ok by popular demand i guess i'll have to pull the rides back a bit. cheers everyone for the comments and i'll update this after the weekend.
ps. this just goes to show the usefullness of this part of the forum. i thought those rides were ok but i'm not above admitting i'm wrong. lets all please start helping each other out a lot more because i'm not the only one to notice that the post to reply ratio is a little on the high side in favour of the posts.