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desweller

My Hope Vision 1 started turning off and generally playing up. So I procrastinated for a few days and eventually sent it to Hope last Thursday afternoon, after filling out their (extensive!) warranty form, expecting to have to shell out to get it fixed.

Turns out the battery holder was dodgy, and Hope must have fixed it and posted it back more or less by return of post; it arrived today, totally unexpectedly and FOC!

I might have to get one of their hubs now. Service like that deserves loyalty.

redvee

Youtube got their upload process back in order.

suzyb

My car seems fine, it was just flooded. Mechanic thinks it may be an issue with Vaxhalls as he had someone else in last week with the same problem.

mudcow007

suzyb wrote:

My car seems fine, it was just flooded. Mechanic thinks it may be an issue with Vaxhalls as he had someone else in last week with the same problem.

*cough* women drivers *cough*

Jags are awful for flooding especially the big V8s

you cant just start them, then turn them off as they die an have to have oil pour down the bores an stuf

Ben6899

suzyb wrote:

My car seems fine, it was just flooded. Mechanic thinks it may be an issue with Vaxhalls as he had someone else in last week with the same problem.

One doesn't see many 'modern' cars flooding. Interesting. How old is it?

EDIT: that's a good anti-rant btw: nothing like a car coming back from the dead.

suzyb

Only 3 years old.

Ben6899

suzyb wrote:

Only 3 years old.

And it flooded?

I suppose if it wouldn't start and you were still giving it plenty of welly with the throttle and ignition, then you might have flooded it...

suzyb

Didn't give it plenty of welly. I didn't press the accelerator unless I've done so inadvertantly when getting out or in the car. Going to keep an eye on it and see if it recurs. If it keeps happening there may be some kind of fault allowing it to flood.

Corporate Camper

Did you switch it off when it was still cold?

I've got a Mazda RX8 and if you switch it off before it has warmed up then you've got no chance of re-starting it for ages. I'm told it's because to pass emissions tests it has to warm the catalytic converter up quickly, so when it first starts it runs pretty rich. If you switch it off during the "rich bit" you suffer from flooding. Could be bo!!ocks I suppose...

SimonAH

I have a neighbourhood cat that deliberately sits just the other side of a fence I have in my garden (I own the land on both sides of the fence - it is there to protect an area of lawn from the WW11 Panzer division effect my dogs have on grass) and torments my two dogs into a total frenzy.

It is even so brazen that it ignores my yells of "shoo! Gerroff out of it!" and just sits there until I get to the fence when it will then saunter off.

Lidl are selling fisherman's bait catapaults for £3.99. I've bought one. It's by the back door loaded with a fistful of pea gravel. It's gonna sting you little b'stard.

mudcow007

SimonAH wrote:

I have a neighbourhood cat that deliberately sits just the other side of a fence I have in my garden (I own the land on both sides of the fence - it is there to protect an area of lawn from the WW11 Panzer division effect my dogs have on grass) and torments my two dogs into a total frenzy.

It is even so brazen that it ignores my yells of "shoo! Gerroff out of it!" and just sits there until I get to the fence when it will then saunter off.

Lidl are selling fisherman's bait catapaults for £3.99. I've bought one. It's by the back door loaded with a fistful of pea gravel. It's gonna sting you little b'stard.

may i suggest this to help you with your problem......

graham.

mudcow007 wrote:

SimonAH wrote:

I have a neighbourhood cat that deliberately sits just the other side of a fence I have in my garden (I own the land on both sides of the fence - it is there to protect an area of lawn from the WW11 Panzer division effect my dogs have on grass) and torments my two dogs into a total frenzy.

It is even so brazen that it ignores my yells of "shoo! Gerroff out of it!" and just sits there until I get to the fence when it will then saunter off.

Lidl are selling fisherman's bait catapaults for £3.99. I've bought one. It's by the back door loaded with a fistful of pea gravel. It's gonna sting you little b'stard.

may i suggest this to help you with your problem......

Well, I would sujest one of these!

SimonAH

Had to be in central lunnon yesterday - parked up the car, pulled out the fixeh and shroomed around on that. Lurvely day! Once again impressed by how ridiculously fast it is in central London.

At the lights on Oxford Street / Tottenham Court Road I pull up next to a messenger who grins and nods at the army of plod waiting the other side of the lights "not worth it is it with them there?" he says. No mate, it isn't.

Apparently they've been picking up RLJ'ers a lot around there. Good.

Kieran_Burns

I may feel bad about this later but...

My mate fitted spd pedals to his Tricross and despite my repeated exhortations to practice, practice, practice; he didn't.

So we meet up yesterday and cycle in - with me bellowing "CLIP!!!!" every time we came to a junction. It worked fine

On the way home - we cycle up Bunny Hill. I'm quicker so wait at the top; and then over the top comes my mate where he decides to stop... gently drifting to the kerb and

trying

to

get

his

foot

out....


I have to admit the sight of his left foot frantically wiggling in the pedal and the gently increasing lean as he went over was bloody hilarious. I couldn't help myself.

The chunk of calf in the chainwheel and oil and blood mix now makes him an official cyclist in my opinion. He called in at the LBS to get his rear wheel straightened (booked in) and they had a laugh and shared the stories about all the times they had done the same thing; and even his g/f laughed about it

veronese68

All this petrol stuff. By pure coincidence I filled the car up last Thursday. First time I've had to put any in it since January.
I'll be using a bit more petrol next week, going to Germany with the family. I'll just make sure I fill up again before we cross the channel. That should see me through until late May.
Where's the smug git smily?

redvee

Kieran_Burns wrote:

I may feel bad about this later but...

My mate fitted spd pedals to his Tricross and despite my repeated exhortations to practice, practice, practice; he didn't.

So we meet up yesterday and cycle in - with me bellowing "CLIP!!!!" every time we came to a junction. It worked fine

On the way home - we cycle up Bunny Hill. I'm quicker so wait at the top; and then over the top comes my mate where he decides to stop... gently drifting to the kerb and

trying

to

get

his

foot

out....


I have to admit the sight of his left foot frantically wiggling in the pedal and the gently increasing lean as he went over was bloody hilarious. I couldn't help myself.

The chunk of calf in the chainwheel and oil and blood mix now makes him an official cyclist in my opinion. He called in at the LBS to get his rear wheel straightened (booked in) and they had a laugh and shared the stories about all the times they had done the same thing; and even his g/f laughed about it

If you haven't toppled over with clipless pedals then you haven't had them long.

SimonAH

Just think of the old days of proper toe-straps cinched up tight!

My antirant for the day is having the pedicab delivered to the office yesterday and cycling it home (after a quick fettle to downgrade it from instantly lethal to merely pretty dangerous). On the way I passed a petrol station with a queue of at least 20 cars down the street waiting to get in. I could not resist it and pulled into the forecourt, bought some milk from the shop and then carried on my way. Some of the faces were hilarious!

veronese68

SimonAH wrote:

On the way I passed a petrol station with a queue of at least 20 cars down the street waiting to get in. I could not resist it and pulled into the forecourt, bought some milk from the shop and then carried on my way. Some of the faces were hilarious!

That is brilliant. Did you not offer any of them a lift?

Applespider

Mwa ha ha! I'm almost tempted to go and do the same just for the sheer hell of it.

redvee

Had an Audi wait for me to pass a row of parked cars before she pulled out :shock:

graham.

First day back to work on the bike, seven weeks after crushing the bones in my left pinky.
Oh joy of joys...They've only gone and resurfaced Uttoxeter Road! Not a spray with tar and sprinkle some gravel on it. Oh no... a proper resurface!
Graham.

Kieran_Burns

Graham. wrote:

First day back to work on the bike, seven weeks after crushing the bones in my left pinky.
Oh joy of joys...They've only gone and resurfaced Uttoxeter Road! Not a spray with tar and sprinkle some gravel on it. Oh no... a proper resurface!
Graham.

Please tell me it's the bit around Rowditch?

graham.

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Graham. wrote:

First day back to work on the bike, seven weeks after crushing the bones in my left pinky.
Oh joy of joys...They've only gone and resurfaced Uttoxeter Road! Not a spray with tar and sprinkle some gravel on it. Oh no... a proper resurface!
Graham.

Please tell me it's the bit around Rowditch?

That's the bit! Just after the Utoxeter Old Rd turn off, heading into town.

rick_chasey

Semi-rant / anti-rant.

Figured I'd be positive and put it here.

anti-rant - Got lots of interviews with other firms and meetings with recruiters who are calling me up to chat. Finally feel like I'm getting some traction. (though the role I'm most likely to get is more recruitment - albeit a role where I'll actually be busy and earn a lot lot more).

Even meeting some specialist grad recruiters (sound like a good lot) who recon I have a shout in other industries.

I actually am about to turn down a role I've got to the final round for. I feel a bit bad for leading them on (I've experienced it from the other side!), but ultimately I had to to make sure I wanted it/didn't want it.

Rant - all these interviews mean I can't sodding cycle in.

*sad. face*

cyclingprop

Saw the senior physio before my op, and she said four weeks off the bike not six. YAY!

ToeKnee

cyclingprop wrote:

Saw the senior physio before my op, and she said four weeks off the bike, no sex. YAY!

Sure you heard the physio correctly?

DrLex

Rain legs donned, as it was spitting & gray as I started off, and such was enough to ward off the rain.
Black over black trousers meant they were all but invisble, but felt kinky and Dutch all the way...

(paging RC for nationalistic retort)

cyclingprop

ToeKnee wrote:

cyclingprop wrote:

Saw the senior physio before my op, and she said four weeks off the bike, no sex. YAY!

Sure you heard the physio correctly?

Yep.

Kieran_Burns

replacement Contour HD turned up at work, and replacement helmet pads turned up at home.

Oh, and I made it home alive which after that bloody crosswind is damn' good going

cyclingprop

Wiggle turned around the garmin warranty issue with no quibble . Reached them on Tuesday and a brand new one is with the this morning!

Now, where to get a replacement ankle from...