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3 hours ago, egg said:

Mazda diagnosis, it's now running just a really weak spark, which he has said is that cheap dizzy cap I put on, so get a new cap he says...£20 for the advice.

Been out for a quick run, it's not entirely happy, but starting ok. Looking at Nipparts, Herth+Buss, intermotor, Bosch caps - anyone got any preference/advice?

Oh, and @LightBulbFun can say I told you so ?

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Car wise things are 50% not good.

Just when I have decided to take the plunge and have the valve stem seals on the Mini sorted, the Clio suspension started making a creaking sound yesterday when manoevering. Today the noises got progressively more unpleasant until tonight when I went over the last speedbump before my drive and I heard a crack from the front. No idea what it was, I couldn't see anything obvious. The car still moves about ok. To add to that it needs bottom arms, inner track rods and tyres. The Mrs was supposed to be using it for a few weeks while the Mini was getting sorted, looks like the Audi for her and the Corsa for me :(

Unsure how to proceed, may sell.

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Going round a sharp corner on the Bristol to Bath cycle/shared path. I slow down a lot for it. Child on his own turning around on the corner. I swerved to avoid but swerved too far and hit the dirt. As I was going quite slow, I didn't have the balance to catch it from falling. Fell right, over compensated, fell left and scraped down the tarmac, smacking my head on the floor in the process.

I only bought my helmet last month and it has a nice dent in it too. I guess hundred quid well spent as I'm typing this now and not in the back of an ambulance...
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Beginning to hurt now the adrenaline is wearing off and a nice big bruise is forming on my leg. No car fettling for a while. :(

No broken bones that I'm aware of though!

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Glad you’re ok, That’s about the only accident that helmets are designed for. Straight fall from stationary hitting the ground. All those sold here just have one standard so £10 or £300 the extra money just goes to design and ventilation not protection. 

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7 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Glad you’re ok, That’s about the only accident that helmets are designed for. Straight fall from stationary hitting the ground. All those sold here just have one standard so £10 or £300 the extra money just goes to design and ventilation not protection. 

Not entirely true. You have to spend a bit more to get a MIPS equipped helmet. Also the more expensive helmets tend to be a lighter design, so reduces the weight on your neck too in an impact. Paying over around 60 quid or so doesn't get you much more though admittedly. I paid extra for the MIPS and it was more comfortable than some of the cheaper helmets. 

The impact on my helmet was me coming off sideways and smacking it clean on the ground as I slid along. Going on the grazing on my arm, it would have been quite a mess on my head. Plus a fair old whack to the side of my head. 

My dad came off his bike after hitting a drain cover at 20mph. Force split the helmet in half. 

Best mate is a medical doctor. He worked in various A&Es in London while he was training. Apparently those cyclists that didn't wear a helmet generally ended up as vegetables or weeks of recovery from the head injury. Those that did had broken bones. More serious accidents he didn't really see, as they usually go straight to the morgue...

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yesterday we took the Minis, Cocopop and rodney mini to thwaites mill, on the outskirts of the city. it was their classic car and bus day. the cars were o  show in the paddock at the rear of the mill, while a number of old busses were running through Leeds, either into the city centre and back, or from thwaites mill, to armley mills industrial museum and to the middleton railway.

we saw these cars there, including our two

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the other cars on show frankly put our little cars to shame. they were mint, something our cars aren't!

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we rode on these busses

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the Alisia had a pretty impressive turn of speed, plus we also saw these other busses

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its come to something wen a Dessin Dart and some poxy Optare thing have also been preserved, i rode them when  new and didn't think much of them then! but i also remember riding Bristol VR;s and RE's as well as Leyland Olympians and Nationals as a kid, all in United red.... i am getting old it seems!"

sadly numbers both of cars and busses were down on last year, i am hoping that it was just the week of crappy weather beforehand which had put visitors and exhibitors off going. cos it's a great show, one of my favorite ones anyway.

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, MarvinsMom said:

....its come to something wen a Dessin Dart and some poxy Optare thing have also been preserved, i rode them when  new and didn't think much of them then! ....

When I started my career back in 1995/6, I used to have to get the bus from Golders Green to Bayswater - Route 328 as it was then - and Worst Bus relied on single decker Dennis Darts. They were mostly driven by ethnic Somali drivers based at Westbourne Park depot. The Somalis were often up for fast running and could make the Darts perform - I'm convinced they drove as though they were dodging bullets in Mogadishu (the civil war in Somalia was only four/five years after starting). From a standing start, they could make a standing passenger slide from front to the banked seat section at the back, and then reverse the slide as they braked.

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Going round a sharp corner on the Bristol to Bath cycle/shared path. I slow down a lot for it. Child on his own turning around on the corner. I swerved to avoid but swerved too far and hit the dirt. As I was going quite slow, I didn't have the balance to catch it from falling. Fell right, over compensated, fell left and scraped down the tarmac, smacking my head on the floor in the process.

I only bought my helmet last month and it has a nice dent in it too. I guess hundred quid well spent as I'm typing this now and not in the back of an ambulance...
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Beginning to hurt now the adrenaline is wearing off and a nice big bruise is forming on my leg. No car fettling for a while. :(

No broken bones that I'm aware of though!

Liked for the helmet doing its job, although chicks dig scars.

Get onto Zyrofisher, the distributor for a crash replacement.

https://www.zyrofisher.co.uk/giro/content/giroreplacement

 

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