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I think you missed a bit... like the badge.

But by that logic pure water would clean oil since oil floats on water, salty or not. Making the driveway wet will move a small amount of oil but because it will have been absorbed into the paving to a degree it needs something stronger than water (or salt) I'd have thought.

Depends what country he's in.

I'm not convinced that will work. Never heard of salt being used to break up oil (otherwise oil slicks in the sea would be self cleaning...).

Doesn't stop him being a rather boring German winning everything in superior machinery. At least he's not nearly as much of a fanny as Schumi.

Because it's being shown off at a MX event. I have no idea how they can sell it as a training aid for anything other than spade trials though.

"No matter how big a guy might be, Nicky would take him on. You beat Nicky with fists, he comes back with a bat. You beat him with a knife, he comes back with a gun. And you beat him with a gun, you better kill him, because he'll keep comin' back and back until one of you is dead." ?

Part of it stems from not knowing if I wanted a dropper or not but fancying having a go. I could quite happily afford a Reverb or whatever but the Scotsman in me thinks it'd be silly having the single most expensive part on the bike being a seatpost (whole bike was only £750 I think). The strut was about a tenner, the seatpost is a cheap £10 jobbie (not the lightest but obviously has slightly thicker walls for machining purchases. Total cost of the whole setup was about £30 I guess. Not so much lazy as allowing the height to be adjusted on the fly. If you know you're coming up to a steep section, you don't need to either stop and adjust or make do with trying it with the saddle up your arse you can just adjust it on the go. To be perfectly honest since doing the bodge I haven't used it that much but it's good to know that I can when I want!

Surprisingly entertaining but wasn't sure who to even cheer for! Next year's gonna be interesting, especially seeing if Lewis has made a big mistake putting the dolla' in first place...

Are you using a bashring?

It obviously works quite well with this frame because the main pivot gives a nice surface for the delrin disc to sit on but I'm sure there'd be ways to make it work all the way to the BB shell if needed. The little ball ended bolt also means the seat clamp can't rotate when it's loose so it's always where you expect it to be .

Cross post from trials-chat in case it's of any interest to those in here. Basically frame is 27.2mm and the options for dropper posts are few and far between while being silly expensive so I put one together with a cheap 25.4 seatpost, plastic USE shim as a bush and automotive gas strut giving a full 150mm of travel. Currently adjusted by manually operating the QR but considering looking into a remote system if I can be arsed. Right, here we go. First up pics in the lowered and raised positions: The components: The gas strut had to be turned down by a fraction to clear the ID of the seatpost and I just used a couple of bits of delrin to act as a spacer to the top of the seatpost and a stop which sits on top of the main pivot tube inside the seat tube. It's set up so that at max extension the post sits at the perfect height so it always goes to the right place and I can then lower the post to anywhere up to 150mm when I feel like it. A little bit fiddly to operate the QR on the move to start with but now pretty slick at it and since a lot of dropper posts operate via a lever under the nose of the saddle I didn't think it was too bad. Close up of the ball ended screw that goes through the seat clamp and seat tube: The travel: The only mod needed to the frame: Hopefully a video...

Looks fairly pink to me.

Pimp.

Saw that on Facebook- looks so unbelievably pointless...

Right, here we go. First up pics in the lowered and raised positions: The components: The gas strut had to be turned down by a fraction to clear the ID of the seatpost and I just used a couple of bits of delrin to act as a spacer to the top of the seatpost and a stop which sits on top of the main pivot tube inside the seat tube. It's set up so that at max extension the post sits at the perfect height so it always goes to the right place and I can then lower the post to anywhere up to 150mm when I feel like it. A little bit fiddly to operate the QR on the move to start with but now pretty slick at it and since a lot of dropper posts operate via a lever under the nose of the saddle I didn't think it was too bad. Close up of the ball ended screw that goes through the seat clamp and seat tube: The travel: The only mod needed to the frame: Will add a vid of it working when it finishes uploading. Edit: Hopefully a video...

Will get some sorted. It basically uses a cheap automotive gas strut to provide the upward motion and the seatpost clamp to lock and unlock the system. The seatpost has a groove milled into it with a corresponding sprung loaded, ball ended bolt sticking through from the clamp to keep everything straight. Also used a 25.4 post so that I could use a USE plastic shim as a bush for the post to pass through so as to stop metal-metal contact. Works rather well (and weighs about the same as a 'proper' dropper) even if I do say so myself!

Not trials related but I've made myself a dropper seatpost for my normal MTB. Wasn't willing to pay ~£300 for a 100mm fully adjustable post or ~£120 for a 90mm travel with a couple of position options so spent about £20 and made my own with about 150mm of travel. So far works pretty well.

Is Inspired still under the Mountain Cycle 'umbrella'? Or am I making that up...

Chris Doney did the Top Gear live thing two or three years ago. Lucky bugger got to drive most of the cars as well since the crew was so small! Think he was riding with Jason Finn wearing camo ninja gear or something odd like that... Worlds smallest pic:

Wait, what? I thought it was celebrating Santa's birthday.

What the f**k is this?

It's not though, is it...

I dunno- I was VERY relieved when my son came out normal (wife is a ging).

Update to the proposed test changes on MCN: http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/newsresults/General-news/2012/November/nov1912-last-minute-changes-to-bike-test-rules/_/R-EPI-138683