Krisboats

Like an XTP, or the coust? Fair do's though... the others are shit. The citrus pads BLATANTLY aren't the same as plazzies, they have slots in and are a different compound... so someone made yellow pads before, theres not really a great deal of colours to do pads is there? I think pretty much every colour has been done before, besides purple (write that down mike... purple pads ). The booster, well, there may be a bit of a resemblance, but i'm pretty sure there was pics of stress testing and stuff that showed it was a great design. The cranks were definately copied by monty, i remember when they came out the tensiles had been out a little while already, and to be fair... like mike said.. they've already been altered and improved into very original and sleek looking cranks. So what if a couple of things have been copied, onza are in my opinion one of the best manufacturers around. Half price replacements when things can't be warrantied. Generally good quality goods, some are excellent quality. And mike frequently comes on and discusses things with us, the riders... where as the only other things i've seen are the "new products from koxx" thread. Mike answers questions about products, they generally do try to inovate with their products and make sure the parts are affordable. I really think people should cut them some slack.

I think onza are a great company, copy a frame, strengthen it and bring it to the masses for cheaper. I love my t-rex, and i feel confident in the fact its sturdy enough to take most of the shit i give it. The limey 2 looks great, if i could afford one i would definately go for one. I think thats one of the nicest frames around at the minute, and has obviously had a fair amount of R&D done to it. The dropped chain stay mod frame that was going around a little while bike looked funky, again another design first. The tensile ranges look great, offest mounts were a great idea. The 22 tooth front free wheel is another. I think there is a large amount of copyage though, to a certain degree. The t-pro, the t-rex, zeniths and zonas. Its not like onza are the only company though, i mean theres always pitbulls and CZAR frames too. Just one question though, is the limey a higher price because of the closer friended production and secrecy or is it purely because its the flagship frame? I'd love one.... just can't justify spending so much on it.

Okay bongo, add me to the steam friends list thing (krisboats@hotmail.com, or krisboats as a username) and give us a go on it

What rating is your power supply? I had a crappy PSU once that upon loading a level in high detailed games, caused my computer to restart to stop it overloading. Now the only problem with this idea is that it only happened when the game was loading a level, in your case your trying to open the CS menu, which it should do just as well as it does the XP desktop. Have a look inside, make sure its of the correct watt'age and make sure your graphics card power connector has a sufficient amount of power coming directly from the psu.... it has different rails and things so might be set up wrong. In this case it could be a bad sector of your harddrive, but this would more than likely just inform you there was a read error, or fail to open it at all. It could well be the RAM, if the ram is faulty then soemthing CS does upon opening could be causing a problem and causing the computer to restart, though if it did i think it would show up a blue screen shortly before restarting. It definately sounds like its a hardware fault rather than a software one. If it was software windows "should" be able to run while having it classed as a non responding program. First thing i'd do is right click on CS in the steam menu and choose to back up the game files.... whatever the problem is it'll be a pain in the ass downloading the updates all over again. turn off the "Restart after system failure" option, which would be a good idea to see what the problem is. To turn that option off, right click my computer, go to properties, advanced, under start up and recovery click on settings, and the option should be under the System Failure section. Hopefully now instead of restarting straight away you'll get an idea of whats happening. Also try going into the steam folder on the hard drive then deleting the client registry.blob. Restart steam and it'll re-download it, might fix it Also try right clicking on cs:s then clicking properties, then go to the local files tab. If you havn't backed it up, do it now... whack a blank dvd disc in and click the backup button. Once you've done this click the verify integrity one... if its bad delete the files and re-install them, from disc first, then from the net if that fails. Also try defragmenting the files. Other than that.... not using a geforce 6200 are you

I guess it'll bug you knowing that i leave my bike in the garden uncovered overnight, never adjust things besides fitting a new component and most of the time my bike is always working. I never come back home and fix the bike after a ride. I never fix it up before i go out on a ride. I just pick it up and use it. Never really have problems with stuff, i mean, my 2 year old chain snapped the other week, but besides that the worst thing i've had happen was... ermm... well, i fitted new brake pads

I know it doesn't matter. Its just he said its not as challenging as street, when its generally quite a bit more challenging. I was only making a point

No, thats not the result of street riding. Thats someones ability to push themselves. If, like normal people, your riding within your limits, natural riding will always be more challenging because it takes more control, balance and stamina. Street is easier because everythings flat, theres no dodgy edges, no tree roots, no muddy run ups, no lumps of smaller rock to hit. Its just flat floors, flat walls, and easily judgeable distances. What your talking about is your mentality, not how challenging street is. You can go out and find a rock in the middle of a natural section and try tapping 59", its still going to be harder than the street alternative. OPlus theres the fact that street lines are always smaller. With a field of rocks, if you have the ability you can ride a single line for an hour or so. Where as street riding is generally more a case of finding a wall an inch bigger than the last one you did, then hitting it over and over again till you can make it.

My mate boumsong had one, to say i had a go on it was an understatement. Went riding with him loads and it was practically a second bike as we always play on each others. I never got used to it, and it was awful to ride. It flicked onto the back wheel to quickly, the cockpit area on it was far too short and the only move it felt alright at was sidehops. It gapped horribly, it was a physical struggle to stop it from looping. Static ups were very hard indeed, and taps were nearly impossible, the bike just wanted to through you off the back. Sorry, but i think its a valid point, and while theres obviously going to be a few exceptions (opinion wise), the hi-fi's are generally regarded as one of the worst riding frames ever. Where as the zenith has a much more sensible bb height, the chainstays match the bb heigh well and the cockpit on it is longer than the hi-fi so it feels much easier on the back wheel. It also gaps better, sidehops easily enough and its pretty damn easy to tap.

He said "word up" thats all you needed to say Ha ha, chris gets enough respect from me, his posts are funny as f**k and he says what he wants... none of this joining like a load of sheep most people do. You'll read a bike pics thread and someone says somethings good, and about 20 people will say its good, but then as soon as one person says its shit... everyone else does. Whats the point in having a fourm when people are like that? Notice how davey and chris both speak their mind and are the only two to have had a genuine and lengthy discussion in this thread, rather than "This really doesn't help the "white guy have no rhythm and can't dance" stereotype." kind of posts (not picking on you philth, just using you as an example).

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Yeah it f**king is! Its not a case of having to find new lines in street. In natural its impossible NOT to find new lines. You go street riding, the most you'll ever usually find is a line about 5 moves long. Its all the same as well, flat walls, flat landings, nice run ups. Most street rides riders will go somewhere then try the same thing on the same wall over and over and over and over. Street riding isn't as challenging physically either. With natural your stamina is pushed a lot more, your co-ordination when trying to land on smaller points of sticking out rock, your balance trying to stay on uneven rocks and your entire balance/fitness gets improved a shed load. Why doesn't it on street? Because its easier.

Ha ha, dickhead Your the only person to recommend the hi-fi, and the only person not to have ridden one. I guess that makes it clear how good the hi-fi's are Yeha, hi-fi's are shit, they feel cramped, the chainstays are too short for the amount of bb rise and the whole bike generally feels unbalanced. WASTE OF MONEY!

My friends did that, seems IE had kept the old settings and wouldn't find the new ones. Installing firefox got him browsing the internet again till IE7 came out and now he can use either. Might be quicker to try that on the off-chance it might work than to go through settings and fiddle with them.

Yep, pretty sure they are too

I posted that up 3 days ago. Someone wasn't paying attention

Actually, its not an intergrated headset, and yes, you can knock the cups out. I've done 2 t-rex's and didn't take the headset out on either, and left my bb in on mine as well. The headsets and bb's are usually anodised so are too much for the nitromors to do anything to. Take the headset bearings and stuff out though, the cups'll be fine but i can't imagine the rubber seals will like it.

It wasn't about friction or force... it was about maximising surface area. You can't use wet grass as a comparison, grass is also shiny, but whilst being wet introduces an item that reduces friction. The comparison you should have made is smooth shoes on a smooth even floor (shiny indicates being buffered or polished ), vs smooth shoes on a concrete tarmac floor without dust/water/dog shit to slip on. The grip is much better on the tarmac because its uneven, and offers higher friction and marginally larger surface area once the shoe is compress to the surface of the tarmac. Football boots is a bad example as they are both hard objects, neither is softer to contort to the shape of the other like a brake pad/rim.

Okay, after a bit of reading up, component isn't as good as vga. Although it should be because of it being digital, the vga has a better picture apparantly so you are right about that for the 360. Theres a hdmi cable for the 360 on the way but like you said, it isn't out yet. However, vga is still a much poorer connection type for use with his ps3, which can use both a dvi cable (dont think its released yet) and a hdmi one. The hdmi will produce a FAR better picture than the vga will as its purely digital and can carry far more information.

But when you pull the brake the pad compresses into all the little grooves and slots in the grind, which gives a larger surface area. Like the insides of your intestines, they're covered with little philia (not even 30% sure on it being the right word/spelling ) which stick out and increase the surface area for the abosorbtion of nutrients from your food. If the walls of you intestines were not lined with philia then there'd be a much smaller surface area. Its the same kind of priciple with a grind, only it adds frictional force as well because of it being abbrasive. Again, i'm not 100% on it, but it seems to make sense

I've always found sintered pads to be far better than organic. Sintered pads are soo good they aren't recommended for breaks that didn't originally come with sintered pads (only really applies to xc/dh though)

Disc pads are harder so wont compress as much, plus the way a disc works is as it heats up a slight amount of resin is rubbed onto the rotor which gives the disc its hold and a smooth rotor is better for the resin to stick to. Maggie pads are much softer so can easily compress to fit in with the distorted and slightly larger surface area of a ground rim, meaning they grip it more than if it were flat. Pretty sure thats the basic jist of it.

Didn't know grisoft made cables VGA is the tyerm i think your on about, and if at all possible avoid like the plague, especially if sucj a monitor has hdmi, dvi, composite connections. VGA requires conversion to analogue from the device (computer, xbox etc) then re-conversion to digital by the screen. In the process the image is "calculated" to put the image back together but is no longer pixel for pixel like a digital connection would be, meaning its less detailed, vibrant and slightly fuzzier round the edges of things. Digital cables are far better as no conversion is neccessary, so each pixel on the display is as the device intended it to be, not the monitors "calculated" guestimation.

Starting in safe mode is usually enabled by pressing f8 during the posting screens (black and white writing before what you described as "the thing where it says windows and that little green things keeps going past") Should give you a list of options, choose safe mode and it should boot up into safe mode with no running programs and limited networking options. This way you can do a virus scan or remove a piece of software that caused the big windows cock up. To enable the BIOS (main menu of the computers settings) pressing something like Del, F2, F10 etc should jump you into it. It should say on the screen when you first turn it on something along the lines of "press (insert button here) to enter setup".... basicaly just hit that button. You then want to navigate to the boot devices and enable the cd/dvd drive as the first boot option, if that doesn't seem to work set them all to cd/dvd drive. If it doesn't work, post up again and we'll go from there. P.S. Your DVD should turn up tomorrow for you

If i had that much money i wouldn't be spending it all on my bike. Do most people not have other priorities besides riding? You not want a nice new tele for your room (lcd's can be as little as £300 nowadays), new soundsystem, new car, put it towards a house? I would never be able to justify spending a lump sum of over £1000 on a brand new bike as it'd get battered within minutes and theres so much other stuff i could benefit from more. I'd say get yourself a couple of new bits, new bars or new cranks maybe. Then stick the rest in the bank till you see something you really want... like a ps3 or whatever floats your boat.

Go for it. My old plazzies worked better on a rim that had been grinded then wet and dry'd smooth than they did on a brand new ronnie with the machined sidewalls. Its not like its taking a layer off if it doesn't work like a grind would, you dont have anything to lose doing this. If you use a type of polishing agent to aid the shining process be sure to wash the rim with washing up liquid and warm water afterwards to remove any traces of the polishing agent. Should be good though, plazzies love shiny rims.