tomturd

Screw it, they seem to have made delivery free at the moment too. I just bought a medium.. next up will be an electric bike conversion kit

Duncy, what are the sizes like? These have gone down to £350 so I'm hovering over the buy button. Trying to decide whether to get medium or large. Are the large ones like... ridiculous "tesco bike" large? Tempted to go for medium because I prefer the look of smaller bikes but I'm 6'2. What size do you reckon the one in the photo is here? http://www.decathlon.co.uk/rockrider-500-s-mountain-bike-black-id_8208677.html

If you're going past that would be cool but don't go out of your way on my account, I think what you've already said is enough for me, I'm on the edge of buying it anyway £360 doesn't seem to get you much in terms of branded bikes nowadays, even second hand so it seems like it's worth a punt. Size wise I think I might get a medium, I should probably grow up and get a bike that fits me properly (I'm 6 2) but large frames look a bit weird to me, fashion over function.. Duncy, I was a bit surprised the brakes are even branded, was expecting something unbranded for the price. I have a couple of avid bb7's so I'll probably put those on (no idea if they're still regarded as being any good ) if they're not up to scratch. And maybe some new forks (I guess the unbranded ones weigh a bit).... and maybe a shorter stem.. and an electric bike kit... this could end up costing me but it's been a few years since I blew a load of money on bike bits

*bump* (this is one of those weird times I'm googling for stuff and TF comes up in the results) Looking at this at the moment: http://www.decathlon.co.uk/rockrider-500-s-mountain-bike-black-id_8208677.html Anyone got one or know someone who does? Got any thoughts CurtisRider? I'm not too fussed about the components as long as the frame is up to the job, I'm not going to be doing anything crazy on it Eventually to convert to electric I think (I'm hopefully moving house to somewhere about 1.5 miles from the pub, all uphill on the way back, but there's an off road route I can take). The other option seems to be this: http://www.decathlon.co.uk/rockrider-520-s-mountain-bike--id_8208678.html. But to be honest I prefer the look of the cheaper one :/

Yeah, going pretty good at the moment Bit of a rocky start but I guess that's normal. Things seem to be steadying out a bit. I've been working on a slideshow plugin for WordPress for a year now. Not a bad way to make a living: no clients to deal with, working from home, could be worse!

I guess I might count as a lurker, it's been a while since I posted. I've been super busy with work for about the past year. And going to the allotment (getting old!)

I've logged in and looked at this twice, but I don't know how to fix it.. sorry.

Yep, what ooo said. Although.. I would argue, that the extra skills you might learn using something like trigger.io are at least transferrable to web stuff, and Java is a lot harder to get into. Depends how serious you are, if you're just dabbling, I'd go for trigger.io - it'll be easier to get something up and running. but If you actually intend on releasing something on the play store, then do it properly (Java). And yep you need a Mac to develop for iOS, that's why I bought one, although I havent done any iPhone development yet. My brain isn't ready to learn new languages yet. Its still recovering from the shock of 4 years of java - which I hated towards the end.

PVA should do it, when I got a plasterer in he did a whole room in about 5 minutes with it, just get a big brush and slap it on.

Java and JavaScript are quite different. If you're happy with HTML, JavaScript etc, maybe take a look at trigger.io, phone gap or appcellerator to begin with. Trigger.io is probably the easiest to set up and get working.

58 miles, twice a day.. 5 times a week.. 812 miles. By my workings thats £81.20 a week, your car must to 5 miles to the gallon or something It might end up cheaper over the course of 3 months to buy a more economical car, rather than spend that money on rent. EDIT: you said per month.. Hour drive each way, I would commute, it's not that bad! Alternatively, you could do what I do, commute twice a week (100 miles each way) and stay over night occasionally. Edit, in fact.. I'd say commuting along a motorway is sort of nice. It's a rare 1.5 hours that I can spend without feeling like I need to be looking at my computer.

Not on purpose, nope.. errrm, will look into it

Has that worked? "I have no idea what i'm doing"

Sorted

I've asked the current developer of the plugin for a free copy of the latest version. I was the original author of the feedback system (I wrote it for TF) but handed it over to someone else when I didn't have time to maintain it. He has since handed it to someone else who has now made $5000 worth of sales of it. Bummer.

I think my old FR had black/grey seats and that didn't have the cupra body kit on it... can't fully remember though. Good spot about the front splitter thing! I think I might give it a miss: more miles than mine, broken splitter thing, it has a dent too thats not mentioned on the listing and painted calipers (the painted calipers are more of a warning sign to me... you could argue that its been looked after, but could also argue that a car 'enthusiast' has had it and ragged it about a bit - quite an assumption to make but I like things to be left as they're meant to be ) Just ordered a new bonnet catch for mine too which includes the all important micro switch, so hopefully that should fix my locking and wiper problem - that will make me moderately more happy with it.

A quick look on gocompare suggests my insurance should drop a bit, but I'd have to double check. A few problems have surfaced with my vrs recently, all pretty minor but they seem to be stacking up: boot doesn't open unless you open a rear door first (actually it was like that when I got it), no warning sound when I leave the lights on, the bonnet switch is dodgy and thinks the bonnet is open so it won't let me put my intermittent wipers on (I can 'fix' this by disconnecting the sensor..), the coolant warning light comes on sometimes but fixes itself if you restart it (needs a new thermometer thingy it seems - quickish fix) and there is a 'squeak from the aux belt' which I don't know anything about really - so it sort of is a shitter. Although it does go pretty well. Soooo, for the sake of not having to actually sell it (and feel guilty about the issues), and get it serviced and MOTd, and having to find £3500 up front, I'm tempted to trade it and be done with it - assuming he can give me a half decent part exchange deal. Webuyanycar says its worth £2500, so going on that price, trading in the car plus £1100 on top... seems tempting (actually less tempting now I've done some actual maths )

Car lords: looking at this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2005-Seat-Leon-1-9-TDI-Cupra-FR-150BHP-/261173357347?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3ccf252b23 - any comments? Are those calipers meant to be red? or has someone messed with them? I'd prefer a car that hasn't been fiddled with. My fabia is due for a service, mot and tax in 6 days time, as a cost of around £300 I guess - assuming the MOT doesn't bring anything up. Any idea's how much an 04 silver fabia vrs, 92,000 miles might get me part exchange? I'm tempted to make a rash decision and trade it in.

I dunno if you're trolling or not? If you are, then fair play... if not then err, I don't know where to begin. worldtruth: Wikipedia: that guy needs to lay off the weed

If you can decypher:

Hmmm, no respense so far. Maybe its time for the hammer...

I know of someone who may be able to help, give it a couple of hours before you smack it with a hammer

Signed up, logged in, no permission

cheers butt! (best welsh accent)

Just spotted your post - must have skipped that page. looks like a nasty crash! The insurers came back with a decent price when I wrote off my leon (direct line), I tried to tell the man I wanted more, but he'd obviously heard it all before and assured me it was a decent price - which when I looked about a bit, I realised it was. Hopefully they'll be nice to you