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I agree completely.  Suppose it gives you a bike feel with a car licence..

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At the red traffic lights on way from home from work. I look across at a youth on Honda City Express - G plate plus learner plate. He looks at my Corsa B. Nod exchanged. He pulls off and understandably it takes a while for the moped to reach 30.

After that he doesn't ease off, taking all the bends at max throttle, undertakes all the cars that are using the outside lane and the little red Honda is off into the distance! What a star.

It right warmed my heart to see a 16 yr old using a 35 yr old machine to it's full sewing machine capacity.

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3 years ago my son did 4k miles on a 1986 honda vision 50cc.

Top speed was 28mph apparetly according to those speed checker things.

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11 minutes ago, paulplom said:

3 years ago my son did 4k miles on a 1986 honda vision 50cc.

Top speed was 28mph apparetly according to those speed checker things.

Good on him! I can't be bothered to do the maths but that's a hell of a lot of hours on his Vision.

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1 hour ago, auntiemaryscanary said:

At the red traffic lights on way from home from work. I look across at a youth on Honda City Express - G plate plus learner plate. He looks at my Corsa B. Nod exchanged. He pulls off and understandably it takes a while for the moped to reach 30.

After that he doesn't ease off, taking all the bends at max throttle, undertakes all the cars that are using the outside lane and the little red Honda is off into the distance! What a star.

It right warmed my heart to see a 16 yr old using a 35 yr old machine to it's full sewing machine capacity.

Those things handle surprisingly well for their time - light weight and 16" wheels help with that I suppose.

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19 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

 

Here he is from nearly 3 years ago to the day.

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Does he have a licence for that??

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45 minutes ago, reb said:

Does he have a licence for that??

I think Dave Cartland is ad-libbing; his CITB instructor would have failed him for having the rollover bar down and not wearing his seatbelt. 🤣

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2 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

@Flat4's HGV thread.  Excellent work, madam!

Well worth a read, educational.

 

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Doing some jobs down at the grandparents today

decided to ask if I could have a bath, as the stupid combi boiler at my flats is useless

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popped on the old immersion and an hour later this delightful bath was ready

 bloody hell, so warm and deep

first time in ages it seems I’ve had a proper bath 

so nice to lay in actual hot water, really lovely

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On 15/09/2024 at 17:09, EyesWeldedShut said:

Watching this last week on eBay out of idle interest
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Go away for a few days:

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Still not as steep as the depreciation curve these had from new!

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kin brummies :lol:

hes up the stairs and even tho the person has told them the number of the room

hes walking up and down 'cant find it'

he gets them to show him - then he cant get in the room cos the key wont fit in the lock (it will) - hes ended up going back downstairs :D

the chap that showed me up here said the locks are a bit weird - no theyre not theyre the ones where the barrel spins = has to be the right way up to then have the key in it

took me 0.05 secs to realise that (ive seen a lot of (key) holes :D )

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1 hour ago, maxxo said:

Doing some jobs down at the grandparents today

decided to ask if I could have a bath, as the stupid combi boiler at my flats is useless

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popped on the old immersion and an hour later this delightful bath was ready

 bloody hell, so warm and deep

first time in ages it seems I’ve had a proper bath 

so nice to lay in actual hot water, really lovely

My grandmother had an immersion heater forty years ago ( pre central heating ) I had no idea they were still around.

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11 hours ago, paulplom said:

Dropped the boy off yesterday at a mate's house yesterday. Mate was leaving for a bike rally near Whitby. 

That's a mighty impressive rig.

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Nice rad.

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watching the kitch 24h live thing (or the start of it while they wait for everyone to show up that is participating

while they fek about with the portrait mode on the phone him and hubnut mention the mighty dacia

is @catsinthewelder involved this year??

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4 minutes ago, hairnet said:

watching the kitch 24h live thing (or the start of it while they wait for everyone to show up that is participating

while they fek about with the portrait mode on the phone him and hubnut mention the mighty dacia

is @catsinthewelder involved this year??

Are you ok? I understand all of that!

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2 hours ago, hairnet said:

watching the kitch 24h live thing (or the start of it while they wait for everyone to show up that is participating

while they fek about with the portrait mode on the phone him and hubnut mention the mighty dacia

is @catsinthewelder involved this year??

No, I like his videos but I don't really know Kitch.  Really need to pull my finger out and fix that car.

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Another sense of satisfaction from today, getting my old alarmist head on

down at the grandparents, almost constant false alarms from the kitchen detector

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this sod right here, one of the few I didn’t replace 4 or so years ago when I upgraded the panel, it’s being a bugger and causing no end of issues now, great

so enough omitting the zone now time to sort it

decided to move it to as well as it barely clears the cupboard and I wanted one mounted more securely

some faffing around with cable and filling later

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nice shiny new one fitted, tested and working, well walk test and set the alarm for an hour without it going off so I’d say that’s a win

so that’s pretty much them all replaced with the same model now

really enjoyed doing this actually! So this is my grin for the day

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12 hours ago, hairnet said:

kin brummies :lol:

hes up the stairs and even tho the person has told them the number of the room

hes walking up and down 'cant find it'

he gets them to show him - then he cant get in the room cos the key wont fit in the lock (it will) - hes ended up going back downstairs :D

the chap that showed me up here said the locks are a bit weird - no theyre not theyre the ones where the barrel spins = has to be the right way up to then have the key in it

took me 0.05 secs to realise that (ive seen a lot of (key) holes :D )

Alroight mayte? Yuw got some issueow?

Not bluddy 'avin this. Yuw knaow wuddoi meyn?  

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16 hours ago, richardmorris said:

My grandmother had an immersion heater forty years ago ( pre central heating ) I had no idea they were still around.

Expensive way to heat water if you use standard rate electricity. About 3-4x that of a gas boiler, although less than 2x on economy 7 or whatever it’s called these days.

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Just casually looking at the suggested content and there's always the odd spurious clickbait bollocks, especially for restoration and car content, and then there's this.

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I don't know what annoys me more, the obvious falsehoods on display or the fact it has a couple of million views.

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One of the gambling sites has been running a promo that's fairly easy to win. Paid out £400 this week, so that's my road tax sorted. 

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Mazda 6 MOT, service and a few odds and sods.  Passed and ready now but haven't time to go for it today.

I had asked for the oxygen sensor to be replaced, the EML is on.  It passed anyway and the sensor from the dealer is over £600. and needs a week for delivery. 

So, didn't need it and didn't need a new spare either.

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On 21/10/2024 at 15:00, jakebullet said:

One of the gambling sites has been running a promo that's fairly easy to win. Paid out £400 this week, so that's my road tax sorted. 

Sound like your gambling the right way 👌

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