My current bike is based around a 1993 frame with 1998 forks, rides just as well as the 2008 bike it replaced.

http://www.rooftent.co.uk/%5B/url%5D

Part of Nene oveland, they sell expedition prepped vehicles too. Am considering a rooftent mounted to a converted Sankey trailer for my Ninety, saves me dragging all the weight around when I don’t need it.

Origional unrepaired may not be as good as it sounds! Give it a good smack with a hammer along the rails and especially rear crossmember. Get under and check that from behind too, I’ve seen them looking perfect from outside whilst crumbling away quietly.
Bulkhead too, as others have said. Top corners and ‘a’ posts where doors hang are really faffy to replace although panels are available.

My early D plate Ninety has a 2.5TD, 130k at the moment, a bit smoky on startup but pulls well enough. Expect around 15mpg for ‘normal’ driving unless it’s in much better condition. Will trundle along at 60 as long as steep hills aren’t involved but it gets rather noisy above 50! Just keep the oil topped up, change the filters regularly (I do mine every 2 months as they are so cheap) and you’ll be fine.
I absolutely love mine, but I will replace the engine with a TDi when/if it goes pop. More torque and driveability.

The MOD used the N/A 2.5 deisel btw, even more pedestrian!

I like those cufflinks, but they look nothing like Mint. I thought the whole point of the excersise was to reproduce something like those MBUK keyrings, which look exactly like the Mint in the cartoons? So glad I didn’t bother now…

My ’93 Klein Fervour. Now with Thomson stem/post, black saddle & grips and Trailrakers to combat squidgy chalk.

If you were to read TJ’s comments on any of the umpteen million dog related posts he does always say the same thing; dogs who are under the control of their owners are no issue to him, those who aren’t, are.
I’m a dog owner myself and I do take him riding, usually during the week and never at trail centres on weekends when there may be ‘conflict’. If you have trained your dog to recall or stop on command you should have no problems in my mind. Obviously there are those times when a squrrel or cat gets their attention before you can intervene but if people are involved it must be 99.99999999% of the time.
Problem is that there are dog peole and non dog people. Those of us who have dogs will never understand why non dog peole don’t like them and vice-versa. There’s no point arguing about it really.

Amazed someone thinks £50 is just enough to get a ‘token’ present!
We settled on the £20 or so mark afer a few years of my wife and I spending ever increasing amount. Thing is, it becomes a case of money replacing effort. Easy to impress the wife with a £500 bit of jewellery, but much harder to find something for a score that will make her eyes light up as much. That’s what makes it fun for me; I have to work harder at it.
Plus we can’t really afford to be throwing around the sort of money some people seem to spend. It’s crazy really, shows how much we’ve been conditioned into the whole commercial christmas thing.

Hmm, white is an option I’d not thought of.
Apologies for terrible spelling, punctuation and grammar in first post by the way; typing one handed with a sleeping 24kg dog on my lap!

Soooo tempted.
Ref docking, it’s legal for working dogs, must be done before 5 weeks and by a vet. If you saw the state some working dogs tails get in when they are retreiving game from overgrowth you’d understand. Even my Springer/Lab cross suffers; last week he sustained a few nasty and bloody cuts to his tail retreiving a rabbit from under a hedge. Docking stops this happening.

4×4 groups have done some resurfacing work on sections that were getting seriously eroded, don’t worry about it being too sanitised, they like it rough too, just not axle munchingly so!

I remeber doing it with Nasher on 2 occasions, one in scorching heat, we couldn’t climb fast enough to dislodge the flies grouping on sweaty backs. The next was bitterly cold, think freezing cables and spds. Great both times.

Same £20 ish limit here.

Portsdown Hill above Portsmouth at about 1am, midway from towing all 12 of my customer’s cars out of site back on to a public road. Had to admit defeat after about 5 cars and use my 90 and my bud’s Delica together as a sort of 8wd tow truck. Problem was lots of fresh snow on top of a little bit of ice/compacted snow. Was a long night!

Guy once applied for a job with me, name of Tyrone S. Love. I decided that if the middle name was Sweet, he could have a job, no interview or owt, just to answer the ‘phone and give his name.

Turned out it was Stephen.

Hope he found employment somewhere…..

I’m pretty good friends with a few of the mechanics at Wiggle, all of whom are put through Cytech up to level 3 by Wiggle. I doubt they knowingly sent a dodgy brake out, but knowing what Wiggle are like they’ll try and sort it quickly and smoothly. Just remember how close to Christmas we are and how big their build queue is at the moment, they may be a teeny bit slower than normal!

http://www.sabresales.co.uk/%5B/url%5D

Many years ago, when I worked for Halfords we sold a ‘bike’ called a Gemini Outrider. £8 a unit at source, must have cost more to ship than to buy!

Suppose you may have a point there. I did it on a WInMo ‘phone too……

Do they do one to stop people going on and on about the bloody things yet?

A 9mm MP5PDW has less recoil even in full auto than a .22 Weirauch HW90 air rifle.

I used to take my dog riding because he loves it so much, now I just do it in the hope I’ll bump into someone from here who’s not already started or indeed participated in a (seemingly weekly) ‘Dogs on trails’ thread. :twisted:

Freelander isn’t a pretend off roader though, it’s pretty good even without a hi/low box etc, the electronic gubbins does it’s job well. Stick some decent tyres and a 2″ lift on it and you’ll be a happy greenlaner for the most part, unlike the squashpie, ford kuga thing etc…..

Scott High Octane from late 90s/early 00s.

My dog has been a nightmare with all the fireworks going off this week. He’s been glued to me, shivering and panting for the whole evening several times this week, as soon as he’s heard the first one going off. Trying to ignore it as much as possible, so he thinks we’re not bthered so why should he be?
Daft thing is that he comes to work with me all the time and quite ofter hears bangs, from pyrotechnics and blank rounds. Not bothered by that in the slightest.

As for chocolate, my vet described it as being like heroin for dogs. Most can eat it in small quantities with no apparent effects but possibly one day react to it and be ill, other dogs react badly straight away.

Surely you have an ‘App’ for that?

Allmountain lodge are alpine elements.

The campsite below lake Montriond always looks quite nice whenever we ride past it. Worth a trip to the lake too, especially if it’s hot, around lunchtime/work ending time. Several times we’ve had the delight of an icecream whilst watching attractive young ladies cool down in the lake!

Brown sauce.

I wouldn’t go with Apline Elements if they had the only safe place in a zombie apocalypse. Damaged bikes on their trailer, paid for rental bike not available, running out of food etc……
We had a terrible time with them.
Other than that, to echo many people’s advice, drive isn’t too bad, about 12 hours from Portsmouth to Morzine allowing for my wife’s considerable number of wee stops!
Plenty of trails to explore as well as waymarked stuff. Use the lifts as a way of stitching stuff together and get out there. To be honest even if you end up on ‘firetrack’/piste the views are stunning.

Reilly

Not as cool as a 90 but more space inside. I’m 6’2″ and I have no elbow banging problems or leg room issues, even with military sliding windows. I do get wet knees when it rains though, so swings and roundabouts….

In my house.

Surefire G2. Or E2E if you want to spend a bit more. Can use rechargeable 123a batteries, G2 as std will give 60 lumen but is available with a LED head that gives 120. E2E has 120 lumen head and is smaller and lighter.

Both have NSN and are popular with our forces (The E2E is the same as a Scout weapon mounted light without the mount bit, used by UKSF, SFSG, DEVGRU….) and spare parts are all available along with excellent warranty backup.

That Focus will give you more like 50ish MPG overall as well.

I think what he means by that is that a rescue is likely to be older than 6-8 weeks, which is when he’ll collect the posh mongrel, so he knows it is not carrying any ‘baggage’ as far as training etc goes.

Another vote for Petplan here.

Been using them for years in other applications. As long as you balance charge them (really good charger is Imax B6, about £30-40 on fleabay), don’t damage them and don’t discharge beyond the safe level for the pack they aare fine. Nice and light too.

Have been riding mtbs in some shape or form since the early 90s. I used to live and breathe it, raced etc….

Took a job in the trade and to be honest working with bikes all the time kinda killed the ‘buzz’ for me. I now ride maybe twice a month as opposed to the 4-5 times a week I was doing 5 years ago. I’m happy with that, and would never sell my bike but rather than a mountainbiker I now sort of see myself as more of an outdoors type of person, with climbing and walking taking up a fair bit of the time that bikes used to occupy.

I’d like to think that I’ll always ride a bike, but then again ten years ago I’d have thought I’d never give up racing.

Mmmmm. 110 crewcab, I’d love one of those. Don’t really know why, I love my 90 but they look so goood.

Best sale was my MK1 Astra GTE, bought for £250 with 10 months tax and MOT, sold for £900 when they ran out, needed so much welding it just wasn’t worth keeping, the guy who bought it treailered it away from me in Pompy up to Scotland and was really happy!

Worst thing I’ve bought was a ‘genuine’ Surefire Scout light, new they go for £300ish. I paid £100 and was happy until the cheap chinese clone arrived… Still, got a refund through Paypal but am much more wary now.

Icarus C42, for the simple reason that I flew one on Monday!