Just ride one of them and see how you go. I keep toying with the idea of a burlier Xc bike but if nino can chuck a 100mm carbon ht down some of the most technical stuff around it’s not the bike limiting me.

Kinesis FF29 is my bike of choice for 50miles plus tech rides, done plenty in the lakes, burly tyres you can run a smidge softer than usual and a dropper help. Has a pike on the front now at 120mm and 2.4 protection rubber /2.2 rear and with a dropper and x01 I don’t feel I really miss the enduro bike that much.

In your email you said “get to it”. I’m assuming the “it” is the giant sharing mince pie I couldn’t walk past in Aldi because it was reduced and I’m weak? If so, done!

Uhm, could you not have had a couple more… there was acouple left in my local and i may not have been able to refuse.

Time to crack on this year, been promising to get back to race weight for a couple of years. Can i play still?!

I’ve just put the previous gen anker roav in, wanted something cheaposh but decent which anker seem to usually be.

£50 with 2 mounts. Hardwire kits £9 each so I now have both vehicles covered for £70 and the parking monitor and WiFi download is a useful feature. Not sure the quality is up to a conviction on faces etc but I feel a bit happier having one on now – moving plates aren’t easy to discern either but it’s a good first port of call I think.

Christ, id love it if i got paid to go to a corporate mtb day… who let the fun police out?!😉

Went on a corporate track cycling intro the other month, im now one session off accreditation and looking forward to going racing. 👍

It’s even worse that you have to pay motor home rates for a t5 camper… £250 for me on the Chunnel, £80 for the caravelle and £150 for the van last time I looked, at £250 for the same bloody sized vehicle I took the ferry instead!

Dtswiss spoke calculator will tell you. Google..

I’ve just bought some of the storage boxes. Avoid the centre aisle… especially the 75p chocolate figures….

Not a WT but I’ve used 2.5 minions dhf back and front as alps tyres for years, if I went to a wider wheel set I’d use the WT happily.

Canyon spec the 2.5 wt as a rear o some of their bikes.

If its a beautiful looking thing why would you not wear it?
Not worth a lot unfortunately, especially in that condition. Parts arent that hard to come by, should be able to get it serviced and sorted with a new plexiglass for around £120 at a guess, depending on hands. crown likely to be a further £80 ish. Might drop lucky and find a watchmaker with one to fit in the spares box. Probably worth similar to sell so choice is yours really… but if you wont wear it and it has no sentiment to you you may as well move it on.

Pics would help!

Boxed and papers will fetch 7-800 at trade auction plus 27 odd % buyers premium, so your minimum is 1100 really. Im assuming youre talking automatic – the above link is for a quartz. Auto bond seamasters full size tend to go around £1600 plus on ebay with box and papers unserviced.

Service is £434 from omega if you include post both ways – comes back like new.

If you can pick it up for 1.1k youll get a bit of a bargain even if it actually needs a service to run, as youve got a watch you know the history of thats all correct with 2 years warranty and a full refurb. Around £2k in a shop window. If it was a mate id say £1250 ish would be a fair price, depends how much you like them !

If it is a quartz, id walk – theyre fetching silly money now id hold out for a decent auto if you really want one.

Youve done pretty well to get a months paid holiday out of it, go ride your bike and i wouldnt worry about pay yet. Its very likely that as this is all come about close to the end of the month and at christmas that it will be late or all settled at the end of your gardening leave period – ask them not us what they are doing but given timings and the fact youre the accountant and depending on the company size might well have casued them a lot of grief by departing now I wouldnt push it.

You wont get any extra for accrued holdiay – that will just get used in the gardening leave.

Netflix and prime for all my media really, used to torrent everything but now I’m happy paying the £13 or so a month for Netflix, prime video and music and free delivery. Fantastic value compared to the likes of sky, can’t fathom the whole thing of paying to watch adverts.

Since I’ve found a cinema with £3.60 tickets I’ve started going once a week again as well, used to be like £11 a go in Birmingham – I’m tempted to get limitless tickets for 12 months for us for Christmas.

Not a debt collector, just had to use them unfortunately. Ive never had that happen, anyone stupid enough to let it go to that level and then pay without fees would still be liable, but ive just checked and a £600 debt would cost £130 with the firm i use. Personally id leave it at that and take the £470 and no hassle (less a couple of quid for the letter before action) but you could still pursue.

Estate agent here has had the busiest month in a few. The bottom line I think is we all need to live somewhere, we’re all a bit fed up with brexit and it won’t be that bad if the media would just do one for a bit.

For context, I sold at the peak of the last rise and feeling very smug, didn’t buy again for a few years. The weeks wages of interest a month was quite nice too when it was a decent rate. Having bought again a few years ago – well if I’d stayed on the market and rode the crash out I’d not have a mortgage now. If you can afford to buy, trying to rent out the next 3-5 years of uncertainty is never going to be financially beneficial imo.

@special
You seem to be suggesting tht you view price fixing to be a good idea?

I could put a lot of my thoughts onto this thread but I’ll leave them I think.

But price fixing – that’s really the only way forward imo. My trade has been through the pain of this and on the other side, the brands that price fix do so much better all around. We can offer a better service, the arse doesn’t get ripped out of the product, a decent living is earned by all. It took some big brands with big balls to move in that direction though and actually police it. A couple of brands will reimburse us a price match and overall, it’s a better place to be for the suppliers, retailers and customers all round.

Don’t use a debt collector, they will do nothing except send a letter.

Use a debt collector. A decent one will mae sure you’ve done the right bits, send a letter then take it further. On a £600 invoice the threat of the fees alone and a proper letter will make 90% of clients pay. It will cost you very little until you go to court and it’s unlikely you will get that far if you’re in the right. I’ve only ever had one get that far and sent probably 10-15. Don’t piss about with small claims if your a business – there’s better things you can be doing.

You’d think you’d get a spellcheck for £17.50 wouldn’t you!

How about it’s not Munmsnet let’s just use plain bloody English?

#INMLJUPBE?

As last poster, go to the police. We had something similar last week, as a rule we won’t get involved it’s just not worth it. If the police come and ask for the footage then they can have it willingly. No way am I giving footage to a third party, it’s just not worth it and I’d assume a lot of other business feel the same.

I’d happily do my 5 days work in 4 days for a 20% pay cut. Christ, I’d happily do 6 days work in 4 for a 4 day week being as 6 days is pretty much the norm anyway…

I use the dtswiss ones at around £20. There’s a couple of other options for the same money but I think that’s the best.

Tow ball mounted rack setup and usage:

When transporting bikes the rack should be positioned in either of the ‘A’ or ‘B’ positions NOT the ‘C’ position as shown on the diagram above.

‘C’ is the van position. There’s a whole page if you click on ‘the rack’ section of the menu. Flange mounted allows it. I only know because I liked the idea, but I’ve already got a fixed bar, and I really don’t want to pay to change that. Especially when I’ve already got a £500 genuine boot rack, that barely takes 2 enduro bikes. #scenetax 🙄

How come? The rack works with either a flange bolt on adapter or clamps to a ball.

It does on a car, but on the t5 because of the angle you can only bolt it to the flange. Check the website.

I’m with OP, and I’m a retailer. Doesn’t matter for what reason it’s being returned from what they’ve put seems like a CRC cock up to me. If they offer returns, and a collection service make it a decent one. Buyers remorse is allowed…

If id have been asked to delay an item, id have delayed it not made it difficult. If I’d agreed to a return collection and our courier had cocked about I’d not expect a customer to suffer because of it. Saying no to returns or paid postage is one thing if that’s how you want to play it, but if you agree to something stick to it. So no, not unreasonable after 2 attempts, though I would imagine the OP hasn’t just taken 2 days off self employed work just to do this.

A return like that is going to cost time and money, nothing you can do about it so you may as well make the best of a bad job and keep the customer happy with the level of service and make it back next time.

You need a flanged tow bar for the scorpion rack on the t5, might be an issue if it’s a pre existing fixed bar.

DL is the best option but bear in mind wide bars won’t clear the boot on the inner rack.

As above.. if you have WiFi or a phone you can tether just grab an echo dot. £20 or £25 for the new version. Just done exactly the same for my garage, just working in there now – “Alexa play talk sport” and it just grabs it from tunein. Also puts the heating on, orders things from amazon, that’s all I’ve done with it so far!

Sort all this out before you buy in. Trust me on this one, I’ve had experience of it – once you’ve put your money it makes things a lot trickier. Have a proper chat to him and if you can’t resolve it look at all your options and if you don’t think it’s 100% going to work don’t do it. You’ll be even worse off when he decides he still wants to work in 4 years time…

No you can’t just buy in and kick him out… 🙄 unless he’s really stupid in how it’s structured.

Just throw them on the roof. I used to be an inside the car person, just cant be bothered anymore. Even the security aspect has stopped fazing me now – ive been forced down the road by having bikes on the back of a t5 and havent had one pinched in 3 years, leave them on top of the car no bother now too.

Audi make good oem bars, that and some thule bike carriers and your away. I switched to the qr ones when i went carbon but the modern thule ratchet frame clamp ones are supposed to be carbon safe too.

Go on, im intrigued as to why people think its better to batten and screw into wood rather than just fix straight into the brick?

Mainly asking because tomorrows project is to fit some of the big foam covered brackets to the wall in the garage, one pair of hooks im not too fussed about as it will just be holding 2 roadies up, but the other has 25kg of kayak above the car and id really prefer it stay up.

Was going to fit 2x 10×50 nylon and steel fixings to each bracket but would a batten actually be any stronger?

How big? Ive had good results using rubbing compound and petrol on cheap cars, give a really good polish and protect after as the petrol will take all the surface protection away. Id definitely test an area first if anything posh.

if were talking side of a transit then treat yourself or see if you can borrow a random orbital polisher, youll be there a week otherwise. Might be as easy to have your local detailer correct it.

Im confused. She bought the dvds yet you’re in the doghouse? I’d be getting quotes for a new patio, maybe she’ll take the hint…. 👍

We often do ucpa which is about as cheap as you can do it, usually 6-700 inc meals lift passes kit hire and a half days guiding each day. Guiding is optional.

I’ll be amazed if you can do it for less in saalbach. Catered chalet hotels are about the best way of doing it easily but as you’ve found expect over a grand all in.

Exactly what paint have you used…?

You’ll need a second hive (multizone so not the full system) then I think?

Don’t fear David, you can pick up the proper hardback Collins dictionaries for under a tenner on eBay, should be just about right for a bit of Christmas child control…😉

The £20 x tools torque wrench?

Just bang a nest in. (Tado/hive other versions are available)

base station goes where your controller is now and then you either fit the best where your old stat is or you get a little stand for it and put it somewhere more suitable. I’ll give it it’s due, so much easier to use and it’s definitely saving money with its smart settings. I can even now shout at the Alexa thing to control it….

I was looking at this myself. I didn’t put any in my kitchen and wish I had now. I’ve put led strip light into shop cabinets before, I thought about doing similar and routing channels into the cabinet base, running cabling behind cabinets and taking a feed from the extractor to avoid going down the walls as they’re not tiled.

If your cabinets are painted can you make some pelmet to match the style to hide behind? Ikea do a good range, also looking amazon there are a few rechargeable options most seem to do 5 hours or so

You can get an upgraded loom for the headlights that doesn’t go around the whole wiring system five times before getting to the bulbs.

Plus one for this. See for some basics:

Doesnt work the same on OP’s t6, 5.1 and newer is very different canbus system and there isn’t the volt drop there used to be.

Always use Europcar. Never had an issue, just book cheap option and ask for an upgrade when you get there. I’ve always managed to get a vag dsg 4×4 and never booked anything other than the base option.

Depending on your arrival time I’d be wary of the cheaper options they’re not much cheaper and I’ve never seen anyone on their desks at the airport…