Whereabouts are you ? anywhere near Gloucester ?

If so, go see Slam69, they’re fat bike gods and got my JJs set up with no bother (for me) at all

I’ve heard of people using a strip of foam camping mattress to build up the rim bed

Canal ?

That’s exactly the engine I bought, it’s a great engine and have had zero problems so far. I believe that this issue was mostly confined to the earlier pre 2011/12 BiTurbo’s and even then the vast majority of engines are fine. Yes there are a group of owners who have had a genuine problem with this issue and understandably they are annoyed. But these owners also tend to shout the loudest, creating the scare story you’ve mentioned above in the process and are perhaps unrepresentative of the vast majority of BiTurbo owners who continue to drive their BiTurbo’s daily without any problems.

That’s also exactly the engine I bought. Got my fingers burned. 100% hit rate. It affects the pre- ‘D’ suffix EGR cooler units. If I were buying another I would avoid like the plague. I hope yours continues to be fine, what EGR cooler do you have, out of interest ? Personally I’d rather do without the worry. Thought the OP should be aware, if I had been it would have saved me quite a few quid and a load of hassle. I suspect it’s more of a problem amongst those with that cooler than you suggest. I bought a non-180 afterwards and regret it not one little bit.

One word of advice, if you do get one, avoid the 180hp BiTurbo engine.

There’s a known problem with the EGR valve breaking down and spitting bits of aluminium into the engine thereby wrecking the bores. Telltale sign is massively high oil consumption to start with.

There’s a Facebook page dedicated to this, “vw t5.1 / t6 excessive oil use for cfca 2.0 180hp engines”.

Blackburn you say ? As in purveyors of fine bicycle accesories ?

Wayside

Chamber

Plugger

Outpost

Barrier

Countdown

Check this guy out, talks loads of sense :

https://www.facebook.com/JamesSmithPT/

He’s back in again ….

Which sections of which canal are you using, out of interest ?

Exactly the same happened to me with this shower of shite. Ordered a road tyre, £48, on the 7th May. Several weeks of delays. Eventally I gave up and cancelled my order on May 30th, they promised a refund in 7-10 days. Still waiting.

Raised a dispute with my credit card company yesterday and expecting them to refund me and sort out the mess with Athleteshite. They’re Dutch aren’t they ? AthleteBV.

Anyway, lucky for me (I hope) that I paid on my credit card.

Avoid at all costs in the future.

I know he’s a cock but JR-M did ever so slghtly go up in my estimation after this :

Could he possibly be any worse than any of the rest of ’em ??

They’re all a bunch of useless t0ssers

What is it with women and sell-by dates ? In our house, at one second past the sell-by date the bin is full of perfectly edible food

“You better un-**** yourself or I will unscrew your head and sh!t down your neck”

The late, great Gunny Hartman

Get something made from recycled innertubes from Beerbabe.co.uk

I’m going off the rails on a horny train ……

lalalalalalala

– Ozzy Osbourne

Why are you using one?

No so bothered about preventing an accident as such, more to do with proving blame if there is one or providing evidence for reporting close or ‘punishment’ passes

The postie where I used to live was the most stressed out, pee’d off person I used to meet. He was a lovely guy and wanted to do a good job, however, he was tortured by ‘performance management’, short staffedness and ridiculous deadlines and targets.

Didn’t sound the most pleasant or stree-free existence to me.

You know that thing with the TSB the other day ? Well ……..

Deliveroo !

Neat ! Thanks for posting

I like Monmouth, but I like Chepstow betterer and Tintern (see above) is lovely.

Forest of Dean just up the road too……

Wasdale Head ? Might well be National trust, it’s been a while since I’ve been. Lovely campsite and much quieter than most other places.

There was a time when you couldn’t book in advance, you just had to turn up. Maybe that’s changed now.

Go and see the TT, it is truly awesome if you’ve never seen it before. The island really comes to life for those two weeks. Surpised you found any availability for the ferry then in any case.

They have an MTB race in September, the Manx End to End.

Yes !

I like it there. It’s very pretty and there’s quite a lot to do.

Weather can be very changeable though.

It’s a bit like the UK in minature. The TT of course is brilliant, other motorcycle events during the summer too.

Cheaper to fly and hire a car ?

TT is the last week in May and the first week in June, is that when you searched for ferry prices ? Will be very expensive then if not sold out altogether.

No, she’d only be replaced by some other useless twonk

This week I am mainly lusting after one of these :

Lotus Europa Twin Cam

And my love for these is never-ending :

Mini Cooper S

Oooooh, clever innit ?!

Ha ha, very good !

I gotta know right now ….

Oh I give up.

How the **** do you post a video then ???

:-)

Let’s try that again ….

[ video]http://youtu.be/C11MzbEcHlw[/video ]

Carla DeVito taking one for the team :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C11MzbEcHlw

I’m trying hard to resist this at the moment :

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/On-One-Bish-Bash-Bosh-Gravel-CX-Bike-in-Medium-Like-Orange-RX9/292496609923?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

I worked with Helen Back once too. She may have had a handcart.

In the phone book at my last place : Baldeep Sukham.

My old woodwork teacher : Mr Wood. Niall Wood !!

There’s been one of these working in Scotland recently (not my picture) :

Just go and see Jon Lee :

http://theseatpostman.com/

No further discussion required

Apparantly I do …….

Oh dear

Thanks Rob, prob something to do with the fact I’ve been trying to do it from my iPad rather than laptop