Jump to content

stirlingpowers

Members
  • Posts

    419
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    4

Everything posted by stirlingpowers

  1. People are obstacles as well. Everything being some form of at least half-solid matter can and should be used for biketrials. 130? How does one get that kind of power?
  2. Normally, his chain has enough preload to be silent, if that is what you meant
  3. Lol, nice hoax. If that were for real, they would have asked facebook service staff to investigate. They could have easily solved the case, as they have access to browser fingerprint, Internet history, cookie data for other accounts on the posting device, and most importantly, some stats about dynamic writing, probably identifying the writer if he or she has another facebook account. I love the british way of putting it.
  4. I remember that he broke a snailcam recently. It was probably there, causing the chain noise. David goes through frames like butter, so a chainstay protector wouldn't really protect the frame...
  5. I appended outtakes to the first video filename as a hint for David that this one includes the missed jumps (the first view seconds). I think Rusevelt meant something like "Checkout the other video", and some keyboard input service made outtakes out of that. And for the slide fall in the Mannheim video: I stopped recording the moment it happened. The last frame is in the video.
  6. Recently I captured a typical training session of David in Schatthausen, where the local motorsports club has built a very nice trials site, which is used by many world elite riders to hone their skills:
  7. My experience for the sidewalls: Buy washerless clamps and parallel-sidewall rims -> brake works even with dead grind. Buy Magura clamps with washer and angled rims -> tried to adjust many times, asked others to set it up for me, shitty brake every time.
  8. And TRA probably weighs twice as much as Brumotti...
  9. You have a wallpaper of your mum in your bathroom?
  10. Pussy goes by the name "Watson" for sure.
  11. Really nice video. It also introduced me to "New Retro" music...
  12. Imbeciles doing traffic education campaigns should focus on the bigger and easier to fight health problems of traffic: http://www.transportenvironment.org/press/50000-heart-deaths-year-caused-traffic-noise This conservative estimate in the link above doubles the number of deaths by mechanical accidents, and that is just heart disease. And other studies come to the conclusion that it is not just old people who die by this effect. In any case, traffic noise makes life a lot worse than it could be. With the efforts on automotive "sound design", even new family cars are made to sound "sonorous" and "impressive", for example the target for diesel cars is to sound like an attacking bigger animal, to which we can't get used to in our subconscious reactions. In any case, frequencies transmitting the most power in car noise have gone down, which means you can't insulate your house/sleeping room against that kind of noise, due to the mechanics of sound propagation in continuous media. To see the real effect of this, just compare an everyday stock 90s petrol car like a small Volkswagen Golf and a new stock diesel family car going up an inclined small inner historic city road - the old one is very silent, the new diesel makes bass noise like in a club, in the streets and in the houses. While lower frequencies mostly don't signal an immediate danger to our subconscious and therefore more bearable, they are genetically imprinted to still represent a danger and therefore increase anxiety/excitation levels during night and day.
  13. Back to topic, Boosters: Look at your rear brake area while braking. With modern reinforced frames, the mush often originates from bending brake clamp screws.
  14. Thanks. I'll keep that in mind when I need a new rim.
  15. I can't turn my eyes away from this horror. Nice angles on the Echo crankset, btw. @Mark: Can you recommend anything sporting parallel sidewalls, single wall bed and top brake performance? Weight and color don't matter, I cut and sandblast anyways.
  16. I understood, and I believe he told the truth. For reasons of sanity, I will try to forget it, however.
×
×
  • Create New...