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by akirk
Thu May 15, 2025 5:18 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Offline?
Replies: 8
Views: 357

Re: Offline?

should be - IP shows as a cloudflare server - which is part of the protection, even though the site is sitting on our server here in the UK
by akirk
Thu May 15, 2025 11:25 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Offline?
Replies: 8
Views: 357

Re: Offline?

yes - apologies, it went offline - don't know the full reason other than our average visitor count of 80,000 - 100,000 had already hit over 7,000,000 in May! So assume some bot hitting us too frequently... seem to be okay for now! Alasdair This was linked from another forum: https://www.phpbb.com/c...
by akirk
Fri May 09, 2025 1:32 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Offline?
Replies: 8
Views: 357

Re: Offline?

yes - apologies, it went offline - don't know the full reason other than our average visitor count of 80,000 - 100,000 had already hit over 7,000,000 in May! So assume some bot hitting us too frequently...

seem to be okay for now!

Alasdair
by akirk
Thu Apr 17, 2025 12:52 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Will I dislike an auto?
Replies: 107
Views: 11172

Re: Will I dislike an auto?

Overall, loving the car. It’s great to drive, and feels less ‘big’ than I’d feared. But i’ve another suspected dislike regarding brakes and brake lights, this one is hard to prove. Scenario is when I’m driving with cruise enabled, but in excess of the set speed. When I remove foot from throttle the...
by akirk
Tue Apr 15, 2025 10:25 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Will I dislike an auto?
Replies: 107
Views: 11172

Re: Will I dislike an auto?

An aside. There's a tale in one older driving book (John Miles'?) of night driving training. The car had foot dip switch. The trainee dipped from main, and back again, every gear change. my 69 mgb had a foot operated dip switch, it certainly taught you to change gear in time before a corner so that...
by akirk
Mon Apr 07, 2025 7:55 am
Forum: Advanced Driving - Bikes
Topic: Finely-judged overtake?
Replies: 6
Views: 413

Re: Finely-judged overtake?

A lot of bikers rely on there being room for two cars and a bike as contingency - I have even seen car drivers do that on slightly wider roads - recipe for disaster
by akirk
Sat Feb 01, 2025 2:44 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Will I dislike an auto?
Replies: 107
Views: 11172

Re: Will I dislike an auto?

depends on the car - for example, the range rover due to its gearing doesn't creep forward - but has no fancy tech to stop it - all is fine - and it still has a manual handbrake... the seat has an electronic handbrake, but also has separately an auto brake with hill hold, so when that is turned on (...
by akirk
Sat Feb 01, 2025 8:24 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Will I dislike an auto?
Replies: 107
Views: 11172

Re: Will I dislike an auto?

My Jag f-type was an auto - it was superb We currently have a Mini Cooper s and a Seat Ateca - the mini is manual and I am thinking of changing it to auto - the seat ateca is auto and superb - has paddles, no issues with gentle stops, very intuitive… the jag gearbox was a bit more sporty but that is...
by akirk
Tue Jan 21, 2025 2:08 pm
Forum: In The News
Topic: Scotish Government Consultation on NSL
Replies: 9
Views: 1433

Re: Scotish Government Consultation on NSL

done
by akirk
Fri Dec 20, 2024 8:10 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Overtaking Calculator
Replies: 16
Views: 2010

Re: Overtaking Calculator

ref searching on the old forum - you have to log in separately

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