CRTs often lok like a better picture because of the glass screen, in the same way that glossy LCDs appear to look better than matt LCDs.

But you get relections on the glossy surface, which equals glare.

And old CRTs ran at 50Hz refresh – if you can’t see that then you are lucky.

I had a 540p Sharp LCD (optimised for PAL) and the picture on it was great as there was no need for upscaling or picture processing, plus the colours were excellent.

Don’t be fooled by specs though – published contrast ratios mean little, and if you get a 1080p screen you better feed it with HD material or hope that the electronics in it are good enough at upscaling the picture to make it look acceptable. The cheaper the tv the less likely this is.

Pick up a 36 inch standard def TV for nothing, take off your glasses and watch in comfort.

That doesn’t make sense – CRTs suffer from glare whereas a non-glosy LCD doesn’t, and unless they are 100Hz they will also suffer from flicker. Modern LCDs don’t suffer from flicker to the same extent at all.

From a cursory look I would think the AOC might be a better bet – they are a more established name and have a history in computer monitors. Luxor was a name that I think Nokia owned and sold so who knows.

Can also find some comments on yahoo about avoiding Luxor.

what devices are they putting in the bikes?

Looks like it is going to be the pen – cheers :-)

how much is a stripogram anyway?

male or female strippogram ?

He is married but his wife is over here so will be flying with him…

don’t think we can buy the ammo and hand gun here, and he might have problems with customs…

I think you probably misunderstood him, he actually said:

“No, more nails”

You didn’t pay by paypal by any chance?

I met someone who had just bought a Ibis Mojo and received a set of Fox forks as well in the box!

I have never ridden with other people and never ever will. Solitude is bliss.

even if it was one of those brazilian synchronised swimmers that you could ride with???

every day is too much – you are suppossed to push weight to the point of failure, which clues the body into growing some more muscle to cope, and it needs some time to do that.

I much prefer the newer version of The Italian Job to the old one.

that’s a joke, right ???

no gears at all??

Do you have one of those run-along trainer type bikes, like the young kiddies have?

I thought TandemJeremy was called that because he is bipolar?

still gonna look like an old git in a passat…

On my first ride with the muddymoles matt couldn’t remember my name for his blog – so I became some guy on a turner :-)

dremel…

3 peaks challenge…

they sell big-screen kindles to the UK – that’s double standards…

what if it something that amazon uk don’t stock?

very poor

and we are talking about a Escort Cosworth

my mate has to rebuild his escort cosworths engine every 30k miles…

600 bhp though :D

1 stone in the 1st month is easy…………keeping it up is not.

Sounds like you choose a dodgy diet if it affected you down there…

but more spread out/harder to find.

that little loop packs a lot into it if you find all the singletrack. I think it something like 12 miles.

Shame it wasn’t today, don’t Nirvana do their ‘oldies’ ride on a Wednesday, you could have joined them :wink:

2004 model – apparently they suffered a lot from rubbing pistons – my friend had the problem, I had it, the guy in evans said he saw loads like it. I used to bleed them down regularly but the pistons would still try to make love to the rotors. It also wasn’t helped by some manitou skareb forks I had, a bit flexy…

My mate would leave his bike upside down overnight with credit cards in the gaps before anything important, but it didn’t work.

You can have them if you want…

get a fiat – good engines and dont hold their value.

plus you won’t have to deal with a vw garage, another of my pet hates…

:D

Or the shop in Peaslake (pedal and spoke?) sell different maps which may be better.

If you go to the YHA car park you can cycle up to the fort (can see it on the map at the car park) then turn right into the car park – there is some singletrack that starts at the far end of the carpark which will eventually lead you towards the reservoir and the top of BKB – then down BKB and into Peaslake – buy a map at the shop – then up the hill behind the shop (pitch???) towards the other trails (T5, etc) marked on their map, and then back to the shop, grab some grub at the shop, and then climb back up towards the fort again (can go left and do some bridleways there if you want to get off the road) and then do yoghurt pots and telegraph back to the car park.

or something like that…

The last alfa garage I bought from said their Alfas had no problems compared to the passats their other franchise dealership sold, and that was about that age.

Plus Passats are for old git drivers, or people who want to be an old git. Have a look around at passat drivers on the road before passing judgement – it’s true.

I listened to a HiFi unit once, it sounded crap – I checked it in the bin…

I drove a car once and that was crap so I walk everywhere now…

I was trying to think of a joke about the Winzips as that is the name of a well-known compression utility on Windows – Coming out of a bomb-hole was all I could think off :-(

I bet those Winzips will be good when braking as you come out of the bottom of a run down a big bomb hole, when you are experiencing a lot of compression…

£170 Avid Juicy Ultimate levers and Gore ride-ons solve the lever feel issue…

You need to run decent rotors as well, not the roundagons that come with the BB7s.

Whereas I have some HFX 9 in the garage waiting for me to take a sledge hammer to them as they were so sh1t.

And I was a happy HS33 user, used both the first version and the EVOs and still have on my commuter, and I am happy with BB7s on both my mtbs.

What cables and rotors were you unhappy guys running?

2. Not needed. What is 0.5mm exra gap going to achieve anyway? Discs clear in 10 yards. More fiddly knobs = More to break.

look back at a singletrack thread about one of the muddy swinley races and how people were chewing through brakes before having to give up. One of the few that finished attributed it to the extra gap in his shimanos.

1. NO auto pad adjutment?!?! Why would you want to do it manually FFS

p1ssed off with hydros deciding to run as close to the rotors as possible even though I set them up with more of a gap.

BB7s aren’t cheap for a decent setup though.

The wheelpro site is strange – but that sale set of wheels looks good – you will prob struggle to find a better set of hand-built wheels…

When Magura come out with a hydro as good as the HS33s I will change – I want:

1. No auto pad adjustment and adjustable bite position
2. decent gap to rotors with adjustable leverage
3. mineral oil, not dot
4. two piece caliper, not one piece like juicy ultimates which need a compressed air gun to get the other piston out for servicing.
5. No squealing – I only get squaling now straight after the rotors get wet and then only 2-3 brakes worth. Squealing is something I def do not want as I come round a corner and meet a horse.

The goal of my bike is to let me ride it and then require 10 minutes or so cleaning and only occasional maintenance as it detracts from ride time. Some people like the maintenance and fiddling around – I’ve done that and am bored with it.

I don’t find any real lose of modulation compared to when I ran HS33s, and those are like hydro discs with a 26 inch rotor :-) But I only really do XC and some singletrack runs round Surrey, not big downhill or anything, so only have 160mm rotors.

There is a little drag on the Nexus, enough to annoy you.

Depends on the cables!

Avid Juicy Ultimate levers and Gore rideon cables can feel as smooth as hydro Juicy (Ultimates). Also as powerful.

Like the feeling that I can do emergency work on them at trail head if I need.

Also like the fact I can run larger gaps between the pistons and rotors with the speed-dial on the lever compensating so I don’t loose power. When the conditions are muddy and wet I don’t get the constant grinding that hydros give you – except maybe with the newer shimanos that run a bigger gap.

Had two sets of hydros, now got BB7s on both bikes.

at the end of the interview when they ask you if you have any questions, make sure you ask some. Assume that they are going to offer you the job so ask questions about their environment to see if you want the job, and to work out what preperations you need before starting.

Woking has a new skate shop after Surrey Skateboards went ages ago – LongBoard Lounge, they specialise is something but I can’t remember what…

How about parks visited, to keep the thread going?

Skate City
Mad Dog Bowl
Uxbridge
The Cage in Brighton
The Barn in Brighton

Also Skatestar in Guildford – I saw Shogo Kubo there – this link mentions him being there in 1979 and the slide he did along the top of the half pipe, which I can still remember!

“We were there in August 1979 when Shogo Kubo (right) came to the park and everybody was amazed when he skated along the top of the pipe”

http://darkrepository.com/skateboard.html