I’ll be there as long as I can get a lift with Chipps.

X Kings are great but if you have any rocks or especially flint where you ride avoid them cause they will die within weeks

Ditto, with the exact X-king+Trail King combo OP listed, I’ve found them okay around Calderdale, but a few days in the alps took some knobs off the X-king and put a one inch gash in the sidewall. Black chilli Trail King on the front has been great though.

But have to say London ain’t that bad IMO. Most vehicles are travelling slowly in the city, come out a bit though and it’s bloody awful. Maybe I’ve gotten used to riding in Town.

Yorkshire bloody good though, in fact it’s damn fine place to ride if you stay out of Leeds ! So when i ride up there I’ve got another myriad of routes I use that barely interact with other vehicles.

I’ve found Yorkshire and London both significantly better than Nottingham. Exactly as you say, London tends to be slower in the centre. There are few cyclists in Nottingham so drivers tended to act more entitled, and the Jubilee Roundabout (fed by fast roads, and most of the entrances climb slightly onto it) is way worse than Elephant and Castle.

According to the map linked above the bit of Yorkshire I’m in is every bit as bad as Notts for points, but I guess the main roads are wider and traffic density lower.

I did wrap it as shown in the instructions. Maybe the grub screw needs to be tightened more. Even if that’s the case I reckon I’ll still swap it though, as it’s still kinked, and hardly a worthwhile weight saving on a steel HT :D

Their lightweight cable is a bit shit. It kept stretching for the first week, and I’ve gone through all of the barrel adjustment on the remote within a couple of months. The small box it comes packed into also means the housing has kinks every 12cm or so, which haven’t come out with time. I’m going to replace it with a standard cable ASAP.

(Apart from that, the seatpost has been great so far)

Happened to me with one of those ti skewers, the Hope I replaced it with has been fine for a year though. I keep thinking about replacing that with a Shimano internal cam one though.

munkyboy – Member
What’s with that shand, it looks like it’s on the floor and gigantic.

On the right, a seam in the floor lines up perfetly with the edge of the table. On the left, objects break up the table outline. It’s a fairly good optical illusion for me too.

Year old Blue Pig. Though the wheels are only about three months :)

Mostly, 4G is really good. O2’s seemed to be falling over the other day near Liverpool Street Station though.

iainc
removed and replaced cranks….but at 90 degrees rather than 180

Haha, done that too while hurriedly putting my bike back together for a two hour commute. Didn’t notice until I set off :)

When you slip and stick a knife through the sidewall of a new tyre you just put on the bike.

Today I learned that silicone heel pads are the best BMX accessory:

Tonight was the first session I’ve been able to walk without wincing after.

Take a spoke key :)

It’s inevitable that spokes on one side will have slightly different tension to the other, but if they’re all close to the same tone on a side that’s great. The pings aren’t a great sign though.That’s twisted spokes untwisting; unlikely to come apart but I’d definitely recheck it for trueness. Use tape flags and de-stress the wheel, as shown halfway down this post:
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=1467270

The Musson book is a really great guide, building wheels isn’t that much harder than truing them:
http://www.wheelpro.co.uk/wheelbuilding/book.php

Very dry and lots of dust up at Lee Quarry today. Hellish headwind on the climbs, though right behind you on most of the downs :)

anotherstan – Member
3 years from date of manufacture for a construction hard hat.

yes i know… completely irrelevant

I did see someone mashing around Gisburne in a hard hat the other week 8O

I used to commute on Schwalbe Hurricanes and then Sammy-Slicks. The latter were really light, high volume, and I somehow never punctured on them. Non-folding Hurricanes were much cheaper though.

Riding is why I moved to Calderdale. I was specifically looking for somewhere I could do loads without a car.

I’ll be there.

You’ll be nailing these level 10’s in no time:
http://www.unicycletoday.com/skill-levels.html

Why would you record in 60fps unless it was a piece of action you wanted in slo-mo.

60 is a lot smoother, especially with action. (edit) Here’s a comparison using a fast moving game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cakDGI17gWw

24 may be enough to fool the eye, and people seem to vary in their sensitivity to frame rate, but higher ones do make a difference.

Also think Lollipop is **** on the HTC One M8. As well as notification stuff, tabs and recent apps are merged into a badly designed screen that shows fewer things than before, and the headphone jack also suddenly stopped working (advice is “Backup, do a factory reset and it might start working again”).

Android was pretty good for a few years recently, but this feels like it did around 2010. I want a phone, not a **** ing project.

Exactly this happened to a mate in the alps last summer. He only noticed at the bottom of a long descent, and was so surprised he fell over clipped in :D

nach – Member
Youtube and Vimeo only allow a maximum frame rate of 30

(I was wrong: just went to watch something, and one of the options was 720p60. Apparently they allow that and 1080p60FPS too now).

Looks like a lot of fun.

The blown out flare effects put on footage of a cloudy day bug me though :D

Last time I looked at Premiere, it couldn’t handle the weird 47.95 frame rate that GoPros have instead of 50 (though you can halve it with 23.976FPS). GoPros own software does handle that frame rate and is actually pretty good if you’re just knocking little films together.

As others have said, higher quality settings can take a while to show on Youtube, though I’ve found they’re getting quicker at that. Mismatched frame rates in export settings is the first thing I’d check if your uploaded footage looks like poo. You want the export to either match the original frame rate or go with exactly half. In any case, if not exactly matched your output frame rate needs to be a divisor of the one you shot at.

Youtube and Vimeo only allow a maximum frame rate of 30, so if you shoot at higher rates, uploads will never look quite as good as your original footage.

crikey, need to get to the end of this page ’cause some peeps have forgotten that not everyone in the (ST)World has uber-fastlivingnearcivilisation broadband speeds!

Every page of the thread is like this! :D I’m on rural ADSL, so tend to leave the most recent page loading while I go do something else.

cblair246 – Member
Nach, the question is how many dead cats do you get to 250kg???

Apparently 40. It’s science! I didn’t have to empty those bins myself, because I was in the bit that dealt with the sanitary bins from women’s loos, and sharps boxes. That was, apparently, the “cushy” job.

(It was mainly the dogs that pushed bins over the weight limit :( )

I had a temp job in a clinical waste incinerator when I was 18. The big lift that winched trade waste bins up to the furnace had a sign declaring “All bins must be decanted to 250KG”, and in marker pen “UNLESS IT’S A BIN FULL OF DEAD PETS”

Well, he can claim to have briefly had three balls.

IME they’re pretty understanding. I had one forwarded from an old address late last year, and had to postpone as well as relocate it from a city I no longer lived in. I can’t find the summons now but I’m pretty sure there had been more than seven days between it being sent and me receiving it; they wrote straight back and gave me suitable dates nearer to home. ringing them is still a good idea though.

I don’t know if you’ll have to send it to the Netherlands and back or not, but studying abroad will be more than a good enough excuse to defer.

Why is the woman in the Chaparrel 2x video named Pete?

I was a tiny bit hopeful this was a working prototype. I’m half amused, half miffed at all the design people talking about it as if it’s real, but I suppose “We design stuff digitally so it makes it kind of easy to put in a videogame” isn’t as exciting.

This is a good incentive to do that brake bleed I’ve been putting off.

THREE METRES WHAT THE **** AAAGH!