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Edit: just looked up 7D mark IIs and listings mention percentage shutter wear, and number of clicks... I suddenly feel very out of my depth, didn't know that was something that needed tracking!


Thanks!

Shutter count is a thing for sure. The 7DII is rated to 200,000 and I've seen some used ones ...

Gavster wrote: Sun Oct 18, 2026 9:12 am Very cool! Have you cropped that at all?

Nope. I have another image with the sign a bit more centered, but this is slightly sharper.

So I bought a used Canon 7D MkII last week, and went out to Lakenheath Fen yesterday in some shitty weather to see what I could capture.

IMGL0165 by Tim Skipper, on Flickr

That'll do I reckon!

So after 18 months and 18,000 miles my Jaguar has finally developed an actual problem. An intermittent "Restricted Performance" message on dash (with no obvious restriction in performance) and the code reader says it's a exhaust temp sensor, so hopefully pretty simple to resolve.

It also has a ...

Cheers Mik.

That's a Mig 17-F

I did my first camera gear upgrade in years on Friday, purchased from WEX a lightly used Canon EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 L IS USM lens to go with my 70-200 L series.

I've been going to Duxford a fair bit this last 18 months as I bought a joint membership for me and Vicky, and we like a wander around a ...

Just getting the word to say they’re confident she has ADHD was a massive relief to her as there were always compromises in the previous diagnosis’s, before they’ve even got to any possible treatments.

My g/f had to pay privately to get an ADHD diagnosis, which was a masssive help just in and of ...

Obviously, it's more betterer than all of them*

* opinions may vary.

You can have as many searches as your little fingers can tap.

My app is live data taken every 20 mins, and stale prices are highlighted. It isn't free though, and people seem to want everything for free. Free doesn't pay for the ...

I did think about SORN but I think that's probably a bit dishonest given the circs.

Anyway, it seems making a complaint they're taking too long has greased some wheels and I just got the insurance valuation. After they've taken the excess off (£975!) I'm £2,500 ahead of the trade-in value.

So now ...

So I got a letter from the DVLA today warning me my stolen bike is untaxed. LOL. It was nicked just before the end of the August so naturally I cancelled the direct debit.

There doesn't appear to be an easy way of dealing with this. Has anyone else had a vehicle pinched and run into this admin pain?

Cheers Baz. Yeah I got a Litelock X3 and some other stuff. Not cheap, but hefty. Not a word from the police either, colour me surprised.

Stolen R1250GS Update:

There is no sign of the bike, or the insurance payout. :-\

I did spend almost £900 on "security products" for my new one, and gleefully let my insurance company know today only for them to charge me £10 more. So big thumbs up to them.

Yep, been live on the app store for a week, the Android Play Store version should clear the testing requirement tomorrow and hopefully also be live by the weekend.

This one took apple about 10 days for it to move from Waiting For Review to In Review, and then less than 24 hours for approval.

https ...

Christ, that sounds like a living hell. Move to Suffolk, Gav!

Can I park my bike next to our table? If so I'm in.

Jobbo wrote: Fri Sep 04, 2026 4:12 pm I think you have the smallest stomach of the three slides Tim - first guy looks like his is being held in by the leathers

I may have been breathing in!

Tim, I am not at all up to date on motorbikes. Is the 1250 preferable to the 1300? I assume new bikes don't yet have speed limit bongs and attention assist and so on like new cars. Yet.


To me it is, yes. I don't like what BMW have done with the 1300 iteration of the boxer engine, it's lost all ...

240PP - 2019 Audi A5 40 TFSI
Andy - 1995 Mazda MX-5 V8, 2013 BMW M135i, 2006 Smart ForTwo, 1992 Honda NC30, 2004 Honda CRF450R Supermoto, 2005 Honda CR125R, 2011 Ford Transit T350 140 AWD
16vcento - 2022 Golf GTE, 2023 Kuga PHEV ST Line X.
Alex_ - 2015 M235i
Barry - '24 Kawasaki Z900RS, '24 ...

Thanks chaps, it is indeed very shitty.

I was sent some CCTV by a near neighbour today - two what looked like quads going past, then a few mins later, coming back one of them towing something large and black. It was 00:40 and crappy Ring footage so no real fucking use but I sent it on to the police ...

So, a couple of weeks ago I decided I was going to change my 2023 R1250 GS for an R1250 RT. I've had two of them before and they are superb tourers, and more suited to the two-up riding I'm doing these days. Also, my GS was about to run out of warranty and I just fancied a change as much as anything ...