Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: mercenary for hire on February 12, 2018, 12:26:49 pm
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Still 50k after wheelie grant and plug in hybrid grant.
https://youtu.be/qOxnJQP2_0E
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You'd need to be working 50+ hours/week to consider it.
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It would be interesting to see how many take them up.We'd need some serious subsidies to consider them.
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Like any other motor, you'd want to see a good few on the road before parting with hard earned. The older London Black Cabs done millions of miles around London but fell to shit in Dublin, probably partly 'cos they were poorly maintained rentals that no driver gave a flying fukk about. I don't like the return to suicide doors. I drove a black with them years ago, pain in the arse when the victims don't close the door properly as you can't reach them from the driver's seat and you can't use forward acceleration so you have to get out to close them.
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Probably the only exercise you'd get RC!!
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I do loads of walking. In fact I'm just back from Lidl and I'll walk around the aisles in Tesco tomorrow. Might even ramble down to the harbour for some fish on Wednesday or Friday but I haven't done that for a while so ... I probably won't.
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I do loads of walking. In fact I'm just back from Lidl and I'll walk around the aisles in Tesco tomorrow. Might even ramble down to the harbour for some fish on Wednesday or Friday but I haven't done that for a while so ... I probably won't.
I've started back walking,5k a day,haven't gone out today as i too have been walking around Tesco and Aldi,might got out later, the missus will probably want to tag along though,i like me and me ipod!!
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I'll have to have another go at the exercise bike... back over 18 stone again, my doctor reckons I'm a heart attack waiting to happen.
P.S. My OCD won't let me go to Tesco of a Monday, nothing on the shelves is fresh.
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Walking is boring ,just got the bike out of the shed need to change the bearings in the bottom bracket to take a wobble out of the crank .Trying to drop four and a half stone .Hit the scales at 21 stone 4 .This job not great for your health walkout the door to the car then when your shift is finished walk back in .Most exercise you get is going up stairs for a piss .
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Walking is boring ,just got the bike out of the shed need to change the bearings in the bottom bracket to take a wobble out of the crank .Trying to drop four and a half stone .Hit the scales at 21 stone 4 .This job not great for your health walkout the door to the car then when your shift is finished walk back in .Most exercise you get is going up stairs for a piss .
Jax upstairs?....so 1980's!!
I like walking.....when i'm back in some sort of shape i'll get back on the tredder for my runs.....13.5 stone...maybe if me flute wasn't as huge(and don't you forget it)as it is...but i can't be disappointing the missus with a small mickey!!
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You'd need to be working 50+ hours/week to consider it.
And the rest
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Walking is boring ,just got the bike out of the shed need to change the bearings in the bottom bracket to take a wobble out of the crank .Trying to drop four and a half stone .Hit the scales at 21 stone 4 .This job not great for your health walkout the door to the car then when your shift is finished walk back in .Most exercise you get is going up stairs for a piss .
We could make a competition out of it. Most weight lost by set date wins, loser pays for all you can eat buffet somewhere. When are you thinking of starting, I'm thinking "next week".
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You'd need to be working 50+ hours/week to consider it.
And the rest
Sorry, 170+ hours/week in Cork.
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I laughed when they called it an electric taxi.... with a range extender. What's a range extender? A fukking petrol engine rofl
It does 80miles on electric and another 320 miles on top of that with the petrol engine.
Can you really call it electric when most of the time, it'll be running on petrol.
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The engine (range extender) only charges the battery so it's drive chain if fully electric.
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Walking is boring ,just got the bike out of the shed need to change the bearings in the bottom bracket to take a wobble out of the crank .Trying to drop four and a half stone .Hit the scales at 21 stone 4 .This job not great for your health walkout the door to the car then when your shift is finished walk back in .Most exercise you get is going up stairs for a piss .
We could make a competition out of it. Most weight lost by set date wins, loser pays for all you can eat buffet somewhere. When are you thinking of starting, I'm thinking "next week".
Havent had a drink since we got back from Cork already down a stone .Looking to break 17 stone before I go on hols in June .Spent the day in the shed looking for crank spanner and pedal extractor couldnt find them so heavy hammer and chisel will have to do new bearings about six euro .Then Ill throw the bike on the Turbo charger before I hit the road .Might try to hit Johnny foxes before the summer but long drag for a fat man climbing that hill .
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I have them tools if you're stuck. Not much point to me starting my get fit quick scheme before the UK open. The skinny lad came up with our fancy dress code, he's gonna wear all the pillows that come with the suite under one of my shirts and attach a sign that has an arrow pointing to me and says I'm dressed as him... watch out for it live and exclusive on ITV4!
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You'd need to be working 50+ hours/week to consider it.
And the rest
Sorry, 170+ hours/week in Cork.
It’s for real Taxi men that work more 25 hours a week.
None of this part-time crack.
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Havent had a drink since we got back from Cork already down a stone .Looking to break 17 stone before I go on hols in June .
Do it all 'Easy like' John M, big weight loss at our age is not healthy.
A few KM's walking by day and a half-decent diet will see off the pounds.
And steer well clear of any doctor prescribed Pharmaceuticals, dem Doctors
are only guessing at ailments and prescribing drugs (which his sister sells)
in the pharmacy next door.
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Still 50k after wheelie grant and plug in hybrid grant.
https://youtu.be/qOxnJQP2_0E
How can he be chatting to the customer if'n there is a Safety screen in place ?
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You'd need to be working 50+ hours/week to consider it.
And the rest
Sorry, 170+ hours/week in Cork.
It’s for real Taxi men that work more 25 hours a week.
None of this part-time crack.
What defines a "Real Taxi-man" Deboy ?
Is it a driver who works more than 25 hours per week ?
Or is it a driver who doesen't know his way from the city to the Airport ?
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"How can he be chatting to the customer if'n there is a Safety screen in place ?"
I think they have a speaker system but the window isn't sealed like yer gaff.Has to be a money hatch somewhere.Also because its hybrid/electric it would be fairly quiet.
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I think the newer black cabs have some sort of acoustic pick up device in the screen. The old (90s) model I drove was pretty anti-social, near impossible to hear someone sat on the driver side of the back seat, easier to hear those sat on the passenger side but passengers who wanted to chat tended to use the fold down seat under the "window" (which could be opened/closed) in the screen.
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Was there a front passsnger seat in them ?
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Was there a front passsnger seat in them ?
No. Grand luggage space. The only good point they had was an empty space beside the driver. Fukkin nightmare of a car/taxi.
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Of a busy night you'd fit one or two passengers on the luggage platform and 8 in the back... we were't so anglicised back then.
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The only good point they had was an empty space beside the driver. Fukkin nightmare of a car/taxi.
@ Bubba, Why so ?
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I think the newer black cabs have some sort of acoustic pick up device in the screen. The old (90s) model I drove was pretty anti-social, near impossible to hear someone sat on the driver side of the back seat, easier to hear those sat on the passenger side but passengers who wanted to chat tended to use the fold down seat under the "window" (which could be opened/closed) in the screen.
That sounds like a Confession box !