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My view is that stuff goes wrong though, so I like to keep my fixed outgoings as low as possible. I'd never buy a new car outright though, it seems insane to me to spend £20k on something that in 3 years will be worth £7k. Suppose it just depends on whether you want a new car or not? I can see the logic behind PCP over buying outright, but the idea of paying £20k in any form to move about on the planet just doesn't suit me I think. As an example though (Jardo help?), if I bought a second hand car for £7K on some form of finance over a 3 year period, how much would my monthly payments be? (I'd prefer to just buy it outright, but it might not be an option).

They won't be saying that when they retire. I'm a complete financephobe, so when it comes to buying a car I'll probably end up with a 15 year old Micra to keep running costs down.

I seem to see a lot of people I know getting cars on HP or PCP at the moment, but doesn't it cost you a load of money in the end? So if you want a new car and buy it on one of these things, instead of paying £20000 you end up paying way more than that? I've been semi-looking into these things as hopefully I'll be getting car'd up within 12-18 months, but it's hard to justify looking at £20k cars when a £3k one will last for 10 years.

I can't play.

Apart from Prawn, Rainbird, Tom Booth, MadManMike, Inur and most other regulars apart from you?

Aye been there, tis shit when silliness has such an impact on your weekend's riding.

Just to make your life worse, the grease in your skin won't have made it clean either, it'll have contaminated it further.

Watch the video, it answers all of those questions. I watched it and my stance hasn't changed. I don't want to read, I don't want to learn, I don't want to understand or be enlightened, I want to be TOLD WHAT TO DO. This is crucially what you (Ben) and all these videos and stories don't tell us yet is what to do. What's the point in all this research if you don't tell us what to do? Quite frankly I'm tired of being told to read stuff without actually seeing any action. I won't be replying again or watching/reading anything you post on this matter again Ben unless I start seeing something I can actually do. All that video told me really was that I need to do something impossible, but didn't actually tell me what that was, which is no f**king use to anyone. I want to do my bit, and I want to help if I can, but how can I do that if I don't know what that is?

Aye sounds like a plan. Am I right in remembering that you're renting out Hayley's old place as well?

To rent or buy?

By my calculations, going from 18:15 to 16:13 will only increase the ratio by roughly 2.5%, which I doubt would be noticeable. If you changed to 18:14 however, that would be a 7.2% increase, which would be noticeable IMO. Not by much though. 16:12 would be around 10.08% increase. Personally I'd go for 18:14, as it would only require you to change one sprocket and still gives a pretty big increase. Do it, I bought a bike with 16:14 once. Tried to stick with it for a few days but it was awful, soon switched to 16:13. The difference was very noticeable I thought.

Why so paranoid Dave? You been experimenting with mind fiddlers again?

Cease hijacking fools, make new topics for new topics.

When it comes to internet marketing, I can't recommend enough that you hire someone to help you with it. Facebook and Twitter marketing is becoming more important than ever, and it's a career area in it's own right. I've been a web developer for 7 years now, but there's no way I'd launch a business with a web presence without hiring someone better than me to do the marketing stuff.

You're 16? You're not old enough to have problems worth getting upset over. Go play on the swings.

Well durrrrrr... Nah I joke. I tend to go to the pub with other people to unwind, the company is the helpful factor, the fact I like beer is just a happy coincidence. Go to the pub. Drink coke.

I tend to find getting blind drunk on a regular basis is an extremely effective coping mechanism.

Crinkly owd b*****d...

What's this based on? What you've done on the road? Using that same method then, my 27 year old 125 must be faster than an RS4, because I once managed to drop one on a tight B road near my Dad's house.

Doing the licence again sucks. My brother just about got his test done before the change, he was lucky in that when yours was cancelled, his wasn't. I think doing the test again is ridiculous to be honest, especially considering how much it costs, but it's the only way to ensure that people can handle the bikes they're riding. Trials bikes do get battered. Mine looked like this 6 years ago, looks like a right shed now:

Ah I see, so you went for the A2 licence? So glad I got mine done when I could now, I haven't got the time or money to get it all done now. That Sherco looks pretty sweet, nicely done.

I saw you reply and thought "hope he's posting to say he passed", well done lad. Am I right in thinking you can only ride a 125 now though? What bike have you got?

Why not just have standardish looking forks but dropouts that clamp on, and can slide up and down the leg? You're only ever going to want 50mm of adjustment at the very most, and it would be much lighter than dual crowns.

Seems as good a place to ask as any, but why do people remove all the tread from their tyres? I used to cut alternate knobbles off the edge of mine, but that was to make them grip edges better and shed a bit of weight. Surely removing all the tread just reduces how much grip you have, apart from on completely dry, clean surfaces?

Action Man? Ken maybe...