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Every order of Tobago Bay comes with this free gift Giles -----Beryl the Yellow HPC Peril

They exit on the wrong side in a Caterham 😬 Giles Beryl the Yellow Peril

Now THAT is a blat . . . Giles Beryl the Peril

David, it's not you . . . they had two or three bids already at around £40 and the auction was ending in a couple of days when I looked yesterday. Perhaps he reads BlatChat and thought he'd rethink his numbers, but it does frustrate somewhat to stop the auction. Giles Beryl the Peril

Help the RNLI and win 'money can't buy' Mercedes GP Petronas F1 team factory tour tickets Morning all, I'm hoping that the Power Of Blat Chat can help my company, 9 other companies . . . oh and Ross Brawn too . . . to raise money for a new £350,000 RNLI lifeboat on the River Thames. “Why BlatChat?” you may ask . . . well, by donating, one lucky person will win a pair of 'Money Can't Buy' passes for an exclusive tour of the MERCEDES GP PETRONAS Formula One Team factory next year 😬 It couldn't be easier to donate. Simply text RNLI to 70099 which will cost you £2, of which 88% will go directly towards funding the purchase and maintenance of a new Thames lifeboat. About the Brawn Lifeboat Challenge Formula 1 mastermind Ross Brawn has joined forces with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) to raise £350,000 to fund this new lifeboat. In the ‘Brawn Lifeboat Challenge’, teams from some of the UK’s leading businesses pit their entrepreneurial wits against each other in a unique fundraising battle. My parent group, Lloyd's Register, is one of the ten teams competing that are all vying to raise as much money as possible in just eight months. They have all already pitched their strategies to Ross, who is considered to be one of the most inspirational leaders in the UK, and benefited from his advice and extensive experience of working with highly successful teams. The teams have been briefed to turn £1,000 into a profit for the RNLI using their own ingenuity, determination, creativity, teamwork and strategic planning to reach their fundraising targets over the course of the Challenge, which runs until 31 December 2010. We've already done the classic dressdown days at our London and Coventry offices, 180-mile Thames towpath sponsored walk, plus a myriad of other things. This fantastic opportunity will hopefully however be our biggest fundraiser to date. It's ideas for further publicising this opportunity though and not donations from BlatChatters that I'm primarily asking for, although donations are always welcome (and if you'd be kind enough to, then you have a chance to win an exclusive pair of passes for a tour of the MERCEDES GP PETRONAS Formula One Team factory). The tour will take you through the entire production cycle of a Formula 1 car - from the early concept stage, through the design and, yes, the building of it. You cannot buy these tickets anywhere normally; they're one of those 'money can't buy' type opportunities. This is a Lloyd's Register competition and Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Ltd accepts no responsibility, other than to provide the tours as detailed in this offer. For more details, visit the webpage Win exclusive MERCEDES GP PETRONAS Formula One Team factory tour tickets - Text RNLI to 70099 If you did want to give more than £2 then that'd be great, but a Virginmoneygiving website technicality means we can't run the Factory Tour competition on there too, so my 'insider' tip would be, in that case, to send the £2 text anyway (see above) to get the entry to the competition via the text route and then subtract £2 from whatever you choose to subsequently give at our 'Life Matters' page on the Virginmoneygiving.com website. As well as the tickets offered via the texting route above, Ross Brawn has also given us a second pair of tickets to tour the factory in Brackley in 2011 and we are looking to try and raise funds from these too. So the main reason for my post is to ask if you have any contacts or know any Formula 1 fans with deep pockets who may be interested in bidding for a pair of tickets directly. This can be done by submitting a silent bid by e-mail to lifematters@lr.org to arrive by 5pm on Friday 17 December. The subject line must be marked as ‘BRAWN SILENT BID’. As all 10 teams must have submitted all monies raised to the RNLI by 31 December, a condition of this silent auction is that this second pair of tickets will be awarded to the highest bidder contacted after 20 December who can complete by 23 December. Full terms and conditions can be found at the 'Life Matters' Brawn Lifeboat Challenge page on the Lloyd’s Register website. As the MERCEDES GP PETRONAS Formula One Team doesn’t do tours like the ones it is offering here, it has said that the tour tickets will only be issued in winner's chosen names (when contacted). Photographic identification must be provided at the factory on the day of the site tour at Brackley to prove that the ticket holders are those named on the tickets. This is to prevent any possible non-charitable profiteering and commercialisation of these tickets which Ross specifically wants to avoid. Any coverage and spreading the word (and donations) that you could give to this worthy cause would be much appreciated. Cheers, Edited by - gileshudson on 17 Nov 2010 12:18:17

Linky Giles -----Beryl the Peril

Linky Giles -----Beryl the Peril

I've three settings on my VX 😬 Knob pushed in / Fan off - Nice ambient heat Knob pulled out / Fan off - Warm Knob pulled out / Fan on - Duratec Giles Beryl the Peril

Not found specific weights Dicks, but this Avon news release about the ZZR on Caterhams (that talks too about the CR500) would seem to infer that they're lighter than the CR. Giles -----Beryl the Peril (HPC)

Sadly it's an urban myth, but what is interesting in this Snopes link is that they sent the list of uses above to the WD40 manufacturer itself and asked which ones were true. That revised list is in the link Even WD40 themselves have a myths page here . . . Giles Edited by - gileshudson on 22 Aug 2010 11:53:28

I like those seats too and, despite not liking the S4, do agree that it does look like a cracking example of the breed. What amazes me most though is the airfilter arrangement from pic 9. Is that for real; as it looks like someone has just rested a Mini's exhaust silencer box on the engine while they took the pic. 😬 Giles Beryl the Peril (HPC)

Linky and *arrowup*BTT 😬 Edited by - gileshudson on 19 Aug 2010 07:48:21

Split into two and sent in two parts. Please advise when arrives Giles -----Beryl the Peril (HPC)

Stu and Dave (and John, if you want to save having to scan yours), I have a PDF of the " ASSEMBLY GUIDE - DE DION CHASSIS FITTED WITH ROVER K-SERIES VARIANTS" here at work on my PC. BM me your e-mail addresses and I'll fling it over. It's nice and high-res, albeit 14.4MB in size. Cheers, Giles -----Beryl the Peril (HPC)

As here Giles -----Beryl the Peril (HPC)

There is indeed Ian, but 'L7C07' doesn't work. I tried a multitude of variants including 08, 09, 10 in case that was the year designation, but nothing . . . If anyone from the Club is reading thsi, it might be worth contacting Audicator for an updated code if they are still happy to provide a dosicunt. Giles -----Beryl the Peril (HPC)

Here's a nice alternative to self-cancellers; and from a British company for £39.99, Audicator I do like this idea, as I like to control my own indicators, albeit that I do forget to turn them off every now and again. It's more than a simple buzzer from a motorbike shop though, as it does a lot more than just squark at you loudly from the minute you start indicating. Here's some Q&A's about what Audicator is all about from the Ducati Sporting Club website, though Audicator's inventor also started this site, so bear that in mind. Giles Edited by - gileshudson on 27 Jul 2010 12:41:10

Nick, I hope that single winning bid of £4.99 was yours on that eBay link I stuck in above on Friday? Cheers, Giles -----Beryl the Peril (HPC)

£46.50 😳 Maybe wait and watch till 3pm Sunday on this eBay auction £4.99 one instead Giles Edited by - gileshudson on 23 Jul 2010 17:30:37

Funnily enough Jason, I think Muppet has answered your question with his link above 😬 The stall had that ball bearing Q/R steerig column mounted on the left of the stand (nice piece of kit) and the Racelidz helmets were to the right. Giles Beryl the Peril (HPC)

Blue with Silver stripe FB 04 ??? You were on the entry slipway from M6 into the M69 heading North, as I passed you. Made me wish I was in mine. Giles -----Beryl the Peril (HPC)

. . . the Bermuda Triangle, the Evo Triangle and now the Brands Triangle . . . there's one for the conspiracy theorists. Anyway KarlH; a belated *wavey* Welcome and Enjoy *wavey* from me. Shame you've got off to a problematic start, but at least you know what temperamental little madams they can be from the outset and hopefully once you've got her sorted, she'll give you many many years of fun and thrills. Keep us posted and well done for using BlatChat as it should be, as cumulatively there's hundreds, maybe thousands of years of experience reading this and all willing to offer advice. Not me for mechanicals though 😬 Now that would be disastrous . . . Giles Beryl the Peril (HPC)

You could always try Andy Mac at McMillan Motorsport in Hinckley, the people that used to maintain the X-Flow racers for Caterham race series. Giles -----Beryl the Peril (HPC)