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The TeleTubbies recruit a new member- 'Caky holey' I was tempted out by 'promises' of 6-7 degrees and sunshine- @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Secretary Felt the need to 'hoist' his bonnet off, to finish off his recent throttle cable repairs. The usual follow the peaky tractor procession- 'Cakey Wakey' Says it's 'Time for Cake' another great day out, thanks all.

Excellent photo's there Mr Bagpuss, thank you, and I can confirm that NDORS stands for National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme, while sounding like Endorse, as in your license. They will have paid a graduate a lot of money for that one I am sure. With only Dave responding I decided to change the plan to make it more fair and chose a spot equidistant from us both, albeit on high ground and therefore up in the foggy hills of Buxton. The Peak View Tea Room with no view only fog. We got a lovely surprise when Billy walked through the door, then Dave arrived to say he was tracking Ian who was only a few minutes away, brill. The feasting began Westfield style But @AndrewBClarke, there was no black pudding, shock horror, it's not a FULL breakfast without it Billy had fetched his space age Tesla to show us but had to scoot off early Inside it was very minimal regarding the controls, all done by the screen, it was silent on it's exit despite it's great power. Dave and Ian parked overlooking the Peak View We decided to go cake hunting, soon Dave stopped for minor adjustments, giving me chance to take a few photo's of the surrounding countryside. Destination - Tea Junction Hulme End Cake hunting was successful, it came in the form of Lemon Cheesecake today for us Thanks guys for a great day out I hope @Big Andy's back and his wallet (see next week what happens when you visit TOYBOX) recover quickly and hope to see you all next time xx

Urgent cable repairs, photo courtesy of @marcusb.

First run of the year, and the first one for a while. I met @marcusb at the service station at 10, then headed over to South Milford where Des'n'Debs ( @Breakable?) and @Curley were waiting. Then it was off to Stamford Bridge to meet the others. For once the times were keeping to schedule until a spanner was thrown into the works with a broken throttle cable on Curleys car. A quick repair was carried out and we were on our way in 20 minutes. @Tom Vale and Lisa were there with newbies @Nicholas Rycroftand Julie. It was then on to the NY500 and a fish finger sandwich, and meet Roger and Judy. The roads were damp and the cars got very dirty, but the weather kept fine and not too cold, even without a heater. After food, we set off for Thornton le Dale to go to Mathewsons of Bangers and Cash fame, unfortunately the museum was closed so we had a walk round the village instead. Home time and time to say goodbye before it got dark. We all made it home ok apart from Tom and Lisa who had to be recovered with a flat battery and possible alternator failure. A good day out, and hopefully the first of many this year.

Do they do salad? just asking for a friend.

Just to make sure we understand that we are not being misled, and we not talking 'only 120,000' by any measure. The number of deaths ‘within 28 days’ is used because death certificates are rarely completed on the day, and it takes 11 days or so to collect and collate the data. We CANNOT wait 11 days for the data required to inform people and policy, that would be daft, so we use what is a technically ‘blunt’ measure. The BMJ and others actually think this figure is normally a 20% underestimate, in any case every time this number is used, they tell you it is ‘deaths within 28 days’ not deaths of, or deaths with. The death data presented by the Office for National Statistics IS from death certificates. Recording deaths is a rigorous process in the UK and has both a part 1, covering ‘the chain of events directly leading to death’ and a part 2 – ‘other contributions’. In most hospital deaths it will be overseen by the medical examiner. Here is the data from a month ago, note the figure of 175,943, the number of deaths where Covid appears on the death certificate, and that another 2,500 have died since then, so we are approaching 180,000. According to the BMJ “in 90% of certificates where covid-19 is recorded, it does so in part 1 as the cause contributing directly to death” - so we are looking at over 160,000 direct Covid deaths Covid killed 130,000 of the first five million cases in the UK, even though we hid from it, shut our economy down, missed families, binned our social lives, and put education on hold. The subsequent 10 million cases have killed 30,000, a bit crude but by those numbers the vaccines have either saved 230,000 lives, or a lot of time spent locked down (or both most likely) The early predicted deaths in the UK of half a million would easily have been hit in the absence of vaccines and lockdowns, no question in my mind. We have people reaching out for Covid death numbers going ‘only’ ‘only’ and ‘only’, but look at these 5 vaccine related deaths, shock horror. Also, again we focus on deaths only, highlighting a handful of vaccine deaths, ignoring the number of times a young person’s heart or lungs or cerebrovascular system might be damaged by Covid, leading to a shorter less healthy life, or the risk they may give it to a sibling parent or grandparent.

I can tell you from looooong experience that it's actually quite difficult to get banned

Oh yes Julie we will be there next week hopefully

I find this level of conversation useful and educational. Try reading similar posts on pistonheads which is now at the same level of abuse as Facebook (or twitter i assume as I dont do twitter) For every good view in a reasoned debate there are alternatives and opinions and many have merit. Even on here its not clear cut and this with todays knowledge vs what we knew at the start. No one soln to satisfy all. Keep it up please chaps its a better read than most.

Crumple zones on cars don’t STOP people dying or being seriously injured in car accidents. Seatbelts don’t STOP people dying or being seriously injured in car accidents. Airbags don’t STOP don’t stop people dying or being seriously injured in car accidents. The reason we put them on the millions of cars we make every year is because they work often enough to make a significant difference. Mountains of evidence is building that vaccinations make a VERY significant difference to transmission. These are both good points, again would merit further research, although evidence for a very low Covid mortality in young people is strong, evidence suggests a ‘lower but not necessarily very low’ severe illness rate in young people: CDC – A person of any age who has had COVID-19 can later develop a post-COVID condition. Although post-COVID conditions appear to be less common in children and adolescents, long-term effects after COVID-19 do occur in children and adolescents. Studies have reported long-term symptoms in children with both mild and severe COVID-19, including children who had multisystem inflammatory syndrome. From above - CDC again, “12-17 years old 9x more likely to be hospitalised if not vaccinated” – are large numbers of vaccinated young people being hospitalised? NCBI - A rapid review of international studies showed an increase in depressive and anxious symptoms in children as a result of Covid-19. This is likely attributable to a wide range of factors, including, social isolation, anxiety, etc. The Office for National Statistics estimates that around 1.2 million people in the UK (including around 77,000 children aged 2-16 and around 134,000 people between 17 and 25 years old) are experiencing self-reported Long COVID. There is a lot of this out there. There is a degree to which we are all backing a horse here and it is early in the race. I am backing the horse that the vast majority of the medical and scientific communities are backing.

Now my new wheels have arrived, (with more classic looking offsets, to suit my new tub and arches), I've had a chance to remove and clean up the Team Dynamics, that were on there. These are the typical staggered Proraces, in 15x7" ET40 as fronts, and 15x8" rears, ET24; I used the rears with a 10mm spacer on my car with the ZK arches. (I'm re-using the spacers with the new wheels, too). The tyres are Nankang NS2R's in 205/50 15", the two fronts average around 5mm tread. The rears aren't quite on the wear bars across the width of the tyres, but getting there! (Average around 3mm across most of the tyre, but the outer edges show that exuberant cornering in the Alps and the Peaks! and are on the bars, just about). The wheels have done around 25k miles, so are not absolutely perfect, one (front) has a very small stone chip, through the powder coat, and one rear has a few small scuff marks that do not go through the powder coat, courtesy of a funny shaped French curb, that I barely kissed at very slow speed, while leaving the hotel car park. The inside surfaces show a few more signs of use, as you'd expect, but are ok for the age/miles. Will take £400, call it £375 collected, as I could do with the space, from a WSCC member. Stone chip: (easily touched in). Scuff in the powder coat: Front tyre no1. Front no2. Rear no1. Rear no2. Collection from Sandbach, 10 mins from M6 Jn17, only. Thanks

That’s close racing! The Crewe track is longer with laps typically about 12 sec (or they are just driving much slower).

Too cold for my brittle bones mate!

FTFY

@Westfield Parts Dept can you confirm Andrzej order ? tagged them for you so they will get a notification

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PM me your address and I'll get it sent out to you. If it turns out to be useful, feel free to make a small donation to the air ambulance.

I'll be there.

Thanks @jim_l, eloquently put as always. I made passing reference to the potential consequences of having a bad covid illness, which certainly shouldn’t be understated as they’ll be life changing and potentially life limiting for those affected. I also accept that the excess deaths metric is going to be skewed downwards as well, simply because the measures we’ve been taking have dramatically reduced deaths from flu for one thing, so covid deaths have been ‘filling the gap’ somewhat. Re-reading my last post, it does look like I was trying to down-play the numbers. That wasn’t my intent and I apologise for that. I suspect that like most who don’t work in the field, I’ve been guilty of not properly understanding the thinking behind the way the metric works and why it’s used. Whichever metric we opt for….it’s been bad so far. It’s incredible how quickly the horrendous scenes of overflowing morgues, hospitals running out of oxygen, and how big a part the vaccines have played in getting us to where we are now, have apparently been forgotten.

@OldStager and @Blueass fly - thanks, I don’t have anything to swap for it at the moment and I’m planning on getting a clock and oil temp gauge as well, hopefully all the same or to match my EBTs. Thanks for the effort in identifying it for me! 😀

My main ‘hobby’ these days seems to be fixing whichever item my 83 year old neighbour just broke. The curse of ‘the useful man’.

Cheers Andy, only had to take them on and off twice so far😂 I’d got the remap booked for Monday but hit a couple of snags yesterday so had to cancel to be on safe side! Sod’s law though it’s now sorted🤦🏻‍♂️ At least it gives me a bit more time to tidy things up!

It’s another no from me too🥺 I’ve pulled it apart to fit the ITBs hopefully be back soon👍

I've got a set of these from @Lee Bennett, brilliant all year tyre; though I do switch to 888 for track days.