My place is open to anyone who wants it. Shoulder is still spannered enough that doing this would be a really, really bad idea :(

Thanks to a tick, I’m also on antibiotics that mean I can’t even do the drinking bit either!

These baskets are going to be loads of fun every time you stop:

euain, fancy doing a bit of currency trading with me? I get to set all the rates, but promise not to make any political statements.

Thanks, all.

Sorry, I should have specified: The sag is definitely caused by air getting into the oil chamber, and the air chamber on the other side of the IFP is the nearest source.

The lifting-by-the-saddle thing is a theory people have, but borne out by my own limited experience. After one rebuild it was flawless, but the problem came back a short while later after a trip – no gradual sag, just suddenly an inch. After a second rebuild I learned to not lift it by the seat, and the problem hasn’t reoccurred in six months.

There are other theories, such as cold temperatures causing seals to shrink, but I’ve had it function fine and not develop the problem after sub-zero rides.

Edit: Thanks for the PDF links. I’ve been given a knackered stealth reverb and have been building up to having a poke around it’s innards.

Curse you, Mr C :D

Forgive me, everyone else.

(Source).

Only gamers of a particular time will get this, but it is fantastic:

tillydog – Member
The spongy/sag thing is a bit of a mystery, though. It seems to afflict some more than others.

Reverbs (including the new ones) have similar internals to KS Levs, which also suffer from this. Sag is caused by air getting past the internal floating piston into the oil chamber. Typically, it’s lifting the bike by the seat that causes that with Levs, and seems likely it’s the case with Reverbs too.

I’ve got rid of sag in Levs thanks to this excellent thread, unfortunately there seems to be nothing as comprehensive for Reverbs.

I’d say yes. I got rid of my car nearly 15 years ago, and rent a van about once a year. It’s been a noticeable decline, and driving a few weeks back, I was chiding myself for being terrible and out or practice at first, but after about half an hour realised basically no one around me was driving with particular care or attention.

Motorway driving in particular seems to elude British drivers, who are great at:
Falling asleep in the middle lane.
The fifteen minute overtake.

Yes, but I was trained with a weird technique that involves feeding your lead arm outwards, back of hand to the floor, rather than curling it up in front. It tends to lead to a softer touch between shoulder and floor, making it a bit easier to do from a run.

Pennine Powder Coaters, between Todmorden and Hebden Bridge. Run by a guy called Chris, he coats a lot of parts for motorbikes and MTBs.

What Simon said, leave us alone ;)

I’ve liked Calderdale a lot since moving up. Trails from my doorstep in every direction, and still discovering new ones after a couple of years. Gisburn, Lake District and Wales all in fairly easy reach. Manchester and Leeds both nearby.

Fur over the mic to cut wind noise. It doesn’t have to be an expensive fuzzy windjammer, plenty of people doing video DIY them out of some furry fabric from a market stall. Just make sure it has a good seal around the mic and it’ll cut out loads of wind noise, and with that gone you might be surprised at what it can record.

Just don’t expect miracles. The crystal clear bike noise you hear in fancier videos will be at least from a shotgun mic, if not a mic+recorder/tx mounted on the bike or rider.

AudioTechnica do a decent, cheap lapel mic for about £20, though it eats watch batteries and has an absurdly long lead. While shooting stuff and riding, I’ve been surprised at how well that+windjammer can pick up not just my voice, but bike noise too. Of course, then you need the £20 usb mic adapter (cheap ones don’t work), and a GoPro case with a hole for it, etc.

:D

It feels very, very strange to read a forum thread that can go eight posts without an argument.

I do hope someone teaches these children how to be proper adults online.

Ah, maybe, thank you jimdubleyou. Most developers I know have been given VR devkits for free, but it’s a possibility.

GrahamS, that’s useful to know and I’ll give them a try, thanks. They were on the list, but only seemed to sell cases/etc. rather than PCs.

Developers are a market for anyone selling performance PCs, especially VR developers, but a smaller one than gamers, so understandably there’s less interest. Hardware is always the biggest knot to untangle with these kind of events, and VR has pushed specs way up for anything aimed at indie developers. It’s a bit of the economics of that kind of event that are now kind of broken without sponsorship. PC rental seems to be the wild west, with massively varying prices and levels of service that don’t necessarily correspond.

I could launch into a lengthy explanation of subtext, sirromj, but instead I’ll just provide you with this link.

That’s weird. The controls on mine work via airplay. I’ve been using it a few weeks and it’s been fine.

I bought one of these when they were posted the other week. It works well and replaced a load of wires+electronics that I was using for an airplay setup. The physical interface is really good too, meaning I can just carry the speaker off if I’m doing something without the computer, such as fixing bikes.

I briefly tried finding a way to do airplay with android, and gave up as life is too short for tutorials that begin with “This is easy! First, root your phone…”

Sound is fine, but if you’re close by it you don’t really hear the treble unless it’s pointing right at you (fine if you have the volume up to fill a room though).

I definitely don’t know.

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In the park:

Terrifying self-portrait made with someone else’s weird videogame+webcam project:

Pecket Well will be fine, as the boxing day floods washed most of the mud right off it. The other two you mentioned are both trails I might avoid in the wet, as Barely Legal (etc.) got pretty mashed up in the winter, but rode that and Midget’s a week ago and they were baked dust.

Trails around Calderdale have been drying out fast for the past month or two.

They’re sort of like the “Get a bell!/Bells are rude!” thing. Drivers love to moan about cyclists filtering on the left, but they also love to moan about cyclists not being in the special painted bit on the left.

I tend not to use them.

That my former boss didn’t have friends, for tax reasons. The client who’d just mentioned “[boss’] friends” laughed really loudly, the boss didn’t.

Quite a few years ago I’d just fitted a brand new front tyre. Clearance seemed fine at first but it rubbed on the fender all the way down the first descent. So I got my swiss army knife out to cut the zip ties, slipped and shoved it straight through the sidewall.

Magura MT7s might give a bit more stopping power, and pad changes are a little easier with them thanks to magnets on the pistons.

The M4s are really good in terms of spares availability and being user serviceable though. Even in the Alps just over the border from Italy, I’ve found shops selling Hope bits but no Magura.

Wheels on mine were okay, but the rim strip was shit and the tube herniated into a spoke hole. Replaced with schwalbe high pressure tape and no punctures since.

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Let’s keep this going and make Brant feel a bit weird.

They’re all made around cheap frames and bits from the East. Companies doing them seem to come and go.

I bought one in London from a now defunct company named Moritz, and it’s been fine. They’re not complicated bikes. I went through one chain and replaced a lot of the kit on it with nicer bits. Selling it soon because it isn’t suited to Yorkshire.

Some of the components on that ebay listing are identical to the one I got when it was new, just with different brands on them. It’s not amazingly confidence inspiring when the bars have something like “TIANYOU. Established 2012” on them, but nothing ever broke catastrophically.

I’ve had one I couldn’t find until I left the right part underwater for ten minutes or so. It was a badly bonded lateral seam in the tube, and bubbles gathered along it eventually (I pulled the tube either side of it and it ripped apart easily)

If you have any interest in making things:

Clickspring (Building a clock, and tools, with incredibly precise metalworking skills. Very well made videos too).
Matthias Wandel (Engineer who now works in wood, sometimes tries to do stuff on the cheap and fails horribly, inventor of the Pantorouter).
Izzy Swan (Makes some ridiculous things, seems like a generally lovely human being).
Doubleboost (Strange mix of metalworking and cookery, sometimes delivered with an impenetrable Geordie accent).

Thanks all! Good turnout.

dazh – Member
Maybe we should do the CB radio thing that’s often been talked about when we’re expecting those numbers?

That’s not a terrible idea. I was on a ride recently where we were lost and having a guy scout ahead with a radio made a massive difference.

View from the White House:

I’ll be there.

There should be some giant comedy opposite-of-wow certificate for whichever adult came up with this idea.

sirromj – Member
I liked it too. Also recommend Beyond the Black Rainbow

Yeah! Both phenomenal films. If you liked these you might also like Upstream Color, which is what Shane Carruth did after Primer, but it has a more experimental narrative than Under The Skin or Black Rainbow.

Was there the other night and it’s not cleared yet.