+1 for Daley, young lad, so much pressure, such tough competition, a tough lesson in the reality of competition. Fantastic performance tonight. So little in it in the end.

Glad he got a medal, hope he’s still there in 4 yrs time.

Hmmm. I’ve heard it doesn’t take too much extra to throw it off. Didn’t know the effect was that drastic though…

Well. You did things to your own forks. Tomorrow you ride with pride!

Have to say when people first started trying to get me to watch it I didn’t think it was for me. ST and such never really held my attention… But in the end its about so much more than “Space! and stuff!”

I think as things lie, it tops firefly, but if firefly had been given time, support, freedom, and absence from meddling, well maybe not. We will never know. Even inc. serenity BSG is still ‘bigger’.

Pity Caprica lost it’s way and got canned…

Mini-series.

But if I watch that, then in a month’s time I’ll reach the end of series 4 and get my free time back…

oh temptation…

Awesome, did you measure? (v. interested to know).

Happy ridin’

Yeah. I mean ideally remove the forks, easier in the long run.

But in the lower part of the inner tube is the damper on a piston. this slides up and down through the oil as the fork compresses. However if you empty the oil out, and don’t remove this/cycle the fork. Then oil will IME remain in that space. Collect the oil and measure. It will be worth knowing if you get more than 130 out. If yes then you can bet you have ID’d the problem. If not then time to consider other things. Compression off when you reassemble as well (shouldn’t make that much diff though).

I thought 120ml for recons, same as mine. Sounds like too mcuh oil as well from the symptoms.

No i take it back
manual

130 it is. Did you remove the whole damper assembly? there could still have been oil in the lower part of the system.

double edit: reads post properly – forks still on bike – did you invert the fork to empty the oil, and cycle the travel? This would have freed any oil in the system between the damper and the lower seal, and so emptied the system.

Damnit Al… You are risking many hours of my months ahead. The MS is calling me…

vegetarian meat?

should have said “Well I’m pretty sure the pig was vegetarian, bit late to ask it now though…”

We have a split door, that is its about the size of a normal door but split in the middle and hinges on each side (two doors). usually we just have one door open and the other is bolted. The wonderful thing about that is when massively fat people come in, the have to go sideways to get in, and the really big ones come close to getting stuck.

Over the last 2 years I have a perfected a passively bemused yet inquisitive look with which to meet their pleading eyes as they begin to panic because they can’t get free…

It sort of says “Who are you, and what are you doing to my door?”

If you enjoy the MS, I’d give series one a shot, bit slow up to ep. 5/6 but then themes really begin to settle in. The main difference as far as I was concerned was that it was substantive, and it was good.

Yeah, miniseries is just the pilot really…

although if you come out of the miniseries not wanting to see anymore then maybe don’t bother, I ended the mini series hungry for more…

A man flatly rejecting my directions, telling me he knew better before smugly and proudly marching off in the wrong direction.

I’m not quite sure what you mean by frame bushes. Most frames will have bearings in the joints which move. The shock ususally being the only part with bush. (of the frames I’ve had cause to dismantle).

could you throw a pic up?

But bushes dry, bolts thread lock (if anything) and the pivot itself grease. (how I do it, I’m sure others may differ).

Creaks resonate through the frame and can be tricky to pin point. Do you get the creak standing up? Do you get it sitting down with feet of the pedals. Do you get it specifically bouncing up and down?

Eh? Is this some commentary gold I’m missing out on?

Was the beige on the underside? (if so probably always there you just didn’t see before)

How were the fins, any white spots or marks or shredding.

Whats the water like? clear cloudy smell at all?

Was the white fish just changed colour smoothly, or was a white substance on it?

The fish which are still there, are there fins (dorsal mainly) up firmly most of the time, or are they down flat on their back (a sign of sickness)

Is there a pump? do you freshen the water often?

:lol:

It’s probably nearer Basil Fawlty… “YES?”

I wish so much I was allowed to speak my mind in my job…

“There are cows in the field that footpath goes through”

“What were you expecting, Velociraptors? Moonmins? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically…”

But if you were looking for a body of water on a hill, would you look at the top of the bottom?

Not knowing what a stop is called if you’ve not been before is something everyone does. Bus drivers should be used to it.

It’s possible I’ve just a had a string of silly queiries and would rather be out on my bike. Won’t be too long till someone complains there are cows in fields and nettles on footpaths which aren’t sign posted every ten yards.

“Do you have an OS map?”

“I shouldn’t need an OS map.” :roll:

I think you can get very thin ones that would go outside the chainring, not sure how much bash they resist.

the problems you risk are more [re]moving the lense in the act of removing mud, expecially in the early days when you may forget you have them/not got used to them yet. That said I once had a lense knocked clean out by a glob of mud.

I always wear glass when riding, but with contacts it makes a world of difference. I quite like the basic DHB, changeable lenses (more use than you might originally think), basic, comfier than safety glasses.

I had forgotten How much I hate Hitchens… I usually just ignore him when he’s on the radio, it’s like there’s a particularly unpleasant fridge buzzing in the corner. He has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about, devoid of compassion and sympathy. Not a big brand fan, but I’ve been very impressed at how he’s been willing to put him self up front for this issue.

137 E for the shifter… :lol:

Sorry not knocking the work done I’m sure there was a lot of R’n’D, a lot of false starts as to how make it all work, well. But I doubt the shifter was the complicated bit.

Still. Happy I didn’t bother waiting for it. 10 will do me for the time being (or nine on the other two bikes)… will watch with interest though. I am a hater of the front mech, seizey uppy little beggers.

For those who own a Meta AM and have not yet looked inside the bottom bracket… a special kind of fun awaits ye.

On the question of “Why” – why press fit and not some internal threaded bearings cups, that maybe used something like the bottom bracket tools of old. Apart presumably that they were horrid to use. Many hernia’s narrowly avoided removing those…

isn’t the 2013 reverb going to be 150mm?

I assume its partly liability, and something to do with the Licenced Service centre thing. (such how Bos now only licence their distributor – when they have one). While a basic service may be simple, there may be a level of quality in recognising more complex issues which me, you and the LBS could/would miss.

Certainly TFT see such a turnover it will given them a great accumilation of experience in the cause of individual faults… But the nub of my answer is – don’t really know. Often wondered.

Was the fork the correct way up? Yellow oil?

If so its just the fluid from inside the neg air chamber. If doing a lot of pressure tweaks/changes I flip the bike so as not to result in too much oil loss. (entirely possible there is not need for me to worry about this but i do it anyway).

Loco right back on my email, I’d skim read the thread and not grasped the details, they sell the dual flow assembly not push, but tbh dual flow probably better as per his post above (now i actually read it properly) :oops:.

and it certainly improved the performance on repeated hits which was the problem..

This, I think will do the same for Revs. I did notice a big difference on my pikes and steep down repeated hits. Didn’t know Loco sold though, well worth knowing, other pikes could do with it.

As above, if risking the direct sales model, then go all in and get the 160 ltd.

However double risk there as Bos have just irritated another UK distributor out of the game…

I too have sore neck. Not helped by interesting things constantly happening to my left… :|

Does he say “This flopping nonsense”? Is that technical term?

It can only be… dr oetker pizza.

He was never going to blame Thatcher, who started the schoolfield sell off.

But for what its worth going out and being made to play football was something I loathed, I was bad at it, I hated it, no-one (quiet rightly) picked me to be on their team.

“Make it yours ” the teacher would yell.
“But sir I don’t want… certainly nowhere near as much as him, he really wants it sir, it would seem mean to deprive him of it for sport…”

that went down well…

Worse still sometimes I would quite by accident end up with it. then I had to make a decision. Quite a complicated one as there were many factors to consider. “Well I could pass it to Phil, or to Nathan, Nathan is by far the better pair of hands, or I suppose feet, to pass it to, but he seems a little surrounded. I could even have a pop at goal, though the last time I had a pop at goal I hit a dinner lady and she was off work for a month… Oh, someone’s taken it away. Never mind. Why does everyone look angry with me?”

I think a different attitude to sport would help, more options. One school I went to made us do Cross country running. You could walk the 4 miles, or run it. But we soon realised if we ran it, we got the next hour doing nothing, sitting about.

He has admitted drink-driving and failing to stop after an accident.

…

The court heard that following the incident last August Mr Adams attempted to hide his Peugeot van at his home address.

Public announcment: Owning to the global economic meltdown and the tightening funds, would all first time posters please provide their own petrol and matches for the inaugural flaming.

just kidding. [not kidding, and BBQ firelighters and some peat are not sufficient.]

And tyres are so “Pre London 2012” – Cycle lanes are the new tyres. :D

Oh, and Hi.

Even if you did that and with a good quality fence. People would show up and spoil your plan. That’s the point of the Zombie genre, not the zombies, the people, and their flaws. Most people would survive in zombie films if it were not for the flaws of human nature (to be a dick).

phew… I misread the title of this thread while scanning the list and thought it was going to be horrifically racist…

It is, but against woodpeckers. We have GSWP comes to the nuts, get to watch him/her teaching the young how to wedge nuts in the tree to eat them at moment. Is ace…

Probably not a good idea to belt down a shared path at 15mph if there are pedestrians on it.

Agreed, but they can be done so pedestrians don’t walk on the cycle part. In Leeds city centre some of them have a kerb step down, different coloured tarmac like little roads. That part of it works well. What doesn’t is they’re tiny and poorly thought out.