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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2020 21:58:18 GMT
Good man. Had a Stoner 63. man that was fun. More of a handgun person at the range but just imagine the target is someone you don't like and you soon get the hang . Not shot for a few years now as since moved. Just to clarify, I have an air rifle! I am sure your semi automatic assault rifle was a lot of fun I was in Boston area at the time at a designated range, not some loony hiding in the woods in the UK eating wild rabbits , that was later
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Mar 6, 2020 22:03:09 GMT
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Post by Dutchpeter on Mar 6, 2020 22:03:09 GMT
1979 MZ 250/1. My previous bike was a speed triple 1050. The MZ is a hoot to ride and great to own. I’m looking for an air cooled BMW twin to complement it. I bought the MZ because it appealed to me as a well designed bike and I have a sense of humour 😁 Fair play to you sir Many years ago I used to be a member of the bike club at Stoke Polytech and there was a guy there who had an MZ250... he'd had it ported and and an expansion box fitted but it was still an ugly MZ and was the subject of much piss taking. I used to ride a tuned 750 Bonnie back in them days and we had an assortment of bikes, from CG125's through to bigger stuff like mine, a couple of Jap 750's and a Duke 900. We'd mostly stick together when we were out on a run but once we we got back within 15 mile of so of Stoke, the bigger bikes would normally break away and race home. It was always a source of wonder to me how the MZ managed to cling to our shirt tails, especially on country roads. An MZ these days looks more quirky than ugly, and like any old bike are appreciating in value. It handles very well and has a surprisingly torquey engine for a two stroke. I had a 750 Harris Bonneville, lovely machine, but I didn’t realise anything on Gods Earth could vibrate so much.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Mar 6, 2020 22:07:57 GMT
1979 MZ 250/1. My previous bike was a speed triple 1050. The MZ is a hoot to ride and great to own. I’m looking for an air cooled BMW twin to complement it. I bought the MZ because it appealed to me as a well designed bike and I have a sense of humour 😁 Interesting bikes those MZ's - very distinctive looking - two stroke aren't they? Yes mate, two stroke and very interesting. They made some of the most influential Grand Prix motorcycles ever (Barry Sheene’s Suzuki was basically Plagiarised MZ technology). One of the rings on the Audi badge indirectly represents MZ too.
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Mar 6, 2020 22:09:49 GMT
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Post by vokeswagen on Mar 6, 2020 22:09:49 GMT
Interesting bikes those MZ's - very distinctive looking - two stroke aren't they? Yes mate, two stroke and very interesting. They made some of the most influential Grand Prix motorcycles ever (Barry Sheene’s Suzuki was basically Plagiarised MZ technology). One of the rings on the Audi badge indirectly represents MZ too. Really?! Did NOT know that. Cool fact Big Barry Sheene fan too (who isn't really?! )
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Mar 6, 2020 22:14:26 GMT
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Post by Dutchpeter on Mar 6, 2020 22:14:26 GMT
Yes mate, two stroke and very interesting. They made some of the most influential Grand Prix motorcycles ever (Barry Sheene’s Suzuki was basically Plagiarised MZ technology). One of the rings on the Audi badge indirectly represents MZ too. Really?! Did NOT know that. Cool fact Big Barry Sheene fan too (who isn't really?! ) One ring represents DKW. After the war DKW made bikes and cars in West Germany. DKW assets in East Germany became state owned and rebranded MZ eventually. It’s worth reading Matt Oxley’s book called ‘Stealing Speed’ about MZ’s Grand Prix motorcycles and how Suzuki ‘acquired’ the technology.
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Post by vokeswagen on Mar 6, 2020 22:23:41 GMT
Really?! Did NOT know that. Cool fact Big Barry Sheene fan too (who isn't really?! ) One ring represents DKW. After the war DKW made bikes and cars in West Germany. DKW assets in East Germany became state owned and rebranded MZ eventually. It’s worth reading Matt Oxley’s book called ‘Stealing Speed’ about MZ’s Grand Prix motorcycles and how Suzuki ‘acquired’ the technology. Thanks mate I know a bit about the pre war Auto Unions and Mercedes but didn't know this. Always quite fancied those MZ's, and equally have always admired Trabants and their weird belt drives
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Post by algor on Mar 6, 2020 22:37:56 GMT
Fair play to you sir Many years ago I used to be a member of the bike club at Stoke Polytech and there was a guy there who had an MZ250... he'd had it ported and and an expansion box fitted but it was still an ugly MZ and was the subject of much piss taking. I used to ride a tuned 750 Bonnie back in them days and we had an assortment of bikes, from CG125's through to bigger stuff like mine, a couple of Jap 750's and a Duke 900. We'd mostly stick together when we were out on a run but once we we got back within 15 mile of so of Stoke, the bigger bikes would normally break away and race home. It was always a source of wonder to me how the MZ managed to cling to our shirt tails, especially on country roads. An MZ these days looks more quirky than ugly, and like any old bike are appreciating in value. It handles very well and has a surprisingly torquey engine for a two stroke. I had a 750 Harris Bonneville, lovely machine, but I didn’t realise anything on Gods Earth could vibrate so much. My old man used to have a bright Yellow MZ150 back in the 80's it was an absolute tank of a bike! He wasn't the best of riders and came off frequently but the thing was bullet proof! I have had several bike's myself all modern Japanese bikes which cost a fist full of dollars for any tumble. That said I don't think I have spent 15 minutes trying to kick start a bike in the morning as he did!
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Mar 6, 2020 22:41:09 GMT
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Post by Dutchpeter on Mar 6, 2020 22:41:09 GMT
An MZ these days looks more quirky than ugly, and like any old bike are appreciating in value. It handles very well and has a surprisingly torquey engine for a two stroke. I had a 750 Harris Bonneville, lovely machine, but I didn’t realise anything on Gods Earth could vibrate so much. My old man used to have a bright Yellow MZ150 back in the 80's it was an absolute tank of a bike! He wasn't the best of riders and came off frequently but the thing was bullet proof! I have had several bike's myself all modern Japanese bikes which cost a fist full of dollars for any tumble. That said I don't think I have spent 15 minutes trying to kick start a bike in the morning as he did! Mine is 41 years old and has never been restored, it just keeps going, so bloody tough.
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Mar 7, 2020 0:04:07 GMT
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Post by sd22 on Mar 7, 2020 0:04:07 GMT
MMA 3 times a week was a god send for coping with Stoke, before I changed jobs and had to stop!
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Post by chigstoke on Mar 7, 2020 0:06:42 GMT
I’m what 99% of people would probably call a saddo, but I love to collect older game systems, computers etc... because I find the tech more fascinating than the modern day equivalents. I recently just started restoring a IBM Thinkpad T21, an old Windows 98 laptop that uses the old track point, if you remember using one of them. Needs a new CR 2032 installed and a floppy drive and it’ll be complete, just finished fixing the IDE hard drive for it I probably enjoy things like that because I’m good at repairing them,. Next in line is to do LCD replacements for phones, one of my phone screens is smashed so with it now being worth very little, good time to practice.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2020 0:54:19 GMT
I’m what 99% of people would probably call a saddo, but I love to collect older game systems, computers etc... because I find the tech more fascinating than the modern day equivalents. I recently just started restoring a IBM Thinkpad T21, an old Windows 98 laptop that uses the old track point, if you remember using one of them. Needs a new CR 2032 installed and a floppy drive and it’ll be complete, just finished fixing the IDE hard drive for it I probably enjoy things like that because I’m good at repairing them,. Next in line is to do LCD replacements for phones, one of my phone screens is smashed so with it now being worth very little, good time to practice. I bought an Atari ST recently just to play some of the old classics. You can keep FIFA, give me Sensible Soccer any day or Dino Dini's Kick Off
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Mar 7, 2020 1:42:05 GMT
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Post by foster on Mar 7, 2020 1:42:05 GMT
I’m what 99% of people would probably call a saddo, but I love to collect older game systems, computers etc... because I find the tech more fascinating than the modern day equivalents. I recently just started restoring a IBM Thinkpad T21, an old Windows 98 laptop that uses the old track point, if you remember using one of them. Needs a new CR 2032 installed and a floppy drive and it’ll be complete, just finished fixing the IDE hard drive for it I probably enjoy things like that because I’m good at repairing them,. Next in line is to do LCD replacements for phones, one of my phone screens is smashed so with it now being worth very little, good time to practice. I bought an Atari ST recently just to play some of the old classics. You can keep FIFA, give me Sensible Soccer any day or Dino Dini's Kick Off SWOS was on the c63 and higher wasn't it? I used to play dynamite Dan and beachhead on the spectrum... Fuck they were old.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2020 4:24:51 GMT
I bought an Atari ST recently just to play some of the old classics. You can keep FIFA, give me Sensible Soccer any day or Dino Dini's Kick Off SWOS was on the c63 and higher wasn't it? I used to play dynamite Dan and beachhead on the spectrum... Fuck they were old. I had SWOS on the ST, I was always At The Chippy Dino Dini's Kick Off I couldn't handle Russia so always went on them. Were too quick. Brazil always equalised last few seconds no matter what so you had to try and just foul, boot it anywhere etc last attack. I remember there used to be a computer show on Sky One when they only had about 4 shows in the real early days hosted by Bob Mills , Sky One was so low budget
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Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Mar 7, 2020 9:59:23 GMT
I bought an Atari ST recently just to play some of the old classics. You can keep FIFA, give me Sensible Soccer any day or Dino Dini's Kick Off SWOS was on the c63 and higher wasn't it? I used to play dynamite Dan and beachhead on the spectrum... Fuck they were old. I had those on the Amstrad CPC and still do on a compilation cassette somewhere. The chilled-out days of sitting waiting for a game to load (that might not even load) for five minutes seem long gone. I love a bit of Ronda Alla Turca thanks to Dynamite Dan! I still have my old consoles - the NES, SNES and N64 and generally prefer retro gaming to today's stuff. Many SNES games are as great as they always were. I've ordered a Switch, mostly so I can play an officially translated version of Seiken Densetsu 3, a sequel to Secret of Mana (one of my favourite SNES games) that never got an English-language release. It seems ridiculous to spend so much money for a 25-year-old game...
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Mar 7, 2020 10:17:55 GMT
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Post by bathstoke on Mar 7, 2020 10:17:55 GMT
I’m currently sitting having a coffee in the skatepark, watching my son. Pretty damn fine🛹
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Mar 7, 2020 10:19:07 GMT
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Post by chigstoke on Mar 7, 2020 10:19:07 GMT
I’m what 99% of people would probably call a saddo, but I love to collect older game systems, computers etc... because I find the tech more fascinating than the modern day equivalents. I recently just started restoring a IBM Thinkpad T21, an old Windows 98 laptop that uses the old track point, if you remember using one of them. Needs a new CR 2032 installed and a floppy drive and it’ll be complete, just finished fixing the IDE hard drive for it I probably enjoy things like that because I’m good at repairing them,. Next in line is to do LCD replacements for phones, one of my phone screens is smashed so with it now being worth very little, good time to practice. I bought an Atari ST recently just to play some of the old classics. You can keep FIFA, give me Sensible Soccer any day or Dino Dini's Kick Off Oldest one I got recently was the Commodore C16, but think it must have been faulty as I had real difficulty even getting the thing to power on at time’s or display any output. Which is hard considering I needed to enter command lines to play the bloody cassettes!
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Mar 7, 2020 10:23:13 GMT
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Post by supersimonstainrod on Mar 7, 2020 10:23:13 GMT
SWOS was on the c63 and higher wasn't it? I used to play dynamite Dan and beachhead on the spectrum... Fuck they were old. I had those on the Amstrad CPC and still do on a compilation cassette somewhere. The chilled-out days of sitting waiting for a game to load (that might not even load) for five minutes seem long gone. I love a bit of Ronda Alla Turca thanks to Dynamite Dan! I still have my old consoles - the NES, SNES and N64 and generally prefer retro gaming to today's stuff. Many SNES games are as great as they always were. I've ordered a Switch, mostly so I can play an officially translated version of Seiken Densetsu 3, a sequel to Secret of Mana (one of my favourite SNES games) that never got an English-language release. It seems ridiculous to spend so much money for a 25-year-old game... 5 minutes sounds like a luxury,seemed like we used to have go home at lunch time to start loading one of the better games on the old commodores,for it to be ready to go when you got in from school. 😂
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Post by deadwait on Mar 7, 2020 12:27:10 GMT
I just like reading. The Classics mainly, although I will read almost anything. I also get involved with Stocks and Shares. Most interesting time for these at the moment !. Yeah if you’re shorting 😄 Look at oil today. The link between oil and indices is uncanny. I agree. I certainly think many of the oil shares BP and Shell B are worth checking. Both pay excellent dividends, but at the moment I think a downward movement is far more likely than an upward. I am certainly keeping my eye on the situation and at some point will commence drip feeding into the market.
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Mar 7, 2020 12:32:59 GMT
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Post by zerps on Mar 7, 2020 12:32:59 GMT
Yeah if you’re shorting 😄 Look at oil today. The link between oil and indices is uncanny. I agree. I certainly think many of the oil shares BP and Shell B are worth checking. Both pay excellent dividends, but at the moment I think a downward movement is far more likely than an upward. I am certainly keeping my eye on the situation and at some point will commence drip feeding into the market. Exactly. It’s fascinating mate. The coronavirus is just an excuse for a long overdue down turn. The fed reserve have been inflating the markets for ages.
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Post by chigstoke on Mar 7, 2020 13:31:32 GMT
I’m what 99% of people would probably call a saddo, but I love to collect older game systems, computers etc... because I find the tech more fascinating than the modern day equivalents. I recently just started restoring a IBM Thinkpad T21, an old Windows 98 laptop that uses the old track point, if you remember using one of them. Needs a new CR 2032 installed and a floppy drive and it’ll be complete, just finished fixing the IDE hard drive for it I probably enjoy things like that because I’m good at repairing them,. Next in line is to do LCD replacements for phones, one of my phone screens is smashed so with it now being worth very little, good time to practice. Floppy Drive came today, is swappable with the DVD Drive on the IBM so that was pretty cool, just some drivers now and it's pretty much done! Also had a pack of floppy disks arrive today, new old stock, unopened from 1996. Not anymore mind but still pretty cool.
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Post by cooper67 on Mar 7, 2020 13:38:38 GMT
Dogging.
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Mar 7, 2020 13:42:35 GMT
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Post by zerps on Mar 7, 2020 13:42:35 GMT
I’m what 99% of people would probably call a saddo, but I love to collect older game systems, computers etc... because I find the tech more fascinating than the modern day equivalents. I recently just started restoring a IBM Thinkpad T21, an old Windows 98 laptop that uses the old track point, if you remember using one of them. Needs a new CR 2032 installed and a floppy drive and it’ll be complete, just finished fixing the IDE hard drive for it I probably enjoy things like that because I’m good at repairing them,. Next in line is to do LCD replacements for phones, one of my phone screens is smashed so with it now being worth very little, good time to practice. Floppy Drive came today, is swappable with the DVD Drive on the IBM so that was pretty cool, just some drivers now and it's pretty much done! Also had a pack of floppy disks arrive today, new old stock, unopened from 1996. Not anymore mind but still pretty cool. I used to work for IBM, based in Cheshire. I like the idea of restoring old tech. Do you sell any or keep them all?
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Post by chigstoke on Mar 7, 2020 14:01:40 GMT
Floppy Drive came today, is swappable with the DVD Drive on the IBM so that was pretty cool, just some drivers now and it's pretty much done! Also had a pack of floppy disks arrive today, new old stock, unopened from 1996. Not anymore mind but still pretty cool. I used to work for IBM, based in Cheshire. I like the idea of restoring old tech. Do you sell any or keep them all? How was it working for them? Technical role? I tend to keep the stuff usually. By the time you've restored it and spent the money on the parts you don't usually recoup much more than you've paid for the item + parts. I like to see it though as saving it from being thrown away, and it'll get some usage for some old Win9x and DOS games. Something slightly more satisfying playing them on the hardware they were intended for than using something like DOSbox on Windows 10 or anything.
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Post by lawrieleslie on Mar 7, 2020 14:01:59 GMT
Tracing my family tree, building Tamiya model cars (only manage one a year because of cost), metal detecting, kayak and cycling (Are they hobbies?)
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Post by lawrieleslie on Mar 7, 2020 14:03:40 GMT
Dogging, flower arranging and collecting Priti Patel memorabilia. Where do you walk your dog scubsy?
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Post by zerps on Mar 7, 2020 14:10:46 GMT
I used to work for IBM, based in Cheshire. I like the idea of restoring old tech. Do you sell any or keep them all? How was it working for them? Technical role? I tend to keep the stuff usually. By the time you've restored it and spent the money on the parts you don't usually recoup much more than you've paid for the item + parts. I like to see it though as saving it from being thrown away, and it'll get some usage for some old Win9x and DOS games. Something slightly more satisfying playing them on the hardware they were intended for than using something like DOSbox on Windows 10 or anything. I.t network engineer at astrazeneca. It was a great learning curve, I was only young. Some of this old tech will be very valuable / collectable one day.
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Post by potterinleeds on Mar 7, 2020 17:33:57 GMT
Tapestry / needlepoint. I make up my own designs. I'm not very savvy about this attachment stuff, but hopefully this photo shows one I finished about 8 years ago of all the things I miss about central and north Staffordshire - scenery, landmarks, memories,etc. It's about 1m square. Quote around the sides is from The Old Wives' Tale. Dunna bore me with this on Sunday duck I might wave it at you when you lap me . Looking forward to it tomorrow and hopefully meeting a few other Oatcake runners too. Weather forecast seems fairly decent. I'm aiming to get there a bit before 9.30am, leaving Leeds in plenty of time given crappy traffic last time although hopefully Sunday morning should be a clear-ish journey.
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Mar 7, 2020 19:51:25 GMT
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Post by LL Cool Dave on Mar 7, 2020 19:51:25 GMT
Not DIY. Properly electrocuted myself today and now the bathroom light switch turns off the kitchen light. I'll fix it tomorrow.
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Post by algor on Mar 7, 2020 20:02:33 GMT
Not DIY. Properly electrocuted myself today and now the bathroom light switch turns off the kitchen light. I'll fix it tomorrow. How the fuck did you manage to do that?
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Post by LL Cool Dave on Mar 7, 2020 20:13:56 GMT
Not DIY. Properly electrocuted myself today and now the bathroom light switch turns off the kitchen light. I'll fix it tomorrow. How the fuck did you manage to do that? Changed a double plug socket and the bathroom light switch one after the other, then realised half the lights in the flat wouldnt turn on so spent loads of time pissing about to see which one it was hence numerous on and off flicks of the safety switch on the fuse box thingy. Thought the electric was off when it wasn't. Electroction is a fucking odd feeling I tell thee. In terms of the bathroom/kitchen light switch, I have no fucking idea lol
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