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I've seen these before and feel like because I have trust issues even with carbon parts, these should be a write-off in my head. It turns out, I'm totally comfortable with them strengthwise, but I could never run them for trials for the fear of scrubbing them against a wall or rock and they start fraying. No worse than a regular snapped spoke, but still - the idea freaks me out a bit Also, more plastic in the ocean for a negligible weight saving. At least metal spokes are just metal and will eventually become nothing. Plus the cost, as you say. I wonder if they feel different underneath you in terms of stiffness and power transfer?

A lot of riders re-do things for video recording until they get it smooth. I personally really enjoy seeing people just scraping through by the skin of their teeth. Post clips, or videos with the time of the clip you're referring to! Starting with a clip of Benito from way back when that just popped up on my Youtube suggested videos that I'd forgotten all about. 0:20: The other one that immediately springs to mind is one of Porter's taps on a blue MBK that I can't find, and Damon's up-to-front at 0:36 that completely disregards the laws of motion and had absolutely no right to work:

Love it. As mentioned in the Youtube comments - you definitely made it hard for yourself, choosing that wall to try it on! The nose-scrub gap was particularly swag, too.

That was lovely. Really enjoy the type of riding you're doing at the moment. I feel like we're often doing the same kind of thing, just with different styles and outcomes: Find a spot/line, and then find a way to make it as needlessly technical or difficult as possible

The first house we looked at fell through because of the roof thing, but once we found the next one we were interested in it all went through easy and lovely. Only "drama" was that the inspection found ~£2k worth of work needing to be done (wall ties and a bit of flat-roof above a bay window), offered asking price - £2k and he sold it to us for asking price - £3k because we "seemed like a lovely young couple"

We had something similar. First house we looked at seemed all good from our laypersons' perspective. Got a survey done and it said, paraphrasing: a bunch of little niggly stuff that you can sort out quite easily, apart from oh yeah you need a whole new roof - >£10k. We offered them the asking price minus £10k for the work to be done, and they just said "no thanks" and stopped responding. They were DEFINITELY just waiting for someone else to come along who didn't think to get the survey done. Some people actually don't! Nuts.

I've given the social media stuff a two month trial period, and I just don't like being there. I'm going back to how I used to do things; film clips I like and make videos when I have enough. That said... March has been a good month for riding! Very excited about this video. It's very much a change of pace from my usual style, but I like it in this instance. If you have good headphones, stick them on and whack the volume up - that low end is JUICY.

Shame about the crack, but a nice and simple modification to just pop it on a gusset at least! Full-build looks ridiculously nice. If ever I were to do distance-riding again... That info about the ductility is nuts! I've never really felt a difference between steel and alloy frames other than the harshness of engagement resonances, but I guess that could be symptomnatic of tiny little frames. The only time I've felt something similar to the differences people always used to talk about steel feeling like is when I first switched from alloy pedals to the Electrons. If your line is the "signal", it feels like it quietens/smooths out the tactile "noise".

I'm aware it's mass rather than size, but I want it to be physically viable so it needs to be a mass/size that is possible for rock/ice/whatever rather than polystrene or something. Something that could realistically form as planets/moons do and have the right appearance for this scenario would have to have a pretty large mass, which is my main concern. Thanks for the namedrop. I'll go have a look. It's endlessly frustrating when you know what you're looking for, but just don't know the right search terms!

Soggy mind seems to have a better handle on it than mine. If it's a bit smaller in the sky then no biggie, but it would need to obviously be something different to stars. I guess even 0.25x the apparent size would still serve its purpose, though preferably it would reflect enough light to still see by, as we get. That's relatively optional though. No strict requirement to stick to Earth mass, so long as it would be likely human-livable.

Should be! f**king whopper That front-gap recovery on the sleeper... Oh my Can't wait for all this nonsense to calm down. What I wouldn't do for a south coast riding trip right about now...

Adam, it was definitely a pun. I put it in italics just to make sure everyone knows just how funny I am Relatively simple scenario, but I just keep doube-guessing myself. I'm trying to set up a scenario whereby a planet of roughly earth-like characteristics has a moon roughly similar in appearance in the sky from earth to our own that orbits it either ever-so-slightly more or less than daily. The result should be that from a given point on earth there's a satellite in the sky visible for about six months both day and night, then disappears for six months, but the timing shifts ever-so-slowly. Preferably it would be visible during day and night in the "light" months, so something fairly small and close orbiting every 1.(1/366) days, so the "dark" and "light" times invert every 183 years. (That number is arbitrary. The phase just needs to shift around the year slowly.) The trouble is, for a stable orbit that fast you're looking at being at an altitude of ~36,000km, which is close enough that I get the impression anything with a large enough mass to appear roughly equivalent to our moon would either escape stable orbit or become too attracted. This mass-based question is my main stumbling point, because googling only returns calculations for satellites which have negligible mass.

Anyone on here got a grasp on this? I'm trying to set up a hypothetical arrangement to see if it could be physically possible. Tried doing it myself but I'm just going 'round in circles. I'd assumed there would be half-decent simulators but I can't find any that do what I want.

Maybe just leave it as it is and market it for heat-treatment instead of making? Or start a sauna business. Is your glass wall south-facing?

It looks a lot more forces-reasonable with the caliper in place. Pulling away from the tube instead of flexing it downwards. Without it, I'd mis-imagined where it would all sit. It's a shame heat-treatment is so inaccessible, but I guess it's forunate that steel isn't weak un-treated. Any thoughts on whether cracks at the edges of the fillets are any more or less likely than when welded and un-heattreated because it didn't get as hot so didn't soften as much or whatever? Your testing above makes it fairly arbitrary if there is any, but theoretically?

So nice Curious about the rear mount though. Will being mounted like that not introduce marginally more flex than if it was mounted... I don't know the word... "Circumferencially"? It looks like it will be pushing downwards on the end of a lever, rather than pushing downwards directly into a post. Looks an awful lot nicer! And if there is flex, I'm willing to accept the quantity might be academic rather than a real issue. My 20" frames with no seats or brake mounts were 2.4kg and 2.1kg. <2kg... Butted tubing is awesome! Edit: Are you doing any heat treating?

I think I heard Carthy ran 18:14 for at least a while, not sure if he still does or not. Obviously it gives more wheel rotation per kick so on paper would let you gap further because you're moving forwards faster, but you would obviously need to tweak your technique to use it, and more importantly have legs of steel to get the accelleration for it to be worthwhile.

Vasha, assuming it's not a conicidence and someone else went too.

I hate these videos. "I'm late. I guess I'd better go out of my way to do loads of stuff that definitely isn't a shortcut, will slow me down massively, and is potentially hazardous and if it goes wrong I'll be even later." Also that there's about 15 million versions this video already.

Never seen someone do so many and such horrible hooks on street

The south sucks, for that. Leeds: 1930s three bed semi (admittedly, one bedroom is tiny) with a separate garage, thirty by eight metre back garden and a modest front garden - £148k. We're not in an expensive area, but we're certainly not in a cheap one either. I know a guy who did go for a cheap area and bought a 4-bed end terrace with a garden that wraps around the three sides of the house for £70k. It needed a bit of work, but only a freshen-up really. Nothing major. I see you guys saying these numbers and can't help but think it's just better to relocate