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. . . and how nice to see a Capri exactly like mine given recognition and appreciation, even if it was from VBH (I still can't see what others see in her).
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>>I still can't see what others see in her>>
You poor soul...:-)
See: www.vb-h.net/ and www.f4group.co.uk/month_06_2004.htm
Vicki's also pretty hot in cars and on motorcycles - driving skills wise I mean.
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Vicki's also pretty hot in cars and on motorcycles - driving skills wise I mean.
Stuart - don't you mean "and driving skills wise"?
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>> Vicki's also pretty hot in cars and on motorcycles - driving >> skills wise I mean. Stuart - don't you mean "and driving skills wise"?
I take it that Mrs Patently doesn't read the backroom? ;-)
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>>don't you mean "and driving skills wise"?>>
The second word in my comment was "also"...
Not that I speak from personal experience - more's the pity...:-(
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What strikes me is that of the three machines tested, the bike is the one that is not dissimilar to something that any one of us could purchase (and ride) for less than the cost of a modest hatchback. The F1 car and the powerboat are things that most of us will never have the opportunity to experience.
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The whole point is that the powerboat WASN'T a F1 powerboat, the whole thing was all Honda and the pb races in the 225BHP class of the Honda championship. Standard hulls all with Honda Outboards. Quite cheap by boat race standards at around £50K
F1 pb are much bigger & much faster & typically run 3500 HP & do 100MPH plus. Other option would have been US Drag boat 5000BHP Gas turbine 200MPH + that would have made it more equivalent.....
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I must admit, tr7v8, that this surprised me too.
When the prog was previewed, and an "F1 powerboat" was mentioned, I expected something like "Victory" replete with umpteen zillion horsepower from a brace of howling V12 Lambos, and driver plus thottle jockey. This is why I thought the powerboat to be a dark horse, with a good chance of doing well.
Still made casually interesting TV, though. If anything, it highlighted even more how quickly a superbike or F1 car can accelerate, given that in only a short run, they beat another vehicle with the advantage of a flat out start.
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Think they could have made it more interesting by putting some regular cars and bikes on the grid as well; so we could really compare the metal we can buy with the more exotic stuff.
If we're sticking with Honda, would have liked to have seen a CBR600 (not a 'blade as CBR more affordable), an S2000, a Civic VTEC, a new 'changed' Accord diesel and maybe throw in a CRV for fun !
VBH driving any one of them as well.
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Didn't Clarkson do something similar once with a Golf GTI, Porsche 911 & a Formula 1 car ?
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Think they could have made it more interesting by putting some regular cars and bikes on the grid as well; so we could really compare the metal we can buy with the more exotic stuff.>>
Yeah, I would have loved to have seen an Austin Maestro on the starting grid - and just to make sure it wasn't completely disgraced...some tubby bloke running as well.
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Seem to remember reading in the BR archives, that backroomers thought Penny Mallory was hotter than VBH??? No way, VBH is the reason to watch 5th gear!
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I just wish I could get more than a very noisy picture and no sound on C5 - even with a signal amplifier (horrible things).
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London City Airport is used in daylight hours 7 days a week so how did they find time to use the runway? Probably a days filming all in all.
Answers on a postcard..
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Looking at the weather they might have been able to do it on a nice sunday morning in the summer.
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The airport licence does not permit any flights over a 24 hour period each week, it's usually closed from 1300 Sat to 1300 Sun. So they could have filmed in that period. The fact that no planes were in sight would suggest that too.
Kind of ironic though - the purpose of the 24 hour curfew is to give the local residents a bit of peace and quiet. Which I don't expect they got with the F1 car belting up and down the runway.
I only live a couple of miles away - wish I'd know when they were filming it - would have been fun to spectate.
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>>..wish I could get more than a very noisy picture and no sound on C5>>
Can you get Freeview? If so, a £50 to £60 Freeview set top box will provide an excellent C5 picture and sound.
Plus lots of other TV stations and digital radio outlets....:-)
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"Can you get Freeview?"
Ah, that's the question. If I could borrow a box and find out it might then be worth splashing out.
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Ah, that's the question. If I could borrow a box and find out it might then be worth splashing out.
If you're in South Bucks, don't bother. No signal. Roll on 200x when they switch the terrestrial signal off.
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OK, 20xx then. And some people call ME pedantic!
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And some people call ME pedantic!
I thought your name was patently?
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That's why only some people call him pedantic rather than everybody.
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That's why only some people call him pedantic rather than everybody.
Actually, many know me by means other than this forum, so call me pedantic immediately, hence in fact a mojority do so rather than just "some"...
Oh.
Ooops.
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That's the end of that idea - just fed my postcode into the Freeview website to be told 'hard cheese matey', or summat like that.
If it doesn't cover my crowded corner of SE Essex, what does it do?
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That's the end of that idea - just fed my postcode into the Freeview website to be told 'hard cheese matey', or summat like that.
I don't have a lot of confidence in it. I've tried various postcodes in the checker including my own. It used to say service wasn't available in my area, but it did for an adjoining postcode. The one that gave a positive result was for house numbers directly opposite on a not particularly wide road.
It might be worth finding out the postcode for other houses nearby, and entering one of those, in case you've encountered a similar bug.
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>>Ah, that's the question>>
Go to www.freeview.co.uk and key in your postcode to check.
Since the BBC, Sky and Castle Communications took over the system stronger signals are now being transmitted.
Under ON/ITVDigital control my best mate, who runs an independent audio/visual/appliances outlet, discovered that sometimes houses on some stretches of a particular road could get signals, yet those a few yards away couldn't...:-)
You'll also need a wideband TV aerial.
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>>Castle Communications
That would be Crown Castle.
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That would be Crown Castle.
pedant
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Make that "correct bands aerial"
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>>Make that "correct bands aerial">>
Are you referring to a wideband aerial? Many people need one to receive certain channels on Freeview.
Just as a point of interest, I recently bought a Twinhan VisionPlus Digital-T PC TV card which is both cheaper and, as far as I can ascertain, superior to the Hauppauge version. Pictures and sound are first class and, when HDTV is available, it is already equipped to deliver it.
Cost was just over £50 from www.vadim.co.uk including delivery:
tinyurl.com/6s82u
There's also a USB version, plus satellite alternatives.
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Frostbite and Others,
For anyone who wishes to check the availability of Freeview in their area go to:
www.dtg.org.uk/retailer/coverage.html
You will find the information which this site gives you to be far more informative that the usual one:
www.freeview.co.uk
The DTG site will actually tell you which of the multiplexes you can reasonably expect to receive, even if it isn't all of them. For example, you may well be able to receive 5 out of 6 multiplexes at your address, which, in practice, would give you about 25 extra channels. In simple terms a multiplex is a single frequency which carries the information contained in several different channels.
However, if you go to the "Freeview" site, unless absolutely every multiplex can be received, you will just get the answer "Sorry", which isn't terribly helpful, is it?!
The DTG site also lists actual channels and the transmitter sites that they are coming from.
Galaxy
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. . . and how nice to see a Capri exactly like mine given recognition and appreciation, even if it was from VBH (I still can't see what others see in her).
I agree with Uncle Roger Jones about VBH. VBH is nice but nowhere near the gorgeous Lee McKenzie who used to be on Sunday afternoons.
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nice to see that Formula 1 is making such efforts in the fuel economy stakes. 235 l/100km I think works out at about 1.209mpg. At least the bike does about 30mpg
(being a friday my sums may be wrong)
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think that the figures were wrong
325 litres = 100 km
71.5 gallons = 62.5 miles = 0.874 mpg
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So whose the unlucky pink fluffy dice who gets to buy the SLR thrashed to bits by Tiff?
No wonder it's got German plates the buyer won't see the program.
If you want the Capri the answers 'A' fot italian island. Obvious really..
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As posted here some months ago, I had the motoring experience of my life with the silver SLR that the programme item started with and as also shown on Top Gear, and given the dosh, I'd happily buy it Tiff thrashed and second hand! Superb engineering, as it ought to be for over £300k. Think it sounded good on the telly? Imagine how it sounded for real. Totally awesome. Even pressing the starter and settling into a bass rumble idle without touching the throttle got the neighbour's curtains twitching. Now imagine an oped road and factor in the supercharger howl... I normally get my aural kicks in a motoring sense from stratospheric RPM four stroke, four cylinder, motorcycle engines (sorry Growler, none of that potato-potato malarky! ;-), but this made anything else sound totally inadequate. The dynamics weren't bad, either!
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So whose the unlucky pink fluffy dice who gets to buy the SLR thrashed to bits by Tiff?
How do you thrash a car with a rev limiter?
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How do you thrash a car with a rev limiter?
Take it down a steep hill?
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Anyone else hear Tiff's put down regarding the BBC Top Gear show?
He said: "stig that in your pipe and smoke it!"
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Yeah thought it was my imagination!
Also when he switched off the traction control thingy and then went on to criticise the handling!!
Mmmm wonder why?
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How about Tiff's comment last year, reviewing a car with 6 gears:
"Tog gear is a bit slow and unresponsive, but drop into fifth gear and things get more exciting"
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How about Tiff's comment last year, reviewing a car with 6 gears: "Tog gear is a bit slow and unresponsive, but drop into fifth gear and things get more exciting"
Ironic really as the program seems to be trying to emulate how Top Gear used to be in the mid to late 80s.
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I'd like to see a re-match, only with the car and bike in water and the power boat on dry land.
Cheers, Sofa Spud
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