sillyoldman – Member
@nobeer – apologies, I understood it to mean air mixed with oil – what does it mean?

It can refer to a certain type of fatigue to metal parts, but also refers to gas being drawn out of a fluid. An example: if you crack your knuckles, the noise is gas being drawn from your synovial fluid as you expand the joints. It gives you a 15 – 20% increase in mobility (hence why some pianists do it), which slowly reverts as the gas is reabsorbed. That reabsorption time is why you can’t immediately crack your knuckles again.

If a dropper was based around a fluid that could do that, then the gas would probably get reabsorbed and the sag would disappear… and maybe reappear. Sag in Levs and Reverbs is due to air getting past a seal, not emerging from what’s already behind it.

It’s an ARG.

gofasterstripes – Member
*subscribes to thread*

(same).

Tiny alien was as shocked as me to see such dry trails:

This is going to be even better than Badger.

I got to ride it a bit over new year, the way they’ve built that one felt quite monster-trucky to me – not a bad thing, but definitely not subtle :). It is seriously great at smashing over stuff, and that DW6 linkage climbs phenomenally well.

mikewsmith – Member

That lot were offering non linked flights be very aware they are not selling the tickets

Yeah, I’ve mainly just used it for hopping around the EU, and always go direct to the airline after checking with it.

Momondo was recommended to me by a friend who’s spent the last four years travelling.

It’s good for making a lot of comparisons quickly, but sometimes it’ll bounce you to a third party seller and it’s best to then go direct to the airline if you’re likely to need anything changed later.

I had the same problem. This works to get the crusty horrible stuff out of fabric, but for me it took two washes and some scrubbing it in with an old toothbrush before each:

Home

Nothing physical. My mum used to collect ornaments and tat, which just seemed like a lot of junk and dusting.

Outside of that, uh, browser tabs and games on Steam.

I suppose bikes count, but if n+1 gets over four I get pretty brutal about selling them.

I guess you need a clipless/platform combo pedal manufacturer that does pedal sizing, and I don’t think there is one yet.

Spank, Syntace and Crank Bros all do flat pedals with S/L or S/M/L sized platforms, but those are the only ones I know.

Are you going to be slower downhill now you can see every bump?

I tried out the Dainese and the IXS ones for a couple of rides while Wil was testing them all. Neither set rubbed at all, which was a surprise – I usually wear pads and they usually rub. Body Glide solves that though.

Whether a given set of pads fits, slips, rubs etc. is a really individual thing though.

wwaswas – Member

1) nothing too ‘new’ in terms of tech – otherwise you’re paying for their R&D and manufacturers literally aren’t tooled up to produce it.
2) money I can afford to lose only.
3) Track record of delivering in a similar space.

I’d do kickstarter again on the right product.

Good rules. Even with the hardware projects that do work though, the company behind it might get bought/go bust then leave products unsupported later. Pebble getting bought by Fitibt is a great example. Everything on it is such a punt.

Just looked and I’ve backed 25 things over the years. One is still in development, another was never delivered because one of the people involved suddenly died, and the rest were all relatively (!) simple things like books and games that were often delayed, sometimes years beyond the original estimate, but always got there in the end.

cornholio98 – Member
If you can’t afford to lose the money don’t put it into a development project.

This. Don’t back things with an amount of money you’d resent missing if something goes wrong. Only back simple things. Generally don’t back complicated things that would involve building a supply chain and finding manufacturers. That stuff gets a bit Underpants Gnomes for consumers and beginners.

Not been up since it last froze, but everything else here is baked and running as well as it ever does. Right now is probably one of the best chances you’ll get for a while.

(Posting partly to bookmark the thread)

Really interested to try them. I’d remembered the name after someone mentioned them last year, recently decided to try them next but found the shop was down.

Ace ride, have wanted to do the ICR for years and it did not disappoint. Cheers everyone! :D

On my way, I’ll just be, er, speed dishing a rear wheel for the next ten minutes 8O

Overcooking a bit of trail and almost going over the bars. Guy walking on the moors a short distance away: “STRAVA?”

I’ve used both. They get the same sinking issue eventually, but the frequency has been massively reduced on both since I stopped lifting bikes by the saddle.

I prefer Levs for servicing – the IFP and oil are sealed in a damper cartridge, so the basic service is really easy compared to the strip down and refill a Reverb requires. Servicing the damper cartridge isn’t much more complex but best done with a bench vice and a good strap wrench – there’s a great DIY rebuild thread on MTBR.

Both slow down a bit in cold weather, but Levs seem much more robust against it.

There’s a typo in your URL.

Mumvees

As a few others have said, Fusion 360 or Sketchup to Cura, then Cura to printer. Cura is a doddle, Fusion 360 has these tutorials[/url] and loads more on their YouTube channel.

If you need to print some stuff to make the printer look busy while you learn CAD, Thingiverse has loads of stuff to download.

My girlfriend had a lab that once chewed all the plaster off the corners of their walls, up to about a metre.

I lived with a lab that liked to eat fox poo :(

I tracked a similar sounding klunk down to a seizing jockey wheel. Sram mech though.

Their attitudes to sex are so massively **** up there could be books on that alone. There were occasional shotgun weddings. We had an elder who’d often grope women (because of their interpretation of Matthew 18:15-17, JWs require two witnesses to any kind of sexual assault, so many instances go unreported or unpunished). Eventually a woman cheated on her husband with the sleazy elder. She got disfellowshipped*, he got a slap on the wrist and was back in a position of authority within six months.

( * Most JWs won’t even say hello to ex-believers, and heavily discourage any kind of socialising outside of the religion – once you’re gone, so are your friendships along with any kind of support network you had).

teasel, martymac, I hope you’re both doing okay. I did pretty well at unpicking it in the five years or so after I left. I didn’t have to endure the kind of secondary school bullying you did, but being a JW drove me into extreme social phobia for a while. Sixteen years on it all feels very distant, but still affects some of the ex-JWs I know quite badly :(

Cougar – Moderator
They probably see it as doing good work, helping people in need of salvation. I can’t help but wonder how effective it is though; I wonder what their door-to-conversion rate is?

Absolutely. In JW’s case, they believe there will (soon! always very soon!) be some kind of actual armageddon in which the unbelievers and unrighteous all die, and that their door to door work is saving people from that. Their conversion rate was extremely low when I was a kid – an established congregation of 100 – 120 people might expect to convert a couple of new people a year.

Quite often those are vulnerable people who have someone knock on their door and basically ask “Would you like to live forever in paradise on Earth?”. It’s not untypical for some of them to bounce from belief system to belief system, carrying the same problems and vulnerabilities to each.

Cougar – Moderator
as far as I can tell their entire philosophy seems to be to seek out things they disagree with.

Not far off. They take a lot of the bible very literally, except for a few things like not eating pork, or mixing linen and cotton, or the account of creation in Genesis. The standards they preach as moral necessities meant that low self esteem was pretty endemic in all the groups I knew as a kid.

alpin – Member
Interestingly the Jw who stand around Munich in the pedestrian zone have similar pamphlets about teen depression.

They have the same magazines worldwide, local printing operations in many countries, and a big HQ in Brooklyn. They also recently switched focus to street preaching like that after decades of not many people being at home during the day.

I was raised as a JW, and exited sharply after reading a load of Kurt Vonnegut in my teens. I have absolutely no time for their beliefs, some of which are deeply harmful to people. Here’s the funniest thing the happened to me while knocking on doors though:

One guy I used to drop the magazines with was a little odd, but always very enthusiastic. This one time he was a bit jumpy, wearing a grubby t-shirt and jorts. He opened with a suspicious “Hello? Who is it?” from the other side of the door, and when he realised it was me “Sorry, it’s just your friend looks like a policeman”. As the conversation went on I noticed his flies were low and bulging a bit. He then stops us mid sentence with “just so you know, when you knocked on the door, I wasn’t doing anything untoward”.

beaker – Member
Just tell them you’ve been disfellowshiped.

This or saying you’re an apostate will make JWs go away pretty fast if they’re persistent.

It’s possibly a long story about Flash and HTML 5, that begins with Steve Jobs.

It depends on where you live. In this wet Yorkshire valley I’m in, it can quickly become a priority :D

nickhit3 – Member
Worth considering seriously sure in any case but is this a realistic problem really?

Yep. Over time, any untreated humidity will see things rusting and paint bubbling.

footflaps – Member
We have a Condensor drier in the Workshop, which condenses to a tray which you then empty. Has no noticable effect on humidity in the room.

If you’re having to empty it, it’s reducing the humidity :P. Your environment might just be adding it back as fast or faster though.

Humans tend to be most comfortable around 60% humidity. If it goes to around 40% or below and you wear contact lenses, you might notice them get uncomfortable as they start giving up moisture to the air faster.

Cube do some Alfine commuter bikes with 35-40mm tyres. I got a belt driven one, put some full mudguards on it, and it’s perfect for going to the shops in any weather without worrying much about maintenance.

5plusn8 – Member
I have a southpaw, it is rubbish.

Leccy tape sorts the clamp out.

ahsat – Member
I have this issue too – a HTC M8

ARGH. Hateful phone and I can’t wait to be shot of mine. Currently, the most probable reason for Android system using 10GB of the 16GB internal storage is a rapidly bloating log file. Deleting about 4GB of photos resulted in system filling all that space with files I’m not allowed to touch. Solutions are:
– Root it (welcome to your new long-term project!)
– Factory reset (welcome to your new short-term project!)
– Tediously keep moving stuff to the SD card, and await the day the OS grinds to a halt.
– Buy a new flagship phone, face the same problems a year or two from now.

2 of 3 HTCs I’ve had have been awful. Going to try Samsung next. I’ve not heard great things about much, including recent iPhones; I think we’re just in a bad period where companies are shitting things up trying to innovate within a bunch of solved problems.

Goldigger – Member

What’s the 35mm benefit over 31.8 apart from maybe strength?
None of my lights will fit 35mm

Apparently just MOAR STIFFERER, but that’s not what every rider wants.

OP, not sure how much other brands do for comfort, but I have a Sixpack carbon bar, and it’s as comfortable as the Spank vibrocore ones, which in turn solved some horrible vibration problems with my HT.

superleggero – Member
For the bike: a quality set of hex/allen keys with ball ends, that don’t round out the bolt heads.

This set of Wera stainless ones made me feel a little bit guilty when I got them, but they’re just really good to use, haven’t developed rust spots like the Bahco ones I got after a recommendation on here, and anyone I pass them to goes “Ooh!”

Not quite life changing, but nicely machined, have never rounded anything, and have made loads of quick bike jobs that bit nicer to do. I figure if you use a tool a lot, it’s worth getting the nicest you can.

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My selection of pumps can vary pretty wildly. Like a lot of things with measurement, seems some calibration is required and repeatability is the critical thing. I’ve learned 20 is actually 17 on the one I use most, and a pocket digital gauge is a decent way of getting that repeatability with different pumps.