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

Phil — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:54:24 +0000

Since I am about to lose it, I thought I should review the car I've enjoyed for the last 30 months: my Mazda MX-5 [...]

Phase 1 is complete

Phil — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:22:45 +0000

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

Today I changed the control levers, gear cables and brake cables from the silver Shimano Sora set which came with the bike to black SRAM Red equipment.

The gear cables supplied with the Red set are from [...]

Mounting the iPhone 3G on a bicycle

Phil — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:45:43 +0000

The obvious thing to do with a portable device which knows where you are and can display maps as your location changes is to use it for navigation and tracking. This obviously requires that you put the thing where you can see it as you go along.

There are, so far as I could find, two [...]

Car review: 54 reg Mitsubishi Colt Diesel

Phil — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:36:29 +0000

Drove this (it’s my Mum’s) up to Lincolnshire yesterday.

I’m not really sure what this car is for. It can’t be meant for motorway driving, for all that it pulls well in 4th and 5th in the 50-70 range thanks to the diesel engine: it’s horrifically noisy at those speeds. I even had to turn [...]