that NBR dude

It was definitely time for a mid life crisis... 😁

Well... been a while since I've been on one of these... 2010 if memory serves 😬 Wait, has it really been 14 years since I last rode a 20"? Let's hope my 40 year old, wildly unfit body can remember what to do! Thanks to the guys at Tarty for the stellar service as always. Miraculously I even remembered my password... seems the Alzheimer's hasn't kicked in quite yet

You're right. Seems the spacing on the IS and PM is different, so I take my comment about it being interesting and intriguing back then

That brake mount is really interesting (never seen one like that before). Assuming can be used as IS or as Post mount using those dowels. Neat and intriguing design.

Cool, saves me the hassle of changing them over then. Will just have to carry on farting around trying to get them to sit just right then... Until I can sort out a rear disc hub and ditch the HS33 altogether! Thanks for the help!

Interesting, thanks! Knew you'd know the answer... So there is no fundamental difference between later and earlier pistons? I found a pair of ghetto ones from early 2000s (probably from my first HS33) in a box and was tempted to change to them just in case it made a difference.

A random question for a rainy Sunday afternoon, for those of a technical mindset... Were there any changes throughout the years, in terms of Magura Master / Slave cylinders, specifically around sizes / bores / strokes? Some context to my question... I have an RB Designs lever from the early 2000s. This is mated to a pair of later slave cylinders, I'd guess at around 2012 (newer Magura logo). It's been bled in a sink; definitely no air in the system, and yet when I pull the lever the slaves barely move. Everything feels rock solid, no sponginess or anything. Could it be that the bore / stroke on the RB Designs cylinder is not enough to push enough fluid to these later slaves? Obviously, it being an RB Designs lever, I'm definitely not ruling out it being a bit Leaky McLeakface, but I'd expected it to work even just for one lever pull... Or is my rose tinted spectacles view of "trials of the days of yore" clouding my memories and these levers always performed like ass? Answers on a postcard...

South West isn't much better. I was lucky when I sold my 1 bed flat for £140k (bought for £90k). It meant I could stretch my mortgage that little bit more and got my new place for £200k; but it's still an ex-council, 3 bed mid-terrace in not the greatest area... Next door just sold theirs for £250k so I should do ok on this one.

Updated OP with new pics now it is all together with the last few parts

I would think they're very similar if not the same. The rear disc mount definitely sold it to me, just need to swap the hub over for a disc hub so I don't have to run the magura. I bled it twice yesterday and I still cannot get the damn thing to work. I have no idea on the geometry, I struggled to find anything that was for this year of frame (think I narrowed it down to about 2011 ish?). I'll get the tape measure out at some point and see what it is. From looking at the pics, I'd say your Adamant is maybe a touch longer?

It's nuts isn't it!! I spent so long looking at the picture going "You twat, you've put the forks on backwards...." then I looked at the bike and realised I hadn't. As you say it's a really weird optical illusion!!

The "prom-night dumpster baby" project build is underway. I know it looks like a s**t heap right now; it'll get blasted and painted at some point when the weather improves. Update - Now got the brakes on and set up, along with a different seat and some replacement bolts around the place as some were gash and rusty (although fitted with the current theme). Oh and I changed the front rotor so people don't think I bought the bike from Argos Czar 24" frame Echo Urban forks Trial Tech stem Jitsie Hybrid bars Echo BB Jitsie cranks and freehweel Echo wheels Schwalbe Crazy Bob tyres Sram Code R front Magura HS33 with RB Designs lever rear (I wonder if they still leak like they did in 2004...) Alone Big Dick tripod seat and post

I know somewhere you can buy fake degrees if that helps?

That one has to be somewhere near the top of the "Positives" list when choosing who to buy from... Learn from my mistakes... do as I say, not as I did

Don't think I've put this up on here so... My 2019 Transition Patrol

Exactly. The issue people have is they try to quantify it via something like a car or a person on a treadmill. The difference (among many) is that those are driven by the wheels / legs that are directly on the surface of treadmill. If the speed of the wheels / legs match the speed of the treadmill, it will stay in one place. An aircraft isn't driven forwards by it's wheels; they're like casters, they just stop it scraping it's belly along the ground. An aircraft is moved forwards via thrust; moving air from infront of the plane to behind the plane at speed. The air, unlike a cars wheels or persons legs, is not affected by the movement of the treadmill. The aircraft will continue to move forwards through thrust, with the non-driven wheels just spinning at twice the speed. Eventually the airspeed will be great enough to create enough lift and ergo it takes off. Think of it as running on a treadmill then suddenly someone shoves you from behind; you'll overcome the speed of the treadmill and fall forwards. Your driver (in this case your legs) is directly on the surface of the treadmill but the shove is not (its your thrust), which is why you fall forwards.

Oh my god the amount of arguments I've had over this!! One person absolutely would not back down, even after explaining that I was an Air Accident Investigator... There are too many things I just don't get, most of which would make me look like the biggest weirdo ever so I probably shouldn't share...

Jan 1st 2008... ghetto!

My only real issue with the vaccine right now is the long term affects. While I'm no vaccine developing expert, I'd have assumed (perhaps wrongly I admit) that these things are tested over long(er) periods to ascertain any adverse affects down the line, especially when as you say this is something completely new and never tried before. As I say I could be completely wrong on this and it has all followed the exact same route as any other, but I think a lot of the publics reticence is this all feels very "political"... PS I think you're better with the language than you think you are