They are both fine forks for the £.

Forester + 1

properbikeco – Member
the boring/safe/fun option is a mk3 MX5, surely got to be some for that money kicking around
or get a newish MR2 if you can stand the jokes
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I love my MR2 and it gets no jokes unlike the MX5 it replaced. Sounds like the OP is after something more exotic though. I’d have an Elise S1, I will one day…

I got off on a fine as markings were bad. The parking attendant claimed he had to enforce the fine, he had targets to meet & this would flag it up with the council to get the markings fixed. I claimed it wasn’t possible to read the markings (it wasn’t) took lots if photos and the fine wasn’t enforced.

I think in the OP’s photo its supposed to say ‘loading’ so I would guess loading only too. ‘OADING’ on the left of the picture.

richieokeefe1 – Member
or what else is there ? focus st drinks fuel so I have been told ?
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Budget?

Civic Type-R, various Golf’s & VAGs, GT-86 if you want a proper car.

Wwaswas have you got any pics of the soul? I may be intrested, couldn’t see a pic in the ad/link

A hoot to drive, badly designed and poorly manufactured.

Mates have CTR’s, GTi & the Renault Sport Meganne, if say the Renault is the most fun but its far behind in terms of build. If you lease then it may not concern you as much in the long run.

From your list I have only ridden a soul and an inbred. The inbred was rubbish by comparison, it felt dull and sluggish. It was a mates who sold it to buy a soul. I have a BFe myself and its an absolute joy to ride/jump. Thinking of selling it shortly to build up a soul, purely down to my age and the lack of jump I ride now. I wouldn’t even consider an inbred as the two I’ve ridden have felt crap by comparison.

Not quite new enough to be new
Not quite old enough to be retro

eBay it! 🙂

Yeah, Thinking along the lines of replacing and converting an old council Back-boiler to a combi, reckon 4k+ on a property at the top end of our budget, Don’t think its a wise move, Walking from a real nice place…

I should add the £4k was not a simple ‘old for new’ installation. It is for moving the system, boiler location, flue etc… £2.3k for a combi to be fitted in current location.

Good luck with your 2nd viewing

Sorry for you all. Thoughts with you x

Gusmac, that’s a good tip. I knew out area as I was living there. However another area we looked at was very different at commuter/school run time & despite being nearer to fiancées work would have been a much longer commute.

tacopowell – Member
New boiler at 2k has been mentioned a few times, are we talking a replacment for the whole central heating? Ie from back boiler to combi?
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Hello, bought our 1st home in may. We knew a new boiler was needed but hoped we would get a but longer out of it, its acting up & quotes came in approx the following:

Replace current boiler (with a Worchester) and fit larger hot water tank £1500
Combi in current location £2300ish (some pipes need altering)
Combi in better location £4000

My tip is be cheeky, put a low offer in. Our house was originally £220k then £200k with an invite of offers. We paid £150k. We only viewed it once, the property we had our heart set on was mixed up in a messy chain and the seller was a nightmare. So happy we bought this one though now. We put an offer in on another it was on at £200k we offered £160k the seller said he would sell for £177k. So that’s my tip go low.

Coil Sketors with a stiffer spring. Love mine. Great value for money.

Sounds to me like your already decided your not going (dont blame you) and just need a good excuse. Perhaps change the thread to something seeking for the best excuse? I had someone drop out of my engagement party with: “sorry we can’t come the cat has worms and we think the toddler has eaten one” it was backed up with an MMS of them in A&E and everything. Proper pros.

I’m busy 🙁 but the staff in the bike shop (now behind the cafe) will mark a map/point you the right way. The skills area is over the main road from the train station that’s a good place to start if you haven’t ridden it before.

My BIL does similar work he said he would start at £1900 if it wasn’t his own workshop costs. You can always come down a bit. You know your works good so give your quote.

Re, not liking to ask for money: I’m the same but means must. From small stuff like £50 to £5k contracts I don’t like it but its just what has to be done.

About 3 hours. Call centre for windows, I would have walked sooner but I’d have only been waiting at the train-station in the snow and the call centre was warm.

“If you don’t get a lead within 15 minutes were tying a balloon to your chair so everyone can see who isn’t up to this job”

An employee of my dads backed a company pickup truck into a stationary car and broke the door mirror. The car was occupied, details swopped, it went quiet and a whiplash claim was put in and a new door was claimed for (back before phones had cameras so no photos were taken – the only damage was to the door mirror the claim was the door had a huge dent in it) the insurers paid out, dad decided it wasn’t worth trying to counter claim.

I have never washed any meat before cooking and was not aware this was the done thing.

EDIT: tried to find a joke with messiahs picture and the ‘pluck’ in the headline, but failed.

Have a black and decker DustBuster its the one that does liquid too (not the fancy pivot above^). The front and back seem to like coming apart at will leaving the stuff you sucked up to spill back were you started. The dyson ones are really good but really expensive.

Girl I worked with asked why I used to get changed after my cycling commute, why not just cycle in my work clothes. ‘Because i come through a field and its muddy’ I replied. She then sat quietly and asked ‘should she get changed at work too as she has to drive through country lanes which are often muddy’.

Same girl in a meeting on saving money put her hand up to say she was saving money by sharpening pencils at both ends as you get more out if them.

A lad at a computer games shop I worked at was sent from the job centre to get some work experience. I asked him to alphabet a draw of games, he sat quietly for a few hours doing it, then declared he didn’t really know much of the alphabet so he stopped at J and did the rest in the order he thought was the best game.

As Emsz mentioned life models I can say I have done that too. Got a few dates from it also. I was asked if I was available by the agency I was temping at to do a solo session with an artist, a very camp man paid me to crouch naked while he threw paint at a canvas and ended up with something that looked like nothing. It was my aura apparently.

Amazing thread.

Samurai are you still doing your drawing?

darryl1983 – Member
Only the 140bhp engine as the oil burning problem on pre 52 plate cars, the 190bhp engine is a completely different engine.
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Yes sorry for the confusion, I thought the OP had been looking at 140’s with regard to earlier comments on insurance groups. My post was not the clearest.

A mate, Toyota mechanic said they have very few issues with them at all. Some pre 2003 use a fair but if oil and the paints really thin with the alloys notably peeling (around £25 a corner to fix) but that’s all. The timing chains go on fit 200k before needing adjusting, mines started every time can’t see another car for around the £3k mark I’d prefer with things such as running/parts cost considered.

Ahh yeah. Ones ‘old school’ insurance group and the others ‘new’ its old group 13 for a 140bhp one. It will still work out same price if you ran a quote through confused.com etc.

No they don’t change, but there’s 2 celicas a 140bhp and a 190bhp version (VVT & VVTLI) the 190 being more and often badged as Tsport. Maybe you’ve seen diff groups based on this?

The pick of the bunch are the 2001 or 2003 models. The 2002 had a lower rev limiter and post 2003 I would imagine come in over £3k. Most pre-2001 have high ish miles now and the air con although good isn’t a patch on the facelift ones (notice the Toyota badge on bonnet is different on 2003 onwards) I can get 2 bikes in mine with rear seats down, full leather and air con (premium pack) I wouldn’t look at a cloth interior one as there’s plenty of leather about. The limited edition ‘black’ & ‘red’ versions are getting sought after in owners club (has a back/red sticker above indicator) as are TRD ones. Mines a 190 tuned to about 207bhp not missed a beat and tyres aren’t over wide so not too expensive. I often chauffeur my fiancées friends and they all comment it feels like a much more expensive car. You can pick then up for £900 (1999 ones) but ssshhh

I was in a similar position to you, got a celica. Love it. Council estate Ferrari according to my mates :p your wise not to take on debt, £3k can get you a really nice car these days.

How big? Miles? Ins group etc?

I found out my nut allergy at a young age thanks to toblerone, my grandad pointed out the hidden bear in the logo and said I was allergic to bears too.

theblackmount – Member
Very comfy saddle but not impressed with its life expectancy. What mileage have folk been getting out of the leather ones?
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Had my leather Ti one for a few years done loads of miles in it, must be 50+ a week. Had the cheaper ones before and they were good too. All of mine the stitching has worked lose on the back left edge but this has not really effected them.

Recently: Tyrannosaur,
Not so recently: There will be blood,

I didn’t ‘enjoy’ either but found both to be moving and well acted. If we’re going for enjoyment then its ‘The Lion King’ & all Disney since has been crap.

One of my favourite bike I have owned was a 2002 hawk hill. I loved that bike. Marin’s used to be cool in the 90’s with neon and grey frames.

Illustrator, artist, storyboards.

Left art college went to work in music shop, became manager at 18 loved the job but saw the retail side of the industry collapsing so at 21 went to uni to do art.
Buyer from famous gallery moderated my degree show and purchased all my work.
A few years in various jobs I hated.
Diagnosed with manic depression.
One year off.
Email off buyer from gallery about doing some work, job centre useless helping me set up self employed. But did it.
Introduced to famous pop star, started a relationship. She opened doors for me and got me to storyboard her bands videos.
Ended that as I didn’t like being in public eye, stress.
Carried on with storyboards, do free lance and what ever else.

Trying to get a part time job to get me out the house a bit more.

I started to swim daily and it was mentioned my blond hair was getting a green tinge. I was told by a hair dresser it was from chlorine and to soak it first. I tried, made no difference so I bought a swimming cap. The hairdresser also told me to try rubbing tomato ketchup in my hair to ‘deactivate’ the chlorine… Didn’t fancy that in the gym showers, sounds like BS, and prevention is better than cure so on with the swim cap.

Mate has one & does similar miles to you, loves it but finds it thirsty he recons high 20’s on average but he does rag it a fair bit. I really like them compared to VAG alternatives. There will be plenty of rubbish about ‘steering feel’ online esp at low speeds but I didn’t find that when test driving one.

Lad by me offered to clean my car, ok how much £15… £15… It wasn’t even that dirty. He said he would spend a good half an hour on it. He told me he only gets £30 a week from his paper round… £30 I used to get 5p a paper and as a bonus on a Friday a look in the sport when someone orderd it. Kids today…

Stoner, you can’t merge accounts to my knowledge, sorry.

Is it the avatar for your live account or another?