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Hehulk wrote:Good grief, a CBR125. I've not seen one of them in ages. They still make em then?

you may be thinking of the CB125....

webclam wrote:
you may be thinking of the CB125....

I shall accept that as a posibility. Much as I like motorbikes, I can't say I pay huge vast enormous amounts of attention to them. ZXR900s asside anyway

webclam wrote:
and no longer exists.

In the harsh world of reality, Caterhams and their ilk take about 3 months to build properly, so as to not fall apart again straight away.
I've mended fast builds before that have taken 'just a week' to build and another 6-8 weeks of strip and rebuild to rectify.
Wiring? Don't get me started on wiring *stifles rage*


aaaand relax.

My mate bought his complete (he is a City boy) £32,000, way too much money for a kit car but he wanted it for track days so he opted for the pro build. Another friend is building an MK with a Fireblade engine - that should be interesting.

berk wrote:

also, caterham? poofs car. (not to mention 3.4 in a seven is nothing special, they'll do 4.2 with a 1.6 pinto)

Isn't 3.4s better than 4.2s?

Sheriff Fatman wrote:My mate bought his complete (he is a City boy) £32,000, way too much money for a kit car but he wanted it for track days so he opted for the pro build. Another friend is building an MK with a Fireblade engine - that should be interesting.

I wanna go!

webclam wrote:
I wanna go!

Heh,

His girlfriend seems to think 'ohhh, this is my new car, I can't wait to drive it!'. He hasn't yet told her that at 21 (he is 34, lucky bugger) she has absolutely no chance with regard to the insurance. I'll get the popcorn out and take a front row seat when he tells her

My mate from work is 21 and drives a BMW M3 Evolution Convertible... 3.2 Litre hehe lucky bastid!

Sheriff Fatman wrote:His girlfriend seems to think 'ohhh, this is my new car, I can't wait to drive it!'. He hasn't yet told her that at 21 (he is 34, lucky bugger) she has absolutely no chance with regard to the insurance. I'll get the popcorn out and take a front row seat when he tells her

aside from the 34-banging-a-21-year-old bit, I'm still jealous of the car.

small and light is the way to go, even if an M3 evo is a rapid motor, it's heavy and still a bimmer.

Caterham+good engine+track day = BIGGEST FUN EVAH!

webclam wrote:

aside from the 34-banging-a-21-year-old bit, I'm still jealous of the car.

small and light is the way to go, even if an M3 evo is a rapid motor, it's heavy and still a bimmer.

Caterham+good engine+track day = BIGGEST FUN EVAH!

This, hard.

I know a guy who used to work for BMW and got silly discounts for leasing their cars; he had an M3 convertable for a while, fantastic car, great for summer cruising, but my day in the Caterham R500 was fucking awesome. The acceleration was fantastic, but the 50-70 was the killer, dodging through M25 traffic like a go-cart with your arse 2" from the floor takes some beating

Vowles wrote:My mate from work is 21 and drives a BMW M3 Evolution Convertible... 3.2 Litre hehe lucky bastid!

Urban Dictionary says it so I don't have to: BMW Driver

Oh look, 100yds to the services, I'll slow down from 120mph while cutting accross three lanes of heavy traffic so i can have a quick slash" or maybe a wank!!!

That's exactly right!

Sheriff Fatman wrote:
This, hard.

I know a guy who used to work for BMW and got silly discounts for leasing their cars; he had an M3 convertable for a while, fantastic car, great for summer cruising, but my day in the Caterham R500 was fucking awesome. The acceleration was fantastic, but the 50-70 was the killer, dodging through M25 traffic like a go-cart with your arse 2" from the floor takes some beating

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4GPJyKD6Rk">like this muppet?</a>

that's just silly.

http://www.hairy-arse.com/locost/

All of this is 'meh' compared to to Ghostrider (praise be to berk for this)

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?doc ... host+rider

Ghostrider is frikkin excellent.

He has quite clearly had the sane part of his brain removed.

The 'Uppsala Run' is one of the daftest things I have ever seen.

Sheriff Fatman wrote:He has quite clearly had the sane part of his brain removed.

The 'Uppsala Run' is one of the daftest things I have ever seen.

that, utter. fucking. genius.