Krisboats

Very nice dude, looked great. Very jealous of your jet-setting habits to be honest :$

Yeah i ride a lot of rocks so thats not really an option unless i'm being lucky/lazy. I guess i was being a tad too light hearted when i said about the magic technique. I was just hoping there'd be some sort of universal agreement on whether wrenching on the bars, stomping on the peddles or preloading to buggery would be the most vital part in seeing a decent improvement. Seems that when i try and focus on improving one aspect the others go out the window. I also don't preload, or if i do, it's only very slightly. Boumsong is a regular riding buddy and he preloads like i don't know what, and by comparison i barely seem to yet still travel the same or slightly smaller distance. I'll have a look into those TRA videos. Holding back on the peddle kick is something i'd not really have thought about so you could be onto a winner.

Yeah, i tried that towards the end of tonight's session and kinda got it a bit more but i was tired, it was late, we'd been out for hours and i'd been hamering it. On top of that it was dark and night time makes everything seem harder I guess i was just hoping for some magic blink twice in mid air for an extra foot or something instead of practise your technique and keep trying as i'm a tad impatient.

I've recently changed my gapping technique from a rather dodgy hop to the edge from 2 feet away then jump straight away to a more controlled bounce on the edge and pinch gap. I am struggling to get the technique 100% right though. I seem to go forwards without much upwards jump in the gap. Now i've recently been improving in distance rather rapidly. 2-3 months ago i couldn't manage 6 foot doing it this way, now i'm very close to getting 8 foot. But it just seems so hard getting that little bit extra. I'm just trying to see if anybody has some pointers for breaking the high 7's low 8's barrier.

It's like running too many things on a crappy computer. Put too many things going at once and it'll slow it right down. Same happens with a telly. Loads of tv's have "picture improving features" that the tv takes longer to process. Basically, switch off all the pictures gimmicks (dynamic contrast, image sharpening, blur reduction etc) and it'll be faster and better for gaming. Leave them on and it'll feel slow and clunky and you'll struggle to aim before the other guys have got you.

I'm in the market for a new helmet to replace my ageing giro skyline. I tried on the giro hex in halfords and rather liked it. It fits a lot more snugly than my current helmet and feels far more secure. Giro hex: 661 recon: Now the 661 isn't out yet so i'm not sure anybody will have had a hands on yet but it looks alright. Just wondering if anyone had any thoughts on the giro really, long term opinions etc.

Undo both ends and pour it into a jug

I love seaside places for riding. The sea defences always look great. Looked like it was a good evening. Though the silly photoshop lens distortion looks a little unneeded.

I did, it only has what amp to power it with and it's maximum Db level. No idea on driver sensitivity, sub power output, sub max db level or even the reference point for the 40hz figure for the subs stats. No idea on what RMS of the drivers are either.

I thought they were like 320 without the bolts?

Seen a hope with carbon lever blade go on here recently for either £55 or £65.

Also, any upcoming events and local clubs are listed on here. As are the applications for the actual competitions.

I wouldn't bother at all, the manufacturers site doesn't even have the speaker power specifications and instead one of the key points is that the speakers have wall brackets. Also subwoofers with drivers below 8" are generally fail material that would be done much better by a well designed base cone in a speaker unit.

I'm in the leicestershire area and theres a few good places to ride around this part of the country for riding. Theres a few of us in loughborough that are pretty sound if ever you wanted to visit, me, boumsong, fatmike, steve-o, patt d etc. We like to get out a bit as well so could always come over to coventry and visit you and bigman for the day.

I like a disc far more because it's nice to have a quiet brake to use when you need to. Plus they modulate really well and i think a bike looks a bit more complete with a front disc.

Ermm, that's nice? Was there a question?

Yep, i'd buy it.

Dunno where you are but it's sunny as anything here. Summers still rolling on for me Will comment when it's done. EDIT: Forgot to comment :$ Not bad there mr. You should be able to improve really fast with that kind of setup in your garden. I'm somehat envious P.S. Good choice of frame

I've heard someone call it an "eye-sice" (like "slice" without the "L"). And i have heard "I S I S" before but to be fair to the guy he was a tool quite generally so not really good as an example. So before i buy one. I've only ever used truvativ team DH bb's and the main one i've had was second hand when i bought it years ago. I crushed it to the point where it locks up and if you force it round it makes a noise like a screeching banshee. This one the same/better strength wise than the team DH you reckon?

Depends on the telly, but i'd imagine your experiencing mistiming. It's basically a lag between whats on screen and whats being hammered into the controller. If you play games a lot on a crt then go onto a poorly setup flatscreen you'll find things really off. I was the same. The trick is to set the tv up properly for your gaming channel. Basically most flatscreens have a whole host of features that most people tend to switch on or are left on as standard to give that "wow" effect when you first turn it on fresh out the box., 200hz mode, dynamic contrast, super black levels etc. Each one slows the image response down a little as it takes a little longer for the tv to process each function. Guitar hero has a built in lag calibrator and with everything turned on my tv had a substantial lag between on screen timing and button pressing. It made guitar hero practically unplayable with a delay of around 300-400ms. Turning it to gaming mode speeds up the image for me as it turns off most of the hardware functions then turning off 200hz and smoothmotion etc dropped it right down to about 8-10ms. I switched dynamic contrast back on at a total delay of around 10-15ms because i think it looks a lot better and i'm not taking tv gaming as seriously as pc gaming where under 5ms is the now accepted standard for gaming screens. So if your really into gaming looking at a low lag tv is a must. The recent sony ones are some of the fastest responding screens as far as i remember, though if something like a 26" would suffice for you a HDMI computer monitor of around 26-30" would be your best bet with about as minimal of a delay as you can get. Though you'll probably need seperate speakers as most monitors don't have them built in. If on the other hand your going to a mates house switch off every function in the tv menu settings and switch it to game or pc mode if you have it as a pre-defined menu option. Maybe i would have been better saying gaming on a SDTV after playing on a well set up HD tv will be disappointing.

Yeah, 8 minutes apparently. An hour would make it half a day long.

Nah, he said his arm is swollen thats why he lost grip on the benches and ended up coming off.

First film since avatar to be recorded using the 'james cameron 3d system' so should actually be 3d unlike most other human based 3d films that don't look 3d at all.

Yeah you're trying to convert an optical (digital signal) to phono (analogue). So as pointed out by the good Dr.... you need a DAC (digital to analogue converter). Toslink sends a signal via digital, which i guess is kind of monologous as it's an on-off signal. However it isn't limited to one channel of audio, it can in fact carry 5.1 and 7.1 DD and DTS as well as stereo on mono, though doesn't have the bandwidth for HD audio. How is the amp set up? You may have another force at work in that the signal from xbox to amp is non converted or full surround and is coming out the speakers that way and by using the stereo output either the TV or the amp is converting the audio to send it via 2 channels. The tv would most likely downmix (which "shouldn't" result in a loss of quality from a stereo audio source) and the amp might be doing something like turning the 2 channel to surround via pro logic. The thing with DAC's is generally the more you spend the better they sound. you can spend thousands on a DAC if you want, or you could DIY one for under a fiver.

I like the site, looks pretty clean. I'm sighted and don't use a non mainstream browser so i'm pretty thankful they coded it for me Also the gatorade docu vid. "i don't know how his mum lets him do it!" He's like 25-26 isn't he?