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It's might be a touch steep mate, but to get a basic car and add the official Nismo kit plus the wheels you are talking serious money, so if it's A1 condition (and the cheaper tax to boot) get it if its right for you You'd basically be paying a bit extra to have the perfect facelift car!

Good choice mate, just like the next level up from the Zed. Please keep us posted on running costs/experiences, looks like it'll be brilliant

Should the Panda ever die (don't let Fran read that ), the Yeti is top of the replacement list, well, it is unless Fiat put a bigger engine in the Panda!

Sorry about that moment of heresy there! I was mostly thinking about my financial position, and I hate missing meets because I can't afford to go!

So good you said it twice? or are you speaking for Lexx to now? I love the design of the Rex too, but big cube grunt is much more attractive to me, hence the Zed.

Can't save that much if you want a warrantied 400bhp though! I like the current shape more than the old one i think, prefer it to the Evo X anyway.

Still VAG's poor cousin then? The current seat design direction is, err, interesting, to say the least. I'd say Skoda trump them for individuality.

Happy birthday you old seadog! Hope your boss hasn't sent you somewhere horrible.

Bit of a rare one tonight after biking. Parked just down the street from a mk1 Focus RS and an RS4 too so maybe on a trip together? The village is where the school bus crash occured yesterday. Plate was AF57 ***

+1 To the above points, I nearly had an incident and went into the back of Mike, merely because I had let my guard drop for a minute and went round a sharp, blind corner at about 30mph only to find him stopped dead in the road at the back of the queue for a junction! Even worse was the fact that behind me was Chris I in his brand new 370 and Dave in the Garage Queen Suffice to say that although my first reaction was to turn into the other lane (thankfully nothing was coming), I think i managed to come to a stop mere centimetres from where Mikes bumper would have been. I normally try to hold to the rule of "Be able to stop in the road you can see", but no one is perfect and I consider this a lesson learned!

Could just give it a rest for this year if its going to be logistically difficult?

I don't know Mart, that pint glass looked pretty heavy!

Top weekend again, thanks to everyone who attended And finally, some greedy parking

Well done Neil, those vegetables are going to be suffering from a lack of attention soon though...

Top job by all the mod team, and Chris' local support!

... and some new alloys! (spacers/lowering etc... )

Done Glentress a few times, one of my fave trail centers

Really Dave? You know you have to be there by this weekend don't you? Wont take me long though. You should know the garage queen is already pristine Think you might need some of these just to make sure though:

Really Dave? You know you have to be there by this weekend don't you?

It wasn't so much the adrenaline, but the massive arm pump! We had to stop a few times just to give our arms and braking fingers a rest. Wish I had a full sus, but I'm saving up for one; £20 a week in a pot! Should be good to go by next spring edit: Forgot to say, if you hadn't already guessed, I used one of those ubiquitous £10 keyfob style cameras to film it with. Pleased with the results, and no great loss if i crash

Good job there Heath, looking top class

A video of our tuesday evening ride out. Perfect weather for one of the lakes most Alpine of circuits; a climb of Skiddaw, followed by a descent of the huge and loooong Ullock Pike ridge. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=54.652564,-3.176846&spn=0.017975,0.055575&t=f&z=15&ecpose=54.66369547,-3.20478291,1565.56,124.55,64.183,0 Its proper epic riding, and although its a good hour and a half plus to the top, with a fair bit of pushing, it's all worth it for the way down! You can see in the video my couple of comedy slo-mo falls on the initial scree descent from the summit, the camera really doesn't capture how pant-wettingly steep it is! Yeah its over 9 mins long, but if you've read this far you're probably interested anyway! Hardware taken was: Me: On-one 456 Phil: Spesh Hardrock Chris: Abused Orange 5

I'll probably take that space mike if it's still on. Fran will no doubt also be coming along to look bemused at us all

Would like to, but the money's too tight, so early start it is!

We'll be setting off at the crack of dawn on saturday! Hoping to get there for 9.30 and do the saturday run. We've traded friday night for sunday so we don't have to rush off this time.