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  1. i also kinda like the lack of planning or foresight needed to do anything, can just bugger off wherever whenever to do whatever with whoever at a moments notice. a girlfriend seriously removes that.

    very true - but when you don't have a missus you do actually have to get off your arse and go out in the cold to get some poon so it's a double edged sword

    oh,

    i love you too jake

  2. Why dont we just answer his question and stop fu**ing arguing????? :S

    dude - this is NMC, full members come in here to relax and insult new members when they've finished bashing away at themselves in front of youporn. Nobody should take it personally.

    Apart from that, you just gave some very sound advice about how improving balance balance gives you confidence - I commend you (Y)

  3. Can people stop assuming they are somehow more talented because they bought a copy.

    I can tell I'm talented cos other people pay for my copy :P

    and ... using tutorials or a manual makes you a shit load better at a package a shit load quicker than banging your head against it with no instructions.

    I challenge you to build and rig a full character in Maya without referring to the instructions.

  4. I took mine into an official apple reseller to get repaired and it had very little legal software on it, if any, anyway, they said nothing.

    they don't check apples for naughty stuff - everybody knows that nonces only use windows

  5. An entirely anonymous identity brings about the worst in people. Look at 4chan.

    Amen

    this sort of thing has been going on for a long time, I've got no hope of finding the link but when I was at uni I remember doing some research on MUDs and early MMPORGs and reading about an instance of in-game rape - this was back in about 1980 so it's not just our generation.

  6. Just wonder if anyone has has tried to run a fixed front and rear sprocket so it rides like a uni-cycle? at least that way you can control your forward, backwards momentum. obviously it will be hard to get use to without the feel of a regular freewheel, but it will be the best way to attempt brakeless proper trials riding. backwheel hopping deathgrip style has been done before.

    i have a little experience at this with my fixie, you can bunnyhop, you can kind of pedal hop and you can trackstand but because you can't bitch crank or coast it's pretty difficult doing anything really trialsy

    It's obviously doable cos it's basically the same as uni-trials with 15lbs of added metal dangling off the front of your uinicycle - I'm just not sure it'd be more successful than riding a freewheel with no brakes

  7. If you rely on tapping you'll be shit.

    You won't learn how to get up something using technique and strength, and when you come to comethign you can't tap easily (rail/undercut rock, whatever) you'll be buggered 'cos you havn't learnt to just backwheel it straight up.

    that's sound advice.

    On my mod I always found tapping a nice way to get up stuff that's kind of at your height limit for straight backwheeling but where you're short on space. It's something you can do from a half or quarter crank rather than the 3/4 - full crank you want for a decent backwheel.

    I could always bunnyhop higher than i could backwheel or tap but you need a bigger runup for that anyway. I never quite cracked the bunnyhop tap thing - there's some serious height to be got there.

  8. How the f**k do you think people felt when 20"s came out !!!

    wonderful - cos there weren't any wankers on 26 inchers claiming they were kids bikes in 1977

    anyway,

    (IMO etc etc)

    Most cyclists (from whichever discipline) use brakes as a crutch.

    To put it in a trials perspective - You don't need brakes if you're sidehopping from two wheels, you dont need them when you land an up or gap (unless you're massively extended obviously), you dont need them when stationary (trackstand anyone?), you don't need them to manual, and you absolutely do not need them when reverting from fakie.

    I'm not necessarily saying you should take them off altogether - I don't think you'd get far riding comps with no brakes regardless of what ashton says about the future - but I do think your riding improves if you keep their use to a minimum and do your best to flow through moves without stoppoing and starting.

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