TomR

Theres a guy at work with a maths degree and he's a CAD techie. You'll get far more money if you get a qualification that applies your maths skills to a certain profession, as generally the degrees in question will test your maths abilities as much as they will need to be.

I think that about all of my mates' uni friends anyway! I prefer engineering full stop, if i did anything else it'd be town planning, although the bureaucracy would drive me nuts! Theres loads of things civils and structural engineering can be applied to, and on the civils side theres both Civil Engineering and Construction Management to choose from, dunno about structural. I do civils, mainly for residential projects and its mainly road and drainage design, and the more detailed layout design that the planners dont do. The infrastructure sides quite good too because you get involved in the planning process a bit more.

Are you kidding? The architects in our place are minted. And the reason the engineers earn more is because they've gotta fix the architects f**k-ups There are a lot of areas of architecture and a lot of practices do very different things, even within the same field, so you can't really generalise that easily.

Depends what you want to do, you could slug it out for a full architecture course and say bye to a lot of years, or do structural engineering and then focus on the architectural side. could enquire with a few practices and ask which might be best and what jobs are available and wha tthey include, obvisuly pretending that youre interested in working for them or something. A lot of people at work do it part time, but that really does take a while. I think some have done their part one, then do their part 2's part time while working.

Didn't know him but its yet another tragic loss, for his friends and family as well as anyone who rode with him. And all this is starting to put me off A. Coming on trials forum, and B. finishing my direct access course.

Some good shouts! My dad was listening to pink floyd earlier and i thought 'gotta grab some tabs' but totally forgot! Completely forgot about Oasis too, even though it was one of the first songs i learnt, along with Twist & Shout by the beatles, which is another to add to the list! Good call on Straits too, and Finch Been a few years since i listened to them, still i bet everyone knows the words to Letters to You and its so easy to play i still remember most of it! Keep it up chaps!

Bit of an impulse buy i bought the other lunchtime - an acoustic guitar. So who knows any good acoustic songs to bust out at parties etc that people are gonna know? I know plenty of decent acoustic stuff like Dustin Kensrue, Dallas Green, TNA, Luke Pickett, Frank Turner etc, but im more after classics along the lines of the cure that people are gonna be familiar with. I can already play guitar so thats not a problem. Cheers, Tom

Evicy.. you mean Embassy?

There better be some drunken shouts, i'll be in a group of 10ish in a circle with a big fire, and most likely some tunes.

I'll be there from Thursday in G4 usually. Someone shoud TRIALS FORUM CRU or something cimilarly stupid and we might even find each other and share a beer.

Amen to that. Also: Dustin Kensrue (from thrice) Chuck Ragan Antoine Dufour

My 4X setups a DMR Trailstar MkII with pike 454's and Juicy 7's, absolutely mint and my favourite bike by a long way. With with twin rails/dmr motos that'd be pretty good if you dont mind a hardtail. I used to ride 12 miles a night on it (road miles) and it was fine, although you did notice that it was a bit short at times.

I've just got a Giant VT2 which im pretty impressed with, mid travel fairly burly all mountain jobby, basically the predecessor to the Reign.

Thats a great idea, good thinking!

It wasn't very well advertised, was a small bit in the Times and Citizen paper, but nothing on the side/promo PDF schedule thingymabob. It seemed quite well received by people, so if you ever get moaned at for riding street just say 'well i was inspired by the river festival!'. Might even be a good excuse for a trials park!

Possibly the best two live bands ever aswell. Been listening to the new NFG and HTL a lot lately Youtube Video -> ">" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350">

It was on both days although finished earlier (stil about 5pm i think) on sunday, it was over near the funfair/"base jumping" bit (ie the big crane).

Sounds like theyre just making use of the advertiding opportunity, nowhere does it say to remove the content or you'll be charged a sum of money so i wouldnt worry about that. And you'd be to blame if anything did happen, as it's technically you whos broadcasting the material.

Nothing much but may as well put them up. They didn't make much use of anything apart from the rig and i was on the boring side of the rig anyway. Tom.

Anyone else goingt o this? Only just found out theres an 'extreme' arena thing, including trials, free running, base jumping (aint that illegal?) and other things, anyone else heading down today or tomorrow?

Disturbed sound good for about 20 seconds until you realise their songs all sound the same. Anyway, im listening to Congratulations Smack and Katy, by Reggie and the Full Effect. Youtube Video -> ">" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350">

Not seen that before, shows what a funny guy he was even if i did feel slightly bad about laughing at it considering the circumstances.

Christ I can't beleive it, i thought there were a lot of stickies and glanced through and couldn't even imagine i'd see this. Like a lot of others I never met him, but a fair few people have added me to MSN over the years and he's one of the few i'd actually speak to as he was such a great bloke to talk to. Hearing about people dying is a common thing - the news, local papers etc and people often go 'oh god' then move on, but even when it's someone you don't even necessarily know but are so familiar with it comes as so much more of a shock and makes you think so much more about it, and when it occurs like this after so many others in a relatively small community it really does make you think before stepping out the front door. I can't honestly think of anything to say thats not been said already, but farewell to a fantastic bloke. R.I.P

Or if you're normal - a spatula. On the subject of fish, you can use fishing line too. Heat the sticker up and drag the line along your frame, then when it gets a bit sticky again heat the sticker up some more.

8 days or 8 years, it's the same principle - it's a bit of sticky backed plastic. And if you know what lacquer is, and you're not completely blind, it should be fairly easy to tell if they're lacquered over.