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There are going to be some epic crashes on that

So sick . .

YouTube - Quiksilver All 80's All Day Vert Challenge - January 7th, 2011

I had a go on a Mana - interesting ride, but i concluded a maxi scooter did the same thing better.

I have a BB7 on mine, works a treat - hydraulic would be total overkill - Cycle Surgery on Ken High Street had a Marin Carbon disc fork off a Hybrid that was a spare ordered but never collected, for 50 quid - 700c without stupid clearances.

I am running Bontrager Satellite CX Forks ON mine, with the cable routed through the stem/headset using a hollow nut star bolt of a dirt jump rig

What did he expect? All very well playing mummys boy in the national press before your trial, but if you stupid enough to do what he did, your probably too stupid to realise your going to jail.

Well at least he achieved his aim of getting the government to pay for him to go somewhere

Yeah Byoi !!

Epic - need one!

Mink Coats all round

I got a set of Armadillo D3O Waterproof trousers in TKMaxx for 20 quid down from 100 the other day - they had quite a bit of kit in the Ken High St one, but annoyingly a lot of the tags were missing so couldnt tell how waterproof/resistant some of the jackets were.

So the guy I was talking to wasn't wasted/talking out his arse? I'm glad else, I feel it was a waste of a fair load of schmoozing to try and get a cheap tailored suit! HA

cheers VV you've allayed my fears

A good tailored suit is always worth the cash, its just that there are a lot of expensive suits that are no better than some on the hight street.

I have some city boy mates who go and drop 2k on a designer label suit, and all your paying for is the name

Didn't our very own Savile Row suited VinylVillian also mention the high quality of M&S slacks and suits?

Indeed i did - 150 quid gets you an M&S suit with 2 pairs of trousers - their suits are designed to be altered, so the first thing i do is pop down the tailor and pay em 50 quid to get the fit perfect.

The most disapointing suits i have had are Gieves and Hawkes, never got more than a year out of them, and their tailors were not overly receptive to my request to double the crotch to make them more saddle proof. Nice fit though.

I would never waste my money on an OTP suit from one of the big designer labels, when John Lewis and M&S will do you something of equal if not better quality.

If i want something tailored, i go to either Buckleigh on Lower Sloan Street, or Welsh and Jeffries on Saville Row.

However i cant stand designer ponces, many people are under the misconception that certain brands/labels offer you exclusive access into some mythical stylish elite, when they mostly just mark you out as a twat.

Its still relatively easy to get a buy to let mortgage - for example i can currently get an 80% mortgage for a BTL, but best i have been offered for self use is 50%.

The problem with all these property porn tv programs is they make it seem childs play, and the rapid growth in the market in the noughties masked many peoples mistakes.

Property development isnt rocket science, but its very easy to go wrong.

Of course it is, but if you have cash almost any intelligent investment can make money.

Money breeds money, give me £300,000 cash and I'll make real money on the property market. Give me shirtbuttons and I won't even be able to afford to make a shirt.

I don't know many developers that started their first property without having had the dosh to buy it in the first place. The ones that managed to succeed by borrowing heavily for their developments are simply lucky that they borrowed, bought and sold at the right times.

The majority of developers i know never put their own cash any where near any development they do - its all investors and banks - if you want to make serious money developing, the first rule is use other peoples money to make your own. The reason cash is king is that if you have it, the banks will lend to you.

Long term investment is a different kettle of fish, where most projects have large amounts of cash sunk in from the outset.

No - where did i infer that - my point is that prices in Central London will continue to remain at a level that excludes a lot people, including (unfortunately) many people who grew up in the area.

I was born and raised in Fulham, but i cant afford to buy a house there, and they only way i would be able to is by an increased salary, not a fall in house prices

People who earn more than you can, and in Central London the fact is there are plenty of people who can afford, even if you or i cant (i dont own any property).

It depends if you are buying a house as an asset , or as a home - if as a home then what you want out of a home is the priority, if as an asset then how well protected it is is the priority

I was referring to the London market, no the UK one as a whole - if you are looking to buy in central London, dont hang about, as if you can only just afford it now, then you probably wont be able to in the future.

The key thing to remember it this, is that a fall in House prices doesn't necessarily mean they become more affordable, as its the relation ship between income and house prices that is more relevant.

House prices in London will continue to become more unrealistic for anyone not earning above the national average wage, irrespective of if the house prices themselves are going up or down.

If you have cash at the moment its very easy to make real money in the property market. I would debate the idea of fictitious money, i agree that if you sell your house for a profit, but the property you want to move to has gone up an equal amount, then how much better off are you? However my firend who bought a modern apartment off Old Street in 1998 for 800k, and sold it last year for 3m, would say that the 500k villa he bought in Ibiza, and the 2.5m sitting in his bank account are far from imaginary.

There are many vehicles that will bring bigger returns ( or losses) over comparable periods to property, but there are very few assets as safe and potential profitable over the long term as owning a good property, on a good street, in a sought after area.

Buying a house is a great thing to do - getting into a debt that is at the limit or beyond your means is not a clever thing to do.

If you can afford it, jump on the property ladder, if you cant, dont.

I work at the very top end of the London market, what teh papers and agents like to call "super prime". At this level prices ar still going through the roof, driven by the fact that London is the number one city in the world to live in if you are uber minted. A property at this level is valued not on its technically worth, but on how much a purchaser is willing to pay in order to persuade the owner to sell - i have seen houses valued at 20m go for double that, simply because that's what the owner wanted to sell up.

If anything the recession has actually benefited the super prime market, as those with cash are now king, and London is seen as the safest place to both live, and put your money.

In a way the same principal applies lower down the market, certainly in London. Areas like Fulham, Clapham, Battersea, Putney and their counterparts in teh north and east of town, have changed unrecognisably in the last 30 years. Now the preserve of the upper middle classes, pushed out of Chelsea but the influx of worldwide wealth, a house in these areas, particularly one that ticks all the boxes of what buyers are looking for, will still go for stupid money, simply because there are too many buyers, and not enough property.

Again as you go further down the market in London, and look at emerging areas in the East of town, you see the same thing.

Quite frankly, if you can afford it, buy in London, because the prices are not only driven by the economy, but by the fact that whether you are a millionaire, or Dick Whittington coming to seek your fortune, London is the place to be, and over the next couple of decades we will see the further movement of the poor out of the centre of London, and the continued influx of well paid professionals, all looking for their little bit of property to call home.

The rest of the UK is a different story . .

To add to the context, my original point was a response was to this:

Again, my point is, most people are not being hit as hard as students are. That's why you don't seem the out smashing shit up.

I think that's where your wrong - the students are just one of many groups getting hit hard - that was my point.

Any way our friends in Rome are giving it their all at the moment

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/14/riots-rome-silvio-berlusconi-confidence-votes

i've never forgiven steak tartar since being a little kid and ordering it by accident in france.
I really wanted a steak, and then that arrived.
sad times.

I can relate to that - unfortunately for me the occasion was on a date aged 18, so i had to pretend it was one of my favourite dishes whilst my date looked on bewildered, convinced i was a freak for eating raw meat.

http://www.vbs.tv/en-gb/watch/powder-and-rails-season-3/terry-kidwell-part-1-of-2

Vice have done a little documentary on Terry Kidwell, which is pretty cool for those of us who were around in the 80s.

The whole Powder and Rail seires over the last couple of years is great - the Noah Salasnek and Damien Saunders ones especially

But only Labour. The Conservatives are done with pandering to big business. That's why corporate taxes and tax loop holes are on the top of the agenda.

Oh, wait.

I didn't say Labour, i said Parliament

The reality is its a tax dressed up as a fee

My point is that it is the politicians fault for pandering to them - i put the blame squarely on the shoulders of the parliament at teh time for being infective in the duty to the people of the nation by prioritising the needs of big business over teh needs of the nation as a whole.

So the regulators are to blame because they weren't regulating enough. And this is because of political interference, which was coming from political parties who were going for the populist vote (because everyone loves deregulation)?

To a point yes, except they were pandering to the economic big fish who fill the party coffers, and fund campaigns, which then enable them to sell to us how we have never had it better in a media blitz.

The government actively encouraged investment in property, in order to stimulate the housing market, and the financial sector - they provide specific tax breaks in order to enable this, and still do, which means it is still incredibly easy to buy an investment property on a large mortgage, but very difficult to buy your first proper on a manageable mortgage .