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Mark Bolam

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  1. Mark Bolam
    Absolutely. And booze while we're doing it! No boozing for me tonight though. I'm on Fosters.
  2. Mark Bolam
    The kids are getting very keen on their bikes, and I hate tarmac, so the wife needed a mountain bike, and we didn't want to fall into the trap of buying cheap shite again. We ended up at Bedgebury and bought an ex-hire Diamondback Heist 2.0 for half the rrp. Seems to have everything you need for the stuff we plan to do. Has anyone got experience of this bike?
  3. Mark Bolam
    No topics found here Bill? Cheers Darrin, I've always liked you.
  4. Mark Bolam
    I can't get the search function to work tonight. Can someone link me to the mountain bikes thread? I think Hodge may have started it. Ta.
  5. Mark Bolam
    Enough religion/race stuff. What's everyone drinking tonight?
  6. Mark Bolam
    I've got a mental image of Joe on his own up a tree just constantly repeating 'Broadsword calling Danny Boy'.
  7. Mark Bolam
    Agreed Sir Dempsey. It's bloody good firewood though....[emoji849]
  8. Mark Bolam
    Cracking ad! What an opportunity for someone. Good luck finding a top guy (or gal!) Neil, I'm sure you will.
  9. Mark Bolam
    From the second mostest sensiblest member of Arbtalk that's a ludicrous suggestion. Who would man our ghettos if we adopted that policy?
  10. Mark Bolam
    What's that? It's Neil not Niel. You just need a friend now and you're sorted.
  11. Mark Bolam
    Ridiculously sensible post. I've informed the moderators.
  12. Mark Bolam
    Very good pics Jack, that bollard has had some hammer! Looked a cracking day for it.
  13. Mark Bolam
    Made to measure that second pic Ian! Good to see you posting again.
  14. Mark Bolam
    Is he? Or isn't he?....
  15. Mark Bolam
    It's illegal not to Bill.
  16. Mark Bolam
    I reckon you're over by a bit there mate, but I've never had barn doors, so you could be right. Full to the top of the boards, but sloping off at the back to the tailgate we went 6.4 (dry conny) with tools, groundie and dog. That was for a haulage co., tipping on their private site. Ram never missed a beat! Truck is normally about 2.8 unladen, depending on tools. 2.5 stripped without dog and groundie (like,never). Transit DC.
  17. Mark Bolam
    When I say in, I mean forming the sides of.
  18. Mark Bolam
    I planked some pop at 2" when I bought my first Alaskan from RobD when I went a bit mill crazy. I've still got some of those boards at the yard in log pens 10 years or so on. They've moved a bit, but the resilience has been impressive.
  19. Mark Bolam
    Matelot, that's a good post. Arbtalk was better for me years ago, because I had so much to learn. Basic stuff I had been doing the hard way for years already. It's still a very useful tool now, in so many different areas. You will literally never know it all. The best thing it has done for me is helped me meet people, via shows, sales, PM's, rec climbs or good old fashioned piss-ups over the years. Arbtalk is the single best thing that has happened to me in my arb career. I am renowned as a piss-taker, but I actually mean that.
  20. Mark Bolam
    You're so negative Bullman, this is the problem. You and your mate MonkeyD. Fungi expert? I met him in the the urinals at the Arb Show a few years back. I swivelled round, shook it, and said 'Identity these fungal bodies then.' He just mumbled something and left. Some expert. I saw him later wrestling John Shutler next to a firepit. Or that could have been me. Possibly at a different show. I can't remember exactly.
  21. Mark Bolam
    Smart little solution there Neil. Hypothetically, would the roof support the weight of a slightly overweight owner/operator in certain situations?
  22. Mark Bolam
    Hey! I'LL have a Babycham.
  23. Mark Bolam
    I wonder what weight of chip you could get in a Tranny with full roof and barn doors....
  24. Mark Bolam
    We'll never know. He fell to his death earlier.
  25. Mark Bolam
    l went for a chequerplate 1/4 top. Stops the overspray and cheap. I've never seen the point of a full roof. It's not an ambulance.

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