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It's not Bonobo Flutter then?

I wouldn't have thought 45 degrees would be enough for the oil to get up into the cylinder. I'm sure it'll be fine though!

Oil being shaken around shouldn't allow oil into the cylinder though to make it run smokey... Actually, when the strap snapped did the bike end up on it's side for a little while? That could explain it. I go my frame welded on Thursday and managed to get the bike all back together yesterday. Now seems to be back running fine and back as it should be, just need for it to stop frickin' raining now!!

It's free to pay for stuff but you should be charged fees if you're receiving payments.

No, you didn't. Annnyway.. bars look good, seem to be very well thought out with all the bases covered, as I've come to expect from Trialtech. Well out of my price bracket though!

That would happen with any bars, not only carbon...

Too late.

Definitely BB and not pedals? Any play in the BB bearings?

Every day? Hello heart attack... As JD says- take in less calories, burn more.

Bearings are serviceable items though and will inevitably be 'off the shelf' units chosen for their price:performance by the manufacturer. When sold, any hub may have a dodgy bearing in it which will have a shorter life than designed but because they are replaceable that's life really. We all know trials is hard on components so a dead bearing every now and then should be considered an inevitable issue that you have to deal with. Most of us, especially those with a little mechanical knowledge/skill (you'd think), would just order a new bearing from eBay Tarty and replace it but it seems like certain individuals would rather shoot themselves in the foot by stripping the wheel down, sending the hub back then acting like a spoilt brat when he doesn't get the outcome he'd hoped, even after Adam's gone out of his way to 'make good'. You are right though that Dave comes across as mad as a box of frogs. That's really the nature of a lot of the trials world though. There's a lot of stuff which is mass produced in Taiwan/China or wherever where you can guarantee the QC checks and tolerances aren't quite as good as somewhere like Hope (ignoring a certain fluid retention device!) but you accept that when you pay half the price of a Hope hub or whatever. Again, combine that potential lack of QC with the hammering trials riders give stuff and components will fail, some more than others. The thing people remember is not what broke or why, but in cases like warranties etc. it's how the problem is dealt with. Trials-UK: Shit service. Tarty Bikes: Excellent service where the staff will bend over backwards to try and make sure their customers are happy and the service they're providing is top notch. Having said that there will always be the odd arse who has to be right all the time and likes making problems for people.

Engineer appears to have become a fairly loose term these days which is a bit of a 'catch all' phrase. I can't class myself as a proper engineer but it's scary the number of Aerospace Engineers leaving Uni with good degrees and not an ounce of mechanical understanding/sympathy or the ability to problem solve a mechanical issue to find a solution. It's actually quite worrying that a lot of those graduates will go on to help design the next generation of aircraft...

Why do we not have a popcorn smiley?

There really is an aura of 'homeless bum' about AWT isn't there... Adam feel free to take that as you want!!

Exactly, hence why I was asking if it was too early. I'm sure there were plenty on sickipedia... I'd say it's probably safe to say it was inexperience in the car (or in an F1 car for that matter) which caused the accident- could've happened to any young driver though (although I'd hope Marussia rethink the orientation of their set up when testing like this in the future). From the initial reports it sounds like she's lucky to only have lost her eye- could've been much worse. Just had a look at her page on Wiki- how the hell did she manage to blag tests in F1 anyway? I can only assume it was because of her dad pulling strings and offering big bucks. Edit: That probably sounds more cutting than I meant- basically from her past it seems she wasn't anywhere near good enough to warrant an F1 drive, irrelevant of sex. Bottom line is she shouldn't have been there in the first place in which case none of this would've happened.

Matt- having read through some of this (though not all as I got bored reading the same thing over and over and over and over), do you still maintain that any force acting on the axle is a point load at it's end? Of course for the purpose of maths it can be treated as such, but if you actually drew the loading or did FEA on the situation surely there would be a force distribution along the mounting surface which produces non linear loading and would indicate a likely failure point... Meh.

Do you want some ketchup? (chip joke)

Yes. I also think it would be prudent (and I may in fact send an email to HSE to get this enforced) to include on all metallic items sold that they really shouldn't be put in the microwave and that most components shouldn't be fed to pets or given to small children.

And http://vimeo.com/36921354 Very nice vids, cool chilled feel to them.

But be sure to take a copy of the original because rather than charging they may simply lose your V5 and claim ignorance...

You might ride it but I sure as hell wouldn't buy it! 1.5" x 0.2" is a fair chunk of material missing. Get a frame that's not likely to nearly kill you in the relatively near future...

Depends on the company but £25 admin fees for policy changes isn't unusual.

I think you're mental for thinking he's mental.

Sounds like a nasty testing accident for Maria de Villota at Duxford. Hope she's ok and I guess it's too soon for certain sex driver's abilities isn't it...

And dome heads often have smaller hex so that M6's use a 4mm Allen key! But yeah, use a vice and hacksaw to trim the too long ones if they're in reasonable condition otherwise and file the cut end slightly to clean the thread up and remove burrs. If they're screwed ( ) buy new.