shamus

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pray for rain, always makes it fun to watch, the track there isn't a favourite of mine but the conditions always keep the drivers and teams honest!!

ride with bmx'ers much? The video as loaded with well thought out lines and also lines that are deisgned for filming, really good work, who's your cameraman? a dedicated person or a mix of people who're out? all in all, inspirational and very very clever with the aggressive yet techy style

IOW, bought tickets yesterday! 200 quid including travel which is pretty decent. Now to find £200 to pay my mate back.....

I hate waffle patterns normally. I tend to ride in narrowish skate shoes (Etnies, DC or Vans For grip on platforms- squares or criss-cross or circles, anything which creates little pockets! oh and if you lose pins, replace them!

try any automotive place (although auto paint is quite easy to get runs with, the stuff used for buses and trains is better!!)

But what's the benifit of using it in a helmet? You'd end up with a floppy helmet (no ineuendo intended), reduced ventilation and probably added weight? Helmet design is pretty damn good already and 'track proven' And finally I can't see the benifit if you're already using a helmet anyway??

even if the edges are all smooth, square holes still act as stress concentrators surely? I'm aware having rounded corvers/edges helps, but isn't this the reason hatches etc on naval boats are typically elliptical/round? Correct me if i'm wrong but the stress concentrators were first identified on battleships, when the gun size meant the firing shockwave passing through the ship was splitting the steel at the edge of sharp cornered deck hatches??

isn't this stuff developed from the pursuit of flexible (yet bullet proof) body armour for the military? i think its an incredible achievement, more suited to knee/elbow/hip/spine protectors then headwear. As OBM (i think) mentioned, the d30 doesn't abosrb energy in an impact, it just dissapates over a larger area. That's what saved the melon being 'puntured' by the hammer on the gadget show. However our heads will still undego the same g forces if we loop out and smash the ground. The brain will hit the inside of the skull just as hard. Fair enough it may save a fractured skull or help deflect a blow from the edge of a wall/rock/rail, which is better tehn nothing but the polystyrene inner in most helmet reduces the G force by acting as a crumple zone!

a mate of mine wrapped his fly bmx in wood-effect sticky plastic veneer. looked awesome! i also like the minty green one! but the rasta/digi camo blend effect on the bmx is sick!

Think this is my first time here, dissertation deadline at 10am so i guess thats a suitable reason Wrote the whole thing in 4 days (not quite done yet) gonna get shredded by the markers, hope i pass, not a lot i can do about it now anyway Probably not gonna bother going sleep, seems almost pointless. Oh and Adam: 1) Boobs! 2) I hate those piercings with a passion 1) > 2) so yeah

true but then when the cars clip curbs and lift the car, touch any debris or bottom out hard on a bumb and damage the system they lose a massive amount of 'downforce' being generated by the ground effect, which would be extremely dangerous, although as you said it would solve the turbulant air issue which is a huge problem.

I heartily agree with all of the above, Jenson does have a point though last season did see some immense individual drives, there were moments of genius and some passing maneuvers which will go down in history. (not all from him btw) I think the issue of railroading f1 cars around the track is dull and as you say, to the detriment of the sport. One thing i'm not sure about is the engines and gearbox rules. While i understand the concept of forcing teams to strategise and look after the engines, and allowing teams with less funding to afford the season (not changing very expensive engines non-stop) it means drivers who could try and hunt down the next place, hang back to save the car for the next race which by all accounts is GAY! flat out or get out

Hubs, in gold would look mint! Possibly rims? I'm not sure about both but I love my gold hubs laced to gold rims with white rim tape. Anymore then that might be overkill, perhaps just doing the bling bits, maggie mounts or pedals etc. and gold decals I like white and gold bikes though so I'm biased!

that. was. brilliant. such a techy style, loads of little links but tricks with inividual genius, i like it a lot. especially the long line with the side-shuffled nosepick to drop over the rail, maximinsing the use of obstacles and ingenuity!

if it makes the car look a dog and that bothers you, then by all means get the replacement shell/panels. or if its just the driving experience you're interested in, then leave it as is. thats my theory with my sumo, its gotta ripped seat, skank palstics and grimy frame. however it's mechanically golden though and i guess it makes it less of a theft target so screw it. i'll just enjoy it, i don't look at it when i'm astride and the revs are bellowing up, which is the whole point of a bike imo. i've mates whose bikes look like they've just rolled them out of the showroom, yet my murdered (its blacked up despite gold wheels itlooks pretty understated) slag keeps them honest

robin is correct, by a scirocco that mechnically f**ked/need work, strip the panels you need, replace with your damaged ones (if its only slightly damaged) sell for almost same purchase price.

do you bloody live in this thread skoze? (btw added on msn)

last one with a capital U. but i also like matthew62's efforts (with the suggested revision from early in the topic) and his positive attitude, well done fella!

2) Yeah, it's the time on the road is the advantage of driving with someone else, if you picked that up on a bike, it amounts to the same experience. Physically driving a car isn't very hard, reading the road (and other vehicles etc) is why you need time on the blacktop. 1) Granted with the intensive specialists. However normally driving school's are just umbrella's for a group of self employed instructors, so the one's available to do the intensives have free time = not the busiest (which may mean nothing, or it may mean they're not getting jobs through word of mouth etc). Obviously an instructor who deals specifically in intensives will be very good at teaching in that manner, But the problem remains, even if you go to a big driving school, how do you know they haven't put you with someone who didn't have very many bookings that week?

There's no official amount of lessons required, a friend passed on his 17th birthday with 3 hrs of lessons then the test (he'd been driving tractors and farm equipment since knee high) Also you could spend time in a car with someone else teaching you rather then an instructor, cheaper and gives you wheel time. Intensive courses can have disadvantages, any instructor who has a gap large enough to take a week out and instruct may not be the best, otherwise he'd be booked up surely? Also how long have you had your theory? it needs renewing after 2 years like a provisional i think?

downwhip that guys a computer game but super tech and stylish, i want to hate the fact its all seemingly unreal but he is so burly and stylish i can't

oh my! also- hoping that's not benito's poodle i friggin hate those dogs