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Audi is for the wife, SLK is a convertible too and that's the youngest daughter, she earns loads of money but buying outright without finance got me a £10k discount so she will be paying me back £2k per month.
 
Tatty_One said:
Audi is for the wife, SLK is a convertible too and that's the youngest daughter, she earns loads of money but buying outright without finance got me a £10k discount so she will be paying me back £2k per month.
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Bank of dad! Which Audi did you get?
 
I had a left hand drive Passat estate many moons ago.....it had over 350,000 miles on it when i ran the oil too low and it seized on the M25.
 
I see all you fancy people with all your fancy gas guzzling cars and i raise you my £800-900 road bike (wheels cost me £260 alone as they were custom made by hand)

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0 - outofbreath in 3 seconds.

I got a quite a few 100+ mile rides coming up this year. Im not quite a MAMIL though, I have slightly more dignity than that.
 
Though to be fair. I can happily cruise between 15-18mph. 20mph if conditions are right. Ive seen some other bike commuters pushing around 25mph but im not even half as fit as them.
 
I would be riding a bike if i was to live in London myself to be honest lol,i drove around central London once and despise every bit of it.
 
My new cave is getting there slowly.


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kurosagi01 said:
I would be riding a bike if i was to live in London myself to be honest lol,i drove around central London once and despise every bit of it.
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No you dont lol. Its serious business, and drivers HATE cyclists here for one reason or another. Mainly because we dont have to carry any I.D, pay any road tax or insurance etc etc but i actually pay Liability & bike insurance as i commute day in day out around london.

Ive had so many problems with rude and arrogant drivers that cut me up, close pass or almost knock me off that ive actually got a helmet camera after one too many incidents.

CAPSLOCKSTUCK said:
My new cave is getting there slowly.


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Nice - Id love to go fishing down that estuary on the right when the tide was up!! (unless thats just a large stream??)
 
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RCoon said:
Bank of dad! Which Audi did you get?
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She needed something a little more practical than a TT (Mother in Law struggles with a pulse let alone stooping into a small sports car) so the new shape A3 Convertible.

@CAPSLOCKSTUCK that "cave" (1st pic) reminds me of a typical house in downtown Kabul :)
 
FreedomEclipse said:
No you dont lol. Its serious business, and drivers HATE cyclists here for one reason or another. Mainly because we dont have to carry any I.D, pay any road tax or insurance etc etc but i actually pay Liability & bike insurance as i commute day in day out around london.

Ive had so many problems with rude and arrogant drivers that cut me up, close pass or almost knock me off that ive actually got a helmet camera after one too many incidents.
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You get them type of drivers everywhere you go these days lol,everyone appears to be in a hurry a lot now and then you have several van drivers driving as if they're in a GTR or something.
I had a little blue Mazda2 which i have replaced for a Toyota GT86 back in November and i am going to avoid London like a plague.
 
FreedomEclipse said:
Nice - Id love to go fishing down that estuary on the right when the tide was up!! (unless thats just a large stream??)
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It is a tidal estuary with a bass hatchery at its entrance to the bay. Salmon and Sewin are caught here. When the tide and season is right clouds of fish swarm upstream, quite a sight.

Local fishermen make small stone shelters which the soft shell crabs climb into, they then collect the crabs for bait.

The banks are wet, slippery and dangerous i stay away from the river and used to do most of my fishing from local beaches but i havent fished for a couple of years. I have a good friend who fishes with rod and line commercialy for bass....he gives me them for free but i have to pay for the lovely lobsters.
 
CAPSLOCKSTUCK said:
It is a tidal estuary with a bass hatchery at its entrance to the bay. Salmon and Sewin are caught here. When the tide and season is right clouds of fish swarm upstream, quite a sight.

Local fishermen make small stone shelters which the soft shell crabs climb into, they then collect the crabs for bait.

The banks are wet, slippery and dangerous i stay away from the river and used to do most of my fishing from local beaches but i havent fished for a couple of years. I have a good friend who fishes with rod and line commercialy for bass....he gives me them for free but i have to pay for the lovely lobsters.
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I am a Carp fisherman myself annual 1 week fishing trip next month, 3 old and very grumpy men in a lodge fishing all day and drinking by night!
 
kurosagi01 said:
You get them type of drivers everywhere you go these days lol,everyone appears to be in a hurry a lot now and then you have several van drivers driving as if they're in a GTR or something.
I had a little blue Mazda2 which i have replaced for a Toyota GT86 back in November and i am going to avoid London like a plague.
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Speaking of GTR's, Heres one (or at least an R35) This isnt my video of course.


I havent started up a channel to upload cycling stuff on yet. I was very against camering up in the first place as I believe it aggravates and antagonises drivers a lot more but there are a lot of drivers who will actually think twice about being an absolute c**t, Running you over/down/off the road or getting out of their vehicle and physically attacking you if they know their being recorded. I can take all the verbal abuse - Ive had plenty of it and it doesnt bother me at all but if he hit and run's me after we have our little shouty match about him being a bad driver then im going to need all the evidence i can get.

but the problem is, Police are incompetent as well and most of the time even though there is strong evidence against someone who did a hit and run on you. The police 99% of the time arent interested because there was no death by dangerous driving caused -- This is quite a big topic among the cycling community at the moment.

Heres an prime example


If you follow this guys update videos regarding the case, it draws a pretty appalling picture of the Justice System from a cyclist's position who was involved in a hit & run. Basically, cyclist's are all treated as second class citizens.


CAPSLOCKSTUCK said:
It is a tidal estuary with a bass hatchery at its entrance to the bay. Salmon and Sewin are caught here. When the tide and season is right clouds of fish swarm upstream, quite a sight.

Local fishermen make small stone shelters which the soft shell crabs climb into, they then collect the crabs for bait.

The banks are wet, slippery and dangerous i stay away from the river and used to do most of my fishing from local beaches but i havent fished for a couple of years. I have a good friend who fishes with rod and line commercialy for bass....he gives me them for free but i have to pay for the lovely lobsters.
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Sea bass is delicious wrapped in tin foil, seasoned with a little salt, pepper and a squeeze of lemon and slow cooked in the oven. How much is he selling the lobsters for?
 
Tatty_One said:
I am a Carp fisherman myself annual 1 week fishing trip next month, 3 old and very grumpy men in a lodge fishing all day and drinking by night!
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I used to do a lot more carp fishing myself - I think my PB was 25lb from the local reservoirs around my area. I used to do pike fishing almost every weekend too at one point, catching them up the River Lea. I dont think i pulled bigger than an 18lb pike though.

Every so often me and my dad head down southend for a little dabble of sea fishing. Though Ive been saying that since i got the bike id like to kit myself up with some lighter gear and cycle up and down the river lea doing a little lure fishing for pike & whatever else that lurks under those murky waters.
 
Tatty_One said:
I am a Carp fisherman myself annual 1 week fishing trip next month, 3 old and very grumpy men in a lodge fishing all day and drinking by night!
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You definitely need the right company and strong booze for carp fishing, and you need to take food. Plentiful mackerel and foraging on the shore usually gives us a meal in the summer...great fun for the kids too. Nice big mussels at lowtide then mackerel or a bass if you are lucky.

FreedomEclipse said:
Sea bass is delicious wrapped in tin foil, seasoned with a little salt, pepper and a squeeze of lemon and slow cooked in the oven. How much is he selling the lobsters for?
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Spot on with the recipe.

The last lobster we had was last autumn for our 23rd wedding anniversary, live from the seawater tank i helped him install in his garden. It was big enough for 4 of us to feast on and enough for a taster for some friends. It only had one claw so he couldnt easily sell it to a restaurant even though it was huge.
My pals' elderly fishing partner told him it was about 60 years old. I think my daughter took some pics before i started chasing her with it.

I paid £25.00.
 
CAPSLOCKSTUCK said:
I paid £25.00.
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I think Aldi or Lidl are doing lobsters for £3.99 now. Only down side is they aint very big and they come frozen. Fresh is always better!
 
FreedomEclipse said:
I think Aldi or Lidl are doing lobsters for £3.99 now. Only down side is they aint very big and they come frozen. Fresh is always better!
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They dont compare.

We had to borrow a bigger pan to cook the last one, i just measured ours......30cm across by 12 cm tall and it wouldnt fit in when it was curled up..... a real monster from the deep.
 
CAPSLOCKSTUCK said:
They dont compare.

We had to borrow a bigger pan to cook the last one, i just measured ours......30cm across by 12 cm tall and it wouldnt fit in when it was curled up..... a real monster from the deep.
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I bet it went down well with a glass of wine though :p
 
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