Just imagine how much easier easier and cheaper, safer and legal it would be if we are still in the Dublin Accord

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9031/

The only time I have for Rich Sunk and his firewood Lectern, is when he calls an election the moron. All of his other frankly boring statements are irrelevant to me. I can’t wait for the local election hammering he’s going to get. It’s not like any of us actually voted for him nor the last…

Here’s hoping him and Cruella fugs off to the land of the not so free ;-)

JeZ

Sunak is now going after folk signed off work sick.  Whats that i hear?  The bottom of the barrel being scrsped

Edit:  beaten to it

It’s just a distraction technique. Mind you would you want a non GP assessing your fitness to work? I love their quote a qualified health professional? Err you mean a GP? Oh no I get you? Someone who is more interested in you working, rather than you well being. Company appointed by the Tory party? Funded by the tax payer. Follow the money trail me thinks. It’s not going to end well is it?

BR

JeZ

But Angela Rayner ;-) lol. Personally I was also thinking Lord Mone should somehow be in court for fraud. It’s hard to find something redeeming about Torys. Well I guess the grouping of all tossers in the same place has benefit. Lets hope the Tory’s merge with Reform and become a place of refuge for idiots ;-)

JeZ

Hey,

My mother’s family are from Turkey and my fathers from Southern Europe. I have natural dark skin you could say. I worked in Germany I have had a co worker call my skin dirty, I had a Dutch boss turn around and say a colleague was proper British because his skin was white and he had blue eyes. I regularly have border control quiz me about where I have come from and what I have been doing. I guess it’s everywhere ;-( personally I’d prefer me than be the usual Brit… Oh and I can have Dual nationality ;-)

BR

JeZ

Hey,

Very sorry to hear. We did the same with Pebbles our Lakeland border collie cross. You did the right thing. Dogs try to appease their companions at the expense of themselves. Pebbles died in our arms too. We collected her ashes yesterday and will take her back to her favourite place middle beach perbecks…say good bye keep the happy memories. Perhaps up there fin and pebs, can play…

Again sorry for your loss.

JeZ

In other Rich Sunk news, I’m pleased to note the “Rats leaving the ship” syndrome has kicked in with 60 Tory’s stepping down. Probably the ones that were going to lose their seat anyway, but it did fill me with deep joy to know that there is a very strong likelihood, that the Torys are no longer going to be the leaders of opposition and it is likely to be the Liberals ;-)

So the torys will become a minority party of deluded fugwits stuck in the 1800’s, happy days ;-) Yeah bring it on with Fat-age windbag witless Wittercombe and we’ll be looking at a party that Enoch Powell, if he was still alive would be proud of ;-)))

JeZ

We’ve been using two of these Asgards metal sheds at home

Made in Britain, price is fair for the quality and design, reassuringly solid and can be dismantled in the future if you move

All sheds can be broken into, but this one feels like it would put up a fight and make a lot of noise in the process

Usual 10% discounts floating around somewhere online

To be honest they will find a way in regardless. The best thing to do is have so many obstacles that they give up.

With respect to wooden sheds and security look and ground-anchors and chains, it’s worth looking at Pragmasis.

https://securityforbikes.com/

I  tend to mix locks and use Lite locks and motorcycles lock. I don’t like metal sheds for esthetic reasons. BTW those thinking that you house is a safer bet, a house here locally had it’s roof partially removed to get to the bikes ;-(

JeZ

Hiya,

Something I have expertise in. I have three sheds from the mainstream manufacturers i.e Tiger, Shedscene and Nordic Timber. By far the best in terms of quality and design is the Nordic Timber, plus they assemble for you on site, as part of the deal. https://www.nordictimberbuildings.com/

I have no affiliation to them just experience. Shedscene are good Tiger are OK ish but not the same quality as Nordic or Shedscene. Both Shedscene and Nordic are good but the Nordic is better quality and stronger. They can also do custom. I’m using a Pent for the Nordic and Apex for Shedscen. I had to use Pent for the Nordic because I built a Log shed in front of it. PM me for pictures if you want won’t do it online…

BR

JeZ

Hiya,

I’ll add that a Wise account works really well. The exchange rates good and easy to mve money around between the pots you have.

BR

Jerry

Absolutely nothing shocks me about this shortsighted, incompetent government. They seem very accomplished at lining their own pockets and cronyism. I suspect that they ensure to place key people into public bodies, to hamper the next government, such is their huge nepotism.

JeZ

Hey there,

me too movement. We have done loads to reduce the plastic use, but it feels like they should do what France did quite a few years ago now and stop the super markets from using so much, because it get impossible to remove more. I do use Butchers and Greengocer to cut the veg and meat plastic though, but in cost conscious Britain it gets to the point that the government must be more encouraging to the super markets. This is because my local butcher doesn’t use single use plastics nor my green grocer but the super markets still do!

JeZ

I think they need to branch out a little more cut the existing lineup to types i.e. trail fs, hard tail, full-sus downhill and e-bike. They they need to embrace new technology to show they are doing something different even though they probably aren’t ;-) Oh and get into gravel biking a bit more to diversify. Cycling is a fickle market and ever changing.

Damn shame all I can say though, but I hope a phoenix rises from the ashes…

 

BR

JeZ

Hi all,

I know everyone is posting the latest deal they have found and all. I’m just interested in the future of the company as an owner of two Nukeproofs and one Vitus. I would like to know the latest on the sale of the company and assets really. My question therefore is, has anyone got any news on the bidders for the group?

JeZ

Hiya,

On a humorous note for all of this. Have you noticed all the far right politicians have disastrous hair cuts!

I know it isn’t helping but it helps me anyway ;-)

JeZ

Hiya,

I always wondered how you could prove the providence of the whisky? To be honest as a whisky drinker, but no expert expert, I very much doubt I’d notice the difference between the ages of maturity past 15 years.

JeZ

Hiya,

Guys with Noise Cancelling earphones, that walk in the middle of cycle paths, and don’t hear my bicycle bell. Then when you finally get past them, they look at you as if you have the problem…

JeZ

No winners in war, just more hate. Our focus these days should be on all saving the world, and not killing each other.

JeZ

I guess, when your party has taken the national debt from 0.5 trillion to 2.5 trillion the debt payments, that it has to look for cost savings…. The debt repayments of which are estimated to be between 117 billion to 123 billion. Your austerity and the “big society” delivered fug all, but pain and misery to the population! Meanwhile whilst peddling it’s all the immigrants fault, still!

Our standard of living, for the majority is worst the the majority of europe and we cannot even escape this clusterfug of a mess.

Tory’s as predicted will implode, but sadly take us all with them. Here comes the IMF ;-)

JeZ

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jezzepFull Member
Hiya,

Hope this post helps, it’s after three days of going mad I finally found a way to seat a Hope 20Five Rim:

The below was my technique:

1. Heat Stans tape on a radiator

2. Thoroughly clean the rim, with disk brake cleaner or Meths

3. Warm the rim too, if you can.

4. Warm the tyre too, definitely helps!

5. Throw the valve supplied by hope in the bin, the neck of it isn’t long enough, for most tubeless inflators. Stans Valves 43mm are perfect. Do not use Chris king, they won’t seat on the narrow diameter of the inner rim profile.

6. Apply Stans tape.

7.  Now also get some Duct tape and apply over the top of the stans tape 25mm width. I actually went around twice.

8. Get a plastic tyre level and ensure the tape is seated on the edges of the rim.

9. Get a nice sharp point, I used a ground centre punch to piece a nice round hole for the valve.

10. Right this is important:

On the inside of the rim push the tyre valve firmly, whilst tightening the collar nut of the valve, push as hard as you can. Only tighten with your fingers,  and not a set of pliers you may pull the valve through (It is possible!)

11. Seat the tyre, and ensure the tyre is pushed away from the valve, and close to the inner rim edge.

12. Pump tyre to 50 PSI/3.447 bar.

13. Listen for any air ecaping around the valve stem.

14. Leave for at least 30 minutes and check tyre pressure with a gauge.

14. If you do hear hissing/lost tyre pressure, you may need to remove the tyre and tighten the valve more, no pliers!!!

15. If 14 fails still, apply dare I say it more duct tape ;-(

16. Oh yes do not use Muc off tape, it leaves a residue on the rim, that’s very hard to remove. Don’t ask me how I know ;-(

For me the big issue is the design of the rim, it’s too ridged to get a good seal with the tape and the valve. I have written a complaint to Hope about it, I hope they will take on board my comments.

Oh yes, why did I use Stans tape and not purely duct tape? I wasn’t happy entirely to rely on duct tape to keep a reliable pressure seal,  because it is more maleable, also the duct tape residue stays mainly on the stans tape and doesn’t build up on the rim…

Hope this helps

BR

JeZ
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simondbarnesFull Member
That sounds very complicated. For the dozens that I’ve done it’s just wrap with 2 layers of tubeless tape, insert valve, fit tyre, seat with track pump, remove valve core, add sealant, pump up tyre.
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Does anyone know if 20Five rims and Fillmore valves work well together?
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sharkattackFull Member
I think I’d just do what I’ve been doing for the last 10 years. Electrical tape then Gorilla tape.
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jezzepFull Member
That sounds very complicated. For the dozens that I’ve done it’s just wrap with 2 layers of tubeless tape, insert valve, fit tyre, seat with track pump, remove valve core, add sealant, pump up tyre.
Normally agree I never have had a problem, till I met these rims! Horrendous. It’s the profile of the rim that’s the problem.

JeZ
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jezzepFull Member
I think I’d just do what I’ve been doing for the last 10 years. Electrical tape then Gorilla tape.
I tried the electrical tape fix, it didn’t work either.  Also watch the valves if the inner stem is too wide, it won’t seat either. Stans were the only valves I could get to work and I tried the supplied but they were too short, for my pump. Chris King too wide and never seated properly, which may have been caused by problems with tape.

I posted this guide, because it was the only technique I found that worked ;-(

BR

JeZ
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simondbarnesFull Member
Normally agree I never have had a problem, till I met these rims! Horrendous. It’s the profile of the rim that’s the problem.
Sorry, but my post was about those particular rims.
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jezzepFull Member
Sorry, but my post was about those particular rims.
Oh, OK, if that worked great! My word of warning on them is that it isn’t easy to get the valve to seat and rim, till you figure out that is is hard to seat specific tape and the valve is in a rim profile, that makes it hard for it to seat properly.

JeZ
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akeys001Full Member
Does anyone know if 20Five rims and Fillmore valves work well together?
yep work well for me
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ampthillFull Member
Useful, these are the first rims I ever tried to run tubeless. It nearly liked me and they currently have tubes in
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P20Full Member
Never had any issues with mine. Tessa tape and some sealant, air chamber device to seat the tyres as with most set ups. I’ve used Peatys valves, but now have Reserve fillmore. Tyres have been WTB and terravail.
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jezzepFull Member

@P20

Never had any issues with mine. Tessa tape and some sealant, air chamber device to seat the tyres as with most set ups. I’ve used Peatys valves, but now have Reserve fillmore. Tyres have been WTB and terravail.
Interesting the Fillmore valve! That’s clever 😉 I love the way they use rivet technology to get the valve to seat on the rim. Expensive but really makes sense. In fairness I think most of the issues I had was valve related and the area for valve seating on the rim.

I only posted the guide to show the issues with the Rim, that I saw. I can see why they did it, but they really should post a guide on how to seat tyres with them and the issues people will have.

If people look at what I wrote it is simple steps to follow to get it to work in general, it may seem complicated but it isn’t really and does work…

JeZ
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P20Full Member
I don’t understand the need for gorilla tape. The stans/tessa dos the job by itself
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jezzepFull Member
I don’t understand the need for gorilla tape. The stans/tessa dos the job by itself
Well I tried stans and found it didn’t seal that well on its own, and was losisg pressure. This is probably because the tape is quite stiff. I also found stans tape split around the valve. I figured the stans tape wasn’t malleable enough and prone to splitting. I kept stans in the final solution, because I thought it was handling pressure. This is why the  hybrid approach was what I did. Three wraps of duct tape should also work…

JeZ
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sharkattackFull Member
Gorilla tape is great because of how fast and reliable it is in comparison to how temperamental and inconsistent different brands of tubeless tapes are. When you have a busy workshop, a fleet of demo bikes or a race team to deal with (I’ve done all 3 at one point) it’s much easier to just Gorilla tape it and have it work perfectly first time 99% of the time. You can’t be sitting next to the radiator waiting for your rims to come up to ambient temperature when you’re in a soggy field in Wales or something.

The biggest mistake people make is covering their rims in the indestructible Gorilla glue which is all but impossible to remove. Do a couple of runs of electrical tape first and it’s never an issue.
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stevehineFull Member
Indeed – a friend of mine is still running some wheels from 2010 ish that I ghetto’d with gorilla tape; It’s not just reliable it’s incredibly long lasting !
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legometeorologyFree Member
I sold a pair of Hope 20fives as I just couldn’t get a good seal, absolute nightmare

I also tried some Effeto rim strips and the spoke holes cut through them
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jezzepFull Member
The biggest mistake people make is covering their rims in the indestructible Gorilla glue which is all but impossible to remove. Do a couple of runs of electrical tape first and it’s never an issue.
That was another reason I used stans underneath, because it doesn’t leave a residue. Word of warning, typically in  the past I used muc of tape, this is also very hard to remove and I couldn’t find a solvent that removes it 😢

I learned something new though. Tesa tape, on order it’s a heck of a lot cheaper…

JeZ
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mashrFull Member
n the past I used muc of tape, this is also very hard to remove and I couldn’t find a solvent that removes it
I’ve got 1 wheel with Muc-Off tape on at the moment – really didn’t like using it, just didn’t want to sit nicely and I’m pretty sure taking the tyre off will render it useless. Not impressed to hear I’ll have to attack the glue residue too.

OTOH rubbing alcohol has made light work of Gorilla tape glue for me in the past.

Project 76 have a very good alternative to Fillmore for anyone that needs a high flow/non-gunk valve
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bikerevivesheffieldFull Member
Muc off tape is great if applied properly and contrary to the above leaves best part of no residue, if it does use IPA or the muc off glue/sealant remover
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escrsFree Member
My Hope 20Fives were a doddle to set up tubeless using Chain reaction’s prime tape and valves, think i put muc off sealant in them, they went straight up with the track pump

They are buried somewhere in the garage as they are fitted with winter gravel tyres, must dig them out soon and double check them ready for when the weather worsens
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oggintheoggFree Member
Yes, first hand experience of these particular rims. They were a nightmare (and yes all the other rims I’ve done were easy by comparison). I used Tessa tape and they are OK now but still loose air. Remember that it can seem like they are leaking from the valve but actually thats just the point where the air is escaping – it can really be leaking under the tape itself  – these rims seemed particularly prone to the tape pulling away breaking the seal.
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chrisdavidsFull Member
Thanks for this. I have also been struggling big time with these rims having previously had very few issues with mtb rims.  The tape seems to lift off due to the shape of the rim and once this happens sealant gets into the nipple holes making applying new tape difficult.

I’ve resorted to using some (now discontinued) rim strips from Stans. They just about hold air (touch wood) but far from perfect. Disappointing from Hope.
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sharkattackFull Member
I don’t know what Hope’s problem is but they’ve never been able to nail the rim game. They’ve unleashed some truly awful versions on the world.

I know they can’t make their own but surely it’s not that difficult to find a catalogue version that isn’t horrible. Or just sell rebranded DT Swiss if that’s an option

I think they are trying to make a reliable, strong wheel. They just forgot that home mechanics want to tape the wheels themselves. It would help that they had a guide on how best to do it.

I did write an email to them and they said they would look into one.

One of the reasons I wrote the steps I did was to help others, in the same situation…

JeZ

The biggest mistake people make is covering their rims in the indestructible Gorilla glue which is all but impossible to remove. Do a couple of runs of electrical tape first and it’s never an issue.

That was another reason I used stans underneath, because it doesn’t leave a residue. Word of warning, typically in  the past I used muc of tape, this is also very hard to remove and I couldn’t find a solvent that removes it 😢

I learned something new though. Tesa tape, on order it’s a heck of a lot cheaper…

JeZ

I don’t understand the need for gorilla tape. The stans/tessa dos the job by itself

Well I tried stans and found it didn’t seal that well on its own, and was losisg pressure. This is probably because the tape is quite stiff. I also found stans tape split around the valve. I figured the stans tape wasn’t malleable enough and prone to splitting. I kept stans in the final solution, because I thought it was handling pressure. This is why the  hybrid approach was what I did. Three wraps of duct tape should also work…

JeZ

@P20

Never had any issues with mine. Tessa tape and some sealant, air chamber device to seat the tyres as with most set ups. I’ve used Peatys valves, but now have Reserve fillmore. Tyres have been WTB and terravail.

Interesting the Fillmore valve! That’s clever ;-) I love the way they use rivet technology to get the valve to seat on the rim. Expensive but really makes sense. In fairness I think most of the issues I had was valve related and the area for valve seating on the rim.

I only posted the guide to show the issues with the Rim, that I saw. I can see why they did it, but they really should post a guide on how to seat tyres with them and the issues people will have.

If people look at what I wrote it is simple steps to follow to get it to work in general, it may seem complicated but it isn’t really and does work…

JeZ

Sorry, but my post was about those particular rims.

Oh, OK, if that worked great! My word of warning on them is that it isn’t easy to get the valve to seat and rim, till you figure out that is is hard to seat specific tape and the valve is in a rim profile, that makes it hard for it to seat properly.

JeZ

I think I’d just do what I’ve been doing for the last 10 years. Electrical tape then Gorilla tape.

I tried the electrical tape fix, it didn’t work either.  Also watch the valves if the inner stem is too wide, it won’t seat either. Stans were the only valves I could get to work and I tried the supplied but they were too short, for my pump. Chris King too wide and never seated properly, which may have been caused by problems with tape.

I posted this guide, because it was the only technique I found that worked ;-(

BR

JeZ

That sounds very complicated. For the dozens that I’ve done it’s just wrap with 2 layers of tubeless tape, insert valve, fit tyre, seat with track pump, remove valve core, add sealant, pump up tyre.

Normally agree I never have had a problem, till I met these rims! Horrendous. It’s the profile of the rim that’s the problem.

JeZ

Farage is an odious twerp not worth a sentence to talk about. Anyway seems more to this story and not a surprise that he is/was a banker:

https://www.standard.co.uk/business/gb-news-owner-s-firm-makes-millions-as-natwest-shares-slide-b1097128.html

JeZ

Hiya,

Well nothing new here. Tory’s making money from other peoples misery. All propped up by Rupert Murdoch and his media empire. Truly Tory Scum ;-(

JeZ

Hiya,

As @nickc said tension too high I suspect. It’s an easy mistake to make and critical from my own experiences too.

BR

JeZ

Hiya,

Like all aspects of life in general. The majority are good. The 1% ruin it for the rest of us. I have a dog and have had two dog attacks and bitten. In both cases I had camera footage from my cycle cam and sent to the Police. In both cases the Police followed up and the owner was forced to muzzle in one case and have compulsory fencing to be erected around the owners house, to stop the dogs from escaping. In the latter case the Police had been trying to get evidence against the owner because the dogs had been terrorizing children on their way to school.

Out of all dogs the ones that worry me the most are Collies and my own dog is a Collie cross. In both attacks they were the dogs that attacked me. I know they need good training, more than most from my own experience. My own dog is more interested in saying hello rather than anything else, but I keep her close when cyclists go past, as not to scare them or cause them to fall off by trying to say hello ;-)

JeZ

Hiya,

The Dog ate my phone. I can’t remember my pin. It’s a conspiracy of the lefties trying to bring me down.

It’s all OK mad Nad will be along in a moment to tell the public of her latest masterpiece on how the establishment had taken her love down.

Good grief..,

JeZ

Hiya,

I’m all for as many nutter factions in the Tory’s all trying to be more mad than Nad, at each iteration.

I had a theory on threads like this in most forums to cause as much consternation and split of the anyone daring to vote anything but the blue turd of a party. I mean for gods sake we are the party of true stability law and order the blue rinse and lining our own pockets, after all. Believe all the news etc and have another 4 years of the need to complain about Rich Tea haunted pencil and the party that seems to mirroring Enoch Powell. The Alternative may not be great, but you can hope, well hops for something vaguely better than what we have.

JeZ

fail comments never fail

This is disgusting. Unelected judges getting to make up any rules they like.
to parody themselves 😀

Quite like Triple Cooked Chips… As for Cockapoos well that’s so un-darwinisim ;-)

BR

JeZ

Hiya,

In the past I had a miserable time with mortgages. Four years ago, when we moved here I chose to keep the term the same and overpaid. Six months left. Total sympathy, for those struggling, I’ve been there. Hope all OK and keep fighting.

As for interest rates to control inflation I firmly believe in this case it will stoke the flames of inflation, else will lunge us into a massive recession, as there isn’t much to really bring us out of this mess, sorry ;-(

I personally hope it brings this government down, with little chance for the tossers to return, hate the lot of them.

JeZ

Hey there,

We used to live in a very dodgy area, but the locals were friends and Romany Gypsies. Once said to a Policeman friend that we had never had any problems. It turned out that our son taking their kids mountain biking paid off ;-) Policeman said there’s a good reason that you have never been targeted by the local scrotes. The local scrotes assumed we were Romany too and hence avoided us ;-)

On the same note Guard Geese:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_goose

On a footnote one of the Romany Gypsies van was broken into, knocked on my door asking for footage from my security camera. During the conversation said the scrotes better hope they get caught by the police first, heck!
To be honest Romanies are lovely people and always got on with them well. Maybe by having dark skin dark hair and having Turkish in the family paid off ;-)

BR
Jerry

Hiya,

I’m a dog owner and my dog is a collie cross. However out of all dog breeds they are the snappiest to be honest.
Collie’s bar none are responsible for all my dog bites in my lifetime.

You have to be good at training them from the start. I’m definitely of the opinion that the child minder is mad to think this is acceptable and should’ve gauged opinions first. Kinda symptomatic of the modern world I feel. I’d say you made the right decision about the child minder. I guess you probably won’t be the only one in this respect. In fairness all dogs are unpredictable to a certain extent, even our dog warned off my brothers children, it was after one of them pulled her tail. Since then we have to be very careful with our dog, even though she is totally docile most of the time. Dogs have long memories and as I said unpredictable in some respects. If the child minder has their own children around at the same time you don’t know if the dog may bite to protect them.

JeZ

Hiya,

I have a Renault Traffic 2015 camper-van. The bulkhead is dead easy to remove as it is bolted in. WRT to two seats remember the middle seat on a Renault can fold into a table and dead useful at motorway services for sandwich stop ;-) Touch wood been amazing van. Look after it and regularly service it. Only had sundries to replace only note really is when you change the Disks on them you have to change the wheel bearing at the same time, which can be costly. Cam-chain usually at 100k miles and that’s it really. The injectors can be a pain to remove, but specialist companies do it now and best route for them.

I don’t want to diss the competition but the notes about these vans is mainly because of bad servicing and not bad design.

JeZ

Working tirelessly? Heck, must try harder looking at the inclination of the slope it doesn’t seem sensible. The government has a history of taking expert advice, then completely ignoring it. This seems to be another example. The cynic in me would say screw it up then use as an excuse to blame the incumbent government for years to come…

JeZ

Hiya,

We use a Isabella Sun canopy attached to the awning rail of our camper van, works really well, rain or shine, so well in fact that we never use our Vango Airbeam Awning because it is too much hassle to use, in comparison.

https://www.awnings.co.uk/isabella-shadow-touring-sun-canopy.html

You can get them for £176 and ours has lasted 4 years with little to no maintenance, We used in Scotland and France with the differing climates. It can handle quite some heavy winds, its too much easy to fold up and store.

BTW we use a pop up tent for storage as between the two far better for two person camper-vanning, now the sproggit has flow the roost ;-)

JeZ

You’re missing a Rapid Racer Bearing Press:

https://www.wiggle.com/p/rapidracerproducts-bearing-press-and-extraction-tool?utm_source=google&utm_term=&utm_campaign=&utm_medium=base&gclid=CjwKCAjwvJyjBhApEiwAWz2nLdE7EhjXxU90stLV4OGjVyL_e9Xeqg-1MDmp_yOFAThL87kuTEbzJRoCZG8QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

I have had other’s but none as good and wouldn’t be without mine, gets used regularly.

BR
JeZ