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Finally found someone that knew a welder that was willing to give welding the motorcycle forks a go (and surprisingly charged nothing!). Just when I had already given up on thinking that I'd find anyone. I think it looks decent, but what do I know - the lighting makes it look horrible. Also, please don't ask exactly how it was welded, I believe the crack was cut out and then filled. Anyway... I now have questions regarding painting. Some time I read that either one of the two methods cracks when the material below cracks, which would be a plus in this case, but I don't remember which it was? I assume powder coating creates a, uh, coat that would not crack and rattle can paint is the way to go here? Suggestions and/or thoughts? tagging @forteh & @Adam@TartyBikes as you guys gave me some help back when it was in the angry thread half a year ago.

I found the line at 2:50 highly enjoyable and the one at 5:05 is a "what is he - I think.. But that's too fa - oh!" line

I've been itching to add that, to my annoyance, when I last ordered my boxers from m&s I found my regular "M" to be about an inch too wide. I need an S now. I haven't changed dimensions (in.. 12years in fact, which in itself may be concerning too!). I always felt like that was a way of getting people not to notice that they've gained weight by sitting at home all day... In other covid nutjob news, I recently heard, in all earnest, that the whole lockdown solely was to keep people inside so that they don't see the government catch pigeons, which really are drones, to replace their batteries. I 'get' conspiracy theories, but how one can go that far..

Enjoyed that a lot! Lots of brilliant lines in there, but the hook to manual was the biggest surprise, especially didn't I didn't expect that thing to slope downwards! There's a second of "and now what?" when you manual so slowly right after the hook.

Nothing in fashion surprises me anymore at this point

That looks really nice! I was puzzling over them for a while though, I suppose the wooden block is simply to put them away on?

Was looking around for some projects to keep my mind off the ones that I've currently got going () and remembered that I meant to be building a coffee table a while ago. I got some legs off ebay a while ago, presumably at one point meant for a set of chairs, but at ~46 cm height they seemed suitable for a coffee table. Not really into woodworking I've got no idea what way I'd best go about actually attaching them to something. My idea was to have a glass table top, set into a 'frame', with a gap to put place a magazine/photos/whatever under the glass. The moulding of the frame going outwards, instead of inwards like on a picture frame. The way the top of the legs are cut however, I'm really not sure how to attach them. They must sit relatively close to the table top, or the table itself needs sort of a valence of 7cm to cover where the legs have been faced off. Could cut a little off the top of the legs, but I'd rather not tamper with them. Not even sure where to start really. Edit: I'd best try to make a drawing to clarify things... Just thought, the moulding could actually overlap the top of the legs ever so slightly if they're set in a little. Probably wouldn't look too bad.

Cheers Mike! I can recommend it, it was great fun combining the two things and I got to take some photos of my mate too.

I too was taught that, technically, the normal course a virus takes is to become more infectious but less deadly. (during regular bio class, nothing specific) However according to an, admittedly, quick google, Indonesia definitely has delta too. Let's just hope viruses can't develop masochistic tendencies.

Love the tweaked legs on that table Just caught up with this thread, absolutely amazing stuff in here, as usual!

Thought I'd update this. It'll still need a few things but it works for now and is brilliant fun and works for light trials work well too! It feels enormously high with the fork, stem and bar combo when standing next to it, but it's very comfortable when on it. Weight is nice too, hope it'll hold up! To do: front tyre that isn't basically a slick, chainguide, different rear rim - is there any reason no one uses drilled trials rims on XC bikes? - brake booster and maybe a little front mudguard.

It's quite amazing to see how different countries go about vaccinating. I sometimes listen to English and Scottish radios on radiogarden and the frequency of "get vaccinated" reminders was creepy nearly. Here we have barely anything as far as I have seen. I got my first one because I travel inland more frequently now to see my girlfriend, and she got it too. It didn't feel comfortable with lots of people suddenly behaving like it's 2019 again. Plus I felt like I'd rather be in the same boat as her really. Easier travelling is a bonus, though I'm not sure how comfortable I'd be doing it. However, I could go to Germany, France or Italy easily with only a negative test, it'd cost me about £140 though. Is that option not available in the UK, or is the vaccination an eurobike specific requirement, Ali?

I actually only just had all this at school.. And I've forgotten most of it already within two weeks.

Can't wait to find out how badly (or not?) this will ride Haven't got the tools around to get the cranks/bb off the old bike and the rear disc of this wheel. Ought to find rim brake friendly rim too and some hs33 adapters. Was looking forward to putting my orange echo booster on it, but the mounts are way too close to eachother at about 84mm. Also not sure what I'll do with the gearing. Front chainwheels look well munched. A headset bearing would help too and a stem with a tad less rise maybe.

I took an absolutely different route and ended up with a Wheeler 8080 frame from not sure when. Should be fun to build up!

I totally forgot it it being cast too. There's a chap in town that welds/builds up completely grenaded cast heads and blocks but I'd probably need to sell a kidney to have any work carried out by him. I suppose it's worth asking him though! Also am contacting the chap that retubed the forks, but honestly I can't be bothered sending them away again.

Yeah one would think so... The work was carried out in the UK as no one in Switzerland does this anymore. Sent it over hust before covid with a quoted lead time of 12 weeks, this got extended a little because he ran out of tapered tubes. Then nothing else but covid happened and I assume he had lots of top paying jobs to do otherwise and my lowly forks were on the backburner gathering a light coat of rust. His reputation is excellent as far as I can tell and I'm a bit surprised and slightly miffed to say the least to find this crack.. I just found a thread where someone is replacing the steering damper anchor points on the tank and deemed silver solder too weak for that, so I'm definitely not doing that with my forks!

Will try to get hold of some phosphoric acid to clean it up. Not sure how well solder would hold up. I'd mainly like to avoid a scenario where I suddenly run over my front wheel as much as possible.. I suppose Adams suggested weld would be stronger? Currently still trying to find the real end of the crack, and I'm not sure if I can drill clean enough - I was always told to drill drum cymbals when they start to crack and not once did that help me..

Finally got my motorcycle forks back after 14 months. Had them retubed as the original tubes were irreparably bent. That part of the post technically should go into the happy thread. However... I got time to inspect them properly yesterday and found a crack at the "drop outs". Probably crash damage from whoever bent them. I didn't see this since I left the paint on when I sent them off to be repaired. Repair dude apparently didn't see it either.... I know there are some talented welders on here. Can this safely be welded with the be tubes in place or would (heat induced) issues with the solder arise? Properly bummed.

Soo, there's a DMR Bolt on ebay.. Anyone fancy gutting it for me and sending the useful parts on? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DMR-Bolt-Full-Suspension-Dirt-Jump-Bike/333926304209?hash=item4dbf8f09d1:g:9fMAAOSwPKNgQmJg

afaik the size of the planet doesn't matter. It all depends on its mass. Think about black holes. I'll try to find the formulas later, technically it should be a reasonably simple calculation. You're looking for Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion I think.

I trust you.

When are you taking orders?

Definitely higher round here, but a lot of things are disproportionately more expensive, food and drink mainly, which is up to double the price. I've got some friends who used to do a 2hr round trip every two weeks to Germany to get their food cheaper (pre covid) and be able to put some money aside. Also, I recently found out that daycare for one child is an eye watering 90quid per day. Sure the wages balance things a little and look really nice on paper but depend on so many things. I'm quite sure they're not double though, especially not after tax, insurance etc. addendum: Some googling reveals that a £90k job should currently be compared with £115k job here.

Same is happening here, and some areas now have laws that only allow a certain percentage of flats/houses to be secondary homes. Of course this has downsides too as some villages that were clearly below that percentage sold up and others that were at the limit are trying to build more houses. Sometimes I think I'd quite enjoy living somewhere* really remote but obviously also couldn't and wouldn't want to compete with rich chaps buying a little weekend home. That said, looking at the prices quoted in this thread maybe I should. The one bedroom flat in the neighouring house had a pricetag of £300k. *not in switzerland. Swiss villages hold next to no appeal to me. Country side is nice, the houses very much less so.