Havent seen it done.The cost of repair would be crazy and the speed against the grain would feel like an off day with punctures,surely?

Is it a 406 v6 coupe? :O)

If you bought springs around 20mm shorter then the dampers would probably cope well enough.drop it 60mm and you will soon find out how bad our roads are.you will also find that the car wont hold the road as good as it did set up as standard unless you get dampers to match and make a few other tweaks.. but even then,60mm is probably asking for trouble whatever quality you go for.It just wont cope with real world u.k driving compared to something around 20mm.
If you get a set of quality springs with around 20mm drop with quality dampers to suit,then you will find that it wont wallow around corners,yet it will still have the travel needed for our crappy roads.Lots of folk seem to think that dropping a car to the floor will make it handle better.. then they find out that its skipping around corners,losing traction and possibly not even getting the power to the ground because of it.you might also mess up the driveshafts after them sitting where they have been positioned all their lives.

maybe dirt or leaves had been kicking about in the airbox (when they replaced the air filter) and have since taken a flyer through the thin wire in your sensor.. possibly damaging it? have a close look yourself and see if you can spot anything tweaked.

bmxbeat? Im picturing hugo gonzales trying 540s and slamming hard.

Too many of us use the wrong gears in town.Look back on todays drive and you will probably find that you went into 4th or 5th in a 30 zone a few times.now check what speed your car will go in 4th and ask if those gears were necessary!

I slow the car down quite often going through the gears.a wee blip here and there.still on the same engine,clutch and gearbox and its 209k. Its the salt on the roads thats seen the death of my car,not the way its driven or the quality of the car itself.

I would guess that for around £40 you could change the oil to a thinnner type for colder use in the winter months to help with how efficient the engine could be.did we not talk about this last week?

rocker.. was he on deathbox? blonde hair/pitbull like build? lol. (you will go and tell him this)

I always thought this was the Pinheads! Ive been trying to find this for years. Anyone got it on tape,record,cd?!
Was just thinking what the old skaters were doing these days only last night.I wondered if Goffy still looked like a young perry farrell with “stuff” tied into his hair!

Anyhowzzz. right now..

all i want to do..

is watch H-Street Shackle me not!

Ha Epicy! I just let out a loud chortle there.

“Reign, which btw was a terrible fit, how short and tall is that bike?”

Reign top tube – 24.25″
yours – 24.9″

Reign stand over – 32″
yours – 31.7″

Bike looks wicked. Lovely quality. mmm.

Good pics. good locations too.i wonder how much his lens cost to get them so perfecto compared to what us bunch attempt.

tilt shift for what it was intended for? you decide.

with all sorts of driving styles i worked out last week that i was getting an average of 50-52 mpg. Then theres the benefit of using veg oil at £1.06 a litre at the moment.Using old oil would be good but ive never set anything up for processing it. saving 27p a litre helps a bit though.

The car was quoted as having a range of something like 55-74mpg when i bought it.The 74mpg figure was about the best there was at the time,even compared to a lot of the smaller cars on the market. (1.9tdi 90bhp)

pretty harsh. just about every company have issues. at least things will be sorted out a lot quicker than some of the others with their good service.

You need to take a cbt course.you can ride a 50cc with this under your belt upto 2 years but if you want to ride a bigger bike you can go for an A1 or A2 licence.

A1 allows you to ride no bigger than a 125cc with a max power of just under 15bhp.

A2 licence allows you to ride medium sized motorcycles upto 33bhp with a power to weight ratio of 0.21bhp per kg.To get the A2 licence you must sit the test using a bike bigger than 120cc yet under 125cc thats capable of 62.5mph.

Theres also a new accelerated access that folk will need to look into as they might not need to take direct access.. depending on circumstances/age.

Do it now before 2013 as they will only make it harder and harder! I think 24 years of age is going to be the minimum age for riding big bikes in a few years so its not all bad :O)

I remember standing in a queue in the photography shop waiting for pics that were getting developed and the guy in front of me opened up the envelope with his pics as he waited for the payment to go through and i couldnt help but notice his amazing pics of the moon (i recon he was showing them off as much as i was being a nosey bazza) I asked him what he was using and he said he wangled his old slr onto a telescope.He did say that there was a bit of butchery and said to not use my best kit if i was planning on trying it but the pics were amazing.tons of detail.

aye it all looks good. 30ft 17secs perfect winds. I dont know what it will end up like at Thurso East but going by msw i have seen them forecast 14ft swells and seen the waves reaching around 12ft so god knows what 25-30ft will pan out like. It should be filmed for a remake of Big Wednesday!

Yet to find a track pump that lasts longer than a year and works the way it should each time its used.

If someone could make a simple pump to do presta and also have a schraeder version.. i`d be happy to buy both if it meant that it would work te way it should each time i used it.I dont know if its the double heads that are the problem,but it seems that no matter how much youy spend (£20 – £100) they always fail.

Please dont post how this pump or that pump has worked perfectly for the time you have owned it, i dont wanna know! It needs to work at least 10 times a day,not twice a week.

In years to come Gok Wan will get interviewed and come clean about what hes upto on tv.I can see him admitting that they all looked horrendous and how amazed he was when they believed him on how great they all looked.Hes pulled it off well so far.

depends which high roller.check out their lightest compared to the supertacky. like night and day.

lower wishbones? is it not cheaper to replace them with new bushes already in place or am i thinking of the wrong part? If it is,then its cheaper to replace the whole arm on my pug than pay for bushes/extra labour.

I got a new wishbone on the ibiza last year and it was cheaper than a new xt mech! The labour was peanuts too.sorry once again if i`m getting parts confused!

Is it worth splashing out on polybushes on this car? Is there other areas that would benefit more if you spent the money elsewhere? I would stick to standard myself.

uh oh.

::pulls up a chair:::

Have you ever rolled on one? oh its gonna end in death! If i was doing this all over again from scratch i would buy wrist guards (bought a pair of Rectors after reading about Gators? nightmare broken wrist in Transworld)I would also buy a pair of vans hi tops.Sk8 high tops can be had quite cheap.tie them up snug! They might help the ankles a little more than low tops.Big wheels that wont accelerate silly fast from slow speeds might help. I know i would rather them if i was starting out. go for soft wheels too so you wont hook up on pavements etc as easily.small/hard wheels will stop you in your tracks easier.

Learn ,if possible, to jump off the board as soon as you can feel it fire out from beneath you.Its very common for people to just stay standing on a board when it goes from underneath them.The kind of thing you will see on You`ve Been Framed when grandpa has a go on his grandsons skateboard.
Try and jump off the board as soon as you feel this happening. Its something skaters dont realize they are doing,but you will soon learn to hop off it before you end up on your ass.Just try and beware of getting off it as soon as possible over the first few weeks.. if not, you will be flat on the ground,with feet barely left the deck.I hope this helps at an early stage as falling on 37 year old bones compared to 7 year old bones wont be as fun.

Having said that, if you have kept fit over the years,you might be in better shape than most 25 year olds under the skin ;O)

It feels bob on because of the stem. Nice deal though.

You misunderstood what they were trying to explain to you/selling you.Read it again and compare xtr features back to back with your own.

YES is the answer. (why werent you getting a straight answer in some of the earlier posts?!)

I asked this question before buying a high end road bike near the end of the 90s and i was told not to skimp on brakes.

Words from an olympic cyclist.I took heed.

Nickf wrote: “As to whether you’d pay him redundancy or go down the compromise route…words fail me. He is the one who volunteered the information that he wants to resign. Why on earth would you consider paying someone for this?”

mastiles wrote in the op: “but if, for example, we found someone who was ideal and wanted to employ them, would we be legally able to then ask the original employee to leave?”

I wouldnt.I recon you will have threads showing once tensioned.

then hospital?

depending on where you live, the underside could be a nightmare with rust/corroded parts. (like mine from 1999,208ooo miles)

The problems i face for the next MOT arent the high miles in the engine etc.I recon it could go on and on for ages, but the underside has now seen 12 winters of salty roads.I wouldnt go near it if it lived up here all its life. Hopefully its fresh from another part of the country!

I was planning on dropping all of my pics from last year into a thread. I dont think i showed them all at the time. I think i have pics from the year before as well.

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Ask him how he feels about a compromise agreement.If you both agree on it, you could offer him a severance payment and he agrees (and signs the paperwork that you will have written out) to end it there.This would stop him from taking it to a tribunal.

Look into this.. i think its perfectly legal.Maybe its the answer.

“Hi i`d like fully comp insurance for a so & so big bike, i live in Inverness (a city apparently) and ive been riding for 2 years.Ive been driving for 17 years and have NEVER made a claim.. what can you do for me?”

It came out about £180 quid this year. I got 3 points and i called them to let them know, so they put it up to about £200.

I think the sooner people quit claiming for anything and everything they can get their mitts on in the insurance world ..the better ;OP

Putting all the internet talk to one side.. i had fitted a ram air induction kit to my car around 2006 with a pipercross foam filter inside it. I took times from 30-50mph ,50-80mph etc in different gears the night before fitting it. It was a chilly night and the night after was also around the same temp. The car was warmed up well over 10 miles or so and i drove it over the same route. The times were recorded 3 or 4 times each and noted. The day after not only did it feel a bit nippier it showed on average,something around 1 sec quicker on the 50-80mph stints.some of them were around 0.8 and some around 1.2secs.yes,manual stopwatch timing in a car on the steering wheel aint accurate but when its averaging around 1 sec over a 5-7 second period,thats noticeable. None of the times were slower.

The company that produce them recon you could get around 5bhp out of the 120bhp engine.The opening at the front of the kit is around 14 inches by 2 inches and draws in cold air without it circulating around the warm bay.Its straight in there.I cant argue/say anything else. It just feels better.end of!

nice cheap,fun motoring..

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I am guessing it was around 95 that small wheels stormed into fashion? I have a few brand new spitfire wheels around 42mm-ish kicking about. They were sold off as “keyrings” or something as they couldnt shift them around 1996 if i remember right.
I had T bones on a ss John Lucero.Still got a set of big red kryptonics on the old G&S i bought too. Its such a smooth ride!

I was given a Planet Earth Ken park deck recently for building a few bikes up for someone. The deck is brand new,unstained/laquered. I`ll take a pic some day and post it.

I used to be 11 stone wearing 32″

I`m now 13stone 12lbs – 36″ (but without a belt they would fall down!) A 34 is too tight.

Not sure if that helps.

Could someone be waking you up without you knowing? Theres a noisy van or truck that picks some worker guy up every other morning around 4am outside the house. He usually puts the foot down a bit too much on the way off and it can wake me up.Ive heard him honk the horn a bit too.

I now use moldex earplugs and sleep like a log.

The pic of Ewan is top notch! Want to see it on the cover of a mag…

Is there a pic of mork jumping off the rock before he bonked with the heebee jeebees? :O)

nice. looks like i will be skipping dinner then!

lol.