Andy P

http://www.clickmetal.co.uk/Angle-Types/Round-Tubes/Aluminium-Round-Tube/p-16-13-23/ I ordered a 300x300x16mm slab of alu from them on friday and its with me today for just £35.

In that case I'll leave the trials bike in pieces...

Awesome memories. Well done Lee - will have to put my bike back together and I'll come down to worthing for old times....

Really liking that, especially the silky smooth panning shots. Awesome.

Ok so you blow smoke into it. What about when you put the cig into the ashtray and a stray spark/ lump of red hot ash comes loose and gets drawn into the fan, which then gets trapped in the corner of the flue and subsequently gets fanned by the fan. Voom. Maybe its just me having had fire training and seeing how destructive a stray spark can be that makes me more aware that things DO go wrong sometimes.

Looks like an awesome way to start a fire? Heat (fag) - Check Oxygen (air) - Check Fuel (paper) - Check Good luck with that

Yeah, Igloos rule

They're using the same tape measure that they use to measure sidehops

Yep its White here too I'm at work

Just started snowhing here... WOW... Now I'm bored again....

Everyones talking snow, but its miserably dry here still. Anybody else had any snow yet? First to post a pic wins nothing, not even an E-prize.

As has already been said, Blu-ray has been the standard for over a year now iirc....

You've summerised the reasons why despite being in love with the Rx7. I don't think I'll own one unless 1. I get a LARGE payrise or 2. I get rid of my house. Car is better.

With an 8 litre 16 cylinder producing "just" 987bhp I'd say yes relitively easily.

Yep, loads of variables - But cars are better I did type out a massive edit for my post above but lost it. Here's a compressed version - Veyron is a factory production car - ghostriders turbo 'busa is tuned. Car has 4 wheels and tyres, bike has 2. Of course the car is more expensive - theres loads more of it. What about £'s per kg? Can't peanalise a car because it has the aerodynamic ability to produce useable downforce - thats part of the package that a car has to offer vs the bike. There have been race rotory bikes in the past. The problem they has was classifying cc's to race them against piston bikes...

I'm not comparing Thrust for acceleration. Among the fastest accelerating cars is a Top fuel dragster - yes its not a road legal car but its a more traditional car in the sense that it has a piston engine that delivers its power through the wheels transfering that power to the ground. Find me a similarly powered bike that will complete the 1/4 mile in sub 4 seconds passing at over 300mph.

Yeah, you can't really base things on a backroad thrash. The bike will overtake on the strights when its clearly safe to do so, the car will be held up dramaticlly on the corners, but unable to overtake because its not safe to do so. Also, I'd be pretty weary of giving the Rider a tap.

You're basing that on a bike that is more performance based than the road car following it. I'd put money on Sebastien Leob taking any backroad faster than any rider / bike combination of your choice even in his somewhat low powered French tin can Not at all - I like bikes. I still want a Gixxer to show everyone how big my balls are.

Car every time. You just can't compare a 10k bike and a 10k car because a car is so much more in every way - you're paying for 5x the materials to begin with! A better comparison for out and out performance would be to take a bike with unlimited funding to create the ultimate race bike and a car with unlimited funding to create the ultimate race car.... Funnily enough they exist - Grand Prix cars and bikes. F1 cars are MUCH faster than the moto GP bikes - why? Traction. Getting the power down in an F1 car you've got 2 huge rear tyres with loads of grip. On a Bike you've got a tiny patch and you've got to contend with the front wheel coming off the ground. In the corners again you've got a much larger contact patch on the car - along with downforce, and on a bike you can't simply change direction - you've got to get onto the other side of the bike and lean the whole bike in - it takes a lot longer. "In 2004, Mr V Rossi lapped the Sepang circuit in qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix in the very quick time of 2:01 (dry), that’s 2 mins and 1 sec. In the same year a Mr M Schumacher lapped the same circuit in the death defying time of 1 minute and 33seconds. This is a full 75% of the time a motorcycle takes. Or put another way; a F1 car can do 4 laps in the time a MotoGP cycles can do only 3. " With regards to acceleration - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn6eHg1VSZI Road car vs road bike - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_JsA1DgDhU Cars are also fast at top speeds, ref Thrust SSC Cars are faster accelerators, ref drag racing. Cars are faster round circuits, ref F1 v MotoGP times On top of all that, when it rains you remin dry, when its cold you remain warm, when you're bored you turn on the radio, when you're hot you turn on the a/c and when you blow away that TVR at the trafficlight grand prix you've got a passenger to silence the non believers.

Haha!! This is the exact frame I'd get to replace the Phase... You know... if I actually rode Andy

Noice! Happy birthday dude! Andy P Sometimes I like to fromage a duck?

You need to learn Gaz! You take the top nut off the shock/top mount when the car is still on the ground with all the weight on it - Ta-da! No need for compressors Andy Oh, we need pics of reverse rake

Rich, Awesome video as always! Better than previous ones in my opinion because its just full of style. LOVED the half pedal up to front at the beginning Catch you laters mate!

Hmnnn... Sounds more like a cow @ 42 seconds And Gaz, it depends what you want - A track car, or a drag car? On a low budget you can't really have both. There are exceptions however - an XE Nova with half decent suspension is a track weapon and there's a £500 12 second XE nova build thread on Passionford.