^thats why the velle option works – dual bulbs. If you retro fit you need a wiring mod to get both lights to stay on together – because it’s wired for h4 dual filament bulbs both won’t run together like they should. Travelinlite sell a harness to do this but I’m sure trout will be able to make those mods.

Cheapest way of doing it is to fit shuttle/Caravelle lights. There’s a few other options, you can get led bulbs but not legal and tricky to install.

There isn’t a lot of voltage drop at the lights like there used to be on the older vans so that route of beefing it up isn’t there anymore. If you’ve tried decent bulbs then changing lights is the best option.

Hazzy days will convert them to oem spec led… but it’s crazy money.

Lost worlds?

Id go crests from CRC personally. The crossmax pros use zircal spokes dont they?

Ive got the same frame and forks id avoid the carbon its a stiff enough frame as it is. SID’s and carbon wheels are going to make it very stiff and racey and she might not thank you for that.

Surely by being offended you are being offensive?

Its a person… black white pink blue brown its just a bloody person!

Fancy a vintage speedmaster though….. perhaps for my 50th!

Start saving… have put 2 145.003 Speedys through auction this year and watched a CK2998 go through for 69k….. it’s gone absolutely crazy.

Just google it, theres quite a few tools you can use online. Ive used mr central heating i think for an idea of btu required. You want to work on btu not physical size.

Local branch of city plumbing supplied all mine and they worked it all out for me, try your local plumbers merchants. Worked out the btu required and i fitted the nice stelrad rads, they have a pdf that gives all the outputs and it was just a case of me working out the best sizes for each room to give the required output and what thicknesses i could fit.

How much gas is in the tank? Park up at Edale, out round Jacobs around to hayfield up rushup across mam tor descend back down to edale. Then if you’ve still got go left out edale the other way, follow the little bridleway on the left, up to the Roman road down the beast up the hagg farm side up to win Lee tor and back down and around. Good day out that. About 65k i think. All pretty good in slop apart from the little link between edale and the beast.

Oh and STW pedant mode – it’s the peak. 😉

Hmm where are you sbob… that sounds like a much more tempting cafe stop!

Most round here are £5-6 for a coffee and bacon cob on the club run. We went to one once, cob and a coffee came to just shy of £10. I’ve not been back to that one.

Im quite liking the new cafe velo at tugby, but it’s usually thick end of £25 for 2 of us for breakfast which is too much.

^ not if you’re full sized! I’ve got 1800 in at 6’2 was biggest I could squeeze in to the space and my knees still stick up! Although having added about 50% more volume to the tub and new taps taking most of the flow away I’ve had one bath since fitting it….

Im with safeguard.

What kind of riding? You can go anywhere for 4 nights.

Id pick aosta. Trailforks, a map and a good sense of direction if you like natural tech. Couple of half days at pila bike park and then use the lift to get you out into the hills and a couple of days exploring the area.

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But altering a post specifically to add a referral link that wasnt required to benefit STW towers is… yet we cant help each other out when its of no disbenefit to the forum?

On topic, look at bulb too, im with bulb just looking at jumping to octopus as the lower standing charge makes it cheaper for me. Bulb is about 10% cheaper on kwh usage if your a heavy user though. Variable rate rather than fixed.

if anyone wants to pm me a link…. 😉

I heard he was near death and had an out of body experience before being rescued.

He looked down on himself and said…. halloumi!

As last poster, if youre going to convert it secure it asap, they’re terrible as standard. Id fit an autowatch ghost immobiliser.

You can do a lot yourself if youre pretty handy, do structural stuff first if posssible. Windows and roof, then insulate and carpet. Roof fitting can make a bit of a mess of the interior, its a chunk to lay out but worth doing first if you can. You can do pretty much everything else yourself to keep cost down if you have the time aside from the roof. Windows need a bit of bravery… i mentioned this in another thread but have a check around on insurance, partly converted vans can cause problems with some insurers.

Give hilo a call, they were working on a transit roof that looked like it was totally invisible when down. Dont know if its to market yet though.

Insurance the usual suspects are aplan brentacre Adrian flux, all are quite involved in the t5 scene. You’ll pay a lot less if you fully convert it, a half baked job ends up being classed as a panel van with modifications and makes insurance tricky. You’ll need to go full camper to alter the logbook though. I’m with safeguard 300 a year but that’s fully converted.

stick to 18’s. 20’s look cool but can cause higher wear etc, dmf/clutch/driveshaft issues. Keep to lighter weight ones that are load rated.

battery will go under drivers seat if you’re not planning to put a heater there or a swivel in. Don’t expect too much from it though, especially if you’re talking a cheap cool box fridge. I only get a couple of days from a 100ah leisure battery and that’s a proper compressor fridge. You’ve also got to factor in fitting a split charge or hookup feed.

Be prepared for the scene tax…. t4’s have it but nowhere near as bad as t5’s. If it’s a Lwb give some thought to a rear garage if you actually bike, that extra bit of room really works as wet storage.

In motorhome circles those who ‘pitch up’ in car parks, laybys etc are known as FLTs (Free Loading T…..).

Its not a motor home, its a t5. And not a 40k one at that. I could be less pikey and head to a campsite or a pub, but theyd probably not take too kindly to a gone 11pm pitchup and 7am depart, plus the thread isnt about motorhome etiquette or pub carparks is it…. 😉

Welshfarmer thats what im thinking. Ive done pub car park before but im thinking 10/11pm arrive and out on bike by 7 so not so useful this time. Will give it a crack. Worst case is i get moved to a road layby, nothing they can do there.

and,

No, because local people tend not to van camp in their own backyard 🙂 However,  found this on google:

Is a very good point!

You’ve not been nicked you’ve been flashed… if you weren’t speeding don’t worry about it. Especially if it’s flashing everything – will just be a fault.

So do you get to keep it? Will be a lovely watch if omega stick to their promise and restore it for you.

To be fair, its better than CRC, where you can filter and sort to your hearts content but then every result youre interested in is out of stock and only tells you its out of stock when you try and add it to the basket.

Bump for a saturday night?

I’ve got a force ten helium, brilliant little tent for the money. £200 ish normally. The cheaper vango option isn’t bad either for £80, but the f10 is a bit lighter and a bit roomier at the foot end.

Op will recommendations on here be any good, youre based in hk arent you? Dont think any uk travel insurance will cover you if not departing from the uk?

Ive been looking at yellow jersey as pedal covers offering is decreasing.

Have you tried the hkca?

Looks ace. Like welshfarmer my FF29 is by far my favourite bike, its been built up a few ways and i still love it. If it was a smidge longer, be even better. Head angle im ok with, if its a smidge slacker ok but not too much.

Can’t blame wiggle/crc. They’re a fairly new business, so the setup and running costs will be disproportionately high compared to established shops. They’re shut too much, they could adapt but the problem tends to be funding the adaption. Just expanding to opening decent hours, minimum 9-6 I’d say 6 days a week puts a big chunk of staff cost on the overhead.

We all face the same issues in retail, the only way of competing is to offer something you can’t get online, because quite bluntly if you can click a button on amazon and get a product tomorrow morning for half the price of driving to a shop, parking etc then why wouldn’t you. Retailers moan that people don’t support them but it’s a 2 way street. It’s all about service and adding value. Often well sell a product at little/no margin or even a loss if we have to – but it’s all about the long game with customers and turning stock over to keep the cash flow going. Other items at high margin like repairs, products you can’t buy online or compare price of offset this.

Duty on a suitcase is 5.2%, add that to the purchase price, add the shipping cost and add the admin charge for whoever is delivering it to you (between £8 for Royal Mail and £20-30 for courier) and add 20% vat to the lot.

Have a look if they trade on eBay, they’re getting quite good at this kind of thing now with the global shipping program, makes it really easy.

Pike would be my answer, when i wanted something similar i went for a pike 29 but dropped it to 120.

You can use a 27.5 120mm airspring in the 29 pike to get the 100mm travel, apparently the handling can be a bit doggy but is rectified by using the pike DJ topcap, you need quite a few tokens otherwise. Or just converting to coil as tf suggest.

If that doesnt make much sense then tf tuned will sort it out for you. I had a quick look and there was some 100mm pike 29+ forks on bikester.

Link for ct shirts 3 for £65 if you want a few..https://www.ctshirts.com/uk/mens-shirts/casual/?marketing=true&marketingCode=ukfb65&tib=TIB-shirts-casual-shirts

No. Go early or late, go somewhere else in July.

I went in July for my first time.. spent 3 days with heatstroke, never felt so ill! Been back in October since and that’s lovely.

£410 plus postage for a Seamaster mech non chrono non gold from omega. Above 40 years old you can double that…

I’d avoid the agents like Swisstec etc, they’re very good but it’s a fixed price structure and personally I’d rather omega do it for that money.

Should be around £80 ish at a guess from a generic Indy, the Indy ‘specialists’ will likely charge a bit more.

Its most likely sortable by a decent watchmaker if its just a service on a straightforward watch, jut have a word with your local jeweller doing watch repairs. Parts can be a pain to get hold of. Omega do a very good fixed price service under 40 years old, unfortunatley most 80’s seamasters dont really hold their value to make the service cost worth it unless you really want it done properly, obviously dependent on model and sentiment.

Not used them but have heard good things about time restoration in Hove.

I’ve got 2 sets of SP wheels, one have been brilliant nearly 5 years of ragging around all over the place and they’ve lunched a few spokes, but replaced those and a couple of true ups and they’ve been golden. Only 28h too, I was dubious about them but not a problem.  Newer set on the HT haven’t done as many miles but fine so far.

Only ballache is spokes – keep a box of spares of the sizes you need as they can be a nightmare to pick up on the fly. No real difference in building between sp or jbend. How well the wheel is built and quality of components will far outweigh the difference between the spoke types.

There’s some pretty good threads on here if you have a search – I keep hunting for the one with the guy who made his integral garage part of the house with upvc front and some really nice units inside, I can never find that thread though.

By the time youve had legal fees on the sale and purchase of the property, been hammered for the sdlt plus the second home surcharge, will you have achieved anything? Youve also got to repay your mortgage and take out a new one, may cost more money in fees.

I cant see much of a benefit in your situation, a 100k property is going to cost thick end of 10k to move and for no real gain, assuming the cash reserves are high because youre already drawing at the maximum tax effecient levels then OK corporation tax on the rent is lower than income but youve still got to extract the money somehow and youll be hit there unless you can plan that efficiently.

Speculative but id worry about tax changes too, I can see govt swinging the axe a bit more on this kind of thing, you wouldnt get an exemption from ATED if its just on the books of an unrelated business so if they drop that threshold could be another layer of cost to bear.

Decent accountant time by sounds of it.

I’m not raycisst , but I doubt there would have been a black guy about sherwood 900 a.d.

Someone didnt watch the first one…. morethan freeman might disagree.

Relax, it was years ago. Its not like spider man, how many times has that been remade recentley?!

Do on one still do them? I used them plenty before NW was a thing.

Actually yes just checked, plenty in stock 32t 104bcd. £19.99

edit, ignore me!

Lots. Lots and lots. And then youve got to try and paint it. If its silver you’ll end up with half the van painted!

Probably easier to buy a new one. Van or wife, your pick. Alternatively, youve just got yourself the biggest get out of jail free card…..