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Car review: 07 reg Mazda MX-5 Roadster-Coupé

I haven’t written about a car for a while, but since I have just ceased to drive my MX-5 it seems a very good time to review it: I am not going to learn anything more about it at this point.  To be specific, I am reviewing the 1.8 litre version – I didn’t want the 2.0 sport as it came with traction- and stability-control.

RIP Kimahri

Unhappy news to report: one of our two cats, Kimahri, was struck by a car and killed on Sunday.

a-Ha in Concert

Last Tuesday we went to see a-ha in Manchester’s M EN Arena as part of their Foot of The Mountain album tour.

Learning to ski

My wife and I have just done a learn to ski in a day course at SNOzone in Xscape in Milton Keynes.

All done

Those of you who are now bored of reading about my bike-rebuilding antics will be pleased to know that it’s finally all done.

Stage 2: Just one more bit

As I wrote earlier, I am in the process of replacing quite a lot of the components of my road bike.

Phase 1 is complete

As I wrote recently, I am strategically replacing parts of my bicycle to address the parts which I currently find tiresome.

New US rules for reviewing stuff in blogs

I just found this blog post which reports that the Federal Trade Commission have issued some new advertising guidelines. The net of it is that if you post a favourable review on a blog when you have been paid to do so (or given free stuff instead), you must disclose that rather salient fact in your post.

My road-bike renewal scheme

Following up on my last post here, I am investigating how to improve my road bike. As I said there, it will involve a new wider-range cassette and a compact chainset. However I am also going to take the opportunity to fix a couple of other annoyances.