Felt edict

What do you mean by workstations ?

Without a doubt hand Easy to replace and spares are say to come by

Luke sywalkers hand really exists a firm I know in Leeds developed it http://www.bebionic.com/2011/04/26/brazilian-patient-celso-demonstrates-his-bebionic-hand/

Credit where credits due any company that can make that much money out of old rope should be commended

they need to obtain one of these somehow http://www.bebionic.com/2011/04/26/brazilian-patient-celso-demonstrates-his-bebionic-hand/

its always fascinated me assistive technologies after i finished designing the above as we plough millions into technology that could be used for people who have had a mishap

id like to do carbon fibre crutches with a shock in the bottom next

Councils can’t just make laws can they?..

dunno if a footway is the same as a footpath?Maybe the same rules would apply if the council did try to bring action

Didn’t some judge say that it was legal to push your bike on a footway….something along the lines of it makes no difference if you were pushing a bike or not.

Wasnt recent 1980 I think in the appeal court

Is it the hard tail frame

Someone really should engineer some great British products……

http://www.sottogroup.com exclusive license givers

Aye and someone will claim they invented both the hammer and screwdriver

The landowner is more pissed off at the moment about walkers and their dogs not being on leads …the signs are there for all to see and they still aren’t complying with that…so maybe next time point that out to em

What’s up with a hammer and screwdriver

they didn’t theres a programme on tv called my big fat gypsy wedding if they are marrying theres bound to be some procreation going on down the line the pike will continue

just realised you said pike….sorry

well done for the record its the same way lots of companies like scott build frames only without the steel bits….now go charge 5k for a bike

what grade of aluminium is it

try dp420 its a good un….. spabond from Gurit are another similar product 365 springs to mind however the metallics may need to be treated to get the best from them either mechanically blasted then degreased or chemically by applying a substrate(I spent many years designing glued things and the glue isn’t the only consideration here)I have no idea what your joint design is like or the forces but on the whole either epoxy will join them

Glass wrapping is the old way of doing it now things are so much better…
I just started repairing bust bikes as opposed to busted other carbon things.it seems people don’t want to bin their investment.not surprisingly the poor understanding and old wives tales are still pretty much the standard by which carbon is judged

Poor design is nearly always evident in busted things….however sometimes it’s human error when processing the stuff

go to framefroum…read how to build frames (its not relevant if you have any engineering experience whatsoever as its an art)..become a framebuilder charge 1200 quid a frame…watch money roll in…

953 corrodes…..well stains….it needs the same carefully purging as ti to weld….tube sizes and wall thickness at Reynolds current list is mainly for road

I use macs here for all my design work I have a 2008 17 inch a mac pro and recently upgraded to the new sandy bridge version of the 15 inch MacBook pro I run boot camp only and not vm or parallels the new bootcamp 3.1 install was a doodle and it’s fast under windows 7,still eats battery and gets warm. The bootcamp install was just a bit more diddly on the older MacBook due to drivers etc but still happy with it I use office but mainly run 3d cad on them the mac pro especially

I have long thought about just doing carbon frame repairs rather than design

Same up here at langsett

It was more a question would you pay 3 times the price for a frame

IMO the CEN testing is a moot point when it comes to carbon frames

Someone once said theres no such thing as a bad material just a bad application for it

On the other hand it does mystify me why people would deem that aerospace Quality defines a good product

Those Chinese bikes everyone seems to be cranking out for a third the price of a uk made frame surely can’t be that bad can they…..would people pay more for a product 3 times times the price for a uk made and designed frame.

It’s the name of the company I use when I design stuff …..I fiddle with carbon a living

953 currently fiddling with this at the moment…no Reynolds don’t do a suitable off the peg tube set for mtb ….why not just buy a tube set off reynolds go on frame forum and learn how to build a frame….job done your a framebuilder

There’s a company called marine ware who will sell you industrial adhesives.
More than anything surface preparation before gluing…or bonding is the key.
Araldite is a perfectly good adhesive if you get the right one though really it’s just a two part epoxy padded out with filler so people don’t get it wrong when it mixed…the glue is ok often the surface prep isnt

Look for a toughened epoxy they are less brittle Than standard bonding agents

Modern life is now measured by inome rather than how fit your bird is”……..

Wonder if my bird is better than yours will get mentioned soon

When it went wrong 1996 there’s a lot of history there……I drive didn’t kill GT …..the thing is lots of things from…dare I say it back in the day were cool triple triangle might have been bollocks but when the sport and designs were new anything went.everything was cool I was reading a post today where someone was slating the orange 5 for being old and out of date…I think brant stepped up to defend the brand and true they have been in the sport a long time but how long can you exist on old reputation.

There’s been a few post on here recently one involving the uk style differing from the us and tbh there are more niche aspects to the sport now than there ever have been it used to be you jumped on a zaskar and did everything but progress is progress now we have a bike to go up a hill a bike to do the flat bit and a bike to get down the hill hey soon there will even be a bike just to do the car to the cafe ride

In 10 years people will be saying bloody he’ll how did people ride with a head angle that slack. And yup you guessed it the darlings of the moment will be getting panned over on some forum

Gt went kaboom when it became a shopping mall brand iirc I knew a few who went to set up felt

ah you failed to mention also that in between taxing your car online and the disc arriving in the post …the nice rozzers will bang you for not displaying a disc……….

the ride to cut gate for me is open house front door …..go across field ….through langsett wood up little hill…..believe me it used to be a lot lot better…..it has been ruined by being able to ride it every day but having said that a lot of the features that made that ride special have been gone for a long time

even being at the little trig point at sunrise is meaningless now

however wharncliffe used to be a lot lot better…maybe im becoming jaded in my old age

CUT GATE

TJ summed it up in the first sentence

take your pram on the footpath and if challenged OWN em with it

take your pram on the footpath and if challenged OWN em with it

just get a hack saw and dont be a tool with it when you get to the other side…if the carbon is splintering on you whilst your cutting it you have a bigger problem than the number of tpi on your blade…..

if you ever cut a lot of carbon tubes you will quickly find the quality of the laminate dictates when and weather it starts to splinter

for the record a carbon laminate should really be cut with tungsten carbide blade which do come in differing grades…..wait till the tool makanufacturers find this out they will be forcing it down joe publics throats as the must have item due to carbon fibres unique needs and public feeding of bollocks……..by so called industry experts

sorry never clicked the pdf link "first carbon specific carbon hacksaw…roflmao" would anyone like to buy my new line of clothing specifically for mtb riders it weighs nothin….i mean absolutely nothin…and its invisible…rant over

do not worry

do not use a 99g carbon bar

do not use a carbon rail saddle

do not use a silly light carbon seatpost….

all good

3d cad wont benefit from i7 but will benefit from more ram in that you can load much larger datasets .rendering will run a lot quicker FEA will run a lot quicker

i have found 64 bit on core i7 to be rock solid….in all honesty its as good as xp was

shocked at how much I7 has come down my mac pro cost 2.5k only 6 months ago and the acer was a grand but to be honest the amount of productivity i got from both machines paid for itself in the first month……now im finding the core i7 laptop is as capable as the big boxes with the exception of the mac which tears through stuff but maybe more than 500 quid budget