I suspected this was going to be more than bolting on a FD.

Superdez, that’s great. Give me your email and I’ll PP you a fiver. Good place to start.

Thanks all for your help.

Hi, that does help, it shows the 1st and second generation mounts.

Will go and take another look at the bike and see if the 2nd gen bracket will fit but still a bit confused.

Orangeboy you say for a 2010, I should be able to fit an E Type mech direct to the frame but for a SRAM I’d need a plate? If so Superdez you’re running yours with a plate so could that be different to a 2010?

Sorry to be a pain just need to get the bike sorted for the weekend.

Is that how its done, not on the the BB? Yeah if you’ll think it’ll work that will be great, what year is yours?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/na2t5xcmzfovm4u/IMG_4809.JPG?dl=0

Yeat there was a small bolt hole on the chain stay

I rode on the green lanes and enduro for quite a few years and was great fun, though in the end the reclassification of Road Used as Public Path (RUPP) to Restricted Byway killed the green laning for most of the country.

And as said the time in the garage cleaning and fixing finished it off for me.  Though I’d take it up again if time allowed one day (I kept my riding gear just in case). It’s absolutely great for fitness and such good fun. If you enjoy shiny things and buying kit there’s plenty of that as well.

Just a thought though, how about just going for an electric bike (mountain bike), will give you access to a lot more riding.  I know its not quite the same.

If your going to buy a bike to learn to ride and race I’d go with a GasGas EC200, super light and easy to ride and buy good tyres.

Have fun!

Bout a tenner.

Welcome to linux, as said some wireless cards aren’t well supported out of the box as not all manufacturers release the information to allow drivers to be written for Linux, so it takes longer to get kernel support.

Ubuntu is well used and there are always solutions even if you need to use the Windows drivers and install Ndis wrapper.

Or you could get a usb wifi card that will work with the pi as well? Check the HCL for the pi and Ubuntu. Get the right one and its plug and play.

Those power line adapters can be dodgy for various reasons. Plug into your router. You know its ip address. Go to start and type cmd in the search box. Type ping -l 1495 -n 50 IPADDRESS you should get 50 responses from the NAS with times in the 2 to around 50 millisecond range ideally. Missing responses and slow response times indicate problems with the network.

Edit:I don’t have experience of this type of NAS or the disk configuration but I wouldn’t expect you to be able to swap the disks to a different chassis and it work.

I’ve been riding for 16 years, have ridden road bikes, raced off road in various disciplines. Additionally have been MTBing for similar amount of time.

Have done the commute on the MTB for years and also years on a motorcycle commuting, I don’t know the stats but I always feel much safer on a motorcycle on the road than a pedal cycle.

As for injuries, there is not much between riding off road on a MTB (trail riding) and motorcycle off road, for me anyway.

I love riding 2 wheels and would not get rid of my motorcycle or MTB, taking time to learn and be safe is crucial though. Just like the guys who cycle commute safely despite all the idiots on the road, you can learn the motorcycle road craft to reduce the risks you are exposed to.

One last aside is that riding a dirt bike will increase your skills and confidence in a way that’s almost impossible to do on the road in a much safer and controlled way, so when you need those control skills on the road you have them. There are places you can go to have a days try out as a total novice.

I’m off to finish changing the shock on my old 750 Honda now 🙂

Loads of music online, try http://www.house-mixes.com

Or

https://www.mixcloud.com

Love Radio 6.

I have a 1.9 non turbo expert and it’s slow and gets slower on the slightist hill. And will be fine when I fix the rear doors to stop them popping open as you drive.

Agreed.

I had one for 6 or more years, 1.9D Expert.

Pros: Reliable, Cheap to run, service, fix, Handle well, loved the twin sliders, comfortable to drive.

Cons: So very slow (I think my 1970 1.6 VW camper was quicker to 50) and rather loud at motorway speeds. Back doors kept unclipping at the bottom. Not dangerous just irritating.

If I was in the market for a super cheap reliable work horse I’d have another without thinking. Would consider noise proofing or a TD.

I favoured the Peugeot at the time over the Fiat for the Immobiliser system.

Desktops 3 years
Servers and Networks 5 years.

Processing power in a High Performance Cluster HPC of cheaper servers.

“Nigel Farage’s party has promised to exempt historic buildings from VAT at 20 per cent on their building work, in a move that could save wealthy owners of historic mansions and castles hundreds of thousands of pounds. It would be replaced with a rate of 5 per cent.”

Now, I dont like the UKIP party but I do think our heritage needs to be protected. I think there is a difference between giving a multi millionaire a tax break and helping to preserve building for next generations.

I think this could be more effectively applied where the owner is also part of the buildings heritage. I’m sure that this heritage brings lots of tourism in to the uk.

To be clear, we are not talking about millionaires in mock Georgian mansions.

I have a drive full of rusty crap but plan to get a barn one day.

No Ferraris though 😐

Congratulations dude,great times!

No exhaust full of fuel then it fired. Check the kill switch as well.

You are not “wired” in any particular way,

There are certainly genetic influences to Depression and behaviour (as well as environmental ones). I suspect we’ll find out a lot more over the next 20 or so years.[/quote]

@Footflaps Very interesting links thanks. So some people are more predisposed to depressive illness but that doesn’t mean that it will occur.

I have read there are many factors which can lead to difficulties genetics being one of them. What I was trying to suggest to the OP was that from the position you find yourself in currently it is possible to find more happiness and peace, we do not have to just accept that is the way we are and live with it.

I have a good friend who has had a run of the most appalling luck. Certainly enough to push a mere mortal over the edge but always keeps things together. Has a positive (though slightly more jaded than previously) attitude.

I’d like to see a study on people whe just dont get depressed, perhaps they have a something switched on that is unsual.

You are not “wired” in any particular way, there are glass half full and half empty people, their attitudes are learnt from people and experiences. If people wish to change they can. Its not easy but possible. The brains thought patterns and even physical shape can change with the right training.

Medical drugs can help but I have had good and bad experiences and they are no magic bullet. Great if your in the throws of a serious nervous breakdown but not so good else where IMO.

The balance of happy chemicals Serotonine, Dopamine and Norepinephine do control how you feel and to an extent how you percieve life, but your brain controls the hormones that allow the creation of these chemicals.

CBT can help change thought patterns and many people find it helpful, certainly the world would be a calmer place if this was taught in schools! I don’t this this is all you need to know.

Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy http://mbct.co.uk/%5B/url%5D I am finding very useful. Using this you can control the feelings you get. This is subconsious telling you you have not done enough, could have done more or better or different!

To answer the OP the feeling of contentment I believe is attainable, some lucky people already have it. No doubt making physical changes to your life helps, making changes to the way you handle life is also a key point. My current thinking is how you choose to use your brain is crucial. Trying to break negative thoughts and patterns and replacing them with good ones. Along with staying positive, down time with people you love, riding and fixing my bike.

Doing things like riding does help me to stop thinking, they also release the feel good chemicals so a bonus all round, just dont over exercise if you objective is to just feel good.

I’d agree that consumerism is not good for a happy state of mind, it hooks into the need to have part of the brain, as soon as you get it you want something else.

As I think someone has said, to get to the state where you are just “being” rather than “doing”. To get the brain to stop going round in circles, thinking this and that. Just being content is a state of mind you can train yourself to attain.

There are lots of books written about MCBT, I have recently read this and found it very informative, plenty of humour and science.

Apologies for the monolog.

My slightly sore shoulder turned out to be a type 3 AC dislocation. As it turned out…

Good luck dude, feel for you.

Spray can of clutch and brake cleaner should sort them.

Girlfriend suffers from these. She initially cut out caffeine, chocolate, dairy and citrus. Loads better now and back on cheese and chocolate but milk is a no.

Used to get them every week and now infrequently. Maybe every few months. Stress, lack of sleep and caffeine seem to trigger them.

Looks nice, few places on there as well.

Anyone else been to Cornwall?

I’d second that and use Libre Office myself.

Another option is just using Google Docs as thats a pretty good calc program.

Well I like your saddle. Agreed the rug needs to go!

Interested on how you get on as well.

Had NNs on various bikes mainly because I had them. Found them fine, generally on the rear. Would recommend Nextivators, a little heavy but puncture resistant and grippy. Just Done Afan with one on the front and felt good and climbed well.

Edit: Just checked, NN on rear:-)

Been there and still go back from time to time. Its hard but a good thing to come to terms with having depression.

What causes it is a question you can look into but may not resolve.

I was and am a private person but surely you can tell Mrs Vader how much you hurt. She may not understand depression initially but better than hiding it and isolating yourself. Your right its hard to talk but you’ll get used to it though.

Drugs can be an option but need to be matched to the person and the type of depression. Helped me. Councilling is also good, but there’s different types. Find one that suits you and find a person who you feel comfortable with.

Do lots of reading about depression, the types, how it works an learn to spot the signs and patterns. You’ll be able to spot the signs in others aswell. Don’t just expect the doc to fix you.

Check Ruby Waxes book Sane New World, explains a lot.

Keep in touch with friends and family and talk to them if you can. I found exercise very useful. Releases happy chemicals, that’s what is wrong. A chemical imbalance. Eat well, not just carbs. Depression can make you crave them, lots of water, leafy greens, slow carbs.

Your not mad, weak, failing or anything else. You’re suffering from a very common illness. A very painful and difficult one.

So much to say but you’ll need to find a way out with some help. You’ve done the right thing.

Good luck and drop me a PM of you want to chat.

I can’t imagine what you’re both going through with this but you have my very best wishes.

Just take things as they come and try to see positives. You’ll get a break for the better soon I’m sure.

I think it’s all being taken a bit too seriously, do you really think the aim of the magazine is to educate everyone in to how to be “alternative?”.

I read it as marketing but as everything in life you take what you want from it, there is no need to get upset about these things. I like the idea though I dont totally associate with the picture being draw of the Beta Male. It’s artisitc license isn’t it?

The mag looks like it’d have some good content so I’m in for a few £.

Good luck, hope you getting sorted for the summer.

Mine has had loads of work but still has engine issues and needs cosmetic welding and interior work. If I can get this thing straight I can get on with my bay resto, now that does need welding!

Yes the taring would work to restore the file and directory structure but it would not restore the boot sectors or configure the encrypted partitions. You would need to reconfigure your boot loader and setup disk encryption.

dd is as reliable as the hardware its running on (I find), if the machine experiences a memory parity error then corruption can occur (rare). I have used dd and netcat to restore linux systems over the network. dd will copy the boot sector and partition tables for the block device (disk) you are running it on. So if you have more then one physical disk you will need to run the command on each disk.

tar will produce a copy of the files/directorys, some directories should be excluded, /mount /mnt /proc /sys. Permissions should be preserved when archiving and restoring (-p). Use gzip or bzip for compression (-z or -j). Run tar from single user mode.

Run dd with ‘conv=sync,noerror bs=64k’ sync is the way dd will read the data, noerror tells it to keep going if an error occurs and pad the data out to the correct length, bs sets the block size – by keeping the size small makes the copy slower but means if an error occurs then the data that is missed is smaller, ie 64k.

I think I’d be tempted to make regular tar backups and dd for restoring. You can restore the system with a boot usb and dd, boot the restored system and extract the tar updating the files that have changed.

One last point, rather than just using tar if you have access to a file share you can use rsync to do differential copies, put the command in roots crontab to run when you like. rsync has enough options to do whatever is needed. Either mount the file share or send the files using ssh etc.

If you want dated snapshots then tar the copy in the file store; tar cpvfz /filestor/backup /filestore/archive/backup-‘date –iso’

Eveyones happy 😀

Apologies if you know this already and to non geeks for geeking up STW……

edit ‘date –iso’ should be in grave accents (ASCII code 96) not apostrophies but STW wont allow that.

Again assuming its the fitted as standard 1.9DG motor (retro fitting engines is popular in these) will this do?

DG Dipstick

Firstly what is it? Im assuming it a diesel where the dipstick tube is at the back of the engine?

You’re going to need to do some more investigation, could be coming from further up the motor somewhere?

I’d boot from a USB disk and use the dd command to copy the partitions or whole disks to a file/s. You’ll need encrypted disk support to mount and read them.

That way you can just write the whole
partition back.

I’d tar them as well so you can read config files if needed without faffing with crypted disks.

I’ve a lovely C50 with full fairing. Reliable enough to get from John OGroats to Lands End 🙂

Passat estate would be good 1.9 PD TDI 130, solid motor. watch wear in the suspension bushes and the turbos on the 130 sound cool….

I do use a HRM for off road but as said it’s hard to maintain training zones strictly.

I use it for stopping myself maxing out too often and keeping track of training sessions using the memory feature.

Bonty Mud X 2.0 on front and 1.8 on the rear for super muddy conditions, otherwise a 2 for the rear as well.

Hook up nice, roll well on the road.

Nothings good on rooty stuff but better than a Advantage deffo.

A.

75k mortgage paid in around 10 years, lots of hard, work overtime and senible spending (well mostly). I was 35.

Then a fuse went in the ex girlfriend, long story short I needed to remortgage to buy her out, house value agreed at about 145K.

So 10 year on I’m paying a 70+ mortgage on the same house.

That’ll teach me 😯

Its putting all the bits of the jigsaw puzzle together that make you feel better but you’ll have to find them first – but you’ve already started!

You need your friends and your family stay in touch, keep active, plan for the future and has been said it grieve. Your brain treats a failed relationship like a sort of death so the process will take a while.

Good that your seeing things more positively, it’s a great opportunity to not only get back to where you were but make life better for yourself. Have some cool adventures and find out what you really want from life and your next relationship. That will all come when your ready.

Fitness is also a great way to feel good, happy times ahead!

Proper job! Def need some further advice on this one.

Diet and rest also essential for a good recovery but tricky with a knacked shoulder. Normally takes me about 2 weeks to sleep round an injury.

+1 “Good luck healing vibes”

Would appreciate some professional input but there should not be a gap between the arm and the socket.