Puma’s are cheap, I have one as a track car yes its got straighteners, hairdryer, scissors, etc. Parts are cheap, easy to work on, quick (1.7 Yamaha VVT engine) and good handling.

I hate Vauxhalls… But I’ve been driving a W reg Ashtray for over 6 years now and done over 60k, car is on 90k. It has never broken down and the only thing it needs is a service every couple of years and a set of tyres on the front. Everyone that drives it is quite impressed with the car, nice position and easy to drive. I do not drive like a grandma or treat the car with any respect and it just keeps on going!

You can pick up an Ashtray for £500.

I was all excited.. Then realised it was a BMW… At least some others made it a good thread with some photo’s of real Mini’s! :wink:

Get rid of the BMW, get a proper Mini! :lol:

Get yourself a Toll Tag[/url] so you don’t have to queue at all the tag stations. Saved us a bunch of time and quite a few cars were miffed after overtaking us more than twice!

all of them ….you just chop the cigarette lighter end off and wire it to an ignition 12v feed – comes on when you start the car….

Some run off a 5V USB supply. You can buy a 12v USB wiring harness for under £10 on fleabay.

The E-Prance 0801 gets good reviews. Tempted to get the new 0803 as I had 4 near misses in a week, I really do have an invisible car! 8O

There are 3 makes to choose from, LG, Sony & Samsung. I prefer Samsung LCD’s, go and look at them in a shop and see which one you prefer.

For me a normal car wouldn’t be one with a 2 metre long boot! :wink:
Roof rack?

But its got Chocolate on it.

Freakin hilarious! :lol:

Have you thought about painting your discs? No, I am serious!

I know some people have painted the edges and heard of others painting the hub part too, I would do the edges but not the hub part.

This is the first picture that google found, only to show the white painted edge (thickness).

Well… I thought “amazing two events same place, 80’s tastic”… Until I saw the price of the 80’s tickets…

£39.00 for one ticket! 8O

So I guess I’m the only one who adds a couple of Kilo’s to the bikes weight?

If someone asks I’ll say 16-17kg, its actually 14-15kg, but I don’t like to look totally unfit when I’m the last uphill. :wink:

10 pages because Binners gave a kid a cheeseburger! 8O

This may become the thread of the year… This is Mumsnet right?

I’m looking at booking for the 30th August. I will guarantee I will be the slowest uphill, it is called a push bike for a reason!

Hope we can do a day in Pila too, awesome place.

His coffee is bloody awful.

Drink your own?

I just cut the ends off my Troy Lee XC gloves. Great full finger summer glove anyways.

I looked into this and worked out it was cheaper and quicker to buy more SD cards, but I guess it depends on the cards and how many you need. It takes a long time to transfer big files from a card to computer, especially a cheap laptop.

Take a look at Sanho HyperDrive COLORSPACE UDMA2, it is a standalone unit, no need for a computer and runs on standard sized batteries.

Put it in the dishwasher, then ask her why she put it there. :?

Chuck it in the bin, don’t tell her anything. :wink:

Can you fit a DH bike in the boot of a Chimaera? Or is it a bit of a struggle for that little bike?

I’ve posted this a few times.. Friends RS2000 ready for our return trip home. Custom made bike carriers.

2 Bikes, 2 people and enough kit for 2 weeks in the Alps.

CountZero, we have a lot of bits to be fitted, FRP cams, 4-2-1 manifold & exhaust, custom inlet manifold, FRP ECU map (remove torque limiter, raise rev limiter and slightly better grunt) & ST150 brakes, AP coilovers. Still have more stuff to remove, seats, parts of the dash, brackets, etc.

The problem at the moment is we don’t have time, I’m helping strip and rebuild a couple of pinto engines, one will be a turbo’d pinto, the other on twin 45’s, big head/cam’ed and my mate is currently half way through rebuilding his V8 for his Capri. So we probably won’t get to fit all the bits until near the end of summer. Hopefully the cars will be running for RS Combe (5th July), just maybe not finished.

I have been tempted to buy an FRP Puma, quite a nice looking car and they will go up in value as there was only 500’ish made, but it gets very expensive with the Yamaha engine to get any extra BHP out of them.

High emissions… Are you not going to de-cat for the track?

That’s the line line I take CBMotorsport, not that I am an experienced racer whatsoever! I can see why people crash as it is tempting to not brake until after the left Apex, but then we all know what happens to those cars! 8O

Milkie, enjoyed your Puma run round ‘Combe. Is that a 1.7 Zetec, and what’s happened to your door trim?
I was watching the open-top go off, I’ve seen many, many people do that at Quarry, guaranteed to bite you in the ass if you’re not careful…

That open top lost its wheel!(1:53 onwards) Saw it being brought back to the pits, I couldn’t believe that it didn’t do any bodywork damage, the guy was lucky.
Yea the Puma is 1.7, totally standard on that video except for the FRP airbox mod and being completely stripped bar the dash. We had brake fade in the afternoon and now have ST150 brakes to go on as well as 4-2-1 manifold, sports cat, exhaust, inlet manifold and FRP cams. Also put a race battery behind passenger seat. The only thing that lets it down at Combe is the power.

If anyone is doing a track day at Combe, let me know and I’ll see if I can make it. :wink:

The guy driving that Astra… Bonkers! :wink:

Keep us updated. :wink: I have a Puma as a track day toy, great fun!

A circular pizza cutter? and are you just making the handle and buying in the blades? I wouldn’t like to give a bunch of 13/14yo a straight blade with a curved cutting edge?

Does a bike on roof bars suffer when travelling at 70-80 miles/hour in the rain?

I put Muc-Off on mine and drove home in the rain.. Bike was reasonably clean, but I couldn’t see out the rear window, every time I braked the windscreen turned brown and the roof was covered in mud.

So I guess in the rain at 70mph is a bit like a nice hosing! Did 1800+ miles with the bikes on the roof with some proper Alpine rain, bikes didn’t complain, bearings still fine.

Thule Outride:

I’m with Sandwicheater. Go back to basics/foundations, start with the heal command again even when walking. If you get the foundations perfect everything else will be relatively easy.

As above say the heal command and she falls to my left and not infront of me. Occasionally she’ll creep forward, Heal or Oi brings her back. I say away and that means she can piss off and do her own thing. When she comes back she’lll come into heal without me saying it and will not go until I tell her. Very handy for riding. :wink:

This did not come easy, a lot of training and patience. I would say 90% of the work was done before I got on the bike. The first time I took her for a ride she was pretty much perfect. A lot of praise to the trainer (AKA mother), I think I did less than 10% of the training.

Does anyone use a bell for their dog? I thought this would be quite good so I know where the dog is, rather than having to look around..

+1 for Park Tools Chain Bath, works a lot better than the £5 jobs I have tried. Get some Weldite Citrus Degreaser too. :wink:

Yup! :wink:

Think I prefer this.

:wink:

Oh these bits.

Not today, but all this week..

Then got a mate to doodle on it.

Some bits for RS2000 mk2..

Spacers for the coilover conversion, all the other bits arrived last week.

Exhaust, Manifold, Sports Cat for the Puma

Build thread! I’m off for some reading! 8)

Adobe Elements should be fine for video editing. I suggest you watch some tutorials on Youtube of how people edit, although it is difficult to find decent tutorials as there are soo many now.

The first thing I do is watch all the footage, boring at times, but amazing at others when you captured something you didn’t know about. I write down the filenames and times things happen. eg: 1:06 Big Jump, 1:20 Crash, etc

I then leave it a week at least and go back and import the files and split them into the sections I’ve marked, sometimes discarding some of the bits I’ve marked as they weren’t that good.

I then spend way too much time thinking of a good song/tune to go with it (usually a week or so) and try to edit the footage to the music. I still can’t decide on a song for Pila DH from August last year.

Then add effects, don’t overdo the effects, most professional edits don’t have many effects and if they do they are very subtle.

Then colour grade, sharpen, etc.

I would also split it into days, or a couple of days at a time, editing down a weeks worth to 5 minutes is pretty brutal.

Also watch other peoples videos and take note of what they do with the footage, although you might actually think other videos are pretty terrible.. Here’s mine: Milkie’s YouTube Videos I would watch La Thuile and Singletrack Descent in the Alps. The others are 2 years previous on a HT with a not so decent POV cam.

EDIT: Cross Dissolve – Yea I’m with Mike on that it is widely used, it’s my most used effect.

La Thuile, Sainte Foy, Les Arcs, all worth a visit. If you are in this area there is also paragliding, water rafting, etc etc.

If you can, do a day in Pila.. 11km DH trail, need I say more. :wink: Best days riding I have ever done.

Not sure how I got Achilles Tendonitis. But I rode through it until winter then saw the Physio. I had screwed my Achilles which then tore my calve muscle. It was not nice and neither was Physio!

Doctor will be useless, at least mine was. Make an appointment with a Physio specialist, it took me over a year to recover and it’s now been 4 years and sometimes it still goes tight. They will show you the correct stretches and activities to be doing.

Well that’s got a little bit of the Adrenaline pumpin! Reminds me of some quality nights DJ’ing b2b in Bristle.

Move into a position where they trip or drop their phone. :twisted: