must be the time of the year hormones or middle age…just been and arranged for the DAS best of luck ont the CBT

ha just the kind of info i was looking for marsdenman

cheers

grumm from experience all beer tends to taste the same after about 15 0f em

everything tends to look fancier after about 2 of em

HOLY SHIT!!!!!

Just found out after consultation with disputes section of bank

its perfectly legal for a company to take money if you have given them your card details over the phone…and you dont need to authorize them to do it as its considered that on the first occasion you have given prior consent…they can do it again and again

if i was to say to you then that the 456 or whippet thing could be made in the Uk instead of at the lynskey factory would you turn round and say "oh shit drop in quality" possibly

i need a pair of sofas

seriously i am doing my accounts and have just recieved this months bank statement on it was a transaction for 450 quid this does not correspond with any expense i have incurred so i phoned the bank thinking i had indeed been done…

it actually turns out they have tried to authorize 560 first only dropping to 500 and then 450 which is the limit for authorization on that card

the bank says it is now going to disput e the transaction however it does need to be paid by the 30th this is usually through my personal bank account so if i now find it is fraud do i go to the police and get the poor girl in accounts into a shedload of bother…or do igive it to em both barrels for being cheeky barstewards

i thought there was a shedload of new design frames? on their way

did anyone ever read the bike engineer from cannondale one …similar veign ..i think it was on bikesnob ny

the scary thing about carbon is the armchair engineers views of it
and that your mum heard about a failure…it does really shag it for the less technically adept…who have fearfull thoughts of a carbon shard heading for their mitral valves

the true thing is that yes carbon just does go bang the other true part is that theres a reason why and till lately part makers didnt understand it….

OCLV bullshit is just another marketing hype thing that trek thought up it was actually invented by a complete other company and even then there was a failure rate which was considered acceptable.
and in some cases was a case of overcompaction not optimum compaction via a bladder

remember the two guys in charge of treks composites design were messing about just like everyone else at the time.

i keep trying to get this idea across to people but composites in the early days was a suck it and see aproach even bert rutan messed about a fair bit

carbon used in brakes is a completely different carbon to the kind used in anything you will get your hands on in a bike shop and is much more expensive…the binder or matrix aint resin…wont go into it but try getting carbon to covalently bond

bonding stuff again is misunderstood and im sure everyone has seen a glued joint break but as with anything they are usually poorly designed glued joints with very poor overall procedures when it comes down to the nitty gritty

thermoplastics are pretty amazing for composites its been done..i have done it …its easier to use epoxies as thats technology people are used to working with on bike frames

silly him i thinks..

it would be bags packed and off to canada for me if i could find some female stupid enough to even consider getting hitched

they have a different motion control damper to the race and the addition of the carbon on the 2009 isnt worth mentioning..next year you will get a carbon crown and steerer to make the astronomical price sound like you got something for your money

silly name if they ban radios on the tour nect year

no radio shack

jimmer the statement is nearly as wrong as the bloke who said that the japanese were the only people who make carbon fibre

there is probably one in plymouth

usually they go by the name LLOYDS..NATWEST HSBC many different names and faces

stoner beat me to it…..lol

ill give you some money….how??

the carbon haters recently tried to blame jens voights trip along the ground on a fork failure…till they realised the fork was still in one piece…..ooops

what did the whyte get

you actuaally only get half a bike dipped in even more plastic

NTI im sure a certain journo used to work for em back then

whats a reasonable cost for a carbon frame

personally just waiting for the drugs announcements next week…when its finished

look up amp cable disc or pro stop they were both cable operated hydraulic discs…the caliper floated from side to dide but iirc only one piston moved

they died out at least 10 years ago if not longer

what is it exactly you want to know

next time you see a gang of scrotes just wind it up as fast as you can and plough head long into them …leap to your feet and go ninja crazy…they will fill their pants and think your one psycho …mofo

sall about respect innit

what about metal matrix rotors…half the weight ..the discs dont wear though

i think the original post was a scaredy post over on some other forum (mtbr springs to mind)i remember reading it but im sure it was the fact that the ER folks had not removed all the foreign objects from the acccident site an interesting point though is that it could have been any foreign object and just because it happened to be carbon fibre and a bike accident it has become legend

forgot to ask if anyone knows what heart valves are made from

6 speakers????

twas only the other day the ps3 got booted and a real blu ray spinner was obtained no one ever mentioned 6 bloody speakers

call me a bit dim here i have an hdmi cable…dont feel tooled up enough

yeah something to do with resolving objects at so many arcseconds per whatever meaning a mirror so big….it needeed to be bigger to see things on the moon

it was a tongue in cheek remark hubble not being so good it sends lovely pictures from the far reaches

oooooh its interesting when its something you know nothing about

well you learn something about resolution of telescopes everyday

still a bit miffed hubble aint the all seing eye though…they spent a shed load on it and its erm not so good afterall

wonder if the lunar rover needed to be insured

@compositepro…dont tweet much tho

why cant you see where they landed through a big telescope

are you sure the 6.3% was just spent on hushing up carbon s migratory patterns or the fact that in america if another human being farts near you its easier to settle out of court than in.

like for example the average uneducated joe that puts his forks in backwards then goes for a claim…JRA has a completely different meaning over there

it must be true if it were ont tinternet..

it sounds more like folks just want a googlefight

Nmri …most people dont mention the N…its that word wot scares folks into groing an extra heed

this is the rumour thread to end them all i fear!!!

to put it into perspective theres always enough info out there if you look for it…i have a bigger fear of 12V MICROWAVE OVENS