It’s the Saracen ad banner screwing the layout

It didn’t need to be tarmac though did it. Plenty of smooth surfaces that would have been more natural looking than that. It’s a 1 in 9 slope so if you’re unsteady on your feet thats going to be a tough climb anyway.

1.2 puretech Citroen/Pug are wetbelt too

Seat Exeo estate – it’s an Audi A4 avant with a different badge. You’ll be lookig at 2010-2013. Watch out for rusty wings and  electrical gremlins caused by blocked scuttle panel drains.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-search?advertising-location=at_cars&body-type=Estate&fuel-type=Petrol&fuel-type=Diesel&include-delivery-option=on&make=SEAT&max-engine-power=200&min-engine-power=100&model=Exeo&postcode=BB185HE&price-to=6000&sort=distance&year-to=2023

Prices have gone up since https://velorbis.eu/product/arrow-classic-gents-jet-black/

There’s a 10 year old Velorbis city bike sat in my office that got ridden at uni by the lad about 3 times. Cost him a grand I doubt I could shift it for £200

What is this place coming to people?

Standards, standards, standards!

Going by the spelling of the thread title if you are responsible for your childs grammar and spelling maybe you should be taking a long, hard look at yourself ;-)

It had been up for sale on the Enfield forums for quite a while but being near Penrith probably put people off. It’s s got corrosion to the engine cases and fork lowers and every single nut and bolt will need wd40 if they ever need undoing.

I’m determined for this not to turn into a money pit with me upgrading it, it’s done 25k miles of Cumbrian winters already so it’s had a hard life and I’m not sure a few kg off the bike would make much difference when I’m carrying at least a dozen too many myself. Tyres will be first then it will be replacing things as they break I think.

Rear end tidied up a bit and rear racks now off. Been out for a couple of hours tracking down all of the random vibrations, think I’m down to the headlight rim as the last one to sort now.

Genuinely astonished at how easy to ride it is, makes you go hunting for the narrowest, nadgery, bumpy little lanes where it excels.

How on earth though did they manage to source such a poor front brake when the rear is so good?

It needs some off road tyres before I take it off road but even hitting patches of gravel, potholes and farm muck doesn’t phase it !

Got carried away and took a little air on a hump back bridge and it just soaked it up without blinking.

I don’t know if I would be as pleased with it if I’d paid £2.5k, which seems to be what all the ones in eBay are fetching, but for £800 it’s brilliant.

I’ve just joined the ranks with possibly the roughest Himalayan in the country :-)

Engine bars and panniers and rear racks are already off as it wouldn;t fit in the shed with them on and I can’t see me ever using them.

Oh and it turns out you can fit one in a wheelchair adapted Alhambra :-)

Just a little off route is a town called Argentat which is quite nice and has quite a few marked trails https://www.correzerando.com/Velo/VTT/Bases-VTT-et-cyclo/(fiche)/base-vtt-xaintrie-val-dordogne-155003383-3db4ab8

Loads of stuff on outdoor active in the Correze https://www.outdooractive.com/fr/route/vtt/correze/la-correzienne-vtt/801312519/#caml=5eg,8dep0,7hvkmz,0,0

Will be watching with interest. I have a suspected labrum tear and waiting to hear today whether I’m off for a scan. Physio hasn’t helped mine after 12 months of trying.

I’m at the point where mounting and dismounting the bike is very painful and it’s only getting worse so hoping for positive news.

“And if anyone can recommend a better road than the one from Horton in Ribblesdale to Hawes via the Ribblehead Viaduct, I’m all ears.”

Devil’s Bridge to Sedburgh (A683) then on to Hawes (A684)

Hoping that the French push through easy Visa’s for UK nationals who own a property over there so I can split time 50/50.

Plenty of bits and bobs jobs over there to keep a bit coming in and I can work remotely on the stuff I do over here.

Need another 10 years of contributions into pension before it can happen though

@dave_h my Griso in my previous post is for sale. (https://revtothelimit.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=9435)

Relative lack of power (although 80 odd) is because it’s a 2 valve, oil cooled, pushrod OHV and the only consent to modern engine design was the addition of an extra spark plug per cyclinder and fuel injection rather than carbs.

It doesn’t need much more power to be honest as the wind above legal speeds gets unpleasant. The torque to get you there is fabulous though.

Welcome to the Guzzi club

https://i.postimg.cc/BvmKbZ7b/image.png

I’ve got an unused Aldi one, a double, never been slept on, if interested bung me a pm and a bottle of wine + postage/ delivery and it’s yours

Cables / Hoses?

Why not 650b on her Creo – should enable wider tyres?

https://www.specialized.com/au/en/turbo-creo-sl-faq

Specialized say up to 47c on 650b

If you go via the council complaint route you may have to list it as a neighbour dispute if you ever come to sell your house

Millar was talking about BG sprints changing from him going too early to surfing the wheels a bit more this year which has brought him more chances of wins

Gift it to a brexit it voter for xmas

You can buy sticky silicone nosepads on amazon also silicon arm grips too. Cheap as chips and work well even if you’re a sweaty

You can get adhesive foil tape on a roll to go over the holes if you do decide to screw

Duchy of Lancaster so wild camping might not be so easy.

The Suzuki Swace is the same car with a different badge…

Claris

Primera Estate ?

That head tube is long enough to be a seat tube on one of my bikes :-0

It was a Sprint – took the fairing off and created a Trident-a-like, was far too easy to not be aware of speed with the fairing. 70 feels like 70 now.

Being an old Brit it will be leaking enough oil to keep the entire back end of the bike well lubricated :-)

My British environmental disaster

Oxo cube in when browning the mince and onions. Dark chocolate at the finish.

Maybe have a look at odoo https://www.odoo.com/app/accounting

I’ve not seen a 12v one packaged as small as this one, I would say it’s probably less than 2/3 of the size of the atypical ones like this

If you open a new account you can get it for £2 plus a bit of postage.

When I sell my guzzi I’ll be looking at a Himalayan for trundling about on and it looks an easy carry.

I’ll test it on a flat tyre on the Guzzi at the weekend and see how it copes.

Just a heads up for those looking for things to add to puncture kits. Ordered one of these last week and it turned up yesterday.

Did an MTB tyre up to 30 psi in <5 mins this morning and the battery indicator didn’t change. Not had time to test on a motorbike tyre yet. Seems solid https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005855215638.html?spm=a2g0o.order_detail.order_detail_item.3.3114f19ccBvG2u.

Should be good for airbeds and the like for camping trips too.

It’s about the size and weight of a laptop power pack, usb-c quick charging.

It was on a ridculous deal when I bought it so I got it for <£10 delivered but I think it’s still reasonable value at £16.

Have a look around the thermostat housing, they can have tiny cracks which only open up when the car gets hot.

Plenty of beaches in the Auvergne alongside the Lacs created by the hydro dams