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The resin doesn't get squeezed out at all though! It has nowhere to squeeze to as it's in a sealed vac bag. If anything, the compression squeezes the resin into the fibres to increase the strength and ensure consistent properties throughout.

There seems to be some confusion over what an autoclave does (high temperature and pressure).For most cases the part will be put in a vac bag first which involves removing all the air from around the component. Depending on the type of material and lay up procedure this can then either be cured at low temperature in the absence of high pressure or put in an autoclave where high pressure and temperature is used to aid the curing process and produce a stronger part. Internal bladders are used for hollow sections to stop the component from collapsing in the vac bag or from the autoclave pressure.

Can't be arsed arguing but your logic seems flawed.

The pressurisation isn't done to squeeze out the resin... I would also imagine that most carbon frames are made with the aid of bladders and autoclaves so they do involve temperature and pressure during the curing process.

Come on now, don't be silly. It could've been a picture of a dog.

Yup. Or 9.525mm.

They could give them the pencil and just get them to write on the cardboard box surely?

I agree with Matt. As a former world champion I was expecting some crazy big riding from Marco but I was most underwhelmed by it. Considering snow's actually surprisingly grippy everything looked kinda small and even slightly laboured.

They weren't all forced to kill their parents .

But they're American. I'm amazed they know there's a continent called Africa, let alone the definitions of (in)famous...

I dunno, the fact they've apparently talked the us into sending 100 army bodies over and got the support of some big names makes me think it's more than just a clever campaign.

*Insert inappropriate joke* Congratulations dude!

Compelling viewing, I kept expecting it to break into a 'that's why we need to pray' video but maybe that's just the sceptic/stereotyping part of me on hearing an American voice! Certainly interesting way to look at things (not just on this subject) and will be keeping an eye on it but as Jolfa says, where's that money going? Are they a registered charity? Why no printable poster?

So you agree that it was a boring video which doesn't do him, his riding or trials (of any description) justice?

Yes but in the real world, who gives a monkeys? No member of the public will have a clue who Giaco is, what biketrials is or who's world champion. Ask them about the guy riding over spiked railings or front flipping off of Edinburger Castle and there's a reasonable chance they'll know what your'e talking about. So yeah, outside of our very anal, rather odd little hobby, Giaco who?

I think you'll find that, by the definition, carbon fibre is fibres of carbon. Likewise, carbon fibre woven cloth is pretty standard across the board, the difference comes in the process used to lay it up and the skill and knowledge of the people doing the work. Which is what I said. So where was I being silly?

I can 100% guarantee that more of the public would be able to name or recognise Danny before Giacomo. I'd probably struggle to identify Giacomo in a line up (unless he was wearing his oh so cool tights and short shorts combo!).

Yes, 24".

I found a few of the shots a bit close if that makes sense. You didn't get a feel for the space or the way the property 'flows'. Maybe a wider angle lens giving slightly more of an overview might help? Only a minor point though, overall it does what it needs to.

Or you could try not to be such an argumentative twat all the time.

Uh huh.

Strictly speaking, is Ozzy right here? As far as I'm aware the accepted use of 'calorie' is actually the truncation of 'kcal' meaning that one 'calorie' actually is one thousand calories. If you get me... Edit: Actually, that would mean you're both wrong and a pound of fat would be 3,500,000 calories. Meh.

Afraid Ghostrider's right, Matt. It's the disc lever that doesn't have the knob.

Exactly. If you look for videos of someone like Toni Bou, the most watched are often the ones of him pissing about challenging himself doing stuff on the back wheel. People aren't that interested in him attacking the same rock in the same way again and again or in fact really efficiently getting though a section- he knows that people are impressed and respect the awkward moves which are clearly challenging him.

Carbon fibre is carbon fibre but there is scope for a massive variation in strength and performance when it is laid up and made into a component. Singlespeed spacers will just have been made from a length of relatively simple and cheap CFRP tube but to make something like a set of bars or a frame where strength is required the layup process, fibre orientation, number of plies etc. all makes a massive difference to how the final product will behave. Seems like Santa Cruz know what they're doing but I'm still not convinced that CFRP is necessarily the best option for trials frames which often get scratched and beaten to shit.