Ibis Mojo HD; a completely different league.

Depends what your after, the geometry isn’t to everyones taste.

Ooooh you were a DRA scientist? Nice.

We all understand economies of scale etc.

Judging by all the bikestores selling high end bicycles, a hell of a lot less supersports/superbikes get sold than mtbs.

Do you hate Ferrari owners?

Like Ducati owners Ferrari owners buy into the image as opposed to buying the best tool for the job. So yes, I think they’re tasteless twunts with no class. Same goes for any other displays of gaudy Rooneyesque bling.

It’s most definitely not the politics of envy, or even a case of the Fox and the Grapes. These bikes just don’t offer anything other than a name and an aspiration – certainly not any performance benefits over a bike that costs 4 grand.

:mrgreen:

You know this kind of thing keeps me going when I’m reading really really dry medical journals. Somewhere someone eventually benefits from the stuff I’m reading about.

LMAO @ the windows 8 article.

Stoner, what would you say the research will primarily useful for? The biggest thing I can think of is tracking submarines….what application does bubble acoustic research have for medicine? They state that it does but I can’t really be arsed to trawl through reviews to get why as I’m currently trying to do a 5000 word essay on the neurological underpinnings of blindsight. WOOOO

Anyway to ever be interested in bubbles academically….I’d have to be off my non-existant man tits on LSD.

Good for her though, it does seem like the research has a lot of wider value.

I do kind of wish she was appreciated for her brain. Any girl who can talk about sciencey stuff has my interest.

Research Department Explosive. Goes boom in a big way, lots of fun until you’re on the receiving end of it.

If you mean in areas like mining, demolition, etc, then yes, it is.

I guess. The only use I knew for that stuff was for when you absolutely positively have to kill everyone in a Basra compound.

List of research interests….”Acoustics of bubbles”, can anyone tell me what this relates to? Tracking SSBN’s?

I’m rather intrigued by her! :mrgreen:

I see her PHD was in something incredibly useful to humanity – the ignition of RDX (high explosives).

Still props for being a girl and having the stubbornness/tenacity to become involved in a very male dominated area (physics).

Yeah headsets are available to adapt non tapered 1 1/8th to just about any headtube diameter.

The new 2013 Mega? Not had a single reliability issue with my 2011 frame. It depends if you can get on with the looks?

I’d be looking at a:

* Lapierre Spicy 916 Carbon frame
* 2013 Nukeproof Mega
* Norco Range Killer B
* Specialized Enduro Evo

But not all of those come as framesets and most of them work better with 160mm forks. So I’d actually be looking at a 140mm frame if you want to use a set of Sektors.

I’d go for the YT over the Canyon anyday. Much nicer looking bike and I seem to remember the German mags rate it more than the Canyon.

If you can point me in the direction of where I can purchase a team replica Focus WRC car as driven by Petter Solberg etc. then please do let me know.

Silly argument, the level of suspension and chassis technology and R&D that goes into the 9k Bronson is still no better than a 9k Kwak 636 – in fact most likely worse. The level of technology that goes into a race ready machine is well well beyond the level of technology seen in mountain biking. In downhill Sam Hill will probably still be competitive on a 3.5k Nukeproof Pulse compared to the 7-9k Treks, Santa Cruz’s and Specialized bikes – you won’t see that in motorsports. That extra money doesn’t buy you the massive time decreases competent riders see when spending spending double to tripple on race ready machines in motorcycling.

Are you saying that Santa Cruz is worth this in terms of the amount of cutting edge technology you are getting?

Buying that 9k build Bronson makes you a tool, it’s as simple as that.

Only catches 2/3rds of the way into the travel when in the granny on mine.

You shouldnt be in the granny for descending anyway.

Get the Scalp through your LBS…CRC if you really have to…. get the stanchions replaced with FAST suspension units from TF tuned and have Avalanche send you one of their dampers…. when you outgrow the fork.

That is unless you want to wait for months to buy the bike or have issues that require a warranty.

The scalp has a lovely leverage ratio, which produces a nice force progression graph. Even more so with the pulse.

The spec is really nice on that Canyon though. It depends on your priorities.

My respect for Cannondale just shot through the roof if they had a say in the Sho-Air teams decision.

Yup I will be as the replacement costs are actually almost….just almost justifiable.

If someone brings along a set of the 21mm width DH rims that weigh 1700 grams and had to be designed to be a bit softer….then I’ll quite happily put a wager down that out of 5 riders the majority of them will prefer the 34mm internal width 1800 gram Syntaces I’ll be running over the summer.

Not really as I can afford Syntace wheels which are pretty costly in their own right. My problem is with the whole “it’s carbon – it’s stiffer – it must be bettererz”.

So much of this industry is based on image and marketing. Do you really want a wheel that by many accounts pings you around on rock gardens and deadens the feedback through the bike all at the same time.

I’d be quite happy to let people hop on the wheels I use and compare them to a set of another users ENVEs if you guys want over the summer. Just nothing that will result in me having to pay a fortune in repair costs.

Syncros

Syntace..

You blew your money on a load of crap. The Synatces are aimed at all mountain, your 18mm internal diameter 29er wheels are not. The 24mm internal diameter Syntace 29er wheels weigh 1700 grams.

Your paying considerably more for between a 100 and 200 gram drop on the ENVE AM wheels, an increase in stiffness that has arguable effects on ride quality and an increase in costs for associated with racing.

Plenty of people have also complained the ENVE wheels are to stiff resulting in deflection blasting through rock gardens and the claimed weights have been no where near the actual weights with many samples….unlike the syntaces.

Also I’d like to point out that average IQ doesn’t tell the whole story (not to mention the criticisms of IQ testing)….does China/Japan have a higher amount of people at the genius end of the normal distribution curve? It could be that they just have more people clustered around their higher average. What makes me say this is that Britain for example has supposedly the highest amount of recognized living geniuses per captia – although I’m not sure about the veracity of this claim.

You being a human/maggot mechanic (studying to be a doctor) does not lend you or your friends the ability to think above the realm of maggot put it this way, hence your disappointment when your peers because they are all mechanic. My friend is a car mechanic – he sometime repairs cars but he does not know understand why some people prefer to cycle instead.

Now your just being willfully ignorant, you don’t or want to attempt to understand the world around you so you profess that those who are much better educated than you don’t know what they are talking about or understand the world around them.

What’s wrong with putting yourself on a pedestal above the rest of humanity? It makes you crassly arrogant.

Perth, wrong topic Chewkw refers to everyone as maggots on quite a regular basis.

I don’t buy that we’ll all be under the thumb of the Chinese either

1) The worlds warming up, northern rim countries will be the predominant global powers in 50 to 100 years time. Russia, Scandinavia and Canada etc.

2) The west has a culture of anti-establishment thinking which tends to lend itself to creative thinking.

3) I see China becoming internally unstable as the middle classes gain more power.

I think you use the term “maggots” as a way to dehumanize others and place yourself on a pedestal.

Generally when I’m taking the piss out of human kind it’s because I’m suffering from a massive sense of disappointment with the intellectual ability of my peers, with you I sense something different entirely.

Oh yes, the IQ part is a widely held belief amongst the scientific community too.

Average IQ differences between countries have nothing to do with genetics or the fact that certain oriental ethnic backgrounds are Humans 2.0.

It has everything to do with diet and environmental conditions. Infectious disease rates are actually the best predictor of intelligence.

Chewkw…you quite simply have some of the most weird thought patterns and idea’s I’ve ever come across. Your incoherent ramblings about things like “JapLand” and “maggots” make you sound as though you have a massive dose of ignorance/racism backed up with an unhealthy dose of formal thought disorder.

You’ll also meet people who use pejorative language for white people or foreigners…gaijin being a great one but I like to think the ignorance of others is no excuse to behave the same way yourself.

Secondly my comments about Brits are bourne out of utter frustration from hearing things like “chinky” being used to describe my missus on nights out. It’s bad enough your being racist, it’s a double insult to mix Chinese and Filipino up.

Yes Tucker you are right – as someone else pointed out ethnic lines blur as well – eg yunnan and Northern Thailand…..

…..what I was trying to get at is the idea that all Asians look the same…..they don’t. I’ve grown tired of the “they all look the same” jokes. You can make educated guesses for fun even if you don’t announce them to the world…

I wonder if “oriental” has colonial overtones to some, hence the racist connotations?

Yes that’s pretty much it. Some Chinese I’ve met don’t like the word because they associate it with the opium wars. Generally I just try to to behave and use language that is acceptable in the company of whoever I’m speaking to, it doesn’t take much groundwork to know what does bother different ethnic groups….for example don’t call Japanese people Japs to their faces. The best thing to do though is just to avoid all racial language as much as possible when speaking to people from different backgrounds.

Just basic courtesy that’s all.

I’m saying if you put them next to each other and asked them which one was Chinese and which one was Thai, anyone who was remotely educated in regards to GCSE Geography or who has met someone who is Thai and/or Chinese then yes I would expect them to guess correctly at a statistically significant level.

But seeing as your average Brit is a nationalistic narrow minded buffoon with an interest in the outside world that is almost comparable to Americans then I’m perhaps inclined to agree that you are right.

The Welsh, the English and the Canadians have mingled to much to tell them apart…islands have a pretty good way of cutting populations off so that they produce quite distinctive facial features. Thais are predominantly of Austronesian descent and look a hell of a lot different to Koreans, Chinese and the Japanese.

I get told I look German by my girlfriends parents…and I’ve been mistaken for being Dutch by Germans…until I spoke…so it would seem Asians can also take an educated guess as to where you may be from. Thy can certainly tell the difference between Southern and Northern Europeans which is akin to the Thai/Filipino/Indonesia vs China/Korea/Japan divide.

I’m convinced that much of the debate is about geometry not wheel size.

This thread sums up what I’ve been harking on about in terms of my experience with 29ers. One’s more comfortable, ones a bit more playful but neither of the sizes seem to see such a huge performance difference that it warrants taking one over the other. The decision should come down to feel and how you like to ride.

That is the reasonable view to take unless several groups undertake randomized controlled trials looking at performance and then pool the data gathered in a meta-analysis to try to give us an answer.

I really hope the mountain biking community make their choices in an informed fashion instead of just being suckered in by marketing.

China, Vietnam, Thailand, N/S Korea,

If you can’t recognize the difference between a Chinese person and a Thai you’ve got something seriously wrong with your brains facial recognition circuits. :P :mrgreen:

They are completely different looks….Thai’s and Filipino’s have a much more pacific islander look going on….I could forgive mixing up Han Chinese and Japanese but Thai and Chinese is easy peazie

Weren’t we still classed as subjects on our passports till not long ago?

Shame we never finished the civil war off properly. Should have butchered every last royal like the French did so they didn’t have a chance to try and claim legitimate power again.

I don’t hate them, I just question their rationality.

Wired on renthals. Lock ons are for people who can’t be arsed to fettle with their bike properly.

* Thinner than Lock Ons.

* More rubber for the diameter because you get rid of the plastic clamping mechanism.

They only slip if you don’t install them properly and wire them – although they need reinstalling every so often to keep them in tip top shape.

price up a baum correto with campag super record eps, lightweight ventoux wheels, and suitably pimp cockpit components and then see how expensive a pushbike can be!

But it wouldn’t be UCI legal, oh the hilarity.

That’s the problem though, there are plenty of roadies willing to splurge insane money on Italian roadbikes and they are coming over to MTB like a plague of diseased bubonic rats.

Our sport should implement some minimum weights like roadcycling for downhill and XC bikes as well as regulations governing certain standards such as 20mm or 15mm axles, headtubes etc to try to keep the sport from developing spiralling costs – through changing standards that make **** all difference everywhere other year.

135mm, 142mm, 150mm rear hubs, QR, 10mm bolt throughs, 12mm bolt throughs, 1 1/8th straight, 1 1/2 straight, 1 1/2 tapered, 1 1/4 tapered, 650b, 35mm bars (which are too stiff)….it’s all getting a bit silly

That will just whack out the geo, I’m pretty sure the 2.4’s are taller. What I remember about Rubber Queens (it’s many years since I rode them) is that the 2.4’s rolled really really well for a 2.4 inch tyre and at the same time offered a decent amount of grip. I suspect they had much lower rolling resistance than my 2.35 High Rollers.

Scotland requested that they be allowed to do the honors, specifically because they wished to ensure that Thatcher had actually died. Plans for the Scottish funeral involved a 21 cannon salute carried out by the artillery detachment of the Black Watch. Rather than use blanks, the Black Watch would fire live high explosive shells directly into Thatcher’s coffin. The coffin’s remains would then be gleefully urinated upon by drunken members of the Scottish public. Most Scots feel that this would be an appropriately solemn farewell to the dictator they so adore.

The way in which Thatcher’s corpse will be disposed has not yet been decided. A whitepaper published in Science in 2009 discussed the viability of a number of options. On cremation, it stated that the corpse of a lich is notoriously difficult to burn, and attempting to burn the body of the arch-lich herself would undoubtedly result in failure. Burial was also considered, but the estimated cost to prevent the inevitable haunting of the area surrounding the burial site was deemed to be too high. The subject would need to be buried below a bloodstone 2.5km in diameter, which itself would need to be sealed via sacrificing the lives of 250 union members atop the aforementioned stone. Experts in the field are currently looking towards recent advancements in nuclear waste storage, and 2.5% of the UK budget is put aside annually for ongoing research and development into the potential solutions to Thatcher Storage.

On uncyclopedia…I lol’d.

Before you answer, think of the sweariest person you know. I’m swearier. Once accidentally forgot myself and dropped the c bomb in front of the MIL…..

I think class forgives swearing at MIL’s. We all know how testing they can be. :mrgreen: