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I'm reading this at the moment.
It's a book written by a guy who spent most of his summers in the 1930s touring round Europe by bicycle (he called each of his bikes George I, II & III) and in 1944 was sent on a lecture tour of the UK which he did by bicycle.
It's a very interesting read giving insights into the public attitudes in Britain at a time just before and after D-Day. Also interesting insights into attitudes towards Éire, deValera, etc.0 -
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Cyclingtourist wrote: »I'm looking forward to watching the Paris-Roubaix Classic.
And Snap again!
Between GCN, eurosport subscriptions and then the Dorna video-race pass, you'd be broke!
GCN is fantastic value in fairness - a whole year's racing, thousands of actual races for 20 quid. The motogp by comparison at 140 quid for 17 races is saucy. Both excellent though. Truly comprehensive coverage.
Do you find either sport influencing your watches? I always wanted a Festina because of the cycling but never actually bought one. Same for MotoGP and Tissot. And BMC had a Tag Heuer link up for a season. Didn't buy one of those either
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Do you find either sport influencing your watches? I always wanted a Festina because of the cycling but never actually bought one. Same for MotoGP and Tissot. And BMC had a Tag Heuer link up for a season. Didn't buy one of those either
No, sport doesn't influence my watch buying except negatively. David Beckham puts me off Tudor.0 -
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Between GCN, eurosport subscriptions and then the Dorna video-race pass, you'd be broke!
GCN is fantastic value in fairness - a whole year's racing, thousands of actual races for 20 quid. The motogp by comparison at 140 quid for 17 races is saucy. Both excellent though. Truly comprehensive coverage.
Do you find either sport influencing your watches? I always wanted a Festina because of the cycling but never actually bought one. Same for MotoGP and Tissot. And BMC had a Tag Heuer link up for a season. Didn't buy one of those either
I too find it a complete ball ache that it is so hard to get MotoGP on TV.
I am a Sky user and I have Eurosport through a non-sport package.
I hate premier**** football and will not have it in my house. I have actually asked the head of programming for UK&I in Sky, via my old work, to do a motorsport package. I'm still waiting.
And yes, €139 for the MotoGP TV sub for the year is well salty. Especially when I have got it for €99 for the year before.
I don't do the dodgy streams and wait for the highlights if I haven't a sub, but they don't make it easy.
As for watches, yes, I am already a proud owner of a TAG Heuer F1 Pro chrono from the last year of their official timekeeper status.
As for Tissot, despite their long heritage, the MotoGP watch is gopping and based on a fairly bargain basement (G10) movement.
There is a limited edition 7750 based auto, but again, the styling is just not appealing so at well over a grand, it can stay going.
Certina used to be a sponsor too, but there's not a lot about from then either.0 -
I recently bought this book 'The George Moore Collection (Vol.1)' which shows the cartoons/illustrations that Moore (well known cycling and motoring artist who died in 1914) did in 1885 & 1886. Unfortunately there's just the illustrations but no commentary so understanding the meaning is difficult.
This particular illustration is to do with timing, probably of bicycle races, and the accuracy or otherwise of American pocket watches.
There are references to the 'American Press'. 'Springfield' (Illinois Watch Co. later to become Hamilton) and '62 second minute'. The guys on the right with quill pens are probably the editors of the main UK cycling press. I think the one wearing glasses might be the editor of 'The Irish Cyclist' R. J. Mecready.
So how I interpret it is that the American publishers were pushing the 'superior timekeeping' of the cheaper American watch against the opinions of their UK conterparts.0 -
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I love motorsport.
I love the technology and engineering in motorsport.
I love quirky stuff.
This is an alternative approach to 100 years of telescopic fork technology:
This is the Vyrus 986 race bike using hub-centre steering (HCS).
This approach is like the front suspension of a car, in that it separates braking, turning and suspension forces in a way that telescopic forks cannot.
It also looks the absolute dog's b*ll*cks!
Much want, many wibble.0 -
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I love motorbikes. I love the tech and incredible engineering. From afar. They frighten the absolute bejesus out of me. As a teen I had a go of a mate's and got the hang of it easily enough. At first. Then I got the gear/throttle wrong and off it went with me hanging on until I ended up in a ditch. My friends were able to find me by the long trail of poo I left in my wake. I feel far safer on four wheels. Well you can't push over a car too easily.
Though I have strong memories of this ad when I was a kid...
OK, so you can't push over a car too easily unless you're Geoff Capes. Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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Got this little book from an Irish dealer I came across during my recent staycation. It's from the early 1890s and comprises a series of essays by various authors.
No illustrations 🤢
One of the curiosities in the text is where Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson (eminent Victorian physician & avid cyclist) supports the wearing of rational dress (a term used by advocates of reform for women's attire in cycling) by women and a few pages later a female essayist advocates for women continuing to ride in long dresses that just need be tailored with less 'sail'.
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The postman dropped off this 1:100 Sukhoi today. It has the best example of an articulated display stand I've yet seen.
It's also quite stunning but now I have to either model and print this style of stand for all my current planes collected over 30yrs? Or buy all new planes 😂
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In a previous professional role, I was a tech evangelist particularly for mobile and cloud and that said.
I still sometimes find myself blown away by how far and how fast things have moved. Take photo editing, realtime video filters and image processing. From needing dedicated workstations, to needing expensive software and learning to use it, to Insta and Snapchat filters along with quick edit tools on a phone that are accessible and simple.
If I think of what was involved in image manipulation even 5yrs ago, let alone 20 compared to now? I am blown away tbh. That it can do video in real-time too, on your phone...
Is staggering! Anyway I was playing with my planes 😝 and here's a before and after edit from my phone using just the gallery tools that took all of 6 minutes.
Quick and dirty, but now I am going to have a serious play around 😁😂😂
All whilst telling Grace I'm doing the inventory she wanted 😉👍
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I think any and all of the models I've posted here to date have been of the Diecast variety. So today I'm going to share a little of the kit-built one.
To keep Wibbs and any other plane and history nerds happy 😉 I've added a bit of info re: the markings and the kit itself.
This is a Revell 1:32 kit and is a detailed build IMO. If memory serves it is an ME110C7 variant and is painted to represent a Barbarossa era aircraft of ZerstorerGeschwader 1 on the Eastern Front in Late '41, early 1942.
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I hear that. Back when the first lockdown hit a mate of mine into the whole model making thing dropped a couple of kits over for me and gave me a few links to youtubers and the like. Bloody hell, some of them are scarily talented. I did note after many decades of being away from that sorta thing that tanks and armoured vehicles are way more popular than when I was a kid. Back then it was pretty much all aircraft. I suppose tanks allow for more weathering and ageing as aircraft are generally much cleaner. Though WW2 stuff could get pretty weathered, particularly the German stuff, as they were more likely to be operating under duress in environments like Russia and their fuel was pretty crappy. The exhaust soot is a lot more pronounced on the German stuff.
One of these days I might seek out one of those Stuka kits and do it up like a tank model, fecked up. Well they were kinda tanks of the air so...
Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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Here's the one I did make last year. One of the "new" tips I picked up was to use oil paints to add subtle effects in shading and the like.
Sitting on an actual ammunition crate for the shells that were used in the anti tank version.
I use it as a coffee table and wine rack/box. Swords into ploughshares an' that.
Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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Definitely not an obsession but I enjoy reading through the old Abercrombie & Fitch catalogues. The way things are described over a century ago is really interesting, and they really were the top supplier of outdoor goods.
Example of watches:
Or rifle sights:
Or canoes:
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Not the best photos 😉 but this is a model I've being trying to find in diecast for quite a while.
It's a Chengdu J20 in 1:144 , smaller than my usual preferred scale but given the trouble I had finding it at a reasonable price? I'll take it.
I also picked up an Italeri Chengdu J10 in 1:72 that's bumping up my PLAAF contingent 😉
I really am out of space for any more now tho...
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Had missed that post at the time with how bad notifications are now on the site. That's some beast of a keyboard! Worth it over the Unicomp for you?
I'm blaming you for showing me Chyrosran22! Had been thinking of building a desktop the last year or so. Haven't had one in over 15 years just using laptops in that time. The graphics card shortage and general price increases put that on the long finger. Was keeping an eye and had trackers set up on graphic cards and try snag one close to RRP but ended getting bargain prebuilt Lenovo i5 10400, 16gb Ram, 512gb M2 drive and a GTX 1660 Super for €329! Long term plan is still to take the Graphics card out and build something. I'm used to laptop keyboards but the one that came with the Lenovo really was a POS.
Was just planning on a Cherry Mx keyboard of some description. But then I went down the rabbit hole. Far to much time spent reading on r/MechanicalKeyboards and looking at youtube. Went from to budget Gateron Brown boards to Blue. Started looking at higher end boards and reading far to much about switches.
So that's probably my main hobby researching the sh!t out of things when I want something new! Same with nearly everything, TV, speakers, headphones or any gadget I decide I need! Was part of what sent me down the rabbit hole when I wandered into this forum I can get a bit obsessed! Main interest though is cycling which I haven't had much time for the last few years but do want to get back training properly for. Motorcycles which I spent most of my 20's on and Fishing which I spent a good bit of my teenage years at are two I always say I will get back to some day. What I do have time for that I still do is listening to music and still love to watch movies when the kids will go to bed early enough and get off the TV. That was part of the reason for getting the PC. It's given me my own space to stick on headphones and listen to music, watch movies and tv series. Still need to get a amplifier/DAC to use a pair of old bookshelf speakers with the PC which is another maze of research I've wandered into!
Very nearly ended up getting the Unicomp Model M, if the new Mini M was available I may have gone for it. The full size is a little big for the desk space I have though. Was hard decide though as I have little experience with mechanical keyboards. Shops here mostly only have boards with Red liner switches on display with the odd Razer green or Logitech Blue clicky and pawing demo models at the moment is kind of frowned upon!
In the end going going for a hot swappable barebones keyboard seemed an good option. Didn't end up costing too much as the board was a 30% off nearly new Amazon warehouse deal. GMMK TKL Board, Kaihl Box Pink Switches and Tai-Hao PBT switches. Like building things and putting this together seemed just like Lego (Which is another hobby I got back into when my kids did!) Finding good UK ISO PBT keycaps was actually one of the more time consuming choices. Most of the market is for ANSI unless you go custom GMK group buys which is silly money with delivery in 2022 or later!
Possibly should have got a set of switches to try but all the reviews seemed to rate the Pinks highly some even comparing them to being the nearest MX style switch to a buckling spring in feel. Two weeks now and I really like it tactility is great, switches are smooth, keycaps feel great and it's solid with no wobble. Might be a little loud for others in the room but I like the clack out of it! Do sort of miss the numpad its the only part of the keyboard I can touch type on properly but I don't need it much at home. I'll probably still pick up a Unicomp as some stage as I'll set up the Lenovo for the kids when I take the graphics card out and build a new PC.
Starting to realize I have a thing for blue. 5 of my watches have blue on them somewhere! Trying to decide on next purchase black SKX007 is still preferred option but it's over priced now really. I can get a Seiko Turtle for same money and I keep getting drawn to the blue models. Have tried on two Turtles recently Pepsi Padi and I really liked the Save the Ocean version in the flesh.
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