I was pleasently surprised what a solid pair of sand filled speaker stands did for the depth of sound out my modestly priced hifi speakers. Got the stands second hand, used blu-tac to mount the speakers to the base plates, and ensured the stands feet spikes were all level and in good contact with the floor boards through the carpet and you can really tell the difference. Probably cost me £30 to do but was worth every penny. So you see some of there geeky rambelings work! but there is some right sh!t too lol 😆 anti-static guns really! 😕

Probably an ametour photographer just looking for something new to shoot. My shift partners a very keen photographer and part of a camera club, which always have little competitions to shoot certian subjects, still life, sports, nature, night shots, you get the idea. I wouldnt get up tight about it, perhaps be pleased you were worth taking a picture off.

And not one self righteous prick comented that he was riding on the pavement, shock horror.

Ive just ordered a 2.1 kenda small block eight for my local mixed riding during the week. The huge knobly 2.25 Cinders that are on the bike at the minute are being worn down at an alarming rate by the asphelt, although I didnt think they rolled to bad at 60psi. Anyway, whislt I had a couple of night shifts to kill at work I spent countless hours reading all the reviews etc. I came across the following.

Maxxis wormdrive – looked good, maybe a little narrow
Conti travel contact – bit narrow, slipy if trails greasy
Intense tyre systems system 3 xc – seem to fail read this
Conti double fighter – Plauged by punctures comented by many people.
Maxis High roller semi slick – Nearly bought this, nice and chunkey!
Nokian Gazzut – good looking pattern, available in 2.1, but looked a bit too cheap and no reviews.
Nokian NBX lite s – looks good, nice and chunkey 2.2, puncture protection.
Schwalbe black jack – Wide, cheap, good reviews, should roll quick and still give loads of off road grip
schwalbe land cruiser – similar to above but with faster center rib, bit narrow
schwalbe marathon plus atb
shwalbe smart sam – again good reviews, wide, fast rolling, good off road grip, cheap!
WTB Vulpine race tyre – 2.1, light, looks good?
Continental traffic – 2.1, good reviews, fast roling knobly, good reviews, maybe a little heavy
Kenda small block eight – light, grippy as, rolls well, duel compound rubber wears well, half a chance on the muddy off road sections i ride.

lmfao, this post is just so wrong 😆

Totally agree with you traildog. Why would I sponsor you to do something that you enjoy and would probably do for fun anyway. Parachute jumps are the worst offenders, with most of the money paying for you to enjoy the jump, wtf is that all about?

If you want sponsoring, do something productive! something for the comunity or work for the charity itself if posible. If you asked me to sponsor you in a race, id tell you to get off, but if you came and asked me to sponsor you to plant trees to help prevent land errosion on your local trails, or to clean up the local rec area, or perhaps paint the youth club or comunity building, i dunno, just anything of benefit to others, Id put my hand straight in my pocket.

Parachute jumps….honestly??

Your not realistically going to prevent marks and scratches with a little extra laquer. I understand you want to preserve the paintwork the best you can but your really just going to have to accept that it will get scratched eventually. After the first couple of marks, you wil give up caring, and to be fair, its probably only ever you thats going to notice them.

I deffinatly wouldnt pay a garage to respray it before you started, and laquer aint gonna stick to that lovely fresh paintwork unless you key the surface by sanding it down, which i'm faily sure you wouldnt want to do to a new bike. Best save the money and in a few years when its really looking used, strip it down and get it powder coated, which can be cheeper than you think and will give it a harder wearing finnish.

Its probably the oil flowing through the damper unit that swooshes. Mine make a little of that noise as they rebound. Perfectly normal I think.

I weigh only a couple of pounds short of 200 like you, and I run my reba race with 120mm travel at 130psi in the top and 135psi in the bottom with the rebound damper set one full turn off the rabbit 🙂

For ages I was following the guide pressures which in hind sight were far to stiff and I wasnt making best use of the fork. I dont think I ever bottom'd them out. I still dont think ive felt them hit the travel limmit at the lower pressure, but the elastic band says otherwise lol 8)

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The biggest waste of money you spend on a PC is the PSU.

You get zero peformance boost and more often than not buy one that has twice the power you actually need.

Even the cheap PSUs these days are very good quality compared to the old days.

Yes you dont get any performance boost from a good quality PSU, but you cant be that short sighted. An extra £20 over a cheep PSU will potentially save you £100's in replacment parts and lost data when the cheep crap one takes out spurious components of the system should it fail and surge the system. The better PSU's protect against this and the stable voltage output prevents premature failure of sensative hardware.

Your call, pays your money, take you chance.

I find the Yellow tinted lenses perfect for riding through forests in sunny weather. You get just enough tint and all the uv protection to stop the sun blinding you out in the open and good contrast in the darker forest areas, where the yellow tints certainly dont reduce the visability at all, if not improve it. Plus, As mentioned above, everything looks much nicer, much warmer and sunny, so much that when you take them off after an hour or more you end up depressed as **** at how bleak the day really is! lol.

Ill second corsair. Ive fitted several of these to peoples PC's and they've been quiet and reliable with a good stable output. I did have one fail, but the mark of a good PSU is one that dosent take out the rest of your system when it pops. The Corsair PSU's have a good amount of protection to prevent this. The cheepie ones dont and end up costing you more in the end.

Your all Mental 😆 I can see the appeal on a nice summers evening, but with this weeks weather 😯 No Thankyou. Yea Yea, I know, I need to MTFU, but I aint swapping my comfy king size and a great nights sleep for a cold, wet, flea bitten night in a bin bag. 😛

Ive read loads and loads of topics across many forums about Juicy brakes now. They sound somewhat hit or miss, especially when it comes to bleading. Id say your right about there being a common problem but Im afraid if not somewhat thankfull that I havent experianced it myself so I cant speculate what causes it.

sounds great Grimy, clicked the link and got an ad saying "Find someone to **** in Altrincham Tonight" I call that more likley to get me fired.

Was trying on my E75 but cant get the login to work properly

I do apologise Mike, I couldnt think of a good proxy server site of the top of my head and just google searched for one. That one seemed resonable as the blocking softwear we have at work when i posted the message had filtered out the unsafe advert. But you get the idea all the same. If your company are reasonable and the softwear is just a little over zelous, then using a proxy server wont cause any upset. just find one thats a little cleaner. 😳

Just go through a proxy server website like http://www.youhide.com and you can beat your companys blocking softwear 😉

If theres little left of the building thats fallen due to disrepair over the decades then perhaps you could convince the heritage that its unsafe and could kill the kids that keep playing near it? Perhaps that would warent bulldozing? To be fair, it would be a bloody crime not to let you flatten whats left of an already fallen down building. I sympathise with your dilema, perhaps the trust would use a little common sense in this situation….then again.

Grimy – not sure what other means of measuring you expect to be more accurate? 6% is a fairly large amount as your dipstick only shows a fraction of the volume, min isnt zero and max 100%. On a gallon of oil you're talking ~250ml of oil heigh difference. On my two cars that's a good half a max-min distance and around half way on the dipstick makes a notable difference in engine note on at least two of the cars i've owned.

Bugger, I got that one wrong in my head and you even saw my mistake, I assumed 6% over the length of the gauge. I stand corrected! lol.
I know what you mean about the oil levels influance on engine note, Its very noticable on my motor too.

Reading the above i've got to accept that my previous statment would perhaps only apply to conventional engines. I cant explain the phenomenom cxi explains, where no oil shows up until warm, thats weird, If i saw no oil on the stick from cold, I wouldnt even turn the key. Boxer engines although as perhaps as rare as dry sumps, may also be different due to there unique layout, I can see why the oil would take considerably longer to return to the sump. I guess youve just got to go of what your perticular manufacturer recomends.

Hot or cold, as long as youve given the oil suitable time to drain down to the sump your going to get a neglidgable difference in readings, especially on a dip stick which is hardly a suitably acurate means of mesurment if your worried about 6% expansion to freezing temperatures.

I was going to stay out of this post, but I've just watched the news and I was disapointed to see that although this plonker is an obvious thug, there were kids and adults who should know better chasing him down for autographs. Is it any wonder the todays youth are like they are with role models like this scum. He should be made example of, preferably banned from football by the fia for bringing the game into disrepute. What kind of signal is any less sending out.

Hot or cold it makes no difference to the volume of oil in the sump. The problem arises when you check the oil too soon after running the engine as the oil will have been pumped into all the oil gallerys and the cylinder head, and it takes a little time to work its way back down to the sump. 5 minutes or more after stoping the engine should be sufficient time to wait, and obviously on level ground.

I read a few good reviews of a dry lube called "Squirt" and I ordered a bottle the other day. Came this morning, ill let you know how I get on with it in a couple of weeks but its supposed to stop the build up of that orible black sticky gunk, especially on the jockey wheels.

Click here for Squirt website

Ive got the Reba Race 09's bought from merlin in January as part of custom Malt One bike Pictured below. Came as 100mm, but I removed 20mm all travel spacer soon after. Forks now +120mm as Pictured below for evidance for any non belivers. Hope this helps rather than confuses further.

Where did the information about the forks being limited to 100mm come from? and has anybody actually got a pair of these limited travel forks? If not I'd discard the rumour as a misunderstanding or bad advice untill somebody comes up with a set.