Nick Garland

I am aware Halo is a trilogy, but its guanteed Microsoft will not stop because its a trilogy, its a cash cow so they will continue making Halo games, I would not be suprised if there is a game before the original so we know how they came to fighting the covenant.

HALO 3 ENDING: Yeah thats the basics of it.

Because all anyone really does these days is sidehop, well the majority. Biggest gap I have seen was prob CLS at bike show 2004 maybe, when he annoyed the koxx team by out gapping and out sidehopping them all.

Its not much of an ending so dont get your hopes up

Check out Laptops Direct, they do pretty good deals. There was a thread on this like 2 months back with lots of options on laptops.

So in this whole thread we managed to point out the only plusses to a PS3 are: Free online 2 Exclusives that are worth getting, or worded better, killer apps. And Blu Ray if you care about next gen formats.

I heard the PS3 thing from internet. Halo 3 is ok, single player was really good however multiplayer is average really.

What has he done to the Czar, a seat post, what is he thinking??????? I shall keep my 07 Czar, none of those frames take my fancy really, but I shall wait to see geo. Again he has gone "hmm what do I have left over, aha a Gu front end, hmmm the Zoo seatubes and CNC yoke, then ooh got some spare GU drop outs, VOILA its a GU LE." Not a fan this year deng.

If you read above I said why it is not actually a more powerful machine as the developers cannot unlock the power due to the SPEs mainly. Also £40 a year is nothing, its just under £4 a month for a top quality service. As far as I am aware, from what I have heard, on the PS3 online service you have different logings for different games, you have different friends lists for different games etc, on the Xbox its just one login on friends list, its a lot easier. Then again you dont really hear much of the PS3 online where as Xbox Live is a common subject really.

Just to clear a few things up first: 1. The new chips are on a smaller manufacturing process, they are going to be built using 65nm instead of 90nm technology. This basically means that the transistors of the chip are smaller and closer together, this then reduceds power leaks, thus reducing power consumption and overall heat, meaning your Xbox will last longer. You can find a lot more on this by browsing net if anyone is interested. 2. The PS3 DOES NOT have the capability to have superior graphics, its technically more powerful, but not graphically. The Cell CPU in the PS3, can technically run more threads than the 360 in one clock cycle because of the 7 SPEs, I have not read a lot about the SPEs but as far as I am aware they are quite physics related and are not much use for general CPU functions. So whilst technically the PS3 has a more powerful CPU it does not actually help because Games Consoles need more general purpose cores, such as the Xbox 360s tri-core which will run 2 threads per core, each clock cycle. After actually speaking to developers such as UBI Soft & EA they do actually prefer the 360 because of the ease of creating games, with Microsoft giving them a lot of support on the development end and relatively simple hardware to use, Sony have powerful hardware but its just a pain to program with. The PS3 RSX graphisc chip is not as powerful as the Xbox 360s R500 which is why you will not see the PS3 having better graphics, mainly because in short, its a PC graphics chip, the R500 is a purpose built gaming chip with 10mb eDram which is mega fast which helps the 360 run 2xAA minimum on all games, unless the developer chooses to use it otherwise. To summarise that, the PS3 has a technically more powerful CPU, but less powerful GPU, the 360 has a more general purpose CPU and a more powerful GPU, making the 360 a lot easier to program. I would reccomend the 360, it has stolen so many games from the PS3 exclusives list and more to the point what games are there on the PS3 which are not on the 360 that make the console worth buying? 360 Exclusives: Halo 3 PGR 4 Gears of War (now on PC but not PS3) Crackdown Forza 2 Bioshock (on pc but not PS3) Saints Row (SR2 will be on ps3 but its not out till 2008) Amped 3 Dead or Alive series Fable 2 (not out yet) Huxley (not out yet) Kameo: Elements of Power Perfect Dark Zero Mass Effect (not out yet) PS3 Exclusives: GT5 MGS 4 (massive rumor its coming to 360 as well though) Warhawk Tekken Heavenly Sword Killzone 2 Resistance: Fall of Man I have only put down the big games really for exclusives, but weigh up which games you prefer really, but are you willing to pay the extra money when you can get some absolutly amazing games on the 360 for less? Can find bigger lists on the net but the 360 lists just grows in length. As for the online service, I have never used the PS3 online nor do I know anyone who has, however I have used Xbox Live and its fantastic, it might cost £40 a year but its guanteed good gaming. You get a very good service for £40, download HD music videos, game trailers, latest demos etc its very good. Now the final point I shall make that is a very odd one but I am sure many 360 gamers will agree with me here, the Achievements system. This really does add more length to the games, you get nothing but points for them, however I have found them slightly addictive. I dont buy games to get a high gamer score but the games I do buy it adds more to them. Skate for example, get a 10,000 point line, its not too hard, but its not too easy, it just gives you something extra to do that you normally would not aim for. Its hard to explain their addiction but they are really good fun, especially on Crackdown, climing the huge HQ and then jumping off into the water Great fun. Overall get a 360, might have gone a bit OTT with the post but theres so much good to say about them. Only downside is the RROD, I have only had it once, but if your console is within 1 year old, Game should replace it in the shop, they did mine.

I am loving the hole in the seatube, that is genious. It looks lovely, I love my Czar so nice to ride. I think deng should learn from this forum, take a bit of weight off his frames and they would be amazing, or do comp spec ones, that have thinner tubing to save us drilling them.

Last time I tried to tap a mod, my nuts felt the pain, never again. From experience, one mate of mine went from riding mod to stock, on his mod, he sidehopped and that was it, he has even admitted before that "all I did on the mod was sidehop". Then another friend, some might know him, Adrian from Woking?, he went from stock which he was very good on, to mod, and he basically stopped gapping and went to sidehopping. If you watch some of the more recent videos of just normal riders, most mod videos I find have just sidehops, or like billocks, drop gaps. Most stock videos have a huge variety of riding, they will sidehop, gap, dorpgap, tap, up to front etc. Not aiming the mod riders only sidehop at one person, more the "new generation" of mod riders, and the tucking thing is deffinately a new generation thing too, I hardly ever remember Danny Holroyd doing a huge tuck on a sidehop, infact I barely remember him sidehopping.

Whoever said about the english people tucking is right. Too many people tuck on small walls that are about 30" or so, I cannot sidehop that high about 42" at best and I still do not tuck on it. You have to get the actual technique right first, as Spode said pages back, the more your spring the higher you go, when you have gone as high as you can then you add a tuck to get the extra height. A lot of the walls that have been tucked on here you could put your bloody front wheel on before sidehopping it at all. Too much emphasis on tucking not enough on actualy hoping, more to the point it gets pretty boring when all you see mod riders do is basically sidehop, seems to be a fashion at the moment. Been on a few rides recently and all the mod riders do is sidehop stuff and the occasional gap here and there, then sidehop some more.

You have too many nice bikes Adam, I think you should give that to me Looks lovely, are you going back to 26" or just having more bikes for the fun of it?

I hope they are at least 1080 wb, then maybe with the right top tube length they would feel nice. The others were too short. If they turn out to be longer I may well purchase one, its that or a Triton.

That was the same as what I did this morning on the toilet. Only people who can get away with teasers are Jonny Jones as he releases some MEGA videos, Neil Tunni, Damon Watson etc. All the big name riders that make your jaw drop when they ride.

Just a reccomendation, I would buy the braided hose from somewhere like Tartybikes of CRC where they will cut it and put the fittings on. Specify the length of hose you need as well. Otherwise doing it yourself is possible but a real pain as I have done it myself.

If you looked after your bike and service is as required then a KMC is fine. Also when your chain has stretched you are meant to replace it. I change mine every 6 monthsish.

Cool idea but it should be accross the world with everyone doing it, no prizes just a bunch of people having a giggle by trying to whackup a huge firefox logo.

No longer am I bored, going to go play some pool against some mates. Unfortunately today, whilst participating in "Hallway Olympics", in the football event I stubbed my toe so hard without shoes, that through my sock, I have managed to rip off a good 1cm circular patch of skin off the knuckly part of my big toe and severly bruise it. Cannot walk properly lol, mighty painful. I ended up 2nd in "Hallway Olympics" in the end, lost out on the bowling.

Its a CGI bin, also I hate to tell you but places like GameTrailers? already exist. Nice idea but he will need inside knowledge or access to get new videos else he will get them AFTER all the main sites have.

Im bored, were sat in lectures doing YEAR 6 maths, bloody medians, mode and mean. How insulting.

If you mean disc version of that frame then rofl. They do not make one. Nice bike, I too have one of these, how are you finding it?

I usually go for 5mm maximum, then there is enough slack for sideways movement on hard landings yet enough tension to stop your wheel feeling floppy.

You win as a team, you lose as a team, its not just 1 person. Wilko would not have got that drop goal had the TEAM not set it up for him.