Steve-A
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Cool. 1020 seems fine length, its what I had my Leeson made at, I think its nice for the really streety trials I ride.
Ah I was forgetting how much chainstay adjustment horizontal dropouts give. I've ridden a Ghz wit h24" wheels for a bit, and it wasn't too bad. If I were able to build a new 24" frame I'd be interested to try 260/265 rear end with only +5 or soemthing bb. I found the low BB of the Ghz really helped for skatepark riding and such, and the back wheel action could be improved back upto normal 24" abilities with the shorter stays.
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Nice work.
Be very interesting to see how the high BB rise works out. I'd almost be tempted to say make the next one longer, with +5/10 bb and shortest stays you can, get a range of different 24" geos out there. Pretty much every 24" frame out there had geo pretty close the the original Ashotn Et. Be really interesting to see if any extreme geo would work out i.e. everyone said the Koxx Vinco was mad, but before the Vinco most stock frames were +0/+5mm bb, a couple of years later and most people think +25/+35mm is nice.
Push that envelope
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the giddy heights of 5-6 feet
High enough then. I've done 5ft loads of time,s and 6ft once or twice. But by 6ft it starts to get pretty damn brutal, and scary dropping the front well below level before letting go of the brake!
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Looks lovely
Really clean looking bike. Personally I couldn't deal with the extreme bar height most 24" riders run, but the rest of it looks spot on.Off topic, when you say heigh drops to flat, how high are we talking?
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I'd say these books are guides for creating opportunities to get to know girls
In that last post there's not really anything I'm disagreeing with, it all sounds sensible enough. I was more just making the point that as someone who's not read the books it often comes across as if people follow the books to the word a bit too much. I guess it just sounds a bit cold and calculating.
From what you say in that post its more about looking into yourself and understanding who you are, and yes being your self around women, not the softie some people think they should be. Thats cool, and its a fair point to say I had much more interest from girls once I was old enough to be myself. But from the rest of the thread it sounds more like the book says ' do this and you'll get laid'
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I'm pretty happy not rewiring my thinking for the moment thanks
It just seems a bit like putting on a front which is appealing to the average girl, which I think would make it harder to find a girl who truly understands you. But that said if you're just after some fun then I guess if makes pulling easier then great!
I know this is the girl trouble thread so I thought I ought to say this quietly in grey. I've been with my girl friend for a little over 4 years now. She's the only thing in my life I don't over think and completely analyse, and thats worked out great so far.
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I've never read any of these books, but I know people who do and I think I get the gist of them.
The only thing I have to say really is that they don't seem to take into account that people are not all the same. It all seems pretty mechanical, like you're playing a computer game with set responses. Not every girl will respond the same/positively to the methods the book teaches you. More importantly, I think, not every man/boy/trials rider is the same.
These books seem like they can help break people out of bad habits, and give a different perspective, but I don't think they should be followed word for word. I figure at the end of the day if a relationship is gonna work you've gotta be doing it without thinking, not following a manual. Anyway if you were gonna follow a manual I'm sure this one would be one of the best :
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After Effects is a very big deep program, keyframing is but a very small step into it. Have you used AFX much before? What are you trying to achieve with it? What parameters would you like to key frame?
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I think its an interesting idea, but would possibly need a custom shock. Looks like he's just using a normal mtb shock but pumped up lots, it will still have lots of damping and that'll be what's sapping his power.
It also looks like he'd have to relearn to ride. Changing the way he preloads to account for the shock. I think that shows up most in the pedal up. On the first attempt you can see he does a normal technique and as he takes off the shock unloads and throws him forwards onto his front wheel.
A very interesting idea though, could well be worth continuing with.
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Just got in, slightly damp and quite tired but was a good day. Cool to see lots of old faces (even if I didn't recognise half the riders!) and I managed to have a surprisingly successful ride. Its has been shown that you can have plenty of fun riding in the rain with no front brake and bald 70a street tyres
Thanks to the Jones family for organising these rides for the last 5 years. It's always great to see everyone turn out and have a good time and great way to honor DJs memory.
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It'll be fine.
The previous time it rained at the memorial ride, I was running a chrome rim. Although I gave up after a bit, I remember Nikky G spent most of the afternoon riding my bike in the rain quite happily! (I borrowed peoples bikes with a grind
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Sometimes, just sometimes old people listen to reason.
There was an old bloke in Malvern who always used to complain at us, every time he saw us riding. We tried being nice about it, eventually we got bored with him and basically ignored him or gave him a sarcastic reply. One day, after he had been shouting at us about respect for other people and walls and stuff, Tim properly stared him down and said quite calmly something along the lines of ' Why not treat us with a bit of this respect you talk about and we'll do the same to you'.
For a good few weeks after that whenever we saw him he politely asked us to stop riding if he had to walk close by incase we crashed into him, or generally was quiet. So sometimes reason can just work!
...for the short term. After a few weeks he got grumpy again!
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Yeh was a Leeson booster. Ran fine, save for snapping one of the jubilee clips mid ride and having to tie it on with a bit of spare brake cable.
It was a pure bodge, if the option is there to buy one of Heatsinks v mount kits and use evos that would probably result in a better brake I'd have thought.
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4 bolt booster, bolted to 4 bolt mounts and jubilee clipped at end. Brakes mounted using 4 bolt mounts, upside down. 2 or 4 bolt booster to ad a bit of stiffness. If you snap jubilee clips you can tie the brake on with v brake cable. Job done
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They prefer you to block shift because they see it as more efficient, by doing less gear changes you are apparently wearing the syncros and clutch less. To be honest, there's a few things you have to do for the test that just don't apply to daily driving. Like not crossing hands, and shuffling the wheel....
I don't tend to block shift, I like using the engine to help me brake. I don;t see others not block shifting causes a problem. The only time I tend to block shift is 5th to 3rd, and its not to slow down
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A frame that lasts only 6 days has serious problems.
But whatever, the craziest thing about this thread is how Damon is sponsored - I wouldn't go near him if I was a bike manufacturer. So Mr Marino has sent out two frames (presumably at great expense) and Damon rips him off by immediately selling one, and then to take the piss even more he posts pictures of the broken prototype. That's just a staggering display of stupidity mixed with cuntishness.
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The problem I have is, I don't know any one locally to me who has a Mac with all the software to have a play with. I can only mess about with the one in PC world, which has no software on it. The style of the keyboard and mouse alone annoyed me so much I ended up walking away from it in a disgruntled fashion after only a few minutes. I like premier (although vastly prefer the old 6.5 compared to CS3) and it does mostly what I want it to do. I've heard great things about FCP and would love to give it a proper try, however without forking out what could be in excess of 2grand, its not possible.
From what I've been told, the Mac I can stretch to (the £1200 24" iMac) doesn't have a seperate graphics card therefore won't handle editing HD. I don't know whether this is true or not, but seems like a major limiting factor in spending that amount of money, compared to the equivilent PC. I also don't think I'm ready to be part of the "fashion and lifestyle" trend.
I think I'm 99.99% sure I've made my mind up, and will be going for the/a Dell system. I'm used to PCs, I know my way round them already, its a vastly better spec compared to the Mac, and I already own all the necessary software that I require. I'm not too concerned about ordering from Dell, as we order aproximately 1000 PCs and laptops from them each year with no issues, so I have a good level of trust with them.
The intergrated GFX cars on the iMacs/Macbook aren't upto the standard of separate GFX cads on the Macbook Pro/Mac Pro, that is true. It really does sound like the PC will be a better bet for what you want out of it
I've highlighted that sentence in bold because its a bit silly really. Just because you own a mac and use it, doesn't mean you have to go round telling everyone that you love it and your life wouldn't be complete without it. it doesn't mean you have to put apple stickers on everything you own. ITS A COMPUTER. People form 'tribes' around everything. Hell, you could even buy a mac put stickers on it making look like a Dell and tell your friends you're running vista with a skin if you really wanted to
Its not gonna change how well, or poorly, it edits media! -
The only reason I'd buy a mac is for the software. Thats why I did buy a mac*.
For photo editing photoshop works well on both OS. In osx lots of the shortcuts tie in with the system shortcuts more, and I personally think adobe applications seem less 'clunky' in osx as thats what they were originally written for. In early versions of photoshop/premiere it was more evident than it is now.
Video editing wise, Final Cut Pro (osx only) is a good bit of software, much better than Premiere. See if you can have a good long play with a copy, and compare it to Premiere. If you don't feel Premiere is limiting what you can do/want to do then there's no reason to use FCP.
It sounds like for the differences in spec. you're looking at that if you can get the software you want on the PC then get the PC. It will work out much cheaper and if its not going to limit your photo/video editing abilities then its a no brainer.
* - Fanboy section:
After using macs at work and getting used to using Final Cut Pro daily I got very frustrated with Premieres limitations. When the time came for a new laptop, I bought a Macbook Pro 2.2Ghz 2Gbs ram. I only convinced myself that it was worth it because I could dual boot windows, and basically have a mac for making videos and a windows laptop for everything else. And for the first few months thats how it was. Slowly over time I started to use Windows less and less and spend more time in OSX. Now I practically never boot into windows, I just prefer using OSX.
The 2.2Ghz dual core 2Gb ram laptop handles editing and rendering HDV video very well, its worth noting that media editing doesn't need that much power by modern standards. Go bakc a few years when 1Ghz was super fast, and then yes every Hz counted, but now computers are so fast its not really an issue. The only time you'll see a difference is in render times, and I've never found them a problem at 2.2Ghz.
Once I was used to the OS I found that everything seemed to gel better. Pretty much all software seems to integrate with the OS very well, and also with all the other pieces of software. I like using lots of keyboard shortcuts and this seems to suit OSX more than Windows.
One thing I did notice was that, coming from windows, I felt that OSX was awkward and didn't let me organise things how I wanted, didn't give me the choice in how I wanted to work. After some time I realised that you just have to approach things slightly differently, allowing the computer to organise itself how it wants to. Rather than meticulously organising my text documents, I just put them all in one folder and search for the one I want.
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I'll be at the DJ ride and probably in my 5, so I'd be happy to come chat cars for a bit.
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Reorganised date sounds good to me
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There were some big moves in there, and good all round riding.
But, as others have said, the edit did little for me. It lacked direction I think. If he had continued the grungey feel of the first few seconds and built on it it could have worked, but starting the vid with 2.5 mins of crashes that didn't build up to anything didn't work for me. I have to say he used lots of stock footage grunge in there too, which I personally dislike, it always feels so generic and rarely fits in with the other camera work/editing.
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Skoze is right. Tim ran a front disk for quite a while with the right hand disk set-up. He's gone back to maggie now though.
Tim rode the forks for a good while with no problems. He them gave them to Matt Burrows, who broke them fairly quickly. They broke above the disk mount so extra stress to the welds was not a problem. Matt does tends to mash forks.... I cant see them being any weaker than normal Pashley forks.
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1. Sam Jones
2. Max Hunt
3. Ryan Iley
4. Joe Bayliss
5. Tom Mundy
6. Glen Robinson
7. Jon Granger
8. Mowgli the Mexican
9. Stuart Powney
10. Rich Pearson
11. Tristan Packham
12. Nathan Roach
13. Krisboats
14. Tom Booth
15. Nick Vaughan
16. Ed Emuss
17. Ryan Granaski
18. Rob Cook
19. Ashley Wood
20. Dave Anscombe
21. David Biddle
22. Katie Pilgrim
23. Danny Kearns
24. john shrewsbury
25. sam ward
26. Grant Hundley
27. Jack Chinnnnnnery
28. Andrew Walker
29. Steve Rogers
30. Dave Harding <<<< IM RIDING!!!! biggrin.gif:D
31. Joe Rothwell
32. Chris Page (possibly)
33. Connor Powell
34. Nicholas Manning
35. Matt Purdon (or Skoze as i'm better known)
36. Matt Bird
37. Chris Abbey
38. Harry Cox
39. Ben Cox (not related to harry)
40. LabRat (kieran whitefield)
41.Adam Griffin
42. Dan O'Shea
43. Rich Jones
44. Craig Szczypek
45. Josh Joyce.
46. Nidaa Qureshi
47. Linds Thompson.
48. Dan Thornton
49. Darren McAllister
50. Ben John-Hynes<<<< If work can allow it!
51. Jack Chinnery
52. Sam Wheeler
53. Steve Atterbury
54. Emma Troth
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Good stuff.
Nice change to have instrumental music, with a reasonable amount of sync mixing it up. Really helped make it more interesting for the whole 15 mins (part1 and 2). Some of the shots were lovely, the light and shallow DOF really coming together. At other times everything was soft, which was a shame, the vignette was a bit OTT and there was a reasonable amount of camera shake. Pretty small issues considering the rest of it flowed quite well.
Ashton is so comfy in front of the camera, and really natural with his chat. He would make a pretty good presenter if he did have a TV show like he says in the video
Edit: Ah its made by Rob Kitchen using a 5d. The 5d will be much lighter than most video cameras, and not as easy to hold steady due to its shape.
Wide Angle Lens Recommendations Please!
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Yes, but also if its a fish eye type lens rather than true wide angle then most of the extra width will be at the edge of frame, as so wit ha big step down you'll end up with less wideangleness*.
*Technical term