1a2bcio8

Great photos, you're definitely improving

Great stuff Jonny. I really like your camera technique! I've made notes

I hope the weather is good. I'm even giving my bike a service for this ride. No more creaks me hopes!

Sounds good Nick! Cheers

Cool, thanks for the advice. I shall take it!

Word up, Not sure if this is the place to ask but I was hoping that I might be able to get a lift with somebody travelling upto Blackpool for the upcoming comps - I'd need picking up from Bristol, Swindon or somewhere nearby. Basically I want to film the event, so won't be taking a bike, just camera gear and perhaps a tent, etc. I will of course pay my share of the petrol. I may get the train anyway but thought I should ask anyway cheers Ben

Monster munch. Basically perfect, in as much as something can be.

Pics are great. Makes me want to come ride Soton. You chaps up for a ride the weekend after next?

The visual and the auditory were correlated very well. The effects were really good in some places (b+w reverse slow-mo to the music was excellent), especially nearer the start; I found some of the later ones a bit overkill (the grey box to rail gap in bristol). Music was really good and fitting to the riding which was also good. The filming was all decent. It's always nice to see somebody investing some thought into their editing. Good stuff basically

There was plenty of controversy over how to describe lsd. Originally it was said to be a psychotomimetic (psychosis stimulating). Experimental evidence seemed to refute this model which was mostly dropped by scientists. Psychedelics (mind manifesting or mind opening), coined by Aldous Huxley became accepted as a more accurate description. Basically lsd was used, before the irrational culture of fear was created toward that drug, as therapy and it actually worked for some people. Types of increased self understanding/awareness and development occured under the influence of lsd (hence the justification for a psychedelic model). Unfortunately before such a therapy could be fine tuned, scientific experimentation with lsd was banned across probably all of the western world. Basically, psychedelics falls under the umbrella of psyhotropics which is a more generic term relating to shifts of perception and so forth. In this sense, lsd is both psychedelic and psychotropic. I may be wrong though as it's a while since I was reading about lsd. Sorry again for hijacking the thread.

That's word 2007 and it's absolutely lovely.

You can still buy his books though! Not that doing psychedelics has to have any consideration of the man. Lsd is a thing within itself. Sorry to take the thread off on a tangent though.

I'm not sure that I was being protective of my drug taking? If anything, I'm being protective of my idea of psychedelia. Sometimes I like to mention drugs (often as poorly executed humour), when relevant but especially because I'm apprehensive of doing so given that we live in a society that shuns something it typically does not understand. I want to be able to mention that thing that I do in the same way that we talk about riding bikes and not be afraid to do so. But yeh, I would say that we have a different conception of what amounts to psychedelia. To me it's simply something that relates to the experience of psychedelic drugs. The type of experience that arises from lsd and such are all very varied depending on the person. Obviously though a type of experience was typified in the 60's and 70's, to which I'll assume is your conception. My types of experience were very similar to that contained within aspects of the video though.

Perhaps I did lsd. According to my experience, and what constitutes for me as being psychedelic, that was psychedelic. Perhaps you need to do some lsd. I did just go back to check though to make sure I'm not being sketchy - within 10 seconds there's a waving colour effect - that to me is psychedelic. There's also plenty of effects to the sky adding a purple tinge I think and also a reduced frame rate shot. Perhaps more stuff further on. All stuff reminscent of my psychedelic drug taking experiences

Have you ever done lsd? Anyway, I liked it. Experimental stuff is always appreciated especially if it gravitates toward psychedelic-esque appearance. Sometime I found the colours overly saturated and not so enjoyable but mostly, it was very pretty. The slow mo riding really showed aspects that are otherwised missed. Good stuff

Monster!

1. Sam Jones 2. Danny Kearns 3. Max Hunt 4. Ryan Iley 5. Joe Bayliss 6. Daniel Gunston 7. Carl Stanton 8. Tom Munday 9. Tom Webb 10. George Fathers 11. Nick Goddard 12. Sam Wheeler 13. Chris Mason 14. Allen 'Boumsong' Watson 15. David Biddle 16. Andy B 17. Chris Elson 18. Dan Brooker 19. Dan Steele 20. Ross Gardener 21. Jack Meek 22. Mike Winton (probably!) 23. Dan O'Shea. 24. Rich Jones. 25. Rowan Johns. 26. Adam-Griffin 27. Richard Johnston 28. steve parry(banbury trials) 29. Adam Bessell 30. James Porter 31. Joe Baxter 32. Ash Kennard 33. Chris Abbey 34. Stan Shaw 35. Dan Campbell 36. Mike Crowther 37. Nick Manning 38. Ashley Wood !... 39. Adam Phillips (Bigman) 40. Alex Munro (probably!) 41. Ben Rowlands

I've spent the majority of my life suffering from depression, although I'm mostly alright these days. What helped me out of it was not medication (which made things worse) or psychotherapy but, in the first instance, exercise and eating properlly. Beyond that, meditation and yoga have done a hugh amount - they allow for the most change but require those other bits underlying. Basically with depression it relates to the way you are thinking - regardless of if you are aware of certain thoughts, they are occuring in some sense and making you feel down. You essentially need to alter your thinking. This is not easy anyway but becomes easier if you are physically well or fit. As the mental part of our existence seems dependent on the physical this makes sense. Learning to relax, regardles of method (such yoga or meditation) is a way of reducing the thoughts you are having and setting yourself up for change. Typically a depressed person has hyperactive thoughts and so also they don't sleep properlly which also makes matters worse. Again, the slowing of your thought processes can restore decent sleep. Send me a pm if you'd like to talk about things, if that might help you. I'm pretty experienced with mental health problems Ben edit: By the way, certain anti-depressents do help some people. I have friends who have used them on both a temporary and long term basis with positive results. It's almost certain you wouldn't get addicted.

Did anyone else look straight towards her genitalia?

I'm in.. hopefully - work dependent.

I certainly am, although I'm continually trying to transcend that conditioning. I wasn't actually talking in terms of feeling bad as a socially conditioned virtue, rather actually feeling something positive to somebody in a fairly generic sense, one that in fact is applicable to normal situations besides this one. Additionally, feeling positive as a rational choice (besides the difficulty of such a thing). I actually think that feeling bad as a virtue is quite odd and not a thing I would like to be involved in. On an intersting side note, the Japanese (and the east in general supposedly) apparantly feel minimal amounts of guilt in comparison to the west. Guilt as a condioned virtue? Regardless of that though, we're on the same lines I think.

I find it a shame, although perhaps a neccesity of our time, that we need to divide the world into deserving and undeserving. You could give Mark Speight your compassion and understanding. What loss would that be to you? Would it in fact be your gain to feel something positive for another human being, who went through a difficult time? Or would it actually be your gain to feel negative about another human being? Seems fairly erroneuos to me to summarise a persons entirity with what is actually a fractional aspect of who they were, if in fact you are deciding the need to judge somebodies value at all.

Giant mechanical bird wings that flap?

There is only an end cap, no lock nut whatsoever. The end cap holds everything together. That, it would seem, is the intended design...

Hello, Thought I would warn you all away from Atomlab G.I. Pedals (sealed). I bought these a couple of months ago and they have performed terribly. The pedal frames move along the length of the spindle, with which no tightening of the outer bolt with resolve. In fact, tightening of that bolt will just cause the pedal to not spin - the movement that you actually want. The pedal frame will frequently fall off of the spindle, which is really quite dangerous. Basically the outer bolt seems to be undone by the movement of the pedal frame. The pedals make loads of noise from the inescapable movement. I can't remember the exact way in which pedals are 'usually' put together but I think they normally have an internal bolt or nut or something to avvoid this problem? These pedals do not have that. They cost me £40 and are a complete waste of money. It's somewhat of a shame in the sense that the frame is of a nice size and quite grippy. In the absence of these problems, the pedal could have been good but it is not. I am going to try and get a refund or exchange these pedals with CRC, who have interestingly discontinued them. They are still sold elsewhere though. Be warned! Ben