A Cube Hyde Race[/url]. Skinny-tyred single speed commuter is shit up here in the North.

Manchester. Busy, metropolitan, fairly big, cheaper than the South, plenty going on, close to the Peaks and Yorkshire. I heard there’s a job opening for a gangster.

I guess you mean the one shown here?

Doesn’t look familiar, so IIRC it stayed in the collar when I dismantled it. If not, I definitely don’t recall it being a struggle to get back together.

Ah, yeah, mine was a bit big to get a grip on the shaft (oo-er). I wrapped an extra scrap of rubber around it.

KS recommend servicing “at the same interval as drivetrain cleaning” and that it’s sent back to a dealer for this.

They also posted this service video for the standard Lev though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOYjhtPFZ4I

I found last winter mine lasted about two months before I needed to dismantle and clean. It wasn’t a difficult job. Not sure how much the internals differ on the integra, but you could buy a strap wrench and try…

When you inflate the tub shrinks onto the rim

Despite internet theorists disputing this last time I said the same, as someone who’s tried it I too can confirm this. 700c tubs seem about right for making it all mountable and dismountable for a 26 rim. 650b tub on 26 made it a total pain in the arse to get a tyre back off.

There are two approaches to it:

Road tube+trainer tyre. What Schwalbe have made is similar to this, but with a special valve that means you don’t need to drill the rim, and an airguide that lets air into the MTB tyre.

Modified tubular tyre: This is what Deaneasy did, and the video cchris2lou mentioned is theirs. It had a bulky valve and seemed to require a modified rim, but with a better valve design it could be workable with an unmodified rim. Going by a photo that was going round a few weeks back, it appears they might be going into production with Tufo.

See also Coconut Audio for magic lumps of fimo you hang off your cables.

Someone has spruced up the site in the past few years, but it used to be youtube videos of a man in his underpants explaining the “tweaks”, along with written accounts of “vision quests” that gave him the ideas for revolutionary new lumps of fimo.

Spelunky

(Which at first glance looks like it’s just a cheesy platform game, but has some of the best and most intricate system design I’ve seen in anything).

I had a problem like this with some powder coated rims. Cleaning with IPA and keying the surface both did nothing to help tape stick adequately over the whole rim bed. What worked for me was a layer of electrical tape pulled tight over the spoke holes, then duct tape over the top of that.

Good luck trying to buy the 4K version of the whole thing if you have a UK postcode!

MGo either assumes everyone lives in the US, or is only set up to take payment from US cards.

AlexSimon – Member
snot a drone.

tis a truck with a super-stabilized camera on.

Ah, my bad. Also didn’t make sense they’d crop and scale up to 4K. Shame what youtube’s encoding does to some bits of video.

That’s gorgeous.

I got to watch it on a fast internet connection in 4K, but even so the segment on the DH bike is absolutely ruined by compression artefacts. Even with a drone tracking him, I wonder if they did a bunch of cropping to make some of it look like a tighter shot.

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whatnobeer – Member
If someone is deliberately waiting to give someone space, is it not rude to go through ahead of them, causing them to wait longer?

No. It’s their choice to wait, and getting to the top of a downhill first then choosing to wait doesn’t give them any kind of control or right of way over a trail.

taxi25 – Member
but don’t expect others to join your imaginary queue

That’s pretty much it for me. In game design, players who invent imaginary rules that aren’t encoded in the system, and try to enforce them, are called “scrubs”.

Waiting won’t make much of a difference in a busy place with long descents. When someone gets on my tyre, I’ll find a spot to pull over. When it’s the other way round, I’ll try not to be right on their back stressing them out, and if the difference between us is big enough sometimes shout excuse me or find a sniper line to pass.

If you ride with a big, consistent group over time you’ll order yourself by speed for descents, but with random people in public there’s no set of rules that’s going to make that possible.

If you can afford an aesthetic choice and it makes you happy, **** what other people think.

If you start to scoff at other people’s bikes because they are or aren’t matching components, you have a problem.

Contour: Better usability than GoPro, can’t get much simpler than a big sliding switch. Limited viewing angle for 1080p, which can only be shot at 135º rather than 170º.

GoPro: Better quality footage than Contour, more flexible mounting options.

I see you have a P. Camera grouptest in issue 94[/url].

I’m away the next few weeks, but definitely up for rides around Hebden other nights and some daytimes.

“you can’t photograph us in a public space” / “you’re invading our privacy”

I would have pissed myself laughing at the point they said that.

Drone over garden being annoying: If it was low enough, I’d get the hose out. As well as line of sight, it sounds like they were breaking CAA regs on proximity to people and structures too.

They now introduce farmers as an advanced feature. I can see why – they’re can be a bit tricky to get your head round, but they’re absolutely core to the game. You want to be playing with farmers as soon as you can.

That makes loads of sense in respect of new players, though would make the game kind of dull and plodding. Farmers make it awkward enough that after the first few weeks, it sat on the shelf for years during regular public game nights I ran. I love the meandering thing Robert Florence wrote about it here[/url] (I probably wouldn’t recommend Cosmic Encounter for groups aiming to include kids, but it is often hilarious).

Also, a few people mentioned Ticket To Ride earlier: Ticket To Ride Europe adds just a few more things that put it into just the right level of complexity for a sociabe group, IMO.

tinribz – Member
http://i.imgur.com/AeK6G7s.gif

Does the DT Swiss calc do eccentric wheels? :D

A friend used to for a large videogames studio. Around 2009 he was looking to outsource some 3D modelling, so took a trip abroad to meet a load of companies. One launched into a slideshow of their very impressive looking portfolio… and pitched some of his own studio’s previous work to him as their own.

Stil from a flip cam I put on a mate’s bars years ago:

binners – Member

Harry the Spider captured my best side

That flag was such a weird sight coming down there :D

An industrial robot arm.

Suitable for ages down to 5, running for two days is an unlikely combination, let alone being that long and not having loads of fiddly pieces. You’re probably best off picking something of an average duration then building some kind of campaign or tournament with it. Here are a few that might work:

King of Tokyo: pretty good fun and one of the games I’ve seen work best for adults and kids together.
Dixit: very accessible, though the ambiguous language it can require might mean younger players struggle.
Once Upon a Time: Group based storytelling game.
Saboteur: Excellent, sometimes shouty, simple map based card game. Can be hard to find despite having been printed by around a dozen publishers.

Of course, if you want something that runs for a long time, Risk Legacy is worth a look. Again, possibly a bit much for five year olds though.

gofasterstripes – Member
Did you make that?

I didn’t, but as soon as I saw it I wished I’d thought of feeding that video into Deepdream :)

Linked because I suspect the non-gifv version is pretty large

http://i.imgur.com/N7VqB1g.gif

cookeaa – Member
SRAM Cassettes will apparently talk to shimano 11 speed.

I love how that thread turns into “I set it up, it doesn’t work properly, and Shimano didn’t seem to want to talk to me about it”.

just become a seller […] raves about it

^ Probably as much an answer as you need right there

One of my mates joined a sales cult once, luckily seemed to grow out of it or at least segment it from his social life. For a bit though, it was all sales and effusing about events where they put someone from the top of the pyramid scheme on stage to go “YOU can be a MILLIONAIRE just work harder”.

chestercopperpot – Member

Shame the QC is the worst I’ve ever experienced with multiple inexcusable faults. Design wise I doubt it could be improved much, 853/a bit lighter maybe but minor points really.

Having bent one, then bent it back, I’d go for beefier dropouts. Being able to do that is why I went for a steel frame in the first place though.

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maxtorque – Member
The biggest “advantage” for me, the one i found the most surprising was just how it “simplifies” trail riding.[…] i just love riding, and not having to think about gears really!

This is it for me. My own bike will probably stay on 2x until the current drivetrain wears out, but having borrowed a few bikes on 1×11, I love not having to think about front shifts. I’ve also noticed that in the places I ride regularly, the range I’m currently using on a 34t cassette with my granny ring roughly corresponds to a 1x setup with a 42t back and 30 – 32t front.

While building it I dreaded climbing on 160mm forks, but the Blue Pig has been a great bike so far :D

I don’t feel qualified to say “ultimate” because I don’t have much to compare it to bar XC bikes I owned before, but it’s done everything from chugging up hills in Calderdale to uplift trails in the Alps. I’m finding I have no urge to trade it up for anything else yet, but this year I’ve found myself eyeing increasingly niche upgrades like Procore and those new Spank bars.

It did me, but I found the effect wore off in a few rides.

no_eyed_deer: oof. Does the same happen to you if you wear an action camera?

Looking forward to the UCI rules on blue shells.

Northwind – Member
This is basically about buying hats

…and crafting them! :D

Behold the future and weep: