If you bothered to look there are classic cycles, take a chill pill and enjoy your day.

Apologies for wasting your time STATO how do i put in the chat if you could point me in the correct direction.

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5yr bank loan at 19yr old in 1986 for an 84 1.6 GTI on the strength of this Group B beast, then had to find £600 a year to insure it,sacrifices everywhere and a bit of O/T!! Happy days!!

Loved it, thought the camaraderie was superb , reminded me of my apprenticeship in a shipyard 30+ years ago,characters everywhere,thought the guy was spot on who said “I understand all the carbon footprint etc but why is it only the UK , Germany and China expanding their mining!!”

No ideas on the legalities but an accountant once told me you could loan yourself money , then default on the payments, the company then decides its too much like hard work to chase the debt, someone on here will know if this is a load of rubbish or not, so buy a bike decide on the repayments then default if it is above board.

Crap crap position, feel for you, if i was willing to borrow to lend them id want it in writing and legal that id want double back in percentage or no deal, for example house worth 100k you give them 10k they owe you 20% of the house after your wifes cut is subtracted!!

If you are like me never, like my mate immediately

A photo would probably help people !!

If it’s the one with the purple banner I used them several times 3-4 years back, spot on , cash back and gifts all honoured !!

Trying hard to mtb south lakes instead of road ride round the lakes but am struggling to get any backing in the group chat!!

Yes but you will have to live on site while the work is carried out!!

Cheers babble and slimjim78 , cant even have a test ride as Smith junior wants one for Christmas (need to decide around £500-600 mark) and if he spots one speck of dirt on it my life will be hell that I have used mine and he cant :-)!!

No but I just bought this for £1499,£900 off hope its as fun as this thread has made them sound, sadly can`t try til Christmas day as it is my present off the good lady and kids, happy days

That`s just made my Friday worse!!One for the memory bank, Happy days!!

Up lane by coop past Brewery by river ,up short steep hill turn right as tarmac runs out follow cycleway to either half way then straight across main road follow path to spill out at farm , turn right along the cycle path back towards Coniston, half way cross road head over cattle grid towards lake , follow the shore to Blue bird cafe, up Lake road though little shopping estate and pick up path in corner follow path through Coniston Hall campsite right into corner follow path along the lake cross stream and via right towards George Clarkes amazing space caravan and follow the road all the way out towards Torver, grab a beer at the wilsons arms or the church inn then pick up path behind church inn and roll back to Coniston, about 10 miles.
If you dont cross the road half way along the first bridleway you can ride to the end ,cross the Tilberthwaite road then pick up a path to YEW Tree Farm then roll back towards Coniston then pick the track up on the left i mention in the first line that spills out at the farm. Looking at a map it should make sense, I do this with Mrs and youngest 10+ miles if I remember correctly.Weve been known to stop at the pubs and the Bluebird Cafe :-) Oh and not a bloody clue why my font does this!!

Why not throw all the extravagant prizes in a raffle at £10 a ticket would think the pot would far exceed the amounts that some rich person has bid for it.
Would think Take That would much rather play to a run of the mill person and friends than some Rich person who will have their “friends” round just to ram one up them!

Oops i read it as push up bars and thought what the hell are they, so reading”to increase upper body sexiness ” was even weirder!!

Still got a 55 Plate Disco(70k) bought it 11 months old, apart from service costs only had to replace rubber bushes and a service kit on the compressor last year, been an absolute joy to own, let me down big time two years ago in the highlands 300 miles from home, cut out would not start, ended up in a indy garage where they changed half a dozen bits they thought it was , half way home cut out again, bit of research after limping home pointed at the battery being replaced at 7 year old as it drops voltage as it ages, probably wasted £500 in Scotland, bingo right as rain never missed a beat since!!Wife has a 55 plate Shogun ,bought in 2006 bit agricultural compared to the Disco but absolutely bullet proof ,shes had two prior to that, none ever had a problem. I use a Navara at work drinks diesel like its going out of fashion, but I am a touch heavy footed.

Had a main dealer in the town, the look and the sound of the 450 SEAC, awesome :-)

You are defo not alone.
When I first set up in business 20+ years ago I found it easier working the weekends as well then 2 days crap would not end up on my Monday desk and no Monday morning feeling as everyday rolled into the next, soon realized this was not the way forward,like you say if you`re off for a day or a week there is still a load of complicated stuff to come back to with the nice easy tasks cleared,the other lads always came back to a clean tray , not anymore!!

SEO 893M , when dad got this I thought we`d made it, always bought them 2 years old off his flash mate :-)

Loads of skill involved in operating a manual Bridgeport Milling machine,probably the most reliable versatile little machine you can have , owned two for over 30 years and still spot on today, if you were lucky it might have longitudinal feed and possibly a quill feed.

A fool and his money and all that! Did you operate them with a co-ax cable? Hand operated CNC 8O to press the start button, surely hand made is a chunk of metal and a load of hand tools is it not?

Starting in the toilet , walking backwards to the bathroom wall , seeing how long i could carry on hitting the target and then rushing forward to try and maintain accuracy,always a bit of spillage but all good as we had carpets in them days, happy days, sadly its about how long i can pee for now!!

totalshell will they leave one side not rendered or go round at the end , neighbour wouldn’t allow my dads builder to go round and finish a block wall he had built!!

Cheers for replies, it all works fine he will give me his half today just wanted half of the right amount, I agreed then the good lady said are you sure then the seed of doubt was sewn

Cheers for all the scenarios , coming round now, you can have half Matt £1.25 is on its way!!

I will ask my mate Matt!!

Welshfarmer if we both put in £450 each plus the kitty and i take all the £1350 then ive paid £1350 to buy plus the extra £450 so now paid £1800?? No??

Thanks for reply,So the project is now complete and I have paid £900 in total more he gives me £450 and we are quits?? It is something daft but it is battering my head!!

Over 325 Million US citizens and they are down to these two :cry:

Soon be a Strava KOM at 30mph average down it, accident waiting to happen :(

No printers!!!!

I cant help all i can add is ive gone through 5 so far this year , they are the bane of my life , whenever im desperate to print either work or home for kids homework boarding passes important quotations they spit their guts out , run out of ink , dont recognize aftermarket inks, hate them with a passion, Epson, Dell, Cannon ,Brother you name it i`ve binned it!!

Was a great route that either way good test of bike v trail, luckily we managed to ride them while they were still a challenge , our kids will be riding them all on shiny tarmac on road bikes ,sorry I mean electric road bikes!!

Easiest way to get a response , kick the shit out of the daughters ex, you can then raise all your points!

Pay up front last few times, not bought for a while and looking at the cost of the equivalent models to my Trek Remedy 9 2013 I wont be. Wouldnt turn nose up at interest free but hate to be paying for something two years later.

Lad I worked with always had a loan out and credit card maxed up to the hilt, was shit feared of dying and not having a load of debt thinking hed got one over on the system, wheres the logic in that :? , he was only in his 30s, saw him on facebook the other day probably mid 50s now, wonder if hes still running with the same mentality or if he`s increased his debt as the big day gets closer!!

1984 Madison Ridgeback, mail order , first ride parked at Rydal Hall and went over Jenkins Crag not a clue where I was going!! Happy days!! Couldn’t ride it round town as everyone stopped to ask what it was!!

I believe Sepp Blatter and Issa Hayatou are both available!