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I enjoyed that time, I was riding and hanging out with Martyn a lot on the team, and that video just came and really blew everything up! I got to hang out with Danny a tiny bit and it was clear (oh so clear) how different he was. His general approach and attitude on the bike was a lot like (for me) Sam Pilgrim, no fear and all out, with a "this will be fun" kinda thinking. It was so clear the gulf between him and everyone else. Before April 09 there was a slim chance I could have learnt a full living from trials/the bike industry, but after that was just not going to be possible, and I don't say that with any kind of regret or bitterness - It was a bit of a relief in a way, as there were a few times I felt waaaaay out of depth being on that team. Side note: Its funny, me and Martyn were chatting about riding normal mountain bikes and making videos back then as that would have been such a bigger sell for DB/whoever after. We had a bit of a eureka moment when we worked out just how small the trials market was and were pretty close to sacking off trials bikes! the bike team ended before we could really go for it and I just don't have the same drive as Martyn! As it turns out big bike companies using trials to promote normal bikes is a big deal now, with Danny being a huge part of that! Danny did spawn a load of copycats and also street riding changed quite a bit to focus a lot less on actual trials moves, which I thought was a bit of a backward step as that's the bit that really enables Danny to put the cool moves into places that look amazing! The divide was weird but inevitable, but the reality was Danny was better at actual trials than most riders so was a bit of a non argument.

That was great.

I guess to be fair to apple if the owner had kept up to date over the years and done the firmware as part of it I could go straight to a newer card and Monterey. But yeah in general apple loves to screw your over. I still love it though. 12 years old and still relevant! The case is a work of art! It’ll be weird to have a windows machine again, but it’ll be useful for Claire for work.

Yeah its a bit silly - ideally id have got a newer supported metal card like a 5700xt or something (can't remember exactly which ones are allowed) but to do the firmware it has to be supported in high Sierra/Mojave. There were a couple of cheaper options but those cards were ancient so didn't really represent great value either. The rx580 was £120 posted but only the 4gb version which is not ideal but needs must. Seems a crazy amount for hardware that old.

I needed a metal gpu to update the Mac Pro. Best I could get was a rx580. They still are expensive, but not as bad before and coming down, I just couldn’t wait.

The monitor I ordered back in march randomly turned up today! Also, a massively overpriced gpu from eBay should arrive Monday. Only downside is I think the nvme drive I got on a hotdeal doesn't look like its going to be compatible with the Mac Pro but free amazon returns by June means I can try again after updating the firmware when the gpu arrives. Then I can transfer all the photos and iTunes library to the Mac Pro on separate drives and set up a win10 boot.

I accidentally a Mac Pro. It appears to have come from a home studio and has a load of extra drives and cards I wasn’t expecting. It’s sooooo heavy.

but I have relevant information for once... Only kidding, its not that relevant, but Ive never had great experiences with the erbauer stuff, its all died relatively quickly. I got my hitachi combo on a hotdeal and its been great. Both screw fix and toolies regularly run deals on drill/drivers so maybe wait for a good one on special

Quick shed update (didn’t really make it but it’s in something I made.) flatpack marathon turned out ok. need to tidy up and get the desk sorted, ordered a new monitor finally, now just need a decent keyboard and mouse combo.

This aged badly merc have the worst engine and Ferrari beat up redbull. I also laughed pretty hard when the poor old world champ started shouting. I still expect Mercedes’ to be near the front in a few races.

So in this thread we kinda established that unhealthy people and people with health conditions are the people that were dying in great numbers - we vaccinate them and they stop dying in such big numbers - normal people get less sick, people get to go out and do stuff - vaccination does nothing?

All I would say is the first paper is just someone interpreting and arguing for ivermectin in studies that have been completed elsewhere. Not an actual study. And the second is neither, I’ve no idea who the flcc are and really on what basis they operate. I’m open to the idea that ivermectin is effective, but yet to see a study that isn’t controversial or is widely accepted as conclusive. The rest about vaccines- the statistics don’t support a lot of what you are saying.

Verstappen should walk it on race pace. Give merc 4 races and they’ll be at or near the front - as they’ve said - their car fits inside all the other cars and they have the best engine.

How the….?!!

You don’t think there is any chance that the mass vaccination program have helped this to be “over”? Also - link the studies that prove these alternative treatments effective. Anecdotal evidence means shit in a global pandemic.

Yeah - they are very very thin, and the rubber is pretty hard. I also found them to be pretty massive compared to a similarly sized(labeled) maxxis

After a load of annoying first world problems yesterday, today I went to Cwmcarn and rode the bike, only got in 15km or so but it was great. Nearly had a mahooosive crash on one fast section, but the Dave was great fun to ride on the downhills.

Dishwasher packed in, and the bloke who bought my dads car on eBay (that I’ve got to sort) has pulled out after stringing along for 3 weeks. Ffs

they said no as its a family and friends thing. It has to be credit card company after its cleared then they raise an issue with PayPal - ball ache. Hopefully the person will just send it back!

f**ked up sending money to someone on PayPal. One letter wrong by accident - out £60

Is there a working toilet and kitchen? Put a bed in there and get some post going in…. ?

Why is it 200% ?