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Just bought one of these for my Stowaway from Planet X - Can't grumble at £55 delivered.

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I've just got hold of a set of Sillgey wheels - they look weird being 20", I keep thinking they are a long way away.

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Anyone know when this is going to be released??

they are about £12 from Argos.

If you can wait till next week you can borrow mine.

anyone made there own? Can't be that hard, i'm on the look out for a suitable clamp then it should be easy unless i'm missing something??

Anyone used Peak Processing? Sent me films off for processing a week ago and not heard nothing yet - i'll give them a few days before chasing them up..

Peak are supposed to be excellent, and are one of the few that do (did?) prints directly from slides. Cibachrome, and previously RA-4.
Could be the postal stike that has caused a backlog. I think I used them quite a while back for d&p from a wedding shoot. No problems.

Got the negs back - pleased with them. You're probably right about the postal strike and a week isn't too long to wait anyway. I'd recommend them.
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Thanks guys, and Peter - thats exactly what they are destined for. Been trying to find some rims the same for my Stowaway project over here but haven't seen any??

I know what you mean, revs are fun but there is something addictive about instant torque. My mate got the car for his wife now they've had a baby (needed 4 doors etc) and had it chipped for himself.. He finds himself leaving his Z3 at home most of the time and going in the labia.....great fun and still economical.

sorry Google ??
sorry Sheldon Brown ??

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no need to apologise smartarse.

Sounds like it just needs a damn good service and tune?? Maybe take it to an independent VW specialist, there are loads around just have a look at VW Performance mag next time you're in Tescos.

Another consideration - a mate has just got himself a Skoda Fabia (I believe based on the Polo) 1.9TDI. Had it chipped in an hour and it's now nigh on 200bhp. Even though it's the VXR or whatever they are called it's a bit much for the chassis - I suspect he'll be getting through front tyres. Hugely entertaining though and a great 'Q' car..

sorry ERTO??

ask for no prints, it's cheaper.

I like prints in a large, individual contact sheet kinda way. And I though £24 was cheap enough. They came out OK.

Anyone used Peak Processing? Sent me films off for processing a week ago and not heard nothing yet - i'll give them a few days before chasing them up..

Any one know of a source? Seen these http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260484021071&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT but wondered if there we're any available over here?

I've just taken some rolls to be D&P'd at Jessops, New Oxford St. 4 rolls, glossy prints and transferred to CD for £24. Wish me luck.

Hey Skully, first off pleased you're OK, secondly well done for trying to reason with him, I'm sure it will have certainly given him something to think about. I would have tried to kill him - no doubt, especially the way I feel today.

If it makes you feel any better, I saw Sharpy today (if it was him riding a blue condor?) do exactly the same thing at Whitechapel....we all do/did it.

Take it easy out there.

There is no point polishing before blasting - that will undo all your hard work.

The time the shine takes to degrade and the ultimate finish you will get depends on the alloy. No amount of polishing will shine up crap alloy well. I've just had some Japanese (motor) bike chaincases back from the polishers and they are crap compared to the finish acheived with good old British bike alloys..if you don't want a chrome look though you'll be fine.

Have you thought of powdercoat? I've used these guys loads of times and they offer loads of finishes - metalflake and chrome as well as straight colours... http://www.adeptindustrialfinishers.co.uk/index.html

please add me to the list though with apologies as I'm back in hospital on Tuesday. I'll help in anyway I can both as a TV Editor amd as someone with first hand experience of lorries turning left....

I know it would be a bit down the line but if you need any sound or music for ads and such like I'm your man.

1. K-tee - construction industry and policy
   
2. Ufrasia - Media, Lobbying.
   
3. Greasy - Admin for Ghostbike.uk and CycleSafeLondon
   
4. Skully - AV post production
   
5. Pistanator
   
6. Libi - Media
   
7. CrazyJames - Photography, with contacts in web design/graphic design/branding etc available if needed.
   
8. Multigrooves - Cycletrainer
   
9. Damo
   
10. Georgieboy
    
11. Twist305 (apologies) - Citizens Advice Bureau head office
    
12. Digger-Cycle Instructor (apologies)
    
13. Velocio (apologies) LFGSS, CycleSafeLondon
    
14. Wicksie - graphic design, printing, anything to help, make the tea if need be.
    
15. tomiskinky - Graphic Designer
    
16. Chang - Graphic/motion/web/digital design i've got alot of mates that work in marketing/PR could get some media coverage.
    
17. CheBeef - Work at Law Firm (litigation)
    
18. havingamare - photographer
    
19. loftypavement - student
    
20. williamshatnerpants
    
21. Aroogah - IT Services Exec - commercial, strategic, legal
    
22. CHUG_IT (won't be there but..) Barristers of the highest level
    
23. LdnGrrl. - Lots of free time, will help in any way needed
    
24. nuknow - Graphic Design
    
25. Fox - (can't do Tues, could do Wed) marketing/campaigning/PR/lobbying experience
    
26. ftony (apol for mtg + not much free time but...) geographer (access to maps, journals, skilled in spatial analysis etc)
    
27. villa-ru - currently unemployed with plenty of free time and prior experience of herding cats
    
28. G_A_Z - Film Editor
    
29. Ade - Exhibition / Event/ set design and build (access to AV/lighting/sound equipment if required )
    
30. chatters
    
31. Wannabe (apologies) barrister (including crime / road traffic)
    
32. JimboJones (apologies) political campaigning, PR
    
33. Oliver Schick (LCC)
    
34. Tea_bee
    
35. jurivacanze1984
    
36. big in the game - safety engineer
    
37. Timmy
    
38. GA2G - security design (not so useful here though)
    
39. Seak - transport campaigner, media, direct action and 'non-heirarchical meetings facilitator' (e.g. Camp for Climate Action type wavy hands stuff)
    
40. Chats - Media trainee and cycleophile
    
41. Ode. Project Manager- Prince2
    
42. Sparky - Cycling journalist & has space on fourth plinth coming up
    
43. Emilia - copywriting and minor campaigning experience; cycle courier
    
44. Anna
    
45. Fred - agitator
    
46. Kipsy - cartographer (not much use here, can help with 'free' colour laser printing/large format plotting, any other grunt stuff.
    
47. Debra - cycle campaigner
    
48. Dasmiller - design
    
49. texas - transport planner
    
50. Coshgirl - copywriter - contacts inside city hall
    
51. redrider
    
52. BigFatAl - teacher, educational resources, possibly able to provide venue for meetings
    
53. Josephine - lecturer/illustrator, can draw stuff and knows lots of students
    
54. mr lunch - media sound.
    

I'm in. But during the weekend and not on busy roads. Yesterday was the first time I was back on a bike since my RTA in Feb 08. Riding around Victoria Park was scary enough but i'll do what I can.

let's go vannin'

It's a moot point at the moment, I plugged a lot of cash into that car, and it was my 21st birthday present too. I basically ran out of money to keep it going while I was in my last year of uni, so I left it in my garage where it accumulated further faults standing there. My parents persuaded me to sell it since it was a bit of a waste. Now I've sold it (for a massive loss overall), my parents are trying to stop me buying another car with the money and get me to use my sister's car which is a New Mini (she is out of the country for another year doing a masters at NYU). Now I like that car despite it's major electrical problems, but they want me to use it and not do anything to it. I've been into modded cars since I was very young, I've been tinkering since I was about 12. I can't stand owning a car with a fucking great arch gap like that New Mini has. My point to them is, if they just wanted me to use that car, why the fuck did I sell the classic for such a massive loss? I could have trailered it home and fixed it up over time since I had the New Mini as a daily driver. They've now realised what a fucking great error they forced me into doing and are relenting but I'm quite bitter about the whole thing. I loved that classic no matter how much it pissed me off and the whole experience has kind of tarnished my love of classic Minis :(

that sounds shit - get your parents to stump up and buy it back.

+1 3-4 days to change the water pump on mine all because it's a stupid fickin' Jap import with Air conditioning and it has absolutely NO space under the bonnet, even with the bonnet and grill off it's a bitch to get in anywhere, add to that seized sleeves on radiator bolts and a lack of suitable tools and you have a lot of mangled fingers by the end of it... still not working properly either, think my alternator's fucked now...

Was driving home last night and it just cut out at the lights... restarted it and it was labouring like fuck and crawling along sounding unhealthy, if I let it idle it cut out... had to keep it over 3,000rpm all the way home with the lights turned off and use the handbrake to slow down to keep it running... :(

Any suggestions on possible fault? It's a 1997 Spi Works Cooper S...

Doesn't sound like your alternator - a knackered alternator shouldn't give those symptoms.....at night you say. We're you're lights on and if so does it only cut out with the lights on? I know fuck all about injector systems, always stayed away from them cos carbs make much more sense to me but it sounds more like fuelling or ignition timing than electrical. Do those MPi's have an electric fuel pump?

As for vtec/bike engine, yeah they are great. I love those VTEC engines, real good fun, had one a few years back for a summer as a company car......bike engine though I think is just too awkward and impractical for the street...both a loada work and expensive. Don't bother putting one in your car - get a unfinished project from someone who is giving up on it...

mines nothing special, an 85 city e, a bare shell which i've restored and painted so i'm putting it back together.....slowly. But it's in my old mans garage and he's getting pissed off now....it's been there a couple of years and he tripped over the subframe the other day. And his car has to stay outside......I moved out 15 years ago and I'm still annoying my parents. It was/is my first car though so I don't want to get rid of it, i've had it 18 years......how come you sold yours? Did it need work? Obviously....it's a mini.

yeah his mini is mad. On 10" wheels too..is your mates project anywhere near completion?

Don't talk to me about mini's though - they are such a PITA to work on and all my weekend is going to be taken up putting the rear subframe back on mine. Nothing ever goes right.

Dude you have a Model T?!

Pictures. Now.

You'd like my friend's project, he's making a rat rod from custom chassis, Jag V12, and Mini Clubman Estate shell.

Did have - built it, got it MOT'd, on the road about a week and somebody made me an offer I couldn't refuse. Never had the time to enjoy it and with weather like today I think i might miss it... pics here. http://www.londonfgss.com/post722916-3648.html

As for your mates project that sounds familiar. Was his lock-up in Retro Cars last year?

Thought I might be! But I love em!

Wagons rule - my fav from VolksWorld show 07

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