It’s just started raining here (I’m a mile away from QECP) so I’d stay off the final descent ‘chalk’ chute until it’s stopped if I were you. But there’s loads of riding that will be fine up there.

I’ll be in my QECP top, Voodoo Wanga HT – I’ll keep my eyes open for you

Should be ok – some chalk but not loads. It rained but the ground was dry at the start so it won’t be the worst conditions

I’ll be up there at about 11 I think

Does he know where you live?

If not, just add his number to your blocklist & move on.

If so, just reply back tomorrow saying “very sorry, assumed you checked the bike over thoroughly before payment and was happy, hence you paid”

I’ve got one coming this weekend for a four day test drive.

Kinda hoping it’s the wagon, and then a biking trip is in order

I was comparing the FR Leon ST… Stuff like the winter pack, xenons, the rims weren’t as pimp, sat nav were missing

Same monthly lease though, thanks to the lower expected resale

Very nice cars though

BMW 3 SERIES DIESEL TOURING (2015) 320d M Sport 5dr
£531.17 BIK £240.68 at 40%

I’d take the golf every time

Better than the Honda HRV my wife actually wants me to get

On my company’s scheme

GTD Estate £441.52 BIK £201.39 at 40%
GTD Hatch £436.52 BIK £173.66 at 40%
GTE Hatch £473.31 BIK £57.11 at 40%

GTE coming for a demo next weekend I hope

I remember having this cut out on my wall at home – is this the one PP? I remembered it was a GT!

GTD Estate? 600L Boot, not much more per month

Currently making the same thought process

LBS that doesn’t have a facing tool?

Did you take it to Halfords, and not the LBS? 🙂

Get them to build it up, buy the facing tool & DIY?

Spoke Reflectors
Spoke/Cassette protector
Wishful thinking tyres for this time of year
Saddle bag resting on rear wheel?
Valve/Logo misalignment
Mismatch on colour coding (white/black) of the pedals
Computer not a garmin & speed sensor is the wrong side of the fork

Mudguard placement 😉

http://www.biltongcompany.co.uk/

Can you mortgage what you want on just your other half’s income?

Try my colleague Jeremy

http://iims.org.uk/iims-members/iims-membership-directory/7228/jeremy-mills/ – the mobile not landline though

Bedford / Fall River is the preference at the moment after some pretty extensive driving about when we were there

Work would be a few hundred metres north of the Macdonald Bridge, water side – so road access is pretty good that way

Job offer rec’d – just making the terms a little more ‘european’ rather than north american and it’s all looking good

Letting agents round the house this week to give us some idea on rental value, then I can get back to looking at houses

should I just get a Charge Spoon like I use on the other Bikes

Yes – Assuming that’s comfy for you

26″ fork to help with the suspension correction?

My neighbours turned up today.. Looks like a nice bit of kit for £47!

About to impulse buy myself

Did the advert say “100” miles, like in a sarcastic “not really” kind of way?

From my five day reccy trip I’m champing at the bit for my job offer

People friendly
Cost of living good (cheap compared to South coast)
it’s different
It’s not like the US

TV was crap
It’s a bit like the US

Take one to bits and store it as spares… Then rotate the bikes that way

Or get better at hiding them? Off site storage etc if needs be.

I’m sat speccing up a new car on arval to opt back into the car scheme at work

It’s all about picking a car that’s heavily discounted by the manufacturer, low emissions, low servicing costs, low P11D value.

If you can be bothered to search (a lot) you can find some real surprises.

25-30k though… That’d be a company car.

you’ll get your mileage (for business) paid for?

Saddle
Seatpost height
Mismatched tyres
Logo misalignment on tyres
Rear mudguard
Winky rear light
Triple
Rear mech cable routing
Floor needs a jetwash
Pipe into wall needs a proper tidy up

I had a yellow day one. Regretted selling it from the moment I pulled away from the guys house that bought it.

Did he not take a copy of your ECU before flashing it with his ‘improved’ file? – this is normal practice for when it goes wrong

Should just reflash with the ‘copy’ of the original and all things are good.

Yup, ride the next day…. But it just feels like you had a long ride the day before, nothing special

Could have been worse, you could have washed out a couple of metres earlier & got a good soaking as well

Wow, this place is epic. Spent the day with a realtor driving about ‘dream houses’ for half what we paid in the UK for ours.

Trekked about a bit today to see well outside the so called ‘suburbs’… Also found a LBS to talk about what kind of riding etc is around locally

Interview tomorrow, so fingers crossed.

£200 eBay kit?

No experience, other than it’ll make it very very heavy

Kudos to the beeb hack that wrote that article… They managed to get ‘coming’ three times

I’ve not managed that since I was 21

Bet it’ll be a dodgy ebay link to a pretend site so they harvest your login details too

I knew Richard when he worked at Velocity in Cosham too. Only a nipper.

I love seeing nippers out on the trails, I’ll gladly sit well back while they enjoy the trails and if they want to pull over then I’ll give them a congratulatory fist bump or high five and a ‘keep being awesome!’

Anyone that wants to gnar past sucks IME.

I had that video! No idea where it is or what happened to it

Thanks guys!

I have four ex-colleagues who’ve moved out there (and recommended me). Those pics make me happy and especially your words about it SaxonRider 😀

Flying two weeks today

I’d move two to make it more symmetrical

Nobody?

C’mon – I’m going there in a couple of weeks for a look about (but probably not enough time to rent a bike)

BPW Monday, not decided on the bit inbetween yet