Greetings

I'm getting pretty bored with riding recently. I'm sure changing my bike would help, either to a short low bb stock or perhaps a fairly standard 24" trials bike. The problem is that I would not like to lose any gap/sidehop/tap ability because that's how I measure my progress - or to be more specific, lack of progress. Having ridden a mod for 5 years and a stock for 6, I know that in my case smaller wheels = smaller moves. If some of you can relate to this point, I'd be interested in what you have to say about 24" bikes. Would probably go with a Because Simple since the bb isn't too high and the wheelbase is fairly short. This in course would probably make it a really fun bike to ride, no? I'm also quite tempted by the Echo.

That's not as silly as you made it out to be (unless you were being serious). For someone like me who couldn't be arsed to learn new things, and most of the time couldn't be arsed to ride but would like to improve, it's an interesting way out. Do the list, go home and enjoy yourself.

On that basis even 0,5L would be enough unless I want to drive around with only enough fuel to cover a special stage. Ordered this one, it's 1L. Going to install braided fuel lines inside the car, after a recent mishap where a fuel line burst (thankfully on a cold car) I don't want them anywhere near the exhaust. Looking forward to this

Rallysprint training coming up on Sunday, yay Then 2 weeks later a massive competition. Car has almost all issues solved, still need to order the swirl pot and install it before the comp. How does one establish how big the swirl pot should be? Surely 1L will be plenty? If I understand correctly, the only time the fuel level drops in the swirl pot is when I'd usually experience fuel starvation?

She's moved out, they're currently 50 miles away at least but they know where she lives and very occasionally visit her. And what's strange is that she's still in touch with her mother, they frequently chat over the phone and my gf signals her every day that everything is ok with her. That's what I've been saying to her ever since I found out but she dismisses those claims in a fairly truthful manner. Don't believe her though. I think there's major progress in this matter, she read some articles in the library today about domestic abuse and borrowed a kind of self-help book on the subject. So I've definitely managed to nudge her towards solving this issue and since she's an avid reader, perhaps she'll take in something of interest that will help her and make my efforts less arduous.

I remember the sweet old times when you submitted VHS tapes...

She'd never fake something like that, especially as a punishment. I know her well enough to be sure of that, besides she'd have to be pretty gifted to fake the facial expression she had that night. She didn't snap out of it, took a good half an hour to calm her down. We've been talking this matter through in the past few days, I'm starting to get the picture of how her family functioned but I'm not sure if talking about it is helping her. Either way, she seems to understand that what happened is not her fault, that there's probably something mentally wrong with her mother and that it's not normal for family members to treat each other that way. She's also going to spend christmas with my family instead of going back home. It's also strange how there seems to be some sort of stockholm syndrome going on here, she's apparently giving away a vast majority of her earnings towards a new flat for her parents. Which kind of explains why she has to rent a room in a grumpy old lady's flat rather than a nice flat of her own near the city centre which she could otherwise easily afford.

No offence taken whatsoever. Didn't mean that in a negative way, it was merely a question. When you encountered such problems in the past, did it put you off / scare you ?

Luke, am I a bad person for feeling the need to vent every now and then? I see this as a problem to discuss with her, not my best friends who annoyingly mostly live 200 miles away. The lack of sensitivity is a good point, I've considered myself sensitive but now that I think of it you're probably right. Going to try and work on that. Good point too, going to talk to her about that. Currently I feel confound by the problem she's experiencing. Don't mind problems, enjoy solving them even if they take a long time. But this is beyond me, I feel hopeless and it's difficult for me to talk to her about it because she gets hysterical. I don't like seeing her in that state. After yesterday's experience, I'm not sure I can enjoy seeing her happy either because deep down I know she's definitely not happy. Up until now I didn't know how bad it really was. Skoze, PM sent

Got another problem but this time I think it's a bit more serious. To put a long story short, we have sex, I'm slightly displeased and say we need to improve things in a not-exactly-gentle way (not mean or anything, just badly worded from mild frustration). This clearly makes her unhappy. So we cuddle for a bit, I take a shower, come back into her room and find her curled up, shaking and hyperventilating. I try to get to her but she just curls up more, get a glimpse of her face and I can see she's incredibly frightened, more than I've ever seen anyone be. Not knowing what's going on and unable to get a reply I get really scared and pick up the phone to call 911 and she stops me. With tears in her eyes and a startled look she asks me "Are you going to beat me?". Not the nicest thing to hear from someone you love. I know where this stems from and I've been trying to work on this for the last weeks/months and failed so far. She was a victim of domestic violence from her mother which only stopped a year ago when she moved out. Her mother always had huge expectations and when they couldn't be matched, she'd get shot down and beat up - so both physical and psychological abuse. The physical abuse was pretty severe from what I understand but it's difficult to get more than a yes/no out of her. Psychologically she says she never felt loved, or that anyone actually cared about her. Her father was also a victim of her mother's abuse. So today when things didn't go all that well, she somehow saw me as her mother who's going to punish her for performing below expectations. This isn't news to me but the way she reacted today was scary to say the least. She was absolutely terrified and it's going to take some doing to get the image of her face out of my head. I don't know what to do about this. She hides this issue really well, I only found out about it half year into our relationship, she's so full of life and positive otherwise. Tried talking about it but that hasn't really helped, just got us closer together and helped me understand her needs and do's/dont's. There's no proper information on the net about how to talk about these kinds of problems either. It's a frustrating matter and after today I'm actually a bit freaked out. God knows what would happen if we ever broke up which is unlikely, or if I did something stupid, which is more probable. Any advice? I've been thinking about getting her some counselling but she's not too keen on the idea although she did briefly acknowledge that as a viable solution when we had a more relaxed conversation a few weeks ago.

Jolly nice, thank you very much kind sir! If I'm not mistaken, my car would have a high pressure pump inside the tank? So swirl pot aside, I'd need to replace it with a low pressure pump and add a high pressure pump on the feed line between the pot and engine? Or can one retain the high pressure pump in the tank and just add another one further on?

To the clever modders: is there any ready made solution to stop fuel starvation while going through corners? I don't know how much G my car is pulling but half a tank just isn't enough. And frankly speaking I'm looking at having 10L (1/6th tank) for sprint events to keep weight down to a minimum. Possible? I'd rather retain the original tank.

Never. I really don't understand the appeal of double disc brakes and on a stock it's never going to work.

This is epic. And to think it's 6 years until he'll be able to legally drive.

Funny how I do exactly the same.

Thanks for that, well explained. Also the reason behind having an intercooler is something new to me, I always thought it was due to there being poor thermal insulation between the exhaust and compressor in the turbo. Makes sense now. What I don't get though is how you can cool such huge masses of air from 1000C to -150 in the speed it enters the engine. Surely at Mach 5 there must be unbelievable amounts of air going in there? edit: Also, to simplify what's amazing about this engine is that it's a rocket engine which can take the oxygen from the atmosphere, as opposed to conventional rocket engines which need it in liquid form?

Has this not been posted in here or have I missed it?

So perhaps now you could shed some light as to why he thought those wheels were worth 800 quid?

So, who can dumb this down?

I think this is worth watching. Arranged a check up at the beginning of October. http://www.wimp.com/dearme/

I think it's more to do with me not being able to afford a complete overhaul. Usually when such cars are built, they're stripped to bare metal and then every single thing that's put back on is inspected and more often than not replaced... We're slowly getting somewhere with the diff, have a very strong lead. Unfortunately the possible fix requires grinding down about 1mm of metal which seems to have been forged by Mr. God. It's the hardest thing ever. Fuel lines are going to be replaced with braided hoses and installed inside the car, not under it.

Looks like you've got it all sorted out then (well, almost all). Can't help with the loan side of things, I've been running a similar business to Tarty for 5 years now but didn't need a loan, it gradually expanded from a bedroom store to a normal outlet. I think it was a similar case with Tarty, not sure about loans though. Usually if a mail order company has to expand it's premises, it's doing exceptionally well and can more often than not do without a loan. You will need one though, definitely.

I know you're trying to gather some info but if all you know so far is that you need to register a company and get a loan, you're better off thinking this through properly. Good luck none the less

2nd year of riding in Ribos and they're fine. However if I were to buy them again, I'd buy 1 size smaller. They are unusually large.

If I remember your riding correctly, I too need to see you ride it.