24-105L is a blinding lens on a crop body as well.

The 18-135mm is an EF-S lens anyway so it won’t fit on a full-frame body and it’s nowhere near the 24-105 optically.

Mitutoyo digital, probably a 150mm one would be fine. I have them at work and at home and they just work.

You can get cheap Chinese imports that are fine when nice and clean but stop working when they get a bit of swarf/cutting fluid on them.

He may be working illegally, so would not want authorities to be involed.

Really???

And maybe the OP was part of a crack commando unit sent to prison by a military court for a crime he didn’t commit. He then promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the Chorlton underground. Today, still wanted by the government, he survives as a soldier of fortune, terrorising painters and decorators. But there’s no evidence of that either

Energy gels as your main source of calories?

Phew, the bloke must have money to burn.

And a really bad score on the Bristol scale!

Check and double check the bike, and work out how much the damage is going to cost to repair and make sure that you haven’t sustained any other injuries.

A similar thing happened to me going down to the start of a road race, women opens a car door and knocked me off, she was very upset about it and totally apologetic, she accepted full responsibility and gave me her contact details to repair the damage.

When I saw her a week later to give her the bill (Zipp wheel, STI lever, forks, bars and tape, new skin suit etc. soon adds up)it was a different matter you could see the colour drain from her face, suddenly it was my fault and she wouldn’t pay that much.

Luckily I had witnesses and eventually got the money without going to court but it took a lot more hassle than I would have liked, if the incident was reported at the beginning then it would have been dealt with by the insurance co.

So in my opinion, report it.

It doesn’t really matter why the seal failed.

I think it does when the manufacturer is claiming that it was the OP the damaged the item through misuse and only replaced it as a token of goodwill, if the battery wasn’t waterproof when supplied then it’s Luminous legal requirement to provide a replacement FOC.

It is also of interest to anyone considering buying the lights, if the sealing is not robust enough to survive being strapped to a downtube, what will happen in the inevitable bumps and scrapes that a bike experiences that constitutes normal use.

It would also appear that if the OP had checked his post before coming on here and complaining, he would have found that they had missed a delivery, and a card had been left.

The card is relating to a second, ongoing problem with a charger, not the battery.

The battery was sent for a thorough, independent, investigation, during which the waterproofing seal was removed. Once the battery was opened up, corrosion was found, indicating water ingress had occurred.

So the only way that water could get into the battery would be by the OP damaging the seal? It is absolutely impossible that the sealing was faulty, or the battery pack was assembled with moisture present, or there is a leak in the heatshrink or that the corrosion was due to other problems?

All batteries are waterproofed before dispatch.

And 100% leak tested?

The seal was broken, as the OP admits to drowning his battery ^^^.

You claim that all batteries are waterproof, and as mentioned show a video of one fully submerged on your website, how could the OP “drown his battery”

For an alternative viewpoint to the dog whisperer stuff;

C.W Meisterfeld, Jelly Bean versus Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Ours has always been the same, anything “stiff”, “scratchy” or “tight” is a no-no and you would think we were chopping her legs off when we try socks with any sort of seams or stitching on them. As for shoes, its a nightmare, although the ‘free’ makeup with Lelli Kellys usually helps her decision making process. Ski boots was a trial of patience I can tell you.

So she lives in trainers, leggings (which don’t feel tight apparently) and t-shirts/hoodies. She’s 6 so a little longer for you to go yet!

I would approach it like this;

Look at the piece of trail that you want to capture in the shot and either time a rider through it or estimate how long it will take. Use that as your shutter speed.

Now adjust your apperture to get a balance between the background and the lights – it will take some trial and error though.

If you want to see a clear image of the rider at the end of the light trail you will need to use a flash with second curtain sync – and have really good anticipation/timing!

Once everything is set up on the tripod I would be tempted to take a number of shots of the scene (with no riders in it) at different exposures to enable some exposure blending / HDR later.

Aust services on the M48 just before the old Severn bridge they were hideous. The gypsy encampment that surrounded them didn’t help to provide a relaxing environment.

Hypochondriac you say eh?

How’s your throat, feeling a bit dry and tickly?

best ever cross over – lager/pills boy song?

Just looked at billboulders, ‘kin avinit””

Yodagoat: I like a lot of the stuff towards the end, cheers.

Back in the day when I used to love going clubbing at gatecrasher, cream, pasha etc… but i never listened to house music, it was always indie rock ‘n’ roll for me so I don’t have the faintest idea what I used to dance to so listening back is always an education.

Had a listen to the vaccines – that’s an hour I’ll not get back

No matter how much tax you pay, have a look down the page here, it will make you feel better;

http://www.caughtoffside.com/2012/11/20/how-much-carlos-tevez-payslip-leaked-image/

.got an old stash of disco biscuits that almost got broken into

I was sorting through the freezer the other day and found some wraps I’d forgotten about – how TF did that happen, 10 years ago anything that would go up my nose went up my nose!

martin xyz: I like that a lot (the video is crap though), anything to do with you?

I have come to the conclusion though that if I want to make a biking video that thievery corporation will be the soundtrack for the slow-mo cornering scenes (with added dirt thrown up for effect) with maybe some nirvana for the hucking.

Nope, had a listen and 6 music is ****, off to listen to the stone roses and fall to sleep!

Heroin – Velvet underground, It’s the song that I’ve listened to, flat on my back, more times than I care to admit

Too much Leffe to figure out how to embed youtube vids, but;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuqEbRzy_t8 (stag weekend tune, so memorable)

Not a great photo, but the last one before the cat was run over – rip Sooty, Rosie misses you;

Shackleton: I like that a lot, nice capture.

Gave £100, big softy at heart and the sight of those kids in the videos. Lets face it, its the cost of a couple of monster high dolls.

Car lube!? Big no because unlike motor cycle chains it is not put through the same speed or heat and so as mentioned will pick up all the dirt and clog up your fine and delicate gear mechanisms. Use a good wet lube and then leave it.

What is in a “good wet lube” that makes it so special? From all the MSDSs I’ve seen they all appear to be heavy oil mixed with paraffin/white spirit to get the necessary viscosity.

Before you go riding with a dry cloths take of the oil. All the good bit of oil is in the rollers and pivots of the chain and the outside is now clean and so won’t attract dirt.

Couldn’t you do this for a chain lubricated with car/transmission lube?

OK, I’ll run through my logic,

The efficiency of a PV panel is a measure of the panels ability to convert solar radiation to electrical energy. The more efficient the panel the higher the power density. The power density of the panel is governed by the power density on the cell, the power density on the cells is determined by the density of the circuit on the chip, the density of the circuit on the chip is determined by the lithography and that’s where I come in, I design lithography tools.

The resolution of the lithography doesn’t develop linearly over time, there are step changes due to new technologies, followed by a period of time where gradual developments improve productivity and reliability. At the moment we are in a period of gradual development of production tools, the tools which will make the next step change are in our and our customers R&D labs. Until this step change is possible, manufacturers are limited in what they can achieve and can only tweak their process to eek out the fractions in efficiency and improve production yield to lower their costs.

What happens once the cells leave the fab, I don’t know, I assume that different panel manufacturers have different design and production methods which will add or subtract to the overall panel efficiency which admittedly fuzzies the edges to a certain degree.

The result of this is that there isn’t a linear price vs. performance product range in PV panels (or semi-conductors on the whole), there are discreet jumps in terms of technology. You can’t pay a bit more and get a bit more efficiency, you have to jump up to the next rung on the technology ladder and then you get a discrete increase. When the next step change takes place then one of the major players will have an advantage because they will be able to produce panels which are significantly more efficient for a brief period, and then the competitors will catch up and the market will stagnate at that level for a time, before the cycle is repeated.

I think I’ve gone too far OT now, so will leave it there.

It does matter – the stuff you need to make panels doesn’t grown on trees.

It doesn’t because you don’t have the choice of different levels of efficiency vs. environmental impact, you either accept the current level of environmental impact to produce the panel vs. the level of performance and buy some panels, or you don’t.

You can’t pop into PV panels’r’us and choose between a panel thats 18% efficient but killed 15 fluffy bunnies or one thats 22% efficient and killed 20.

I am very interested in the efficiency (and related whole life costs) of solar for far more than UK house bling. Driving efficiency up and cost down is very important to the (global) future of solar PV.

Yes OK, I think were bordering on semantics now; the majority of people specifying a PV panel would be interested in size, cost and output. Efficiency is the driving factor behind the size/output/cost ratio of course.

The vast majority of people would also like a smaller cheaper panel with a higher output, but those aren’t available yet because the efficiency has a ceiling which is limited by current technology at < <40%.

Which was my (obviously badly made) point, the efficiency has reached a ceiling (for the time being), it doesn’t matter what you want; you aren’t going to get a panel with an efficiency of 99%. So for the moment if you can specify a panel which fits in the size you have, has a usable power output and comes in under budget then that’s all you can hope to achieve, the fact that it’s not very efficient at converting a free source of power into something more usable is mute.

Bear – you are probably right, all the people I know who have them fall into that category to be honest.

All I am saying is the efficiency isn’t the key factor, people who are looking at PV panels only have a choice of whats on the market, if they are 20% 40% or 99% efficient it matters not a jot, what matters is that for an investment of £4k you can get 2kW system. If you don’t like that then you don’t have the choice to buy a significantly more efficient system because there aren’t any available.

You quoted all of my reply except the significant caveat at the very beginning which stated “within reason”.

Of course cost of panels, available area etc. are significant when considering the ROI but the actual efficiency of the panel isn’t the key concern – people are looking to save money, that’s the bottom line. If a panel cost X pounds and generates Y Watts and a panel that is more efficient may cost 1.6X pounds and generate 1.4Y Watts, it is just a case of maximising Watts per pound coming out of the panel.

To expand my original statement;

As long as the capital investment and energy saving potential of your system is sufficient to provide an acceptable return on your investment and as long as you have enough surface area to provide the output that you need then who cares what the individual efficiency of the panel is.

How efficient are solar panels at converting light to electricity too?

Within reason the efficiency isn’t really an issue, as long as you have enough surface area to provide the output that you need then who cares? you aren’t paying the heating bill for the sun.

The German one is better than either the Danish or Windsor one IMO. My daughter didn’t like the Windsor one at all, but thats mainly because she got stung on the tongue by a wasp (it landed on her hotdog) just as we were leaving.

I think the Copenhagen ladies may be a bit more covered up at the moment!

In your “example” surely if the guy went to the quacks and got diagnosed with a case of crabs, then he wouldn’t send his wife to pick up the prescription would you he?.

How do you guys get the best out of it?

You need a big freezer.

I am in no way condoning the poo hangers and I know this may incur the wrath of the majority but, on our last trip back to the UK with the dog it struck me how utterly useless it is for dogs over there.

Every green space and path had ‘dogs must be on leads’ signs, no dog parks, no dedicated dog walking routes, no dogs on public transport, no dogs in shops or restaurants it’s rubbish. If we moved back to the UK I doubt we would have another dog.

Perhaps if dog owners had dedicated, maintained areas to take their dogs then the situation may improve?

Stroopwafels FTW!

The deli down the road from us does dark chocolate covered stroopwafels, heart attack food no doubt, but dipped into tea they are the food of the gods.

I agree with this, although grammatical advice from someone who can’t spell possessive is a bit of a concern.

I can, I just didn’t :D

I’m going for Kid’s picnic, singular possesive.

If you go for Kids’ picnic then you risk someone wanting picnics for all his kids for the price indicated on the menu.

Tell them your wife was driving?