Ali C

1990, it's a pretty good example and I was recommended by Automek (the performance car garage that works on it) to ask between 5-6K (they said I could include their number when advertising as a second opinion)

Yeah that’s the current negative A van really would be the best though, ideally I want room for a bike, a bed and a pull out toilet…it would be very cramped inside anything other than a medium sized van

Time has come to sell the MX5. I honestly never wanted to sell it and if I could I’d keep it forever but I have to be realistic and accept something more practical would be way more benefit for me and my riding. When I had the motorhome it didn’t matter so much but now I’ve not got the motorhome a van just mages more sense. I had it detailed by a friend the other day and it came up lovely…it’s such a great car and I’ll miss it…I just hope I can get enough to help cover the costs of a decent van.

I think we just found out what "that" thing he wouldn't do for love is then!

I was thinking this one (tensioner is at 7 mins) though it seems my memory was out and apparently it's 1.2mm sheet rather than 1.8 however if you have a vice I'm sure 1.8mm would work fine. This summer will be that tensioners 4th birthday!

it's the video where I build my orange Hex, not sure of the exact name sorry. I used 1.8mm titanium, any thinner and it didn't give enough tension and any thicker I couldn't bend with hand tools. It's not Sugru for the slider, it's a polymorph plastic. Basically a plastic (similar to nylon) that comes in pellets and softens in hot water and can be moulded into whatever shape you want.

Wall has been plastered, really pleased!

Floor is done in the dining room, just need to decorate the lounge now so they can come back and continue the flooring into that room

In other news? Peoples thoughts on Norvak Djokovic and Australia? As you might guess he has my support but he’s not a popular guy at the moment

Just fitted one of the more important items in the house, a hanging board. Needs a slight tidy around the edges/screws but I’ve been wanting one of these for ages and this spot is perfect

I honestly have no thoughts about it at all, I've not been paying much attention and this is the first time I've ever heard of it (seriously, I've no idea what it is)

So El Salvador have come out with government advice which I applaud, hopefully others will follow.

Waiting on some flooring for the dining room so decided to attack the fireplace in the lounge. It was very much a 70s design before and took up more floor space than needed. It sure was built well though! Took quite a bit of effort to smash out and I had to chip away at the concrete on the floor to get it all level with the boards, got there in the end though. Now we need to strip the wallpaper back and get a plasterer in to do the wall and then figure out what fireplace we’ll get. Can’t wait till it’s all done!

Judging by the number of false positives I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case :p

Maybe but there’s also the option I suggested which could also explain it?

Hope you are recovered soon! As a point of discussion, Peter McCullough says you can’t get Covid twice. This has been something that seemed dubious to me as a lot of people have said they’ve had it twice including you. I wonder if I’ve just worked out what he was trying to say though. Once you have Covid the virus signature can still be in your body, if you then get a bad cold or the flu and get a test it could possible the signature is picked up and flagged as Covid when it isn’t…not saying this is what’s happening but it would be interesting if everyone just has a flu but are being told it’s Covid. In Australia a vaccine was tested that ended up with people being tested positive for HIV! They didn’t actually have HIV but the modified proteins in the vaccine had a very similar signature which was picked up when tested.

Nah you’ll be totally fine

“Pfizer says COVID-19 pill near 90% protective against hospitalization, death” Pfizer has said a lot of things, I’ll be more interested once places other than the people making and selling it say it’s effective

Cool, I guess we’re balanced now

you do keep on going on about it don't you . I've replied to this before, I don't think my head can take another bang on the wall but here's a quicky. Paracetamol is dangerous. Ivermectin is dangerous. any drug is dangerous if abused. The key is to not abuse it and let one of the safest drugs either help or do nothing at all...practically zero risk, as zero risk as you're likely to get with a drug.

is age the biggest variable because that's actually the case or because there's no information on the other variables? Age is an especially easy aspect to get information for, but to find their viral dose load (which I'd guess is going to be one of the leading variables), vitamin D levels or weight (a sensitive subject, we can't be seen to be fat shaming people) is going to be a whole lot harder to aquire. I'm not denying that older people will be more at risk, this is proven but I am saying that this is just one thing is a big soup of information and quoting numbers and percentages as absolute proof could be misguided

You’re all just mentioning age as one variable, what about weight? Physical activity? Vitamin D levels and of course the viral load they were exposed to? All these variables effect the chances of serious illness and death so I don’t think it’s ever going to be black and white unless there’s a seriously in-depth investigation. I’m not saying the vaccines don’t do anything, I’m just saying it’s going to be hard to argue exact figures without every variable accounted for I know this isn’t scientific but still interesting. A non vaccinated friend got Covid this week, felt very ill, could barely get out of bed but not hospitalized. Jane dropped off some Ivermectin at his door yesterday, today he says that he feels well enough to have gone out and acted mostly like normal (if he wasn’t quarantined). He’s in his 40s, drinks heavily and is overweight)…now he wouldn’t have gotten the full effect as he didn’t have the combo of meds needed to bring out the full benefits but that recovery seemed accelerated. My two friends who are vaccinated have felt rough for over a week now and are struggling, not hospitalized and I hope it doesn’t come to that. Not saying things are linked, like I say there’s lots of variables and coincidences happen but it’s interesting.

“Correction, April 30, 2021: An earlier version of this check described the Pfizer/BioNtech, Moderna and J&J vaccines as being approved for use in the United States. This has been corrected to say these vaccines have been authorized for emergency use by the FDA. Vaccine makers will need to apply to the FDA for full approval to continue use after the pandemic.”

someone I know has a belt drive nicolai and he absolutely swears it's fantastic in the mud, I've seen first hand his bike jam packed with mud so thick his tyres couldn't move but the drivechain was still fine. I think it would need to be a specific situation to really cause an issue. The only difference I could think is that his is a full-suss and the belt has a tensioner rather than pulled tight as a singlespeed...perhaps this gives some leeway for debris to get under the belt and not cause issues?

Does it? I'm getting that from Dr Peter McCullough (please watch the Joe Rogan podcast). The vaccines can cause myocardial injuries which as a entity in it's own right has a lot of history and research. I didn't claim that these friends makes for scientific reasoning but combined with real scientific evidence coming out it's not going against it.