'One Life. Live it!'

[Cubist]

But if anyone were to suggest the mods were advertising Kenco for expressing that opinion what would the outcome be?

FTFY

 

[Zoof]

Quick somebody throw him/her a bone out the back

Onelife is a pseudo-virtual lifestyle choice for land rover owners. It conjours an aura of being at one with the entire accessible world. http://www.landrover.com/gb/en/lr/owners/onelife/ipad/

But it ain't bicycles, so it's shite.

 

[swee'pea99]

"Four wheel drive is so important when you're going down to Sainsburys." - Alexei Sayle

 

[hungrydave]

I would answer yes. And I have one. And I love it.

It's big and now 15 years old and far greener in the overall scheme of things than buying a new car more frequently.

Particularly helpful as I can get 4 passengers, 4 bikes and a weeks baggage for 4 people for a week away.

Sure there are tools that drive these things. But there are tools in all walks of life, some of whom seem to be writing in this thread.

 

[Cubist]

I would answer yes. And I have one. And I love it.

It's big and now 15 years old and far greener in the overall scheme of things than buying a new car more frequently.

Particularly helpful as I can get 4 passengers, 4 bikes and a weeks baggage for 4 people for a week away.

Sure there are tools that drive these things. But there are tools in all walks of life, some of whom seem to be writing in this thread.

Don't bother hungrydave, they don't do reason, they just do frothing at the mouth at the mention of a 4x4! You're on a cycling forum, so you must agree with "them" and follow "their" lifestyle to the letter! It helps if you grow a little beard of some sort, and eye up folding bikes in catalogues. (Of course, if they owned a proper sized car they wouldn't need folding bikes.)

 

[Cubist]

Quick somebody throw him/her a bone out the back

Meaning what exactly? If you're going to do irony you'll have to mask it with appropriate smilies, otherwise you look a bit insulting to the only one on the thread so far that has agreed with you...............

 

[asterix]

My father drove a Jeep for some time. Mostly in the low countries and then over the Rhine into Germany. I have a picture taken somewhere near Hamburg in c. April 1945. In c.1948 he was in Southern Africa where he had one of the first Land Rovers and we have a brief cine clip of it fording a river.

When he reached Cyprus he'd had enough of such things and bought a 2 cv Citroen which coped with rough terrain well and with greater comfort! (It was also air-cooled and didn't boil on the steep mountain roads).

So IMO unless you are at war or in places where they have no proper roads or bridges 4x4's are just for posers!

 

[Zoof]

I would answer yes. And I have one. And I love it.
It's big and now 15 years old and far greener in the overall scheme of things than buying a new car more frequently.Particularly helpful as I can get 4 passengers, 4 bikes and a weeks baggage for 4 people for a week away. Sure there are tools that drive these things. But there are tools in all walks of life, some of whom seem to be writing in this thread.

I 2 have done it and loved it, it's best to broaden your horizon and see life.
Now I am a caged tiger, like every one else, just waiting for better weather

 

[TheDoctor]

But if anyone were to suggest the mods were silly sausages for expressing that opinion what would the outcome be?

 

[mickle]

From page one of a Google of 'One life live it'. My italics.

Susan
Do people who put a sticker "ONE LIFE LIVE IT" on there 4x4 Land-rover. Think...

That people who drive ordinary 2 Wheel drive cars do not have a life?

AND How does buying a Land-Rover 4x4 mean that you "Have a life" ????????

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I own 3 Land Rovers. Not one of them has a stupid sticker on it. These other blokes belong to the "All the gear, no idea" brigade, who find it funny to rip up ancient restricted trackways with tyres designed for crossing swamps etc. If I see them, I report them. Most of them who do go "off road" are knobheads, with no respect for others around them. The ones that go to the Supermarket are the harmless ones.
The other version off the "Live it" Slogan, is "One Life, Get one"... suggesting the driver of the vehicle actually needs to get one.
My Land Rovers are older, between 1961 and 1970. The 1970 is used every day, as a working vehicle.
Most of us older vehicle users laugh at this kind of stuff. We call them gayers. They bolt on all sorts of unnecessary crap, like snorkels, chequer plate, axle breathers, and such. None of it needed.

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[Zoof]

You all don’t do it because you are all frighten to be seduced by the feeling of power it gives you.
If you feel like that yes it's best to stay in the kitchen

 

[david1701]

My father drove a Jeep for some time. Mostly in the low countries and then over the Rhine into Germany. I have a picture taken somewhere near Hamburg in c. April 1945. In c.1948 he was in Southern Africa where he had one of the first Land Rovers and we have a brief cine clip of it fording a river.

When he reached Cyprus he'd had enough of such things and bought a 2 cv Citroen which coped with rough terrain well and with greater comfort! (It was also air-cooled and didn't boil on the steep mountain roads).

So IMO unless you are at war or in places where they have no proper roads or bridges 4x4's are just for posers!

I call fake, I see a lot of air cooled VWs parked up melted on cornish Hills

 

[tyred]

Air cooled engines can't boil but can certainly overheat.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Well I was thinking of buying a 90 and me and my lady going trialling, with the advantage of having something when it gets all snowy at my new place in the Peaks. But I'm feeling all down after reading this thread...

Would have looked good next to the BMW...

 

[TheDoctor]

Don't bother hungrydave, they don't do reason, they just do frothing at the mouth at the mention of a 4x4! You're on a cycling forum, so you must agree with "them" and follow "their" lifestyle to the letter! It helps if you grow a little beard of some sort, and eye up folding bikes in catalogues. (Of course, if they owned a proper sized car they wouldn't need folding bikes.)

I've fitted two bikes into a Fiat 127 in the past - my folding bike is actually used to go on the train, so I'm not quite sure I understand your point.
If you don't have a sensible point to make, please feel free to call me a self-gratification artist again, if it makes you feel better.
And you're calling me intolerant