mac11irl
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no need to butcher the door card. it can be removed tactfully and gracefully as can can the lock mech without smashing it deans guide is probably the best one done thus far on getting in there
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if it makes you feel any better, both of my recent offs have been at low speed while trying to avoid having an off 🤣
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as above if you click on the word freedom it is auto hyperlinked and will bring you to the right part of the forum for informational purposes
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distracted by the view, you ended up a hole.....
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well thats fair enough 🤣
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nice. ive had the dynamic camera in a hired focus estate once. very handy while adjusting to being on the wrong side of the car in italy. swmbo's Arona has the camera but only static guidelines
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aye, weekend forecast is looking decent and next week may actually Summery!
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i do indeed have a shower at my office - given my main office since March last year has been a desk in the spare room at home yeah, its hardtail country alright. and nice fat tyres... when i get as far getting a new one itll be pretty different... descents are a bit butt puckering on normal tyres, no shocks and rim brakes
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todays expedition... the forecast lied. rain and mist was to have blown off by around 7. so it shouldve been alright ish. it was just constant heavy drizzle and light rain the whole time. and its still falling. my chest strap decided it couldnt be arsed connecting to the watch today 🙄 so i left it at home. i was also a few mins later leaving (kind of hoping on the rain stopping.) so i had to shorten the route a bit to be back on time for the morning family routine. that and taking the photos in @olduns thread... so it was a 1hr, 14k slog through the ****e and mud. coated in muck when i got home, sweaty and rained on. just an ick kind of day.
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okay, so yesterday was a tough but nice 17km route. weather was alright, and i had it in just over an hour. eagle eyed trackers will notice a small change in approach route - the first off road shortcut i have been using is getting really overgrown now, and the Jap Knotweed is encroaching on the barely 2 ft wide trail, so rather than risk bringing that crap home on my tyres, i went around to the "main" side approach. I also had my chest strap on, so was able to see how thing are while on this trek. it hit a max of 198, ironically while cycling the flat section on the way to the first climb. then it dropped off to a consistent 160-170 the whole way up the ascents. it dropped down to around 150 on the road section to get home at the end. pic taken about a min after i got home pleased with that. oh the sheep asked me to say "mmmbbbbbbbaaaaaaaaaa" to everyone for them.
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part of my ascent track. more of the ascent how smooth... just lovely . descent to the woodland (cant see it in the mist..) cant see the piinty rocks sticking out of the ground ... most of the foresty trails are like this but the vehicle tracks are like this.. its a fairly mixed bag tbf...
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this could explain some of them vanishing then. imported ex uk cars have always been a nice way to get better spec second hand cheaper than ROI reg car.
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if a vehicle is exported to the ROI does it vanish off the dvla?
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it can go horribly wrong too.... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2010_R238_traffic_collision
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god i wish my morning route here was as smoothly gravelled as that ill try and take some pics tomorrow...
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ak-choo-ally... *pushes up intellectual spectacles* ...research has shown that tinfoil hats can increase the concentration of microwave energy gathered so by wearing on you are helping the mind control signals be even more effective....
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UPDATE ALERT - something interesting... i found my old heart rate strap to go with my old watch. and it still works up until Jan 2020, i have always had an "above average" resting HR. anytime its checked during my life, all the way back to being like 10, its always hovered around 72-75bpm. but, when i strapped up last night check the strap was still working, i sat down for a couple of mins to let it settle, and get a baseline. since i cut all caffeine at the end of Dec 2019, started running in June 2020 and have continued with the cardio exercise since swapping to the bike when my knee started at me, my resting HR last was 62. genuinely i dont think my resting HR has ever been that low. so, to anyone who wonders about the benefit of exercise, and the possible affects of caffeine on your body.. by dropping one and taking up the other ive reduced my RHR by about 16%... result.
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well its ****ing rain again, but i got out and back before it started. horrible out now. anyhoo..... had a hard pedal up the hill, amazing what a week off hill climbing does! legs were nuked at the top. then i turned west up the rear peak and across to the playground - woods. stayed off the firebreaks though, theyll just be a swamp likely to throw me into a tree.. but i tagged on some extra trail distance, found the other way out, and got a nice highspeed run down the road toward home. if it wasnt wet i couldve gone a bit faster down it, but when any given puddle could be a massive pothole.... i may be leaving my overjacket at home next morning though, or just bringing it around my waist in case i get cold, it was bloody sweaty today!
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okay, idens the net a smidge at least, may have more luck getting a trek or giant. there is just no stock of anything available anywhere! even halfords dont seem to have any voodoos in the sth end of the country..
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yeah, i spose its that thing of "best seller" doesnt necessarily mean a best product, just that lots of people buy them. the Trek Roscoe 7 looks a decent spec and is in/around max budget, but no room really to add an upgrade for a while.
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where do Trek and Giant rank these days? assuming sram/shimano and a decent fork
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bit of a mixed bag of weather this morning, so wimped out and went the tarmac river side small puddles, rather than the big mud holes up the hills. gonna be nasty up there for a few days i reckon. anyway, it was a grand 20k pedal by the river, in 50mins followed by a nice shower a mnd a day of working from home.
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oh dear...
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hello, and welcome along. @Rustynuts is very up to speed on the different infotainment stuff , but if you look and post in the ICE subforum, you'll get help for this
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no, came close to buying one though... ive got 2 octy and a citigo from them. changed the citigo recently, but the only karoq they had was a manual and swmbo had a driven a dsg seat Arona before it, so that won out... cant fault the lads in RMP, i drove Olly a bit mad buyin the second octy off him, tempting him with wads of crispy fresh 50s from various pockets to gwt him down on the price 😂 and the service side is 100% too
