GoLefty!!

You seem so sure of yourself. the camera's demonstrated to me at a transport EXpo in 2011 showed camera's for the E-tolling as well as the latest speed camera's. Using filters and some zooty software they can clean up the images just fine to read your license disc quite clearly from over a 1000m away with glare on the windscreen. The e-tolling camera's are quite adequate to take pics of your license disc too. the speed camera are pretty expensive so theres only three of them in the great Johannesburg area, 1in Pretoria, A couple in KZn and the Western CApe.. Believe what you like. I have seen the camera's in action. they exist and the e-toll camera's appear to do what they say it can. the challenge they have is managing all the data they are collecting.

Seen the camera do its job. It can definately read your license disc! Some of the spped camera's in use can read your license disc at over a Km while you're moving toward it. Law says they can only prosecute if you are still exceeding the limit when you are within 150m of the camera. But they have you license number from the disc or plates loooooong before then. AS for focusing you heard of laser range finding and auto focus right? You heard of fixed focus high resolution cameras?

DID I MISS SOMETHING?

can't do that till the police post their pics.

Its not de ja vu.... what makes that very narrow description of a race worthy of being suitable for a carbon frame?

can you provide technical reasoning to your arguement "Steel simply cannot match carbon as a race oriented frame material".

I think you need to go and do the calculations of the variable shape tubes vs round tubes. The major dimension that impacts the structure is the distance from the neutral axis the material is placed. Funny shapes only try to optimise very slightly what is already an impressively stiff and compliant structure that is the bicycle frame. The same can be achieved through round tubes. The Zivko Edge 540 uses round steel tubes, similar to Reynolds 531 for its structure. Yes it was chosen for repairability and longevity of the airframe but it is more than stiff enough to achieve a excess of 12 G LOADING POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE, A 420 degree per second roll rate without the wings falling off of the fuselage falling apart. If steel is good enough for this competition airframe through which massive forces are placed, I think its more than strong enough for a bicycle frame and can be built light enough. Yes Boeing and Lockheed Martin use carbon composites in the airframes, sometimes to reduce weight but mostly in military applications to reduce the radar cross section of an airplane. Weight is also a consideration ie. carbon fibre body panels are lighter than steel body panels since the steel has to be a minimum thickness to ensure the panels does not distort when fasteners are applied. A lot of composites are use in non essential or non structural elements to reduce weight since Carbon main spars are expensive and offer very little weight saving. The F22 uses a carbon main spar but mostly because the design has too allow for internal weapons bays which makes the main spar a complex shape. Producing this in aluminium would be have too time consuming and hence expensive wheres moulding from carbon achieved the weight and strength targets. The humble bicycle has more in common with the smaller aerobatic airplanes. Bicycles are not complex. We're just told they are so we can be suckered into paying more for less The only reason we don't see steel in the pro peleton is because it does not sell bikes. Carbon fibre is "Space age" .

There is not much that a fancy shape tube can do that a round tube can't. For interest, use it don't use it. MXS-R or Slick 360/540 or Corvus racer 540 vs Edge 540. The former are all composite aerobatic aircraft. The Zivko Aviation Edge 540 is a steel space frame fuselage with composite wings. The Edge 540 has dominated the RedBull Airrace since inception and remains the aircraft of choice for the return of RBAR in 2014.

good to hear that bullies can be taught a lesson. shuffles off to custom wheel builder in Somerset west

problem is sorted. It was only limited to few brake sets but because brakes are kind of important to most riders, SRAM recalled the lot. its the responsible thing to do. Those brake sets that get returned will probably be rebuilt and given to sponsored riders. The kind of problem encountered could happen to any manufacturer

Nothing like getting new parts for free though

JRA ?

almost as bad as fake sign language interpreter

Its like they can't learn. Also shows that Sinyard's gesture was a hollow one and only brought about because they forced to by the public and ASI.

http://www.bikeradar.com/road/news/article/battle-between-specialized-and-caf-roubaix-ends-peaceably-39282/

Maybe but doubt its a long term effect. What the fall out is in the USA will determine how much this hurts them

Cafe Roubaix vs Specialised Roubaix.... yes I can see the confusion

he's clearly talking tripe

I think you need to unpack your suitcase a little. Its clearly heavy

it seems the difference between the terms "controlling share" and "ownership" is lost on the fanboys...

are you illiterate? have you read the articles posted in links within this thread?? Special had no right to register the trademark in Canada either. Fuji had no idea they had done this till this saga broke. Fuji have stated in the article linked to in this thread that they will be having a word with the "special people" about that "registration". It is clearly stated by ASI's CEO that under the terms of the license agreement the registration of the "Roubaix" trademark in Canada is inbreach of the terms and conditions of use of the license. Once again same old tactics from "those" people whose insignia looks like half an SS symbol.

try to keep up. they don't own the Trademark. They license it from ASI who owns Fuji bikes. They don't have right to go around bullying others over something that does not belong to them

not for the Specialised fanboys. Its never over

A South African Lady colleague in the Hague would not be caught dead on a bicycle so she bought a LAnd Rover DIscovery. She could nopt understand why; - the vehicle licensing department gave her a hard time - the tyres on her car were flat every morning - she had no friends She left Holland complaining about how rude the Dutch are. Problem was her..Souf Effrikeeness. She also got the shock of her life when she moved into a furnished apartment that came with a Dutch maid. not sure if she expecting th landlord to import her a domestic maintenance implementer from Africa or hat went through her mind. She simply didn;t fit in

the issue is every other brand looks at the bigger picture and decides if there is an issue before pulling the trigger. ASI seems to have been quietly licensing the Roubaix name at minimal cost and in their intent is likely to control how far the name expands within in the cycling community. Specialised seem to want to go looking for people to hurt which tells me their legal department is either bored or incompetent - winning the legal case against Volagi but being awarded $1-00 in damages is the judge telling you that you're a knob and you wasted the courts time. What is encouraging is that the majority of reasonable people out there side with the little guy while the brands whores look for every excuse to justify that their beloved brand is right. What rubs salt into the specialised wound is that they don;t even have the right to defend the "Roubaix" brand which is just laughable. Not only a bully, but a dumb one at that. Oh if anyone wants to some specialised gloves, helmet, shoes, a bicyle computer you can find the items in a dumpster behind Builders Warehouse in Tokai. I gave everything to a homeless guy. the helmet may have some **** in because he sat on it shortly after I handed it over. It does look like a P**S pot though. Just ask for Jantjie