I bet they would spend a tad more than £40 through the week on petrol/booze/food/etc – if they are that skint, they mebbe shouldn’t be on holiday…

We have a caravan on the edge of the Lakes and run it on a ‘donations’ basis for friends – works well 99% of the time, but we get the occasional cheeky one who doesn’t pay a dime….I had to call one lot and suggest that was not really acceptable, not even to have coughed up the £10-20 of gas and leccy they used in a week…

Touran here – great car, boring, but safe, efficient, roomy, seems well made (but as well made as my X-reg Passat). Only complaint is the seats are not quite as flexible/quick to move as say the Mazda 5 or Verso. Like a big van with seats

Si – YGM

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I’m actually wondering about the process. What will now happen?
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Depends if you are insured via the dodgy company that goes by the name of Swiftcover – there is a reason why some insurance companies are cheap….

no ramifications – thats what the insurance takes care of.

compo culture! lol

outcome is you pay your excess, your insurance rises next year.

yep – your ‘fault’

why be on a 1 in 4 in the snow anyway?

nicely put ton

Sorry peter – the ones I used to buy for the Sub 5 every other year were ‘top hat’ shaped things and iirc were £12+

I’d get another Orange 5 if i was you.

But i’m not, so it’s your choice.

At £1800 with a load of deore all over it? Compared to a Cannondale thats £2-400 cheaper with better kit…

Great tits here:

I know the ‘buy from a bearing place’ trick, so that could reduce some of the cost – but bushings add up at £12-15 a pop…

Do we have a consensus? On STW?

OK, so lets do a ‘vs’

The buying options may be:

Prophet
Cube AMS
Zesty
MotoLite ML1(if insurance comes through before they sell a bargain)
ETS

Couple of left fielders: Brodie Loki or Transition Covert

grynch – Member.

common variable indeed… I so dislike anything common !!

I agree – its far from common, especially if you are under 60 or so!

It is variable mind….:?

quality :)

Grippy, fast, really supple, need a good dose of pressure more than other tyres, BUT, the great performance came at the expense of longevity – they wore quickly.

But then they are a light, high performance tyre, and something has to give.

Hi grynch – its all paid for. Turns out Sheffield is a UK centre for such things. She has it subcutaneously each week, at home, which is soooo much better than the 6 months heading into hospital for IVIG.

We have 6 weekly deliveries of drugs worth £000’s flown in from US, plus all the kit (pumps, needles, fridge etc) supplied by our great NHS at home.

I got £350 for an Orange sub5, complete!

i would also like to ask the designer why it has two huuuuuge seats, but the back three are a titchy bench – stooopid waste of space…

*pulls up chair*

Yeah – phoned up the local shops, but as ever with these things I am not holding my breath. Some chav will have bought it in the pub tonight for £50, and will have it black hammerited by the morning.

bump for the evening shift

Bloody awful – drank petrol at a scary rate, huge amount of wasted space and lack of practicality, shitty drive compared to most MPV’s (we were on Arran for a week with it though).

If you must do a ‘big’ 7 seat, get a Galaxy/Sharan/Alhambra IMHO – much better to drive/cheaper to own/more practical/faster/more efficient/safer.

My wife is 35, fit, eats well, healthy etc.

For the past few winters she has had colds/flu/chest infections and pnumonia on a monthly basis. Like you suggest Mike – the slightest cold day/tiredness was a ‘trigger’. Each time she saw the doc is was ‘mtfu, you are a tired/stressed young mum – eat better and get a proper sleep’.

Then a friend who is a consultant and a locum GP got her referred.

She has common variable immunodeficiency – the treatment is expensive, only paid for by less than 50% of NHS trusts etc – but is slowly working. She feels better and certainly has fewer illnesses/problems.

May be worth asking doc to check for (simple couple of cheap blood tests).

Matt

Some say he has a small red dial to adjust the rebound damping on his arms, some say he has a triple butted c*ck, all we know is, he is called Brant. :lol:

This one is the one thats been nicked:

I ride there a couple of times a year when visiting my sister in law – good fun, the kids love it – not so much climbing as the Peak!

Looks like I am about to do this – just been offered a job on Loch Tay :)

*waves bye to Sheffield*

A 125 will REALLY struggle with the amount of climbing you intend to do.

That was worrying me…the last hill is a mile of 1/5ish….and on rough potholed road…

Cheers all

Pedal power – I will certainly mix this in, especially in the summer. But its Loch Tay, the distance and climbs (centre is 250m climb from the road), the road undulates over 400m as well – so a 7 mile, 650m climb is doable – but it would be tough. It is also a physical job (outdoor instructor) and it would be pretty hardcore to do it all year round – 1-1.5hr+ pedal in the dark every morning and evening in the pouring rain anyone? Experience says you also end up lugging large amounts of wet kit home each night for a wash, so add a large rucsac in the mix as well…
I can see that with motorbike as well, I could do it ‘one way’ every day – either push bike or motorbike is left at work or home. Its also time

A wee 125 seems ideal – I can do this for a while and then decide if a bigger bike is needed/wanted.

Do you have insurance – use home insurance legal cover?

placcy or wood?

brant is right on that….

I have a bunch of domains for sale – any one for some nice sustainable domains?

home-energy.co.uk
home-solar.co.uk
natural-paint.co.uk
sustainablenetwork.co.uk
sustainablebuildingsupplies.co.uk
sustainablebuildingsolutions.co.uk (PR5 and a load of incoming links…)

and some others shhhhh that no-one need know about yet, for the reasons brant mentions…. :p

etc etc

I have had a few SS pads – 50% failure rate, one of which had the (new) pad material fall off, so the pad backing moved out of place and broke the ‘pin’ in the center of the caliper, so destroying the piston.

“buy cheap, buy twice”

and his attitude stinks. I would far rather pay more for someone I don’t begrudge paying money too.

100% in my case – boy, boy, boy.

The x must be strong in this one…. :)

I have a 16year old Macpac Minaret…has one new pole (snapped on an ML assesment, when 6 other tents were destroyed and it was only tent left standing), it has repaired groundsheet (never lend to a friend who pitches on a bramble patch…grrrr) and is now looking rather UV bleached and the fabric feels ‘brittle’ – but it stood up to a hoolie and horizontal rain last year…

Cracking tent, I used it for three years at college, on average at least twice a week for lectures (OE course) or at weekends, then 5 years outdoor instructing and personal use.

I would buy a macpac again

*waves*

My brother had two – they did a proper two Ronnies act, glasses and all. quality entertainment.

Use a different paint….! Seriously some ‘low’ VOC (3% or less) paints still have a reet pong / long time to off-gass – some paints have much lower VOC’s and give them off quicker.

fact: most paints will off-gas for about 6 years, and the average newly painted room is more polluted and harmful to health than the outdoor air quality of a city center…