I’ve read all the books- None of the leads portray Bourne really at all. So I take the films in isolation from the books tbh.

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Have any of you watched the programe that sky is running about it? He may not be the next Mike Tyson but he has puit a massive amounbt of work in over the last 8 months. I say good on him, a good result for someone who’d never boxed before.

Pace RC100/200/300

try another optician that uses different makes of lenses, I needed to do this and to be fair to my original optician this was his recmendation.

This does leave me needing the most expensive available two weekly lens, but its the only one that has worked.

I’ve ridden at Sauze. Plenty of lifts, great riding. I did one of the SuperEnduro events there.

You need Smudge @ mtbbatteries.co.uk

Titus, OK no problem. I’m Epsom way so drive over. We’re normally out one evening a week, often varies which day though. Feel free to shout if you want.

Mike

A couple of us will be out this evening for a short/slow ride from the pub in Coldharbour this evening if that helps. My email is in my profile

Mike

We have a new generation Prius, yes I know. Actually it’s a damn fine car. It wasn’t bought with the ecological “save the world” mindset as much as “will it save me money”

I’m after a Lexus CX200h next, same mindset.

The only way that’ll save you money is in company car and road tax. Lugging all that electric stff around on top of a petrol engine really doesn’t do much for your fuel consumption – despite what the VCA figures say.

Prius

Lexus

Peugeot

The only reason all the manufacturers are going ‘Hybrid’ is to cut their average Co2/km figure, from which they either do or don’t get massive fines from the EU on every vehicle they produce no matter what its power source. And to sell the cars to people who live/work in city’s with congestion charging zones where due to the stop start traffic they run on their petrol/diesel engine most of the time anyway!

Never mind all that, have your eaten your hat yet?

Nope left it in the Leaf when the battery went flat on the way to a trail centre…… 😆

You find me a pure electric vehcile that has or will manage to cover 100k before the batteries die and need to be replaced and I’ll eat my hat!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Leaf
“The Leaf’s battery is guaranteed by Nissan for eight years or 100,000 miles ” It is also 95% recoverable but i don’t really know what that means?

And how long will it take a vehicle with a circa 80 mile range to do that sort of mileage. The average UK drivers mileage is now approx 7500 miles a year. So Mr average will run out of his battery waranty well before he get to 100k.

Having worked for a maufacturer that had about 40 100% electric vans in service with Westminster council for comming up to 10 years, they are used on a 7 day a week basis and the highest mileage I came across was about 60k. Most of them had had batteries replaced, due to the users in a ,managed fleet not following the charging guidlines.

I don’t believe the type of person who will use one of the current crop of electric vehicles (or many gererations to come) will be doing 12k+ a year. When they need batteries unless the manufacturer sells the replacements at a massive loss (a bit like the inital sale) it will right the car off.

An assumption of 100,000km decreases the benefit of electric vehicles to 9-14% with respect to petrol vehicles and results in impacts indistinguishable from those of a diesel vehicle

Not really crap, just no more environmentally friendly than a normal diesel.

You find me a pure electric vehcile that has or will manage to cover 100k before the batteries die and need to be replaced and I’ll eat my hat!

And how much COULD be, a proper recycling infrastructure around electric cars is a no brainer, along with leased batteries or possibly battery swaps in “refuelling stations” (instead of plugging the car in) it wouldn’t even be hard.

The batteries still need to be produced to lease/swap them and that is the biggest part of the production ploution problem. There is no realistic/enviromentally friendly/reuseable/cost effective way of recycling them

My Mum and Dad put one in their new bulid. They seem very happy with it.

cant you use a 4 bolt spider then any make of ring you like. This is what I’ve done on my X-type duo setup

So you think a 5 mile drive does bed the brakes in?

Five miles would be shorter than I’d choose to road test a car I’d just fitted brakes to. But it will totally depend on what you do in those five miles. In five miles you can have a set of standard road car discs glowing cherry red, if you want to.

A lot of the bedding in process is about the repeated heating/cooling cycle, but the biggest part of bedding car brakes in is to wear the the new brake pad surface down to match the unevenly worn disc surface, so that you have full pad contact.

michaelbowden – it’ll go forward up to about 3mph, then transmission stops. Who know’s what goes on inside gearboxes. the only mechanics I ever did was stripping down Lambrettas, but they were pretty simple.
Think the best thing I can do is get the number of the guys that will be stripping the gearbox down and get them to report to me independantly. They maybe able to say if it’s been run dry or something.

Guess it just the hassle festival season in my life at the moment.

So will it continue to drive at very low speed, or does it creep forward then stop?

Mike

It is a manual isn’t it?

if is is fine in reverse but not forward I’d suspect that there is something wrong with the gear selector mechanism inside the box allowing two gears to be engaged at once. Its most probably stuck internally in reverse for some reason and then when you select 1st the box will lock up as it’s trying to forwards and backwards at the same time.

Given it’s 100 mile or so for them to be bedded in, sometimes more, I’d say that a decent mechanic wouldn’t release the car without explaining the need and procedure so you can do it yourself. They’re going to make no dent whatsoever in the bedding-in process on a 10 minute blast up the road.

20 years of being in the Motor Trade including working as a Technical Engineer for 2 Manufacturers disagrees with this.

Mike

I can never understand when work requires a “test drive”. You take it in for a service, they do the work, you pick it up. Surely moving it from the work bay to the car park is enough to test the brakes. Nothing else done on a service needs field testing.

No decent mechanic would release a car with new pads without having bedded them in.

The Picasso is much more car like, rather than Van like.

3 days later I got it all back with a load of free stickers and a wee note saying “call us when you are ready to put it on your bike and we’ll talk you through it”. Which they did

Now that’s proper customer service.

One of my friends rode track internationally, and his front hub was C&C, with oil instead of grease, and one ball bearing removed. You could spin the wheel slowly and hear the tick as the balls slipped around into the empty space, and the wheel spun forever.

This ^^ was a common thing to do.

I do try and behave like a grown up most of the time or my kids give me funny looks.

This ^^

I think the Durace one fits, bit the splines are shorter

Sausage, bacon, egg on fresh bread, mushrooms and of course chips.

no just a suitable drift to knock them out

def not a gay abandon job. gentle trundle at best

Gift gaff uses O2 network but that doesn’t make it O2 so some items need to be unlocked their pricing is very good, was thinking of getting a dongle to use with my Mac.

They are O2, they have the same address, 260 Bath Road in Slough. About 100 yds from where I’m sat.

There has been quite a lot of complaint about them pretending to be an independently run/owned business etc.

Giff Gaff is O2!!

This one I think

BB91-42

The normal FSR is bb91-42a. Is that the same as bb30? I didn’t think it is…

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PeaslakeDave – Member
I know a lot of people on this thread may disagree but if you like a picture or drawing why not just hang it on the wall? I don’t really understand the appeal of tattoos.

You’re not ‘Tattoo Dave’ from Peaslake then?!

Fair enough Graham ;o)

Graham

I’ll take the broken Time’s off you if your not going to continue with them

My email’s in my profile

Mike

WOW I have never seen or heard of a broken Time Atac pedal of any sort since I came off the road bike and started mtbing in 98!

What are you doing to them? With this and your broken frames you must really be tough on kit

Brakes

Drop me a line (email in profile) on one of those watches.

Ta

Mike

Talk to Tim Price @ Fork English. He was Pace’s service/warranty tech

Well Gap fixed it, their ‘Standard fit’ were just the job, though they are their loosest.

Tried some GStar, some fitted but I didn’t like the styling

Another vote for Levi’s here. 751 for a straight fit. personally find 501’s a perfect fit. I’m a bigger bloke too, but never have a problem with them

The 751’s were skin tight!

Thanks all, GAP looks an easy try

Classic 501s no good to you?

I tried and failed to get jeans that look decent when i wear them, then decided that 501s were probably the least bad option for general wearing (with boots, trainers or shoes). Also, they are easy to get hold of if you know your size.

And the sizes are pretty standard.

I think I got my last pair in Bahrain from the NEx there

They don’t get halfway over my thighs even a size too big!

I have one from the people below. Very well made a a propper Swiss auot movement

Steinhart

stay away from the 1.4 petrol, and the 1.6 will be greedy on fuel. The 2.0 HDI is the nicest engine but the 1.9 D is bulletproof.