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Read the title as Quark Theory. Go figure.

And it doesn't even have a saddle. Sheesh.

I don't get where the spacers were going... If you kept removing the freewheel to put spacers in between the cranks and the freewheel you'd be reducing the amount of thread that the freewheel is able to use which would cause the thread to strip. But that can't be what you were doing because that would be moving it closer to the frame...

You say that but I'm quite pleased that they got a couple of guys into the European Parliament. I wouldn't want them in power here but hopefully they might be able to stir things up in Brussels and reduce all the shite we have to put up with...

He has some points about Islam though...

Great find! That looks like so much fun! Loving the girl with the umbrella keeping wee Danny dry!

Yeah but that was blatantly aliens. Tracking orbits, building pyramids, Machu Picchu... aliens. I saw it all on this documentary called 'Alien vs. Predator'.

Yeah but they were a bit stupid really... the Earth is flat?! Whateva mister!

Can't be surely... on the green Crescent? I'm sure he's way better than that.

As anal says that is simply common sense. The way any religion tells you how to live your life is nothing more than differentiating between good and bad, right and wrong. 'Don't kill anyone.' Really? Not even one? Ok. 'Don't rape anyone.' Aww, come on, where's the fun in that?! 'Don't eat seafood.' Now you're just getting ridiculous. Religion tries to provide guidance for people in life and attempts to provide some kind of reason to be good (the promise of a happy afterlife sitting on a cloud). In essence those things should only be needed if you're weak, stupid or just plain ignorant. Anyone else already knows what's right and wrong and tend to live their life accordingly without any religious beliefs. As I've said before, Ben, please don't take any of these comments to heart- it's simply that you're the sensible person who always speaks sense and tries to see the problem from all directions and so I always end up replying to your posts!

Ah, now wait a second. Taking your car analagy... My use of the crusades as an example isn't like you going out and deliberately causing a pile up in your car. The crusades are like if Ford Motor Company got all of it's employees to each take one of their cars and instructed them to cause a pile up, drive into a que at a bus stop or just go and crash into the first Vauxhall car they found but enduring that the occupant was killed, all in the name of Ford. Now we can all see that's completely moronic but that's pretty much what the crusades came down to- the moronic murder of anyone who disagreed with the Church and refused their version of God. That alone makes me angry enough to want to tell anyone in the street spouting christian crap to f**k off. The (extremist) Muslims are still blowing each other (and anyone else they can get angry at) apart in the name of Alah. f**king morons. I know religion is just an excuse to be shit to each other but I can't help feeling that it really doesn't help matters. My problem with religion (apart from the fact the basis of it is all a pile of turd which should never be considered as even remotely based in real life) is that over the centuries it has been used "as a means of populace control, war, profit, etc". If a load of deluded people find comfort in the fairy stories they believe then fine but I'll still consider them naive, weak and probably feel sorry for them.

Well it makes more sense than killing thousands upon thousands of pagan Slavs, Jews, Russian and Greek Orthodox Christians, Mongols, Cathars, Hussites, Waldensians, Old Prussians, and political enemies of the popes in religiously-sanctioned military campaigns doesn't it? Oh, wait... that happened didn't it? Ah well, so long as it was all in the name of God that makes it alright I guess. Go Christians!

+1. Awesome thread. Awesome.

Cranks have got to be Coda's for true old skoolness. IRC tires too. Oh and one of those triple colour flite saddles... but then most of that stuff was what he used on his original red Beast of the East's. *Drool*

Unfortunately so...

Just saw this on the BBC site and thought of this thread. Shame the Earth was created 7000 years ago 'cos these little guys can't possibly have existed. Poor little guys.

No.

Considering it's a forum populated by almost entirely by teenage boys I'd hazard a guess that that's fairly accurate.

They're Primo Powerbites I think.

No it wouldn't be.

The wheelbase is the wheelbase. Whatever fork your running, wherever your wheel is sitting in the dropouts, measure from the axle centre to axle centre and that's the wheelbase. Magic! As has been said, what you're describing is something completely different and more like 'frame length' but then you can get that from chainstay length and reach I guess to some extent...

Maybe because that wouldn't be the wheelbase? How does the bar angle affect the wheelbase anyway?

Didn't deserve a new thread but Rob Ridge is pure awesomeness. Youtube Video -> ">" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350">

I was incredibly unimpressed by number one. I'd never even heard of her or her 'channel' so that was just meh. Quite glad that 'Ouch Charlie' shite wasn't in there though.