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I don't think those whheels will suit it but ok.

Can you say effort, Ash?! Only reason I'd strip it unless needed is if I decide to get it powder coated for the hell of it. Shamus- definitely useful- sounds like delicate electrics need to be removed (R/R, ECU, instrument cluster etc) but might take it into work at some point and get the resident welder to have a look, see how awkward he reckons it would be.

Ok, so I noticed yesterday that the frame on my motorbike is cracked pretty epically: The bit on the right is the start of the crack and the rest is a reflection of the crack travelling around the back side of the tube and round pretty much 50% of the tube . The frame's steel and sits about 40-50mm from the engine. I guess my question to anyone who has any experience with this sort of thing is whether the whole bike will need to be stripped to get back to frame only to weld or would it be just engine out of the way to get access? I'm just worried that welding without stripping could cause damage to the electrics or whatnot (I have no experience of welding at all...). The other option at the moment is to put the bike back to stock and trade it in to a garage so it's their problem!!

Yup, and that jet lorry thing as well- very impressive. Kind of half arsed attempt like the astra just seem a bit daft. Judging by the size of the air intake it won't be able to breathe properly anyway and the fact there are no youtube videos of it actually moving (let alone at Santa Pod) makes me think that maybe it doesn't really work as a propulsive device. Would like to see some footage of it actually going.

You know there's issues when a McLaren is unable to make any kind of move stick on a Caterham. Definitely a boring one. I think if any circuit would benefit from being artificially wetted every year, it's Monte Carlo!

I'd still hazard a guess that it's pretty much pointless. Something with driven wheels will be half way down the 1/4 mile before it pulls away. Where's the fun with drag anyway?

I'm not saying all the Northern riders cause problems but it seems like whenever there's a big ol' debate about TGS vs. street or whatever the aggressive trouble makers who tend to get warnings/banned seem to me to be from oop north. Juuust sayin'.

Yeah, fair enough. It does seem somewhat unfortunate that the majority of the twats on here do tend to be primarily from the (dare I say it?) Northern TGS mob...

That looks like it's just a standard car with a bin welded on the back with an engine that you can't possibly use practically on the roads (just imagine sitting behind it at some lights on your motorbike...). Wonder what the insurance is like... Any modifications? Well, y'see...

You say that but I can see where he's coming from... those of us who have migrated to a more chilled, flowy, '24' style of riding tend to be the slightly older generation who have done the sidehop thing and got bored and as such are also in general of the generation who have stuck with trials, grown up with it and can see things from a different perspective than those who are younger and relatively new to the sport. Agree it's a generalisation but not necessarily completely unfounded.

Exactly. Your attitude sucks which gets you into those situations. And again, no he wasn't- it was a serious point and one that I can see exactly where Dan is coming from with. I completely agree with the whole younger generation (not all but the apparent majority) having little or no respect for anyone or anything. From what I can tell it seems to be spawned from an element of society who have no concept of how to bring up their kids, which is compounded by teachers not being allowed to discipline the little shits or have the time to instil any values in them which should've been part of their upbringing but never happened. As an example, we have a small area of Northshore with a pump track in the local woods. Now I would like to think that any kid who enjoys biking and wants to get into that sort of thing properly would be fairly nice and well brought up (they've chosen to do something rather than stand on a street corner being dicks to the public) but the number of times I've gone up there and the place is covered in litter is unreal. Simple things like that which show they have no respect for the effort people have gone to to get something like that area and no respect for their surroundings. Then you see someone driving along and chucking a fag end out their car window or some litter or whatever with kids in the back and you understand immediately where it comes from. That seems to have followed on to trials- where it used to be a really small, probably expensive and odd 'sport' for someone to get into, it's now far more accessible and mainstream which means a certain element of society is now also being involved. Maybe I'm talking drivel and am just suffering from GOMS (grumpy old man syndrome) but it seems clear that society as a whole has some major issues, primarily borne out of shite parenting and a general lack of respect passed down the generations. What the older members on here see is only the tip of the iceberg unfortunately...

I can't help feeling that it would be a nice friendly place where people get along if it wasn't for the select hardcore of aggressive, argumentative twats on here who seem to purely come on to be dicks.

Lots of reasons but I'd guess that mainly because we're an island and if they weren't here when Britain split off from the mainland (Pangea or whatever) then they weren't about to swim to join us. Combine that with ice ages and the wrong climate and anything that was here died off a long time ago either due to climate reasons or hunting.

Why? Just why?...

Both right to a point.

The theory is that you stand your ground and talk in a level but commanding voice to show it you're not scared. Best bet however is not to come into contact in the first place, hence bear bells and making noise as you go when walking in Canada etc.

There was some dude in Scotland who wanted to reintroduce wolves to the wild but bears certainly won't happen.

Not in the wild if that's what you mean...

The pitch is the same for both so you just need to go for the larger size (1/8"). I've happily run 1/8" chains on 3/32" setups but you obviously can't go the other way without running into problems.

Ah, fair enough. My first guess was 0.5mm but I thought that seemed too small so no one would believe me!!

I would guess that snail cams only move the axle by 0.75-1mm per notch. Continual adjustment by bolts is always better in my opinion.

I used to ride my Inspired on red route for the Hampshire series and didn't have any major problems. It's obviously not ideal but no reason you'll struggle.

You don't sound depressed to me... Depression seems to be one of those annoying 'catch all' phrases doctors use these days. There are no badly behaved kids or lower ability/lazy kids, they're all either diagnosed with ADD or dyslexia or whatever. Similarly with 'depression' it seems to me like doctors diagnose 50% of their cases as that and send them away with a bunch of pills. In your case I'd be googling potential other causes for your tiredness- obviously not diabetes but potentially dietary problems (lack of X, Y or Z) or something else?

Without meaning to be an arse and condescending (which I'm not that good at), how far for 3D design go? I have images in my head of being able to produce pretty looking 'things' on a computer but not necessarily being able to incorporate those into either animation for the likes of TV/film/adverts or able to produce mechanical components for engineering/real world applications. It just seems to me that the majority of people who went to uni and now don't have jobs did degrees that never really had job prospects in the first place (thinking psychology, art, lots of geography students etc.). Could be wrong of course and I know I probably see things from quite an odd perspective because everything's worked out surprisingly well for me (touch wood...)!

Yup, started about 15 years ago and have had a trials bike and ridden it regularly ever since. Less regularly these days of course but do still get out on it.