What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[KruJoe]

 

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Phil_the_Busmo papped?

[Brent_Crude]

Quality bicycle chod spotting yesterday

 

Woodley

 

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Wargrave

 

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Must be the same one I saw at the Henley Agricultural show, see pic in my post from yesterday here: http://autoshite.com/topic/14362-shite-spots-work-in-progress/?p=628835

[Station]

The designer of the mk1 Capri, Ford Ka and Ford Focus, Claude Lobo:

 

 

 

Regarding the design of the Focus, Lobo was a smoker and located the ashtray high on the instrument panel, enabling the driver to use the ashtray without removing his hands from the steering wheel.

 

Quality!

[vulgalour]

Second from the right is the Princess in the blurry shot.

 

 

The alloys are pretty distinctive and from a Rover, it's only this and the fact I'm such a SAD BASTARD that I can identify it.

 

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Been pricing up paint tonight and found that for the required amount it's going to be about £100 including postage (unless I find a local supplier).  I can get colours I like and I can get the same paint I used on the Polo which was seriously tough stuff and nice to work with.

 

I can either spend several weeks on prep before giving a professional sprayer the car and at least £1000, or I can spend several weeks on prep, about £150 on paint and materials and do it myself.  No contest really, it'll just take me a bit of time to sort.

[Lord Sterling]

The alloys are Rover 800 ones. Usually found on the 820SLi.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

They look awful on a wedge.

[inconsistant]

I never imagined I'd be having this much fun on a saturday night in my forties:

 

[saucedoctor]

^ Chinese G.P. layout?

[richardmorris]

[inconsistant]

^ Chinese G.P. layout?

 

No, just a random track we fancied doing. Track length was about 55 metres, fastest lap of the evening was 19.7 seconds!

 

Moar:

 

 

 

 

Lots of track, lots of fun. We do it once a month.

[Craig the Princess]

That looks freaking awesome. Do you have any shite cars going rounds?

[Station]

I have a large spare room on my house I never use - I might do this! How much is it for loads of second hand track bits?

[inconsistant]

Depends. I wouldn't bother with the old 'classic' track, unless it's in really good condition or has interesting track bits like the skid chicane/hump back bridge etc, instead go for the new 'sport' track.

Sport track is compatible with the older system and can be joined with a connector piece. Sport track is easier to put together and take apart, it doesn't tend to warp or bend as much if abused, the slot is deeper and there's always loads of unwanted sets on ebay, so you can buy 3 or 4 sets and get enough for a big track, but it will tend to be standard curves and straights. Our track has all 4 raduises (radii?) which go from hairpin to wide fast curves. Try to get sets that are close to home so you can collect, as postage can be a bit steep.

 

The cars are the main expense, until you want to go 'Digital' and race more than 1 car on each lane like we do, then you can spend as much as you like on lane change tracks for overtaking, pits for in-race refuelling, a pc & connection cable for ghost cars and Race Management Software, a projector to show in race stats on the wall, etc etc until you end up in a church hall in Windsor once a month doing mad tracks like this

 

I've got some spare stuff in good condition which makes up a good set. Mix of classic & sport track and some shite cars from the 80s & 90s. Pm me if interested and/or I'll put up an advert thread. There's Vectras, XR3i, MG Metro and Sierras in the set if I recall.

[richardmorris]

Cheers, I think Halfords can fill my tubes with martian spunk for £5.99 per tyre or something, I should really invest in the tubes or the filling. Do you notice any difference to the ride with them? The road bike has Continental Gatorskins as they have that Kevlar (or whatever it is) lining, but you can't seem to get them for mountain bikes.

 

 

I just replaced my bontrager race-lite hardcases with them as I couldn't find those anywhere. Scwalbes are certainly noisier but calming down a bit now. The inner tubes took a while to spread the gunk around evenly - on the stand the bike was bucking all over the place for a while. I did have those continentals, but mine split after a while. Got mine from wiggle.

[fordperv]

Love the scalextric, i have 3 sets and some extra track that mrs fordperv purchased from a model shop, 2 of the sets were given to me it was pretty much being at the right place at the right time and we're very useful for the extra track, the only downside is I havent got enough space to lay all the track out together

[eddyramrod]

I'm in the same boat, I have 3 sets in this very room and another (bigger) in my lockup, and exactly nowhere to put them out.  Not to mention a load of cars, mostly shite; including some self-builds.  Airfix kits come in the same scale...

[Cavcraft]

I just replaced my bontrager race-lite hardcases with them as I couldn't find those anywhere. Scwalbes are certainly noisier but calming down a bit now. The inner tubes took a while to spread the gunk around evenly - on the stand the bike was bucking all over the place for a while. I did have those continentals, but mine split after a while. Got mine from wiggle.

 

 

Thanks, Richard. After yet another puncture yesterday (4th in three rides, I think!) I ordered two slime filled tubes from an internet auction site today. You can get slime tyre protectors too, but doing some internet research suggests it's not worth the aggro, as the liners split and cause the tubes to shred themselves!

 

In fairness, I think a lot of my recent puncture problems are due to the type of riding I've been doing, i.e across fields and bridleways. It's been a lot of fun though so worth the 'hazards' I suppose! I'm running with Bontrager tyres on my mountain bike (front is the original) as I've found them great for wear and grip and they don't have those piss thin sidewalls some mountain bike tyres have.

Anyhow, all this mountain bike riding is working, I went to work on my road bike today and carded my best time yet, and I'd have shaved a couple of minutes off that had the traffic lights been green!

[Richard]

Do you have Continental tyres? You could ride on the moon on Continentals and they would still find a thorn. Every bike I buy seems to have them and every one of them gets a puncture on the first outing. I won't even eat a continental breakfast now.

[Cavcraft]

I got given a pair and they were awful, might just as well have used damp bog roll for sidewalls. The road bike tyres are the opposite though in my experience, brilliant things that last for ages and never seem to get punctures. So that's that jinxed then.

[cobblers]

At work we repair/rebuilt electronics for buses/PSV/plant and we've got a few local sparkies who recommend us to people, anyway this farmer turns up today with a random small electronic thing that needed a resistor soldering back on it as it had rattled off due to wank lead free solder. We soldered it back on for him and since it would have taken longer to charge him for the job than to actually do it, we said he could have it for nowt.

 

Anyway he comes trotting back from his car to us with a bucket full of beetroot for me and my pal.

 

What the fuck are we going to do with a bucket full of beetroot?

[Cavcraft]

Pretend it's Kerry Katona and fuck it?

[Tayne]

 

Anyway he comes trotting back from his car to us with a bucket full of beetroot for me and my pal.

 

What the fuck are we going to do with a bucket full of beetroot?

Sell it to your local burger van, they serve beetroot with stovies.

 

Well they do up here.

[DS20]

Pickle it. Omnomnomnom!

[catsinthewelder]

Wor lass grates it and raw carrot up and puts it in salads. It's much nicer than all the green leafy things that go in too.

[Inspector Morose]

Works well in chocolate brownies too. (Yup, honest! It adds moisture to the mix. Grated courgettes work too btw)

[Pillock]

Wrap it in sausagemeat and deep fry. Scotch Beetroot ftw.

[Honey Badger]

Chips!

 

It is rather messy peeling the stuff though, another vote for salad to.

[DSdriver]

And now for something totally different that made me grin:

 

The Egyptian postal service has issued a set of "Suez Canal" stamps but there is a slight error - one of the pics is of the Panama Canal.

The giveaway is that there are no locks on Suez.

 

 

[Skizzer]

+1 on the brownies, but if you've got a whole bucketful then you want to be getting into some beetroot wine:

 

http://www.lowcostliving.co.uk/home-brewing/recipe-beetroot-recipe.php

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I fucking hate beetroot, its proper bowk.