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Delta? We need to start a proper thread in lifestyle or somewhere. @nikki6 I've got proper bikes with engines. I don't ride on the road much anymore because I'm good at flinging those down the road too. Once I have more time I want to do stunt stuff. Sorry about the video Sixx, but trust me she is everything you need in a girl, French, pretty and more balls than any twelve regular guys. She'll never pass CBT until she can keep both wheels on the ground though

Oh please do brother. A much under respected artist who left us late last year. It takes me back to the late seventies and stay with my Uncle Selwin and his then boyfriend in Brighton. He introduced me to trad jazz, a love of long distance cycling, high living and the concept of being able to get away with anything if you live long enough and never give any sign that you give a damn. He lives in Paris and London now, in his mid eighties, he still cycles Paris to Yorkshire at least once a year. My drug induced ramblings may yet turn into a fine thread.

A tree lined continental road, dappled sunlight, a classic rag top, this on the stereo, someone attractive riding shotgun and preferably on the way to a great restaurant. Life can be good. I'm an old school Rocker with a love of vintage Rolex, but I have a draw full of Pams and a shelf full of trad jazz, what the hell is that all about?

That's nice. Is it 44mm?

I will never understand mankinds desire to get a little quite solitude in small groups of half a million. Three people is a crowded beach to me

Come on guys, this is serious technology and you are missing the obvious application

Very possibly, but I feel it is cheating bad enough a bird 5hittin9 on the washing Anyway the painkillers are kicking in, but before I go back to sleep, I have a confession to make. Everyone else is asleep here and I'm on the internet. So I've been doing what any normal man would do. PORN! It's going to take me a while to build up a new downhill (with airbags), but I have an old frame in one of the sheds I could do this to.

I sneer at your knight and give you a fluffy bunny

I don't want to talk to you anymore you empty headed animal food trough water.

Bravely bold Sir Robin, rode forth from Camelot. He was not afraid to die, O Brave Sir Robin. He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways. Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin! He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp, Or to have his eyes gouged out, and his elbows broken. To have his kneecaps split, and his body burned away, And his limbs all hacked and mangled, brave Sir Robin! His head smashed in and his heart cut out, And his liver removed and his bowels unplugged, And his nostrils raped and his bottom burned off, And his penis...

^^^ Gentlemen I think we just might have a new brother right here ^^^

If there is one thing us Europeans look towards the USA and envy it's the ridiculously cheap power tools at Harbor Freight and the availability of really nice hard woods. Southern Ireland especially, if it ain't MDF, I pretty much have to cut it myself and wait a couple years. (Had some lovely soup for lunch and dinner. Wonder what's on the menu tomorrow?)

Bohemian Rhapsody you say?

Good man. If it works out I'm interested in taking some please

Left hand then? Never stopped these guys doing a few modest gigs

Seriously! I bet that stung a bit.

A dozen lovely watches there and a very nicely composed picture.

Thanks for the concern guys, but I'm okay really. Last night wasn't very funny solpadeine and brupro at over recommended dosage were barely taking the edge off. Today the remains of the tooth came out and my jaw is wired. Actually I feel remarkably well. I was wearing wrist, elbow, knee and spine protection along with an open face helmet. Anyway it is entirely self inflicted and although I have being doing very silly things with bicycles for nearly half a century, this is only my second big event. You know what we gear heads are like, I'm more upset about the bike :-) Soup is going to be a big part of my life for a couple weeks.

I am slowly trying to understand more about these builds. Looking at the date window, it seems to be in the genuine position, rather more in line with the 2 and 4 than the reps. Is this a genuine dial or are some better than others? I would have thought finding a spare genuine limited edition dial would be just about impossible.

Thanks Rick. I was minding my own business on my downhill mountain bike when a tree hit me at speed. I broke a molar clean in two and apparently my jaw is bust too. The bike is dead, I knew it bent the forks and front rim, but I've just been told it cracked the frame as well. The good news is the tree is fine.

Percentages Due to a tree running into me, I've had rather a lot of time for ruminating over the last 24 hours and it occurred to me that percentages get bandied about a lot when talking about accuracy. I have been guilty of it and it happens on all the fora. Yet I have never seen anyone define terms before claiming 99% accurate or whatever. What are the terms? Does 95% mean that it will fool 95% of people? I live in rural Ireland. I could probably achieve that with a Daniel Wellington and a John Bull printing set. If the case is pretty much spot on but the dial is fantasy for example, what percentage does that class as? How do we mark it? Then there are Frankens, so percentage genuine, by weight? By value? Here is a lovely if long winded skit on microbrands. It royally takes the Mickey out of the legislature on Swiss made and how some manufacturers get around it. https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=mBFI8ScdE4E I haven't really come to any firm conclusions, except no it isn't really a franken if you just fitted gen springbars. We seem to have a general if very vague agreement on what we are trying to say and how we grade watches when we use percentages and lastly we get too hung up on these things anyway. Genuine watches vary rather a lot between batches and over the years many have had replacement parts that are a little different to original. Many of the details are so small it is hard to tell without magnification and as one progresses in this wonderful hobby it becomes rather satisfying to recognise these tiny tells, so owning watches of varying accuracy becomes rather enjoyable. I am also aware that I have at least a couple of watches that were very cheap, just over a hundred Dollars, aren't very accurate or even particularly well made. My Seamaster 300 and Ulysses Nardin Maxi marine for example, I am perfectly happy with them. On the other hand I currently have a little over three thousand in a Phong Sub and I would really like to spend at least another two before I'm happy with it. There is no getting away from the fact that the cheapies give me more pleasure per Dollar spent. When I first got seriously interested in replicas, like every noobie i was searching for the elusive 1:1 AAAAAplus, even the manufacturer can't tell it apart rep. Now I am much more content with good enough and that depends on how much I like the watch, when and how I will wear it. Anyone any thoughts or is sleep deprivation and a cocktail of painkillers causing me to ponder my naval too much?

^^^ This illness never lets up does it?^^^

Mars

Hey Indy, I don't want to pick a fight because I don't have a horse in this race not being American, also we have enough of a mess with Brexit without arguing about US politics at the moment. However you twice make the statement that being a billionaire means you are not dumb. Well I'm not saying he is or isn't dumb, but one way to be a billionaire without being smart is to inherit it. It has been pointed out many times that he inherited from his father in '74 an amount that if put in an S&P 500 tracker would have left him a little richer than he claims to be. Given that his father also provided loan security and that he was extremely heavily leveraged one would expect him to have significantly out performed the market. An S&P 500 doesn't expose one to that amount of risk. I'm not criticising your point of view, but in a debate facts should ideally be more solid than this one is. Elections tend to be divisive and this one certainly has been. However the Democrats can point out all they want that they received more votes, under the rules as they stand they did not win the Presidency. On a separate point, I'm am delighted to hear we have "gentlemen of colour" in our community. It makes not a tupenny damn's worth of difference to my opinion of you. I thought your were a solid member and a brother before I learned this and I still do, but it pleases me rather a lot that we have members of all different ethnicities, politics and beliefs.

I'm in rural Ireland where internet speed is third world. Subjectively it seems faster now