How about Crossmax SX? Rim is roughly an 821, they’re nice and tough, great support, decent hubs and probably cheaper than king.

Yup, each bit of memory is like a tiny battery that gets charged hundreds of millions of times a second.

Having said that, the difference in powers seems extreme. Perhaps try screen brightness and other settings as these can hammer the batteries.

+1 for top of the rock. Also if you like seafood, one of my alltime favourite restaurants is the seagrill in the plaza underneath the rockerfeller center. Great food, great views, and a pricetag to match.

Maybe one of Jungle’s demo bikes?

Another HD from germany (~£35)

Shurely something like handball: team game, requires a big squad, and most importantly is incredibly unpopular in this country. There’d be next to no chance of a medal though…

No

Anyone know why there are so many saddles/seatposts being passed around in the paddock immediately after the motos?

Don’t have any experience of the riding there, but have been to SF quite a few times. I wouldn’t bother with vesuvio myself (bit touristy – sorry CFH), but would definitely recommend hitting the valencia street area, awesome restaurants/coffee shops/ bike shops and not a chain in sight.

Best food I had in SF: frances (frances-sf.com). They reserve a few seats for walk-ins so no need to book if you dont mind waiting and dont have too big a group.

Got any details about this? Looks like the change in FC under compression would be enormous.

How big is the gap between your two rings? Are you running 22-36?

Arggg, doing too many bits of simultaneous maths..

Terminal velocity goes as sqrt(M/A)…

So for scaled up identical density people V_t = kM^(1/6)

Doubling mass leads to a 12% increase.

I’m trying to do something really quite complex at the same time as this, either this excuses my poor efforts at very basic aerodynamics, or I’m going to be spending the next month debugging a truly awful model as I’m in no state to be working…

Okay, I was talking rubbish.

Just did the maths though (will this get me banned?), and terminal velocity appears to be proportional (assuming identical CD) to the square root of area over mass, i.e. sqrt(A/M).

Assuming that increased mass results in simply a bigger person (same density just bigger in very dimension), then area will scale as M^(2/3).

This results in terminal velocity (if my maths is still good at this time of day) varying with M^(-1/6).

Therefore doubling mass gives ~0.9 times terminal velocity.

A gross simplification perhaps, but it’s a bit better than fatter=faster.

So the fat man has a higher drag and more rolling resistance, and this will make him faster?

(Edit: drag, not CD)

Shame on all those who think that weight has a bearing on descending speed: acceleration due to gravity is 9.81 m/s/s regardless of mass.

If you are fatter then you will have a greater force due to gravity, but a greater mass to accelerate.

The 64s are interesting: 64k 30 years ago, 64 bit ~10 years ago, 64 cores ~5 years in the future?

Also, my computer as a kid (~22 years ago): 64k = 2^16 bytes; current computer: 6*24G = 2^37.

2^21 improvement since I was playing dizzy!

Exactly, the difference between the last leg (which implied that she had an enormous amount of energy in reserve) and the first 3 (which were at a world class pace) is the suspicious factor to me.

From my earlier link:

Next, you look at what it “typical” in the 400IM race. For men, the best swimmers typically close in 57 to 59 seconds (check splits from London). This is about 19 to 23% SLOWER than the best men finish in an isolated 100m freestyle.

For women, the TYPICAL (excluding Shiwen) final 100m freestyle takes 61 to 64 seconds. This is 18 to 22% slower than the best females swim 100m freestyle.

So the sport shows that you have a normal pattern, a typical ratio of medley freestyle to best freestyle – they SHOULD BE between 18 and 23% slower at the end of a 400m IM than in a 100m freestyle by itself.

Yet Shiwen is not. She does a 58.68 s final leg, which is only about 10% off the best 100m freestyle swimmers. The conclusion that I would draw from this is that her 100m freestyle leg is disproportionately fast not only by comparison to Lochte, but also to her peers, and to the best 100m freestyle swimmers.

Scary thought then that there is a “reserve” there that would see her get even better. It would only cause more questioning though – imagine a strong world record of 4:30 lowered by 5 or 6 seconds by a 16-year old?

Interesting times. Again, to stress the earlier point, this is an interesting discussion. And the doping aspect is important (don’t shy away from the question just because it’s politically incorrect – look where that got sport before), but this doesn’t prove anything. So let’s wait and see.

Gary Lineker asking Lizzie Armitstead if she would be “helping” Emma Pooley in the TT.

Not knowing the finer points of strategy is understandable, but the basic concepts of the sport?

Great article here on this debate.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say that she is doping, but the last leg time and the pacing strategy are both suspicious. Also, the chinese have a recent history of doping in swimming.

Not a CS person myself, but have some general advice:

– Google is your friend.

– Places like stackexchange and DSPrelated will always be better (than STW) for deep technical questions (the kind where google doesn’t help so much).

– If you know the class of algorithms you need, look for a review paper in a good journal (IEEE/ACM) which gives a good and thorough overview to the class of algorithms and will point you in the direction of the best references to find detailed algorithmic information.

I’ve got a barely used 456 18″ that I could do with shifting: £100 posted including seatclamp and FSA headset.

Email in profile if you’re interested.

Too early to speculate about Sagan being caught doping?

Try to frame the answer in terms of the irresistible sexual allure of all motor vehicles, and HGVs in particular. Then go on to describe your own love of drivers, and how this arose in your personal development. If you feel that you need a little bit more, perhaps talk a little about lorry drivers having all the best porn and lots of time to enjoy it and themselves.

That should do it, I would have thought…

I don’t quite get what you are on about – excluding the polarised specs – all the UV spectrums were pretty much identical, 99.9% protection until a sharp drop to ~nothing at 405nm, except the mirrored which gave an additional 38% protection over all the other glasses until 430nm when they too dropped down to roughly nothing.

Don’t think you can see anything shorter than ~400nm. However, not being able to see from 430nm to 400nm means there will be more colour distortion in the blue/violet end of the spectrum.

Then again, I have a proper pair of Jawbones….

Interesting stuff, although I think the extension of the stop band below 405nm is more of a defect as 405nm is still visible.

Perhaps we need another buy/sell forum for people that actually use the chat forums?

Thanks a lot guys, just what I needed.

Yeah, this winds me up a bit. I’m not a hardcore poster on here, but my primary purpose is chit-chat and advice. I have sold a couple of things to folk on here, but like to think I’m helping out the “community” rather than making a profit.

Seems a little like high-frequency trading and flow trading on financial markets. Are these guys providing liquidity? Or just sucking out bargains that the rest of us might have got?

I don’t think it is possible to have a BB mount chainguide on a BB30.

If you have ISCG tabs, you need to put spacers between the tabs and the backplate of the chain device (needless to say, you need the appropriate chainguide for the kind of ISCG mount).

I’ve been considering getting a road bike for a while now.

How do the experienced roadies feel about the more “endurance” type bikes (eg. Cannondale Synapse) in comparison with the “race” type bikes (eg. Cannondale CAAD)?

Would either of these type of bikes be preferable for an MTBer without road experience, given I’m unlikely to be riding longer than 2 or 3 hours?

Cheers

Not clearance, but the effect of chain torque on the suspension.

Think of how something like a five behaves in the granny ring compared to the big ring. I ride an Alpine, and would love a little bit more ground clearance, but the 36T ring is best as it is aligned with the pivot.

HTH

Might be lining myself up for a kicking here, but…

If you could use a (for instance middleburn) trials chainset, you can get a chainring up to perhaps 24T?

I think that trials and DJ type of stuff are the only places where you normally find rings of those sizes (if you are riding an FS, then it might be a bad idea for different reasons though).

if you’re not too bothered about authenticity, then maybe have a look at these

Still interested in this, anyone for ideas? My current setup of tubelessed normal panaracer rampage SC is a little disturbing: lots of squirming and wobbling until the tyre pressure hits silly levels (35+ PSI).

Should I just bite the bullet and get some RQ 2.2 UST black chillis?

Didn’t someone get their Ferrari/ Lambo/ Porsche crushed as a punishment for speeding as they were so rich, a fine was nothing to them and the judge ruled destroying their car was the only suitable punishment?

Reckon you might be referring to this guy: $1m fine for doing 180mph in an 80mph.

Marvellous, is he on the list too now?

Am I on the list?

Wow, just had my first ever post deletion.

This thread just keeps getting better.

A fair few combinations seem to work. Good article here.

I have a large 2007 Commencal MiniDH frame that I keep intending on getting around to selling. It’s used but in pretty good condition. If you’re interested I would part with it for £125 (I REALLY need the space). Drop me an email for pics etc.