Northwind – Member

moshimonster – Member

Could you define “excessively powerful” again, just to remind us what YOU consider to be acceptable?

1bhp more than my car, obviously.

N+1 Exactly the correct answer, I going with that too.

mcmoonter – Member

Wwaswas – if you have any hairs left seated you might want to check this out

You’ll really upset people on the anti driving threads with that one McMoonter!!

molgrips – Member
So, to put it another way – why buy a car that does 20mpg when you can’t get the benefit? You know there’s only so much petrol, don’t you?

Because you get the benefit of being somehwere much nicer than your 3 cyl Clio.

Just like riding your (insert nice mtb bike here) is so much nicer than riding a ASDA BSO.

Driving on the other hand is practised by pretty much everyone whether they like it or not and so inevitably some people are entirely clueless of the dangers involved. Particularly since modern Euroboxes are quite refined and remote from the world outside.

Like the person I heard complaining that he had an accident in his car because the (normal non active) cruise control hadn’t braked for him. Aparently he was incapable of ‘just driving’ the car.

agent007 – Member

olddog – Member

moshimonster – Member

But I think the concept of driving for pleasure is perhaps more of a problem.

why?

I think that is the unbridgeable divide in this discussion…

People generally tend to enjoy doing stuff that they’re good at – so this might explain it to some degree.

That doesn’t explain a large number of the people I see cycling (insert any pastime) for pleasure!

moshimonster – Member

There would be plenty if a 100mph limit was in force.

They would just have artificial limiters like a lot of high performance cars already do (usually set at 155 mph). What they wouldn’t have is less power because pretty much nobody buys a car purely for its top speed. Nobody reduces the power on their supercar because it’s artificially limited to 155 mph.

Exactly!

molgrips – Member

No it isn’t. I can’t think of a single modern car I would want to drive for pleasure (not just get from A-B) that can’t top 100 mph. Examples please?

So if, say, you found yourself in Dublin with a hired 3cyl Clio and a nice afternoon to kill, you would NOT drive up into the Wicklow mts simply for pleasure?

Speed is the ONLY thing you enjoy about driving?

I might drive up to the mountains for the pleasure of the mountains and views they offer in said Clio, BUT I sure as hell wouldn’t for just the pleasure of driving, because there’d be none in said Clio.

And no it’s not ‘ONLY’ about the speed, its about the joy of driving a nice car, be it fast or slow.

As above, Richard @ All Biked Up

Glue a silica packet just inside the housing.

LoCo – Member

Here’s a question, does anyone frequenting this forum own anything that could be honestly described as a “supercar”?

Have TDI Passat (it is the ‘sport’ model)

But aparently molgrips one is more powerful than yours…. 😳

BigJohn – Member

they can’t drive a car they don’t like

But they would have liked a Mercedes.

Why would they?

Raikkonen did like the Ferarri because he couldn’t set the front end up to his liking. And Vettel can’t adapt his driving away from using RB’s effective exhaust blown defuser to give much greater rear end grip when coming out of corners.

northernmatt – Member

Ron Dennis made an interesting comment though. He said that there were eight drivers on the grid who could have been world champion in the Mercedes

Hamilton & Rosberg are a given.
Alonso
Vettel
Ricciardo
Button
Bottas
Raikkonen or Massa

I’m not so sure about Vettel or Raikkonen because they both were outclassed by their team mate and showed that they can’t drive a car they don’t like.

molgrips – Member

I have a nice car, it has some hundreds of horse power, but I don’t drive it any faster than my other cars that were ‘slower’,

So why waste the fuel? There’s only so much petrol, it has to last us.

Because I like nice cars, I enjoy them. They’re nice places to be, comfortable etc.

Just like I enjoy my bikes. I could ride an entry level bike, but like most people on here I like nice bikes, one that far exceeds my abilities. It gets upgraded because something new comes along rather than it needs it. Did it need a pair of Pikes, are they going to change how I can ride. No not really.

The comparison between nice cars and nice bikes are really very simlar, it’s just one is accepted on STW and the other isn’t.

Okay, my car has just shy of 400 hp and is a full blown modern day sportscar

But you have a fast car so you MUST drive fast otherwise why would you buy a fast car……? So the rest of your post is far too sensible for you to actually believe. 🙄

Or maybe (despite some peoples beliefs on this thread) some people just like nice cars, like some people like nice bikes, or some people like nice watches……etc

That doesn’t mean we are all mad raving loonies. I have a nice car, it has some hundreds of horse power, but I don’t drive it any faster than my other cars that were ‘slower’, I don’t overtake longer lines of traffic. I like nice cars.

molgrips – Member

I overtook two cars in one go today…!

Yay for molgrips, he is human after all 😆

Brilliant, it’s turned into a molgrips overtaking thread.
Please form an orderly queue!

I like driving and overtaking, I’ve even been known to ‘make progress’ and my car has 4 tail pipes.

Signed

Evil child killer of Surrey.

My car has more cylinders than tailpipes, does that mean it’s OK by STW standards?

Oh and I’m not much of a fan of Golfs either.

Yes mine are one of those sets leaking up the steeerer! Will be converting them to coil with the help of LoCo.

He must have a very understanding boss

His Dad!

MTG

Why not run a track chain, surely you won’t kill that?

back2basics – Member

Lewis blames his team for what happened,

Hmmm?

“At the end of the day I locked the rears into Turn 4 and under rotation that spun me around, the second time it happened this weekend – no one’s fault but mine.”

Or not.

Excluding company cars

1980 Mini 1275 GT – sold
1983 Astra 1.6SR – sold
1998 Rover 820 – died
1987 Cavalier 1.6 – died
1988 Sierra 2.0GLS – sold
1988 Audi 100 Avant – sold
1990 Saab 9000i – sold
1990 Discovery – sold
1993 Espace V6 – sold
1990 205 1.6GTI – sold
1993 Discovery – sold
1996 306 TD – the ex killed it
1998 406 2.0 – the ex killed it, then she became the ex
2007 C3 – leased
2008 C2 VTS – leased
2009 C3 – leased
2010 C4 – leased
2011 C4 – leased
2012 DS4 – leased
2004 Saab 9-5 Aero – sold
2005 Saab 9-3 Convertible – Still got
2005 BMW 645ci – Killed in the only car accident I’ve been in
2005 CL55 AMG Still got
2003 Jeep Grand Cherokee – Still got

Company cars

1996 Micra
1998 Saxo
1998-2000 various Saab pool cars
2002 Saab 9-3
2003 C3
2004 C3
2005 C4
2006 C4
2007 C4
2008 C5
2009 C5
2010 C5
2011 DS3
2012 DS3

I think that’s it!

EDIT

1963 MG B Roadster – Sold

Neal, the logo he showed is “obviously” the super secret logo that only those on the “inside” know about and get to use………

OK, @ -27 it’s going to freeze at the jets, bet there’s not may here that gets uitthat cold regularly though!. But that’s where a heated jet does help 🙂

Screen wash, used neat will never freeze.

Max. You are awsum!

Cougar – Moderator

Ooh you must watch it. Compelling evidence… that maybe something happened sometime.

To be fair, I’d say that’s one of the few credible pieces he’s linked to. Tom Watson is one of the good guys, he’s not prone to making things up.

So, throughout 7 pages of waffle, he has posted 1 credible piece.

Mods please turn him off.

Reluctor rings are a non replaceable part of the driveshaft. And they can suffer from corrosion.

^^^ LIKE

My mate has run an Alfine 8 on his only MTB for several year with no problem.

Ignore!

There is a spring behind the piston, but as the piston gets scratched up by grit the spring is no longer strong enough to overcome the friction between piston and bore.

You need to remove the piston and rub it down with fine wet and dry untill it moves freely.

stevede

If you’ve still got your old levers I’d be interested in them?

Mike

I’m not sure how it will work without wifi but I thought sonos uses its own network created by the sonos bridge.

The laptop will have to be hardwired to the Connect, it has a aux-in phono connection.

There are two versions of the connect, one with a builtin amp one without.

You’ll need the amped version

Eurosport

Ben

Aren’t you know for wandering around old empty abandoned buildings……..? 😆

The LED on the charger should turn green, but the LED on the light will continue to flash.

weeksy – Member

Mine was a disaster… he taught me to jump… but not to land

I can do that all on my own! 😳

bencooper – Member

Actually the BoE reserves are around £403bn.

As you were.

My Figures were for GOLD reserves as taken from here as this is what was mentioned by seaosamh77

WIKKI

However, if your figure is correct for the BOE’s total reserves the principal remains. iS will OWE rUK a whole shed load more from its 9% of the UK debt than it will ever get from its 9% of the BOE reserves.

Circa

£91,348,082,100