All I’ll say is that Open Pros are tough as old boots, and it’s never worth skimping with wheels, dissembling them makes repairs an enormous headache.

Open Pro vote here, then.

Happened to me once, while jogging in ’02. Had to go to the adjacent Railway Station to remove my pants and get cleaned up. Only when I was holding them in my hand did I realise the only bins are on the platforms and made of transparent bin bags.

Oh the walk of shame.

It’s not just rolling around he’s been doing. I’ve seen this story a few times over the years.

As above.
And Rohloff chains.

Hello Not Emily/3dvgirl

That does sound Like a design oversight, IMHO.

How thin are they in the thinnest spots?

I would guess that if they are thinner than the quoted min thickness on the manufacturer’s website they are “Not fit for purpose”.

Email the distributer? YMMV

You could always buy 3 RealDolls?

Manly ones.

EDIT: Poor OP….

With this young lady?

She has room for 8, it seems.

OT I know but the last thing I rode in my big was 2000M>Sea in 2 hours down a winding road off Gunung Batur in Bali.

Sadly my Ex didn’t want to go over 20mph down it, but it was rather relaxing!

Depends how far it is to the next junction. In London, for example, they probably won’t catch you up.

Hora’s

Meaner tactic best reserved for Salespersons – Keep a pack of fake/prop blood handy.

When you see them through the keyhole/spyhole apply liberally>open door>extend hand>”I’m a bit busy right now do you want to come back when I’ve finished, eerm, what I’m doing”

TBH I kinda feel cars should always give way to Bikes.

Steam gives way to sail!

They’ve only to flex a toe, I’ve got to get all that KE back manually.

My father’s tactic – say “I’m just listening to some music, we can talk when it’s over. Do you want to come and listen” – “Yes, sure” – “It’s the Ring Cycle, I’m on disc 2”. *Turns music up very loud, relaxes*

LP Side ends, they draw breath “I’ll just turn it over”

LP Side ends “Next disc”

repeat…..they leave.

He put some Jehovah’s Witnesses though that twice, they stopped coming back.

You shouldn’t berate those that have the spacial awareness and skills to ride with fluidity in traffic, just because you lack them.

That does make you sound like a cock of quite a special kind.

It is a skill though, however cockish it sounds to say. I was educated in coping with traffic by a Londoner I used to ride with, when I got there I’d stop @ every red light clear view/empty road or not.

When I left, working as a courier on my DJ with slicks, I’d go hours without stopping for anything, merging with traffic, undertaking, overtaking, burning off faster than cars riding on the pavement, riding the wrong way down streets and hucking steps.

I got stopped twice, once in Oxford Circus – PCSO stepped out in front of me on my way to work and flagged me down – no comeback

Once on Horseguards Parade – went around a Red light without even noticing, pulled onto thew pavement thinking about stopping and then dropped back on to the road. Cue a “Blip Blip” and me stopping. Again no charge [Which is good ‘cos I was holding a spliff I’d not yet lit and I bet at that address I’d have been charged for something]

I’ve never crashed into anyone, I’ve never caused an accident, and I’ve never been hurt by any of the above.

However, once I turned right on the A21, fell on in a patch of Diesel and was hit dead on by a bus flying down the road. You never can tell…

I’m not saying I condone breaking the law, and I’ll bet that with all those smart-ass moves listed above I pissed a LOT of people off – but I will say there’s a real skill in moving through London traffic, and if you get good, you are nearly in another plane.

Sounds like Cartridge brake pads.

The metal casing holds the pad evenly against the rim and in theory makes it easier to reset the brakes when you change the pads, because you might not need to adjust the pads position, just the cable. Usually you only need to remove a small retaining screw to allow the pad to slide out – the closed end of the backing should clearly be facing forward, so the pad is retained NOT by that pin, but by the casing.

Usually they look like this

and In my experience they are the same fitting for several companies.

I suggest you take yours out, pop in to a shop with it and get some Shimano pads that fit from them. Then armed with the name of the Shimano brakes that those pads will fit [check the pack] I’d buy Swisstop ones in the future, as IMHO Swisstop are the best quality for rim-brake pads.

http://www.swissstop.ch/road.aspx

I am a bit of a masochist…

http://sound.westhost.com/bafflestep.htm

Seems to explain a few things.

I have designed and made an active speaker, a looong time ago, when I was 15. I was an 50W STK Series amp, a doped silk tweeter, an dual coil Altai long throw Polyprop bass/mid and a huge PSU: split rail [2×10000?F] 100W.

Sadly it was with high-level crossover, but it’s still in service down in Cornwall in a friends boat…..

I don’t doubt I have a lot to learn :)

Thanks for your time CGG – kind of you

Yes please.

sam{d0t}firth{?t}gmail{d0t}com

Here’s one way that could happen – an impromptu air bearing.

If the tumblr had a depression in it’s base, and if the surface was either very smooth or had a little water on, then it’s possible for the trapped air to suspend the glass with VERY low friction, so either a breath of wind, or a very very small un-levelness of the surface would send it scooting off.

The interesting bit is if [for example, other ways this could happen are possible too] the contents were warmer than the tumbler, it might take a few seconds for the pressure to be generated, so you could put it down, mind your own business, and then later see it suddenly scoot off and smash.

I stayed in some uni halls once when I was about 8. They were let out as hotel type accommodation between terms.

Found panties and a syringe in the drawer.
Told my folks.
We left.

“There is much that science doesn’t understand, many mysteries
still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light years
across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the
case forever. We are constantly stumbling on surprises. Yet some
New Age and religious writers assert that scientists believe that
‘what they find is all there is’. Scientists may reject mystic
revelations for which there is no evidence except somebody’s
say-so, but they hardly believe their knowledge of Nature to be
complete.
Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It’s just
the best we have. In this respect, as in many others, it’s like democracy. Science by itself cannot advocate courses of human
action, but it can certainly illuminate the possible consequences of
alternative courses of action.

The scientific way of thinking is at once imaginative and
disciplined. This is central to its success. Science invites us to let
the facts in, even when they don’t conform to our preconceptions.
It counsels us to carry alternative hypotheses in our heads and see
which best fit the facts. It urges on us a delicate balance between
no-holds-barred openness to new ideas, however heretical, and
the most rigorous sceptical scrutiny of everything – new ideas and
established wisdom. This kind of thinking is also an essential tool
for a democracy in an age of change.

One of the reasons for its success is that science has built-in,
error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider
this an overbroad characterization, but to me every time we
exercise self-criticism, every time we test our ideas against the
outside world, we are doing science. When we are self-indulgent
and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into
pseudoscience and superstition. “

The Demon Haunted World – P28/29 Carl Sagan

^Duuuuude! :roll:

I’ll use a ;) next time

poop?

This crops up a lot – search the forums and you’ll find lots of info.

Just back from Dorset

Damn – someone beat me to the Star at Goats reference.

I must do LESS work today and watch the forums more closely! :roll:

The shower I used in an [otherwise] pleasant campsite the other week had proximity controls for temp up, down and power – AT ELBOW HEIGHT.

I swore a lot.

Yeah, a couple of times. Not with family though.

It’s exciting, reminds you not to limit yourself through familiarity.

Cheers.

Would this circuit be good enough it’s OpAmp based, but doesn’t have phase shift.

CGG – I have a Q for you that I meant to ask last time we conversed.

Can I copy the values of the components in my speaker’s crossovers but with lower power handling components to create a x-over to put before my amp – and turn my speakers active

I am also assuming that I can’t actually use the x-overs from inside the speakers – there are two inductors that look like 200W toroidal transformers and I guess they won’t work at such low signal levels correctly?

Karinofnine – check out that PDF of the Sagan book I linked to on the previous page.

I was going to answer but I got palpitations from the excitement.

I just don’t smell very much – probably because I have a very healthy pescitarian diet :)

Aaah – yes, that’s what I mean! I shall in the next flat I’m moving to in a couple of weeks :)

Milk of Magnesia – never tried it but heard it mentioned.

Then again that’s just another metal salt.

I find that when I wash my pits with real soap and then apply a drop of two and rub it around of Tea Tree oil that works too. However it’s been shown that TT oil is absorbed into your blood in 30 minutes.

No, and I know that it’s a problem. I have a 8*4m room as a listening room. The audio fires across one end, the speakers a meter out from the wall and my seat quite close to the opposite one [head 30cm from it]. This gets me hefty deep bass reinforcemt [Chase and Status has the whole room throbbing] – actually, it’s great. The room has relatively thin, plastered walls, and a bare ceiling.

There is a problem though, as soon as the music is turned up beyond talking volume, it starts to get progressively more shrill.

When you clap loudly in that room, you can hear the echo for more than half a second, so what it needs is wall-hung rugs or such across most of the listening end. I would imagine that I would get much less room interaction then?

Tell you what though, they know they have a problem now and will try to fix it.

I’ll take that option, thanks.

Drac – Moderator

I still ride 26″

So do I :)

I keep thinking I saw a 27×1¼ in my box. Though it’s likely a daytime hallucination.