Club Arnage

New service here in Le Mans...

 :D [shadow=red,left,300]BIKE RENTAL SERVICE [/shadow]

Special Price for LM week

100 € the week and a deposit of 200 €

Gilles , Bike means a Bicycle i presume ?

Or is it something slse , as 100euro is quite a lot really isnt it.

Yes it's a bycicle...

... and for a long week, it appears not so much.

Maybe it can be adapted according the the lenght if your stay but the week rental is the easiest solution

Gilles, any cheap scooter rentals?

Dave.

just one? or one per CA executive Staff ?

Just one - with a 'circulation 2 roues' sticker so I can buzz up and down trackside with all my heavy photo gear.

Dave.

If not i would have one, to lug my heavy beer chest around........

Hey if Dave gets one, I want one too.  

How cool would it be to roll up to some cute girl and say "Hey honey, want a ride to the pitts?"

That's why I take my big black and white sports car every year  ;)

Most of us have a heavy beer belly, not a chest as well though...  :)

Maybe he's talking about one of his female companions  :o

He didn't have much luck finding any of them at the 1000k.... nuff said

Smokie you are being a bar steward. The bar was closed , thats Gilles fault not mine .

Although had i pulled " Hey love , fancy a night under the stars ......  in the rain , cold , in my tent , in a shite filled field.....

If one of the girls gets her way , she maybe heaving with other things in her belly, not beer!

Not mine though.

There soon maybe a Goldfish Junior SPS on line

Oh, the romance of it, just like "Brief Encounter".   ;D

Actually a pattern is starting to emerge. My mate was "up for it" in June, but all Gilles could find us him was closed bars...

Gilles, how about doing some up to date research for the "red blooded males" amongst us?  ;)

Sounds good.  Since the demise of the 'female entertainment' in the funfair, we need something to take our minds off cars and beer !

Everyones always welcome to our "cinema" during the weekend. Only a 14" colour TV/Video combi but excellent quality p*rn!!

:D How many bleery eyed blokes can you get around that ?

You'd be surprised Steve. Just ask Stu how quick his mate Trev managed to move with his ad ankle when he spotted it from 40 feet away!!

I have to also applaud the integrity of everyone we have ever camped with. Most nights for the last three years we have left someone watching it when we've "retired" back to our tents and asked them to lock the TV away in the back of one of our cars when they've finished and it has always been safely stored away.

All except once that it on Expo in 2002. And that was only because he was still there watching it when we woke up!!!   ;D ;D

Maybe he didn't dare move because he was playing tents  ;D

Or too ;D exhausted to move

Gilles!!  Have you had a chance to look into this yet??  :)

What do you want I look around ? bicycle, scooter, porn, men's leisures,... ??

second hand Commers ??

Steve, you are a sick man, get help.  ;D

I can find second or third-hand Bedford or Transit which are quite common in continental Europe  ;)

Gilles, perhaps some of the MB boys might like to rent some of these:

http://www.potties.com/adult.htm

H

I can see them now, dozens of campers walking across to the bin with their little plastic bag.

Whatever you do......don't put your tent near the bins!!!

JP, note that the ad suggests a safe working load of 200lb!!!
Jesus! that's going some, you'd need a curry and a half to meet the manufacturers specification alright.
H

Or a Tartiflette, a Grand Marnier Crepe, a Croque Monsieur and a bottle of Grimbergen.  ;D

Also, it states that your unit will always be clean as you can use normal kitchen waste bags.  A white swing bin liner carrying 200lbs of your finest to the local depository.....yeah.

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Plenty of scope for some hijinks if you had one of those, like showing your mates the blue goldfish.

I would be bound to trip over a banana skin and my head go down the pan.

Alternatively you could keep cold beers in it.

Or take a fridge, a chest freezer and a generator as is our plan for this year.  ;D

I'm just going to drink warm beer like I always do  :(

Muchios gracias very much.  We did consider buying a beer fridge and leaving it there - not too sure how we were going to power it though.
You'd think with collectively a couple of thousand horse power sitting around our site we could work out how to power a fridge eh.
Maybe that's a good discussion topic for this forum  ;D

Back to the portapotty/inflatable jobbie:


Crikey, thanks for the warning H!! Imagine squatting on one and I deliver my finest then it explodes and I land in my own!!! And at 224lbs (16st to the uninitiated) I am well over the advised limit!  :-X Doesn't bear thinking about - OK it does and makes me laugh out loud at the image. Hope I don't put you off your tea lad!

 ;D

Steve  - Keeping Beer Cold -

Either go to robert Dyas and buy a car fridge , either links to a battery ( car ) or into a fag lighter and runs with very little power drain.

Or, take a bucket wrap foil around , fill with cold water, then add bags of ice cubes ( purchased from Carrefour ) and hey presto , cold beer for a few days.

Alternitely come round the SPS camp , and enjoy Fridge Freezer bliss.

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Cheers Robbo, I'm afraid you can't get much in the boot of a cobra - it's almost like taking a motorcycle to Le Mans  :'(

Stu,

Is your butane-powered camp fridge working ?

Watch out for the power drain on portable fridges, the bigger ones are no problem plugged into the lighter socket as long as the engines running, but will drain a car battery in about 15 hours if engine stopped.
Best ones I've found will run on 12volt for the journey down, so that you can have cold beers on arrival, and also gas, which you use while camping.

Won't fit in the back of a cobra though, might fit on a rear luggage rack but would bugger aerodynamics and looks.

Thanks Barry, can they have wheels fitted ??  ;)

I seem to remember two fine lads heading off last year in a motorised ice cream vending fridge. A sterling effort if you ask me. I'd like to have seen their arrival for the ferry, and was their breakdown insurance with the AA or Comet?
Where are they now?
H

For powering the fridge, TV, etc whilst away - Screwfix (http://www.screwfix.com) have a 720w geni for £130 £120 at the mo...!

Very impressive but I'm a bit concerned by the "You might also be interested in...", what on earth would we need a chainsaw at Le Mans for and more importantly (and worryingly), what the hell is "Pink Grip"!!!!! http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro.jsp;jsessionid=QRXFHNLRZT1OHCJO2C3CKTQ?id=71704&p=x4&ts=36951&destination=../cat/pro.jsp%3Fid%3D71704%26p%3Dx4 (http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro.jsp;jsessionid=QRXFHNLRZT1OHCJO2C3CKTQ?id=71704&p=x4&ts=36951&destination=../cat/pro.jsp%3Fid%3D71704%26p%3Dx4)

 :o

Will that be enough power 720w ?? Doesnt sem a right lot.

We took a 2.2 kW gennie last year.Enough to power a full size fridge, lights, Stu's Caravan Fridge and light and half a dozen electric cool boxes. Oh, and the electric kettle.

I don't think a 720W would be enough Robbo. Fridges and Freezers run at a reasonable wattage (700-1000W) but need at least double that to get started.

The other thing to bear in mind is to think of some kind of sound insulation for it unless you want to really p*ss off your neighbours.

I took a 2kw lst year , and have a 3kw Diesel on order this year.
Sound proofing care of new fancy purpose built trailer......

If not stick it behind a car , it blocks most of it .....

That's what we did last year, parked four cars around it in fact. Didn't sound too bad to us and we were obviously the nearest ones to it but someone from "across the way" came over to offer us a look at his soundproofing on his. We wouldn't have minded but that was at about 6.30 saturday afternoon and there was a little bit more noise coming from somewhere else at that time.

No one asked us to turn it off, I suppose being an angry young man sometimes helps.....

And there was this other noise coming from nearby , maybe the same as you JP ,

I think they are called Corvette's and the Panoz ( amazing loud cars )

Certainly compared to the Bentleys and Audis

It's like no more nails but better.

But why pink?? Surely it will show up if it oozes out?

Or is it just industrial strength dentucreme??  ;D

Talking of bike rental, i thought you could not advertise on here for profit, but if that is not  the case Jayne and I could talk rates.
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Hi Rick, to Canadian Men Chainsaws just are, no reason is required. Like Beer you should just have one handy at all times.
Canada Phil

At least the thread title is appropriate... ;)

Got it in one, Sir Moderator.

That gets my vote

How about a tandem??  ;)

Brilliant reposte Sir!!

How are things in the frozen north? Just getting wetter over here as ever......

Hi Rick, Industrial strength COLD... Brrrrr. Not too much snow in my neibourhood but just 30 km away had  lots dumped on them this afternoon.
Canada Phil

Have you not heard the weather forecast for nect week Rick??

Snow and freezing winds blowing in from Canada!!!  It's supposed to be pretty bad!

Ah!! Just when I was ramping up the cycling to 100 miles a week. Should make the Sunday runs interesting in the coming weeks then!

Must remember to get the "underfloor heating" installed in the lycra tights!!  :-X (Apologies to anyone for that image just after breakfast!!!

 ;D

If you have a weak bladder, this shouldn't be a problem  ;)

Well just nipping out for a 35 miler in the next half hour (that's leaving in the next half hour, not an average speed of 70mph!!!!), so I shall see how it goes, although it's not too nippy just yet.

Don't forget to go for a tinkle first then  ;)

There was a shop in town recently selling skiing socks with a heater unit attached to them. I'm sure with a little modification the heater units could be moved into your Lycra shorts  :D

Or then again, keep the socks as is and you have a heated WS!!  ;D

Crikey, certainly in need of some heated parts for sure. A smidge windy too (that is movement of air from high to low pressure, as opposed to gaseous emission on my part).

Glad to be back in the warm - now where were those socks........?

Please stop it... first you talk about fridges and now it's starting to freeze here too.  ;D

Rollocks!!!!   Done some checking and they weren't socks but were heated innersoles and were available from a store called Tchibo. Sure you could still position them where you wnat though!!

It's a wierd place. It's a coffee house (a la Costa/Starbucks) but also sells a range of about 20 items that change each week. One week they sell industrial style tools, the next week ladies lingerie.



http://www.tchibo.co.uk/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/uk/-/GBP/TdUkDisplayProductInformation-Start;sid=SvQsmxSQay8sTlSBdskm_xcIbAM0706ITaE=?ProductID=gCwKZAOidIUAAAD4oKhN9ziJ&BackTo=Search

Hmmm.  Pink Grip, a heated ws and 3.2kW powersupply.  The mind boggles.

Last year we took a fridge and a 2.2 kw generator.  Frankly we didn't care about silencing but didn't run it overnight.

Was also enough to run lighting, kettle and phone chargers and a compressor for blowing up inflatables  :o

I think this year we may add a freezer for truly frosty ones.