I rarely use my reverb, 5″ drop is nowhere near enough to be properly useful, the Lev seems on the right track with 6″ and no dangly cable

what’s so bad about the Lev cable hobnob?

GTA5 – all the fantasy an 11yr old should need

What content are you worried about in skyrim? it’s not actually about rimming in the sky you know

ha ha.. ohms law innit? 🙄

Ah.. I know what you mean about shame on here Seb. 😳
I still run square taper BBs too and old 8speed ultegra. good reliable kit innit? 😉

Yellow is my unlucky colour, had a few nice steel roadbikes in my time tho, fastest, bestest looking was an old red flying scot with full record. anyway back on topic.

Good luck Edric, I can’t face dieting but know fine that’s by far the biggest factor in my poor road performance these days

What’s a tripple rider? tri?

sounds pretty fast to me Edrik

milk

sounds like a bargain if you like that sort of frame.
headtube repairs are not cheap.
had almost exactly the same damage repaired to an intense frame damaged in shipping from the US by argos cycles here. frame was fine afterwards (for a frame welded by ‘mercan stoners)

how many of the “meh” crowd have actually ridden brakeless?

being a strong far heavier male (and a faster rider than the majority of female WC racers) I’m fairly confident I could beat her speed down there but wouldn’t attempt it without at least 1 brake.

respect!

Man, discovered that all powerlevelling I did is useless.

Yeah, buying a turbo maxes out your acceleration once maxed the other upgrades do nothing AFAIK. nothing raises the top speed to max (not as far as L50 anyway)
Brake upgrades seem pointless too.. I’ve spent over $100k on coloured smoke and xenon bulbs and nothing on brakes 😳

PMSL you’re not allowed to play but are allowed to watch videos of others playing, or are you being forced to? 😆

Thought you were heading up north?

I was 🙁 umma fud! 😳

Popstar, how many levels did you level up by? my aim was to reach L50 which I did (no wife, no leash 😛 )
No worries about the bridge slam, almost held back thinking it might be too tempting for you, PMSL when you closed the door. I think we’re pretty well matched at racing but different style of racer, think I take more risky lines while you’re more precise.
Cheers for the easy money/XP on the cargo bob missions.
next objective is to own an Entity XF and pimp it out, despite having 2 fully pimped out, I don’t actually get on too well with rhe handling of the Ellegy. wish you could trade them in.

still haven’t managed to steal anything from the military base, don’t know the layout or exactly where the heli/jets are so keep gettting blown up by tanks/shot.

trying to take me out with your jet rather than it’s weapons in that jet/land mission was well funny. 😆

Easy money? just won Cycle race against 3 randoms down the beach for $13600 in 1min 41s D (more if you bet)

Hi Poptart, good nights racing, cheers!
Did you ever play Mario Cart games? GTA employs the same start boost bonus if you time your start right.
Basically floor the accelerator right at the end of the countdown, Get it right, screen will change colour and you will catapult..
When my kids were younger they refused to tell me how to get the start boost in mario cart and it took me ages working it out for myself, hold on.. WTF am I telling you? 😉 I haven’t lost so many races in one night ever before and I fear when we meet again it’s only gonna get harder now. 8)
Gotta be cheeky playing against kids. 😛
I’ll play dirty if everyone else is, it’s a proper PITA when you mess up or are taken out and are chasing back for the lead and some no hoper keeps trying to take you out for 3rd or 4th place. I generally race for first as do you!
if you’re after quick money the prison one (forget the name) is another good one to play as a 1 lap race

Your mic seemed to work sometimes but very quiet and with a low tone effect on (so basically impossible to understand anything). you probably already know but mic settings are found in
XMB > Settings > Accessory settings > Audio device settings

Molgrips, your wee headset isn’t great (neither is mine TBF) but it’ll be infinitely better than using the tv/cam or any other external source mic/speaker.. that’s usually where all the background noise (babies, wives, music etc.) comes from in multiplayer, well entertaining if you become party to a domestic but otherwise really really annoying.

I don’t know the maps in Survivor so it’s usually just luck if I find a decent spot, sometimes hold my own but usually pretty mediocre because of this.
I haven’t even worked out the weapon control system yet on the flying missions.
and haven’t done too many missions/heists. Drac/Marko seem pretty clued up on those

When you host and invite it will automatically invite any crew members and friends but they may be busy on a mission, in freeplay, their appartment, LAcustoms or even doing single player. lots of PHUK crew were on lastnight but only saw a handfull. it’s worth waiting for the full minute for more players to join. but check how many are actually playing in your online session first (hit down on the D-pad for the list to come up in game). sessions seemed pretty quiet last night, server issues? dunno?

ztalin (dunno if you’re on here?) well and truely handed our asses to us racing tonight.. Good laugh. pity we didn’t get any 8 player races on the go, hopefully another night.
still managed to re-coup most of the $200k I threw away and I just bought a supercar with tonights winnings, after alloys and a number plate I’m now too skint for any more upgrades.

Apparently You need a far larger budget!

I’d surmise that the vast majority of cyclists have an interest in good kit and lust after the bikes the pros ride. Whether or not they choose, or indeed have the means to afford such bikes is largely irrelevant. The whole point of this thread is to discuss the merits of those frames, so it strikes me as a little bit odd for someone that has no experience of carbon would dismiss the opinions of someone that owns and has ridden enough to be able to discuss their relative benefits or shortcomings with some authority.
But you take 6hrs to ride a trail centre, so you’re clearly a novice.
At the end of the day, we’re all big kids at heart and we love shiny new stuff. I get a lot of pleasure from knowing I ride a bike that has won, several top level racing events, and I’m not ashamed to admit I get a lot of pride when other cyclists come and ask me about my bike.

if this is the sort of advice to expect here.

Oh.. and apparently I’m gay too.

I think you’ll find the vast majority of cyclists have little to no interest in owning top spec carbon road race frames.

some folk need to take a break from online forums and speak to other actual real life people. (me included)

doesn’t seem lunacy to me, taking one to Glentress does

😆

8)

Hmmm… Can’t work out how to sell it, Can’t gift it (I don’t think, anyway)..
Just give me a shout if anyone wants to borrow it?
Molgrips? You said you don’t have a good car didn’t you?
seems a waste not to.. it’s pretty fast and fully armoured/pimped to L36 standards.

Ha ha I Just threw away $200000.
Bought a 10 car garaged apartment then was confused when my upgraded (free) elegy wasn’t in the garage, bought another one drove to LS customs and spent $200000 re-upgrading to the same spec. A bit later I called the insurance company and they replaced the first one..
I’d totally forgotten I’d totalled it the last time I played.

Oh.. Well.. Easy come… 😉

Oh.. and I do ride an old frame and if you were to offer me a modern pro level frameset I’d sell it to someone like you

So you’re saying the 10 or so people discussing the merits of top end frames in this thread outweigh the thousands of keen cyclists who just get ion with it oblivious to fhe musings of active forum members?

Yes, I am suggesting 100miles is a fairly insignificant distance for a seasoned cyclist, it’s 6hrs riding, hardly some sort of major achievement, especially if you’ve splashed the best part of 4k on a high end road frame.
I’m I still mpressed by the guy who did it on his BMX with the saddle slammed though.

I’m away this weekend.. Should manage a bit of GTA tonight tho.

My JESUS is on valium!

Molgrips, you’re given a selection of supercars to choose from on selection screen

Ok. Supercars a waste of money then, ta.

Got a free one already

Want to earn some easy money?

Why don’t we agree on a time one night and get the whole PS3 (sorry kids) crew racing supercars “down the drain” 1 lap, 8 players, easy 10k every 5-10mins..should be a laugh, that track is carnage,!

Drumlanrigg was a joint decision, I support an army of kids remember all my spare money goes on booze, **** & burgers..

Thing is, shibbo, they actually are..

Ha ha.. Molgrips? 😀

Comedy gold! Popstar

Is the supercar actually any faster in races? I seem to manage ok with the cars available at the selection screen.

Still homeless and sleeping in my 2car garage with half a million in the bank. You can tell I’m half Scottish, eh?

There’s also a third camp..

Those who ride an old cheap road frame a lot more than your average Cervelo will ever be ridden, never grumble about it and have never once craved anything more stiff/flexy/light for a paltry 100mile ride. These people probably tend not to comment too often on such threads.

Ah.. Right will start using it appropriately, which still means hitting “like” each time, haven’t found one I disliked yet!

Wear your lycra and disco slippers project 😉

Jealous!
Would love
Come back and update in Jan please? Pics would be cool too.

Rode park on my BMX for the first time in about a year with my 4yr old at the weekend, she just “gets* it so gonna make it a more regular thing.. My knees were pretty ropey the next day but it was great to be back using my 20 properly again. 🙂

Almost Exactly that ^^ happened to me against a L60ish dude. I wasn’t paying attention and thought it was a bikes only race and he started with a fully pimped off road beetle, I led the entire race and dodged multiple take out attempts only to get taken out on the last bridge.. I’m no winey American though so just laughed 😉

Talking of winers tho, does hitting “dislike” after a mission/race actually change anything, or is it just to show other players your vote?

I always just hit “like” when the option comes up as it moves onto the next screen as soon as everyone has voted and I’m impatient.

Of course changing chairing size compromises function.

For you to understand this I’d have to quote too large an amount of text for the forum.

Sorry dude, I know it’s en vogue here, but quoting out of context to explain a fairly simple concept is not my style.. There’s more than enough of Daves personal scribing on the early development of his DW link available for you to view online yourself. S

what’s a brake based game? Only ever played “Hope fade roulette” in the 90s on the DH bike 😉

For Knocking motorcyclists off, A car definitely helps 😉 otherwise it’s T-bone, sideswipe or shunt into an immovable object time 😉

Survivor didn’t get off to a great start for me, I’m a one gun type of guy even in FPS and when I chose assault rifle (all I’ve ever used) realised I had no ammo.. Queue lots of fumbling around trying random weapons (many for the first time) and failing miserably, I even bazooka’d a lone harmless goon at one point. I’m pretty crap at choosing a good place to camp too and generally just rely on being a quicker draw but when tired I can’t cope with following the radar too well so that strategy goes wrong fairly quickly..
In any bream based game I Basically need looking after but just treat me as cannon fodder rather than risk your own life to bail me out 😉

Only carnage I managed was self inflicted, blew myself up twice while racing you marco and pretty much lost my bearings in deathmatch while you singlehandedly got through all 9 levels, I really shouldn’t bother doing missions at all when I’m knackered. 😉

If that’s all you’ve taken from reading what you’ve quoted above, there’s very little point in me trawling through Daves PhD sized writings on the subject trying to find something simple enough for you to understand.
From your user name,, I can only assume you thought horst link was the holy grail of suspension technology until it wasn’t and then was again 😉

Dave says a lot of stuff, have a look back through what he said in 2004 about DW link before he sold his soul to the industry.