ricky2slicky

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• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 day, 16 hours

  

  In that case, fill your boots.

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 17 hours

  

  Not sure if you're looking for a new car or going used but unfortunately you'll struggle to get a new STi now as they longer do them in the UK.

• Retro mountain bike

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 days, 13 hours

  

  I'm happy enough with 26" wheeled bikes and I agree that for me, the bikes from the 90's look better but I think thats down to my religious reading of MBUK in my youth.

• What time is it? Watches and horology

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 13 hours

  

  Happy 50th Ejay. Watch looks great.

• Retro mountain bike

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 days, 13 hours

  

  Thanks for the replies @voxelwise, @TvH and @WimVDD it's been helpful.

  I don't want to race (nor do I possess the fitness currently) but I want to get back out into the woods. The last bike I rode was a late 2000's Norco Sasquatch that had a more modern RockShox Sektor fork and although old it worked pretty well. Regrettably, I sold that frame and swapped the parts onto a mid-2000s Orange Hitman which I haven't ridden off road yet but can already tell was a mistake. I'm trying to decide whether to transfer these parts onto another, more suitable frame, sell the whole thing and buy something retro or to bite the bullet, drop proper cash on a modern bike.

• Retro mountain bike

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 days, 17 hours

  

  This maybe an odd question but does anyone on here use their retro MTB in it's intended use? I'm wondering how well something from the 90's holds up now and whether its viable to use a retro mountain bike instead of buying something more modern.

• GT palomar handmade mini cargo

  in Current Projects • 5 days, 16 hours

  

  Touché

• GT palomar handmade mini cargo

  in Current Projects • 5 days, 18 hours

  

  Incredible! Triple Triangle goodness with all the right 90's mtb bits. I love it.

• Formula One ( F1 )

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 5 days, 18 hours

  

  He's definitely one to watch. It was only 5 years ago that he entered the Ginetta Junior championship and that was his first experiences of racing a car. A pretty meteoric rise.

• Formula One ( F1 )

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 5 days, 18 hours

  

  Not as fas as I'm aware although it would make things very interesting. Incidentally, Jenson Button has set the unofficial lap record round there in a Mclaren as part of a publicity event. I think the problem is, as it stands, GP's are only run on FIA Grade 1 circuits. Mt Panorama is listed by the FIA as a Grade 3 circuit and it would need a ton of 'upgrades and additions' to ever have a hope of being up up to grade 1.