Shaun H
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My dad has gone tubeless after he got sick of punctures from thorns and glass. He's had it for about a month or 2 now and I don't think he'll be going back to tubes, he rides often and hasn't had a single puncture since changing.
You can get kits which allow you to remove the valve and fit a normal tube in the case of a severe puncture that the sealant can't deal with which, IMO, eliminates the biggest weakness of tubeless setups.
We've got a compressor at home so that makes life much easier with regards to initial set up.
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I meant the "non overtime paying environment".
I in Oxford but I work in Northampton at Mercedes-Benz HighPerformanceEngines.
Yeah I meant it tongue in cheek, I've got a friend who works at Team Lotus and know someone at Red Bull, they both work mental hours often.
Heard mixed reviews about working at MBHPE, how do you find it?
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I am a engineer in the non-overtime environment that it formula 1.
Yeah I bet you never do an extra hours work there
From memory you're Oxfordshire based so are you at Williams? They've just put up a bunch of new jobs which me and a couple of coursemates are looking at (final year Mech Eng).
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Who the hell has time to check 3000 babies for the cutest anyway?
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Im only doing 2 days but could probably be persuaded to do sunday/monday, gives me a 3 day weekend then
edit: If I only go for the sunday/monday, can I still qualify for a free tshirt and burger by paying for the three day ticket?
Shaun, if you want a lift you would have to make it over to lichfield (40mins from new street). Ive also got to collect a gecko on the way home but thats only in rhyll so no massive detour.
Cheers man, I will probably be down in Cheltenham Sunday morning so will be difficult for me to get to Lichfield in a timely fashion but I will bear it in mind.
Do it Shaun I can give u a lift home if u like u need to come wouldnt be the same with out you
Probably a silly question but, is there room in the castle tent?
Last year we brought a proper BBQ from Asda and there was no objection but the rules may have changed but I can't see why not.
That BBQ was far from proper hahaha
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The main reason they make carbon wheels is to make them more areo for same weight, the zipp use a torodianl shape that also acts like a spring thus giving a good ride and better rolling.
They make either full carbon for tubular tyres and carbon with Alu side Walls for normal Clincher tyres!
Basically the braking you get on a carbon surface is pretty grabby and shit in wet! That's why they make ones with Alu side Walls!
You could made a carbon rim with an Alu surface to use for trials but I'm not sure I can think of any real advantages
So much of that is irrelevant to this topic I don't know where to begin.
Some Easton carbon wheels are full carbon and offer clincher fitment for starters.
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Any Southerners heading up on the Sunday? Begrudginly I have to attend a wedding on the Saturday and would love a lift if one's available
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45mins doesn't sound un-reasonable.
Yeah, but on a bad day when you get a real bad headwind, you haven't slept well and maybe you're ill, it could be an hour and a half or even more. If you've got to carry work gear there with you, 18mph average is pretty good going, by my books anyway!
EDIT: This is from my experiences with a 9mile daily commute and assuming the problems would be amplified over a longer distance.
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Depends what kind of contract you've signed. If your parents have signed as guarantors then yourself or them will have to pay the rent until a replacement is found.
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I'm pretty sure that brake fluid is made not to kill the seals?
I think he means use mineral oil instead of any DOT or similar fluid.
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been done, spinnergy used to make tri-spoked carbon wheels and now produce carbon spoked (as in the traditional sense) The main isses were cost (as you said) plus they couldn't be repaired or trued if damaged (plus they looked crap).
Carbon is very easily repaired. If a carbon wheel needs truing, either the spokes are knackered or the rim is cracked/snapped severely, CFRP stuff will deflect, but it won't yield.
The thing stopping carbon rims (for the front anyway) appearing for trials is the tooling cost, it's very (very very) expensive to produce a decent mould.
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Looks like the coils near the damping end are f**ked? They're much more bunched up than in the rest of the spring. Or is it a progressive rate spring?
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Sounds like your best bet would be getting the BB faced. Torqueing it correctly will help but if you do them up as tight as you dare then a BB generally won't loosen.
EDIT: If those are aluminium cups on the bottom bracket then you should use copper grease, although it's of no great concern on a trials bike since most people change frames/cranks etc more often than other cycle disciplines.
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That's a very very strange failure
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They're ace, but they're also out of stock
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Is test drive unlimited 2 worth buying? Discuss.
I've just tried it with a G25 and despite playing with the settings for ages it just feels completely dead to drive. A game as arcadey as that should be pick up and play fun, I don't want to root around menus all evening just to get some weight in the wheel and then when I manage that, find that there is absolutely nothing communicated to you through the steering.
Such a dissapointment, cos I loved TDU.
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I heard my girlfriend poo last night, I don't think I can get over it.
I've been with my missus for 5 and half years and I still haven't heard her fart.
True lady status: confirmed.
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Well the relationship R=V/I is correct but I'm not sure how you should calculate the dropped voltage, I'd have gone with 9V too as I guess you want to drive the battery in reverse to charge it?
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~34.8mm
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Wish I could have gone but I had a BUKS round at Llandow. Heard there was SO much abuse from the DHers, especially towards the UoB guy who walked down that section every lap haha
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the 4 bolt mounts on these forks scare me, unless they have actually used the material to it's full potential and ramped up the thickness where 4 bolt forks always snap then I can't see them lasting long.
If the designer has any experience with carbon then it will be reinforced appropriately in that area, it's so simple to do with a carbon lay up that it'd be mental not to do it...
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Awesome video
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As already mentioned, the issues are almost always from people riding on the cut stones. These are f**king expensive to buy, they take a huge amount of work to achieve a finished product and when some beginner comes along and is hopping all over them with his bashguard/ring they are being totally ruined. All it takes is a chip and you've destroyed what could be £100s of work. Most of the work there looks to be custom to order, so it's not like they can just recut it to a smaller shape and resell it.
The poor guy has probably turned up on Monday morning to find his company's hard work damaged and then checked the CCTV to find us lot jumping all over them!
If you're going to continue to ride there then stay off anything that has had any finishing done on it. People have mentioned staff being there and being happy for them to ride on the raw blocks, the owner might not be keen but if everyone sticks to that then we aren't actually doing much damage at all.
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Couldn't find that user on Steam buddy. Added you other two though. User: sheep666
Anyone else interested in the new Deus Ex game?