I have an idea for a new thread...

[DIPSLICK]

They could make some very interesting porn movies with this technique

only in peeeeee eeeeee  would someone see the porn potential

Edited January 15, 2015 by DIPSLICK

[Oxter]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cJglK2GJDW4/U2CoFy-mzDI/AAAAAAAAAGE/-ARFFQWDwps/s1600/And+this+is+a+GREAT+example+of+linear+momentum+to+angular+momentum+transition.gif

This guy must love Bangkok

[CAAD4]

This guy must love Bangkok

 

Vladimir does not look too phased...

[Tothehills]

Modified LTZ 250 for sale. Going for a good price

[No Hare]

Exclusive: the elusive bike ninja caught on camera

[Shebeen]

it's a pity he didn;t rock up, would have loved to have seen him bump everyone out the way off the gun

As far as I can recall, his name was entered for the XC event, but he never pitched. Robert Forstemann is designed for the indoor track of course and was entered into the MTB event to exploit an Olympic loophole to gain entry into one of the track events.

Germany's Robert Forstemann, who entered the mountain bike event to exploit a loophole and take a place on the velodrome track, did not even start the race.
 

[fanievb]

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

Tumbles, you'll love this...

 

Max du Preez

I have ended my association with the Independent Media Group and will no longer write a weekly column for its newspapers.
This is the letter I sent them yesterd...ay:

Ms Karima Brown
Executive Editor
Independent Media.

14 January 2014.

Dear Karima

 

I’m sure you have noticed that I have been feeling increasingly uncomfortable about my association with the Independent Media group through my weekly column in three of your titles.
I have written about what has been happening at your group since the takeover by Sekunjalo on more than one occasion, especially after the infamous axing of Alide Desnois as editor of the Cape Times, and have been in debate with some of your senior colleagues on social media.

You probably also know about my private letters to the editor of the Cape Times, Gasant Abarder, when it became known that veteran journalist Tony Weaver was charged with “disrespecting the authority” of his seniors.

Your decision to accuse me (you called me a “seasoned journalist” in your statement) of factual inaccuracies in my column on President Jacob Zuma and to apologise to him came as a shock – especially since I gave you a full explanation of what I was referring to beforehand.
You did not even have the decency to send me your apology in advance or to inform me that it was going to be published. I thought my explanation would have convinced you that an apology in this matter would have been a travesty.

All readers interested in this matter now know that there was no inaccuracy in my column. The question is: did a judge call the relationship between Zuma a corrupt one? The answer is: yes. In fact, that judge was backed by four others on the bench of the SCA using their own words, not those of Judge Squires.

You knew this when you went ahead and apologized anyway to please the presidency and the party he leads.

And yet I read in Die Burger this morning that Abarder said that Independent Media stood by its apology. Breathtaking. Abarder did not even have the guts to publish my version of events, he merely recorded that I distanced myself from the apology.

My unease grew even more when I saw that you and your colleague, Vukani Mde, had donned ANC clothing when you attended the ANC’s birthday party on the weekend. When I read your and Mde’s arguments about your political allegiance and your attacks on those who thought this was outrageous behaviour for any journalist, I thought I must be living in a parallel universe.

I suddenly understood why you were swayed to knowingly publish a false “correction” and apologise to the president of the party you have pledged allegiance to on the basis of that falsehood.

It appears to me as if your political party’s interests now weigh more heavily with you than ethical journalism.

I became a journalist as a very young person in 1974 when I joined first Die Burger and then Beeld. When I started doing political reporting, I quickly became disillusioned with those newspapers’ support for the National Party and apartheid oppression.

I decided to abandon what was clearly a promising career at Naspers and joined the then Times Media Group. I had running battles with several editors and decided to leave when I joined Van Zyl Slabbert’s initiative to talk to the ANC in exile in Dakar in 1987, again abandoning a promising career.

In 1988 I started Vrye Weekblad. Our stated objective was to expose the evils of apartheid and to let the voices of the majority and of the liberation movement be heard in the Afrikaans community. In the process I not only completely bankrupted myself, but I picked up five criminal convictions, inter alia for quoting banned ANC leaders and furthering the aims of a banned organisation, and escaped an assassination attempt and an office bombing.

When Vrye Weekblad was closed down in 1994, I joined the SABC where you and I were colleagues. Six years later I was unceremoniously fired because I insisted on professional and independent journalism.

The SABC bosses (all since departed under various clouds of suspicion) told the media I was fired because I didn’t respect the senior leadership at the broadcaster. I could not deny that charge.
I am there again. I’m writing a column for a group with leadership that I no longer respect.
I feel tainted by my association with the Independent Media group. It is time to depart once again..

I will betray my own past if I don’t.
I will no longer be writing a column for your group.

A last thought. You, Karima, have on several occasions declared that those criticising your group’s decision-making are simply against transformation. You consistently dismiss those asking questions of those in power as “liberals” or “neo-liberals”.

The transformation the media in South Africa needs is not a replacement of critical voices with loyal ANC cadres. The transformation we need is for the media to fight harder for a clean and accountable government; to hold up a mirror to our entire society rather than just to the urban elite; to champion the cause of the marginalised rather than comfort the already comfortable.
Yours sincerely
Max

[Tromp]

Modified LTZ 250 for sale. Going for a good price

This is basic , but when growing up , it was every boy's dream to built something like this ( well , we all imagined something better, but never got around to it anyway ) There is a Hubber that is " dreaming " of building a Lotus 7 

[Tumbleweed]

Tumbles, you'll love this...

 

 

Max du Preez

 

 

I have ended my association with the Independent Media Group and will no longer write a weekly column for its newspapers.

This is the letter I sent them yesterd...ay:

 

Ms Karima Brown

Executive Editor

Independent Media.

14 January 2014.

Dear Karima

 

I’m sure you have noticed that I have been feeling increasingly uncomfortable about my association with the Independent Media group through my weekly column in three of your titles.

I have written about what has been happening at your group since the takeover by Sekunjalo on more than one occasion, especially after the infamous axing of Alide Desnois as editor of the Cape Times, and have been in debate with some of your senior colleagues on social media.

You probably also know about my private letters to the editor of the Cape Times, Gasant Abarder, when it became known that veteran journalist Tony Weaver was charged with “disrespecting the authority” of his seniors.

Your decision to accuse me (you called me a “seasoned journalist” in your statement) of factual inaccuracies in my column on President Jacob Zuma and to apologise to him came as a shock – especially since I gave you a full explanation of what I was referring to beforehand.

You did not even have the decency to send me your apology in advance or to inform me that it was going to be published. I thought my explanation would have convinced you that an apology in this matter would have been a travesty.

All readers interested in this matter now know that there was no inaccuracy in my column. The question is: did a judge call the relationship between Zuma a corrupt one? The answer is: yes. In fact, that judge was backed by four others on the bench of the SCA using their own words, not those of Judge Squires.

You knew this when you went ahead and apologized anyway to please the presidency and the party he leads.

And yet I read in Die Burger this morning that Abarder said that Independent Media stood by its apology. Breathtaking. Abarder did not even have the guts to publish my version of events, he merely recorded that I distanced myself from the apology.

My unease grew even more when I saw that you and your colleague, Vukani Mde, had donned ANC clothing when you attended the ANC’s birthday party on the weekend. When I read your and Mde’s arguments about your political allegiance and your attacks on those who thought this was outrageous behaviour for any journalist, I thought I must be living in a parallel universe.

I suddenly understood why you were swayed to knowingly publish a false “correction” and apologise to the president of the party you have pledged allegiance to on the basis of that falsehood.

It appears to me as if your political party’s interests now weigh more heavily with you than ethical journalism.

I became a journalist as a very young person in 1974 when I joined first Die Burger and then Beeld. When I started doing political reporting, I quickly became disillusioned with those newspapers’ support for the National Party and apartheid oppression.

I decided to abandon what was clearly a promising career at Naspers and joined the then Times Media Group. I had running battles with several editors and decided to leave when I joined Van Zyl Slabbert’s initiative to talk to the ANC in exile in Dakar in 1987, again abandoning a promising career.

In 1988 I started Vrye Weekblad. Our stated objective was to expose the evils of apartheid and to let the voices of the majority and of the liberation movement be heard in the Afrikaans community. In the process I not only completely bankrupted myself, but I picked up five criminal convictions, inter alia for quoting banned ANC leaders and furthering the aims of a banned organisation, and escaped an assassination attempt and an office bombing.

When Vrye Weekblad was closed down in 1994, I joined the SABC where you and I were colleagues. Six years later I was unceremoniously fired because I insisted on professional and independent journalism.

The SABC bosses (all since departed under various clouds of suspicion) told the media I was fired because I didn’t respect the senior leadership at the broadcaster. I could not deny that charge.

I am there again. I’m writing a column for a group with leadership that I no longer respect.

I feel tainted by my association with the Independent Media group. It is time to depart once again..

I will betray my own past if I don’t.

I will no longer be writing a column for your group.

A last thought. You, Karima, have on several occasions declared that those criticising your group’s decision-making are simply against transformation. You consistently dismiss those asking questions of those in power as “liberals” or “neo-liberals”.

The transformation the media in South Africa needs is not a replacement of critical voices with loyal ANC cadres. The transformation we need is for the media to fight harder for a clean and accountable government; to hold up a mirror to our entire society rather than just to the urban elite; to champion the cause of the marginalised rather than comfort the already comfortable.

Yours sincerely

Max

Go Max! I am so glad to be rid of the Indy group. I had a run-in with Karima Brown in my last months in the company's employ. It resulted in them threatening to sue me. It was pathetic. There are a lot of principled people who have left the company. My departure wasn't quite on the same level as theirs, but I saw for myself the political interference that was going on there, and, along with the huge help of harryn, fought a cynical company and got out.

Edited January 15, 2015 by Tumbleweed

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

This is basic , but when growing up , it was every boy's dream to built something like this ( well , we all imagined something better, but never got around to it anyway ) There is a Hubber that is " dreaming " of building a Lotus 7 

Me. It's not a dream anymore - getting stuff together and hopefully by the end of this year, the wheels (well, chassis) will start turning.

[Eddy Gordo]

Me. It's not a dream anymore - getting stuff together and hopefully by the end of this year, the wheels (well, chassis) will start turning.

 sounds cool would like to see the progress etc

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

 sounds cool would like to see the progress etc

At the moment it's just research. Decided to go with a ready built chassis, purely for Peace of Mind and the fact that I'll probably kill myself before I finish welding a chassis when I haven't welded anyting in 16 plus years. Plus the time of doing it myself, welding rods, gas, rig etc etc, I'd be coming out at pretty much 50-60% of the cost of the finshed chassis, but a lot longer ito time taken.  

 

At the moment I'm just deciding which motor to use. May go for a Toyota 4y (the one the taxis use) as it has loaaads of torque and reportedly works VERY well in that chassis, or a Nissan SR20 with carbs.

 

Either way, there's a lot of thought going into it.

[Tromp]

At the moment it's just research. Decided to go with a ready built chassis, purely for Peace of Mind and the fact that I'll probably kill myself before I finish welding a chassis when I haven't welded anyting in 16 plus years. Plus the time of doing it myself, welding rods, gas, rig etc etc, I'd be coming out at pretty much 50-60% of the cost of the finshed chassis, but a lot longer ito time taken.  

 

At the moment I'm just deciding which motor to use. May go for a Toyota 4y (the one the taxis use) as it has loaaads of torque and reportedly works VERY well in that chassis, or a Nissan SR20 with carbs.

 

Either way, there's a lot of thought going into it.

Don't want to sound like a know-all , but is it not Power you need as apposed to Torque ?

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

Don't want to sound like a know-all , but is it not Power you need as apposed to Torque ?

I do most of my driving on freeways, though a lot of it is in town as well. The 4y engine's torque peak is at a ridiculously low 2,000 rpm, and it has close on 200Nm - which in a car weighing 550 / 600 kg's, is a LOT. The power itself is approx. 80-90kw, so it isn't bad. But for cruising and low speed city traffic, a motor that has its torque peak lower down is far better than one that you have to wring to get the most out of. Power determines top end. Torque determines how you get there.

 

One of the guys on one of the forums built one with a 4y engine in it, and had solid low 5s 0-100 times in an over-built chassis, total car and driver weight close to 700kg (he was 135kg and built his chassis with steel that was double the required width and gauge, adding another 30-40kg to the build over and above a normal chassis)

 

EDIT: But, torque without power is useless. So they are inextricably linked. If you're always at full chat, and always in the peak power band, you will be faster in a car that has more power and less torque. Essentially, motors with more torque don't need to change gear as much as motors with more power but lower torque.

 

Think of torque as the extension lever you put on to the wheel-spanner when you can't get it to move. Makes it easier to move for a given power output.

Edited January 15, 2015 by cpt armpies mayhem

[Eddy Gordo]

At the moment it's just research. Decided to go with a ready built chassis, purely for Peace of Mind and the fact that I'll probably kill myself before I finish welding a chassis when I haven't welded anyting in 16 plus years. Plus the time of doing it myself, welding rods, gas, rig etc etc, I'd be coming out at pretty much 50-60% of the cost of the finshed chassis, but a lot longer ito time taken.  

 

At the moment I'm just deciding which motor to use. May go for a Toyota 4y (the one the taxis use) as it has loaaads of torque and reportedly works VERY well in that chassis, or a Nissan SR20 with carbs.

 

Either way, there's a lot of thought going into it.

Yeah a ready made chassis is the way to go. Look at an uno turbo motor as well if you really wanna add some oomph. There are plenty others as well