Brill, thanks. I didnt realise road rims were actually stronger. Learn something every day!

Personally I’m better qualified in engineering than statistics, so I’d be teaching the A-level class to be more than a little bit sceptical about using a three-point data set to derive a trend curve which, if it adheres to those points, is going to predict that no matter how wide you make a rim it’s never going to weigh more than about 620g

Me too, MEng in Mechanical from Nottingham. I’ll also be asking them to consider limits to their model. This week we used differentiation to complete a packaging problem and one of them was arguing -4.325… was an optimum answer. He didnt realise he was talking in cm lol

Id personally run the axis so weight is on y.

If I get bored I’ll see if I can model the trend algebraically for you and extrapolate. In fact my A Level class can do that Monday morning as a starter

Be interested in the real answer to see how accurate we get it.

I’ve serviced a set. Bearing face tolerances werw diabolical. One bearing fell out when I pushed it with my thumb.

Trek Procalibre 8 and buy posh set of wheels with the difference

This was top of the list but can’t find any local shops with a 19.5″ :-(

Thanks gents but I need to be able to purchase from shop as I’ll be using a ride to work voucher for 1k of it. That puts the Canyon out.

Im guessing the Surly is a joke option as I don’t know what it is… I’ll have a google and a chuckle

Totally agree… but my point being there would probably be a lot. At which point their existence stops being mythical.

Although I am skeptical, this is an interestimg article

linky

Let’s assume that you take the same logic as above but apply it to another escaped species which we already know to have currently established breeding populations in the UK.

Let’s say Wild Boar which reach sexual maturity at one year old and can have 10-12 offspring in each litter.

There have been breeding population in the UK since the 1990’s, well over 20 generations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_boar#Status_in_Britain

By your logic, there should be trillions of wild boar overrunning the country but instead there’re probably about 2000.

Maybe something’s been eating the extra ones?

I’ve seen a wild boar in the new forest. So have other people, in fact if you youtube it there are lots of videos that are very clearly wild boar roaming the UK.

People also hunt them and eat them.

Although its hard to tell from the videos, could be micro pigs… except they are clearly wild boar!

Think you just proved my point.

I suppose you know that “there are no breeding populations of big cats in the UK” for a fact

I reckon my Maths posted earlier proves that.

Even if the first ones were introduced 15 years ago that’s still 1000’s of them running around by now with people having cameras on them at all times these days there would be un-doubtable proof, and as also as pointed out above, no dead ones found.

Nope. It ran over by about 3 seasons in my opinion

Porridge.

Fruits for 11am snack

Tin of something on toast (beans, ravioli, tomatoes) for lunch or a cheese sandwich.

Jacket potato with half a tin of tuna and some salad for tea.

Buy veg and fruit in bulk. Should be about on budget and pretty nutritious.

Cool. Its a 2017 frame discounted I’ve got my eye on.

Yes the hardtail rdo

Why didnt you walk closer for a better shot?

Post it up please when you get it…This is the thing with all of these types of boogyman videos, no one EVER has a good camera and a still hand to catch the moment… because that is what would show it isn’t as it first appears.

Whoever said about these have been around since Victorian times…

The guy who told you that is giving you a crock of shit! The numbers just dont stack up. Lets say a feline of that size reaches sexual maturity by age 5. Thats over 20 generations..

They would have no natural predators, so over the course of a lifetime each female could have probably 5 or more litters of kittens that would all reach maturity.

That means if you started with just 2 cats and assumed a litter is 4 kittens (2 of which female) you would get

2 x 10^20 then double that to include the males.

Thats 400000000000000000000 of these cats running around feeding on helpless farm animals.

Even if you reduce the amount of viable litters and numbers reaching maturity etc then the numbers would still be huge.

Total bollocks. People see a Main Coone or a big stray dog in the distance and think its a panther.

The UK is tiny and heavily populated, everyone has a mobile phone with a video camera these days if they existed they would be proved not speculated about.

The first hand account about dragging a dear, I bet a big male man coone could drag a baby or even adolesant muntjac, they grow up to 18kg. A 10kg cat could drag a 10kg deer.

Big foot however definitely lives on Cannock chase.

Even if the chromecast audio could be in someway configured to play lossless audio, the overall quality may still be held back by the chromecast’s DAC, if you are using the analogue output. If you use the digital output via a toslink cable to your receiver instead of an RCA cable, then the dac in the receiver should take over and you should get better quality as a result. See here for details – http://allaboutchromecast.com/chromecast-audio-guides/what-are-the-3-compatible-audio-cables-for-chromecast-audio-and-why-it-matters/

An alternative high quality setup which could be controlled from your phone could be a raspberry pi running volumio, playing from a library of lossless audio files, connected up through a quality dac.

Its a normal chromecast (gen1) not a chromecast audio. These are usb and as far as I’m aware dont have a dac.

The chromecast audios do and have the option as you say of toslink or min audio jack.

I think I’ll try a chromecast audio and a toslink, its a £30 experiment.

I’ll have a google of your other suggestion, I have no idwa what a rasperry pi runnning volumio is but this type of idea is exactly what I eas hoping to get.. a new idea of how to do this better.

I’m thinking the dac in my sclx56 is pretty good so I just want to supply it with high quality digital info from a source my phone can control.

Ideally though the digital info would stream from the net.

Thanks

It’s plugged directly into the receiver. Dont get me wrong, I’m not saying it’s really bad, but I’m thinking there could be a better way to stream.

You changed the quality in your google play app? to “always high” on wifi and mobile network in the settings.

Yep all set to always high.

chromecast audio – enable high resolution mode

Is this any better than a normal chromecast with “always high”

Cheers folks

I happen to have both of these.

The Rab is significantly warmer than the thermoball (thats actually a lot thinner and lighter).

I am however looking at a bigger Rab to see me through the winter months as it’s still fairly lightweight

What size and how much on the spada gloves?

If you’ve got textiles that work for summer I’d just chuck a waterproof over suit on as decent weatherproof gear can end up very expensive. Instead invest in waterproof and warm gloves and boots.

I did consider a waterproof oversuit.

Are they all largely the same?

Theres an RST one with fluro details for my commute that Ive seen for £60 but thought it might just be boil in the bag scenario!

Not too expensive? What’s the actual budget?

I have some rukka goretex stuff I don’t use anymore but even used, it generally fetches more than some stuff new.

Not set a budget really. I was asking so I could get an.idea of options and then set a budget.

Was considering cheaper kit this year then expensive next winter.

Could be tempted by some used quality kit like Rukka for the right price.

Cheers for the replies folks.

Despite the wait had really good service, need to uhm and aghh this over a bit more.

Elbows still broken though :-(

How about…

Thread-less-ter

Thank you, thank you very much (takes a bow)

Can anyone summarise whats happened between page 12 and now?

Well two weeks on and I now have “hand foot and mouth” disease courtesy of the infectious little one. My hands feet and the inside of my mouth are covered in blisters and I can’t talk properly!

Anyone rrcommend a good winter tyre then?

perchypanther – Member
If only there were a car that was like a Navara pickup but with more room in the cab and some kind of secure roof over the load area……

I miss my Pathfinder *sniff*

This is actually a really good shout… I didn’t realise how big these were.

Anything to look out for when buying one?

Sounds completely Eggsagerated to me. Made up story

(I need to get a life… just trawled through 4 pages of this to see if that pun had been made).

Nope, lots of sites I’ve stayed on recently have dirt access roads and the dirt track around the site is somewhat akin to the test track I took a tank on once on a stag do years ago.

I camp really regularly and go all over the place (mostly with the family not the mtb). So need loads of space and like 4×4 capability.

I’m prob going to go with an l322 range rover myself next… but the repair bills won’t be fun :-(

I asked a similair question a few weeks ago. The responses on here really put me off the things. …
.got me thinking

Why doesnt someone make a 4×4 thats as big as these?… is a disco the biggest boot you can get without buying a van?

Some of the camp sites Ive stayed on really do need a 4×4 but I want the load space and ease of a van… what to do?

As for getting a Hope for your 40th.. look at Exposure, market leaders by a long way but expensive.

Sloooow bastards clogging up the trails who wont move out the way whilst I scream STRAVA at them loudly. They are so inconsiderate!

Cheers for the tips.

Flu jab sounds like a plan!

Yes. And don’t think you’ll be immune to it happening all over again if you have a second kid either!

Pants.. so I’ve basically got 5 years of getting ill to look forward to!

5w/kg isnt happening this decade!

alanl – Member
I’ve got a Triumph Sprint ST 2005 going for a grand. Needs a clean up cosmetically, but otherwise its fine.

Sent you a pm matey

Rims wont sell well most of the time anyway. Generally only people who will build their own wheels will be buying rims.

Most other people tend to buy complete wheels.

When a decent set of used 26 wheels sell for about £120 a set these days trying to get £30 a rim is a tall order. A set of spokes is £35 and then cost to have it laced up.

Not many people looking for just 26 rims.

Other 26 stuff still sells ok, lower price than new kit, but a lot of that is super inflated prices these days anyway.

More info on that sprint please matey

Paulbennett76@(removethisbit)hotmail.com

Get a compressor and a big syringe and it’s as fast as a change with a tube.

Yes thats a pricey set up but if you get a used compressor (paid £80 for mine) then its a worthwhile investment.

Let the tyre down, pop it off. Use the big syring to suck all the stans up. Pop new tyre on syringe stans back in plus a small top up. Whack the compressor on.

Tyre change in 2 minutes.

I swapped to tubeless in 2005… ive had 2 punctures since. One of them when I took the tyre off I had no fluid left and over 30 thorns in the tyre.

The other one was caused by a man made trap that was made to deter motorcross bikes.