Have a look at Merlin cycles, they had some Merlin Malt frames with full Deore groupset and a reasonable fork on for about £450…

Or, get to Halfords and have a look at the bottom end Boardman hardtail…

I wonder if this would be 2k per car… if so, buy up 100 or so bangers and then trade them all for a nice Aston or something..

:lol:

Well, technically it’s not modulation, but it does describe things rather nicely…

Am afraid not as I will be looning it around the huck-fest that is Dorset on a stag do…

Actually, I have no idea whether the trails in Dorset can be hucked, or even if they are suitable for looning, but I shall give it a try…

:wink:

No matter what rotor size you have, the brakes have to absorb the same amount of energy to stop you from a given speed.

Which means that Steve above is technically correct, they both generate the same amount of heat, but don’t confuse that with temperature. Due to the larger thermal mass of the bigger disc, the temperature rise with bigger discs is less.

The main reason that people like bigger discs is to do with the lever feel while braking, as less effort needs to be put in by the rider for the bigger discs.

So, what if it is shown, as some studies appear to suggest, that for some accidents a helmet would have made an injury worse, would people still be so vehmently pro-compulsion?

juan… if you think the per time or per km statistics are fundamently wrong, how exactly would you state the figures so that you could compare them?

Do they not have to notify you of any changes in their charging before they do it?

I’m the one with the other orange singlespeed, stood next to Spud in one of those piccies…

You know, the slow one at the back.. :o)

I’d say it was about 50:50…

Or should that be 2:1?

Hmmmmm

:wink:

Why would going to dual and bash help with chain suck in the granny ring? Unless you are planning on shifting the line of your chainset you’ll have exactly the same situation, in fact, possibly a worse one if you are increasing the size of the granny ring…

Apart from that, the gearing will be fine for Peak Districty type stuff…

Just to add to the thanks to everyone for making it a great ride… even if my legs did stop working properly at the end!! Also, a big thank you to whoever it was that lent me the spanner to allow me to re-tension my chain… it was so nice to be able to put some pressure on the peddles without fearing that the chain would slip off!!

Just had a look on my phone/gps thingy and it has the distance down as just under 14 miles for the ride up to the cake stop. I’ve got the route as a .gpx file if anyone is interested…

Hold on… nobody told me it was a race…

I thought it was a drinking competition!

Yay… I’m in.. I think…

I’ve paid at least..

:o)

Nothing here for me either…

A quick google leads to this… http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17008163

I_did_dab… apparently it’s to do with the way that the yeasts in sourdough breads work, and with all these things they were talking about good and bad gluten, with the bad stuff being used by the yeast, and that some coeliacs are only effected by the bad gluten.

How much of this is current thinking though I don’t know, but the thought behind it seems to be to do with the way modern breads are made, with loads of yeast and fast rising times, and that the increase in people with gluten intolerance seems to have gone along with the uses of these modern processes.

If I remember correctly the research was being done in Germany…

Polenta(cornmeal) is gluten free, and can be used for a good variety of things, even cakes and breads.

Rice noodles/vermicelli are pretty good for oriental cooking, and as a pasta replacement.

Have made some pretty good bread and naan with the Dove Farms gluten free flour too.

Also, I’ve heard about some research that suggests it might be possible for some Coeliacs to eat sour-dough breads…

But I feel the real issue here, is that as someone who won’t subscribe to the Brant Bum-Licking Society, I am therefore a Pariah, an Outcast, not one of the ‘Gang’.

Surely being an Outcast means you are one of the gang…

:wink:

Well, if you thought 6 months was too short, the Tories were on the radio last night trying to trump the government by stating they’d have introduced a similar scheme but with only 6 weeks training!!

Working fine for me…

Surrogacy for money is illegal… the surrogate is only allowed to be paid reasonable expenses, but quite how you define that is anyones business though…

I’ve not posted one on this thread either… but I’d imagine that’s no great loss, and more likely a blessing…

:o)

Another Nottingham bod here, and am sometimes seen (rarely it seems at the moment) out riding with Spud on a Thursday…

We’re usually out and about on the routes going out from Strelley and wandering all over… there are some surprisingly good little bits of singletrack hidden about the place when you know where to look.. :o)

I’d say Nikwax Analogy too… either from Paramo or Cioch Direct..

Rudy Project are supposed to be bringing out a new fancy lens that can take a prescription which look pretty good if their website is to be believed, and they reckoned they’d be cheaper than Oakley… although I inquired about them a while ago and have not heard anything since.

But maybe worth a look into…

I might well be tempted into a little jaunt around the woods..

Watched Tropic Thunder last night… was surprisingly good with a good number of laugh out loud moments…

I’ll be there… assuming I pull my finger out of my arse on the 13th that is…

I’ll be the slow fat drunk one on a bike… oh, but that doesn’t single me out much at SSUK does it.. :wink:

Do it online if you have the V5, you can do it on the DVLA website. They then check the details against the insurance and MOT databases… so no need to actually have the cover note.

I’ve also managed to get a tax disc by going to a DVLA office and pleading my case to the nice lady who worked there… but that was some time ago and they could have got stricter on those things…

For a hard one, how about the Bob Graham round? :D

Munge-chick… it’s not so much the environmental aspects with regards to driving, although they aren’t great considering the mileage that you’d be doing, but more the the damage to the paths, the disturbance in Wasdale and things like that. Overall, it’s not people going out to enjoy the outdoors…

Have a read here for a locals view on the subject.

As for other things to do… Yorkshire 3 Peaks, Lyke Wake, or if you really must do the 3 peaks, how about doing it by bike? Or for more of a challange, by kayak?

Definitely suggest doing the Yorkshire 3 Peaks, although if you want more of a challange then how about the Lyke Wake walk? You need to do about 40 miles in less than 24 hours…

Will agree with the folks above and politely ask you not to do the other 3 peaks.

molgrips… sorry, but do you understand this? If so, where does this notch come from? Certainly not from an RC network!

Just for reference, the 1/RC frequency is in radians per second, you’ll need to add a 2*pi in there somewhere to get a result in Hz! Also, this frequency is called the cutoff frequency, breakpoint, or 3db point.

One other thing, the larger the R and C, the lower the cutoff frerquency…

Spongebob… it still is all snake oil and mumbo-jumbo, you’ve just been sucked in!

B = (wx/y) – z – x

That’s wrong Harry… if you multiply out by w you need to do it on both sides of the equation…

B = x/y – (x+z)/w

But is there something more to this as it’s an easy bit of algebra…

jimmy… didn’t they do that one on CSI one time? :D

Paragon Machine Works dropouts… but only cos I have some on my Soli..

:D

Well, the box arrived today.. and we are currently drinking a very very pleasant Sauvignon Blanc…

If all the wine is this good it’s going to be hard to not drink it all far sooner than planned!

:D

Just ride your bike it’ll be quicker than getting the tube with all the phaffing that will involve, cheaper too!

And the Victoria is below the ground all the way, the only place it’s above ground is in the depot!

molgrips… I hate to break it to you, but with just the resistance and a capacitance in a cable you won’t get a ‘resonant frequency’, you’ll just get a low pass filter. To get any resonance you’ll need some inductance in there as well…

Now, for the cable to give a roll-off in the audio band you’ll be looking a some rather strangely made interconnects as they’d need a huge capacitance…

RudeBoy… you are correct up to a point, but that point is something like thin bell wire, anything over that and the differences become negliable, and you’ll not see any difference on an oscilloscope, in the audio band at least.

On the whole it’s all snake oil and bunkum… but always jolly good fun poking sticks at the audiophiles every now and again… :D