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aaahhh what a awful way to describe it :(... Monaco is one of my favorite circuits too, yes of course, can help you out...I'll take that as a confirmed then? just 1?
Having followed F1 from an early age the last few years have left me feeling pretty disillusioned about the sport if I'm honest, but that's not to say we don't see some incredible driving. I just wish it wasn't so corporateised, I lust after the days of Kiki and Hunt and Hill, some REAL heros we can look to for inspiration, smoking and drinking on the pit lane before a race, sleeping with everything that takes there fancy (not being sexist), people who REALLY lived it. Drivers like Lauda who sit at deaths door for a few weeks to come back and take the series win. Every driver seems so plastic now. Hving said that I think Piquet jnr will become ever more prevelent as he gets better drives.
I'll stop boring you! haha. Is one ticket the limit. I'm going down with a few others? (not wanting to be too cheecky;))
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Are any of you guys affiliated with Bournemouth Jubilee? I tend to ride with them on Sunday morning when I'm down, albeit on the racer.
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If anyone wants tickets\passes ( not just general admission but " behind the scene action" and pitt areas etc...) to any of the European Circuits let me know- I may be able to help, sorry, but Monza is already filled... :)
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how the development of KERS translates into the real world (right!) Seems like a very limited (officially) system allowance for all the potential it's got. I think the limits are a little reckless, but perhapsthats to ensure the lesser garages can afford to keep up!
@Epifinia. I'm going to Monaco this year (for the classics as well. Have a friend with an auntie who owns a flat down there and describes the whole F1 trail as; 'delinquancy at its most profound'. So she won't be there. Any chance of a little help there? :)
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I once shouted RAPE cos I was having a really bad day and everyone was ignoring me through the lights and it was the first thing that came to mind to really get attention. Not so sure now...
Having said that if peds go out of thier way to ignore the fact that I'm moving fast and have right of way I like to give them a quick slap on the bum as I pass behind them, with a little look back always makes me laugh, normally get a smile from people standing acctually WAITING a the lights afterwards in understanding.
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Be aware I've had a little search through the threads and found nothing of any help.
I'm looking for a brake lever which'll clamp onto my bars rather than shimmying along. I'm desperately seeking one which has a thin width (if they exist)
I'm not too fussed about the cost or where it would come from as I have time, but just wonder if anyone knows where I can get hold of something like this. Really don't won't some plastic crap, so I guess like the Dia Comps, but for a wider section of bar.
Anyone?
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link to EMD's vid
YouTube - Eilidh Memorial Ride, London 07_03_2009
Nice one mate. Really good to get a video done, really shows how much of an impact must have been created to all who saw.
Truely, truely gutted I wasn't able to make it.
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PH is the best car site ever btw =P
NO, NO, NO, NO... NO!
It's good granted, but it's only real savoir for me is the form and classified sections. If you want the best online car site which is a magazine it's gotta be DRIVERS REPUBLIC (http://www.drivers-republic.com/)
The pedegree of the writers; Chris Harris - who started the whole thing (previously of Autocar, GT Purely Porsche, BMW and Ford Magazines, oh and EVO, to name but a few, !), Bovingdon and Meaden (both ex EVo and others).
First with pretty much all the news, great, well produced videos, more access to ANY car show, private or not, than any other group of people within the UK.
Just can't be beat. IMO;)
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Nice to see a bit of cross forum porn being posted. Great, great car. Future classic. Creamed myself when I heard they where draping it in the old Gulf colours.
Gonna be at Le Mans AND Nurburgring 24hrs this year, so will see it in the flesh...
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Agree with Wibbles and Platinis. STEP AWAY FROM THE FRAME. It's gorgeous, keep the brown leather look and think british gentleman style. IMO
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You track at all, or just pose? ;)
The mk1 is going to be a track beast. I've already got a clk supercharger promised to me from a friend who breaking his Merc. But think it's gonna be a little too whiney for the '5, I'll see.
Haven't even got the car and already have a few grand promised away on it! ;)
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http://www.bulgier.net/pics/bike/Catalogs/ICS_parts/02.jpg
via: www.bulgier.netI almost swallowed my tongue salivating at that. Keeping with the idea (tho not as good at all but a favorite of mine that I once was really close to buying but got f*cked over) is this puppy - probably a repost
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hope thats a mk1 fezza
..no. It's an F40 LM. Yeah, right. Nope, your not far off tho, kind of, I'm getting a MK1 1.8 MX5 as soon as I find the right one. If your interested...
Feeling slightly upset about the negative comments. Haha. I know what you mean about the pathetic look with the floppy ears, although they do look pretty mean flat as they are now.
I managed to ride in a whole circle backwards as well! Whoa!
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@ Pipwish. If you look in the cold feet thread you'll see a little spoke card you may recognise!! ;)
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Yeah, my mother has a problem about ever throwing anything away (hence the need for two sheds), so one day I come home and she's installed the old kitchen into the garage when she put the new one in. Extraordinary! It's now a single garage again! Bloody pointless. Now I've gotta park the fezza on the driveway when I go home! ;)
I took the new setup for a ride this morning and my hands kept slipping off the ends of the bars, hilarious. I've moved them round to sweep back instead, but now you can't see the beautiful Nitto etchings in the middle.
Oh, the problems, the problems!!
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Shimano ftw? My current bike has Shimano front brake and I can't wait to swap it for my Campy Centaur? The Shimano does not inspire confidence, Campy seems way better? It's never let me down, even in some very sketchy situations...
I'm with Hippy on that actually.
I've ridden Shimano on all my bikes all my life, never had anything like this happen. I'll bet good money that even if this was due to the brake block lifting and catching the tyre and I'd been riding a Shimano 105 or even lower it would never fail like that!
The reason the block on the side left looks unused is because I never use the brake, only in emergencies. So the brake had even less excuse to fail.
Think I'm going to send it back to Campag UK and let them know about it.
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Right. I went ahead and just did it.
BEFORE...
Next, you can see where the cable ripped out from under the bartape.
This next one taken as straight as possible, you can see the bend!!
AND NOW, my silly looking bike after a fantastic bodge-job. I had to hacksaw off with a 20 (no joke) year old saw and the right side bar tape has no end plug, i just folded up some old newspaper to hold it in!! Haha
Anyway, if your interested just thought I'd post them up!
Think it looks less fussy than with the bullhorns and the brake, but obviously I'll be changing the bar ASAP!!
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P.S. I can't believe B'mouths got it's own fixed website. Fookin brilliant
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^ Cheers Pifko. Done
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Hello boys.
I'm registering myself on this page now.
The other week I went into John Antony as I used to work there breifly after uni to say Hi and they couldn't understand what my bike was all about. I tried to explain, but no love. That led me to assume that I was the only one who was ever around, but now that I know!!
I always thought central was great for fixed riding as it's not busy like London, but does have loads of variation (and a pier)!!
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No, luckily not, very close tho. The pedestrianised section of the Old Christchurch road.
Richmond hill would have been hilarious.
I once kained it down there on the fixed. down at the bottom where it pedestrianises I blew my front tyre. I couldn't control and had to deck it. Slid for ages. I was laughing my head off lying on the floor and loads of people came up to me asking it I wanted an ambulance, I couldn't answer I was laughing so hard. Luckily no damage (apart from my ego!)
@Pifko. That sound effing dodgy, but must have been hilarious to watch!!
BTW. Seems like there are a good few people from/living down here. (I live in London, but my mothers down here so am back sometimes). We should organise some kind of ride and drink one day. When the summer comes along I think!!
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Right, as per another recent thread I've gone and bent my Nitto RB021 bullhorns. The right side has both been pulled lower and inwards (somehow).
Anyway, I'm sitting here contemplating cutting them down to make them shorts, which is a conversion I was considering anyway, but obviously not with these bars.
Am I being a little handicapped by getting cold feet? I'm just wondering if there is anyway of saving the bars, getting them re-bent into normal position (I guess nigh-on impossible), but am concerned that they are probably now prone to stress fracture.
Also (as per below) they aren't flat and do angle downwards slightly a few cm out of the stem, A problem for riding with when short? I just don't know.
Shall I just do it and be done with all this 'fannying about'?
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^&^ I think we've just completely gone against the whole idea of this thread!! Sorry
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Ohhhh.
It had all turned round so nicely on here, people where friendly, respectful, posting pictures of monkies and then Superprecise comes in, makes a reasonable comment and unknowingly reverses the evolution of this thread back into the preevolutionary ooze from the now becoming sense and companionship which was slowly rising to power.
Good form mate Haha ;)
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