One piece race suit, anyone?

**scracha** · 14th July 2014, 21:31

Originally Posted by bogan

I dunno, it depends on the intent doesn't it? Like the irony is he is being unintentionally hypocritical.

Forums came along a bit later though. I was Year 9 before I started shitposting on forums that is for sure; been making up for lost time ever since

Forums pre-dated WWW/HTML.

**Edbear** · 15th July 2014, 12:54

Lol! Now the red repping starts! One or two think that posting abusive foul language with their red rep makes them extra cool!

What is really so hilarious is that when I talk about children, kiddies and wee ones with ego issues, I get an immediate response from the same two or three members who proceed to get more and more abusive with each post.

Especially the likes of Madness who gets quite apoplectic.

**bogan** · 15th July 2014, 13:00

Originally Posted by Edbear

Lol! Now the red repping starts! One or two think that posting abusive foul language with their red rep makes them extra cool!

What is really so hilarious is that when I talk about children, kiddies and wee ones with ego issues, I get an immediate response from the same two or three members who proceed to get more and more abusive with each post.

Especially the likes of Madness who gets quite apoplectic.

See Ed, this is exactly to what my previous advice refers to. There is no reason for a reasonable salesman to go on about forum rep received; in fact isn't the purpose of forum rep to allow users to voice their agreement/disagreement directly without cluttering up the thread? To post about it, especially in such vagues terms only serves as an attempt to discredit those who disagree with you on other points.

For example, have you figured out what the joinery is like yet? how well fixed the armor parts are? These are important qualities in a race suit; who is repping who with what on the other hand, is not very important qualities to look for when choosing a race suit

**BuzzardNZ** · 15th July 2014, 13:01

Originally Posted by Edbear

Lol! Now the red repping starts!

Nothing to be too concerned about, you're still only 15th on the list of top Red Rep posters. You'll hit #1 in no time

**Katman** · 15th July 2014, 13:29

Originally Posted by bogan

There is no reason for a reasonable salesman to go on about forum rep received....

It's those insecurity issues I mentioned earlier.

**nzspokes** · 15th July 2014, 13:38

Originally Posted by BuzzardNZ

Nothing to be too concerned about, you're still only 15th on the list of top Red Rep posters. You'll hit #1 in no time

Whats so great about that? rep is pointless, does nothing.

**BuzzardNZ** · 15th July 2014, 13:53

Originally Posted by nzspokes

Whats so great about that? rep is pointless, does nothing.

Did I say it was great?

Sure it doesn't do much, but rep is an indicator of how well received ( or not ) a persons post is. Hitting #1 for red rep would seem to indicate many KBers don't think too highly of that persons posts.

**Katman** · 15th July 2014, 14:05

Originally Posted by BuzzardNZ

Hitting #1 for red rep would seem to indicate many KBers don't think too highly of that persons posts.

I'm working on it.

**Maha** · 15th July 2014, 14:12

Originally Posted by BuzzardNZ

Did I say it was great?

Sure it doesn't do much, but rep is an indicator of how well received ( or not ) a persons post is. Hitting #1 for red rep would seem to indicate many KBers don't think too highly of that persons posts.

Bullshit, it is stealthily (so some think) used, to say shit that they don't have balls say on the open forum.
Have noticed where Katman sits on that list? along side Dangerous Bastard and skidmark, similar minds work in similar ways.

**Edbear** · 15th July 2014, 14:27

Originally Posted by Maha

Bullshit, it is stealthily (so some think) used, to say shit that they don't have balls say on the open forum.
Have noticed where Katman sits on that list? along side Dangerous Bastard and skidmark, similar minds work in similar ways.

Very often the case. I only get red rep from four members and of those four, only two do it regularly, so if I climb the ranks of those receiving red it is solely due to those members.

So does that show how obsessed they are with me? Only one of them now, adds abusive foul language with it, the other guy seems to be absent from the forum lately.

While most members post according to topic and refrain from personal attacks beyond good humoured banter, the few just can't seem to be normal.

**bogan** · 15th July 2014, 15:46

Originally Posted by Edbear

While most members post according to topic and refrain from personal attacks beyond good humoured banter, the few just can't seem to be normal.

I think that conclusively answers the who is winding who up question form before.

Any chance you're done make personal attacks and want to go back to talking about gear?

**unstuck** · 15th July 2014, 19:06

Originally Posted by Edbear

While most members post according to topic and refrain from personal attacks beyond good humoured banter, .

Glad you can see the funny side, ya Godbotherer .

**Edbear** · 16th July 2014, 15:13

Originally Posted by unstuck

Glad you can see the funny side, ya Godbotherer .

Yeah, it's only a couple of malcontents who wouldn't know the meaning of humour and repartee who make fools of themselves.

**Edbear** · 16th July 2014, 15:43

It
took a bit of playing phone tag, but I finally caught up with my contact in the industry to go over the gear and give me his opinion.

The back protector is not worth considering as it is way too short but the rest is okay for the price. However it would be far better to source Knox armour and there is a Knox supplier nearby. The suit was better than he expected and it fitted him well though he said the arms could be a bit tighter. Racers don't like too much slack to catch the wind. I am posting from the cellphone so I will try to upload a couple of pics.

Again he suggested specifying the Knox armour as it is not necessarily genuine European CE approved. The only way to tell is to ask for a copy of the certification. Everything was in the right places and it was comfortable on with good movement bearing in mind that it would "wear in" and stretch a bit. He said he would be happy to wear it on the track.

He said it was double stitched and that I should get them triple stitched but the stitching itself was fine. It has domes on the wrist but should be velcro for comfort as the sleeves are inside the gloves.

The gloves are okay and would be fine but the better ones have SLS on the heels of the palm so I will ask about that as well.
The leather appeared to be good quality cow hide as claimed. I should ask about swapping the plastic shoulder sliders for Titanuim. Finally he suggested to stick to neutral colours and avoid the reds and blues.