Macie_UK

Certainly a big turn around from when you first got it mate

Well, in a break with tradition I've got loads, but all the usual stuff: 1. Lose 25Kg - through dieting rather than amputation! 2. Get fitter - nice and ambiguous that, note the lack of definitive goal posts 3. Get hold of a cheapo track bike and do a few 'slow and wobbly' days 4. Get away for a half decent jaunt on the bike somewhere 5. Finish all the little odd jobs around the house - you know, like having floors and walls 6. Play more golf 7. Have a decent 'relaxing' holiday 8. Stop letting things that don't affect me wind me up 9. Return to gainful employment 10.Actually plan [1] a big (well, for me) bike trip for 2014 Lots of other stuff that I'd like to do, but they all fall in the 'unlikely' category. Will be interesting to check back next year to see what we actually got done [1] Apparently that's what grown-ups do, rather than just decide on a whim that I'm going somewhere next week [2] [2] Which has nearly always worked out OK [3]. Mostly. But could always have been better. [3] If Mike mentions being a small child and having to kip outside on some pallets round the back of a truck stop near the Portuguese border one cold May, just tell him that it was an 'adventure'.

Despite many people only resolving to not make any resolutions (that's been me for the last decade ) It's that time of year when plenty of folk decide to really really try and make a positive change. For some it will mean attending aversion therapy to overcome their fear of hard luggage, while others will try and wean themselves off of an obsessive cleaning fetish So what are you guys and girls resolving for 2013?

That's posh talk for a saucepan innit?

Happy Birthday

Hello and welcome to the forum

It's called "PR" Dave, just roll with it

As is Dave. Which clearly means that anything iffy around here is clearly down to that Stu fella

I can confirm that Dave and I only drank orange juice or soda water, chatted about Stravinsky and contemplated the merits if the Pirc Defense opening in chess.

Had a second hand Mk1 in orange. Got wrecked in my second ever RTA

Don't get trikes appeal - none of the advantages of a bike, and none of the advantages of a car...

Yay, some good news Well done fella.

Personally I'm fairly anti the 3-in-1 style jobbies - nowt worse than not being able to scan something because it's out of ink! [1] I still believe that the best way is to have a mono laser for mundane stuff (OK stuff at around £75 new, old HP 'flat' laserjets like the the 5x go on forever) a stand alone scanner and a inkjet with good print quality for the odd occasion when a splash of colour is needed. Cheap colour lasers make no sense at all - at low volumes they are even dearer than inkjets and at high volumes they will simply make you cry (£280 for a set for my old HP 2600n with a 2000 page yield, which became more like 250 if you were doing photos). If you must go down the multfunction route, in my experience I can suggest that the canon MP / Pixma range are junk, the high end Epson stylus has very good print quality but the inks are on the steep side - and they really don't like the compatible inks and the HP offerings are pretty robust, and the OfficeJet Pros seem rather good. Lots have wireless connectivity, less have ethernet connectivity. Best thing to do is to decide what features are important to *you* whether it be print speed, ink cost, connectivity, cost to buy, paper capacity, footprint, scanning resolution, what colour the LEDs are etc. and then find the one that best fits your criteria rather than what some marketing bloke in PC World says is the best buy [1] Then again I also don't like fridge/freezers or washer/dryers.

Ah treat yourself now mate - give you something to over the Christmas holiday

I know that the lunatics on detailing forums cry if you spent less than £250 on a polisher, but those silverline £45 jobbies are OK.

He told me he was gonna fly out and rent a Harley for the week with the money he saved on the ferry....

It does, my last order was for 6 pairs (2x alloy, 1x plastic, 1x rimless and 2x scrpted sunglasses and was £116 including delivery. I've got one of those too (when I put the script in it says "Are you *really* sure about that? ) but fortunately I don't need the varifocal bit. Still may be worth a punt when feel the urge again. I read various reviews and still wasn't sure, so I ordered a couple of pairs from 3 different places - 1 were OK, 1 were spot on and 1 (Zenni Optical - who had the best reviews) were utter crap in terms of getting the lens right. So even with 2 in the bin and 2 as 'emergency glove box/under bike seat pairs, it was still cheaper and I knew who to go to next time.

That's not really a stupidly excessive amount though - I remember shelling out about about 180 quid four or so years ago on a pair with standard lenses, (mainly because mine broke, I can't drive without them and was down in the arse end of England - Rochester, ISTR) with one of the well known chains. Never again. Since that shock it's been eye test at boots and order 6 - 12 pairs a year from overseas

Not a fan, but that look far too tidy for a winter hack

This looks ace if it done well, with the LEDs mounted inside the casting and showing through neatly drilled holes. Plan B, If the undertray projects below the rear side fairings, then you can either fit some flush mounts to the side, or just drill through, add some reinforcement and bolt up indicators as normal. Plan C, get some engineering place to make you one to your design to order. Personally, if I was going to faff around this qould be my preferred option.

Not a great deal,as far as I can see most of those stats are pulled from the main forumotion.comdomain, rather than being specific to the hutch's bit. The "This site is worth 16 tillion dollars" is just a load of Alexa pish. Don't forumotion provide you with a stand-alone web stats thingy, or let you incorporate Google analytics into the forum, if it's the lings and analysis you're interested in?

Spring.

Happy Birthday old man

On the flip side, she may think that she is popular, but you have to buy her some friends

Excellent - I assume that it is petitioning for removal of those godawful speed limiter devices *Edit* Ah, no, Just Eileen and 33 others publicly demonstrating that they do not have a single, solitary clue between them.....