Oh snap, I though I did well by scoring a 850. . . Guess its like golf though.

Quote from Gills4life :

/Comic book guy voice


Worst apocalypse ever.

and that

^^^
I second that.

Perfect until you seat post or seat tube snaps (joke)

^^^
So they were running over the animals in the petting zoo in the field to the right of my school. Thats sad. Poor Kangaroo.

Quote from squidhead :

Corvettes only exist in a country where right turns are forbidden by law...and using the word "handling" by the test drivers is punished by death sentense

Oh, snap. So all the people making rights out of my HS this afternoon were breaking the law??

^^^^
I think the linky thingy is broken, but I may be wrong.

Quote from nihil :

Uh... No, it isn't.

If you have to take your scientific instruction from popular culture, why not try this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

White people... What can I say?

The comment that I found below this video says it all. "Our lives depend on these people?"


And for the record, no, I dont think the world is going to end.

I downloaded it like 3 hours ago and I love it already. Way faster than the Aol or IE we have and a hell of a lot faster than the FF at school (but the school's inter web sucks). I love how it tells you when you spell something wrong.

Couple of pics and a vid of one of my rigs:

http://s278.photobucket.com/al ... &current=IMG_0069.jpg

http://i278.photobucket.com/al ... 108/ca7erham/IMG_0071.jpg

Video:
http://s278.photobucket.com/al ... &current=100_1840.flv

http://s278.photobucket.com/al ... &current=100_1771.flv

http://s278.photobucket.com/al ... &current=100_1841.flv

Due to poor cam placement, none of the videos do the sections justice. The one with me in it (first vid) was a rock garden on a steep hill. Just watch my fork. The one with my friend is a tight turn followed by a steep hill onto a bridge and the third is of him failing (he road the whole section then locked his front at the end). I love my C'dale. I also have an 8ish year old Fuji race (road) bike that I bought from one of my dad's friends for $120 and currently I'm working at getting a Jamis Komodo to do some DJ/Urban/Freeride stuff with.

Edit: Yes, I got my ass kicked for having the muddy tires on the nice rug.

Last edited by speed1, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 19:20.

Quote from thestig99 :

It may or may not be an item of abuse..

By any chance do you have an account with bike forums?

I dont really mind blood, but I dont much like compound fractures (where you can see the bone) or the breaks where you can see the bump the bone is making under the skin. If my feet fall off of my pedals when I'm jumping (on my bike), I get slaped in the shin with a good bit of force (you jump with your feet even, so when ever one falls off the pedal, all of your weight goes to the other and the crank swings around an slaps you). This happens all the time, and I ride clipless, which means that I have small, sharp pedals (The other day, though I took my friend's bike, with regular pedals, off of a 1-2 foot jump and got slapped hard enough to bruse my leg and cut it up purdy bad). This doesnt effect me at all, nor does getting cut on the arms, but for some reason (I dont pass out or get woosy) it really hurts me when I cut my fingers. Not sure why a small cut on my finger hurts more that a big, deep gash on my shin, but it does.

Quote from chavm481 :

i dont know but it might be improved if it can be.

Seriously, just stop. In the 8 or so mins that I've been on this thread, your post cound up by 3, and in the couple of days its been sense I last was on here, your post count has gone up by like 60. A man once said "HELP!!!, I've fallen and I can't shut up". You are that man. Time to get up. Also, you have no excuse for poor grammer and spelling. You speak English as a primary language.

Quote from Stefani24 :

DONT USE NORTON!
thats just my advise.

Why? I've got one of their programs and it has worked fine for me.

Two of my friends and I (they stayed overnight to watch the olympic MTB race with me) went out at about 6 am when it was still darkish and did some similar type things, only rather than drag racing, we did a kind or rally SS type thing. We went to the big smooth parking lot of my high school and set up a course that weaved in between some lamps and ended adjasant to where we started. Lots-O-fun. We'll have to post a vid of the next time we go. We were hitting about 25-30 mph, so not crazy fast, but we were having a great time turning and burning. Best part is, we got a few more interested I think. I love riding on the road at this time in the morning. You can see without a light (I put a reflector on up front and a strobe on out back though), and nobody is on the road.

Edit: only bad part is that one of my friends has only a MTB and my other friend and I were riding road bikes (the two road bikes were semi-even; I could get him on the straight aways and chicanes due to my short wheel base, thinner tires and lighter bike, but he had way more overall grip, due to wider tires and a more flexy fork, and most of the turns were sweepers that were to tight to pedal on)

Last edited by speed1, Sun 24 Aug 2008, 21:05.

Quote from xaotik :

I'm more of the "educate the cyclists" approach than segregating them. Adequately fit cyclists who can move at a decent speed and follow traffic laws, keep their bicycle in good shape, know how to move in traffic and let other vehicles know of their intentions leave little to chance and keep themselves and others out of harm's way.

However re-reading the above and considering cyclists I see on the streets every day, I admit that it's a bit on the ideal side of things.

I second everything you said.

Quote from Mp3 Astra :

I am also mainly a cyclist, and I think that bikes of a certain category should be treated in the same way as cars. Insured, taxed and with specific laws on how they are maintained. But this can only happen if cyclists are given proper routes and facilities. So, it seems that cyclists sometimes don't have an option to ride on the pavement, putting themselves at less risk but putting those on the sidewalk in peril.

Come ride in the US. People ride many times because they cant afford all the things that come with bikes. If you are on the road you should know the laws, but there should be no need for a license.

The law must be lopsided to an extent to protect the rights of cyclists (in this instance though I think the cyclist was way out of line). If the laws were less biased (yes, as a cyclist I am admiting that they are biased), we would get bullied even more than we do by dumbass drivers.

Very odd. I've honestly have never heard of this (infact, we were making fun of the Idea of a bike license on a MTB forum when someone misposted) I need to be able to ride on the road to get to work and school as I cant yet drive. So a license would really stink.

No, I'm not talking about learning (3-4 is when I learned also), I mean riding on the road (ie. at this time I do absolutly no riding on the sidewalk [which is more dangous in many cases], with the only exeption being coming home from school, because the 16 and 17 YOs at my school cant drive)

Quote from Kalev EST :

Yep. When you´re under 14 you need a license to ride on public roads. You have to do a theory test and a riding test. But again, I´ve never heard anyone getting in trouble when they didn´t have it.

Interesting, I've been road riding sense I was around 10 (but not by myself until I was about 13) here in the US and I am glad we dont have anything like that.

Quote from Kalev EST :

I rode without a license

You need a license? Around here the only time you need a licence to ride a bike is in racing (and that's more of a road thing or when you are racing in one of the higher catagorys, and I dont road race, and when I do MTB racing I do it an a lower Catagory)

As a cyclist, I know I should have lights and reflectors, but none of my bikes do. I took a hammer to the reflectors on my mountain bike (No point in having them IMO because cars dont drive on singletrack anyways). My road bike hasnt got them either (I bought it used). I know I should have them and lights but I dont, and I dont have a good reason not to. I think this is the way many cyclists are. More info. available apon request.

Looks like alot of those bikes/riders were messangers (Bunch of SS/track bikes). I still say mountain bikers are better though. . .

^^^
But he didnt say everything.

Also, I watched it a couple of times and thought it was stupid, but I love the fact that there are grown people who believe that it's real.