It's not, no way am I taking my car to the track, and I don't drive at the limit on public roads.
Replacement tyres: Bridgestone vs. Yokohama
Well it's time for some new front tyres on my car - currently wearing Bridgestone Turanza ER30s all round. But one tyre place I went to for a quote also recommended the Yokohama S306.
I can't find much out about this tyre online, does anyone know of any reviews or tests, or how it fares against the Turanza? I know my ER30s are poorly rated for their wet weather performance.
Also not sure what the implications are for putting a different brand/tread on the front compared to what will be on the back.
Any thoughts, anyone?
It's a Seat Ibiza btw, 1.8T 150bhp fwd.
I can't find much out about this tyre online, does anyone know of any reviews or tests, or how it fares against the Turanza? I know my ER30s are poorly rated for their wet weather performance.
Also not sure what the implications are for putting a different brand/tread on the front compared to what will be on the back.
Any thoughts, anyone?
It's a Seat Ibiza btw, 1.8T 150bhp fwd.
Well, that's one more destroyed. Can only be a good thing. 
More of a dyson, it seems.
Congrats to AR - again.
Yep, sorry, the instructor is far too lovely for me to start splashing her pictures around on the internet.
No probs. I'd offer more shots but they're all largely the same in terms of the view offered of the mechanism. Needless to say, the camera was focussed on the girl riding the bike.
Oh no, the pictures aren't the resistance kit I was talking about. The rowers, cross trainers, etc are all air resistance, and you can't see inside them. For obvious reasons the whirry bits are all enclosed either in solid plastic or such fine mesh that you can't see through.
The pictures above are examples of a spinning bike (in the studio, for classes) which uses friction resistance. There's no magnets, just a set of brake pads which you screw in and out with the adjuster next to the red lever (the red lever being the emergency brake, of sorts). Sorry for any confusion.
The pictures above are examples of a spinning bike (in the studio, for classes) which uses friction resistance. There's no magnets, just a set of brake pads which you screw in and out with the adjuster next to the red lever (the red lever being the emergency brake, of sorts). Sorry for any confusion.
Just finished the first page (I intend to read the rest later), and yes it's pretty disheartening. But true. I remember reading into this stuff shortly after the rebuilding started, and the warning signs soon became apparent. Americans should be outraged, and I just feel sorry for the Iraqi people. Not much has changed for them. They get royally screwed by Saddam Hussein, then get screwed just as much, but in different ways, by the US govt. Or to be more precise, the private contractors run by the buddies of the US govt that are appointed to spend US tax dollars in vast quantities to give the Iraqi people infrastructure and services that range from inadequate to downright dangerous. That's if you survive the day's car bombings when you go to get your groceries.
Makes me sick. Bring on the war crimes tribunal at the Hague for Dubya and his chum Tony Bliar. Along with Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Powell, and every other one of the America-raping, neocon crooks that the American public were stupid enough to vote into power.
Makes me sick. Bring on the war crimes tribunal at the Hague for Dubya and his chum Tony Bliar. Along with Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Powell, and every other one of the America-raping, neocon crooks that the American public were stupid enough to vote into power.
I do photography for my local gym, but unfortunately I'm not allowed to start pulling the resistance kit apart in order to photograph the internals of them. If I could, I'd have gotten some detailed shots for you.
One thing that springs to mind is the resistance system on spinning bikes - a freely-turning flywheel with brake pads to provide the resistance. Problem is then of course that you have to engineer a system to provide adjustable brake pressure, which is a simple screw turn on spinning bikes, but it's all pretty substantial stuff.
Here's the clearest shots I've got of how spinning bikes get their resistance:
(They're crops by the way, not just really bad photos...)
One thing that springs to mind is the resistance system on spinning bikes - a freely-turning flywheel with brake pads to provide the resistance. Problem is then of course that you have to engineer a system to provide adjustable brake pressure, which is a simple screw turn on spinning bikes, but it's all pretty substantial stuff.
Here's the clearest shots I've got of how spinning bikes get their resistance:
(They're crops by the way, not just really bad photos...
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I was under the impression that estate cars were actually aerodynamically cleaner than saloons. And they're not usually that much heavier than a saloon. The RS6 seems to be heavy though (according to the gossip and some links on the RS6 forum) - 2000kg is being suggested which is significantly more than its' rivals, I think. Might be wrong, though. Makes sense though, if it's carrying a 4WD system that can handle nearly 600bhp, whereas the other two are RWD.
Well I have to say that generally I don't like Audis at all - as much because of the type of people that seem to drive them as well as the cars themselves.
But with the RS4 and now this RS6, I think they're fantastic. Love the subtle, Q-car looks (BMW lost the plot with the M cars imho when they started getting more scoops and flares and bulges with every new version), and if the handling of the RS6 is to it's class what the RS4 is, it'll be a cracking drive.
/me wants...
But with the RS4 and now this RS6, I think they're fantastic. Love the subtle, Q-car looks (BMW lost the plot with the M cars imho when they started getting more scoops and flares and bulges with every new version), and if the handling of the RS6 is to it's class what the RS4 is, it'll be a cracking drive.
/me wants...
Tech guides are all well and good, but the amount of characters being wasted in your current sig is astonishing, and makes it seem somewhat farcical that you're requesting more.
Each of your three CTRA userbars has URL code to link to your licence. Why? I'm sure anyone wanting to view your actual licence could input your username to the CTRA website.
Why do you feel the need to tell people that you're pre-S3 licenced and a high-res skins user? I notice that you've removed the "total spent on LFS: £83" part. Like anyone ever cared how much you, I, or Joe Bloggs has spent on LFS.
Your BOTT userbar links to the UKCT site. If you're starved of characters, does it really have to?
In addition, why do you feel the need to have a separate link to the UKCT forum (isn't it linked to from the UKCT site that your bott bar already links to?)?
If you want to link to tech guides, you're also wasting characters trying to flog your stuff on ebay, and touting your website.
Sorry for souding harsh, but some sigs look a real mess and too full, and yours is one of them, however admirable your desire to link to more tech guides. There'd be plenty space if you used what there was more efficiently.
Well the same is true for me, I've not driven much of the South City combos other than SO1. The thing is, saying "well you've not driven all the combinations we've already got" is missing the point. Some people think we're already maxed out with the number of combos available on the current tracks; they don't feel interested in driving all the combos in the available environments. What would be nice is new environments.
More environments is always nicer than more configurations. Obviously, it's also a helluva lot more work for Eric, and may not be feasible. Then again, we've not seen any content from Eric since early '06, so he must have been doing something. But the current tracks are getting quite long in the tooth now. They're still enjoyable, but something fresh would give S2 an excellent shot in the arm.
Agree fully with you there. It always astonishes me how many people never get bored of doing FOX at BL1/AS2 or GTR at AS3, ad nauseum.
Yes, we could do with more tracks. As others have said, not track configurations (between Aston and Fern Bay we've already got more than enough of them), but actual, new, track environments. Especially ones in more varied locations around the world.
Dan makes a good point about combos for leagues - at the moment a league has to revisit each track several times, and only races in England (four times), Jamaica, or Japan. Not exactly realistic.
New tracks can't come soon enough imho, especially if we get something with the flavour of another continent and some great character. (Oh, and a track with some more technical, careful sections too!)
Dan makes a good point about combos for leagues - at the moment a league has to revisit each track several times, and only races in England (four times), Jamaica, or Japan. Not exactly realistic.
New tracks can't come soon enough imho, especially if we get something with the flavour of another continent and some great character.
(Oh, and a track with some more technical, careful sections too!)
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World Domination?
Of course you don't dear...
It's ok though, I don't think anyone believed you in the first place.
(Cheers Sam
)Kettle, meet pot.
Pot, kettle.
Anyway, seems like you really "learned" from your mistakes...
Less than 24 hours later...
It's ok though, I don't think anyone believed you the first time.
On the plus side for the devs and hosters for whom muhaa is a pain the arse, it's soon school term again.
Apologies to devs and any hosters involved with this thread for the off-topicness.So why did you bother skinning the front end of all your team cars? Most people only ever see the back of Vain's car, unless he's in your mirrors and about to lap you.
Seriously though, congrats to AR on signing one of the fastest, cleanest, and friendliest drivers around.
Well, Chris' list on the first page was updated 26th August, but I aint listed. Bitch.
So I've been booted off the team?...
That's good news - I still have (and still use, on the odd occasion I need a joystick) an MS SW joystick, and it's great. Excellent reliability, ergonomic, and very reasonable cost. But like wollschaf says, I'll think twice about buying anything from them again after their abysmal driver support on the previous range. I too used to have an MS SW FF wheel, and was left without any proper "advanced" drivers when they pulled the plug last time.
The chicanes in LFS are already pretty damn fast, on average. What we need is more technical sections and sequences of corners, rather than the flatout-brake-turn-flatout style of S2's new tracks.
Maybe a new track environment would help address this.
Having said that, it would be nice to see some LFS tracks without chicanes.
Aston already does this - you can race the old Historic track with only the lairy dipped chicane, or the GP track with double hairpins, and an extra slowing twist at the bottom of the back straight.
With Blackwood, it would be nice to see a configuration without the chicane - on the condition that the original surface bypassing the chicane is suitably old, bumpy, pitted, and generally unsuitable for modern racing cars (GTRs, single seaters).
Fern Bay's chicanes are a bit of a mystery. Most chicanes are added to tracks after their initial design, yet with Fern Bay there's no evidence of any previous track without the chicanes. Then again, it appears to be a partial road course (bridge), but it seems a bit odd to have so many chicanes designed into the circuit that don't actually slow you down, but just force the traffic into single file. Ouch, messy.
But what I really miss are some technical sections where you can't just floor it inbetween corners. I might not be as quick at them compared to the foot-to-the-floor tracks, but I'll have a lot more fun in the process.
Maybe a new track environment would help address this.
Having said that, it would be nice to see some LFS tracks without chicanes.
Aston already does this - you can race the old Historic track with only the lairy dipped chicane, or the GP track with double hairpins, and an extra slowing twist at the bottom of the back straight.
With Blackwood, it would be nice to see a configuration without the chicane - on the condition that the original surface bypassing the chicane is suitably old, bumpy, pitted, and generally unsuitable for modern racing cars (GTRs, single seaters).
Fern Bay's chicanes are a bit of a mystery. Most chicanes are added to tracks after their initial design, yet with Fern Bay there's no evidence of any previous track without the chicanes. Then again, it appears to be a partial road course (bridge), but it seems a bit odd to have so many chicanes designed into the circuit that don't actually slow you down, but just force the traffic into single file. Ouch, messy.
But what I really miss are some technical sections where you can't just floor it inbetween corners. I might not be as quick at them compared to the foot-to-the-floor tracks, but I'll have a lot more fun in the process.
I wouldn't buy any of those mate. Nothing to do with your choice of components, I'd just think twice about where you're buying from.
Thanks - I don;t think most of them apply to me (my LFS isn't modded at all, no AI settings or knowledge, and I have no screenshots, no replays, etc worth saving, lol) but handy to have a list of the "personal" stuff in the LFS folder.
Hmm, the more I think about it, the more I think you might have a point there...
/me looks at his mostly empty 1TB of network storage...
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