Captain Fastbastard Mayhem

I leave them in until I need to replace sealant (every 3 months or so) It adds character. But, when I do take them out, I stitch the tyre back together with needle and dental floss, then stick an old piece of tube to the inside of the tire to create an additional barrier... The latter repair has worked on a 1 inch gash on an almost brand new tyre. No way I was gonna replace it.

Damn, that was loose and sketch! Flippin technical and loads of stacks. Have to say I am really really bummed for the Rat, but even more bummed for Sam. Sam was on a gold medal run till his wheel dug in there. I also think that this is the return of the Hill's form. It's about time. He's looking faster and smoother... Rat - you're a dumbass. Neko's run was insaaaane for without a chain. Shows how much more important line choice and flow through the tech stuff is...

A small ROAD ride around the peninsula on my ROAD bike. 43km of slow distance. Not LSD cos it wasn't long, but I now have my Slow Distance route mapped. Just to get the fat burning engine going....

If you're not confident on cleats, go back to flats - but proper ones. They help you learn proper technique like cleats never can.

How was it!? Been cooped uo at home all day itching to hell and back with this bloody hand foot n mouth thing.

Awesome news Tumbles!

Erm, hate to tell you but lotto winnings ARE taxed. There's a 10% inclusion rate, so 10% of your winnings are included in your annual income.

Especially with the Rondt at current levels...

You don't have 1000 posts yet, that's why

It basically all hinges on the axle to crown (a2c) measurement. I know of cambers with 130mm forks on them (international forums) and if the difference in a2c measurements aren't that large then it won't be a problem. FYI - I put a 150mm fork in a bike that was designed for 100mm and it was wonderful...

Passing? You're doing it wrong...

Ja, but you gotta ask - what have they done to remove that grammage? There's the law of diminishing returns, and the gap between X0 & XX is a large on ito price, as they have to get a bit imaginative on the whole weight loss exercise....

It'll be a couple of grams at most. No real difference unless he's doing 100 kph or so...

Dude... I so miss watching 4x...

Have to agree with Bogus. Your underlying finish on the Carbon (especially if painted over) largely determines the quality of the make-up. If there are blemishes everwhere, that means that the okes don't give a toss about the quality of the finish and have taken shortcuts. Also - if your underlying carbon is badly finished, so will the paint be.

Also - that's why a well set up pair of V brakes, or those Magura Hydraulic Rim brakes, work as well as they do, and manage to generate so much stopping power - the amount of material rotating through the pads is far higher than the amount of material moving through a disc caliper. So if your pads and brakes are set up properly, they have 3 times the amount of real estate to facilitate the braking force as you would with a 180mm rotor.

Exactly. For a given force on the lever, if your disc only rotates 90% of the amount that it would under regular (26") circumstances, there's no way you can get the same amount of total braking force (total work done - joules over a certain timeframe) on the niner as you would on the sixer. Therefore, the only way to get to a stop on a niner as you would on a sixer, given the very same weight, tyre and brake combination, is to increase the size of the rotor so that the total work done is the same across both bikes. Which means your distance travelled on the rotor has to be the same. Short answer - the ratio between disc size & rotor size needs to remain constant between the 2 bikes.

Yeah - they have backlog of ONE MONTH for vendor applications. That's why they've just hired 20 more ppl.

I know one of the guys involved. It's gaining HUGE traction.

the isopropyl kind, not the kind you drink... Just in case someone's wondering! Oh - and burn it off after dousing it. Removes all trace.

Snapscan is effectively a mobile based card payment service. You download the app, it takes a photo of the front and back of your card, and saves it to their secure servers (same code as the bank's secure servers, just.. more secure) when you have a guy with a snapscan QR code, YOU open up the snapscan app on your phone, tell it to scan the QR code (unique to each vendor) and then YOU tell it how much to transfer / pay the vendor. No cards, no swiping, and you control the transaction. So it's basically a phone-based merchant tool, but YOU act as the payment originator

there are plenty of reasons - a larger disc will allow you to have better modulation of the braking forces, which means more control. It also aids heat dissipation, which means that your brakes will perform better, for longer, as they won't get as hot - no fade, better pad life (not as much heat) and a better overall experience.

Which PSU are you looking for? Wootware has stock of some of the good ones, as does Takealot and Evetech.

no.

they do, the little buggers. Miss all my doggies who have gone on to doggy heaven. 1 drowning (20 years old, blind and fell into the pool while the house-sitter was out - she was heartbroken) 1 lukemia (was with her when she was put down - would crawl, with a drip attached, back to my sister's bedroom to lie at the foot of her bed) 1 with a cancerous tumour in his nose that just spread everywhere - everyone in our neighbourhood knew him. He'd jump our 6 foot fence and just go visiting everyone. 1 knocked over - broken pelvis and leg at 18 years old - my mom was the driver, and he walked behind the car as it was reversing - she was distraught and then a cat, Nibs (van Der Spuy) who caught a very very bad virus, fought back but just wasted away again.