Apparently this one is “most interesting”:

Schindler’s Zaskar! Rubbish bike though :(

Every set of Hope Hoops (Pro II + DT Comp) on ZTR rims I’ve had have always been pretty much bang on the Hope estimated weight, very good solid wheels! It’s the only wheels we buy now, 2 sets in the house and buying a third next week (and a set of Hoops with 5.1D, but they don’t count). I’ve tried a few dodgy 24 spoke wheels, never again.

Assuming a Deore HG50 cassette is on there, that’s about 430g for a start (going by the one I took off a Pitch Pro, brand new, this weekend). Lighter tubes can knock off half a pound too, depending on where you’re riding.

Might be worth taking your wheels off and weighing them, to see where the weight is hiding a bit better. Bet it’s all in the wheels, tyres, tubes, rotors, cassette as mentioned.

I’d be cautious of getting too caught up on weight though, unless you really feel it’s holding you back. It’s always quoted as it’s the most obvious quantitative way of comparing two bikes. Every bike I’ve battled to sub 24lbs I’ve absolutely hated.

What is the steam venting for?

That’s the stealth smoke screen I think.

My Meta doesn’t feel slack, it’s supposed to be 68 degrees, my Pitch does though at 67 degrees.

The numbers don’t always seem to match what you actually get, the MojoI used to have was supposedly 69, yet it was somewhere between the Pitch and the Meta (all with 140mm forks).

Android phones generally do sit online all the time, syncing your mail and things, it’ll probably only use a couple of mb a month from syncing though. Unless the battery life is hacking you off I’d just leave it on.

they all work in the Games Industry good luck in prising them away.

Yeah, that’s what I’m doing, 7ish years of making games for consoles in C/C++. Doing a bit of dabbling in mobile platforms in my spare time but I think the markets are rapidly getting a bit too crammed to be honest.

Very eager to find a company in Scotland actually, there seems to be lots going on up there and the idea of biking on my back door excites me greatly. Lots of demand for C/C++ coders about at the minute? I might have to broaden my career choices slightly :)

Yeah, I liked the look of the 314s. I think I’d have done exactly the same, sadly I think all the bargain 54cm ones have gone now.

There’s lots of 214s going cheap though, most likely because of the colour.

Does the 214/314 come with an open valve shock by the way, or has it got pro pedal?

rock shox forks – I’ve tried plenty and they’ve all felt horrid compared to fox or a nice set of bombers from a few years back. RS seem to have all the bells and whistles in terms of adjustments and gimicks, then lack basic adjustments like (coil) spring pre load. I had a go on my mates yeti with pikes with an extra firm spring and they were so soft I was almost bottoming them out just riding round the car park.

I’ve tried sids, pyslos, rebas, pike and recon and thought they were all gash

Wow, exactly the same experience here bizarrely. I keep trying more as they get flawless reviews, and plenty of people rocket around using them, but for some reason I can’t click, my frontend feels much less grounded.

Tried 2007 Revs, 2010 Rev Race, 2007 Rebas, 2008 Toras, all a bit bobbins compared to all the Fox I’ve owned (similar sized range). EVERY year the reviews claim the damping has been improved, making it as good as Fox, yet curiously the same claim is made the following year.

Ah good, someone else bumped this thread for me. Could I have it too please? :)

toasting@gmail.com

I will come back though after deciding whether to take the 6’2″ thruster

Oh my!

Tried the swype keyboard? Very quick when you get used to it.

Weird, I wonder if the pressure is high at the moment or something. I’ve had some crazy ones over the last couple of days too, today has been hideous, chain chomping ibuprofen to take the edge of it.

Drifting off slightly, I wouldn't agree with that, certainly not for a mountain bike (which this topic isn't about I know :P).

You can't add it all up as a "total weight", the bike isn't attached to you. For example, if you went for a jog with a 20lb pair of shoes on, it'd slow you down a lot more than a 20lb backpack would. Your shoes are accelerating in different directions, your torso is moving in a fairly straight line.

Looks like the soft white paint cracking to me, I'd definitely have a look underneath.

Elfinsafety – Member
You got caught speeding, you got fined. No use moaning about it.

'Oh life's sooo unfair…'

MTFU

jam bo – Member
predictable to the letter…

The point isn't to come up with a witty unpredictable reply. Pay the fine and drive a bit more cautiously, that's how it works.

To anyone on Android 1.5 phones who couldn't get through the menus. I've sorted the issue and uploaded a new version to the same place. Huge cheers Ed for pointing it out :)

Android is driving me bonkers though, they release a new SDK, jam packed with features, none of which you can actually use without chopping your market to bits. Multitouch was a similar battle.

As a follow up to http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/any-android-owners

The not quite finished Androidy thing I was trying to convince a few people to cheekily test for me.

Mail sent to surfdad and Neil!

Quite intruiged to hear about the Wildfire, as it's got an odd aspect ratio, everything may well be a bit skewed.

ourkidsam – Member

Ah, Toasty, this is interesting. I want to start developing a/some Android apps – as soon as I've got a decent idea. I'm rubbish at drawing so it won't be a game like this… anyway, I don't even know where to start. What tools are you using? It's Java isn't it?

Yeah, it's Java through a tool called Eclipse, which has been fantastic actually. There's a list of what you need to get started on the Android developer pages somewhere, mail me if you get stuck anywhere. There's sod all info around the net which makes it a bit of a trial and error experience. This game was was written completely in OpenGL, for the interesting graphical bits it lets me do, supposedly it should go faster on newer phones as well.

If you need a hand with anything let me know, I've hammered the Android menu system quite a bit with all the odd game menus.

Chucked a mail to both glenh and mogrim!

Yeah Max, I'd like to do a Gauntlet game. This Tower Def was just a test really, in my spare time, to see how it went, I've never made a mobile game before so it's a bit unpolished. Quite keen to do a multiplayer gauntlet thing though, log on with a couple of mates and grind though a few levels on the odd evening, would be good fun :)

Given the phone have speakers and microphones I don't see why it couldn't handle party chat instantly. Really good platform for it.

Chucked you a mail and link Spank.

Cheers!

Oh interesting, I was tempted to stick one of the Froyo builds on my Galaxy S :) Another one I'd be intruiged to hear from. I know Robo Defence has some issues with Cyanogen Mod phones, so anyone running that stuff would be interesting to hear from.

Mine isn't really any harder Soma, due to the shop not being complete yet the difficulty grind doesn't really work yet, it's more about using the score bonuses cleverly to top the score boards at the moment. INSANE mode is just about possible, for silly big scores, ideally comboing waves, right near the exit for the biggest bonuses.

Its certainly less about leading the waves up and down the screen repeatedly, and more about making a few souped up turrets, then keeping all the enemies near them.

I think the DRM was scuppering everyone, so I've removed it completely and emailed everyone again. Apologies!

If anyone else wants it, it's much less hassle now, chuck me a mail and I send you a link and instructions on how to play! :)

If people haven't got a connection, be that phone or wifi. It may potentially fail the DRM check. I'm currently tidying up the fact that it incorrectly tells you that you haven't got a licence, when that's not really the issue.

Ah, someone else seems to have had the same :(

If this DRM awkwardness continues I'll just pull it out and do a version without :)

Cheers, replied!

If anyone could just confirm they're getting as far as the level select screen, it means I'm setting up the DRM correctly. Thanks! :)

Any criticism welcome, be that "It's crap" or a design thing they'd have done differently.

Big stack of emails sent out there :) If anyone has any trouble let me know, especially if the nazi DRM is stopping them get into game. I could well have set up the Developer email list thing wrong.

Big thanks all!

Oh, my friend code thing is "2cfifxy5xctp", which is randomly an account called Freddy at the moment, on the offchance anyone figures out the convoluted friends system.

gravity-slave – Member

I love Robo Defence and have lots of time to kill in airports in the next few weeks so would be happy to test it out and offer feedback. Email in profile, ta.

Hi, is that the email address you registered on the market? As per the above screen grab it seems to want gmail addresses, but I can give it a shot with that one. You sound like exactly the sort of person I'm after though! :)

Cheers Ed, I've replied with a link. I'll be intruiged how it runs on your phone actually, it's an untested one at the moment but looks to be a similar spec to my G1, let me know if anything breaks!

Thanks!

Sorry for the delay, wrote a huge email with instructions :) Link should be there, let me know if you have any problems, you've been added to the magical list so the DRM shouldn't pop up.

Sure, just uploading it now, if you chuck a mail to toasting@gmail.com I'll send you a link back :)

You'll need to let me know what mail address you're registered on the market with, I add you to a magical list and it'll let you play anything I make for free without failing the DRM check thing:

Oh and on a related, and even more unlikely note. If anyone on here happens to be a fantastic pixel artist, audio chappy, or even coder and wants to work on something in their spare time let me know!

I was pondering a few things next, Gauntlet/Alien Breed type thing, physics platformer (ala Little Big Planet) or failing that sacking off the low end phones and doing a little first person tech demo type engine, which would be just as easy as the other two in all honesty, but would have much less potential for flogging on the market!

psx4droid, on the market. Quite good although he doesn't ever seem to update it :(

Seems to play most things very well though.

On a similar note, how do you view framerate in psx4droid, or are you counting them? :/

The newer chipsets use a more powerful GPU (the Adreno (Or something) 205 vs 200) which they say is about 4x as powerful as the one in the current Desire.

Ooh, that'd do, I take it back if that's the case :P

CPU performance has never been the bottleneck, it's GPU, and that doesn't seem to have massively changed.

well all im going to say is I have PS1 games running in full graphics and they pull over 40fps.

I'm not talking lab test either, and to be honest you're not actually comparing you phone to anything. All I'm saying is the rest have much quicker GPUs, and HTCs phones hold the entire Android market back quite a bit.

Now with 2.2 (froyo) it can run up to 4 times faster.

The 4x increase refers to a JIT compiler, it'll give a 4x speed increase in very, very specific circumstances. It has to be very CPU heavy code, which is repeatedly run, like a program which you give a photo and it applies a filter for example. The compilation requires a bit of time and memory, so in some circumstances it's actually slower. It's not a win/win, for the vast majority of things it'll make no difference.

The Snapdragon processor has their own crappy GPU, which is fill rate bound, which means, although it's fast at figuring things out internally, it's actually too slow to draw it's big screen at a decent speed. With a 3.7" screen this cap was about 26 frames per second, if the new one is a higher res this will be even worse.

The Hummingbird phones, new Nvidia ones, or iPhones A8s are far more speedy and capable of a much better frame rate. All with proper 3d hardware, faster and more up to date than the likes of a PSP. The reason everything runs smooth on the Desire is because it's all made for the Desire, as it's selling bucket loads.

have you actually tired one?

Yes, and I'm developing for it :) It'd be nice to release something crazy and blow everyones socks off, like id and Epic recently did for the iPhone. Sadly the HTC phones gimp this potential a bit.

Another generation of slow Snapdragon phones from HTC, means another year of iPhone games looking progressively better while the Android market looks like it's filled with games made by 10 year olds.

Had they stuck a Hummingbird in there though, like many other companies are now, you'd have lots of interesting developers jumping onboard Android all of a sudden. Not hugely relevant for the vast majority I know.

A lot of those play via 3.5mm, bluetooth, wifi etc which would be fine.

Aside from the novelty of your phone being the GUI on the stereo, wouldn't it be more practical letting it stream over the network or similar? You'll have unlimited space and you can use your phone while listening to music.

Yes, I have 2 Android Phones (and a Spotify premium account which gets used on them most of my waking hours!) :P

The "empirical scale of gnarness", I like it!

Slightly tenuous one there maybe.

Here's me doing a backflip on flat, the photo came out blurred as the photographer was physically knocked backwards by the amount of gnar happening infront of him. It was on a Chameleon.

You can get a protein/carbs mix, aimed slightly more at cardio sports like cycling. The carbs means it can have a bit of flavour too!

Slightly too much protein is no great worry though, you just pee it out.

It's quite tragic actually, those were the best of the pictures, it spiralled around my legs to evade the camera on other shots. Like these for example:

So far it's looking like a Bedlington Terrier / Womble cross then.