his head didn’t move because the camera was attached to the helmet? :lol:

STW surprises again by peering into my mind!

Gf’s bday is coming up (and has hinted at one), so I asked a mates gf who has a couple, she recommends funzee[/url], although if I’m honest the range isn’t amazing, but it sounds like they’re thought out, like not having in built feet because they wear through in no time.

I believe atkins breath is due to going into ketosis, where your body is pretty much burning fat only. This is good if your aim is body fat reduction, but obviously isn’t a pleasant side effect. I think the solution is to eat more carbs (through beans and vegetables), but someone else who knows more will be able to confirm this I hope.

If you do exercise then you could have some simpler carbs (pasta/bread) afterwards, which might kick your body out of ketosis? I’m just posturing here though, the exercise bit may stop you from coming out of it.

It’s my biffday too! Didn’t know the great Mr B shared the date :D

Judder is a really odd one. You’ll only get judder when the resonance of braking force matches the longitudinal (forward/backward) resonant frequency of the forks system (fork legs to frame interation). Ideally there is no pulsing from brakes, however there always will be a small amount due to changing thickness, warping, surface area and friction levels of the discs, whereas pads are uniform.

So as a system, you can do a couple of things to reduce it. Either reduce the source (ideal as this cuts all vibration), or reduce the transmission (not ideal, as the wheel will still vibrate, just you won’t feel it so much).

Easy checks are headset, crown race, stem (clamped down hard enough to preload the bearings), suspension forks if fitted. But these are all normally transmission, not source.

I’d focus on the brake, clean the rotors, re bed in the brake, ensure caliper and rotor are fitted securely, if centrelock no play rotationally (don’t know why this would occur – no experience of centrelock). As you’ve said you’ve checked these, I’d just clean and re-bed the disc, worth a shot before splashing cash on new parts. I’d probably try a new disc first, especially if it’s old.

My only experience of judder was when fitting a new disc, which provoked massive judder at low speeds. Went back to the old disc, fine. Took a lot of bedding in, and disappated over time. Because it was one of those with slightly wavy patterns, I think it was causing the fluctuation in braking force, and happened to resonate with the rest of the forks. Now I don’t sense any vibration at all.

I asked for an alpkit gamma for my birthday, and I saw a parcel from alpkit yesterday! woop!

Tesa tape is immense stuff. We use it in formula student, and although expensive at £25 a roll, it is ridiculously good as tape. Doesn’t tear/leak/abrade/slip, and is nice and formable for contours.

Would probably do a good job as helitape, although it may not look as good as proper stuff, and so not sure if it would meet your need. It’s a satin black cloth look, doesn’t look bad with our carbon fibre, but I would have thought transparent would look better.

that’s brill! just the kind of info I was looking for. :-)

Instead of a car use a bike. I suggest a fatbike for added traction and radness.

Half of me is and half of me isn’t.

Can’t stand riding with prescription normal glasses. Went to contacts years ago, and tried riding with glasses once between lenses and got peed off with them moving around and view distortion etc. Don’t have a problem at all with contacts, nearly always wear glasses whilst riding to save dirt/eyes watering with wind, but haven’t had a problem with eyes drying up, which I’ve heard can happen.

SPATULA!
Spaghetti bolognese!
And finally ‘you’re such a f…in vulture’ in reference to my gf swooping in for a kiss after me rolling over.

this thread reminded me (alongside low memory notifications) to root my phone. Now been running cyanogen mod for 3 days, pretty happy with it. Titanium back up makes the job infinitely easier, just restores pretty much all old apps and data painlessly.

He was abusive towards the staff, so I support the actions of ‘big man’. If it were an old man or little girl sitting there being abusive, I’d not have an issue with doing the same (if they’re abusive and struggle as much as the teenager did). If more people did this the world would be a better place in my opinion, far too may people happily sit idly by watching whilst a minority negatively impact everyone.

anyone else find themselves leaning to the left side of their monitor?

2 packs of Tesco Value shotcake fingers (2x23p!!!) with a bottle of beer. Disappear shockingly quick.

Twiglets and humous sounds amazing!!!

I tried this in my uni halls, very tight corners with short moderate steepness stairs. Going down them was fine, it was the tight turn that got me, as you had to come off the stairs onto landing at an angle, otherwise you would be jammed up against the wall. Did 2 then fell on my head on the 3rd. Don’t let it put you off though! Do it (and definitely film it), would go on the less tight of the two staircases if you have a choice.

Woohoo! 1 Assignment down.

Where are you ben, Australia or Asia?

Lemon Cheese! I love that stuff! Bought some in wales and it was absolutely brill stuff, far superior to lemon curd, although I can’t explain why. Anyone know where to get it from? I bought some banana curd from my butcher in the summer, that was rather special too. Cheese is portable unpackaged milk

v/(4x^2) = w/y
v = (w/y)*(4x^2)
v/(w/y)=(4x^2)
(v*y)/w =(4x^2)
(v*y)/4w =x^2
x=((v*y)/4w)^0.5
(^0.5 is to the power of 0.5, same as square root)

Edit: assuming that the (4x^2) is 4*x^2, not (4x)^2

I like Dalton too, we can be in a minority together!

It is awesome, no doubt about that. What’s your reason for building one? For fun? or cooking outside? Or a patio heater type thing?

Does anyone know how much hotter they get than just a plain bonfire due to the insulation and air draw effect?

Would assume short-hold tenancy agreement?

Look at the front tyre valve on coastkid’s pic!!!

Let’s see, 1 bed studio flat, me and the gf living here, how many do you think I could get away with?

I spy 2 here…

And one hiding behind the sofa!

No weeding /fence painting required. Might need a tidy up though. Or I could go for a ride.

downloaded and run Synctoy, thanks! I had a look at Tortoise SVN and it didn’t look particularly user friendly, the about page was another language to me. Thanks for the suggestions!

If anyone has experience of UPS’s I’m still looking! Cheers

Engine Braking is where you leave it in a gear to use the engine’s internal friction in order to slow the vehicle. On most cars this is perfectly fine and will not ruin your engine, load paths are reversed due to the direction of torque inverting, but this is factored into the design of all transmission components.

Transmission Braking is where you shift down through gears to keep engine speeds higher and therefore frictional losses higher, therefore slowing the car down faster. If you need to slow the car down faster than engine braking in one gear provides, use the brakes. Transmission braking puts large spikes of torsional vibration through the drivetrain, leading to shock loading of components (especially gear teeth with high contact pressures), and if repeated regularly will knacker some gearboxes and differentials. This may be less of an issue on modern cars, however if I was driving a car hard I still wouldn’t do it, unnecessary.

My personal driving style when aiming for fuel economy is to try and judge every traffic light/roundabout/obstacle as a prediction, to try and get the car to roll to a near stop. It does help that I tend to drive when the roads are quiet, reducing me pissing off other drivers. I will still do it when roads are busy, just not to the same extent. It also can add fun into roundabouts on quiet days, attempting to not use brakes ;-)

ANSYS workbench. Soul destroying when it corrupts your files mid project. I have many many Gb of backups as a result of this, completely wasteful and hogs my time.

Gambit – incredibly poor data entry system. Archaic.

There are more but I’m just so angry with Workbench right now!

I’ve got one, but never done it. I’f you’re feeling brave then document and share it! :lol:

Some artists I hadn’t come across until pointed to them on here:

Bon Iver
Metronomy
Mogwai
The dirtbombs
Diablo Swing Orchestra
The BellRays
Lock Lochmond – from Danny Mac’s Video

Blue Raleigh
Bigger Blue Raleigh
Yellow Townsend
White+red full sus
Raleigh Airlite
Scott Aspect 30
Charge Duster
Genesis IO
On One Pompino

355mm (conservative by up to 5mm) to the chainstay bridge
350mm (ditto) to the seatstay bridge.

HTH

I’d just get one and try it. If you have the original rear wheel with the hex head screws that go into the hub then you should be able to get it tight enough so that it doesn’t slip. You should only need one on the drive side.

If you can wait I’ll take my Non Drive Side screw out and test it later tonight to see if it moves with just one tugnut

One of the screws on my IO bent making adjusting tension impossible. Bought a surly tuggnut and very happy with it. Bit more expensive than alternatives but it looks cool, opens beer bottles (which I’ve used it for – an excuse to keep the bike in my flat) and feels really solid and sturdy, being made of Stainless Steel. If you want a cheaper option then other tugs should work, although I’ve heard the really cheap ones can be temperamental.

EDIT: still got the screw thingy on the non drive side, although apparently it is not needed if you do the axle up tight enough.

Pea And Ham Soup

907g bag frozen Peas
50ml oil
some butter
an onion or two
1 clove garlic
160g bacon, cut into strips
750ml stock
180g pack Ham Hock

fry the fryey stuff, then chuck peas in. Then blend after a while.
Loverly. Official recipe is here

Just been for a 10k run for the first time in ages, and also have that wonderful achey feeling. Non fitnessy type people just don’t understand when you try to explain…

One particular favourite was this summer about august time in the brecon beacons, front wheel disappeared into an unsighted ditch, perfectly straight over the bars, tumble into a cowpat. Was even more funny when a mate did exactly the same moments later.

I had it last summer. Thought it was just a large spot as I tend to have a spotty arse and back. Went to cannock by myself (1.5 hours in the car), did a couple of laps in moderate pain, and then by the end the lump was so huge I spent 3 hours (worst time for traffic ever!!!) driving back crying with the pain. Got home and pretty much collapsed and stayed lying face down for about 20 hours until I phoned up NHS direct. After a few hours of inspection at the hospital I got a tiny little nick cut to extend and drain the wound (haven’t seen it but would guess 10mm at most, not a big one comparatively), and a packer put in to keep it open. Was signed off work for 3 weeks, and couldn’t sit for 1 at least. Got the packer replaced daily for a week, then every other day, then once a week. Was on the bike after about 5 weeks or so if I remember, but it was painful and had to ease myself back into it. No relapse for me fortunately, although apparently it is quite common to come back, so take it easy and don’t rush it!

Cleaning dissected slug out of a cassette between teeth. *gags*

Whilst renting a car this summer I challenged our designated driver for the evening to a ‘2 geeeeeer chaleng’ (spelt badly to reduce the possibility of the boss googling/reading this, as it is now notorious in my area). This involved 10km of motorway and some single carriageway type roads. Hilarious wheelspin pullaways in 2nd with the torquey 2litre diesel, and then bouncing off the rev limiter along the motorway (foreign I hasten to add, therefore it’s alright :wink:). Funnily enough Ford positioned the rev limiter at an awkward position, where in second gear the ignition cuts happen to coincide with the longitudinal vibrational mode. In laymans terms, the car was driving at 55mph ish, bouncing off the limiter, whilst rocking viciously back and forth.

Stood next to the car afterwards you could feel the heat from the wheel arches :lol: