Guides
First things first - this isn't a guide to the world of
performance enhancing drugs, one-piece lycra jumpsuits and
thigh muscles the size of footballs. Nor is it at all
related to hiking, rambling, or any other activity that
involves wearing red socks and growing a beard. No - this is
a guide to sprinting and hillclimbing in the motorsport
sense; that is to say, drivers competing against each other
and the clock, in a time trial format, on circuits or closed
roads of lengths ranging from half a mile to more than ten
miles...click here for
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The car, perhaps more than any other consumer item, provides
confirmation of the suspicion that human beings are
essentially tribal creatures. From the middle classes' Mercs,
BMWs and Audis, through to the Range Rovers and Ferraris of
Premiership footballers, choice of vehicle seems to be the
primary means through which people project to the outside
world a desired image of themselves, and, by association,
the social group to which they belong or wish to belong...click
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The dinner jacket and its associated paraphernalia may
conjure up images of lavish balls, casinos and, of course
James Bond (who is rarely seen wearing anything else in some
of the early films), but it actually originated as a less
formal alternative to the stiffer and considerably more
uncomfortable white tie. Unfortunately, a cursory glance around at almost any
current black tie event will reveal the full extent of
dinner jacket faux pas. However, by following Bonne Gauche’s
ten simple rules you will never again be mistaken for a
cheap waiter... click here for more
An expensive mechanical watch can seem, to some segments
of the population, to be the ultimate frivolously pointless
purchase. After all, a relatively cheap digital watch will
often be more accurate and more water resistant than any
Rolex, for example. But then, like many of the finer things in life, a
brutally functionalist view of the product often leads to
its intrinsic values being overlooked. The luxury watch may
not be quantifiably better in pure performance than a watch
that is one tenth of its price, but, as an item of
jewellery, and therefore viewed from an aesthetic
standpoint, the position is reversed...
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