Luke Rainbird

Excited to hear @manuel's thoughts on the latest F40 cage vid 👀🎣

I'd have to borrow a bike and the skills to ride one, but would be good to catch up with you lot at some point though! I do always keep an eye out on the rare occasions I'm in Plymouth though, just in case I see someone hopping about 🙂

Nice to see Plymouth rides still start at Copthorne 😄 Good stuff Alex!

Oh shit, Josh, you've moved to the North! Ideal for getting on the trails. Looks/sounds like a solid enough base for a project. If you haven't found them yet, check out DIY-Kitchens. Used them for our place and they were brill. Cheaper than Howdens/etc and better quality, pre-built units 👍

Very cool! How does it ride with the relatively long/low front end?

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Just drain it? Should be a drain cock at a low point somewhere, below the boiler is pretty typical.

Really enjoyed that, Ben. Great riding throughout and a really cool edit too. Looking forward to the next one at 50... Happy birthday mate.

Yeah. The time and money in that could well have been spent on a couple of iterations of "proper" PCB. But then I suppose the same could be said for SendCutSending most of the brackets, which would detract form the DIY build (he says, having taken delivery of two Fractory deliveries of laser cut goodies today...)

Must have taken a huge amount of time and effort to get all that working right so I totally get the wait between episodes, but I found that one fell pretty flat. Lots of interesting detail in there but I dunno. Hopefully they can rebuild a bit of momentum (the few vids prior were surprisingly quick succession by Binky standards, and somewhat more engaging) and it's just a one off.

11 year bump, first post, link to generic Chinese company. Yeahhhhhh, see you later.

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As an occasional novelty, and leaning into the nuances of the bike, I quite like videos on "other" bikes, but as far as actual trials vids go I prefer trials bikes. That said, I'd rather have an Akrigg vid on an eeb than no Akrigg vid at all!

Yeah, even at relatively slow speeds that sort of mass is a HUGE amount of momentum. Bear in mind that structures like bridges are, to a point, built to be as light as possible for a given purpose. Yeah ok, there are safety factors involved that increase the bulk somewhat, but generally speaking they're not going to be using more material than legislation requires them to. As such, you have a structure built to do the job for normal use, but external factors like A MASSIVE LADEN SHIP DRIVING STRAIGHT INTO IT tend to be outside of the design parameters. It's hard to imagine quite how much force there was from what is a seemingly slow crash, but that mass is the critical part. I've seen a figure of approx 8kts impact speed, which is around 15kph. Using the 120,000,000kg you mention, Mike, that's like a fully laden artic lorry crashing into the support at something like 38,000kph. That's faster than the escape velocity of the Space Shuttle, and about twice the orbit velocity of the ISS for some context.