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We all know he's far too busy giving AIDS to babies in Africa to worry about crank bolts.

Doesn't look obviously mullered. Try a replacement bolt and keep checking for bolt tension for the first few rides.

In the car enthusiast circle. Couldn't care less. Go and do some debadgering!

Do you not throw sump guards onto cars so low to at least try and protect things? Yeah, I've just never got into the car scene. Turning up at a car park/field or whatever and walking round looking at what other people have spent/wasted their money on offers no interest to me at all. Mini's however are different and come into a different bracket. Looking at lowered/stanced/bodykitted chavmobiles is one thing but with Mini's there's a far greater character to the cars and more of a community atmosphere I guess. Your generic Vdub/Honda or whatever stanced can't hold a candle to a real enthusiast in a Mini. I miss my Minivan .

Is nice! I would've been tempted to go for black or white rims and bash but it looks good- definitely stands out from the crowd .

Yeah looks green to me and it just happens that the next light board is further down the straight. The lights on his steering wheel aren't 'legally binding' but the marshall's flag is. I'm not convinced anything will happen...

Saw this on Facebook earlier. Interesting for sure but I'd say it's now too late...

I see it from a different angle... Although the aesthetics aren't for me, I think making your car look like an RC could be kinda cool but what makes me think they're destroying their cars is the fact that they've effectively ruined the handling and usability making them completed pointless as a car. What's the point in owning a vehicle that you can't get onto your driveway or take down some roads that have small speed bumps or whatever. If they were track cars only that'd be something but these twats actually try and drive them on the road... all that 'if it ain't rubbin' shit. If it is rubbin' it shouldn't be on the bloody road!!

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not...

But when you say you've been meaning to 'properly debadge' the boot and post a pic which blatantly hasn't been debadged in the traditional sense then it ain't debadged.

Yeah, I thought debadging meant, well, debadging. Meh.

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.