I propose Arrhichion of Phigalia, won a pankration match despite being dead; that’s as hardcore as it gets.

Haven’t seen The Illusionist pop up yet.

Would agree with ‘Some like it hot’, ‘Starship Troopers’, and ‘Fifth Element’. All are really internally consistent in quality and pace, and (for Troopers and Fifth Element) effects and props – nothing ever drags or jars.

The Matrix would be perfect if the humans in pods were being networked as a giant computer (as the W Bros reputedly initially envisioned) but the ‘battery’ nonsense renders it merely the best film ever – but not perfect. 😆

I’m no lawyer, but as I understand it you’re protected against “faults that were present at the time of purchase”. (This is often unhelpfully simplified by people to “three months warranty”.)

If something went ping in the bowels of the engine after six months then you’d probably be screwed – but (bear in mind I’m not a mechanic) in *my opinion* metal alloys do not gradually dissolve into bathroom sealant, and so the fault was bloody obviously present at the time of purchase.

All IMO, of course, and I’m not sure where you stand having fixed it yourself.

How badly do these trails suffer after, say, 2 days of non stop rain, similar to, say, the last two days…? 😆

TedTalk on natural gas.
Towards the end in the question and answer with the host it’s mentioned that fracking has been going on in the USA since 1947 and 800,000 trouble free wells have been fracked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIFFFGf1ZRE

I’ve got:
A 1996 Fireblade (the best model) that with a little effort would appear mint.

An H reg GPz500 for commuting. It’s a dreadful bike, but twirls through traffic nicely.

A 2007 YZ250 crosser made into enduro. (Anyone here ride enduro and wanna talk tyres..? 😆 )

Another snowboarding one. At a modern 4 person lift my mate went through the little gate onto the conveyor, straightened his coat and planted his feet, and looked back to see a line of 4 people behind him ready to get scooped up!

I got frustrated with being unable to reach a dragline without skating up to it, decided THIS was the time and went ballsout straightline for it, reached it easily, and just grabbed it with both hands. Turns out I was going much faster than it was, my body and legs overtook my hands before I landed in a heap and I knocked over almost everyone else using it.

(They were all skiers though. 😆 )

I’m a pretty alright snowboarder, but I simply cannot ride button lifts. the better I get, the less that bothers me; I figure it must be the lift’s fault if I’ve got to the level I am and still can’t do it!

I’ve had to make a few phone calls to mates at the top: “I’m still on my way, I fell off it again”.

TBH I really don’t see the point of 4×4’ing, bikes I kinda see the appeal (you can go quickly and see it as traiing for enduro or MX races etc), but 4×4’ing just seems like outdoors sport for the terminaly lazy, it’s not like rally driving in the same way green laneing on bikes is like enduro/MX is it?

Having done green laning and given up in order to ride MX tracks and enduros, no it ain’t! And the green laners wouldn’t say so either; red socks deliberately use emotive language like “motocross bikes racing on green lanes” and it’s complete rubbish. (TRF says 25mph max.)

That’s not to say it isn’t tremendously physical and difficult in the right circumstances, but it’s a trialsy kind of fun.

If I went oop north and heard someone use the word in question in the manner described, I’d be a bit shocked. Then a combination of no racist behaviour and everyone else oop north using the same term would lead me to think “that’s not a racist word up here”. And if I suggested going to the chippy instead, and they all looked at me aghast and attacked me for using a vile slur term for Christians (Jesus being a carpenter n’ all) I’d be upset, more than a bit defensive, but stop using the word.

(Until I got back home.)

At 17 billion solar masses, the black hole weighs an extraordinary 14 percent of the total galaxy mass

Aaaagh! 👿

A “blank” in one’s armour…

(How DO the stupid video links work FFS!!!??)

Still getting the idea that some people would actually set out to have a bike with certain sized wheels, and/or choose a bike based on the size of the wheels… Is that actually the case!? 😯

Prejudice

Tank is there for two reasons;
-Hot water can expand into without being lost (what’s happening to you).
-In the event of the radiator blowing through the cap replacement water can be drawn from it.

EDIT: Yes, daft question! 😉

Mountain biking is basically “pretending you’re on a dirt bike”.
(I’ve been doing it for over 30 yrs, and the biggest change in that time is I don’t make “broom broom” noises out loud any more. (I think.))

Anyone intently staring at there own navel regarding us Brits drinking habits should go for a night out in Finland.

Well I lived in Suomi for a year and never saw the type of carnage I have seen in Newport and Swansea, people got shitfaced but rarely resorted to violence. Just my experience.

Because it’s not the booze at all!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15265317

It’s not the booze at all.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15265317

Here’s the post laSer brain test:

Draw two fat dots about an inch apart on a piece of paper.
Close left eye.
Look steadily at LEFT dot with RIGHT eye.
Slowly move paper towards face.
If at any point either dot disappears you have irreparable brain damage.
(Repeat for the other eye, reversing left and right)

Pick a bike that suits you in terms of the usual stuff; burly vs climbing, price vs spec, how it test rode (if you get the chance), and pure and simple “phwoaar” factor. It should come with wheels, and they’ll be in one of the two aforementioned sizes.

The book is great, the film probably won’t be much like it as the book is a series of separate personal accounts of surviving the zombie apocalypse (the pile of zombies gradually getting over a wall is mentioned in the book though!). It’s a shame the zombies in the trailer are fast (I don’t like fast zombies) but it still could be good; I’ll be seeing it!

Take a bicycle off the dirt and try to make a sport, and you get a very dull sport… Unless you put the bicycle into “Bicycle NASCAR”!! (If the TdF was run on faired recumbents averaging 50+mph for day after day, it’d be more interesting though… And how fast would a faired recumbent go on the boards!?)

50 acre is great, but quite vulnerable when muddy?
(That’d be my excuse! 😆 )

Live close to where you work.

And your wife works. And your kid(s) go to school(s).

Stop going to so many meetings.

SOME people need to change their attitude regarding this, but IME it’s not usually them actually going to the meeting!

At my old job, they told a huge load of people that their new place of work was 2 hours drive away. I told them to shove it. Some folks who felt less confident and with families to support couldn’t. They now suffer that commute for the sake of not uprooting their families.

Just another example of how commuting by car ain’t necessarily a selfish pursuit. (Disclosure: I cycled and walked for 11 yrs, currently use a small motorbike, and have no wife or kids.)

See any voltage flow?

AAAAAGH!! 👿

“Earthing”, that is eliminating any potential difference between yourself and the earth, is instantaneous. You don’t need to hold the copper grounded magic hand cure thing for 20 minutes in order to earth yourself, you just need to touch it at all. Or, as has been mentioned, any tap in your house. So we all earth ourselves every time we clean our teeth before bed. And it does absolutely nothing except fend off tooth decay and gum disease. But that might be due to the toothpaste – and the fluoride in the water. (We probably need a thread on that.)

Hmm, who was at the junction first?

It’s a staged shot to show that over half a dozen bikes next to a truck can be un-seeable from the cab. So, one bike is 6 times as un-seeable. So – Don’t Ride Up The Side Of Trucks.

And a large lorry turning left might well position itself over to the right as the trailer will cut the corner (mentioned in case you thought the cyclists being on the inside would mean they had to be there first). So – Don’t Ride Up The Side Of Trucks!

Jumping is pretty irrelevant in terms of simply getting through a trail. (Good fun though.)

Yeah, way it’s worse now. Originally looked like they’d simply been put on. All fine, they’re functional components that happen to have big logos. Now it looks like a failed attempt at aligning them. Which serves you right, really. 😆

My bike came with hi-rollers, and I’ve yet to replace either so the rear’s all but bald. And they’re still great, no problems anywhere. And I ride with a serial tyre experimenter, and ride everything he does just as easily, including mendip mud.

It’s not the tyres; but just to throw you a bone – maybe it’s the pressures. 🙂

Since taunting my foot[…]

😯 ??

Did it get upset and leave?

Klumpy may help that those were trails in the guys back garden

It helps HIM, but what about US (ie: me)? Anyone here wouldn’t want to play on that? I’m sure some cross country twiglets may sneer that it’s cheating, but for those of us who enjoy MTB primarily as an exercise in machine control, it’d be great if we somehow snuck these into the countryside under the radar and no-one realised until it was too late.

I’m sure someone can quote some laws that mean we can’t as due to the electric motor it’s legally a tram, except after 4pm when it’s considered a horse and trap – unless facing uphill or the rider is wearing a waistcoat and carrying a duck…

(Our laws are dumb.)

OMG this is a big can of worms!!

Actually, I suspect if you pick a well known manufacturer you can’t go far wrong. As for types, the buggies, rally cars, and non-monster-truck pickups are almost the same under the bodywork. Monster trucks would be slower and tractory-er.

That said, I suspect it’s not really for your kid at all. It’ll be just like the cliched “dad hogging scalextric at christmas” scene, until he learns to “drive it properly”.

Awesome!! 😀 I’d love to take that to … Uh… Oh. Trying to imagine such in the context of UK countryside access.

-A motorcycle with an electric motor is a motorcycle.
-A bicycle with an electric motor is…?
-50kph is motor vehicle fast. (Faster than the TRF’s self imposed speed limit.)
-Very soon, NO motorised personal transport, including bikes, will be petrol driven. Electric cars and motorbikes are commercially available now.
-Green laners make “too much noise”. Maybe, or not, but that certainly doesn’t, so, Ramblers approve.?

Personally, I’d LOVE one of those. Or one of these:
Another electric bike
Same thing, really, innit? 😕

One thing to bear in mind when assessing your play area, you want dirt not grass. If you have less room than you thought then a slower 4WD monster rock crawler would be just as much fun, trials not rallycross.

I had an old 1:10 Tamiya and it was ridiculously tough, I used to mount kerbs by ramming them flat out! When it eventually needed a new bathtub chassis (for some reason 😳 ) it was very cheap.

Was having a low speed OTB caused by the front stalling in a root gap, when the rear wheel caught in the branches of a tree. I was on tip toes with the stem jammed up into my groin and the bars across the front of my thighs, couldn’t quite fall forward, couldn’t quite stand up.

On my little Serow on a peaty farm track I rode into a “puddle”, or “four foot deep hole full of mud”. Over the bars and landed on head. Head sank. Consistency of mud was such that for a few moments I was looking over (under?) the chinpiece at the inside wall of a hole driven out by my lid; the hole started to fill with thick black water and while I could get to my feet the lid’s peak was reluctant to pull free… I almost drowned pulling a classic Ostrich pose knee deep in black mud!

1 – Misdirection. Open the door, take a half step in and then very obviously recoil before rolling your shoulders, putting on a resigned expression, going in and closing the door.

2 – Pride. Just step out when finished, pause, dust your hands together then fist pump while barking out “Getting it done, OORAH!!”

Blitzen pieces!

A hunter-gatherer who did not correctly conceive a solution to providing food or shelter probably died, along with his or her progeny, whereas a modern Wall Street executive that made a similar conceptual mistake would receive a substantial bonus and be a more attractive mate.

😆 Heh, I like a dig at the bankers but they’re going up against the wall (metaphorical or otherwise) soon – not good for the genes.

Actually, freedom from becoming a tiger’s lunch has allowed us to get brainier and brainier, and the bravery and brinksmanship never stopped. Where once one had to dice with tigers to live at all, people then “chose” to cross oceans in timber ships cos there might be a destination before the food ran out.

We’ve stalled, hopefully temporarily, due to post colonial “I wish *I* had nothing too” nonsense turning the gap year generation against all progress except iPhones and Twitter, and that health and safety thing got out of control. But that old boots on Mars talk is getting louder again…

Go to a cosmetic surgeon and have a belly button put in.
Then go to the doctor to check you won’t die from the crash.
Then go to a physio to start making the best recovery from the damage.

(You might mess with the order depending on your own priorities.)