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  1. The Happy Thread

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    On 12/16/2022 at 6:42 PM, Tom Booth said:

    Fitted a Chinese diesel heater in the workshop last week to keep my assembly room warm, in one week its cost £16 combined electricity and diesel and kept the room at 19*c, its heaven :lol:

    I managed to blag two of those off of Amazon Vine but haven't done anything with them yet. Good to know they do the job though!!

  3. The Angry Thread.

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    What a bunch of cunts.

    I'm all for saving the planet and finding better ways to fuel our lives but pissing off the general public is never going to bring about change. All the protests on the M25 stopping people getting to work or the airport or whatever, blocking roads in London stopping people from picking up their kids from school or visiting relatives in hospital is never ever going to bring you the respect and support of the public and does nothing to force the hand of the government, petrochemical firms etc. See my first sentence...

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  4. The Angry Thread.

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    Our multicover insurance is a good one for us- renewal comes through, give them a ring and they knock off around 20% of the premium just for ringing up (on an £800 policy it's very much worth it (that's two cars, a van and the home insurance btw)). Breakdown cover used to be another one- I'd annually just switch betwee nthe AA, RAC, Green Flag or whoever had the 'new customer' deal. I've sacked that off now and just stick with AutoAid who are far cheaper for a better service but even their prices have increased quite significantly over the past few years...

  6. We E biking?

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    Had a little go on a friend's 2020 Kona Remote 160 and didn't really get on with it. Sure the eebness up hills makes it easy to pedal but wasn't feeling the weight or apparent dragginess off power and, possibly due to the whole trials background thing, really disliked the sloppy front freewheel type thing that happens at the cranks. Assume that's a standard thing for eebs and nothing you can do about it but it just felt mechanically poor to me... Meh, I'll stay analogue for a while longer I think!

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  8. The House Thread

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    On 10/24/2022 at 10:49 PM, Luke Rainbird said:

    At the risk of talking shop, what are you classing as "savings" Dave? If you can lock it away for 12 months you can net 4.5% or more on cash with Shawbrook at the moment

    I saw there were some good fixed deals out there but at present 'savings' need to be easy access... Using £13500 between Mel and I in December for our mortgage overpayment and then have around £12k sitting aside that's probably half earmarked for a big holiday to Vietnam next year for Mel's 40th. So yeah... short term savings for now at least until the mortgage is gone and then savings will hopefully mount up and be longer term.

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  10. The House Thread

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    We started our 10 year fixed deal at 3.24% in 2015 I think but we're still overpaying and should be mortgage clear by March next year which I'm very much looking forward to! On the flip side also very much enjoying 2.75% on savings...

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  12. F1

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    1 hour ago, Mark W said:

    I guess if accountancy stuff was cut and dried then there wouldn't be all these tax evasion schemes and a lot of accountants getting paid good money, haha.

    *Looks disapprovingly at @Luke Rainbird...*

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  14. F1

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    16 hours ago, AdamR28 said:

    They'll get away with a fine I reckon, which is obviously totally at odds with the whole point of a cost cap :rolleyes:

    A fine of $144M to be paid out of next year's budget to be paid to the other teams in a diminishing return from the back of the grid to the front? Guaranteed to be peanuts to them whatever it is...

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  15. We E biking?

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    On 9/24/2022 at 7:33 AM, DJEHB said:

    I’ve been putting the miles in on the SL and I’m blown away by the fun that this thing offers. I’ve owned 3 ‘full fat’ eebs (in fact I’ve just listed my beautiful Canyon Spectral On for sale if anyone is looking) but the lightweight offerings really are the future in my opinion. This offers just 35nm to get up the trails quickly and hit more runs. 

    With a whole new era of lightweight e bikes on the horizon, anyone considering them I’d encourage to give it a go! 

    This is the direction I'd like to see things go in but I'm not ready to jump in just yet! When I struggle to keep up with my kids on traditional bikes I'll look into them seriously! Hopefully by then the market will have evolved and worked out what works and what doesn't.

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  17. Name for New Trials Motorcycle Game?

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    On 8/23/2022 at 11:54 PM, Topsy said:

    I remember enjoying the trials discipline in Moto Racer 3. It somehow felt nice (but I can't tell how it'd feel to play it now, mind).

    I've still got that for PC and Playstation! On the PC one I used to have a custom Dougie Lampkin Montesa Red Bull skin I'd use :) 

     

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  18. Old Shimano Oversize centerlock rotor?

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    10 hours ago, AndyT said:

    I recently ebayed some nice saint hub rear wheel for a vintage build but didn’t realize that it came with a shimano oversized centerlock rotor that they only made for one year (2011??12?) for this saint hub :( 

    Any options to find one? The normal channels have no luck, can i buy a 3d printer and fab my own? do the new printers work w steel yet ? :)  i guess no rear brake for now..

    I'd be looking at getting a 6 bolt adapter waterjet/laser cut and sacking off the CL... I can't imagine anyone bothered making aftermarket for that setup and chances are Shimano hardly made any spares either. A metal 3D printer will set you back many thousands of dollars and are still incredibly specialist and just not an option. You could design the part and get it made by Shapeways or similar but chances are that will take a few attempts and still cost you a few hundred dollars to get right.

  20. The Happy Thread

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    On 8/30/2022 at 2:13 PM, isitafox said:

    Works cyclescheme wins again, after bagging a pair of Pro 4 hubs for around £150 (can't remember exactly) I've just bit the bullet and ordered some forks for my Big Dog. 

    Ideally wanted some Revelations but there was no stock at the store we use so gone with a set of Domains which after a price match and tax adjustment work out at £220!

    Do/can you use it for components only? I thought it had to be complete bikes...

  22. Insurance

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    On 7/31/2022 at 8:59 PM, J.KYDD said:

    Check if your home insurance policy covers insuring your bike away from home. 

    I've had our bikes named on our home policy for a few years but when I queried them the other day apparently that's only while at home which isn't whatI thought it was... Now I've got 'proper' bike insurance I should be able to save on the home insurance by removing them I guess.

  23. Insurance

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    We're off to France with the bikes in the back of the campervan so I've just taken out my first bike insurance ever- I've gone withe Cycleplan who were about half the price of Yellowjersey with far lower excess too. In theory you can get 30% discount if the policy is over £75 using this link: Linky

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