Krisboats

Theres a lot of metal shards around the bb axle that shouldn't be there. The threads look quite flat and from you saying the cog is "pushed on" instead of screwed then it sounds a lot like you've stripped the threads off the crank/cog. The extra description of the cranks spinning but not the cog also sound like you've stripped the threads. New crank and cog time for you! Theres, what looks like, bits of thread laying around the base of the cog here! How is that fine? Also the threads themselves are nice and shiny and flat, missing the point of the thread while the lowest parts have lots of grime and grease in.

I can't really see how the colour will make a difference, the finishing yes, but not because it's white. Even then, i've not seen a pad do this before aside from when i pressed it onto a spinning metal disc. Like JT said, if he was travelling at a good speed then jammed the front brake on as hard as he could i'm not surprised really. It's not ideal, but at the same time stopping at high speed might not have been what these trials specific pads were designed for. Maybe your friend should think about getting a front disc?

They have a weight calculator guide in the user manual, tells you which spring is best. Sell the shimano's and pick up some SRAM from pinkbike later?

I'd go for the gt personaly so long as it DIDN'T have the rockshox ario shock. The boardman mtb/fs team also fits in at your budget with some better parts than the standard comp model. My choice of the i-drive is mostly for looks, as it's a pretty meaty looking frame design. I guess you're choice is going to be down to whether you can accept riding to work comfortably on a big bouncy bike at the expense of some pedalling power under suspension sag, or if you'd be happier getting there on a hardtail with minimal messing around. If it's purely for raod traveling and hopping up and down the odd curb i'd get the hardtail. If you want to take it around local parks and have a play on it at the weekends i'd go for one of the other two. It's got better components on it. Put a stiffer spring in it.

Exactly, i've been in a fish shop on a leicester ride before and some guys come in offering the guy in the shop a bmx for £30. When they brought it in... Flybikes frame, odyssey rims, profile rear hub. If i had the money i do now i'd have bought it myself then maybe tried to return it, or at the very least keep hold of it till i hear of some local who's lost it. Chances are they'd have given me the £30 themselves to recoup me getting it back to them, i know i would if someone did that for me. Ebay and the internet is too traceable, even dimwitted thieves know that. So selling it locally or shipping it to a friend then selling is the most untraceable way.

How is it puzzling? It's been sold off by the thief for significantly less than it's worth, probably to someone in another town/city. I was talking to someone the other week and he said if he'd nicked my bike he'd drive it in the van to his uncles and his uncle would sell it off locally (around 100 miles away) then him and his uncle would split the money they made, which would likely be around £3-400 for my kona. He sounded like he'd done it before so i promptly left.

That kodak is 1080p but it's not good 1080p. Though it will prove a good base for comparison when he gets a real one. Okay, so the things you need to look for in a decent camcorder are low light capabilities, optical zoom, image stabilisation (digital okay, optical better), auto/manual focus, battery life, storage capacity, sensor quality, menu navigation, screen size and compatibility. I'll be straight, £200 won't get you something that'll shoot videos of similar quality to the tartybikes and TRA videos. The depth of field with them can only be achieved using an SLR body unless your wanting to spend several thousands of pounds on a very high quality camcorder. They also use a lot of manual focus which tends to only be used easily on cameras around the £400-500 range. The good news is you will be able to get a camera of much higher image quality than the one shown above. The above kodak pocket cam records at a fairly low bitrate so the detail isn't as clear as most traditional style camcorders. The sensor is also smaller so with the pocket camera the difference between 720p and 1080p is hardly even noticeable. For £200 you can pick up something with 20x optical zoom, a spotlight for night/low level shots, more customisation in terms of image and camera control, a bigger sensor (so more likely to record at a bitrate of around 24mbps) and better image stabilisation. I just recently picked up an Everio HM200 by JVC for £200 at my local currys. It's okay, much better image quality than any pocket camera but sadly lacking some of the features that the more expensive ones have. The manual focussing is fiddly at best as it relies on the use of the less than accurate touch sensor scroll bar to operate it. The low light quality is okay, not brilliant, but it has a lot of control over the recording settings allowing you to get a brighter picture in a dark room at the sacrifice of image noise or motion blur. Basically all £200 cameras are going to have roughly the same features, so pick one from a reliable manufacturer and get out there using it. If you're after a really serious bit of kit though the £600 canon models are pretty good and offer things like manual focussing dials as well as better low light recording functions. Though obviously you'll have to save a bit more for that. This one is also worth a look and can be found cheaper than this online.

Well if the axle was coming out of the bb, keep hitting it out, unscrew the cups from the frame and fit a new bb? Then just heat the axle/crank arm, whack it in a vice and knock it out.

Mate, they won't be stuck for long if you want them off once i'm back from dubai! Rigid forks would do, but you can always get some cheap zocchy's and cut them down to about 60-80mm travel and then you're set!

Yarp, i play it every now and then... krisboats2

Mate, please don't ever hold something so sharp so close to that area of your body!!!

But if you have v-sync enabled (which you really should) it will cap you to the fastest refresh rate of your monitor to remove horizontal tearing, something that poses a large problem in the source engine. Standard tft refresh rates are 60hz and 120hz. Hence a max framerate of 60fps or 120fps. It won't be the new render depth setting, it'll be v-sync. With the game looking terrible with tearing you should really enable it, and both cards are more than capable of sticking at a constant 60fps which is why i gave you my original statement that both cards will produce the same framerate.

Wow, big hard man works with bikers. Seriously, what's with that? Why even bring that into this chat? Don't try so hard to come across as cool. "I work in a tattoo studio with bikers", "i'm older than all of you", "i know more as i've been a bike mechanic longer than you've been riding". Chill out, just be yourself. It's only a forum. It just seems like you've wrongly slated something, been called up on it. You've been adamant you're right then acted overly nonchalant when it's clear you were wrong. Now you're apparently too good for this place. This forum can be a fun, easy going place to chat and have a laugh but it needs everyone to chill out to do so. You need to come off your high horse a bit and other people need to stop being so pedantic about spelling and grammar. Compromise would make this place far more enjoyable.

I didn't know it was that much, but i can't say it's surprising. Makes it much easier to see why there are so many "fix this", "speed this up" things in magazines for windows Leaving just 2.85% for other machines, including linux. Of course linux mags are full of product features, there's not enough people using it to warrant constant fixes and patches to be explained to the average user. Linky P.S. Flipp, you'd love the weather here mate, crazy hot. Not sure what it's like for riding yet.... find out in about 2 hours

You're missing my point entirely. While YOU might find that easy.... a lot of people don't. Windows magazines have features and fixes, which is not surprising as there are massively more windows machines than linux. Buying a laptop with linux on it kind of defeats the point if you then have to run an emulation package to turn it into a windows based machine so that you can do your work. In doing so requires a certain amount of knowledge on how to set it up and requires the installation of several key files in order to get it to run. That ISN'T easier, and ease is what people want. While it's great for you and you're really happy with it that doesn't mean everyone will be. People aren't forced to buy things, they choose to. Linux isn't available as a pre-install on machines for a reason, not because they're merely spoonfed. You do realise that running 10% of RAM is a bad thing don't you?

For £600 i got a stinky off pinkbike. Prices on there are okay but every now and again a real gem pops up, like it did in my case. The new trek frames look quite nice, or you could get an older specialised demo full build for within the top end of that sort of price range if you go second hand.

I didn't, i said he probably isn't one.

Okay so from your own post we've established that even you think sometimes compatibility can be a pain in the ass. You say it's perfect for a non tech-savvy person then use an irrelevant example that describes your dads situation as being closer to that of an office environment (in which you form the IT admin section) that many people don't have at home. If your dad didn't have you to fix it what would happen? Next time something goes wrong with the computer don't fix it for him and see if ..... A. He can find/fix it himself B. The nearest repair shop can work out what to do in order to sort it. I'm fairly confident he'll give up and with no luck at the nearest computer repair place he/they would consider him replacing it with a new windows laptop. My msn query was very specific. The kid sister wants windows live messenger because it's what she's used to and all her friends have it. She doesn't want "this sort of stuff", pidgen and aMSN are off the list! You've either got an unhappy sister or someone in the family needs a basic knowledge of the system in order to set up wine and try and get the microsoft .NET framework running. How is that any better than the current situation joe's in with his rundll32 issue? There's no point trying to defend linux and provide counter examples of ways to fix it, you're effectively running through the alphabet to someone who can already read. We both know my point still stands. For a non-tech user in a standard family environment linux is not a feasible option because of the lack of technical support readily at hand (ie "my laptops broke, here it is... you fix it") and lack of support with common windows software and hardware. That is not me attacking linux so don't get offended, i'm merely telling it like it is. Joe, windows 7 should be a lot nicer for you. Also, go for the 64bit version if you can, it has some better features in the background security wise and (fingers crossed) if you laptop lasts a few years before needing a fresh install you have the option of faster software in the rapidly growing x64 switchover while maintaining the option to use 32bit applications if you have to.

No. Stop spamming.

Impaired performance would mean you can re-sit the exam or average it from your other marks or sit it and they add a certain percentage on. But like everyones said, it can be fatal... what's the point in waiting so you can get a good degree if you're not around to see it?

Mineral oil in dot fluid based brakes is a very bad idea and vice versa. As far as i'm aware in a closed system like a magura hs33 it's okay to try other fluids such as water, water/anti-freeze, baby oil, urine, blackcurrant juice (not recommended, very messy). Generally systems with reservoirs aren't so forgiving as they expect the fluid to get hot enough to expand. Oil has higher boiling point than water so it's advisable to keep to oil for things like disc brakes. Mineral oil is used by magura so the brake works in a variety of conditions, it freezes/boils at more extreme temperatures than water at the expense of it feeling more sluggish at the lever. Not really tried experimenting with dot brakes so i couldn't say, but for a magura most things are alright, so long as it's not dot fluid or something corrosive like pure anti-freeze or blood from the set of aliens. I've been at a party once and some riding friends filled a guys hs33 with piss while he was K.O.'d in the shrubbery and it was in there for a long time before he noticed! Like has been mentioned before you can try lighter weight mineral oils for the same feeling or at least one in between magura blood and tap water, and if your cheap LHM is the same as royal blood and vegetable oil is in the magura manual as okay for a temporary fix. Water in summer, with water/anti-freeze for winter conditions is about the best though. Just remember to lube your seals and you'll be fine.

Wow, another fanboy nerve struck It's a family laptop, linux is not a clever option. You even said so yourself. Nobody argued with him, i merely said two words and then clarified as to why when he replied, i admit it was rather grumpily but i've been sitting in 40+ degrees with very little sleep so i'm sorry to mr tux for him getting the brunt of it. Linux is not EASILY supported for the end user at the minute. Imagine his kid sister wanting to install MSN to video call her friends who also run MSN, she can't and she'd probably give up before finding a compatible vid-con program. Parents are generally lazy/busy with work so don't have time to constantly look for alternate versions of programs when they sit down in the evenings. The IDEA is good, and as you said it's coming on very well in terms of GUI and ease of use but with it not being supported for most programs by the big players in terms of applications it's limited to being the legal OS of choice for the skint student or for the kids who want to rebel against the system and the bigger kids who turn full nerd mid twenties and spend all their time on the computer writing programs. Until it gets the key players accepting it in the store bought distributions of their products it can be the prettiest GUI in the world but it'll stay a hidden gem until things change for it commercially. Sadly it's unlikely the key players will back it as once people make the switch free programs will become available and nobody will buy the big price names anymore so it sits in a catch 22 situation until something happens to switch it all around.

No need to quote them, unless you're an idiot or running a CRT (which i doubt now tft's are good and you have the money for your current card) then you'll most likely be running 60fps, 120fps if you have one of the the new fancy monitors. My housemates 8800GTX managed portal without dropping down at all when he played it at the same settings. My point is the steam engine is pretty easy going on the graphics cards, it's the processor that see the big differences in framerates as it hammers, or at least used to hammer the processors before the whole 3ghz plus dual/quad cores came about. Back in the day i was running 16x10 screen res with a 7600gt and was getting 35-40fps in source games!

Get it smoothed out properly, sleeve fitted and tacked then have new threads cut in.