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  • 08:21:07 am on November 3, 2010 | 13 | # |

    My contract is up on my 18month old Nokia E71. And I’m still no nearer working out what I’m going to get next. I suppose I don’t have to, but it’s scratched screen and bunged up charger socket (the charger doesn’t positively click in place as it’s got some gunk in there, so I have to make sure it’s pushed in hard or it won’t charge) mean that it’s becoming a pain to live with, but I do like it.
    I like it’s small skinny size. It’s pretty tiny really. Thin, I can have it in my pocket and not know it’s there. They keyboard works great, I can one hand it when I’m, well, not when I’m driving of course, but when I’m doing something with my other hand…

    So iphone4? Maybe. I was delighted to find out my mother-in-law doesn’t have a 4, she has a 3G. And that friend of my wife’s who’s husband said he’d got her a “2nd hand iphone4” actually had got her a 3G… not that I’m a snob or anything.

    HTC Desire Z was looking good until I saw about “that cursed hinge” and it does look a bit bobbins.

    But – I really like the HTC brand now – I think their website is class – http://www.htc.com/uk – and the HTCSense stuff that they do looks brilliant. http://www.htc.com/uk/product/desirez/overview.html

    Apple’s iOS thing with lack of real multitasking, battery drain and super-pretty just bugs me. The iPad drives me a bit nuts, unless I’m using it for watching teh telly on in’t bath or something. To use it as a computery thing – no… I can’t skip about… I mean with one hand on my E71 I can check emails coming in whilst web pages are loading, whilst twitter is twittering.

    I’ll end up getting an E72 I bet.

     

  • 09:03:04 am on October 28, 2010 | 2 | # |

    Hotlines are our distributors in the UK, and they have eschewed the typical bike show in favour of regional “roadshows” where we turn up in key cities around the UK and put our own show on, rather than pay the really ludicrous amounts that national show organisers charge. Truly, we can do four shows in four cities for less than the cost of one show in London. It’s nuts.

    Last night we were in Bristol, and had our first “Ragley Seminar”, a nice event – 20-30 people sat around on chairs (we nearly ran out, and people were standing up) listening to me talk about how I ended up here (in life terms, not the M62, M6, M5…) and some Q&A’s about everything from hydroformed tubing molds, to patterns (oh, no, patents, sorry), to “the biggest rip-off in the bike industry”. It was good fun, seemed to go down well, and we’ve got another planned for the 17th November in Manchester.

    More details on that show when we’ve a location – if anyone has any details of any nice exhibition space (3-3500sq ft) in Manchester area, let us know.

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  • 11:30:00 am on October 15, 2010 | 1 | # |

    “The Ti Ragley though – feck me what a bike! Insolent like a teenager in puberty and as randy as one on heat. It’s a ‘take me by the scruff of the neck, get right over my front, push my face into the dirt you mother fu**er and absolutely wring seven bells of sh*t out of my scrawny, tight, stiff titanium arse’ kind of bike. It’s a 19 year old with all the soft bits still taught as a drum but smooth when you climb onboard; a slip sliding, sh*t spitting, sideways sha**ing ragger of a bike and it’s fecking brilliant.”

    from http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/to-buy-ti-or-steel#post-1900953

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