding the build it’s not magic to build a house, befriend and employ an experienced builder to advise you.

Do not trust architects.

Calculate total construction costs and time. Then double them and add 50%.

That will give you a real world completed cost and timescale.

If you build anything make it net zero energy use. It will pay you back for the lifetime of the building.

Head up, look further aheadl down the trail, you will probably use less brakes, giving them a chance to cool

Get a copy of Roadcraft, the police training manual for sensible riding http://www.roadcraft.co.uk/
and Twist of the Wrist (book or DVD) for other types of riding
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3456350/

Thats a reliable one, they manage an average of nearly 3000 miles a year according to the MOT history

We already have the technology to stop things getting worse.

It’s called an on/off switch

We just need to use it properly

Shackleton

Theoretically I’d love to vote Green but too many of their policies are not based on scientific evidence and they are against many of the necessary ideas and processes that will likely be required to get humanity through the next few years. Their hearts are in the right place but they still act like a one trick campaign group trying to appeal to a converted minority rather than a realistic party of government trying to get national support for a realistic program.
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You believe that Tory or Labour policies are based on unbiased independent scientific studies and they are going to get humanity through the next few years?

I would like to know what these are.

Con/lab are not one trick ponys?

They sell an impossible dream of wealth and peace to a desperate majority while really delivering economic slavery built on a long term unsustainable model of continual growth.

Their programs realistic? No, they are absurd.

It still baffles me that the common veiw is that there are only 2 choices in a general election. Hopefully the last few weeks and growing awareness of bigger issues being faced by society will help to change that. It is time for a change in perspective

https://www.greenparty.org.uk/political-programme.html

We have all failed the next generation. Through our actions or inactions the planet and society is in a mess and we leave them precious few resources to dig themselves out of the hole we have dug.

brexit supporters should be forced to wear a badge declaring their will.
they could be easily identified and sent to the back of the queue for food rations, medical appointments, customs etc..

dont submit a tax return, seeing as they are not representing you why pay the government anything?

and all the EU nationals currently providing services to them should just let them help themselves seeing as they are in control now.. they can clean their own car/house, provide thier own medical care, nanny their own kids, be their own minicab driver, build their own extension and never get served in restaurants..

leftys are great, a decent dealer will just swap over the cart when it needs servicing, they take your old one and give you a fresh one.

**** the parking charge and give a donation to the FoD trail group, karma +

here you go

https://www.fodmtb.com/

dammit, its time we got organised and rebelled against this kind of shenanigins

lets go and form a protest queue in the great british tradition

how can anyone seriously think this is about politics and democracy and not just a corporate take over of the UK?

the people have willed that they no longer wish to pay taxes to support shit they dont want

long live the will of the people

mobile phone …tidal.. audio quality…

BPW grading is great as are the choice of trails.

If you charge down ANY trail without checking it out first run eg slowing down/stopping and having a proper look you are asking for trouble

Even if you thnik you know it well it is likely to wear and change or just be rebuilt here and there.

I hope all the casualties make a full recovery.

for NI Kontakt

url = audioz.download/samples/kontakt/

plumbers glue for grey plastic works on some top boxes, chemical soldering iron.

regenesis

that is a top suggestion going to look into this as I do have a couple of unused racks! 🙂

thanks

if you go AC/LW  also check 50 acre wood more natural and not so steep.

Belmont woods is worth a visit too

impact driver, bubble and an iphone seems to be all you need to be a “carpenter” nowadays

oh and a CSCS card and a good line in passing the buck and talking shite

peaks on helmets have saved my face from getting initmate with the ground/ trees more than once!

budgie smugglers go under the baggies and they have loads of pockets for trail snacks when you are chinwagging at the bottom of the trails….hence the crowds

ride a few shorter travell bikes and see if you prefer them? they are plenty capable in the right hands

modern geo steel hardtails are amazing, nothing like back in the day!

Picked up a good condition toyota hiace, high milage but its been looked after and no rust air con fitted too!

, currently undergoing a stealth conversion,its a  bit agricultural but simple and versatile were my priorities  nothing under 2K is going to be in good condition though, if you play the waiting game you may get lucky! 🙂

on a side note I have a Honda CRV for sale,very  roomy comfy and bikes on the roof if going mob handed

going for about £1.6k with new tires brakes battery and 12 months MOT, lovely car 😉

the enduro trails Wonderboisse and Rocky Trail

also the ride down to Val d’isere and back is nice and the red form the top of the cable car while you are over that side.

Older generation discover a mess and express indignation and anger and expect younger generation to clear it up even though its not theirs…  hmmm, sounds familiar

no wonder they go to graveyards to allegedly smoke the devils lettuce.

The policeman was the 100% the cause of the crash. end of.

the bikers were obviously crap, but traffic cops should know better and that could have evolved in to a multi car pile up in the fog without much imagination.

copper was a dicke.

thanks everyone

something big enough to move furniture building materials etc in but not loads of it  3 seats plenty, tatty bodywork not an issue, just dont want to spend a small fortune on new injectors or a clutch/gearbox etc..

am looking at the Toyota hiace as a long lasing trouble free option?

Transits a minefield? so many versions any to avoid?

helpful, thanks.

just something that that has a long service life track record without issues, no idea mechanically TBH?

well into gumbaytraderland  😉

who is actually mad enough to get into a coffin on wheels with a bit of software in charge?

>ghostlymachine

About 3.5 billion a year as far as i can tell. ;o) And most of them are several thousand metres up.  😉

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you are kidding rigght?

Comparing a highly regulated system of trained pilots and air traffic controllers with multiple safeguards with a bunch of drivers trying to deliver parcels, do the school run, tweeting and god knows what else that have completed a driving test which is a minimum standard that they probably passed many years ago…

…has got to be one of dumbest things I’ve heard in a while  😉

carry on .

forget the law and technology..

who is actually mad enough to get into a coffin on wheels with a bit of software in charge?

What Yunki said, dreams can be crushed with just a throwaway comment,  with drastic consequences to moral etc.

Following your dream is the best life choice and will always take you somewhere, likely everythng will change all the time and there will be many failures but this is all good!

let him know he can try to do anything he likes and always come home when he needs or wants without criticism or unsolicited advice and get support as required, just having someone solid to depend on when in a hard place and not being afraid of letting them down and judging you can boost moral and confidence.

leaving the bike in a lower gear helps as the lower chain run is long and heavy and bounces around,

if thats not an option for you a chainguide pref with a lower roller/slider, I dont notice 150g extra on the BB and no more dropped chains spoiling my fun 🙂

apologise for threadjack OP

Its a Carbon MAX PBR 130, please send me a PM with your email and i’ll send pics and full details

I have a lefty for sale, and a Lefty4All.

just sayin’

get a cheap laser printer, got one from argos for about 100 quid printed loads, quality is great, hardly uses any toner and more importantly still works..

no more ink/bubble whatever jets for me!

To go through that same situation with a drunk full grown 24 year old man?  I think I’d have tasered him as well simply to prevent injury to myself.

huh… missed the bit about him being drunk, what a incredible high risk to 2 highly trained experienced police officers that must be..  tazer all the (allegedly) drunk mentally handicapped people now!

what would they do when faced with a crack head with a axe, carpet bomb the area?

the upgrades to the site are … what was wrong with the old site?

Most architects and estate agents should be burried on brown field sites and then they should be turned into public open spaces