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Haha, nah you're ok!! Having said that I'm still not convinced that adding a 3mm washer on each side of the hub and a 3mm shim between the rotor and the hub wouldn't fix the boost/non boost thing? For calipers to work without being boost specific the rotor must sit at the same position relative to the frame and on a boost bike that's just 3mm further from the centreline than a non boost hub surely? I queried that with CK as well and his response was negative but I'm not sure he quite got what I meant.

Apparently not "Sorry to say that short of buying new hubshells and axles, our ISO hubs aren't convertible to Boost. The hubshells for boost hubs are physically bigger and so shimming your hubs won't place your rotor into the correct position."

Sounds good! Slightly annoyingly (at least annoyingly tempting) our cycle to work scheme has just increased the voucher limit to £2500! The Whyte's got Chris King hubs though (and the bike's non-boost so anything new won't be compatible) so I'm being restrained for now! I've also just ordered a second hand oval chain ring to give that a try too as I've never used one.

As an alternative to buying a new bike (not usually an issue for me but we're trying to afford a house extension at the moment so I'm trying to be restrained!) I've been messing around with my 2015 Whyte T130 Works SCR. I was originally looking at whacking a 29" wheel on the front to play 'mullet bike' while slackening the head angle but that was going to cost a bomb (£500+ on forks, £50+ on rim plus spokes, £30 on a tyre) so ended up over-forking the stock 130mm Pikes to 150mm. That's brought the head angle from 67.5 to 66.8 or so but has the added effect of raising the BB height so yesterday I made some offset brass bushings that in theory should drop the head angle down to around 65.8 and drop the BB height back down to near stock. Anyone else messed around with things with good or bad results?!

I'm not convinced but it depends what you want it for. As a mountain bike I'd say steer clear. V-brakes, WTB velociraptor tyres (those came on my GT in 1998), old school cranks and gearing etc. It's old enough that the BB could be seized in there, bearings in frame and wheels might be knackered etc... For a run about or a bike to roll to the pub on fair enough but for anything more proper I'd be looking elsewhere.

I'm not so sure Sergi's one is a 5. It's kind of up for interpretation. If you look where his back wheel lands on both attempts it's shifted left and well within the gate. In the absence of tape (and keeping in mind that he didn't break the flag) I don't think anyone would be bothered by that if it wasn't for the Jack controversy...

I've been using that Carnac for 3 years now and really can't fault it. Would happily buy another (and am tempted to get another for £13 for when this one needs replaced!).

Youtube? Dougie Lampkin!

Yes Ali! Awesome riding and so nice to watch. The precision/perfection of your videos put so many others to shame! Naming no Fabio names...

Cheap as chips Carnac XC for me. £13 and almost identical to a Fox Flux... Edit: I was screwed over paying £20 for mine! Edit 2: More colours available for the On-One XC which is identical: https://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/HEOOXC/on-one-xc-mtb-helmet

I should point out that having bought the Air in February to go to Canada with the c units changed their laws in July to make it effectively illegal to fly a drone over 250g in Canada so I ended up buying and taking a little Tello that didn't really do what I wanted (if only the Mavic Mini was around then...) but also I managed to get £600 for the Mavic Air 6 months later so can't really complain.

Just sold my Mavic Air this weekend and ordered a Mavic Mini. My thoughts are that with regulations coming in with the 250g limit making life ever more difficult the 249g Mini makes sense and if I didn't sell the Air now it might become more difficult once the laws come in properly and the Mini's become more common. It's a real shame the Mini doesn't (yet) include ActiveTrack and TapFly features but I'm really hoping in the future these might be introduced either through updates or paid for App modes. Time will tell...

Woo! Awesome! Good work

I voted for you before realising who you were ! Easily the best line there but the comments would suggest that Dylan Stark hucking off a roof (which is in no way a line) could be winning...

You're using muscles that you never knew you had. It'll take time for your body to adapt to the punishment you're giving it but you'll get there.

Ah cool, that's good to know. Cheers Adam.

Spot on, sounds good to me

@Adam@TartyBikes (or anyone else who's suitably '#becauseracecar') I've got an odd engineering/brake query for you... The storeman at work has been putting together a motorcycle based trike (two at the front, one at the rear) and has just had it fail its MSVA test. The main thing that it failed on was that apparently it's considered in a group along with the Morgan and the rules for that say that the brakes must be linked and (and this is the crux of it) must be operated by a foot pedal. If his rear master cylinder can cope do you reckon hooking that in to all three brake systems, via a brake balance adjuster, would work? I'm not sure if he'd also need another brake bias adjuster across the front as well to stop it pulling one way or another... Keeping in mind once it passes the MSVA he's just going to put it back to front lever and rear pedal it depends what would actually make it work!

Street or au naturale?

I'm still confused as to why the grooves being spiral versus horizontal matters... I would expect them to be spiral of sorts since the cut would be getting deeper as the cut progressed. And why the hell is that video over an hour long?! Could've been 10-15 minutes and still covered anything. Watched the first 17 minutes of fairly meaningless waffle then skipped to 49 minutes but don't really get why that's a thing. Edit: Ah ok it indicates a very high feed rate of the tool. Fair enough.

That guy just seems to be making it up as he goes along. There's no proof or evidence to anything he says at all from what I can tell. 'One side is more damaged than the other side so obviously this was because of the same cataclysmic event'. Or maybe prevailing winds are from that side and 500 years of erosion from being sand blasted could do that? I dunno but don't take what he says as fact!

For the pyramids my guess would be that we are too quick to underestimate 1) the number of people involved, 2) the potential power of ropes and pulleys and 3) the ingenuity of the people of the time.

See, the problem with that is that if the Egyptians (or indeed any preceding civilisations) did have machines, engines, cranes, diamond tipped tungsten carbide tools etc. then there would be evidence of it somewhere. Stuff like that would've outlasted the tools etc. we have found. I completely agree that there are fairly major gaps in our understanding of exactly how these things came about but the only evidence that exists points to the current thinking of a lot of slaves working until they died with some very clever lateral thinking on the part of the architects/engineers of the time.

Aliens.