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And the black pudding

So you live in Spain and....you don't eat any Spanish foods....wtf pete bet you're more in to Turkey dinosaurs with smiley faces with a orange squash to swill it down with

I'll have a scotch and coke, none of that winey shite......

A pint of milk

Didn't think you could claim compensation for being on the Dock, I'd say its jail time for you

It is but not yet thanks

Do we? Do tell as I don't remember ever grass tracking

Would never happen I don't go grass tracking.... it's tarmac only for my bike

It's the flotation device not a fairing

We should all just become vigilantes, I like your thinking tym. God help the twats who take a swipe at my property if I catch them they'll be lucky to be able to walk again let alone talk and I don't care for the consequences from the supposedly proud to protect(the thieving scum) coppers as I feel everyone has the right to protect their property. In my eyes the only thing the yanks have got right

That's better

We are all spending a week in peak district in a little village called Ashover so I'll be on sporadically not that much will change there

I started spannering pretty early on, me a dad rebuilt a '74 reliant Scimitar se5a started it when I was around 11 finished it nearly by time I was coming up to 13. Was working on my dad's '85 mg metro from maybe 10 setting valve clearances and servicing, doing the brakes So my spannering days started very early and I wish cars were still that easy to work on unlike the shite you get these days

Fair enough mate well I think I'll do brands for the next track day so I'll let you know and maybe you can come along

Happy belated birthday Clive

You are correct there

He's desperately hoping to one day bump in to Clive for that promised rendezvous

We are off to the peak district for a week from Friday 19th August, going to a place called Ashover just by Chesterfield. When you returning South six?

No they are sliders.... And I'm a no sandals in any respect kinda guy...... trainers all day long for me

Is her cousin as much of a Psycho as she is? Might take skye to the play cafe in the morning apart from that not much though I will be trying to get out on the bike at some point come rain or shine....I do actually enjoy a ride in the rain

Looks good Pete, not so much the scorched earth scenery but good you now have a bike to get out and play on, take it the wife isn't enamoured about going pillion on this one?

Raleigh chopper?

Some Chinese rust bucket?

Wait....I see some dirt on those header pipes pete get the autosol

For my nightmare it wasn't a bike but a car ....namely a seat ibiza cupra 1.4tsi jobby. Bought it brand spanking new on the first day of ownership it developed a rather annoying gearbox fault in that if you pulled up to a junction or set of lights and selected neutral (8 speed dsg gearbox) and tried to select drive it would shit itself requiring a switch off and back on to get it working again. Straight back to the garage for a software update..... which did actually sort it. Roll on a couple of weeks in to ownership I notice it was using oil (checked on the dipstick from cold and always in same location) so I took it back to the garage to be told nah mate can't see any issues and that it had only consumed around half a litre but when told I'd only done around 100 miles that week to and from work it still didn't register as an issue with them) So I take back the car to use but I kept a very keen eye on the dipstick before each drive to measure when it dropped and the worst day was after a 7 mile drive to work check it at home before leaving it was at the top mark on dipstick when I came to leave work I check again to find it didn't even register on the dipstick so off back to the garage on the way home for them to top up with 1½ litres, and still they wasn't fazed by the 7 miles I'd driven between checks even though I said there's no way that is within spec for oil consumption but they took it with a pinch of salt so away I drove again after they topped it up. It continued in the same vein week after week so God knows how much oil it actually consumed but I'd say 100s of litres in the 18 months I owned it. At the 9 month mark I took it in with oil literally dripping out of the tail pipe so I asked them if it was supposed to be doing that and got told it was just soot ......I didn't know soot dripped I had well and truly had enough by this point so I gave them an ultimatum that they either change the engine or I'd drive it through the front of the showroom so it had a new engine and turbo. Prior to this I was told it was my driving I was racing it from cold but with video footage they then told me im not driving it hard enough......wtf The final straw was on our Cornwall holiday journey when in torrential rain on the m4 the wipers just cut out completely needing half a dozen fuse changes to complete the journey. After that I got the car recovered from Cornwall and replaced with a hire car and told them I was walking away from the vehicle and finance. It's put me right off owning anything new vehicle wise