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So yeah, I took this test, couldn't find anywhere online that gave a good insight into standard results for our age range, so I thought it'd be interesting to see what the t-f average is... Obviously monitor calibration may affect it to a small extent but heh. test I scored 7.

I've gotta say I'm slightly perplexed by some of the logic and statements in your posts. You seem to be suggesting the key to success is spending a metric f**k load? That last statement really does confuse me, spending too much is quite probably the easiest way to make the business fail. Just poking some figures into the calculator, if every person who came to the park paid £10 every time they came you'd need 460,000 visitors to get 4.6mil back. With a more realistic entry price of £5, 920,000 visitors. Say the park is a phenomenal success and has 200 visitors every day, that'd take 12.5 years just to pay back the initial investment, and that isn't including any operating costs, and any interest on the finance i'm assuming you're using. I'd say an average of 75 visitors a day would be very optimistic, and that'd take 33 years... Sure you're intending to have shops there that'll pay you rent, but it's a drop in the ocean. This combined with the "10,000 page legal document that's taken six months", I think something doesn't smell right. Please prove your credibility by showing us your past business successes? Your Facebook profile doesn't seem to add to your credibility either, your profile picture is you topless on webcam, and you have 176 friends, all of whom are busty young blondes/ glamour models from around the world?

Amazing bike, I want it back...

Yeah I was gonna mention this yesterday but tf wouldn't let me post, there are parachutes that can open in under 60 meters (As low as 30-40 meters with an ok chance of working) designed for aircraft like hang gliders that generally fly at low altitude, so with enough forward speed as well as a bit of height it would work. Though it'd be a pretty shit stunt really. On a parachute related note, i'll never forget watching someone do a cheesy dance to some 80's disco music while wearing a parachute, then as the grand finale they decided to pull the handle...

I R MISFITS GOING DOWN HILL FAST!!!!

Pictures of the go kart

Regardless of cost it was filler (Since when have Top Gear been afraid of spending shit loads of money on meaningless stuff anyway ). The super car isn't dead and won't be for a long time. It's like producing a memorial to the Queen and broadcasting it now... "I can't help but feel that these are her last few years..."

Yeah that should be fine, just wear something that you don't mind getting covered in chalk/ muck etc. Are you going to Wolf Mountain?

Pretty sure they don't, we used to have one of those radar detectors and it didn't pick up the empty ones, and I managed to go 60 through a 50 one thinking it was a 60 and it didn't flash. But yeah, there are a lot of empty ones around, just the box is enough of a deterrent for most people.

In Newport there's a new climbing centre that opened a few months ago that mainly focusses on bouldering, they do memberships where you can get unlimited use too. Don't know if you have transport with you at uni but it's a few quid on the on the bus. http://www.newportrock.com/ There's also wolf mountain a bit further away in wolverhampton, that has a great bouldering section.

Jeez, it was a harmless joke I have nothing against you lol.

Considering that heavy drinking has been going on for hundreds of years, and considering how few young people die due to alcohol compared to how many drink and don't die, both at present and historically (~99.9%?) I think we'll be ok. It's a sad story, but binge drinking from 13? Seriously?

Who said anything about commitment... Do it, however pictures would be of use to give totally accurate advice.

Similarly don't try riding a brakeless Vinco in a British Legion club whilst being too inebriated to walk... I'm pretty sure the police round here wouldn't care if you were just on cyclepaths/ not being a nuisance. I've done it a few times, but have no memories of it

Snobbery... And presumably annoyance that his shop is getting shat on by the big guns... I have no problem with Halfords, it's not like they're the only shop that sells cheapo bikes, far from it, and they also have their own range of very good, amazingly priced bikes? If anything they're doing cycling a big favour by making bikes more affordable to all.

I think £4-500k per year is a more reasonable estimate for rent based on two thirds of it being outdoor, but yeah, still a huge amount, unless some crazily good deal has been negotiated on some semi abandoned place that's been empty for years perhaps (From personal findings undesirable FSBO commercial properties can occasionally be purchased freehold for not much more than a years' rent if you're really look around).

For a large unit in that area I'd say about £2 per square feet per annum, perhaps £1 if you get a really good deal/ somewhere really dilapidated. An acre is just under 50,000 sq feet, you do the maths... That's a hell of a lot of money per year on rent, I'd imagine the business rates would be hideous too.

+1, also your market research appears to be 'build it and they will come'... What are you going to do 9-5 when almost all of your target customer are at work/ school? I'm also dubious that people from liverpool/ shrewsbury/ further afield would want to spend up to an hour each way sat on a bus just to ride for an hour or two in the evenings. Personally if I was looking to do it I'd do it in a large city where there isn't much in the way of skate parks, wolverhampton perhaps. Relatively cheap rent, good transport links and center of country location, and shed loads of people around to ride it or get a 10 minute train from Birmingham. I'd imagine the only real positive of wrexham is that the rent is quite cheap? Not criticising, just intrigued to see how you're going to make it work... Out of interest what is your current job?

Doesn't sound economically viable but sounds like one hell of a project... Good luck!

The topic is two years old There are a few riders around but there isn't much of a scene.

I got bouts telford wednesday and stuff? bECAUSE IM bares like yeah.

This joke is funny. NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT.

No one forced you to read my reply !!