Tortec Expedition Bicycle Pannier Rack

Advantages: Versatile, durable, good weight capacity, multiple bike fitment
Disadvantages: Black anodising fades

...What no Fancy title? It's a a rack. It goes on your bicycle. It carries stuff. Enough said. I purchased this particular model because it had a Cycling Plus best buy, and had positive reviews elsewhere. I have a daily 22 mile commute, and need to carry quite a bit of kit, including shower stuff and a change of clothes - my walking rucksack was starting to get rather heavy. The rack comes in silver or black - I bought the black one. The Expedition is a heavy-duty rack, weighing in at 900g with a carrying capacity of 30kg, and comes with a handy bracket for mounting a rear light. The multi-mount fitting system is designed to fit a wide range of bicycles. Out of the box The rack certainly looked the business. It appeared to be well constructed, with tidy wields, good quality anodising, and all screws were stainless...

fred_redwood 18.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Tortec Expedition Rear Rack

Top rack

Advantages: Great rack for the money
Disadvantages: Needs more positioning holes

...The Powerline Power Rack is a perfectly adequate entry level power rack and robust enough for domestic use. I bought this product about 2 years ago and it has taken some serious punishment in my garage gym and it's still as structurally sound as the day I got it. It comes with easy-to-assemble instructions and requires nothing more specialist than an adjustable wrench or a socket set to assemble. When looking for a decent power rack I kept coming back to this one, mainly because of the price and while it is pretty basic in comparison to some of the all-singing-and-dancing commercial alternatives, it still offers the same safety function of its more expensive counterparts. The rack a chin-up bar incorporated in the design, as standard, and has the option of adding a Lat pulley attachment at an additional cost. I personally didn...

bison2210 22.12.2008 · Read review
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Gardening Is Easy With Rehau Wall Mounted Automatic Hose Reel

Advantages: Easy, convinient, flexible, good value for money, made by a top quality brand
Disadvantages: Might have to buy other fittings as these are not very strong.

...If you need help managing your hose this ready assembled wall mounted reel helps you do just that. When you buy the auto reel you also receive 20m of top quality hose and all fittings, including wall-mounting bracket and fixings. It is very reliable and I have not encountered any problems with this although you might want to use better fixings than what it is supplied with as they are not very strong. Don't get me wrong it is good that you also receive the fixings it is just that there are much better ones on the market. A trip to somewhere like B&Q will give you the fixings that you need. It is an extremely convenient product that allows you to rewind the hose by walking back to the drum. There is no hassle that you would normally have of rewinding the hose yourself. It is the perfect blend of automatic hose coiling and spring...

Mickie26 11.07.2009 · Read review
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Mount Vesuvius - There she didn't blow!!

Advantages: Utterly incredible views and atmosphere !!
Disadvantages: Not suitable for the less fit

...Thinking back, my ten day holiday in the Bay of Naples probably packed in more wonderful venues than any other holiday I have taken. I visited Pompeii, Capri, Herculaneum ,Sorrento, drove around the wonderful Amelfi Coast and I actually climbed to the top of.arguably, the most famous volcano in the world - Mount Vesuvius ( Monte Vesuvio) !! All my life I had wanted to visit Pompeii but I never dreamt that one day I would climb to the crater from which the source of Pompeii's destruction came with such vengeance. Situated just six miles east of Naples it is a short distance from the shore. The area around Vesuvius was officially declared a national park on 5 June 1995. The thing that amazed me was just how volcano dominates the whole area -we could see it soon after leaving the airport on our way to our hotel and it...

oldchem 30.05.2009 (31.05.2009) · Read review
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Review of Mount Vesuvius, Naples

Hotel Mount Herbert, dublin

Advantages: Staff
Disadvantages: Evening Meal

...The nature of my work requires me to stay in away from home for several weeks of the year so it is important that I stay at quality hotels. On this ossasion, July 2008, my company booked me into the Mount Herbert Hotel This is near the Lansdowne Stadium and about 15 mins from where I was working. I arrived at the hotel at about 7am and the staff on reception were extremely obliginging in allowing me to check in early. The room I was given was extremely clean and in good conditionand well decorated. It came with the usual tea and coffee making facilities, which were generously replenished on a daily basis. There is satelite TV and includes the four main UK chanels The buffet breakfast, that was included in the room charge, was well cooked and an excellent choice of items was available. On the negative side I was...

steve2466 27.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of Mount Herbert Hotel, Dublin

Mount Eccles - Cheap and cheerful

Advantages: Central Location
Disadvantages: Car parking

...a television. We found the staff not very helpful and this opinion was backed up by lorry drivers who regulary stay there. We were given no information about safes or lockers available to us, we took the risk and left things in the room so I'm unsure about where to leave valuables here. Also we were told by the receptionist as we waited outside on a taxi to move down the street because one member in our company was smoking, she came outside on a freezing cold night to tell us this - very pushy!!! Location: Mount Eccles is located in North Great George Street just off lower O'connell Street, one of the main shopping areas in Dublin and smack bang in the centre of things. A leisurely 5 minute stroll will take you there. The street the building is in is a Georgian street and very pretty. At the end of the road there are many Chinese takeaways...

funkazzy11 23.10.2005 · Read review
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Review of Mount Eccles Court, Dublin

THE MOUNT FROM WHERE THE ARMADA WAS FIRST SIGHTED

Advantages: Great Views.
Disadvantages: Not Disabled friendly, but sorry it can not be.

...SAINT MICHAELS MOUNT lies just off the Coast near Penzance. I will start off by giving their web site address. http://www.stmichaelsmount.co.uk/ This is an excellent site that gives a full History and Story of the Mount and I recommend a look for those details as my review is more about our experience. We have visited the Mount on numerous occassions, starting with our first visit to Cornwall in 1969 as a Courting Couple (Thats an old fashioned term). Other visits followed over the years with first one child, then two then three. And more recently with one of the Grand Chilren. But each and every time it has its Magic. Each time the weather will be different. Also the tide and it is this that can alter the way you visit the Mount. The Mount became an Island in about 2000 B.C. and at low tide can be walked across...

poshtroika 07.10.2007 · Read review
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Review of Saint Michael's Mount, Cornwall

Gibraltar the best rack to buy

Advantages: strong, sturdy, simple, easy to set up
Disadvantages: four legs so can be unbalanced

...i have owned the gibraltar road series rack for a couple of years and it is a must buy, providing you have the money. the simplicity of the design makes it easy to move around, to gigs/practices and also helps with space issues. the best feature for me is the flexibility of the ball joints used for connecting toms to the rack, they allow the tom to be at any angle, which for anyone with rack mountable toms need. one drawback i have encountered with the rack is if the floor is uneven the rack does not balance with all legs on the floor, which is extremely annoying and unstable, especially if you have expensive equipment attached to it which could get damaged. To finish on a plus, the hardware is very strong and good longevity, i feel the rack will last me for the rest of my playing career....

m.want163 26.07.2007 · Read review
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Review of Gibraltar Racks Road Series

First, the Wonder Brush - Now, THE RACK

Advantages: Allows bottles, nipples, and all accessories to dry in the same place
Disadvantages: Unless emptied, has a tendency to collect water

...So, now you have finished washing all of those bottles with the highly acclaimed Munchkin Deluxe Bottle Brush. Can't just put them in the strainer, right? You could, but they'll most likely tip over, collect water, won't dry completely, etc. You could put them in the dishwasher, which is not a bad idea, normally, as this will generally "sanitize" them, except when you put REALLY dirty dishes in the dishwasher, and then, as you well know, what was on a few dishes is on ALL the dishes. Or, you could drop them on <fanfare> The Munchkin Bottle Drying Rack (and brush set.) NOTE: As mentioned in the previous review, KEEP the nipple brush from the brush set that comes with the rack, and toss the regular brush. It Slices, It Dices, It makes Juliene Fries --- SORRY - Wrong infomercial (actually, that's a quote from Teenage Mutant Ninja...

freyaschild 18.06.2008 · Read review
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Review of Munchkin Bottle Drying Rack & Brush Set

Better than strap-on racks but wont last long

Advantages: Chunky, engineered product
Disadvantages: Alas heavy, bulky to store and readily corrodes

...My parents used to own a big bike shop so I got to try out all sorts of interesting gear (they usually charged me for it, but I guess thats how they stayed in business). When I started needing to move some pricey mountain bikes on motorways and stuff I wanted a real secure rack - in all senses of the word. The strap on racks were just too easy to pinch and the roofrack isnt ideal on the motorway if you are in a hurry (or want to use a multistory carpark, carport, or garage anytime) Many bike trail parking spots also have height restrictions to keep out vans these days, making bikes on the roof a pain. The rack: The Pendle wheel support rack is a modular system made of (mostly) painted steel pieces that can be assembled into a strong and readily lockable construction. Its 'engineered' rather than pretty but once the bikes are...

adrianjfrost 31.08.2005 (05.10.2005) · Read review
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Review of Pendle Wheel Support Bike Racks