How does he do that?

[Itsme]

Hello all

Next time you're watching ITV on telly look out for a Voltarol advert where a bloke is rubbing his knee and looks fondly at an old photograph of himself racing a bike. He applies Voltarol to his knee then goes into the garage and picks up a bare, semi-unit Royal Enfield Bullet crankcase. Next thing you know he's built a 60s pre-unit Triumph Bonneville! Magic. I'm off into the garage to see if I can turn the Mighty Midget into a Gold Star.

Spartacian

[Steve Lake]

i did convert a bsa bantam into a monocycle once, and i did damage my knee doing it.... (came off on a bend and the bike broke in half around a telegraph pole) does that count ?

[Moto63]

i did convert a bsa bantam into a monocycle once, and i did damage my knee doing it.... does that count ?

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 No Steve I don’t think so, hilariously funny though all the same🤣🤣🤣

[iansoady]

Never watch live tv as the ads drive me wild - I always record stuff then I can watch when I want and skip the ads. A 1 hour programme on ITV only lasts 45 minutes - less if you also skip the "what's happening after the break" and recaps before / after every ad break. My short term memory may be shot but even I can remember what happened a couple of minutes ago.....

[xbally]

Yes I try to record and skip the ads as I hate them and over the years they have become more and more prevalent-even the beeb is constantly flagging up "spoilers" for its other mostly carp offerings.

If I haven't remembered to record a programme I usually end of flicking through the other channels while the ads are on-only to be frequently met with more and more ads.

If you use catch up then you are usually stuck with even more ads between which cannot be escaped from-except of course on the beeb. Drives Mrs Xbally mad when I do this!

I know you can pay for ad free but it goes against the grain.

I truly can barely recall seeing an enjoyable modern TV programme recently. They all seem to be geared up for younger viewers than my / our generation or simply to sell on to other mass market channels.

I now mainly watch / record repeats of older shows I have seen many times before- Heartbeat on ITV3 being a case in point-with a nostalgic  angle and a good balance of humour and drama without unnecessary blood and gore.

Please feel free to divert my ramblings into the rants section!

[mthee]

Hello all

Next time you're watching ITV on telly look out for a Voltarol advert where a bloke is rubbing his knee and looks fondly at an old photograph of himself racing a bike. He applies Voltarol to his knee then goes into the garage and picks up a bare, semi-unit Royal Enfield Bullet crankcase. Next thing you know he's built a 60s pre-unit Triumph Bonneville! Magic. I'm off into the garage to see if I can turn the Mighty Midget into a Gold Star.

Spartacian

Let me know if this and magic works, coz if it does, I'll be off to Boots for a bottle of Georgia Armani SI perfume and back home to wait for Cate Blanchett to show up.

[Lone Wolf]

Wotcha.

Do you rub this on your knee or on your crank cases ?
( asking for a friend )

[Moto63]

Wotcha.

Do you rub this on your knee or on your crank cases ?
( asking for a friend )

🤣🤣🤣🤣... good one

[tommy]

i could do with a bucket of that stuff ha ,, our tv provider upgraded our tv box a few weeks ago but the new boxes wont let you fast foward the ads  on some channels even if your recorded a show load of crap eh

[johnr]

when the ad first came on uk tv  the final scene where he rides into the sunset was reversed so he was riding his right hand sidecar outfit on the right side of the road. took them a month or so to notice and then they flipped it over.
commonly this is a tip they use in adverts when theyre filming them. they film a couple of versions with the same left hand drive vehicle but with a set of continental plates and then a set or reversed uk plates, so they can film the same ad for multiple markets by sinply flipping the images over so the car is rh drive with plates to suit its country. i once saw one of the iirc fiat ads, the ones that ran for years with 'papa and nicole' featuring in a long series of adverts. in one some guy turns up to take the nicole character out on a date, turns up on a ducati twin and flips down its right side sidestand, nobody seemed to notice it at the time.

[Itsme]

I suppose that's it really, things are made for telly so will always have an element of unreality. I watch Car SOS and sometimes they have a shot of them doing something on a car and when the do a different shot which is meant to be 5 minutes later a car in the background will have gone from clean to being covered in dust.

As long as no-one on here tells me Superman can't really fly I will be happy.

Spartacian

[Moto63]

Ahh...but what if someone tells you you're not SPARTACIAN 😁😁

[Richard]

Really can't abide advertisements on television.  They are cleverly making you watch instead of scooting past them, they end up costing me more than my licence fee in increased costs to pay for the damned things, on top of just about everything wanting a new subscription to yet another channel.

Probably why we mostly watch the BBC on the rare occasions I can be arsed to turn the box on.

Probably belongs in the rant section.

[Itsme]

Ahh...but what if someone tells you you're not SPARTACIAN 😁😁

Nooooooooooo. I'm Spartacian and so is my wife!

A confused Spartacian