Forum: Idle Banter
30-03-24, 05:02 PM
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Re: The All New Megathread
I often wonder what 'an American flavour ' is plastic cheese and ketchup ?
Yeah, fat blokes with beards and short legs ride HD - A product of the Milwaukee Tractor Factory...
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Forum: Idle Banter
30-03-24, 01:19 PM
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Re: The All New Megathread
The Horseshoe Pass is a great bike road.
Surely after being to The Ponderosa a 'hoedown' would be more apt than a 'hosedown' ??
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Forum: Idle Banter
13-03-22, 08:15 PM
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Forum: Idle Banter
04-12-21, 08:32 PM
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Replies: 4,081
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Re: The All New Megathread
If EV owners fall for the 'let the grid use your battery as storage' because renewables are so damned unreliable the number of charge discharge cycles will be disconnected from car mileage or age, ...
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Forum: Idle Banter
04-12-21, 02:09 PM
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Re: The All New Megathread
Was thinking if someone would buy a secondhand EV due to maybe having to have battery repaired or replaced - as I said about other things with rechargeable batteries, life is a bit suspect... 'if...
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Forum: Idle Banter
03-12-21, 06:38 PM
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Re: The All New Megathread
Anyone with a phone or laptop knows the problems with life and fading capacity on Li-ion batteries, so why will electric transport powered by batteries be any different. I guess there will be no...
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Forum: Idle Banter
22-11-21, 06:52 PM
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Re: The All New Megathread
Fitted handguards, they keep the wind off hands remarkably well.
As for riding in the dark you need this
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Forum: Idle Banter
06-11-21, 02:18 PM
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Re: The All New Megathread
Now we are retired I try to steer clear of places at weekends and leave them for working people. I remember when working having to go to post office or bank in lunch hour, always seemed to be...
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Forum: Idle Banter
29-11-20, 01:00 PM
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Replies: 4,081
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Re: The All New Megathread
I hate automation on cars - seems that if you press and hold down the door open button on some cars all the windows will open... WTF, why would you want to open all the windows when you are not even...
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Forum: Idle Banter
16-08-20, 09:20 AM
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Re: The All New Megathread
Love my AVG, good snug fit and has not slackened off over the years - good ventilation as well.. Sun visor a bit fiddly with gloves on - but hey-ho I never use it anyway, and sun visor tucks well...
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Forum: Idle Banter
02-08-20, 12:19 PM
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Forum: Idle Banter
02-08-20, 10:18 AM
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Forum: Idle Banter
25-10-19, 07:00 PM
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Replies: 4,081
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Re: The All New Megathread
Anyone see the documentary on the great freeze of 1962/3 a few months ago?
There was great footage of steam locomotives with ploughs on powering through snow that was almost as deep as the loco,...
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Forum: Idle Banter
25-04-19, 04:10 PM
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Re: The All new Reeder Megathread
R1ffR4ff will be along soon to tell you to check suppression resistor in plug cap,
should be 5000 ohms ( and as the man says anything north of 8000 ohms, bin it......).
You can always take plug...
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Forum: Idle Banter
16-01-19, 08:53 PM
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Re: The All new Reeder Megathread
Combi boilers don't have a hot water tank as they heat water directly, but flow is limited so more suitable for flats and small properties - most systems in houses in UK still have an indirect hot...
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Forum: Idle Banter
14-01-19, 07:53 PM
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Re: The All new Reeder Megathread
Modern condensing boilers are noisier because they have a fan inside because instead of the flame going from bottom of heat exchanger to the top it is blown from top to the bottom where the coolest (...
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Forum: Idle Banter
15-12-18, 08:15 PM
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Re: The All new Reeder Megathread
Had a flu jab many years ago and was so ill I have never had another one, they are only guessing what viruses will be in the jabs anyway ( normally at least 3 types) as they have to start making...
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Forum: Idle Banter
19-11-18, 07:54 PM
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Forum: Idle Banter
01-11-18, 10:13 AM
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Re: The All new Reeder Megathread
If you want to know real tiredness work on rotating three shift pattern in a noisy factory making just in time parts for the motor industry 6 days a week.... with penalty clauses of around £250,000...
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Forum: Idle Banter
09-10-18, 03:25 PM
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Replies: 4,081
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Re: The All new Reeder Megathread
Life sure is getting complicated, when I hear blokes referring to 'their husband' and women referring to 'their wife' - I don't know quite what to think, so if two bloke get married they are both...
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Forum: Idle Banter
02-10-18, 09:51 AM
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Forum: Idle Banter
23-09-18, 09:52 AM
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Re: The All new Reeder Megathread
Same in Golf, people rock up in all the Callaway or Ping gear, with a remote controlled electric trolley the size of a smart car and play like 5hite, then you get the old guy with a small carry bag...
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Forum: Idle Banter
07-09-18, 06:14 PM
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Replies: 4,081
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Re: The All new Reeder Megathread
There was a 'Dispatches' or Horizon program earlier this year investigating local authorities and NHS paying private companies to prepare 'money saving/ efficiency' reports for them. It ran into 6 or...
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Forum: Idle Banter
29-08-18, 02:56 PM
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Replies: 4,081
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Re: The All new Reeder Megathread
First few times we shopped in Aldi I really thought they had made a mistake with the bill and not put everything on it - on average it is easy to save 30% on a general shop, but can save more on...
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Forum: Idle Banter
29-08-18, 09:33 AM
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Replies: 4,081
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Re: The All new Reeder Megathread
It is pretty impossible these days to do anything without offending someone, it is a minefield out there - remember the song 'Garden Party' by Ricky Nelson with the line - "It's alright now, I...
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