for all the good it will do, NHS speech therapy is laughable

Laughably underfunded yes – wife is an NHS speech therapist, work load is insane, waiting times are into months, service is being marginalised to the point that I can’t see it existing in a meaningful form for much longer.

Another thumbs up for Le Petit Zinc – quirky/classy/pricey in equal measures!

Pulls up chair…..was about to start the same thread……

Playing devils advocate, why not a headshock then? Even stiffer and lighter, takes whatever front wheel you want, and no steering lock issues?

I think this comes down to the travel being limited to head tube diameter/length (and therefore how mush stress the ‘telescopic’ part of the fork steerer can take), and the physical length of the headtube, minus whatever bearing length is required.

Physical geometry also limits how much travel you have with something like a PRST-1 front end etc – whereas telescopic forks almost naturaly overcome this as the travel increases.

Bike UK defo do – they had to order the kit for my hubs first service….. in fact I need to book it in for its second one, er, now….

As above, there is no tweaking of the hub to be done as part of the service – drain, flush replace oil. That’s it.

You might as well have given the thread the title “I like Marmite – how about you?”

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/superstar-kevlar-pads-opinions

this is the start of the jump to commencial scale the political will backhanders necessary for this to replace lost jobs in Aberdeen is there

Not from the side I’m looking from, some spectacular research inputs to it and several businesses currently growing from it around here, that and wave.

Same here.

From what I’ve seen the funding gap has been bridged from Government technology demonstration to PLC full-scale demonstration (with a good dollop of consolidation in the market to boot). The key next step is for Government to get its ducks in a row and sell/license sites and the land-based infrastructure which will then allow the manufacturers to sell product and service contracts to the field operators. After that (with a good deal of optimism) it’s self sustaining.

Wave power – I have another friend engineering a sea-snake type device. Less convinced about that TBH…..

If it really were that easy why aren’t there loads of them?

It’s not easy though – think all the cost and faff of offshore wind, plus your mechanical and HV system is now fully submerged.

Ah, your friend is a client of the company I work for, I best behave myself…

Do tell….. 😉 I also chip in with technical consultancy for him – usually paid for in beer!

The fact that Kawasaki have stepped in with such an enormous investment shows that tidal turbines have a strong future – its beyond the level of small tech companies now.

Yep, the company my friend works for started as a start-up of three working from one of their kitchens, now has a permanent head-count of more than 40, is wholly owned by RR and has letters of understanding for supply for 100’s of the machines.

Tidal turbines – 29″ of the renewable energy sector. Wind turbines are soooo last centuary 😉

there’s a dead spot twice a day

There is, but it’s quite small, as either the shafts are braked or the blade pitch is variable so the machine produces a near constant power over a wide range of flow speeds. The small window of slack water, slow enough to produce no power, is small enough that regional differences in the tides would (potentially) lead to no net dead-time in a full UK-wide array.

The only problem is harnessing tidal power slows down the spin of the earth.

It’s slowing down anyway due to the natural losses between the oceans and seabed in every tide. I’m not losing sleep over that, much bigger effect……

A friend of mine works for a company who also has a 500kW demonstrator up there which is working well/supplying to the grid.

I remember reading a report claiming that we could easily generate enough power for the whole UK with tidal turbines

That may well be true – much like wind turbines though, finding suitable/economic sites is the tough bit.

I have a client on the Swiss/Italian border…. time is always found for a road ride in the mountains when I go over. I just have to take clothes/shoes/helmet and he lends me his spare BMC to save the hastle of taking a bike. Mustn’t grumble.

Mixing it between Gatorskins, Durano Plus and Marathon Plus at the moment. Gatorskins my preference in summer, been impressed with the Durano Plus as half-way house bewteen the ‘nuke-it-from-space’ puncture resistance of the Marathon Plus and a ‘proper’ road tyre. While the Marathon Plus is definitely bomb proof, I’ve had to retire the last three rear tyres after about 5k miles due either wearing the top flat, so they are dicey in corners, or cutting the PU belt down to the carcass badly.

May well try a regular Durano in the future, as it is supposed to be similar to a Gatorskin, and give a Conti 4Seasons and/or a GP4000S a go.

This is going to sound a little harsh, and the OP may be missing some info…. but you got that far into finishing the job BEFORE figuring what extractor to use and how it was going to be fitted and ducted?!?!

Is there space to fit any sort of recirculating one?

I was….. appears to have just dropped out?

onone appear to have to run 180mm rotors to get clearance, is that right ?

Interesting – I run 160mm centrelocks with BB7’s and it’s all pretty tight around the rear caliper/chain can’t be too long. Larger rotors would give a bit would give more wiggle room…..

atack them with laser bar code readers …was this the sort of response you hoped for

Well that didn’t take long!! 😆

It means even though you’re on a main road with a speed limit of 60mph+, some old boy in a 2cv is going to (quite legally) toodle out of a side road (hidden from view by a house and hedges) at 3mph right in front of you.

This (seemingly) random priority at intersections scares the sh!te out of me everytime….

Have a look at the pics on the On-One site – check the arrangement and colour of the non-turn washer to get to run down the seatstay. I haven’t got mine with me today to confirm but it will be a combination of blue/green as druidh says.

953 for shineyness?

No…you want a nice full bodied sounding electric guitar, like a Les Paul, then maybe something a bit sharper, like a telecaster, when the mood takes you, a twelve string, a bottleneck acoustic, a standard steel string acoustic, and a classical nylon string acoustic.

Les Paul – tick
SG (in place of the Tele) – tick
Yamaha steel string acoustic – tick
Cheapo nylon acoustic – tick

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Have very limited proficiency on all of them, but appreciate their differences and would not be parted with them for the world. Wife says I can’t have any more though…… 😉

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I’m canvassing opinions – which seems to be split down the middle in this case. I’m happy to take any comments on board and make a decision from there. I realise it isn’t the STW way, but stating an opinion as a carved-in-stone-and-passed-down-the-mountain fact is not particularly helpful – that’s all I was pointing out by, er, “correcting”, your “re-imagining” of my original post

With two bikes running the same brakes thats £25 to replace the whole lot with something that doesn’t work or £60 with something that does, IMHO

Had the Superstar Kevlars, pad material came away from the backing on several pairs of them, nearly ended up badly hurt on one occasion as a result. Not for me.

Ah, t!ts – may main concern that they still randomly do this….. back to dithering…..

Usual nonsense being spoken by delusional people

Oh, the ironing!! 😆

Would rather spend that extra £5 and get something that works tbh

Pack of 4 sets is £25 – that’s ~£6 a set, so getting on for 1/3 price of OE. With two bikes running the same brakes thats £25 to replace the whole lot or £60.

I’m not anticipating life to be a big problem, being on the road – genuine Avid sintered pads will last 2 years+, but are getting quite pricey, so if I can get more power for the same life with the Kevlar pads then I’ll be happy.

To be fair, I tried some SS sintered pads many moons ago and of the four pads on the bike, two delaminated in pretty short order which a) was a ‘fun’ experience and b) was a ‘rogue batch’, but that put me off until now…..

Thought as much Flashy! 😆 My search-fu is weak this morning, clearly…..

Tell you’ve paid them for 4 man-days – ask them to send someone round for the extra 3 1/2 days, just to sit on site and scratch their ar$e if necessary 😉

Dunno about the ones linked – may be OE in a plastic bag, in which case maybe not. I’ve bought two sets in the past that came in the full retail packaging/box and included rotors and all bolts….. in fact I probably have a brand new pair of 160 mm rotors still in that packaging and I went with centelock rotors on one bikes…..

EDIT: Binners – don’t think the ones you’ve linked are road calipers…..

If it’s blue skies all the way on billiard smooth roads then they’ll be laughing….

but this is Britain in the wettest spring since dinosaurs ruled the earth crossing a country with no money for road repairs so start working on your smuggest grin and evil laugh right now 😉

Topic Thunder – It’s a bad day for the STW chat forum as all the big-hitters arrive on the bike helmet-join a union-Tory bashing super thread to end all threads…..

Day of Thunder – Nascar driver takes his car out in a storm, once…..

….Pulls up chair……

Even though it’s not all hardwood, thats a surprise. Thinks about a career change.

Be warned – people know the value of it now. The ‘wood fairies’ have been stealing not insignficant amounts from one of my colleagues and fellow coppicer who stores all our wood when it comes out of the woods prior to being processed.

They fit my feet and have the feel of slippers in comparison to the feel of boots with Shimano.

Worth the money?….. only you can decide that……..

http://www.dairylandfarmworld.com/

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