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  5. Chainring/sprocket Ratios...

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    I am curently running 22th on the front with 19th on the rear and 175mm cranks. Basically I want to only run 4 sprockets on the rear with spacers in between them but on my cassette the only two sprockets which are connected are the 18th and 19th! So If i run 20th on the front what will, roughly, be the correlating rear sprocket so that it as similar as possbile (if not exactly then a little harder) to 22th front/19th rear?

    and will running a kmc wide chain be possible if i put some washers either side of the jockey wheel on the rear mech? - 3/32 chains aren't exactly reassuring to ride with.. <_<

  6. Anyone Good At Stats/ Maths

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    find the mean value (in this case 8.8)

    then take every number in your number set and take the mean away from the number. then square this number.

    i.e. (6-8.8)^2 + (10-8.8)^2 + (8-8.8)^2 + (12-8.8)^2 + (8-8.8)^2.

    once you have added up all these values, divide by the number of data in your set (in this case you will be dividing by 5)

    this value is the variance. to get the standard deviation, simply square root the variance.

    hope that helps....

  8. Gcse Revision

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    well sicne we're posting 'scores' I'm going to boast (because I was proud of myself!) and let you all know I got 7A*'s and 4A's at G.C.S.E. I revised about 2 hours hours per subject which was definately more than most people. But I love to learn which is the bigggest reason for those marks; I enjoyed learning through the year and going to class so your mind naturally picks up the info along the way, rather than having to force yourself to learn it at the end.

    Uni is very different though. If you want to do well you have to treat it like a job. That's 9-5 revision, starting about 5 weeks before the exams and you;ll be sorted. But in the first year, just get 40% to pass - in that year you should just be making freinds....and riding! :)

  10. Trials Injuries

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    Thanks for theote of confidence sam! Most things were pretty difficult but as long as I was sitting in the wheelchair there was no direct strain (of gravity or otherwise) on my bits so i was ok. So when i wanted to go to the toilet i would have to sit on the loo and not stand up. That obviously applies to number 1's and 2's...

    In both cases i would have to hold.....umm..my prosthetic udder... in my hands so that it wasn't hanging down and being pulled on.

    As for sleep, well that didn't really happen for me too much. i always sleep on my side which simply wasn't possible as my legs would crush them a bit. so if this happend in the middle of the night it would hurt ALOT.

    So the only other thing to do was to lay on my back. so i had to lay with my legs open in the same way a pregnant lady giving birth would be (the funny thing is you think im kidding!) and then have a pellow under my 'bits' for support.

    feel better now? (Y)

    michael

  11. Trials Injuries

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    Lol, You didn't have to read any of it if you didn't want to. Just that a short sentence like you suggested wouldn't do the trauma justice. Plus I had a spare half-hour on my hands before I went out.......... ^_^

  12. Trials Injuries

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    Well after reading all your sob stories I thought that I would come in and put you all to shame...ok admittedly some of those ankle stories do sound pretty bad. But I think most of you guys will appreciate this one:

    So anyway, my name is Michael Orr and I am now 21. On my 17th birthday at about 9:45 a.m. I thought that I would go out for a little 2 hour session with a couple of friends before the days celerbrations kicked off. It was January the 27th 2001 and all seemed well........

    I had been riding since the age of 14 but that was mainly dirt jumping with a bit of trials on the side. But at 15 I went solely into trials riding. So we were all at this spot which had several nice drops. One was about 5 foot, one about 6 foot and another at about 7.5 foot. I had only done the top one a few times and looking back I realise how lucky I am since I had never ever worn any sort of protection. The idea was to do each drop, getting progressively bigger in order to end up doing the 7.5 foot drop. I do the five foot drop and with no problems.....

    I then start to think about how I really want to have excellent control and timing, so that I kick down on my pedal at the point at which my rear tyre is just about to fall off the wall when doing drop-offs. Also I wanted to approach the 6 foot drop having already done several pedal strokes, with my front wheel in the air. Then when my good foot comes round I would drop the front wheel over the edge and then kick down in a very slow and controlled manner. Sort of like a very controlled stand up wheelie to drop off...

    So I do it once and all goes well. I do that same drop again but this time I am really concentrating on dragging my rear magura for uber control - I was doing this manouver at about 0.5 mph. So I am doing my super slow stand up wheelie, my front wheel is now off the edge and I am lowering to a height below that of the top line of the wall and my rear tyre is on the verge of falling off. My weight is well back and I am ready to kick down....or maybe not ^_^

    I don't know if there was a bit of debris or something stuck to rear rim but the rear wheel suddenly locked up whilst I was dragging the rear brake. Unfortunately for me this was when the rear wheel was basically falling off the edge, awaiting my pedal stoke. The bike stopped, the rear tyre couldn't grip the wall any longer and it fell 6 feet to the ground. Whilst this was happening, the inertia had caused my body weight to continue moving forward and I was now falling with my body horizontal to the gound. This is hard to explain, since I don't know how to insert an image, but if you imagine this drop, then take my body and lay it out flat so that it is horizontal to the ground. My face is looking at the ground, my bike is below me and my toes, if pointed, would be pointing towards the top of the drop off. The bike below is laid sideways on the ground so that one end of the handlebars is stuck into the ground and the other end is pointing towards the sky. It' easy to imagine taking a metal pole and sticking it vertically into the ground.

    PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNN!

    I have now fallen with my full body weight onto the vertically sticking out handlebar. Lucky for me though that I had managed to soften the blow by using my testicles as a cushion. Whoopeedoo. Lucky me. So glad that I have done this at the age when all your privates (and seemingly the rest of me) have dropped and so are fully exposed to the world.

    So basically I get up (just about) and think to myself. Hmm, now this doesn't feel right. I know it feels like there are several tungsten screw tipped nails embedded into my testicles but I sure don't see any. And why are they growing like that? Is this what hapens on your 17th birthday? Do your privates just suddenly grow into proper manly-sized privates? Oh no they don't. That'll just be the blood swelling up inside my testicle bag because I have ruptured the arteries inside it. Oh yeah, and the pain was unbeleivable. I could not walk, I was on the verge of passing out and the SLIGHTEST movement hurt. I actually reckon that I could feel the sound vibrations, due to people talking around me, making it hurt more. At this point I am the world's most advanced earthquake seisometer recorder. So several agonising minutes later and my mum has turned up to take me to hospital. I am basically delirious on the floor with a testicle on the right side of my ball bag and a tennis ball on the left. ''Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you.....''

    At hospital they think that I have burst my left testicle and it is now about 1.5 tennis balls in mass. 'Luckily' for me (oh yes, how lucky I am) it is still just the blood gushing around with no where to go putting immense pressure on a sensitive and now very bruised area. Imagine the pain when you bang a finger and blood forms underneath your nail and you have to get it drill out. Now put about 0.5 pints of blood into your bruised testie sack. Anyone got a black and decker? They looked after me there for two days and decide that only rest will work and the blood will evetually set and then it will be carried away by the veins and gotten rid off by my body. Sounds easy doesn't it? Maybe all the male doctors couldn't stand to look at it incase they pucked up or something because every doctor and nurse who saw me was a women. Yeah, they all loved to see the freak show young guy with the huge testicle. Why not charge 50p a look? How about I get some celebrity to sign it and then in later life I can show it to my grandkids? If they really take a shine to it I might give it to one of them in my will, or donate it to the local cricket club - I hear that celebrity signed cricket balls are all the rave this season with the kids...

    I am now in a wheel chair for the next 6 months whilst this beautiful proccess (i.e. my body taking the blood away naturally) takes effect and I have to wear an XXL jockstrap which JUST ABOUT fits them in. I cannot stand up do to the pain and sheer gravity that the bulbous mass below has created. I should mention that I was at college during this time (oh how they all laughed) and when I would go to class pencils on desks would move towards, me simply because of the gravitational field formed by my large mass below. Oh and the moons orbit was slightly affected too....

    All that blood had scabbed internally and I would soooo be the worlds underfeated conker champion if anyone had the balls to challenge me (excuse the pun). It was rock solid.

    Well anyway I'm now 21 and time has healed all wounds. Don't worry ladies it all works perfectly and there were never any scars and you wouldn't notice the difference (thank God). And after 4 years have gone (and many trips to Dr.Weinenburg the psychotherapist) I can now look back and laugh at the incident in question.

    Gladly I didn't hit my face on the bars that day, but still I think hitting your privates is a close second...So be safe, wear a helmet....and a box, don't do very slow drop off wheelies and certainly don't go out riding on your 17th Birthday - I've cursed it for all of you now!

    Yeah so that sprained ankle one of you lot were talking about sounds really bad.....hope it didn't hurt too much and cause you mental problems for the rest of your life. oh wait, that was me :P

    Michael

    p.s. The good side of it was that I could do wheelchair trials all over campus, race the other wheelchair disabled people to our own disabled toilets (no ques and they are huuuge inside!, plus they are always stocked with toilet paper and much cleaner than normals boys toilets) and then freak them out when they all saw me walking perfectly fine after 6 months of haaving a 'new disabled kid' to join the crowd. Plus going to shopping malls and bumping into chavs on purpose was fun - even they wouldn't dare hit a guy in a wheelchair. Not infront of all those people!

  13. I Want To Go Single Speed

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    Theres some nice ideas there. thanks alot for that. i am liking the idea of running a few gears. so to be precise, if i want to keep four sprockets on the back of a normal nine speed setup then i need to run double spacers either side of each sprocket. making total of 6 spacers? what are the washers on the jockey wheel four? i have a 9 speed ultegra mech on the back - will this fit a wide kmc chain still and will the xt 0 speed shifter i have on the bars still be ok? i.e. were you just mentioning the stick shifter out of neccesity with this setup or is it for the pro trials look... (Y)

    thanks again all

  14. I Want To Go Single Speed

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    I'm running a 9 speed set up with a flimsy sram chain and the gears are dogey and i just thought it was time to go hardcore and run single speed. ok, itll take longer to get to trials spots but ill be much more confident in my bike. no worries about smashing the mech or the chain snapping.

    The conundrum for me is that im not to sure what i need to get. I have an aluminium body chris king on the back so presumably i need to get some aluminium spacers and i want a 19 tooth cog for the rear which will then also need to be aluminium...or will it? (you tell me!!!!)

    where can these be found? also what singlespeed, super sturdy chains do you all recommend?

    thanks all for the helpage

  16. Boosters

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    I'll keep it short and stupid; will an echo team 2-bolt booster fit my 26 mhz pashely, with a magura 2005 on the rear? Don't take tyre size into account. If not then what booster do you guys recommend?

    Thanks.

  17. Helmets - Please Wear One!

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    yeah when i asked which ones to get and where from i was asking which ones do you guys recommend i.e any pasticualr model/make and if there were any good online places to get them from. Since i can try them at an expensive shop then buy it online.

    Anyway thanks for the replies, however obvious.... >_<

  19. What The Mseg Is Bumping For

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    Call me a forum noob, but what is bumping for? It seems pointless! When no one is buying your stuff you simply write 'bump'. Oh wait, now you wrote that I really want to buy what you are selling!!!! NOT

    p.s. plese don't be offended bumpers, it's just a light hearted joke. But someone tell me what it's for

  20. Hampshire Comp

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    I have just foind out about this comp (it is now Saturday afternoon). I am not bothered about getting any points or properly competing, I just want to ride for fun. Is it possible to turn up to this thing tomorrow and pay to ride? Also, anyone know the full address?

    Thanks,

    Michael

  21. Helmets - Please Wear One!

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    Well I have to say I agree completely. I have been riding for 6 years and never worn one. And I am now definately going to get one. Not because of this post, but just because I should. Don;t know why I never got one. I guess as Is lowly got better I didn't think about how high I was starting to go on drops, gaps etc.. But you can mangle yourself even on the smallest of walls...

    So what sorts of helemts should I be looking at and where should I get them from?

    I can spend up to about £100.

    Thanks all,

    Michael

  23. Hooking On The Street....

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    So is front hooking where you try to get up a wall, which is too high for normal backwheeling, by getting you fron wheel hooked over the top and then pulling the rest of your bike to back wheel? Is this in one fluent motion or do you get wheel hooked ontop. Then balance and pprep yourself to throw the bike all the way up. If that is the case then it sounds bloomin hard!

    Michael

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