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So does removing a chainstay but that doesn't mean everyone should do it.

Just to stay off topic for a touch longer, I thought this was fairly standard in all bikes. Or am I thinking of ally frames where the temperature required is different?

That pisses me off soooo much. I've been caught out a few times and it really grinds my gears.

It wasn't really a comp though was it? Looked like an extended demo in the middle of a mototrial comp. Definitely agree that Aurelien looked far more comfortable and appeared to be riding bigger and better than the others.

Ah ok, so yeah raw steel but not raw, welded heat marked raw. Fair enough.

Heat treating still leaves it raw doesn't it... Just get him to lacquer it afterwards.

That I have certainly not ever wondered. I do however wonder if oil is in fact a self renewing resource or at least far more abundant than what our science teachers tell us. Note: That's not a foil hat comment but a serious consideration.

I would've thought you'd be able to tell if the elements are heating by feeling the exposed part when powered up. As Mr Seamons says if they have power are you sure it's not something silly like your thermostat is set too cold, the timer isn't operating and that the water is actually filling the tank beyond the elements?

Actually, I'd also point out that I had two of those frames, ran them with bashguards and each one dented the chainstays the first time I used the bash. The mounts just kind of folded into the stays. Wasn't impressed... I can see Paul reading this and that second frame went when we were riding Rownhams services and may remember it!

I guess it all depends on whether it really is made from squished dinosaurs...

As I'm sure you know it was originally built to use the Megamo bash (I assume because Chris Doney had a bunch of them kicking about when he helped to design the Revell).

It was an arranged 'stunt' and he was with the guys in the car .

Dunno if this'll work... Cleep

Well, it's a static 'bunnyhop' from on top of the car...

So 0.51°C increase since 1983. Taking the most optimistic case, 0.6 - 0.2 = 0.4°C increase since say 1883. Sooo... something doesn't compute. That would indicate that the temperature rose, then fell then rose again in that period? Not making any kind of argument just saying that even within one statement it doesn't add up.

I wouldn't necessarily agree with that. As said before, climate change is clearly happening but the theories of what's causing it, what the end result will be, if we can affect it etc. are varied and much of it apparently guesswork. I'm still not convinced either way but also don't see a massive point in us going to the nth degree to do all we can when countries like China, India and America are burning everything like it's going out of fashion and causing far, far more damage than we can ever hope to fix.

Theoreticians won't save the planet. In fact academics researching what's happening won't save the planet, especially if the Illuminati are hell bent on taking over the world with big businesses and are in it purely for profit. And if the governments are spraying shit in the sky that's making things worse we're really f**ked. But then http://www.globalwarmingawarenessblog.com/globalwarming-is-due-to-sun-activity-and-not-co2.html

Wind tunnel manager at Southampton Uni but the way my brain works (knowing 20", 26" wheels but M5, M6 screws etc. from bikes) I tend to switch almost seamlessly depending on the application. Below about 50mm things are in mm, it then becomes inches and feet up to maybe a metre and then changes back into metres beyond that (for the most part). I guess it doesn't help that our main wind tunnels are old imperial units (one being 7' x 5', the other 11' x 8') but when I speak to customers on the phone I convert those to metric again!!

Tonnes and tons don't come into my line of work much- it's all about Newtons or kg's... Unless we're talking dimensions at which point (probably thanks partly to biking) things go from being metric at small scales, to imperial part way through, to metric again at larger scales again. "That needs to be about 10mm, but it needs to be placed about 6" from that nut and 3m up on top of the tunnel".

That can't be driveable surely?

Only vaguely engineering related regardless of the Doctor of Engineering title... informally doctor of rally car aerodynamics!

I was wondering as I was typing but before 7am I couldn't be arsed Googling it. Anyway, what's 2.4 million tons of methane between friends? Oh yeah, the total annihilation of the planet. Meh.

Please don't go there. Instead go here: Cows produce approximately 150 billion kgs (150 million tons) of methane every year so should we be trying to save the planet by eating lots of burgers or attaching balloons to their bums? Also, just to go back briefly to the chemtrails thing- the theory goes that their spraying this stuff for the purpose of environmental engineering but it's being proven (?) to be making things worse? If that's the case they'll just stop spraying it. Unless of course it's just Their (yes, Them) evil plot to take over the world...

To put on a brakeless Inspired? Please don't...

I think it's fairly well known that the Earth has gone through a continual heating and cooling (i.e. self regulation) since the year dot. The thing is, whatever happens it will only affect us (which in a way is selfish to think we're all that matters)- without us the Earth will continue quite happily when we're gone. So while people say we're 'killing the planet', we're really not, just potentially changing the potential survivability for us on it. S'ok though, Jebus will save us.