Bionic Balls

oo..that looks right near swindon might see you there simpsmon!

there is no detailed physics .. just different geo and different people. Long bikes are longer, feel longer. High BB bikes are higher, feel higher..if you still want to buy an "extreme" geo bike, then do so...but don't blame the geo if certain things feel harder..!

ahh nooo! have i been replaced? who's adam very short notice! undercover spots? i can think of one...chai knows it...i love it!

looks awesome mon....as did the old one! should put the monty bars back on though...or sell 'em to me adam

it got shizzwakt..he left it on the grass on that corner where we met you....for about an hour.. soo...someone now has his driving license with his address on it...and his house keys and he's gone out, and his mum, and his dad...which sucks. i'm on "watch steve's house" duty. adam

http://trials-uk.co.uk/product.aspx?productid=1538 tis 195g...so...200g less that is bloody light...and soo expensive!

they were good...but i found the red ones to be better ..then again, the red ones had cnc backings..

you had that....easy! scared to go back to battersea...got thrown out twice, and hear that you lot got fined...hear anymore about that? adam

weather was blindin...shame we didn't get much riding done..but i'v got a bit of a tan anyways really sucked about steve's bag... good turnout..and nice to see gary back again! adam

go inbetween....? both of those bikes are pretty much the extremes...! recommend something like a zhi- 1080, 380 +30 bit of everything geo..

that's crazy..!! i don't know how the hell they get away with it...i'm sure if they tried it in this country they'd get shot within 20seconds adam

no offence mate...you'll get there! record is 10,507...which is f**king awesome

you are taking the piss aren't you...? is this a massssssssive waste of money http://www.ukfitnesssupplies.co.uk/mall/pr...CFQxNQwodflUcDw

black star...radiohead...

i'd say the hold on a vee is always more than a magura with the same setup... they go like maguras do...a bit...less good...! a grind is the answer..as with maguras

when u say matt....do you mean birdman? people are still going to clacton are they? i'm a hopeful...need steve to reply to his texts..

don't let ali C hear that...! vees are certainly no worse than maguras in comps..

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sounds good...would a bit of old inner tube help with the marking you reckon?

a little tame for some of you i reckon...but i want to get a chin up bar in the house..... anyone recommend one that doesn't need fixings? cheers..

awesome....well...i reckon some of the forum may have learnt something today still not entirely sure about the grain flow thing...you are absolutely right, but i think the temper would homogenise the material in the final microstructure.. only one thing to do..slice your cranks and borrow an SEM adam

i'm not so sure... 7075 is precipitation hardened, not strain hardened, so the important thing is the heat treatment following the initial forging. As long as the forging billet has been strained enough to remove defects (voids/break up inclusions) i can't see how that would affect the final product significantly. I also thought that 7075 was best worked after annealing? not saying you're wrong (!), but where did you find the info on middleburn production? do they actually forge to a "crank" shape, or do they simply mean they use a stock 7075-T6 billet..? you could read that either way... anyways, i think most people have decided that CNCing is good adam

i'm pretty sure echo forged and cnc cranks are completely different...looks and material wise... no idea which are stronger/stiffer but without the offer on tarty, there's a big price difference!

i'm sure that if the parts needed annealing, they would do so...it's quite easy to model the cutting process.. how many cnc'd deng parts have you seen break (excluding the forks/frames as dave said..)? probably cranks..but that's fatigue usually...

which day are you lot going? saturday is apparently the warmest day of the year down here in the south and sunday is shit! soo...