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Loving the story about the Australian bookshop who put a sign up saying they would shortly be moving all Lance's books to the fiction section! Classic.

I dunno actually- the shell body looks the same shape as a Pro2 which would indicate internals... in which case I'll get back in my box

But it's just a fixed hub. The thread is trying to get a Pro2 freehub to work on a mod. A hope fixed hub will be no different (except more expensive) than any other. Nice touch with the sprocket mounting but still not a Pro2.

It depends how the tyre is measured. If the carcass is the same but you've now got an extra 5mm of tread depth then that might be enough to make a difference. When my folks put winter tyres on their Nissan Juke it caused the ABS to play silly buggers because the wheel circumference was different enough to screw up the wheel speed sensors.

That's not quite the same though...

People actually use Google+?

I think it's more temperature related. If you use them on hot roads in the summer then yes but if it's on cold winter roads no. Together with chunkier tread they're just a different compound which doesn't need any temperature to operate. Snow tyres should be narrower with deep blocky tread, winter tyres are in between in the blockiness front but designed more to run on cold tarmac rather than snow (I think).

I want one of those radio controlled UAV camera things!

This one's for Muel.

Chains are (I imagine) a hassle to get on and are great for the 100 feet needed to get off your drive, after which chances are you're going to be on a gritted black top road which will kill chains (or socks). I'd say they're only good if you live in the highlands or somewhere like Sweden.

Awesome to see him still riding

I don't understand the pic in 1999... In that you look like a giant (pardon the pun) or are you just sitting in a dolls house?

Pretty sure Kenny wasn't the one bitching about the frame...

But it's relative. Sure he helped the charities using his profile but also pocketed tens of millions of dollars in sponsor money, winnings, legal action and who knows what else. I would love to see him taken through the courts, bankrupted and made sure that he can never compete in any sport ever again. Him and the many people in the background who made it happen- all the dodgy doctors, coaches and whatnot.

Ah sorry yeah, 1/20th is the Tamiya non die cast size isn't it. I did a Senna MP4/4 and a Senna 87 Lotus 99T in my yoof, plus a 1/12th '75 Ferrari 312T before moving on to radio controlled cars!

The force being applied to the chain is the same but for the wider chain (with wider rollers) that force is spread over a very slightly larger area.

1/12th, 1/18th or something else? Lotus 72 fo' sho. Best colour scheme ever, engine on show, in yer face aero and massive sticky slicks on the back.

Gotcha. Not convinced it would make any difference though!

That's how I see it. You've lost me... Contact surface between what and what? For a given 3/32" sprocket/freewheel the chain sees the same contact area but a wider chain (with similar diameter pins) will experience higher bending moment at the point where the sprocket/freewheel touches due to the larger moment arm...

Ah... ok. I was taking j to be just an unknown term rather than an imaginary number.

Doesn't work... if you expand the brackets you'll end up with a j2 term...

I don't really follow that. if you compare a 1/8" and 3/32" chain the only difference is the pin length and roller width. The plates are the same thickness and so there's basically bugger all in it, except that the 1/8" chain will be heavier (and potentially very slightly weaker...

Surely you've just posted a picture of Jardo, no?...

Yeah what he did in cycling was kind of impressive but the way he did it and the type of person he is clearly makes him a grade 1 c@nt who I have zero respect for.

Deadly serious. Deadly.