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You'd never be able to get rid of religion completely. There's waaaaay too much money in it and it's faaaar too good an excuse to be incredibly shitty to each other and murder people in its name. There will also always be the less intelligent, less confident people who want and need to be told what to do and think. In days gone by people truly didn't know what was out there and so the nutjobs could spout their rubbish and people knew no better. These days I think more people are willing to question what's around them and combined with the progress in science probably helps to reduce the number of todays youth who attend church. It would appear that Amercians might be a bit behind us in that department .

Or everyone accepts the truth and starts following my FeS religion. Or Scientology.

Of course not but the basis of the religion is the same; believe all this made up tosh and you'll be ok. Don't believe it and bad things will happen. No really, they will. Those guys have taken it to the extreme and are just being retarded and exploiting kids at the same time, but the truth remains that a lot of Americans are scarily Chrisitan. In the UK it seems like there's (thankfully) a fairly strong trend moving away from the Church and Christianity in the youth of today. From what I've seen of Americans this isn't the case, with a worrying number of 'normal people' (and I'm talking BMXers, motocrossers and whatever else) thanking god and jesus for helping them get to where they are. Each to their own but I find it really disappointing when I hear that sort of stuff.

Like it .

I'd prefer to think it's about the money but I honestly think they believe the crap they peddle.

My mum works with a physio up in Scotland who's working on the scheme. Hate the way they call them 'customers' but otherwise it is at least trying to weed out the real wastes of life from those who could actually make something of themselves. However she also works on the childrens panel and a lot of them would benefit from sterilisation at birth...

Phew, I'm glad that's cleared up. Everyone can relax .

Ah Ben, you're mistaking me for someone who doesn't sterotype . I'm very bad for stereotyping and am quite happy to dislike the entire population of America (bar a few exceptions) for being annoying Christian numpties. I'll avoid bringing up George Bush and Sarah Palin for now but... oh, damn, too late .

Isn't it great?! Hallelujah, praise Jebus. +∞ You'd be surprised... I know only a minority of them will be as retarded as those in the video but from what I've seen there are a huge number of Christians over there who take it way too seriously.

In my mind a hell of a lot would be solved by mass sterilisation of the population from certain areas... They wouldn't need to be told, or asked (something in the water maybe...) but it would certainly help if a lot of chavvy, wastes of life families happened to become obsolete. They know who they are. Or maybe they don't. Meh.

Glad to hear it! I doubt you'll have any trouble selling them but it might be worth sticking a post up on Trials-Central or something to let the moto boys know it's available in the UK too .

Are they having a giraffe?

He's actually now been given the all clear to ride again so expect some more crazy stunts in the neaar future!

Are you sure? Link

"The Islamic Golden Age or the Islamic Renaissance, is traditionally dated from the 8th to 13th centuries A.D." It appears at that point the world of Islam just stopped... So many of their beliefs, customs and laws seem to be similar to how we were in the dark ages. Purely picking up on the way they treat their women is just unbelievable in this day and age. That and Shariah law are enough for me to hate the concept of islam more than they hate Kurt Westergaard. Did anyone see any of 'Mulsim Driving School' on BBC 2 last night? Seriously, if I saw her: Driving towards me in a city somewhere I'd want to get the hell out of there sharpish! Islamophobic and proud .

And whose fault is that? Yup, ours thanks to 'missionaries'... Maybe without that they would still be evil 'savages' believing in harmless gods in the stars or earth rather than killing each other for arguing whether Jesus went to Cambridge or Oxford... See, you say that, but then I just think about all that shite that happened when the cartoon of Muhammad with a bomb in his turban. Those weren't 'extremist' terrorists burning danish flags and demanding that the Danish government execute the guy, those were your normal average muslims from what I could tell. They've just been programmed to massively overreact on command and have literally zero idea of humour. Pillars of society right there .

DO IT!! When was the last time you saw a Buddhist being offended by a Christmas tree or demanding that they must be allowed to wear sandals and shave their head otherwise they'll sue their employer/government/parent? Never because there may actually be some logical reasoning to what they do rather than just praying blindly 20 times a day because they were told to... Buddhism doesn't seem to be as much a religion as a way of thinking and training the mind from what I can see (therefore I don't hate it like most religions ).

And don't forget that the money all went to a good cause...

Pah! You can keep your beryllium comp bike. I had Pete Wright make me a frame from Unobtainium a couple of years back which was filled with helium...

Well the usually used Ti6Al-4Vn is 90% Ti so I was a touch off but most of the research is chasing superior properties rather than reducing density I'd have thought. Titanium is an excellent base but by adding alloying elements you can tune the properties to improve how the material reacts in high temperature/stress etc environments but you wouldn't expect any titanium alloy to be 50% lighter than pure Ti...

That doesn't really hold true... the weight of pure titanium does say something because any titanium alloy will still be ~98% Ti and similarly and aluminium alloy will be ~98% Al (guestimates but probably not far out). The elemental density is therefore going to be fairly close to what you end up with.

The comparitive density of different materials isn't the whole story by a long way though. Sure aluminium is lighter than steel but to get the same approximate strength in something like a bike frame you have to use far more aluminium and so frame weights start to converge more than you'd think if you just looked at density on its own. Likewise if you want something made from carbon fibre you need to use a lot more of it than aluminium and also probably need to use some kind of sandwich again adding to the weight in order to obtain acceptable properties.

I still think it's big, ugly, heavy (I guess), stupidly expensive and all but pointless on a trials bike of any kind... But that's just me .