They look the business. I tried looking locally for 2nd hand in fife,Dundee and Perth.... Gumtree, eBay.... Nada!
I got an email from halfrauds with a superdooper deal. 3 units for the price of 1!! Picture to follow.... Previously..
Vogue SE TD6
Defender 90 2.4
Defender 110 TD5
Vogue 3.5 EFI

Not a brilliant picture, but you get the idea. With the lid open it's 6'1" tall !!
I think I will probably split it and keep the middle section on the bench... When it's built.
I'm getting a scissor lift as well.

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That looks the biz Contra, is that the £249.00 deal they were advertising?

What scissor lift are you getting?







I see I have garage competition

That's the one, yes. It was 249 for top and bottom, but this weekend they chucked in a free middle. Works out at under half price for the lot. I am very pleased with the quality and the weight.
This is the lift I have decided on...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MOBILE-SCISSOR-C...3cdb3a8b3d Previously..
Vogue SE TD6
Defender 90 2.4
Defender 110 TD5
Vogue 3.5 EFI

^ Looks the part, not sure you'll be able to stand up underneath it though

I had planned going for a 50 mile ride today but the rain this morning soon put heed to that, so a quick few miles in the relative dry of the lunchtime lull was enough to tip the scales and get past the 600km to allow me to complete the Strava Prove It challenge

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Yesterday I detailed the Ridley track bike

Started by polishing with a very fine abrasive polish I buy from my local car paint shop, followed with a coat of Chemical Guys EZ Creme Glaze and finished with two coats of Chemical Guys 50/50 wax

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Done and dusted )

131.3km doon the watter

Glasgow, Bishopton, Port Glasgow, Greenock, Inverkip, Weymss Bay, Skelmorlie, Largs, Fairlie, Ardrossan, Saltcoats, Irvine, Kilmaurs, Stewarton, Newton Mearns, and back home

Wind was a wee bit of a at times but the rain was not too bad, one wet shower until Newton Mearns then heavy rain and hail straight into the face all the way home


Total mileage this week is 181.5 miles

Weather has been fantastic here the past few days, thanks to Englandshire taking the brunt of the storm

50 miles yesterday and another 40 miles today in glorious sunshine

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Enjoy it while you can !! It was a great weekend here. Son came back from Glasgow and stripped down his DMR jump bike. I now have bits of bike all over one side of the garage and he tells me it might be a few weeks before he is back... Which I think is code for "can you do it"... Previously..
Vogue SE TD6
Defender 90 2.4
Defender 110 TD5
Vogue 3.5 EFI

Back home now Contra, the FFRR was required for the journey up as Rannoch Moor and Glencoe were treacherous, black ice, snow and idiot drivers...

I was in Lanzarote last week and hired a top of the range Pinarello FP Due carbon bike which was fitted out with Campagnolo Athena 11 speed groupset. The plan was to do a complete loop of the island but the wind was so strong (constant 25mph gusting to 50+mph) it really limited what could be done safely. There was of-course another factor in the equation for not cycling as much as I had hoped, the mountains. The climb from Playa Blanca to Timanfaya National Park was a long slow drag with the headwind forever bearing down on me and sapping any energy I had, 10 miles of constant climbing to finish at a height of 1600 feet. The return journey with winds gusting up to 45mph was scary beyond belief and my decent was rather blurry at 47.8 mph without having to turn the pedals. It would have been fine if the wind was directly behind me but it kept whipping round and there were several times I was almost blown off the road.

The killer climb though was the climb from Playa Blanca to Femes which was a proper leg burning experience, a short but extremely steep 6.5 mile ride which ramped up to 1300 feet and the top section was steeper than anything I had ever cycled before at 25°. My first attempt included a short but much needed stop half way up to allow my lungs and heart to catch up and I managed to do it non stop on my second attempt. Again the return journey was terrifying reaching a speed of 47.7 mph without turning the pedals and again I was almost blown off the road with the crosswinds. The top section leaving Femes was done with brakes applied for most of the section down to the roundabout, the hairpin bends and the 25° slope could easily have wiped me out and it felt like I could easily have went over the top of the handlebars. The nice part of cycling on the island is the drivers are courteous and never hassle cyclists and even when climbing up to Femes at 4mph they patiently waited for oncoming traffic to clear before passing with plenty space

The steed for the week

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Mad man , people go to Lanzarote to chill , you go over and hire out a bike ....

Think you have lost the plot John Boy ....  ====================================

"Open Mike Night " sounded like a lot of fun until i found out i was going to an Autopsy

Aye you might be right there Mick, that was one tough futher mocker

Aye , yer keen i'll give you that ...  ====================================

"Open Mike Night " sounded like a lot of fun until i found out i was going to an Autopsy