Things you've always fancied having a go at.
Discussion
cv01jw said:
Fairly easy one to achieve, but I have always wanted to develop my own films (photo) but have never got around to it.
It's reeeeeeasonably easy, a bit faffy and the slightest mistake and everything is ruined. B&W anyway, colour is much harder. As someone who had to do it many times, a long time ago for GCSE photography let me assure you, you'd do it once, maybe twice before you happily tick that box and never do it again.
durbster said:
Depending on what time of year you go you can swim with Whale Sharks on the west coast, would that do?
http://www.australiascoralcoast.com/tours-activiti...
Very very interesting. As long as there are no sharks of the bitey kind in the same area then that looks like a great thing to do.http://www.australiascoralcoast.com/tours-activiti...
Adenauer said:
Yeah, I like the look of that! £95 for a whole day on a boat is a bargain!
Kite Surfing.
I live near to a kite surfing school that is, by all accounts, one of the best in the country but I just don't think I will be any good at it! I never learnt to fly a kite as a child so I just think i will be awful at it!
However, it looks awesome!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_hgd3e0G3U
I live near to a kite surfing school that is, by all accounts, one of the best in the country but I just don't think I will be any good at it! I never learnt to fly a kite as a child so I just think i will be awful at it!
However, it looks awesome!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_hgd3e0G3U
A lot of people seem to want to drive a modern F1 car! My hand on heart honest advice is don't. Honestly don't. It seems like a great idea on paper, it seems like it would be an amazing experience, it seems like something you could dine out on for years...... but really don't (and that advice is ignoring the cost of it alone, a handful of laps in a late 90's car that is still a proper F1 will cost at least £5K) because it'll only go one of two ways.
For 99.99% of people it will be the most disappointing experience you ever have, like bedding a supermodel and failing to rise to attention despite her best efforts. You'll realise it's near painful at most engine revs because you won't be in a seat that actually fits you properly, you'll be half deaf, just pulling away will be a taxing experience purely because hardly anyone has experience of actuating a clutch via a wheel mounted paddle. When you actually get moving and get 50% or so throttle on the total and utter mind f
k of quite what this results in is enough to frighten most people to the point where they get to third and pootle round off line with the occasional tweak of throttle. Those who are a bit more brave and have reasonable pedaling skills will be even worse off as they'll actually get on it a little, realise it's a monumental moment and start to have a go at what sort of cornering G it'll pull....... and rapidly realise that it's trying to destroy their neck, they have no idea just how quickly it can go around that corner but know for sure they are no where near it and leave the cockpit with the over riding realisation that the car just showed them how much better and more capable than them it was.
For 0.01% of people, the 0.01% that have some quick car with proper down force experience (and I don't mean a silly road car with pretend too high diffusers but a quick LMP type thing or FR2.0/FBMW etc.) it will ruin them forever because they'll be smashed in the head repeatedly with the fact that this is their concorde moment, that they may never get close to this again and that worst of all they can actually pedal this creation. If the 99.99% of people acquitted themselves like this they'd just be happy to have the experience but this 0.01% are the type who are good enough to realise they can really drive an F1 but for 99.9% of the 0.01% they never will again.
If you really want to drive an F1 then a DF powered late 70's/early 80's thing is a lot more accesible to most pepole. It has a H pattern box, foot clutch, better visibility, enough downforce to be an experience and has a wider operating range than any of the later stuff. 25% of people can have an enjoyable experience in these.
I work with turn of the millenium F1s (97 - 01 mainly) and the things have ruined my car life. I used to have quick road cars and enjoy having them but fast car just doesn't mean the same any more. Relatively modern F1s are bizzare things to be around, everything down to the fasteners holding the bodywork to the quality of the carbon work to the hydraulic actuation of most control actuators is a work of art and redefines what workmanship, quality, performance and power actually is with regards a car.
For 99.99% of people it will be the most disappointing experience you ever have, like bedding a supermodel and failing to rise to attention despite her best efforts. You'll realise it's near painful at most engine revs because you won't be in a seat that actually fits you properly, you'll be half deaf, just pulling away will be a taxing experience purely because hardly anyone has experience of actuating a clutch via a wheel mounted paddle. When you actually get moving and get 50% or so throttle on the total and utter mind f
k of quite what this results in is enough to frighten most people to the point where they get to third and pootle round off line with the occasional tweak of throttle. Those who are a bit more brave and have reasonable pedaling skills will be even worse off as they'll actually get on it a little, realise it's a monumental moment and start to have a go at what sort of cornering G it'll pull....... and rapidly realise that it's trying to destroy their neck, they have no idea just how quickly it can go around that corner but know for sure they are no where near it and leave the cockpit with the over riding realisation that the car just showed them how much better and more capable than them it was.For 0.01% of people, the 0.01% that have some quick car with proper down force experience (and I don't mean a silly road car with pretend too high diffusers but a quick LMP type thing or FR2.0/FBMW etc.) it will ruin them forever because they'll be smashed in the head repeatedly with the fact that this is their concorde moment, that they may never get close to this again and that worst of all they can actually pedal this creation. If the 99.99% of people acquitted themselves like this they'd just be happy to have the experience but this 0.01% are the type who are good enough to realise they can really drive an F1 but for 99.9% of the 0.01% they never will again.
If you really want to drive an F1 then a DF powered late 70's/early 80's thing is a lot more accesible to most pepole. It has a H pattern box, foot clutch, better visibility, enough downforce to be an experience and has a wider operating range than any of the later stuff. 25% of people can have an enjoyable experience in these.
I work with turn of the millenium F1s (97 - 01 mainly) and the things have ruined my car life. I used to have quick road cars and enjoy having them but fast car just doesn't mean the same any more. Relatively modern F1s are bizzare things to be around, everything down to the fasteners holding the bodywork to the quality of the carbon work to the hydraulic actuation of most control actuators is a work of art and redefines what workmanship, quality, performance and power actually is with regards a car.
Mark Benson said:
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Big News said:
vrooom said:
flying a glider (was looking to do this but £7,000 to learn how to fly and had to keep the licence going with 40 days minimum of flying put me off
Woah woah woah stop right there! Try more like £800-1000 to get to solo standard, and no license lapsing!http://www.ygc.co.uk/learn-to-fly.php
My wife never knows what to get me for Christmas....
That deal looks great. Especially with the hat. You wouldn't want to be seen without one up there!
P-Jay said:
cv01jw said:
Fairly easy one to achieve, but I have always wanted to develop my own films (photo) but have never got around to it.
It's reeeeeeasonably easy, a bit faffy and the slightest mistake and everything is ruined. B&W anyway, colour is much harder. As someone who had to do it many times, a long time ago for GCSE photography let me assure you, you'd do it once, maybe twice before you happily tick that box and never do it again.
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