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No, but he wouldn't appreciate it if I walked up to him and said "Oi" either would he? Most people in Britain wouldn't appreciate it if you walked up to them and said hello, you'd soon get told where to go, so it's a bit of a silly thing to say. You don't just walk up to people and say a single word at them do you? The anger comes from confusion between Indians and Pakistanies, India is a lot bigger, a lot more Indians come to live in Britain than Pakistanies do, so on the whole you would be talking to an Indian and not a Pakistani and as I've said before Indians don't like Pakistanies and find it an insult to be reffered to as one of them (which is a bit racist of them by your books), but actual Pakistanis don't mind. I was friends with a Pakistani guy in school, and when the conversation came round as to what his dad did for a living he said "He runs a Paki shop in Mottingham." I think he would have been a little confused if I had called him racist for that, don't you?

"Oh look dear, it's that boy from down the road filming his little bike in the street again..."

WOW!!! Is all I can say to that... TEACH ME HOW!!!! ;)

If he is from India and not Pakistan, then he would take offence because the Indians and Pakistanis like fighting wars between each other, but on the whole, a respectable Asian person would just calmly tell you theyre not from Pakistan. Unless they are from Pakistan, then they'd say, "What do you want, Brit?" Racism is using race to deliberately cause someone distress/harm. Like I said, if someone called me a Brit, I wouldnt have a problem with it, so it doesnt count as racism

But what I'm getting at is WHY is being called what you are offensive? You call your friend a cock... he isn't actually a cock, he's a human being. A Brit IS a Brit, a Paki is a Paki, so why take offense? Is being a Paki something to be ashamed of and being a Brit not? Ive just been to Tunisia for my honeymoon, and the Arabs call the Pakistanis, Pakis because its shorter. Getting offended over being called something you are is just someone looking for an excuse to vent their anger. If you go to France or something, at some point some one will point out that you are British, and make a joke about that or about British culture, but your not going to come back later on with a bunch of lads and beat them up. I don't believe race was in this, it was just the group of guys that he chose retaliate against were just looking for someone to beat up, and they were just annoying people to find an excuse to beat them up, and he gave it to them, he did exactly what they wanted him to do. If the guys were British, Chinese, anything, but still had that mentality of starting a fight for the fun of it, they would still havce done it.

Some black guy once called me honky to try and scare me, I don't think he realised how silly a word it is... And no, I think most people are very aware about how Pakistani's hate Indians and vice-versa, (but thats not racist is it...?) and I don't think all Asian people get called Paki, (especially those from China, Japan, Thailand etc)

Why is it racist to call someone from Pakistan a Paki? Calling someone from Britain a Brit isn't racist. Calling someone from a America a Yank isn't racist. Calling someone from India an Indian isn't rascist. (Black people call each other nigger all the time, especially on records, which they know will influence others to do the same, but thats a different kettle of fish) So WHY is it racist? I could understand it being racist if you said you are daft BECAUSE you're a Paki, because thats associating a bad thing with a whole race, hence racism, but saying that Paki is racist is like saying that "Your mum" (remember that?) is insulting! When its not!

Reading some people's comments here, some people are waaay to rich... not all of us can run to mummy or daddy when our forks don't match our bikes... Give the guy a break, do you want him to sell his kidneys or something to make some money just so his forks and stem are silver??? Bloody hell

i dont know if you have one, but i bought two because bikedock was taking ages and i needed one so i just bought one, i can post it to you tommorow, maybe even tonight if your quick, for £16 if you want. its just that my wife keeps nagging me to send it back to bikedock, and i cant be bothered. its brand new, chrome colour 18t acs claws freewheel, still packaged and everything. if you want me to do it, gimme your address and i'll post it to you, trusting that you will send me a cheque for £16

When I used to live in Lewisham and I got random black people coming up to me and saying "Oi whiteboy, gimme your phone or I'll stab you" (on way more than one occasion), would that count as rascism? Not really, because I'm white. Thing is, in Leisham, Caucasian (white people) are an ethnic minority, and are outnumbered by black people, asian people, etc, but it still isn't considered rascist. Its normal practice for an attack on a black person by a white person to be automatically considered, "a racially motivated attack" Thing is, in the end, it's not white peoples fault, or black peoples fault, or any normal citizen, it's the crappy government and political correctness. Guys living in posh houses who don't know what its like to be attacked by chavs, immigrants who decide whats best for them. It still makes me sick that an old peoples home was closed down in Ashford to make way for a home for young male immigrants, most of the old people who needed the home are now dead because of it, and these immigrants are regularly seen in town dealing drugs in broad daylight, when police walk past (they turn a blind eye), and most disgusting of all, they hang around in the local secondary school playground during lunch and break times, calling at the girls and trying to take them away. There has been a few reported rapes from them too. And the most annoying thing is that they never work! They have expensive trainers, fancy phones, gold jewellery, and they can barely speak english! Silly x1000

I had that, its becauae my steerer was too long and there wasnt enough space between the topcap and the start of the steerer, meaning everytime it was tightened, it just loosened again. If your steerer is less than half an inch away from where the top cap sits, cut the steerer down, or put a spacer in.

Looks like a T Pro running 16" wheels... I like (Y)

If you PM me your address I'll send you a mars bar (or another chocolate bar up to the value of £1) for a bloody good effort, and if you can do the full 360, I'll seal the package with a kiss EDIT: You know you want it

Thats bloody good! Can you redo it so the camera goes aaaaall the way round you and back to its original position??? From Cheeky Me (Y)

What you mean I might actually have to buy and post a mars bar :) EDIT: Well, if anyone can do it, they deserve a mars bar...

I will also post a mars bar to whoever can successfully achieve a Matrix style bullet time camera shot, with the subject hopping onto the kerb, pausing still while the camera goes all the round in slow motion, then hopping off again back in normal time. Good quality efforts only! P.S. Sorry to steal the thread :)

Cheers... It's just that my ACS was rubbing on the bb shell and I'd waited long enough for my bb and couldn't be arsed with sending it back and getting a longer one.. so I went all slicey slicey on the ACS's ass... and I might be wantin an ENO at some point

:) It only my opinion, but I think the Hope XC looks far nicer than the King front hubs, and they're cheaper. XC all the way! You could get a few XC's for the price of a Chris King (not that you need more than one)

or tipped the bike upside down :)

With the tabs removed from your freewheel, how do you plan on removinf it when you get an ENO?? I just ask because I may be in the same boat here...

The bash sits on the splines indicated in my beautiful diagram (different crankset - same idea) and the freewheel screws on to hols it in place. You can safely screw on a freewheel without the bash, but you will see a gap between the crank and the freewheel where the splines sit, but the splines will still touch the freewheel where normal cranks would completely touch the freewheel.

Yeah, its a UCI bashring (so its quite thin), which is held in place by the freewheel. The cranks are designed to fit a freewheel and a bashring

They both run front freewheel

No they don't they shrink the wheelbase because of the angle of the headtube on the T-Pro Yes, the Zoo!'s ARE made of U6, go look on the spec on Tartybikes

Just a bit off topic and out of interest, why is the T-Pro now made with U6 and the T-Mag not? If the T-Mag was made from U6 I thinnk it would be a surefire better seller than the T-Pro spec-wise