Ali C

I won't go into every little detail because it's 1.24am and I should really be in bed....but... The explosives in the building theory......to me that's one of the most unlikely things that people claim to have happened. To demolish a building, a LOT of work has to be done, firstly you actually have to be able to have direct access to all the main structural pillars on every single floor, drill deep holes in them, pack the explosives and then wire in the few kilometres of wiring. Don't forget also that the buildings had people in 24-7, to rig both buildings with enough explosives to bring them down would take weeks. To manage all that without one of the thousands of people who would have used the building within that time would be very very very unlikely. The odds against someone not finding out would be so high, no "corporation" would ever think of it as a viable idea. I hear people say "look, you can see the floors blowing up as the building falls". If you have thousands of tons of building falling in on lower floors, where is the air going to go? There would be more than enough air pressure created to easily blow out the windows/walls. Some people say that Thermite could have been used on the main pillars/beams, but you would need so much of it that it would be logistically impossible to implement. I had not heard the "bombs in the basement" theory before. I don't know what happens when a plane hits a building and before the twin towers attack, I am pretty sure not many other people did either. My first thought is this: Buildings that tall are not super rigid structures, they even flex in strong winds. I could imagine that when a few hundred tonnes of plane hits such a tall building so high up, it could cause it to flex more than perhaps the structure was designed, perhaps the forces of flexing was transferred into the supports in the basement causing some failure. As I said I had not head about people claiming there were bombs in the basement so I don't know what people are using as evidence and my above theory is just that....a theory. People say that "jet fuel isn't hot enough to melt the main beams". That may well be true, but as most riders know, frames are never quite as strong if they get re-welded, metal that has been heated but not treated again is never as strong. The same goes with the building, you don't need to melt through them to cause failure, heating them up and removing the careful heat treatment process they went through before being put in the building would be more than enough to cause failure. Even if the heat only caused a slight twist, there is still hundreds if not thousands of tonnes of building above the now weakened section, the building could not support the weight and it collapsed on itself. It had a lot of momentum and continued to collapse the rest of the weakened building. That's my take on the whole "bombs in the building".

only seen this thread after today, was cool to see you guys, sorry if we didn't seem the most social people in the world, but that spot we met at was pretty fun and we didn't want to leave until a few lines had been done.

I question people intelligence if they REALLY believe the whole thing was a cover up.

short and high

long and low, ewww, not good for anything. Look at the Echo range of stems, they are pretty low and would do a great job of making your bike ride like shit

well he can't do it 3 cross if he has spokes for 4 cross, having a wheel "too stiff for hard landings" is kinda false, a stiff wheel is awesome for everything, BMXs have used 4 cross builds as the accepted way of building wheels for years and their wheels cope fine with landing (most of the time anyway).

what terrain? I REALLY like the feel of these

watched "Girl with the dragon tattoo" t'other day. I didn't know they were from Norway. the film itself was pretty good, nothing like a good old murder mystery to entertain for an hour or so.

not sure how you lace wheels, but if you do it the way of counting 3 holes to the left of the center for the first spoke, you'll need to count 4 holes for 4 cross

bike looks cool, next step should deffo be a shorter stem though! Chris, why rout the chain under both cogs?

looks eyeletted to me? Not that having eyelets or not actually matters. Does look a little odd having a wider rim on the rear, I would want to swap it to the front personally, get less tyre squirm when cornering and makes the tyre slightly bigger for (a tiny bit) more grip.

I shouldn't like it I really shouldn't.....but I do

I always found bite reduced with a booster, but hold increased. I would take less bite and more hold any day.

I can confirm he is not just writing a long shopping list

good luck tell the skate park users to wear helmets Everyone I have met in Blackpool seem pretty keen on it which is nice.

if they are employed to build wheels and take 90 mins they are doing it wrong Wish I could charge £60 labour on the wheel builds I do! I could have retired by now lol

pretty cool, nice to see he uses a decent rear tyre and not some super light balloon thing some people use.

some awesome riding, looks like a great event, I really hope to go next year

well I am not sure if I can tell about the exact geo, but you will be able to use fewer spacers and have the same relative hight from the pedals for sure. The amount of spacers on the production Sky wouldn't be far off.

that frame does have a lower bb though, so you wouldn't need as many stackers.

looking forward to Jack competing in the world cup!

One for the car people here. I have a a Peugeot Expert van with remote central locking however one of the buttons on my key fob doesn't work. I want to replace the fob to get working remote locking but I don't know how this is done. Can I buy another Peugeot fob (not identical) and get it cut? How does the car recognise a new fob? Who cuts car keys and do you need a code or can they just copy it? I have had a quick search online but I couldn't find any specifics. I would apreciate any help you guys can give. Ali

will be a bit late by then

Cap eats a BigMac meal every time he rides Preston...fact!

that was good, nice moves from cap, first time I have seen a wheel swap to lie-down. Matt has no bones as I have said before!