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Just to clarify that, Marco had lost it but he was trying to get it back upright and by doing that the tyres continued to grip rather than slide out as you would expect and at that point he had no control over the direction of the bike. If he'd just let the bike slide out initially he would still be here today, but the point is he was a racer through and through and so was trying to salvage the situation and continue. In the end that raw racing instinct cost him his life.

Nobody forced them to join the forces and they also knew what they were getting themselves into. Please, with the greatest respect, f**k off. This isn't the time or the place.

Caio Sic

Does it matter? Save some weight and remove the inner ring. Job done Is the mech cage bent? Or can it be 'tweaked to allow it to push the chain over a little more to achieve the movement required? Original (compatible) shifter? Meh, for $20 you should be happy that anything works at all!

I heart Dakota Roche...

What bike are you riding? Is it a long, low 26" or a streety 24"? Really once the front wheel's up you should be jumping upwards to gain the height and then levelling the bike off by pushing the bars out in front of you at the same time as sucking the rear up.

Fix'd.

Dic size aside, I went from a mark 1 Fourplay running a Maggy (Phat pads on both smooth and ground rims) to the Team full build with 180 Hope Trial Tech's front and rear and I much, much prefer the discs. They have everything- power, hold, modulation in all conditions and also add to the perceived smoothness of your riding because of the lack of noise. Pretty certain I wouldn't go back to a rear Maggy unless I absolutely had to.

The 180's on my Fourplay Team are more than powerful enough- I honestly don't think you'd need anything more. I've even considered downsizing to give me more modulation/bite at the expense of hold!

Uh huh... That's what I got around 10 years ago and it's still going strong . Mine probably cost about £15.

Alpine bikes are fairly high end and should know what they're doing. They're not just a Raleigh dealer...

The fact that virtually all computer displayss/laptops are now 16:9 means that that's the way to go I'd say.

I'd sell my children for one if I had any. I'm willing to sell someone elses if it comes to it... "Come here Maddy, we're going on an adventure..."

Yeah that's what I guessed, not to worry!

Purely out of curiosity, I take it the front hub/axle is incompatible with standard 'Maxle' style QR systems? I'm always taking my front wheel out to get the bike in the car and do like being able to do it with a QR. I'm guessing that system wouldn't work with the design as it stands though. In related news: Do. Want.

Using my immense paint skillz... kinda depicts it. basically the fixed length and rigidity of the outer allows the inner to simply pass through it when you pull the lever rather than just change it's own path to 'take up the slack'. Without an outer, when you pull the lever it will just change the path it takes to get to the lever rather than apply tension to the calipers. The one on the left tries to show what I was describing above, though because of the way V brakes work without using some kind of pulley system you'd only end up pulling the farthest arm towards the lever and you'd need to be running a 'floating wheel' (rather than a floating disc) to make the brake actually work.

The outer is effectively keeping the distance between the caliper and the lever constant, due to it's more rigid structure. If you could have your lever set up with the cable aligned with the direction of pull of the cable at the caliper then it would work without an outer, but because that can't work with the geometry of the bike, location of the bars etc. it's impossible.

18:16 will be massively too low. Try going the other way and try 18:13. Will take a while to get used to but would certainly be better than 16.

The lack of runoff/give in the crash barriers is one thing but the crash structures in the cars seem to be fairly shite too- in the crash I lost count of the number of cars which had just turned into darts with no side impact structure left. Combined with the apparent crap fuel cells there really are issues there. You mention the F1 and Lemans accidents where the cars have taken off- in none of those have there been a fatality or even a serious injury (in recent years anyway). Sure Dan was unlucky but it does seem like the Indy series (not Nascar ) is unnecessarily dodgy.

Not really. There are a few spots around Weymouth but not much on Portland itself.

Aha... yeah... I'd never even noticed!! :$ Good point, well made! The Hope (even with the rotor the wrong way round) works really well on the back. With the 180mm rotors the front is almost too powerful sometimes compared to what I used to run but the rear is spot on- plenty of modulation for manuals but full on bite when you need it. *scurries off to the garage to switch the rotors round*

Someone will have to donate me a mod before that can happen! Open to offers of course

Haha, I know I know! I guess a more appropriate title would be along the lines of 'just checking in'... The old Mk1 was 'still going strong' after about 3 years of abuse- I think this bike will probably outlive my ability to physically ride to be honest!

I truly suck at getting videos out! Meant to do something over the Summer but that never happened for various reasons... Apart from some little clips that Dan Jones has captured I haven't managed to get any footage together on the 2011 .