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Yes, idiots. Only idiots think "it counts", I thought that was common knowledge? Re: over or onto, I pretty much agree. I can't go over a bar for shit, and I use my front wheel when I'm sidehopping onto walls. But my sidehops are nowhere near the size that Damon is getting and I wondered if things change as it gets bigger. A lot of people can get the height but they can't keep it because their weight is too far over one side - I was wondering if going over a bar negates this slightly because there's nothing 'pushing' you off sideways. But even if that is an issue I'm sure you're right about the lateral distance thing and that's going to override anything else.

That's not even a question, of course you'd have to 'keep it'. You just need a block of whatever, and the rules would just be UCI or BIU - I.e. bash or no bash. The tyre hanging off the side thing is fine, as long as you keep it and don't go to bash. Have you ever seen those 'vertical jump' competitions that Monty did a few years ago? There's just basically a big block and riders can get up it however they want - using taps or hooks, with bash or not. It worked well. P.S. Damon I'd be interested in your opinion on this - what do you think is easier, going over a pole or going onto a wall. I'd imagine a wall was easier but I don't know?!

Haha, I'm just imagining you and your stupid Canadian accent doing an impression of English people. Ehh? Oh, and don't listen to anyone who tells you differently, we ain't "euros", because England isn't actually part of Europe. As far as I can tell, all European people learn foreign languages at school, get farming subsidies, drive mopeds, eat baguettes and dogs, surrender, and listen to shite europop music. Anyway, that's quite enough Euro-bashing for today, I'm off. Tally Ho! EDIT: And my avatar picture is actually me, because that's how the English dress

Canadian, ay? What's that aal aboot?

Only people who have watched Tricks and Stunts in the past week. Pretty sure that was the only time anyone ever said it

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That's from 2002 though. Like you say, there's not much chance to do something officially. We should set up a TF unofficial world record list. Any world record attempt could be verified by people with an official TF tape measure!

Wow, some pretty trendy grandparents. I don't think any of mine even owned a CD player.

If that's as sarcastic as I think it is - :bow:

Yeah, you were scarily close

I was going to be really impressed freaked out if you'd managed to memorise the binary solo (but you're slightly wrong) Annoyingly, their binary solo won't translate to ascii Must be robospeak.

It totally depends how much you spend a month though. They will have your customer profile and they will know exactly what you're 'worth' to them. E.g. When I was on O2, I kept getting raped by call charges and I had a couple of bills of £70, most were around £40-50. They loved me then, and they gave me a new phone after 9 months. But now I'm on Orange and my contract is £25/month, which is what it costs me (I.e. no extras on top of that). And they don't really care about me very much because I don't make them enough money. So they are pretty reluctant to give me upgrades and stuff because they know I don't make them loads of cash. I had to take out a new contract (and new number) to get the deal I wanted, which was annoying. But obviously you can argue your way to a better deal.

Yes, but I dislocated my shoulder seven times in the space of about two months, and it was getting to the point where I couldn't ride my bike, climb or even swim (!) without dislocating it. It turns out (I had an MRI scan) that I had a Bankart lesion, and it would never get better on its own. So I had an operation on it to fix the Bankart lesion. It's much better now, haven't had any problems with it since (about three years). The other shoulder is still a bit dodgy though - not as bad as the left one was at all. My shoulders have always been really weird though. If you want any more advice, I can probably shed some light or whatever. But don't assume that your shoulders will be like mine - I was born with really bendy shoulder joints Bummer, right at the start of summer. Still, it'll be six weeks or so, then you'll be fine again. Much better to break a bone properly than to tear all the ligaments and have six months off. Silver linings and all that.

I don't think there's a "new" T-Raptor is there? It's got to be at least 5 years old... Anyway, get the T-Rex, assuming you're not talking about the 5 year old version of that too

The clever thing is that spells out binary solo, but in binary! I don't think they were that clever though.

It obviously depends what for. If you want to go the most exclusive place in the world, fun of rich people in their gucci all-in-ones, then probably somewhere in Switzerland or Aspen maybe? For good parks then Park City Utah is supposed to be pretty grom-tastic with ramps and rails everywhere. And for good snow with good lifts? I don't know really, maybe somewhere like Banff? Or Japan? Depends on the season though. Or for just middle-of-nowhere, piles of a snow etc but you can't get lifts, somewhere like Kashmir? Saw an article on it, looked amazing but a lot of trekking involved. So yeah, depends what you want.

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Shoulders are annoying. The one thing I will say is that I kept dislocating my shoulder (riding trials and doing other stuff) and I carried on, the problems just got worse and worse. In the end I had to have an operation which meant I wasn't allowed to ride for six months (although I decided I could cut that down to four months). So yeah, a little bit of time now to let the shoulder get better will be worth it in the long run. You didn't actually say what you'd done - collar bone?

Haha, don't worry about that - you seem to write better English than most of the forum It doesn't really matter very much. Just get a wide-ish one to make sure that the cranks don't hit the chain stays. So 73x122 or something would be fine.

No, the iMac has a bigger screen and faster CPU. The graphics aren't as good on the iMac but that will make the square root of f**k all difference unless you're playing games (no difference in Photoshop, anyway). So the compromise is: Bigger screen, faster, more hard drive space vs portability.

Yeah but you don't have a Mac so neither of the Mac ones will work. It's a bit confusing since that Adobe site doesn't seem to recognise Safari for the PC, but I think the firefox version should do it. (Apparently Safari just takes the plugins from Firefox, so if flash works in Firefox it should work in Safari as soon as you install it, assuming you already had an up-to-date Firefox?).

I think not. On T-mobile you can (only by signing an 18 month contract on top of your current one), but not on Orange. I might be wrong though.

But my point is that you could not possibly differentiate between 1) and 2). Your memories of that day are just slightly jumbled, leading you to think that you knew, when actually you didn't. As far as I can work out, that's the only explanation unless you truly believe you can see into the future. Or I suppose that if your mind imagines enough things, one day something is bound to occur that is what you were imagining a second earlier. (But that doesn't fit with the most lucid deja vu I ever had. This was a few years ago, and a friend of mine had some of those rainbow stripey socks with individual bits for each toe. I'd never seen anything like it before, so there's no way I'd have 'imagined' it to predict her walking in and showing them to me, even though I thought knew I had seen it a second earlier.) It's a weird thing to think about though - your memories, even your memories of thoughts, are in the present and might not be totally accurate. Another way of putting it would be 'If the history books are written wrongly, does that change what happened in the past?' Of course it doesn't... The only way to prove that deja vu really exists would be to predict an event before it happens, and I've never been able to do that with a deja vu.

Sorry you're right about the integrated thing (which is good). But just because it's 256Mb doesn't mean it's especially fast - those Radeons are very slow compared to the 8800 that's in the more expensive iMac/ the 8600 in the MBP.