Yeah I’ve really enjoyed this series of Industry, have one more episode to watch. Agree it’s upped it’s game since the last series.

Anyone going to admit to that they’ll be watching Rivals (starts tomorrow)? From what I’ve read about it so far it looks like it will be a lot of trashy fun.

It looks as though a new season of What We Do in the Shadows starts next week, but not sure if that’s in the OK or not.

ah, didnt realise that @jimw.

Really? If you’d read the replies when you asked exactly the same question a month ago you would know that. Let me direct you to your own thread in case that helps; https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/freeview-recorders/page/2/

There are rumors the ipad mini and maybe the ipad are about to get hardware updates in the latest (end of October) Apple Event

iPad Mini has been updated this afternoon. Maybe there will be some discounts on the previous model, but Apple discounts are pretty hard to find. Aside from refurbs (either Apple’s own or elsewhere), Costco is usually as good as it gets.

“the law states you must be 14 years of age or over to ride an e-bike on public roads.”

It may or may not have anything to do with it but the uplift road (and presumably others) within Bike Park Wales have some sort of public highway classification – hence the vans needing to be MOT’ed and have tachos. (This is info from an uplift driver – may be total bollox).

@retrorick I don’t think the symptoms are quite right, but the AC compressors on Corsas/208s are a known weak point.

Apparently round our way some channels went missing recently, turned out it was a know issue at the transmitter.

Looks like you can check here; https://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/check-for-transmitter-faults/#/undefined

For me, id love to rewatch Nikita (the original french version) and Leon (The Professional), neither of which seem to be available. Might have to break out my dvd player or perhaps even my vhs recorder…

Good choices. Available to buy from Apple in full 4K Dolby Vison HDR. Leon for £5.99 and Nikita for £9.99

At my daughter’s primary her year (Yr 4) is an absolute bucket of ****bags compared to anything the school has ever seen. The theory seems to be the young ones were really affected by school closures as they missed the early fundamentals.

It a standard power cable isn’t it? No idea what they are called but the figure 8 ones.

Probably about a fiver? Or the official Sonos one;  https://www.sonos.com/en-gb/shop/power-cable-i

Bike looks nice, but having your kids names and dates of birthday on it is just weird.

Yes, hopefully the stuff* I listed at the weekend will be free.

Anyway we happened to see (not drive) the e-Corsa and she really liked the look/size of it. I know someone on here had one- I can’t face going back 100s of pages to find out who, so if they’re reading this – what’s been your experience good/bad?

I think it’s @retrorick

I have an e208, which is exactely the same Stellantis car with different styling. I’m really enjoying it a year on from purchase (used 21 plate). Range is not amazing, but sufficient for my needs (maybe 130 miles winter, 160 summer). Reliability- on board charger and air con compressor are known weak points on early cars. My OBC was replaced at Peugeots expense without fuss a couple of months out of warranty. Phone app is crap – or at least the car responds very slowly to it, think the cars mobile connectivity is the culprit not the actual app.

Stupid thing won’t let you pre heat/cool the cabin if the battery is below 50%, which drives me mad. I often want to set off with a low battery to then charge for free at work.

Re. Heated seats – on the e208 at least they were only standard on the highest spec model. Specs in general are hard to get your head round as things that you’ll read about being standard in the reviews at time of release were later dropped or restricted to top spec models – apparently due to post-covid chip shortages.

used EV seems to tick boxes for use and charging, currently she drives a corsa and she likes the look of the e- corsa or the the e 208.

I’m very fond of my e208. Any questions fire away. In case you weren’t aware the eCorsa and e208 are exactly the same Stellantis car underneath.

The obvious candidates of similar size (Zoe, Mini?) are 3 door, and not that appealing IMHO. If you want a bit more space for carting parents then there’s the e2008, and I presume the Mokka-e is the Vauxhall size equivalent. e-Golf has a tiddly battery. ID3 maybe? BMW i3?

Octopus were quoting a lead time of something like 9 weeks when I was looking for an install, so I contacted a few independents and then chose one based on both price but also how intelligent they seemed when going through the quotation process. For most of them they wanted a load of images of the consumer unit, main fuse, proposed charger location and route between them to give a quote.

I went with these lot in the end and they were brilliant. Bit more than the Octopus price but did a great job, and within a week of first contacting them. https://cawoods.net/

Have a check of your house fuse, general rule seems to be you need 100amp as a charger will draw 32 and the smaller 60ish amp fuses are therefore more likely to blow.

Most chargers can be set up to monitor and limit their load, so with the right charger, and an installer who knows what they are doing, a 60 amp fuse can be fine. Mine was set up in this way for a couple of weeks until the DNO had upgraded my fuse, then the charger installer came back and recalibrated it for a 100 amp fuse.

I am moving house at the end of this week as well and looking for a mesh solution for a larger new build.

You might want to try and see how you get on without a mesh system before you splurge any money. Without the substantial walls of an older building to penetrate you might not need it.

I don’t think anyone tall has weighed in yet? But as a fellow tall person I feel you. When I was looking I tried a bunch of Octavias and some are ok and some aren’t.

6’2″ in an Octavia VRS here. I’m not cramped and the seat is not all the way back.

We would be looking for a hatchback, about 180 mile range, with a budget of around £14k. Not too bothered about performance. What would be the current recommendation?

That would get you a 2 yr old top spec (GT Premium) Peugeot e208 if that is large enough for you. Love mine.

I’m not a charging on the go expert, only ever done it a couple of times, but if you are an Octopus customer at home it’s probably worth getting an Electroverse card as you get a discount on lots of chargers.

You’ll probably be fine, but a) don’t run it off a phone – get a router with a SIM card slot, b) get a SIM card from a provider that you are 100% sure has sufficiently good service in your exact location to give you what you need (don’t judge on just download speed – also look at latency and upload).

Attention middle aged / old men; Series 7 starting September 22nd

So now what I need to know is others experience of wiring the charger from mid-house under the stairs to my (mains powered) garage 50m away without destroying the house or garden….

I contacted several installers and most wanted loads of images sent to them of my mains fuse, consumer unit etc and the route to where I wanted the charger sited and then quoted based on that. I went with the company that came back with the most sensible follow up questions based on what I had sent them in the end.

Yeah I got an email from Ohme today – but it seems to be describing all the changes that came with v.2.0.0 of the app which was released two months ago?

But the guinea pigs were the best. Indoors in a large cage. They used to get excited at the rustle of the sales bag as it came out of the fridge

Their sense of smell really surprised me. Our guinea pigs live on the upstairs landing miles away from the kitchen and they start squeaking like crazy the moment I open a package of fresh basil, mint or coriander (the left over stalks are their favourite treat).

Massive tents all round the country that are collection only.

Well I just learnt from that list that apparently adding VAT to private school fees would not have been possible under EU law. Interesting if true.

For the few times a year I use ours I’ve switched over to heat logs. Cheaper, more consistent, bugger all ash produced.

First two threads on this forum; dude gifted a 128 g truffle and someone with 22% employer pension contribution.

FML

Mesh as above, but when you get fibre installed the installers are usually pretty flexible on where they route the fibre into the house, and hence where the router is (there is no dependency on where current master socket is). You might be able to get the router located more centrally in the house which will help. You’ll still likely need a mesh system, but it might minimize the number of nodes needed and you might need less hops between them to cover the house.

All Bluray players will play DVD’s. They won’t play HD-DVDs which were the losing format in the HD format wars (Bluray vs HD-DVD). That might be what is causing confusion but you’re not going to come across a HD DVD nowadays.

I would say you are safer buying a Blueray player as the older generation, in my experience, just see any physical media as “a disc”, so if you have something that can play any “discs” you are less likely to get phone calls about their disc player not liking the disc they are feeding it.

I paid £100 to see Suede at the 100 Club back in 2010 which was pretty silly money at the time. It was a warm up gig for their one off reunion appearance at that years Albert Hall Teenage Cancer gigs, and you had to submit bids for tickets to the 100 club gig in a blind auction (money to charity).

I don’t begrudge them, but slightly funny that they are still going (and I’m still going to their gigs) after paying good money to get to their “final, last ever” gig in 2003. Then paying lots to see them at a “one off” reunion show in 2010.

When it comes to wall chargers, what is good these days? Is it worth an intelligent one over a ‘normal’ one to be able to get on the intelligent go tariff?

IMHO, yes get an intelligent one for future proofing as then you can access smart tariffs independent of what car is hooked up.

Bands i would of loved to have seen at the height of their powers but didn’t….

You could have ticked off two of those at Glastonbury ’95 (Portishead and Gil Scott Heron), and also the Stone Roses if John Squire hadn’t famously spanned himself by falling off a mountain bike, leading to the famous Pulp headline slot.

Now I’ve read back I see the current Freeview recorder is a Panasonic. One reason I wasn’t recommending an all in one was that Panasonic seem to be the only people who make them anymore, and my experience with a Panasonic recorder is that the interface and usability was shocking.

If you really want an all-in-one I think your only option is this;

https://www.richersounds.com/panasonic-dmrex97-black/ (£319)

or for a tenner more one that also plays Blurays; https://www.richersounds.com/panasonic-dmrpwt550eb-black/

I still think your better option is separate units for a better recorder experience (and cheaper overall). eg. these (which are both physically small units so might be an option?);

Recorder; https://www.richersounds.com/manhattan-t4r-500gb/ (£169)

Bluray player; https://www.richersounds.com/panasonic-dmpbdt180-black/ (£89) – or Panasonic DMP-BD84EB-K on Amazon at £75 looks a good option (and possibly even smaller).

I strongly suspect you will be much better getting whatever the best Freeview recorder is (or stick with current) and then adding a separate Bluray/DVD player. A perfectly good disc player will be no more than £80 at a guess. A combined unit would probably be more than the two units separately and the recorder could be a complete dog, as a lot of them are.

Intelligent Octopus Go looks like the default choice. Looks like it’s 7p/kw.hr for 6 hrs each night, but what happens during the day if it schedules a charge – does the whole house switch to the 7p rate? I’m thinking it would be easy to “game” the system by ensuring you need to charge in the day – i.e. don’t plug in at night, plug in at 9AM,and charge the car through the day, hey presto a 7p day rate. I can’t imagine Octopus would let that happen – so is there some system to prevent it ?

Yes and no. You tell it how much you want added and by when, so you would plug it in at 9am and tell it you want eg. 75% added by 7pm. Octopus then decide when they want to deal that out to you, it’s unlikely to start immediately, or be for the entire 9am to 7pm period. When it is charging you will get 7p rate for the whole house. I actually don’t know what happens if you ask it todo that type of thing and Octopus don’t think they have the excess capacity to give you cheap electricity during the day, but would presume the charger app would tell you what it can do. If you plug in at 9 am (or at anytime) and just hit the “Charge Now” you will always get charged full whack as you are not giving them any control.

Strava heatmap to see what’s actually ridden (filter by ride/mountain/gravel as desired).

Plot manually on OS map (app on iPad or website).

Export as gpx to smallest Garmin available so you don’t look like some lone-wolf prepper with a great big screen on your bars.

If you do get one, Barkeepers Friend is awesome for getting marks off them.

I have some nasty marks that I’d like to shift – when I Google Barkeepers Friend there are loads of individual products under that brand – which is that I need?

Very long time since I road tripped that area, but a highlight was some of the national parks just up into Utah – Bryce Canyon in particular.

I’d love to get to see REM again. They were still brilliant live when they called it a day. I don’t think it’s out of the question that they’ll have another go at it as they all seem to get on and pop up in each others current projects occasionally.