Shaun H

If you ever get offered a black 2004 Kona Coiler-Dee-Lux with a little dent in the downtube and a slightly munched driveside dropout (from a rear mech commiting suicide ) please let me know. It's a nice business idea if you've got where to sell them on figured out. I can see it becoming a haven for bike thieves though...

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You don't want to piss security off, it just makes life harder in the future as they're more likely to call the police and waste your time with stop & searches (or whatever you have in the 'States) when you haven't really been doing anything wrong except perhaps trespassing.

£50 ain't alot for a decent set of knives.

Nice but what's with the sticker of a stock rider on the top tube and fork steerer?

Er, the whole process is a bit of a bodge hehe You're supposed to use Chris King's eleventy million pound hub tool to remove all the innards... Good video but why in the world would you want your hub to sound like that!? It's horrific! I'm quite happy with my stealth King

Nice... :lol: In my mind that defies the definition of evolution. It is the change of a species due to environmental constraints that certain strains become more succesful in and dominate the older lesser strains to the extent that it eventually becomes a universal characteristic in the species. But yes, this is all getting rather complicated, can we have some Christians come clear this up for us, it's much easier to understand their way!

HAHA! Ok I walked into that one. Are you suggesting I was wrong? Of course as Tomm rightly said we'd lose incredible people who have provided the human race with technological advancement. However, if the ascociated "bad" genes of the diseases and conditions humans can suffer from were removed from the gene pool you can't deny that our race would be "better" in a physical sense. Intelligent people don't always have serious medical conditions surprisingly enough, we'd still have very brainy people to do all this thinking about the beginning of the Universe. I'm not for a second suggesting it's morally acceptable! It's just what I believe are the facts. That's not evolution though, the tallest among us aren't surviving better than the shortest because there's no natural threat to our lives! We're not being chased by saber toothed tigers through the high street! The modernisation of society means there is NO natural selection. As I said above we aren't being chased by stuff that wants to kill and eat us anymore, and it's very rare we (in the developed world at least) have to endure harsh environmental conditions without the support of central heating, air conditioning, sanitation etc. Also as Dave says below stupid people seem to find many more people to "mate" with than those of us clever enough not to spurt out 6 sprogs before we turn 18...

I'd prefer it if you didn't refer to me as a mass murderer for simply stating the truth about the status of evolution in our species. I wasn't advocating that behaviour now was I. But that's not evolution is it. There is no elimination of shit genes, ugly/stupid/abnormally short or tall people don't get killed due to environmental constraints (in the absence of powerful dictators anyway) and their genes continue on so long as they find someone to concieve children with. Having lots of money isn't an advancement of our species I'm pretty sure just having Bill Gates DNA won't mean you're a guaranteed billionaire either. The evolution of society and the genetic evolution of a species are particularly different, let's not start confusing the two. It seems to me the evolution of society has halted our genetic evolution process.

What about keeping them? The mean/keen thing works, been ripping the piss out of my missus for 3 years and 9 months now haha Although of course I'm a lovely guy in actuality. Part of any relationship is being able to laugh at eachother and yourselves! I hold her in absolute adoration but it doesn't mean I'm not going to make her feel like a fool when she trips up haha (so long as she's not hurt, laughing in that situation WILL result in loss of testicular tissue...) Like Simps said sometimes you do tend to overstep the mark, rather than a hissy fit (I think I'd throttle a bird like that) I usually get hit before I can explain it was just a joke Anyway, she's back on Friday, soooooo excited to have her home again! Anyone know how far Bristol airport is from one of the stations? Was considering taking the roadie down on the train and then cycling to the airport to greet her with some pretty foliage.

If you've not smashed a set of bulkheads on your T-Maxx yet you aren't bashing hard enough! I went through 3 sets before upgrading to CNC ones. Then I started going through suspension pins! I still stand by the 2nd hand Revo choice. P.S. Electric is still gay, almost as gay as on-road RC racing.

I'm sorry to bring this up again but Bol you need to completely forget everything you appear to have learnt about evolution. I'm guessing your church scholars have used all this completely revised (and wrong) theory of evolution to show you why creationism is the only viable truth. No wonder you believe so strongly that evolution is false, the theory you have talked about is quite rightly complete bullcrap! You are being taught evolution by people who are either guessing the facts or who want to blinker you from the truth! Now there is an environment of people who I would not want to be around, people who are so worried you will question your faith in their church that they will lie to you in order that you do not doubt! Clearly they doubt the strength of your faith... (or are just plain lieing about something they don't understand, you pick, either way it's a disgusting way for a supposed Christian to act) Now clearing your mind of all preconceptions and misconceptions (come on now I know it's hard for someone so set in their beliefs!) try to understand the following. 1. We will take a given species, giraffes will be a nice and simple example to follow. 2. Now imagine all these giraffes are just zebras. Don't argue the toss about this, it's not strictly accurate but it will do as a base to try and explain the evolution process. 3. These giraffes being the same size as zebras feed off the ground, there is vegetation in the trees however it is too high for them to reach! 4. During the conception of a baby giraffe there is a gene mutation which causes the offspring to be taller (be it longer legs or longer neck). 5. This baby giraffe goes on to live more succesfully since it can reach the vegetation in some of the lower trees! 6. It mates and passes this mutation on as do it's offspring and their offspring etc etc and over hundreds to thousands of generations this mutation, since it results in better survival, spreads through the species until the entire lot have this gene. 7. Similar mutations (and not so similar, take for example the giraffe's long and tough tongue) continue to occur so that eventually over millions of years and generations (not instantly like you have been told!) you have a giraffe which is completely different from the zebra that still only feeds off the ground whereas the giraffe is so specialist it feeds almost exclusively from trees! Important points: There is no thought process in the animals that cause evolution to occur. It is simply a mutation, an event that has a proven statistical chance of occuring in each conception, that results in a beneficial change in the animal. Mutations are almost always not beneficial and the animal does not survive as well and that particular new gene will dissapear. However as illustrated with the giraffe's changes above, those few that give the animal better survival are passed on and spread through the species. This process of random mutations resulting in a beneficial change for the species has been observed in bacteria. They were placed in an environment where they do not survive as well yet a gene mutation occured that allowed the bacterium to survive better in the given conditions. This stronger gene became dominant as it survived the conditions better than the weaker original. Oh and for the record, we have just as many hair folicles as a chimp. EDIT: Not forgetting: Your point about Nazis and rail guns. Erm what the f**k? Technology and evolution are far removed. Technology is a process that moves infinitely faster than evolution, which takes millions of years to accomplish significant changes. Evolution in humans is no longer occuring. We now look after even the sickest and most redudant members of our population. Just think, back when our species was living in caves and hunting mammoths, an asthma sufferer would quickly die! Let alone wheelchair bound window lickers, how the hell would they survive! The truth is if the human race wanted to advance any further PHYSICALLY (not technologically!) then we have to start unplugging all the vegetables and anyone else with a "defect". I hope this gives you a better understanding! I look forward to any questions you may have.

You massive twat. Now you're clutching at straws. The f**k is he supposed to call you? You complain so much about how people on TF are out to get you and other TGS riders and then go round behaving like this!? Grow the f**k up and try and have a decent conversation on here for once. Stop being a dick to other people and believe it or not the favor is usually returned.

Spicy baby octopus. Was VERY tasty!

Ooooouuuuuch... My girl trouble atm is that she's still not back from teaching in Spain! Just one more week though! Really missing her now I don't have the pressure of Uni exams to distract me...

If he's not in the next Kranked/Earthed/New World Disorder or other freeride DVD then I reckon trials will likely never be in mainstream mountain bike media (for a lasting period anyway). Awesome.

ENORMOUS static moves. But I found the video a little boring.

The best bash? It doesn't exist... yet

Out of interest, which end did you actually snap/crack?

Looks to be a design "quirk"

and how much did that massive capacity battery cost? Plus you can only (safely) recharge LiPo batteries 100 times before you (should) throw them away. They're also arguably even more dangerous than nitro fuel! A tank of nitro is refilled in seconds, in fact you can refill it whilst it's running to save you having to start it up again! You're only limited by the reciever battery which lasts for hours anyway and they're cheap so taking two along is easy. The only real maintenance you need to do constantly with a nitro is squirt a bit of after-run oil in the engine when you put it in storage for anything longer than a week and clean the air filter once very now and then! The noise off a nitro is unbeatable too, much better than some gay whirring shit! EDIT: Once the cost of decent batteries and brushless motors fall, I'll admit, it'll be difficult to compare nitro up against electric anymore, but right now I'm sticking on the nitro bandwagon

Could be a snapped piston nipple?

If it so much as spits some precipitation that will become the course of death Very good otherwise though.

OR A lot of places for it to share the stress

Don't get a buggy/truggy or stadium truck unless you intend to do proper races at some point. Monster trucks are the most fun you can have outside a track and they're tougher to boot. A Traxxas Revo is arguably one of, if not the best of all monster trucks which are out right now. It's durable, handles well, goes like stink with a BB conversion, has spares easily available and is well priced.