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You're right to a degree and of course there will be exceptions but I bet the majority of people taking their bike to a LBS to get a puncture repaired are just lazy numpties who should be able to do it but don't. To be honest I avoid LBSs like the plague since they tend to not have a bloody clue about anything and simply go through the motions. I think the last time I was forced into a LBS it was because my chain had snapped on my XC bike on the way back from dropping my car at a garage (read hadn't bothered to bring any tools or owt with me) and the guy wouldn't lend me a chain tool, ended up selling me a new chain and tried to tell me that really if I have a new chain I ought to change the cassette and chainrings too. f**k. Off. In my experience that seems to be the way of things. Obviously not the case in 'proper' shops or specialist places but for you average LBS bang on.

To be fair, anyone who takes a bike to a bike shop to get a puncture fixed deserves to be fleeced.

That may be the case for some but I don't really think it can be applied to Ryan... at least not in the extreme/dangerous side of things. He's been doing the same stuff since I started riding in the late 90's!

But that's only valid until January, right? Then everything changes again I thought...

I never fix punctures on my own bikes, always replace tubes...

Where u brot up in a barn or wot?

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And some people aren't even interested in his riding... I started watching that yesterday on PB: laughed at how awkward he looked just turning on his back wheel on that wall at the start, fast forwarded the making tea bit and turned it off shortly after.

Not using Dazler12345678@hotmail.com no?

For real? 'kin 'ell...

That's one seriously light car! I haven't done much FEA but I would say you can't really model it as a step input lasting 0.X seconds but instead would need to consider using a normal distribution type curve where the maximum deceleration and therefore duration of the crash roughly match what the theory says. I'm sure G levels must be available online somewhere for a crash from 50mph...

Insert joke about car salesmen... I kid, I kid

Very easy to make one though...

Whatchootalkinabout? Being served by a (sic) common lower respiratory tract infection that affects babies and young children under a year old? Dinosaurs'd be better as cranes, or comical drawbridges or maybe postboxes...

I don't deny that they're fully awesome but what are you going to do with them once you make them? Stick them on an island and build a theme park? f**k that.

I'm not convinced why you'd want to. Same with the Mammoth really- what's the purpose apart from to prove we can? In my mind it's not about playing god but about reversing what nature intended, evolution etc. I think if you can prolong the timeline of an already existing endangered species (polar bears, tigers, whatever) then that's all good but bringing back the dodo, a mammoth or raptor just seems to be pointless. I'd rather see the funding going towards stem cell research or curing debilitating illnesses rather than reintroducing long lost species to the world that has no place for them anymore.

Come on now, did you not read the bit in the bible where god created dinosaurs (and he saw they were good) and ruled the earth for like 100 million years? Oh, wait...

Unfortunately Balanced Bikes will then just come up with 'did you mean balance bikes' and give you bunch of kids bikes...

If he has been continually doping for all these years it's quite amazing he's never been caught or fingered (ooh err) about it previously.

I'm not a huge follower of road racing but obviously know of Lance Armstrong, his own determined responses to anyone accusing him of doping and also the seemingly widespread cheating which goes on in the sport but I'm surprised we haven't had a discussion in here about the story. So yeah, what are people's thoughts? Hate campaign against him by people lying about what he's done or is he just a very convincing lying b*****d himself?

I know what you mean and I'm guessing as well. I think there would be a point at which it crosses over and the higher would indeed result in a longer freefall prior to a chute opening at a given altitude. Might try and throw the cases into excel and see if I can make any sense of it if I can be bothered!

But terminal velocity reduces with altitude as the density of the air increases so because Felix started higher he would've been travelling faster through the upper atmosphere where terminal velocity is higher so would reach the lower, denser atmosphere faster where his terminal velocity would be more comparable to that of Kittinger. I'm with Andrew on this I think.

Boy done good!

I keep being pissed off by the BBC putting results on their f**king home page before they air the damn quali/race. I'd just finished setting the qualifying up for recording this morning, go to BBC page- 'Webber takes pole ahead of Vettel'