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May I disagree?! Spokes are just wire and are only any good in tension. What you are describing would require the spokes at the bottom of the wheel to resist the rim from deforming under compression, which they're really not any good at. In my mind the rim must be self supporting in width and the spokes are there to do two things- firstly to keep the rim round in profile (by maintaining an even tension around the circumference) and secondly to resist side to side motion (by utilisation of the spoke triangulation).

No, I mean that frame with the ZONY sticker... meh.

I swear I've seen that frame built up on here in the bike pics section...

Yeah, I go in really slow and all the acceleration happens at the last minute. Seems to work pretty well! That vid covers the essentials though .

Pretty much. I do it that way and the first half pedal stroke I'm just using the pedals to bring the front up while not gaining too much speed. The final 1/4 or even less is the bit that gives you all the explosive power to push the bike up and gain the height. Edit: Check out 3:39- this is the vid that taught me the technique which I still use to good effect 10 years on.

A blind person uses their other senses to compensate- they can still touch and feel objects, surfaces, people etc. so can build up a mental 'image' of what they're touching, even if they can't see the detail or the colour. Interesting idea though!

To be fair, he kind of makes things worse for himself by the way he poorly tries to explain it and keeps on cocking it up himself.

I stubbornly refuse to accept that.

Thanks for that, I'll be sure to never watch Snuffbox .

0.333 repeating to infinity is still not exactly 1/3 though hence 0.9999... does not equal 1.

It's very easy to cut if you have the right tools. If you don't have a set of cable cutters there's a good chance you'll make the end of the hose worse by mullering it with the wrong tool. If you don't have cutters either get some or take the brake down to Halfords or your LBS and ask them to borrow theirs for 5 seconds.

What a twonk.

I guess a lot of that comes down to where you're from. If you live in the countryside in Cambridgeshire, the first time you see a small block of flats you'll think 'wow that's a tall building!' but if you live in the middle of London and are surrounded by tall buildings it takes a much taller building to make you think the same.

At some point you're going to need to consider the potential mass differential between the carriages which may come into effect (if one is full to capacity and one is empty the system will need to function). The other consideration I'd have thought would be the operational 'cruise' velocity in motion. If the motor is running at 3000rpm do you need a carriage velocity of 1ms-1 or what?

Nobody's quite sure. That's one possibility, others have been saying it could be fed all the way to the front wing to stall the wing and reduce drag on the straights when the DRS is deployed.

That's messed up. Stolen from that link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpuB11d0Gog 10 O'Clock live segment.

Mercedes rear wing f-duct system looks quite interesting... would be interesting to know what it's actually feeding.

That's the sort of video that really makes me wish I could ride BMX well... thanks for sharing .

I cannot condone making your own...

What about dort and jel?

Did anyone else see 10 O'Clock Live last night? As I suspected he is indeed a retarded evangelical Christian twat®. That Fourth Estate shit looks seriously worrying, almost like they're at the head of a Scientology rebranding exercise...

Yes.

I would say I can't wait but I'd be lying. I can. I really can.

Would most likely be too small (diameter comparable to the axle diameter of an ISIS BB).

Regarding the lockring tool, would it possible to use a BB spline? I'd have thought that would be a better bet than the pin tools. May I also suggest a bit of a restyle for the tensile cranks? Existing ones have never exactly been aesthetically pleasing!