adamtrials
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To make a business viable takes a lot of planning and a lot of hard work especially when its being done from Scratch. As for a hard nosed business man to invest thats not needed as The funds are already in place and the plans are not far off completion for submission to the counsel. a 15 acre site costs approx £1.6 mil. The building costs for buildings car parks and tracks and trails approx £3m thats an investment before I start of £4.6 million which in any hard nosed businessmans eyes is a risk. If it fails its not due to the lack on investment or ideas.
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?
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Amazing bike, I want it back...
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Going back to the original question, if you launched off the ramp with some forward momentum as well as upward, and opened the chute fairly early, you may find that your forwards movement would open the chute without loosing any height in the process, meaning you wouldn't need to achieve quite such a mental height.
Also, lol at joshlyd1's posts particularly the 'maths'
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...
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Have you met me
well exactly
Pictures of the go kart
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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..." -
I'm going climbing tomorrow with a mate from work, any suggestions on what I should wear? Will shorts and a t-shirt suffice? (Its indoor).
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?
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but they all flash.
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.
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massive bump
Just starting to get into climbing (bouldering mostly) and wondering if anyone knows anywhere near staffordshire, I live near manchester but looking for somewhere closer to uni. And tomm if you still climbing me and lee will have to meet up with you sometime in manc.
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.
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I would put in a grand piano/getting owned by your dad joke joke, but the point I'm making is that me and Jon are of an age of responsibility and maturity, so we shouldn't be sat at home making up petty arguments on a web based forum. So it'd be a bit hypocritical...
Jeez, it was a harmless joke
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Grow up Jon, i'm not 21 any more.
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What quailifys as binge drinking?
y'know i go out alot, but i dont get paraletic and rarely throw up, but i get drunk quite often but only when i go out..
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?
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From what I've observed, it usually doesn't work out. Think about how much you have changed since you were 16, she'll be a different person in 3 years.
Who said anything about commitment...
Do it, however pictures would be of use to give totally accurate advice.
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Don't try riding at your own house party to drunk to try and impress the women, it ends in a broken bench press bench, and your pride in shatters.
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
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How that Captain Scarlet guy can try and say such a massive chain are not part of the cycling industry is beyond me
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.
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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).
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How much does 15 acres of land cost now-a-days? Pluss insurance, plus all the building work that needs doing, plus all the planning permission that you need, etc etc. wont be far off £1,000,000 i would imagine.
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.
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Yes it is, most skate parks are like what 100m-100m?
I don't think you know what your talking about too much and if you secure private finantial backing then I think that they are all mad. You have some very nice ideas but you don't seem to have thought enough about who your target consumer really is. As for changing bus routes etc. your mad, have you looked into the finantial costings of doing this? And if your aiming at DH and BMX riders then they can't take bikes on the buses etc.
Also by your grammer you don't really sound at all proffessional about it, I'm very doubtfull to say ther least, but hey prove me wrong.
+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?
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Doesn't sound economically viable but sounds like one hell of a project... Good luck!
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hello i live in shrewsbury too but im fairly new to "bike" trials but i used to do the motorbike version, id like to meet up with "drumhitter" and a few others localy just to experience what its all about really.... oh yer, in 15 but i hope that wont be an issue thanks xD
intrested?
The topic is two years old
There are a few riders around but there isn't much of a scene.
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I got bouts telford wednesday and stuff? bECAUSE IM bares like yeah.
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I saw a bike with no seat on there before, what a tool. Ehh?
This joke is funny.
NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT.
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No one forced you to read my reply !!
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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.
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I scored 7.