Post by Marty JamesPost by iddqdActually the €4000 would come to around 4,733.38;-) The cheap USD has
done wonders to my budget making spare parts/upgrades for my bikes a lot
cheaper.
Tell me about your bikes.
It's just a passion of mine. I use bikes both for everyday comuting and
for fun and my current collection looks likes this.
- A 40+ years old classic gentelmans bike. Very laied back to drive
which I use once in a while for short rides like when the sunday morning
trip to the nearest baker.
- A 15 year old 14-speed road bike build of Coloumbus steel tubes. My
first really nice bike and it has about 40,000 miles on it. For the last
couple of years I've been using it for comuting when the weather is nice.
- A Giant TCR-Team road bike. ALu-frame, 18 speed, lots of carbon stuff
(fork, seatpost, spokes, hubs) and fitted with very nice gears and
brakes. It tips the scale around 8 kg so it's not super light but
neither am I sound it needs to bit able to handle me:-)
- A Santa Cruz Chameleon mountainbike configured as a rigid (= no
suspension) single speed which I use for comuting in bad weather and
also a little messing about.
- A Specialized FSR Elite. It's an semi-old full suspension bike which
has been upgraded and tinkered with all over. This is the one taking a
lot abuse when I go riding in the woods and that is a bit costly on the
equipment. For example a really nice handle bar sets one back $100 or more!
And finaly I starting build myself an replacement for the old 14-speed.
So far I've only got an Colnago steel frame, a nice fork and a few other
bits so there is still some way to go but the basis is nice.
I actually can't think of a single day in a long time where I didn't
ride a bike regardless of snow/rain/sun. It's just my favourit way of
moving about:-)
Post by Marty JamesThanks! Correction... Obviously I meant 6:22 around the ring. Not 1:22!!!
Whoops. Now down to just 6 platinums, did 3 CCs yesterday, 2 with the GT1
and 1 with the F50. Getting easier. Sometimes you just get the feel for it
and have rhythm, other times you make 50 attempts and want to smash the tv
with the controller. :)
I know the feeling. Like with most other things some days completing
challenges comes easy and other times one is really better of doing
something else.
Post by Marty JamesGood point. I almost always went with the best acceleration. Not only good
for the start, but it means if you do loose the lead you can make a great
dive under brakes, then turn, point and shoot.
Exactly.
I must admit to not driving fair when racing the computer but then again
it's not really like the computer is either. I have the feeling that the
computer cars are following an invisble line in the road and that they
often will follow that line even when traffic or their lack of speed at
the start means they could do better otherwise. Something which also has
the effect that in some situations they push you a lot:-(
Post by Marty JamesHmm, I agree to an extent, but I didn't find that the classes were very
progressive in terms of difficulty. Having done all the challenges in the
KWS in Silver and half in Gold before trying any platinum, I felt I had
enough experience to take on any challenge... I'm ranked 49 in 110hrs. Don't
get me wrong though, there's plenty of Platinums that I still wonder HOW THE
HELL I COMPLETED!... And I'm not looking forward to the roadster CC
challenge or the Capitol Hill one.
The absolute hate ones for me so far has been the American Muscle
challenges. I really don't like being forced into driving a car that is
all power and crap handling.
Post by Marty JamesTOCA2 and V82 (V8 SuperCars 2) is basically the same game. Over here in Aus,
the V8's are like our designated national motorsport. I'm sure the name
variation is just a licensing/marketing thing...
Ahh, got it.
Post by Marty James- Monday 1-3pm (3-5am GMT)
- Tuesday 1-3pm (3-5am GMT)
- Random nights 11pm-1am (1-3pm GMT)
I'm sure well eventually bump into eachother:-)
Post by Marty JamesObviously I'm GMT + 10 at present, and I only play PGR2 online. My online
hrs aren't really suited to gaming with you, but we could always plan a
session!
One thing we can't solve is the lag due to the distance. I've played
with a few people from down under before and some times it was fine
other times there was simply to much lag cause voice communication to be
distorted and cars to teleport all over. We shall see how it goes.
At the moment I don't get to play a lot so I'd rather not scheduele
something but lets get back to that if we don't get to race by chance.
Drive safely
Bruno