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A lot of it is picking the line of least resistance/likely death. If you want to roll down on both wheels you need to make sure there's room for your front wheel to roll forward and allow the back down otherwise you're likely to go over the bars or lose the front end in a chasm of death. It's better to build up the confidence and go down controlled on the back wheel in stages, caefully placing each wheel on take off and landing. Failing that the next best option is to go down sideways either backwheel then front wheel or together in a sidehop down type thing... Final option is to go down backwards. May sound weird but on a big slab or steep slope if you have both wheels on the ground and inch down backwards you can keep your weight over the front and trust the rear tyre to do the gripping. Experiment and see how you feel.

I dunno, I know Ali could've done that faster and smoother with less correction hops if he wanted .

I think he has the ability to make (a form of) real engineering appealing to the masses but what I've seen so far just isn't going to cut it! Even Richard Hammond doing the Engineering connecitons thing was more enjoyable and I'd say he's more of a bafoon than James...

I used to find that I needed to run a washer of appropriate size between the mech and hanger to allow the body of the mech to lock onto something rather than rotate on the narrower diameter centre section which the bolt passes through.

Good job- Bodgemaster in the making .

Sorry to dig this back up but a colleague at work is trying to insure his 17 year old son on a 1.1 Saxo and the cheapest quote he can get is £3200... is that seriously the going rate these days?!

See I didn't like that because it seemed fake and at least partly scripted. Funniest bit I can recall is where he broke the glass making the tartar sauce and had that impromptue conversation with the director... more of the kind of unscripted banter would make it more watchable I think.

I was a bit disappointed to be honest. Sounded like a great idea and could be awesome but just seemed a bit too wishy washy in the end.

Ooooh, that mint green... that's yummy that is!

Domination lols.

Why does hating them make any difference to them being out of stock?

The answer is quite clearly 20mm.

Just a brand of paint stripper:

How dare you. How very dare you!

Or tail? What the hell are you after?

Yeah +1 on checking the throttle cable routing and throttle action after adjusting the idle screw.

Ouch .

I've heard the combustion of refined alkanes from pentane (C5H12) to octane (C8H18) are something of a cure for that sort of problem.

If I was being attacked by a flock of nasty b*****d vulture things I would too .

But that's taking it to the next stage. The instinct is there and your brain then decides which way to act (as you say) depending on the odds of survival/success but the initial instinct was immediately there. Kinda. Yeah, I agree with the rabbit thing, bad example.

Hehe. I agree, ideas must come from somewhere but for things like gravity I think they come from observation. Anything that is truely an instinct however is not based in an idea, it just 'is'. You don't have to think 'I'm going to try not to get killed today' you just due it instinctively (bad example I know but you get the idea). Similarly I doubt any parent consciously has to think 'I'm going to protect my child from that pitbull terrier' they just act and would be willing to sacrifice themselves for the conservation of their young.

But you can observe a cause and effect. Someone lets go of something, it falls down. You have just learnt about gravity. You don't need to understand the forces at work or the strength of the force to observe what happens. I'm pretty damn sure I wasn't born knowing that anything with mass accelerates towards the centre of the earth at 9.81ms-2... Edit: aener beat me to it.

A few billion beings prior to Sir Isaac may disagree with you there! And again, as a small baby anything you grab (or see someone else pick up/drop/fall) will result in the realisation that things fall downwards. I would say you have learnt that through observation, not through and form of instictive knowledge. However, if you startle a baby (not something you should really do I know) and it does that whole 'shitting itself' face and tries to get away, I would say is an instinctive struggle for survival. It's just a shame that human babies are a bit shit! I'm not convinced. I'd say food, sex and survival/preservation of yourself and your young are some of the few true instincts which exist.

Yup, I'd go with that- the instinct for survival. Surely the fact they 'share eveything up until a certain stage' proves possessiveness isn't instinctive but something which is learnt as they observe how their parents/brother/sister or whatever act towards objects. Regarding animals, you hit the nail on the head- food and mates. The two things to ensure survival and their genetic continuation- two things which I would say are instinctive for pretty much any living thing.

Certainly not a shit thread and I will try to stay off the religion side of things! The idea of someone stealing your laptop is completely enveloped in the 'theory' of ownership and possession- something which in itself isn't really instinctive. If we'd all been brought up to share everything we ever come into contact with the loss of something (or theft itself) wouldn't have any meaning. The presentation of a gun is another thing. We don't instinctively know that a gun is dangerous- it is just a shaped piece of metal until (at a very young age) you learn that they are dangerous and used to injure or kill people with. Once you have learnt that you will be fearful if anyone ever pulled one on you, invoking the fight or flight instinct.