wrecker – Member

Millar is no saint, and I’m sure he’ll never be able to completely remove the blot from his name, but I doubt there are many stronger anti-doping advocates, simply because he [/s]is living proof that in the long term it does not benefit the athlete either professionally or personally got caught

Correct me if I’m wrong but Millar wasn’t caught doping. The police found 2 empty EPO ampules in his bedroom. There was no evidence that they were his or that he had used them. He didn’t fail a blood test either, and wouldn’t have because they were months old and he hadn’t reused.

Millar could have quite easily claimed they were soemone elses etc etc and that he was clean. In all likely hood he would have suceeded if he had wanted to take this route. BUT he chose not to, he came clean very much to his own detriment.

I’m not saying Millar is a Saint but he sure as hell cannot be comapred to Lance!

k

mtbmatt – Member

Wish I had not started looking at Saab’s!
I’ve gone from looking at linears to Aero HOT’s.

Matt I run a 2005 Aero Estate, great car pleanty of bike room, quick when you want it to be and very comfortable. It’s only drawback is the fuel consumption, I get 26 commuting and 32ish on the motorway. But to buy an equivilent aged 5 Series you’ll need to spend close to £7k. I also worked for a Saab dealer and Saab GB.

If you want to know anything else my email is in my profile.

Mike

russback – Member
So would people say that winter boots are a great deal more effective than a decent pair of neo overshoes and merino sock combo?

Yes massively.

I could never keep my feet warm/dry in summer shoes + overshoes. My Spesh Defrosters have made winter riding much more plesent.

There’s a STW of the Saab world if you want it UKSAABS. Or various other more US based ones like Saabscene, Saabcentral etc

OK soz! 😉

DezB

That’s just a Scooby Impreza that GM had Saab rebadge as the 9-2 for the US market

geoffj – Member

the only bit of the business that ever made any money

Oh teh ironings

Quite common in the motor industry……

The 9-5 estate on the other hand..

Mine’s great….

Yes, but then we have 2.

Saab Parts are still operating (the only bit of the business that ever made any money) there are still planty of authorised service agents around, and alot of the old dealers are independants.

I think if she is going to claim benifits of any sort they imediately inform the CSA. Well that’s what happened to me.

there alway’s used to be an online calculator for the amount they’d expect you to pay

With the hollowed out arms they look like RS8’s.

Edit what he said ^^

The 2.2 Puma engine is great and is only disliked by those bearded “one life live it types”

or anyone with a puma equiped transit

Or Fiat Ducato or Citroen Relay or Peugeot Boxer

eightyeight – Member
Great, hopefully that means I can afford the 800 now

Me too!

Totally depends on the cause of the belt snapping.

If it is a genuine belt failure then you should have a good chance at some help. A lot of shouting at Citroen UK for this. The belt is designed to last many times that mileage so early failure wouldn’t be deemed unreasonable under the sale of goods act.

If it has failed due to another component eg water pump(unless this was also changed with the belt) or external influence eg oil leak then no chance I’m afraid.

The dealer will need to give you a very specific reason for failure

freeridenick – Member
regular mixing is the key. no milk.

NOOOOO it must have milk and real butter too

Rose bikes have it for about £20

geetee1972 – Member

And as it happens, they both earn well in excess of 200k a year.

For doing 10-5 each day?

I don’t know any job that pays that well and has that easy a life and definitely not in the Kings Cross area unless they are extremely high class prostitutes.

To be fair, they’re in the office for that time. I bet my arse they’re working on the train too.

sbd16v – Member

i have had a mk3 astra with a b205 in it and i used to map it with t5 suit awesome how cheap and what can be done with them.

There’s quite a lot of people fitting that engine or its bigger brother into Astra’s

Here you go.

This isn’t the actuall dyno graph I can’t find it. This is from a peice of software call T7 Suite used for mapping Saab’s own Trionic engine management system. This is the projected standard and new power curves with the modified map loaded in my car.

The software has been developed from Saabs own developement software I believe and the projections a remarkably accurate from the acutal dyno runs I’ve seen.

There is quite a big Saab tuning scene here and in Europe, I’d need to start with hardware mods to go on beyond here. But the bottom end is good for over 500BHP and the are serveral cars her in the UK runnning this sort of power very reliably. One car I know was running 546 BHP and close to 600Nm for over 50000 miles before it suffered a block failure – the block had 187000 miles on it at the time.

andytherocketeer – Member
Don’t see the pic of dyno chart above. Might be blocked so will try at home.

I wouldn’t believe any website that puts example dyno charts up that aren’t an obvious straight printout of the machine. Very easy to spot a fake though. And I’ve seen fakes. Or at least ones that redefine the definition of HP for commercial gain.

I was trying (badly) to link to a screen shot jpg for my actual car. I’ll also try again at home when not hindered by a work firewall.

See if this works as the picture above didn’t.

Dyno chart

Remapping can make a huge difference to the driveability/performance of the car, here a dyno chart for my Sabb 9-5. This is the before and after the ecu was remapped.

v12jat – Member
anyone used the high5 extreme powder?

I know its got caffeine in, so anyone experienced bad guts with it?

Yes I had an explosive experience with said stuff 😥

A nice dry (ok I lied but it didn’t rain) hour and a half around the Surrey Hills last night.

grum – Member
I have a reverb, the remote is mounted under the bars.

I also have expensive brakes, but don’t care one little bit if the levers get scratched. It’s a mountain bike!

^^^^^ THIS!

OK – so there is no harm (at least outside a joke) in turning a bike upside down to mend a puncture?

Nope, there are just some sad people that worry about getting their saddle/grips dirty and possibly even scratched!!! 🙄

why would unseasoned increase the likelood of burn out other than creating extra soot

Becuase burning unseasoned logs can produce creosote which can then re-condenses in the chimney and if it gets hot enough causes chimey fires

rkk01 – Member
Oh, and not flushing the bog. The in-laws like to save water. No idea why, they have plenty…

But, their philosophy for toilet flushing is to let 3-4 piles of crap accumulate

I’m all for saving natural resources, but I can do without looking at someone else’s turds every time I visit the can

^^ is just WRONG!

Drying the woodwork out again Tony?

And for those that can’t stream media @ work……..Please?

and I believe it continues,

…strawberry, vanilla, chocolate and lime.

allthegear – Member

There are cranks other than RS7s????

Rachel

Yes there is RS8 X-Type 😆

yossarian – Member
Grassroots labour supporters aspire to help everyone in society regardless of status.

Unless they’re a Tory supporter…….?

Both my Maxx D and Diablo come with usb charging leads

Now ^^^^ is a Q car! 🙂

Edit – Not quick enought not the Rover the Transporter Van

Saab 9-5 Aero Estate, 250BHP/320Nm and plenty of room for bikes, with a little software tweeking 290BHP/440Nm….. 😆

and cheap as chips.

Interesting that Binners and Co from earlier in the thread have all gone quiet?? 😳

Got dual position Revaltion RC3s on my 2010 Stumpjumper and they are light and plush and with DP are good up down and along.

Dual position is what I meant :o)

I’ve got 2 step Rev 150’s on mine and they’re great

I ache

YGM

MIke