Another good vid, nice one ton. You realise the STW purists will be frothing at the gash though, I saw coil shocks on trail bikes, body armour and at least one set of wide bars!

That Gaytona is fabulous and I would unironically wear the everloving poop out of it

Thanks Camo16, it was kind of a happy accident, I was rushing to catch a plane and left my smokes at home, didn’t have time to buy any more on the way to the airport either. By the time I’d landed at my destination, sorted out a car and got on the road it had been nearly a day already, and I thought “I’ll try this”. That was 11 days ago and I can’t see myself going back now.

I feel tired all the time which I guess is because I don’t have the drug coursing my veins, but I’m sleeping deeply which is good. Taste is better already, smell better, and that smokers’ guilt has gone. I swear smoking makes a person depressed!

I even went for a 2 mile run yesterday…..

11th day off the fags today, feeling great, drinking a lot of water. Reckon I’ve saved £65 quid already too 🙂

v8ninety – ever owned one? I have, and it was unreliable and a bit agricultural compared to the others.

I don’t know how anyone can claim an old CRT is a patch on a modern LCD, have you never watched football in HD on a decent one?

Assuming you’re not paying the fuel bills. If you are, there’s always a TD Galaxy/Sharan. Or maybe if you actually want to carry loads of luggage a Discovery or full size Range Rover.

No I pay my own bills, it’s pretty thirsty but it’s cheaper to fuel, and more comfortable on long journeys, than my S Class, so I don’t think a ford galaxy or skoda sharan would come close to be honest 🙂 I had a “proper” Range Rover for a while but dynamically it wasn’t a patch on the RRS and a bit staid, I’m in my 30s not my 60s after all, and Discoverys are unreliable and a bit agricultural IMO.

I’ve had two Range Rover Sports, there’s not much better than a TDV8 for crossing continents at high speed in amazing comfort with loads of luggage/bikes. Excellent off road too. Not a fan of that new spice girls one though

5’10” 16 inch 5

Wait, what? Didn’t everyone learn to ride a bike with flats when they were a kid?

Playing devil’s advocate, if your wife is only able to take ~£5000 a year out of the business, do you need an apprentice?

Pila to Aosta 11km run

You can tell the people who have never shot a desert eagle – it’s an awful weapon that’s more likely to break your nose or wrist or dislocate your shoulder than maim your adversary. If I was packing heat these days it would be a Glock gen 4, probably a 17.

Wait, wouldn’t the primary copy be stored locally then synced to the remote storage, like with dropbox or any other “cloud” application?

Hey I know I’ll force my misguided views on my kids!

(actually isn’t this parenting in a nutshell?)

Yes absolutely do it, the best upgrade you can do on a 5, believe all the hype. Sure it’s a lot heavier than an air shock but I take it you aren’t a pro XC racer, right? The bike climbs a little better than with the old rp23 despite the extra weight, but really comes alive as soon as you point downhill, so much so that I got rid of my DH bike and my XC bike and now just ride a 5.

Most of the time I don’t even think about work when I’m in the office. They’ll rightsize my headcount in a heartbeat the moment that they think it’ll add a penny to next quarter’s bottom line, so I’m getting my retaliation in pre-emptively. Sometimes I spend all day daydreaming or in a Wikipedia hole, or watching The Wire. Curiously, the more I slack off, the more they over-value my skills.

hahah “hardoned singlespeeders”, I’ll save that one along with power rangers and stormtroopers

You sound like a classic motorbike ****, perhaps it’s you that has the problem?

I’ve stopped eating takeaway, I reckon I’m saving ~£100 a month on that, oh and my Thursday night beer session, that has to be an extra £160 a month.

no problems here, chrome on w7

Is this private land you’re talking about?

Jesus I’m glad I don’t work where you guys with the draconian policies work. Where I work we are all allowed smartphones, unlimited web usage etc, we can bring in our own ipads and laptops and hook them up to the company-provided wifi (on an ADSL line) to keep them off the corporate network. It works because we’re trusted not to take the piss.

Go to London! I guarantee you’ll either be mugged or not appreciated. Catch the train to London, stopping at Rejection, Disappointment, Backstabbing Central and Shattered Dreams Parkway 🙂

Any idea of a Rolex got summed up in the first few minutes of Die Hard, dicks like that do Rolex, Rolex is what you get by the grateful man after you gave your entire working life slaving your ass off. Rolex is a sad watch.

I infer from this that you really wanted a Rolex

nothing wrong with a good pipe and a tweed jacket

Not necessarily I mean if you want to fine, but some nice boots or shoes or something maybe? It’s not for me to judge but IMHO trainers are strictly for the under 30s. Google “emo dad”

wait how old are you? trainers become a bit dodgy in your thirties

Loved season 1+2, lost interest a bit in the later episodes. As good as The Wire? not IMO – the best TV show ever made (excepting the last season)

Unless you intend on turning pro why worry about being good?

I have a Panerai and as much as it is a lovely simple thing it’s too big to wear with a suit and too nice to wear as a beater, so it hardly ever gets any wrist time.

For those who “don’t get” watches, fine, yes we heard you the first million times – try another thread, this one is about watches.

I’d go for a rolex explorer 1 – can be dressed up and down, looks good on any strap, 39mm, not blingy, a thing of beauty in my opinion.

I have a couple of patents – echoing the advice above, if you can’t afford to defend the patent it’s an exercise in futility, (although if successfully defended once, you are almost guaranteed to be able to successfully defend it again) as the market will be flooded with cheap clones before you can blink. I can put you in touch with my patent attorney if you like but I was looking at a five figure sum last time 🙁

You have to remember you’re repeatedly sticking your penis in his daughter, I guess some FILs don’t handle that too well 🙂

I think you’re making a big mistake. I went from a custom tuned
RP23 to a ccdb and the difference is night and day, more grip and more speed in the rough stuff, better pedalling. It does weigh a tonne though

BoringCardiganWorld

What happened to the threads where we talked about drinking smoking and shagging 🙁

midass am i right guys

who cares

why do you care about this

have a word with yourself look what you have become

Even more depressing (for the younger generation who didn’t shrewdly invest get lucky: Average 2011 UK earnings £26000, average house price £228000.