Luke Rainbird

Yeah. The time and money in that could well have been spent on a couple of iterations of "proper" PCB. But then I suppose the same could be said for SendCutSending most of the brackets, which would detract form the DIY build (he says, having taken delivery of two Fractory deliveries of laser cut goodies today...)

Must have taken a huge amount of time and effort to get all that working right so I totally get the wait between episodes, but I found that one fell pretty flat. Lots of interesting detail in there but I dunno. Hopefully they can rebuild a bit of momentum (the few vids prior were surprisingly quick succession by Binky standards, and somewhat more engaging) and it's just a one off.

11 year bump, first post, link to generic Chinese company. Yeahhhhhh, see you later.

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As an occasional novelty, and leaning into the nuances of the bike, I quite like videos on "other" bikes, but as far as actual trials vids go I prefer trials bikes. That said, I'd rather have an Akrigg vid on an eeb than no Akrigg vid at all!

Yeah, even at relatively slow speeds that sort of mass is a HUGE amount of momentum. Bear in mind that structures like bridges are, to a point, built to be as light as possible for a given purpose. Yeah ok, there are safety factors involved that increase the bulk somewhat, but generally speaking they're not going to be using more material than legislation requires them to. As such, you have a structure built to do the job for normal use, but external factors like A MASSIVE LADEN SHIP DRIVING STRAIGHT INTO IT tend to be outside of the design parameters. It's hard to imagine quite how much force there was from what is a seemingly slow crash, but that mass is the critical part. I've seen a figure of approx 8kts impact speed, which is around 15kph. Using the 120,000,000kg you mention, Mike, that's like a fully laden artic lorry crashing into the support at something like 38,000kph. That's faster than the escape velocity of the Space Shuttle, and about twice the orbit velocity of the ISS for some context.

Because it's a f**king huge ship at pace and that support structure, oddly enough, supports the structure so when it's compromised the bridge fails.

From a pretty outside view these days (I haven't ridden in years, but TF is still usually the first tab I open on Chrome out of habit/spite!) it's not dead, it's just really fragmented. Social media has moved folk away from a forum like this and into smaller groups on FB/similar. Big group rides seem fewer and further between, but are still out there (recent Barcelona trip is a prime example). That all makes it harder for people to discover than before, which won't help. But then you get the top end (Danny, Ali, Carthy etc) out there for the world to find online which has to be inspiring someone, surely. People's attention spans certainly seem to have dropped, and perhaps new riders are losing interest sooner than we used to. Could be completely wrong in that, and the fragmentation means I just don't see newer riders so much as when it was all on TF/OTN etc. In a world where it's SO easy to upload footage/clips, perhaps it's now so easy that people are making less effort to deliberately share beginner riding for fear of being shot down now the top end is such a high level and is so accessible to everybody.

Oh FFS, what absolute c**ts. Sorry you're having such a shit time of it man.

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For whatever reason I've only ever gone direct to Hope with issues I've had (they've been few and far between!) and they've always been great, even when something has been my own doing rather than manufacturing issues. Be decent with Hope and they'll look after you - doesn't sound like your retailer is.

Useful to know, thanks. Without being a bit more clued up it's hard to know how much value to put on internet comments around wifi networks getting cluttered, Zwave being more reliable than Zigbee etc. I suspect there's an element of theoretical in there and if you're pushing a heavy system hard it might be a factor, but for a few bulbs and sensors to try and automate a couple of bits I don't suspect I need to go that deep into it all really. Will probably dig out one of my old RPis though 😂