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Dullahan

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I am a retired newspaper reporter, a shooting enthusiast and have a 1997 Land Rover TDI Diesel Discovery.
I live in Cambridge. I have been 'Plagued' recently with flat tyres and NTS supplied me with tyres suggesting that it was the result of a 'Tyre Slasher'
It cost me £600 and I still cannot believe that only I was targeted in my area.

I am now looking for inner tubes that fit 235X70R tyres:eek: with the large valves.

I know it is not considered good practice to put inner tubes in Tubless but I drove for 40 years with tyres with tubes in, all of a sudden it is bad practice.
 
eu oop fellow shooter.
welcome to loonyzone - hope you've got a thick skin



oh - you were a reporter, so it gores without saying.....
 
Dullahan said:
I am a retired newspaper reporter, a shooting enthusiast and have a 1997 Land Rover TDI Diesel Discovery.
I live in Cambridge. I have been 'Plagued' recently with flat tyres and NTS supplied me with tyres suggesting that it was the result of a 'Tyre Slasher'
It cost me £600 and I still cannot believe that only I was targeted in my area.

I am now looking for inner tubes that fit 235X70R tyres:eek: with the large valves.

I know it is not considered good practice to put inner tubes in Tubless but I drove for 40 years with tyres with tubes in, all of a sudden it is bad practice.
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i think you'll find that putting tubes in tyres not intended for them is dangerous and will be a MOT failure (if noticed)

I know someone who had simillar problems with kids damageing tyres, he just let his tyres down each night untill the brats were caught - you may think doing that each night was a pain but so much as spending £450 a go replacing his tyres was
 
How do lad, at least we might get some punctuation and Queens English from you. I've got tubes in my tubeless tyres and have never had MOT trouble with them, and were fitted by a garage the does MOTs. have you tried your local independant back street tyre sales places for tubes?
 
well up ere the local tyres man (more used to fitting tyres to combines than corsas) was forever moaning about the amount of peeps who keep asking him to put tubes in tubeless tyres - his company has banned them from doing it

mentioned it to the MOT man, who probably MOTs more LRs than most says he'd fail one if he spotted one fitted

but north of watford has got different laws i suppose
 
Thank you all for your advice. I have never really been one for convention. It is appreciated however.

Well Grunt, I don't know about using the Queen's English. I can drop into my old Dialect if necessary. I am originally from the North-West (Salford) and worked on Northern papers in my early days, (Salford City Reporter, Manchester Evening News, and the Sheffield Star), So, if tha' want to get thee'sen a reet conversation in proper Northerner's talk I'm allus heer>
 
Treworgey 90 said:
eu oop fellow shooter.
welcome to loonyzone - hope you've got a thick skin



oh - you were a reporter, so it gores without saying.....
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Treworgey:p

Yes. I do have a thick skin! All ex-reporters do. With some of the people you have to deal with it helps.

So a fellow 'Shooter'? I have just had a gun safe bolted to my 'Disco', that's to keep the wolves away from my guns ( that includes the Police 'Noseys').
Thanks for the 'unusual' welcome.
Dullahan
 
redhand said:
ERM he's a REPORTER!!!!!!! Duh of course he's upset someone.
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Retired ten years ago. There is a "Cars V Cycles" war going on here in Cambridge. 4X4s are being attacked by the "Tree Huggers".
Apart from that I am a shooter and they don't like them either.

"Pikey" Don't you mean "Pavee"?
 
Pavee actually describes an Irish traveller, so I spose if yu aint from Irish stock, then it dont apply. Your knowledge of the Romany language aint so hot fur "one of them":D
 
The Mad Hat Man said:
it means "Traveller" - as in "Pavee Lackeen (Traveller Girl)"
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Absolutely Correct.

"Pikey" is a derrogative term.

A lot of their language 'Pavee' (Shelta) has found it's way into English.

'Moniker'= Name
'Cushty' = Good
and recently " Chavee" meaning Son. Are the few I can think of at the moment. (There is also "minge" which I won't translate)

There is, of course, 'The Dullahan' which comes from Irish Folklore' :D
 
The Mad Hat Man said:
Pavee actually describes an Irish traveller, so I spose if yu aint from Irish stock, then it dont apply. Your knowledge of the Romany language aint so hot fur "one of them":D
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I am from Irish stock. as well as scottish, English, Welsh and possible Hungarian. My father was half Irish half Jockanese. From Belfast. and my Mother was English her grandmother was welsh and and her Father is believed to have had Hungarian ancestry.

If we were ever Proper Pavees than it was a long time ago.
 
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