A short cage Shimano MTB derailleur would be the Saint. The medium cage XT and SLX derailleurs have, not surprisingly, a longer cage than the short cage Saint. Neither XT nor SLX are available with a short cage.

Anyway fatal drop brings in his own army speak with "lack of combat experience"…

An ironic dig, perhaps?

Orange SubZero, usually with 180mm Marz' 66 RC2X (coil), but sometimes with 160mm Fox 36 RC2 (air). Both set-ups could be nicer in terms of climbing, but everything else is bags of fun. I don't know what to say about adventures, but the SZ has given me more grins than any other bike I've owned.

Anyone else still trying to work out whether fatal_drop is a big pi$$ artist or being serious…?

I like the cut of their jib, whoever they are. I mean, describing one's riding excursions with military analogies is a bit childish; wouldn't you say? Perhaps this bloke's outings are a little more regimented and bomb/bullet-filled than mine, but, as f-d points out, most people's rides are the antithesis of military "manoeuvers". It's just a ridiculous analogy that somebody ridiculed, and they did so in the context of a thread about stupid things that people say.

What fork?

Headset is best set up with the bike on the floor. Lock front brake, or turn wheel perpendicular, and rock back and forth.

Would the same depth of field not be present even if the sensor was, say, half the size?

I have been away and edumacated myself (this[/url] was helpful). Different size sensors can, and do, have an effect on depth of field; so that's me learned. However!! as per my response to the low-light ability, a larger sensor does not necessarily have to have a larger body.

no, it depends on the size of the photosites

I don't know what you mean by "photosites".

but keeping a constant number of pixels, a bigger sensor will have lower noise

I don't dispute that. What I said is that a larger sensor doesn't automatically mean that a camera body must be enlarged to fit a larger sensor.

yes on the depth of field, perhaps on the low light, no on the shutter speed

I'd say no to all three. Depth of field is determined by the lense focal length and aperture, not the camera. Would the same depth of field not be present even if the sensor was, say, half the size? I can understand that a larger sensor could potentially be more sensitive, and thus giving better low-light ability, but given actual physical sensor sizes it doesn't automatically follow that a camera body must be made larger to incorporate it.

Be aware though that some things – like nice out-of-focus backgrounds, good low light shooting, fast shutter speed are physically linked to the size of an SLR…

Do you mean that a DSLR has to be physically larger to perform well in those areas?

I reckon you're more likely to get them from a vets or from a large pet shop.

One thing you can't buy Justa is an eye for a good picture – you will learn that in a class…

Don't bank on it.

I use a Panasonic FZ-28 which is a bridge camera with an 18x zoom. I've been very happy with the camera but would like to start taking better photos.

What exactly is wrong with the pictures you take?

Same as any other stanchions, I would say. Something like Fork Juice is good because, as well as lifting dirt off the wipers, it'll leave a low friction coating on the stanchion surface. Just make sure that you completely cover your brake caliper and disc when you spray it on.

My Nikon D70S would reject (as in not be able to read) the memory card if it got a knock on something hard. It never had any problem with being thrown around/dropped while in a soft case, so it was clearly a square-edge thing it objected to. The D5000 that replaced it appears unaffected by similar carelessness.

Sometimes. I get it in similar environments and have always put it down to acoustic reflections (thrown sound). Doesn't entirely explain it, might not even explain it at all, but seems more reasonable than phantoms etc and less questioning of my sanity.

Interestingly supermarkets push the 'creating local jobs' angle very hard when they are trying to push through planning permission…

You may find this article (and other linked articles) interesting…

"The British Retail Planning Forum (1998), embarrassingly financed by the supermarkets themselves, discovered that every time a large supermarket opens, on average, 276 jobs are lost."

blah blah blah blah.

Classy reponse.

Knuckles off the ground, now.

You mentioned something about assumptions?

What you doing in a supermarket if this is a gripe?

Precisely. There are (maybe) a few local shops left who who would be glad/desperate to have your business and give you all the chit chat you could ever ask for. You caused the "deporsonalisation" by shopping there and supporting their business model; so go and help cause some personalisation, not to mention several hundred jobs, by supporting local small traders.

My NorthFace Hammerhead uses a magnetic fixer for the hose. I agree that it's a very useful feature.

Your chemist is an idiot. There's no way you can misuse IPA that you can't also misuse other chemicals which are rather easier to get hold of. Does your chemist actually have any training in chemistry or did they think "alcohol – wanting to drink it"?

A pharmacist I spoke to a few years ago told me that kids sometimes try to buy it to dilute, as do some alcoholics. It's very, very easy to misuse: you just drink it. I've always had to explain to pharmacists why I want to order it and have always seen it as them being responsible, not stupid. The idiot chemist is the one who sells something to somebody who they suspect is going to misuse it.

The autotune remix is a delightful development. I don't understand why you think it would be racist though?

It's not a Shimano toolkit, it's Shimano compatible toolkit.

I'd spend £20-25 on a truely good quality set of hex keys (Bondhus or, better yet, Wera) and then run over your bikes and determine precisely which other tools you'll need. Those kits contain average tools, many of which will be of absolutely no use to you.

For genuine quality on a budget go for stuff like Pioneer's 1970's-era mass-produced offerings. PL12Ds or PL112Ds can be found for around £50 and are superior to many more expensive players built after them.

EDIT pardon me, missed the point that these were for DJ. Thought it was for home hi-fi.

Ive used tilt shift lenses myself and that effect would be very easy to create without any photoshop nonsense, not everybodys cup of tea tho.

Images 3, 7 & 8 all appear to have localised exposure adjustments/differences. Is this possible with lenses/filters?

That really is a good example of why some people should be prevented from having access to a computer with PS on it.

Agreed. Further to your description of the process, it also appears as though the adjustment brush has been used to increase the exposure on and around the statue on several of the shots. It's a matter of opinion of course, but I think the effect is quite awful.

Navel Officer dress whites. Can't fail to pull.

A navel officer you say?

Why would the EU website lie (about this)? 999 works in this country only; 112 works internationally within the EU.

The Lizard Skin has the potential to cause damage. Although they keep large lumps of muck off the fork stanchions, they hold quite a lot of water and the neoprene is porous enough to allow some fairly large particles of grit to become absorbed. The result is that the grit is held against the stanchion and continuously wears at the surface as the suspension cycles. The same issue is present with the rear air shock boot.

Why is this the question?

till i tried a simon and patrick, for £650 it was pretty difficult to put down lovely sound and action.

There's your answer.

Those two feckers should be systematically abused every day up until their release date and then hung for good measure!!

Because that would demonstrate what? That the best way to deal with violent and abusive people is to be violent and abusive? Corporal and capital punishment are symptoms of a violent society; they are not a cure.

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" Mahatma Ghandi

You mean Belleville Rendez-vous?

Richard E Grant in Withnail & I would have to be one of my favourites.

Specialized will (might) sell you their bearing toolkit, which covers all of their frames, for around £200. Otherwise, you'll get various bearing removing tools from tool suppliers.

Check out Hazmat Modine. Not exactly blues, but not exactly not…

They're not welded in at all. They're pressed in one from each side, with a spacer in between; so they each need to be extracted by pulling from the inside edge, next to the spacer. The proper tool (which Specialized shops will carry) presses a ridge in between the spacer and the bearing and can then be withdrawn taking the bearing with it. There are numerous DIY tools for doing the job, but the risk of destroying/separating the bearing has always lead me to take the stay into my local shop who do that part for me, in what is really a five minute job. Fitting new bearings is simple and can be done with normal DIY presses.

It's the cows you want to worry about.

Don't point it at your face.