Infantry Attacks, Rommel

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you will have to enter the Yasumitsu Schlapp Tandem Track Omnium if you build the bike up!!

IIRC the Canadians test you if you are on a working visa after a few months

if you fail you are off the road for a couple of months before you are allowed to retake the test

seeing as there is only one range and one danger area you may have been badly advised. The only other possibility is that they were using blank rounds in another part of the area.

If the red flag is flying I wouldn’t go in, if you get slotted you don’t have much recourse, i also wouldn’t assume that the bullets stop at the red flag, the danger area is based on a statistical analysis that takes into account the assumed angle of shot (at the target) and ricochets. The assumptions don’t take into account the ability of the firer to shoot straight, stray/ accidental shots etc anyone who has seen tracer will tell you bullets can go out of a danger area

“crack and thump” will also tell you that you are in the wrong place

Ther is a cheeky way to Hawkshaw from near the sentry point on the Crowthorne side.

Range times are published on Bury MBC’s website

I might try suggesting to the Army a permissive offroad diversion route for range days

all the SQT’s I’ve been have been full of people riding on an individual basis even if they are club members

the point is that on the track you need to ride a a “team” to safely get 40 people on it and get some decent training, that training can include race simulations

40 people doing their own thing would be chaos

45+ mph !!!!

recalibarte your speedo, thats top speed for the dernies

I want to ride the Velodrome not to be part of a club. Just for fitness, routine and solo enjoyment.

so thats why you assumed that you didn’t need any instruction for your or others safety?

track safety depends on learning “track discipline”, without it you will have/ cause accidents. Its not a trail centre, you can’t just do whatever you want, you need to ride in a way that others can anticipate. Most “track discipline” is around riding in groups and the way to do it safely, if you want to do your own thing buy a turbo trainer or book your own track time.

the swearing isn’t “approved” language and isn’t encouraged

it probably came from surprise after spotting the idiot who didnt ask about to fall over and take other riders with him, as he assumed all the first timers were on the fence getting some instruction before going on the track

the velodrome is a difficult venue to coach/ be coached at due to the acoustics and background noise from the centre, there is a need to shout instructions, preferably without expletives

I have a Scoot for the munchkin (age 2) she is big for her age but is still not big enough

Any job where you are responsible for the safety of 15 random members of the public in an environment where if they do do things wrong they hurt themselves or others is a bit testing

especially when dealing with mtbers who think that because they can do drops and tabletops the skills directly transfer to the track and the coaches advice/instruction are not required.

the velodrome website tells you how to get accreditted and that you should inform the coach at the beginning of the session that you want assessing for the slip

some of the coaches can appear a bit “off” but they are generally good and if you talk to them and do what you are told they are enthusiastic teachers

first lap heros don’t tend to get them off to a good start ;)

organise your own

or is that too much like hard work?

doubt it, lefty’s plus wheel appear for £150 ish on classifieds, factor in a rebuild and a converter and its not that bad

its just the faffing, Lefty Max SPV and TPC are user servicable to a point

The other fork to look out for is a maverick but again that’s about 110mm travel

Or go for a 110mm lefty conversion

driveshaft?

There seems to be a campaign being held by the anti group which manages to get prime air time to put a one sided poorly justified argument forward

There was a similar pants section in an edition of the politics show on BEEB2 a few weeks back

My concern is that there is an agenda behind this to get momentum to force a change in legislation to force cyclists off the road, compulsion on helmets and registration of bikes etc etc

The inability to get air time for the opposing point of view to be put in a professional way will mean that their arguments become the recieved wisdom of their audience

XCracer is your friend, their race calendar is reasonably complete

most turbos have variable resistance but it tends to be large increases in resistance

Tacx Flow is an alternative as you can set the power you want to acheive and then the resistance is matched to it no matter what gear or cadence but they are £200 from decathlon

If you are going to turbo more than twice a week get a proper program of seesions otherwise you will not acheive as much as you could

see the timetrialling forums as they have some good coaches who offer advice

They are dangerous in a bunch racing situation, there is too much risk of a tyre/ disk contact/ overlap in large racing bunches where the riders are very close..

and they are too much for skinny tyres

good for tandems though

sorry I’m a 16 stone lightweight

“Nothing “complex” about the situation bikemonkey.

The foreign Zionists which have entered Palestine believe that they have a 2000 year old claim to land which isn’t theirs.

They are wrong. Simple as. “

up for reasoned debate then? or just trolling? or just tring to shout down everyone who doesn’t think Hamas is a democratic organisation?

http://www.palestinecenter.org/cpap/documents/charter.html

Nato/ UN refused to go into Georgia why on earth would they go into this disaster area, its cheaper to throw money at the situation when it all calms down (which then somehow never seems to reach the people)

balanced article here

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/4077213/Even-Obama-cant-solve-the-Middle-East-problem—and-hed-be-foolish-to-try.html

its a mess, just pray it doesn’t go nuclear

second crossmark on the rear, performs great and good for clearance

doesn’t like it too muddy though, thats when the Mud X come out which are very good

more disjointed observations:

A quick perusal of the stats above re Israeli defence exports seem to be being misplayed

The $4 billion quoted is for “security” products which will cover a wide range of products. It also includes $1.1 billion for an air defence radar system for the Indian government

Its a shame Iran doesn’t publicise its stats for exports of arms and technology to Hamas, Sunni insurgents, the Taliban etc

selling bullets to the US probably lowers the carbon footprint as they will be going to Iraq and Afghanistan anyway

The key issue really is why everytime a ceasefire starts to get established and relations start to normalise does someone decide to restart the killing machine?

I don’t know the answer and I seriously doubt the people posting here know either

Within the Gaza strip there is arguably no occupation the issue is the control of borders. The Israeli’s arguably being unreasonable with their restrictions and the palestinian extremists plotting to keep it that way to further their political objectives of isolating Isreal in preparation for the self publised ogjective of removing them from the map.

http://www.palestinecenter.org/cpap/documents/charter.html

hardly Ghandi is it?

I personally don’t think the Israeli’s are playing it right and the current offensive is unlikely to succeed unless they are able to provoke Hamas enough to bring them out into the open. Hamas aren’t daft and probably have enough people outside the conflict zone to repopulate any losses in the leadership.
The Israeli problem is how much pain are you prepared to absorb to gain the moral high ground, at the moment they obviously think the price would be too high (and based on some views expressed on here it would require the decimation of the civilian population to redress the “blood” balance).

so we are back to the pain and suffering of ordinary people on both sides to feed images to the 24 hour news channels and world opinion

peace not profitable?

only if you win, UK economy crippled after WW2, Germany and Japan rebuilt?

I doubt if even now we have recovered the cost of the Falklands Campaign and Iraq and Afganistan are good for the budget too… lol

Israeli arms sales 10% world wide figures? source? I get <1%
Israel relies on US technology, the Atlantic will be hot with US transports restocking them as we speak

I personally have no axe to grind, I just see the waste of human life, the exploitation of ordinary people by their leadership and local politics distorted by outside influences. When both sides stop killing each other things will improve. The current action is likely to fail just as the ones before have

hairychested you need one of these

http://www.jcbdiggers.com/index.php?page=4537

the situation is bound to be more complex than the simplistic views above

it is clearly not just big bad Israeli bully vs poor Palestinian victimn

look at recent history the Palestinains play professional victimns whose leaders have been pocketing the large amounts of money the EU and others have been throwing at them for years with all the free publicity the predicitable Israeli actions give them

Hamas are agents of Iran and the regime there, getting Hamas to poke the the bear with a sharp stick and to get the world to watch the one sided follow-on on 24 hour news will only increase the support for the militant anti Israelis

If you think the above is rubbish then answer the following

just how did Hamas expect the launching of rockets at random targets in Israel would end any border blockade by the Israeli’s? ditto for suicide bombers etc

its a joke, they wanted this reaction, we now feel sorry for them again, we will excuse the terror they apply to others and the whole bloody mess carries on. All the violence in the region is an extension of the local politics we just now get it on 24 hour news with all the distortions as both sides play the media

the game will not end until both sides get leaders that realise that peace is more profitable than war

terrorist organisations struggle to go beyond a certain level of “influence” using violence

the tactic that seems to work in recent times is to get to that point of maximum effect and then go peaceful and negotiate which then gives you a legitimacy you would have never otherwise have achieved and from that power (NI being a classic example, SF being marginal in Eire but in powersharing in NI)

The problem is that Hamas etc cannot back down from their desire to destroy Israel, Israel in turn is not prepared to play the long game with people living with the constant threat of missles and bombs. Hamas needs Israel to retaliate to justify its position of power within the corrupt Palestinian establishment, peace is the last thing they want as the moderates then gain power. Israeli politics are dominated by minority parties and this pushes for something to be done to sustain the current government (the loss of a couple of key Israeli leaders as not helped, Sharron and th assasinated one).

The whole thing is cyclical and only leads to more dead people and hatred.

celcius are great

the difference is that the footbed curves in at the big toe and makes th boot feel smaller

I double checked against a specialised footbed and the NW was the same if not longer

in use they are great