ONE LIFE, LIVE IT.

andy162

I have one life & it would appear I'm wasting it.

According to the rear end of ratty Discoverys, be-snorkled Shoguns & winched-up Suzuki 410's there is "One life,live it".

What the feck does this mean? Unless you own a smoky 4x4 with Bridgestone "Sh1t Gripper MK2" tyres on are you wasting what precious time you have on Earth? I don't think so.

Reason for rant: riding home tonight 3 of these Camo'd up f*ckwits decided to pass me & for amusement (?) each getting progressively closer. Last one was (guessing) a foot or so from my right shoulder. Dark road but with an Exposure Redeye on the back & a flashing LED on my lid visibility wasn't an issue,they knew exactly what they were doing. Dicks!

softlad

they're everywhere - usually driving in convoy and usually driven by bald-headed fat blokes with goatee beards, lumberjack shirts, grey/white urban camo trousers and a pair of 'Regatta' hiking boots.......

daviesee

One life, live it.

It's a fair point. The first step would be to spend less time on the internet.......Oh :oops:

Weejie54

they're everywhere - usually driving in convoy and usually driven by bald-headed fat blokes with goatee beards, lumberjack shirts, grey/white urban camo trousers and a pair of 'Regatta' hiking boots...

How do you manage to see their boots?

SteveR_100Milers

Weejie54 wrote:

they're everywhere - usually driving in convoy and usually driven by bald-headed fat blokes with goatee beards, lumberjack shirts, grey/white urban camo trousers and a pair of 'Regatta' hiking boots...

How do you manage to see their boots?

during the summer months they take the doors off, put a hood on the back and hunt zebra in solihull.

Dunkindiver

I've got a smokey 4 x 4 with bridgestone sh1t grippers (which was put to good yesterday on a farm) and a bike

Sometimes I wear a check shirt with boots and sometimes Lycra, I do not however have a bald head, or a goatee beard!

Just wondering what camp that puts me in!

tlw1

Dunkindiver wrote:

I've got a smokey 4 x 4 with bridgestone sh1t grippers (which was put to good yesterday on a farm) and a bike

Sometimes I wear a check shirt with boots and sometimes Lycra, I do not however have a bald head, or a goatee beard!

Just wondering what camp that puts me in!

the very camp camp

softlad

Weejie54 wrote:

they're everywhere - usually driving in convoy and usually driven by bald-headed fat blokes with goatee beards, lumberjack shirts, grey/white urban camo trousers and a pair of 'Regatta' hiking boots...

How do you manage to see their boots?

sometimes, they get out of their vehicles.....

Weejie54

sometimes, they get out of their vehicles.....

Ah....a 4x4 stalker in our midst.

during the summer months they take the doors off, put a hood on the back and hunt zebra in solihull.

I would send them to Coventry.

softlad

Weejie54 wrote:

Ah....a 4x4 stalker in our midst.

you don't have to ride very far to see one round here.....

DCowling

softlad wrote:

Weejie54 wrote:

they're everywhere - usually driving in convoy and usually driven by bald-headed fat blokes with goatee beards, lumberjack shirts, grey/white urban camo trousers and a pair of 'Regatta' hiking boots...

How do you manage to see their boots?

sometimes, they get out of their vehicles.....

That would be the Land Rover owners trying to get the bluddy thing working again

Weejie54

you don't have to ride very far to see one round here.....

Likewise up here in Doric country. Most of them here contain a blonde lady using it either to drive to and from school or to the supermarket (bollards beware) for messages. A lot of them don't even have a towbar.
Pretentious sh*te.

Stewie Griffin

All of the very clean 4x4s around here are driven by a Mummy dropping off or picking up Tarquin or Shauniqa from school.

softlad

I should add that the local 4x4 club did a great job round here in the heavy snow last winter - ferrying old ladies to the shops and dropping off medicines for people that were snowed in - they got quite a lot of praise for it, and rightly so.

So despite the fact that they all seem to look the same, they're obviously an ok bunch.

Weejie54

I should add that the local 4x4 club did a great job round here in the heavy snow last winter - ferrying old ladies to the shops and dropping off medicines for people that were snowed in - they got quite a lot of praise for it, and rightly so.

Those made by a company with initials starting with B and ending with W tend to get stuck in the kind of snow we have here. I spent some time last winter digging out one next door. Turns out you can't even run it as a 2 wheel drive, which can get you out of a fix sometimes. It was the farm boys in their tractors who helped the community - digging as well as running errands.

antfly

andy162 wrote:

Reason for rant: riding home tonight 3 of these Camo'd up f*ckwits decided to pass me & for amusement (?) each getting progressively closer. Last one was (guessing) a foot or so from my right shoulder. Dark road but with an Exposure Redeye on the back & a flashing LED on my lid visibility wasn't an issue,they knew exactly what they were doing. Dicks!

Paranoia perhaps ?

Valy

antfly wrote:

andy162 wrote:

Reason for rant: riding home tonight 3 of these Camo'd up f*ckwits decided to pass me & for amusement (?) each getting progressively closer. Last one was (guessing) a foot or so from my right shoulder. Dark road but with an Exposure Redeye on the back & a flashing LED on my lid visibility wasn't an issue,they knew exactly what they were doing. Dicks!

Paranoia perhaps ?

Is yo sayn' he got too many lights?

nwallace

Weejie54 wrote:

you don't have to ride very far to see one round here.....

Likewise up here in Doric country. Most of them here contain a blonde lady using it either to drive to and from school or to the supermarket (bollards beware) for messages. A lot of them don't even have a towbar.
Pretentious sh*te.

hm... And out in rural Aberdeenshire the first snow of the season already had all of the Audi TT's, Ferrari's etc etc struggling for grip.

Far too easy to criticise someone driving round towns like Aberdeen, Banchory, Forfar, Kirrie, Glenhell, Cupar etc. for having a vehicle designed for the country side in town, when you just don't know what it's needed for, even if it doesn't have a towbar.

There's little excuse in London, Edinburgh or Glasgow though.

Valy

Oooh do you see many Ferraris?

giant_man

There's a di*khead with a discovery thing opposite me with this sign in his back window.

Wan*er .........

SteveR_100Milers

Weejie54 wrote:

sometimes, they get out of their vehicles.....

Ah....a 4x4 stalker in our midst.

during the summer months they take the doors off, put a hood on the back and hunt zebra in solihull.

I would send them to Coventry.

What?? Zebras in Cov..are you insane?

BigJimmyB

To be pedantic, every life is 'lived' no matter in what way or how quickly.

Anyhow, I saw a convoy on these bellends in the Peaks last year. One was (seriously) about 40 stone, you couldn't see any part of the seat/steering wheel.

He sneered at us, 30 miles into a 50 mile loop, like we were dirt.

If that's living, well.........

Valy

Were you cycling or 4x4ing?

Ollieda

andy162 wrote:

According to the rear end of ratty Discoverys, be-snorkled Shoguns & winched-up Suzuki 410's there is "One life,live it".

Considering "one life, live it" is a land rover saying, the ones in the shoguns & suzukis can't even get that right!

We've always had land rovers in our family and put them to good use. I normally fail to see the point of having one in an inner city, they want to be out on th open road and the fields......but then its like having a pet dog and living in an inner city or having a nice road bike and living in an inner city - it's not the ideal location but it's what you love so you make do with it as best you can where you can.

Admitedly a lot of the "enthusiasts" are the typical middle aged, bald, big, mid life crisis types. Just like any group of people, the image of the few drag it down for the rest!

Buckled_Rims

Valy wrote:

Oooh do you see many Ferraris?

I once saw 3 or 4 Ferraris and a couple of Lambos in Aberdeen a few years ago. Don't underestimate how rich oil barons pay themselves up there.

Weejie54

What?? Zebras in Cov..are you insane?

I wasn't suggesting that there were zebras in Coventry. On the contrary. They should be trying their luck on the jaguars that are centred in Coventry.

SteveR_100Milers

fair enough. cheaper than going to argentina for the pumas.

unixnerd

After last winter (one before was almost as bad too) in Aviemore I've been strangely drawn to look at old Discoverys on ebay.....

My aging BMW estate is actually pretty good with snow tyres and a limited slip diff, it's a myth that BMWs are bad in snow unless you run the wrong tyres (which most folk do alas). But it really has far too little ground clearance and more than once the front spoiler became a snow plough :-(

I'm no fan of the 4x4 poseur crowd, but there are a lot of folk who really do need one. I've seen a lot of new Fiat Panda 4x4s recently mind you.

Crapaud

Ollieda wrote:

... I normally fail to see the point of having one in an inner city, they want to be out on th open road and the fields......but then its like having a pet dog and living in an inner city or having a nice road bike and living in an inner city - it's not the ideal location but it's what you love so you make do with it as best you can where you can. ...

The whole point - for me anyway - of having a nice bike in the city is to get out of it as quickly as possible.

Weejie54

I've seen a lot of new Fiat Panda 4x4s recently mind you.

The farmers don't use them for nothing. More versatile than a BMW.

Buckled_Rims

I do a lot of hill climbing (as well as cycling). Ground clearance is critical in many country lanes. You rarely need the 4x4 aspect but a good clearance stops the underside of the car hitting rocks etc.

My present car is a Focus estate, great car, but I've badly grounded it's underside twice, once in Yorkshire and the other in Scotland, both on tarmac roads that were badly maintained.

I used to have a Subaru impreza which had fab handling, but little clearance. Only a few occasions did I have to use it's low ratio 4x4 capabilities. Strangely, I once bottled out taking it up a rocky track and rode my MTB up only to find a small VW polo overtaking me a mile further down. :shock: