Fresh Goods Friday 668 – The Scientifically Calculating Edition

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By ben_haworth

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Fresh Goods Friday 668 – The Scientifically Calculating Edition

Yes, you could build the same thing from scaffold poles…

It’s like you are living in my head.

At Charlie The Bikemonger we built the same thing…. using my scouts as labour… using bamboo poles and square lashings. Old inner tubes were used rather than rope. Broom handles from the hardware store for the cross braces.

https://www.ukbamboo.com/product-category/bamboo-poles/

It lasted for years and years… looked cool too.

That Cotic looks ace, they really have refined the look of their bikes.

The BOA – sorry, [very much inferior] SLW3 rotor –

It’s almost as if someone at northwave thought the trick to avoiding patent infringement was to remove the functionality.

Be interested to know how they go though. My last set of northwave shoes were very comfy and lasted 14 months of easy use before the metal loop holding the velco strap broke.

There you go… massive bamboo rack… cost about £45.

Is it just me or is the surly on the wall so heavy it’s broken one the joist it’s hung on?

@dangeourbrain  yes it is. no it didn’t

That is an Instigator, the first production MTB plus bike ever (sits back and waits to be proven wrong), a 26×3.0 bike. It was built tough. However it is hanging from two pieces of wood that a customer who lived in a forest had given us. The wood is engraved with “our drinking club has a cycling problem”.

Vibram’s ‘Fort Augustus” clipless-friendly sole

There is some unique naming….

and

5316008

sits back and waits to be proven wrong

You’ve been here before haven’t you?

5316008

I think you mean 5318008

I bought a similar fork mount for 12 pounds on ebay that came with all the adapters included.
I put mine on the runners on the cargo bike so we can tow the kids bikes when they get tired.

I can’t help thinking that the very narrow channels in the Overland shoes will become clogged with mud and they will become V slippy.

The soles look similar to the shoes I had which were surprisingly not terrible. Not good,but not terrible.

That said they were absolutely shoes for on the bike not walking.

5318008

Pretty sure that’s the phone number for that old chat line they used to advertise on TV late at night. The one with the really friendly chaps representing all walks of life.

Amusingly that calculator is the latest model from Casio but has been widely panned by maths teachers as being worse than the model it replaced. If you are getting one for your child, I would recommend the older model (FX-83GTX), or the FX-991EX for A level. Great to see some calculator chat on stw!

I had a problem at school because my parents bought me a scientific calculator with one more decimal place than my teacher’s and on a not insignificant amount of sums it would give a very slightly different answer to my teacher, who then, because he was a bastard, would always mark it as wrong.

FX-82LB for the win.

I’d go for the FX GT83 like the poster above, the new ones are nowhere near as intuitive and easy to use.

Or go for the 991EX – can be used all the way through to A Level!

Ah I remember the joys of an unattended calculator being swapped to radians and the utter rage and bafflement until you figured it out!

I have seen some students at A level who have  two calculators: one permanently set to degrees and one permanently set to radians. What a luxurious setup!

Another favourite ‘joke’ is turning the contrast of the screen down to zero so it looks like the calculator isn’t working- hilarious!

Pretty sure that’s the phone number for that old chat line they used to advertise on TV late at night.

the jingle is burnt into my brain.

0891 50 50 50

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I looked at the BlokPod mount as well as the MT Zefal one, but ended up buying a ZTTO one from Amazon for about £10-12. It came with all the adapters (apart from 100×20 which was a bit annoying on Sunday when I tried to bolt the jump bike to it).

When I was at uni (mechanical engineering) we weren’t allowed calculators and had to use a slide rule.

A truly excellent Fresh Goods Friday. I left school before calculators were available.  We had to do sums in our heads, or if difficult like the proverbial constipated mathematician work it out with a pencil.  And then there were log tables and slide rules.

I have got used to pocket calculators but they irritate me by refusing to offer a numerical value for the square root of minus one.

Now, my brethren of the Singletrackworld.  Take your calculator and enter the mystic number  5318008  Now turn your calculator upside down and on the screen you will see BOOBIES. The benefits of a modern education.

The Wera torx set is also very good.

congratulations on the lovely new cotic. i’ve always wanted a flare max. just looks so good.

@amanda – out of interest, will it replace an existing bike? if yes, do you mind saying what?

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You must be special to be granted a name change, do you have dirt on Mark?

I can’t believe there are more comments about calculators then there are about the Flare Max (which is very nice, by the way). What is the world coming to?

But can you still use the calculator for its most important function? To write “boobies” with it held upside down?