Sam Nichols

Did clive ask what gear ratio you were gonna be running?

In theory yes, a squeek is caused by vibration and this vibration is caused before the brake locks... so technically brakes that don't squeek are stronger and better. This in practice is NOT true though. I find that squeeky brakes are nearly always good whereas on average, a swooshy or silent brake is usually a bit naff. That's also the secret to losing pad material quicker than you can say 'wow, they cost me £16'. Plaz work brilliant on a smooth rim :)

Standard Leeson 360 dropouts... Clive can aqdjust the chainstays to get an almost perfect chain tension without the need of a tensioner... However, this is generally NOT permanent since chains stretch etc - when this does happen you need to get a tensioner. Unless you run a really chunky non stretchy chain :)

Ok, I hate being proved wrong.. so here it is :- Extreme_biker0, you're calculations showed that there wasn't much power hitting the Earth Well here's some confilicting evidence :lol: Although you are right, the sun doesn't bring a great deal of energy to the Earth’s vicinity in relation to the amount released... The energy in sunlight at the top of the atmosphere is around 1.4 kilowatts per square meter. This reduces to about 1 kW/m2 by the time it reaches the Earth’s surface. The size of the target is p RE2, or about 1.2 x 108 km2 (1 RE is defined as one Earth radius, or about 6378 km). That means the total solar energy hitting Earth is about 1017 Watts! Touché.

Extreme_biker0 I'm not gonna bother reading through all your calculations and checking them over becasue if I'm honest I can't get my head round it. I will point out that there is always sunlight on the Earth (24/7) and also I am 99% sure that you're calculations aren't correct... how can it possibly be such a small percentage of the Earths rays that hit the Earth?? I wish I really had the motivation to prove you wrong... But alas I don't (Y)

ouch, that pics big

I have a rear one if you're interested? PM me (Y)

Supercycles Mark Anthony Wades Cycles Wiggle (i think...)

It's Chris' :blink:

I'm going at about 250kb/sec :blink: Will edit when downloaded :-

I can't on sat cos i am helping to organise a quiz for the yacht club. sorry hun xxx BOO (Y)

Ah I got you Div (Y) In that case none of my post was aimed at you (Y) Didn't realise what you were doing there! Jolly good show.

hehe, you'd have to some how put a ball of string inside the spider though! Or maybe programme it to make it's web 10 times thicker (Y) (Y) Hate to piss on your fire or to offend you but I really get pissed off when people bitch about testing on animals etc. Sure animals is very cruel and it's terrible what's done to them but how else will they test these things? Now by doing it to insects I don't really see a problem, I mean they aren't REALLY that intelligent and I'm sure they loved all the drugs! Seriously though, it's all very well and good when 'do-gooders' come along and say it shouldn't be allowed etc etc but are you going to stand up and offer your services when they decide to test them on humans? Bollocks you are! People talk big about shit but nobody's prepared to stand up and do something about it. I can guarantee if a big enough group of people banded together and stood up to the government saying "We want to be tested on" the government would say 'Sure' go for it. But you're not going to are you?

Think about it though... For arguments sake let's say that only 1% of the suns power actually reaches us on planet Earth (which is ridiculous, the actual percentage will be much higher) Anyway, the Sun gives off enough power in two minutes to run the world for a year. So, 1% of that would mean the Sun could power the entire world for 3.65 days! Thats still bloody good! Think about how much daylight there is in a day - for arguments sake we'll go with 8 hours. 8 hours = 480minutes 480mins / 2 = 240 240 * 3.65 days = 876 days. This means that in 8 hours of sun you can power the ENTIRE Earth for 876 days. How's that for awesome?

From Jon Granger (bikeguernsey)

Industry standard. Mechs usually on the right so it will get in the way PLUS if you're in a race and you're a professional with a support team and you get a puncture they will go straight to the left hand side of your bike to replace the wheel - if your quick release is on the wrong side then that's valuable time lost! Sam P.S. Sharn, can you explain the fact that there is no tensioner on your bike? Are they made to be perfect tension or summit?

Whats that then? (or is there a joke that I didn't get... :"> )

Before you say anything... Tomm, shut up.

How did you manage to get grass growing out of the sides of the jumps already?!?! Good start though (Y)

Nasa scientists have discovered that by giving spiders certain drugs they are able to calculate the toxicity of the drug and relate this to the effect likely to occur to a human (this could be used for all manner of chemicals). Different drugs alter the architecture of the web spun by a normal house spider in various ways - this is very interesting and you can really spot the similarities to humans on the drugs covered. Spiders on marijuana are too laid back to finish the job and just give up half way through. Those given the sedative chloral hydrate drop off before they can lay down more than a couple patches of web. When given an "upper", like the amphetamine Benzedrine, the spider demonstrates a gung ho approach but not much planning, leaving large holes in the structure! Jitters caused by caffeine turn webs into a bizarre bitty web... The deformity in the web is directly related to the toxicity and dose of the chemical. Using a computer program, a Nasa team analysed the alterations in the web and think it will be possible to create a formula to measure toxicity. The team found that one of the most telling measures of toxicity was a decrease in the numbers of completed sides in the cells within a web. The greater the toxicity, the more sides that the spider fails to complete. The spider could then offer an alternative to testing on mammals.

One thing that bugs me about all the research and funding going into finding out how the world is going to change (climate etc), how the sea level is rising, how everything we do is ruining the world... But nothing is ACTUALLY done. I don't mean things like not leaving your TV on standby or whatever (don't get me wrong this helps) but I mean on a worldwide scale. Why is nothing being done by governments? Why are we still using fossil fuels? Why are we still using nuclear power? Did you know that every two minutes the sun gives off more energy that is used in the entire world annually! Why the hell isn't the government spending money on building solar power stations to harness the suns power, wind farms also and wave power plants! All these things seem a hell of a lot more useful than research into the inevitable. Yes Mr Scientist, we know that global warming will affect the climate. We know what causes climate change. But to be perfectly hones... what use is telling us if nothings going to be done about it! Basically what I'm trying to say is - whats the use in getting a phone call telling you you have one the lottery (2 million or summit) if you're not even going to bother to collect the money!

Not just ligaments... muscles too. But yeah a sprain does and can include either tendon, muscle or ligaments (Y)

So basically it's all traced back to a sprain! (Y) Shall we just say he's sprained his ankle? Seems the simplest choice to me, since all of the different things mentioned that could have happened to his ankle are linked to a sprain in one way or another! You've sprained your ankle (Y)

The ligaments in your foot aren't meant to move laterally Tomm. If his ankle twisted underneath him, the ligaments ould have either been torn or damaged in some way.