Only white middle – class dicks could display the level of ignorance of police racial profiling displayed on this thread.

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It’s the nature of the beast Graham, we often ride in horrendous conditions, in wet grinding paste masquerading as mud, the fit was perfect, they looked good on and off the bike, they did the job up until they failed. I ain’t after a refund, it was probably the mud and maybe catching the saddle that did for them, and would likely do for some megabux boutique brand too.
I’d buy again for sure, but as Mark 90’s says, if these little details can be improved on to make a truly fantastic product, even if it cost a few more sheckles

Had a pair of month old tenn driven trousers go at the crotch seam and an inch or so down each leg on 24th of December, Graham..
No biggie, I gorrilla taped them and carried on!

I must have dreamt about the one armed security hofficer..

I’ve met people on here before I was even on here, and not even through biking

No names, no pack drill. And I was camping nowhere near you lot when “it” happened

Kids and disc brakes.
Finger chopper off-ers

wl – Member
After 9 months of hard use on a hardtail I can’t fault my plastic Nukeproofs – they weigh nothing, grip like glue and were £29.

This.
The nylon Sam Hill versions have been brilliant through summer and winter, the bearings are still perfect, they deliberately don’t spin freely so foot placement after a dab is a breeze, I expected this “stiction” to be the first feature to wear out but it’s still perfect.
The replaceable steel pins are all fine and correct, but two of the molded pins on the outer edge have worn off due to pedal strikes riding rocky climbs..
So highly recommended

Now then, junkyard dogs offer makes things interesting, a good garage can bolt that head on for around £300 including the head skim…

tacopowell – Member
Scudo / Expert/ Dispatch
French though?!

Italian 😉

Certainly the pre face-lift up to 2008 were built at Fiat, hence the wierd alfa romeo 5 stud wheel pcd that’s totally at odds with anything built by Peugeot or citroen

The post facility I’m not sure, they probably are French built, but even the cheapest dog in that model is around £2000 + still.. The most expensive will be the badged up Toyota powervan.

Actually there’s another good van, the pre PSA group collaboration powervan, rear wheel drive, bomb proof mechanically and bodily , the awesome Toyota D4d diesel engine, they don’t rot, they drive lovely and are comfy all day…

I’ve done more than a few heads cams and valves on the PSA 1.9 Dw8s too, but even if the belt snaps at high speed, it can be just a snapped camshaft and shock damage to the vac pump, I soon learned to whip out the cam and glow plugs and do a cylinder leak off test before whipping heads off 😉
They really do cost shirt buttons to rebuild, and taking the heads of cars/vans that have done 270000 + miles you can still see the original scores from the bore hone when it was first built- awesome engineering IMHO!

I’m reckoning £400 in engineering and parts.
Tell me where I can find this sort of price?!

Thats around what my man a Molyneux Engineering would charge on average for what i assume to be worst case damage scenario- again assuming the injectors aint seized in the head and need a specialist aside from the engineering shop to remove them with special hydraulic tools…

I know these vans have a massive fan base, but they really are dire, for a cast iron engine to be so weak is almost unprecedented, the electronics are a nightmare and a gearbox made of cheese.
Unfortunately when they to do work, they drive fantastic with great economy, which is why i suppose they have their appeal

Your quote of £1700 is about the price of a lowish miles 6 plate Scudo / Expert/ Dispatch with a bombproof 2.0 hdi or apocalypse war proof normally aspirated 1.9 DW8. The boxes are equally tough and about the only thing that wear are tyres, brake frictions, rear radius arm bushes and front lower arms/ All are cheap to replace
So i know what my next move would be

1.9 Renault diesel is an interference engine, so it has lunched the valves and possibly the cam. It’s a head off job, £8 per valve, head skim, valve lap, valve guide check and possibly replace.. I’m reckoning £400 in engineering and parts.
Then there’s the garage Labour… 6 hours or thereabouts

You leave the lithium ones connected for a few minutes till a telltale extinguishes, to balance the cars lead acid, hence the puny Crocodile and leads shouldn’t see full cranking current.
Yeah, they work

The mrs chucked a can of beans through a car rear screen for deliberately splashing through a puddle…

Is power kite flying allowed in Burnley?

I was about to mention waterfoot/stacksteads but RNP beat me, next town over from Accrington is Rishton, it aint too bad and seems to have money thrown at since I was there 10 year ago, or Great Harwood just around th’corner

I’d check the loom for breakage between the door and A pillar, myself

I reckon every single one of you lot are all alter egos of Elfinsaftey

iancity1 – Member
Just re-reading The Feather men by Sir Ranulph Fiennes,

Filmed under the name “The Killer Elite” I believe, also very good

I bought Mrs Ulysse on a trip to Bangkok

Another one working their way through SA Corey Expanse series here, started on Leviathan, natch, then skipped to a novella on Fred Johnson, the butcher of Anderson Station, and now about a 1/4 through Callibans War…

So do you actually drink alcohol on some kind of pub crawl while riding bikes?
Genuine curiosity

My other arf is for sale, much cheapness if you’re desperate

lowey – Member
from a proper scumbag area. The whole of Tonge Moor needs bombing.

Cheers Dave, I love you too, mate 😡

Anyone done artichokes 2 for a pound in Asda yet?

Short motor isn’t enough, the cam bearings in the heads will have also span, and there’s 4 of em…
So I’d say a crank regrind and shells, 4 con rods, and the heads/ cams line bored make the old engine an uneconomic prospect. There’s a day’s work for the machine shop once it’s out, there’s a day’s work bolting the engine back together and another day putting the engine back

Matchmakers?

Name and shame.

Actually, a costed breakdown of treatments and provisions at the end of year seems reasonable, this is what has been deducted from the pot for your care this year….

What about them thoughtless twunts who insist on falling off bikes in forrests and on paved rights of way…
Charge em double

All the above

Apart from cutting conventional military, although I’m no way a fanboi of guns and gun fantasists

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-30740956

There’s your private model right there, tear the arse out of it and shut the doors once it’s clear there’s no profit

the stupid political games Hunt plays have killed people

And IDS/ David Freud’s games haven’t?

Gin

Big Clive always maintains using stand alone plug in chargers…

Loads of his vids on this subject, this is the first relevant one i happened across

Id GLADLY pay more tax if folk werent actively ended by the DWP for ridiculous “crimes”
Id gladly pay more tax if no one, and i do mean noone faced starvation or homelessness
Id gladly pay more tax if the NHS was allowed to be run in a proper, efficient manner with proper costings in the supply chain etc.

But Mrs Maybe, like her predecessor, has a motive to underfund the NHS to the point of collapse, untill Branson swoops in and saves the day. Hunt wrote a little tome all about the process.

Why’s it broken?

It does sorta sound as though the chains too short?

Mmmm, must buy more Wookey Hole cheese…..