Quote from harjun :

Ok, well i mean i've seen aviation snips and Tin snips...but i'm not sure if they'll cut the 3mm aluminium strongest grade alloy.
will one of these do...http://www.screwfix.com/cats/A ... rs-Cutters/Aviation-Snips

Please can you link me to one, but i've only got £35 to spend, but that should do right?
Thanks

I don't know the size of your arms but i would not recommend thoose for sheet aluminium of 3mm, I use thoose up to 1.5 mm.

I would buy a tool like the one the picture. Where I live I can get one for approx. 34 pound.

Best regards
Tooby

Quote from mrodgers :

Those with a true passion for motorcycles, this statement is the complete opposite. Learn to be a motorcyclist, not a kid with a motorcycle. A motorcyclist has much more respect for the machine and you learn much about awareness, more than anything you will ever do. Becoming a motorcyclist helps in infinite ways even when driving a car. You learn to become aware of everything and learn to look far ahead at potential situations that you become a far better motorist all together no matter what you are using.

It's the kids and the immature (doesn't always mean young of age) with the superior attitude and thinking they are indestructible that are the ones that are more likely to "do stupid stuff."


It only took 2 days for me. Nervousness, a turn, gravel, and a very large pickup truck who thought it was ok to ride right on my rear fender made for a 'not so pleasant' slide on my butt. Lucky, I wasn't moving very fast. I ALWAYS wore a full face helmet, even after the law was revoked here in PA that it was a requirement. I laid down my bike at a VERY low speed. I was turning off one road onto another, maybe 10 mph if that, and the back tire spun and slipped in fine gravel. It was so slow that it was very close to being the equivelant to being stopped and the bike falling. I was knocked down to the pavement and my helmet thumped onto the road. I could tell that it would have hurt VERY much had I not been wearing a helmet. I couldn't imagine actually having a real crash without a helmet form that experience.


Wrong. You don't need a bike that will allow you to learn how to get your knee down. You are not on a race track out on public roads. You need a bike that will allow you to learn to respect the bike. You should never be "using the full potential" on the roads.


Favorite make is Honda. No real reason. I just think the quality of Honda is at the very top, but that doesn't mean anything about the quality of the others. My 2nd choice is the Kawasaki.

My first bike was a used 1983 Honda Nighthawk CB550SC. Pic of my bike. What I liked about my bike being on 2 wheels for the first time is, it was VERY easy to ride those first few weeks. The lower rpm range was easy on power and acceleration. As I got use to riding, I went further into the rpm range and was pleasantly surprised at the rush of acceleration once I hit 6000 rpm and moved above. As a beginner, this was great because you always outgrow your first bike. The ease of using lower rpm to learn, then the allowance of the higher rpms in faster acceleration and more speed allowed me to use the bike for longer than a month.

The first time I got on a bike was when I test road a bike someone was selling. It was a Yamaha 650 Special. Basically, a thumper, or a single cylinder very low powered engine. I rode it 8 feet and it was immediately clear to me that I would out grow it within a matter of days. In hindsight, my immediate reaction I now know was spot on. Basically, what I'm saying is, you don't want too small of a bike, but you don't want too big of a bike either.

I would recommend used Honda Nighthawks to anyone just starting out on a motorcycle. Small enough to initially learn on, but big enough to continue for a short while.


cc's mean absolutely nothing. As I said, my very first experience was on a 650 cc, and it was like riding one of those electric scooter toys for the kids. Absolutely no usable power. There's a huge difference between single cylinders, V-twins, 4 cylinders, and V-4 engines.


I would recommend not wasting the money on something new for your first bike. As you said you are interested in a sport bike, these would be great bikes, except that a year down the road, you WILL be looking for more. Not only that, but as the saying goes, there's 2 types of riders. Those who HAVE laid their bikes down, and those who are GOING to lay their bikes down. I would rather pay the small cash for something used, learn, take a motorcycle safety course (free in PA), and have hardly anything into it. Then, after you have learned, you know more about what you want and can look for an 'upgrade' to your beginner bike and spend for something new.

For the record, I spent $1150 (tax, title, and registration) on my Nighthawk in 2001, rode it for ~20,000 miles, and sold it for $900.

Be aware of the 'sticker shock' when you go to purchase tires for a bike. They aren't cheap, and they don't last like car tires. I was putting a rear tire on mine every year, and a front ever 2 years.

Good post!
I would recomend a single or twin for first bike (yamaha SR 500 or MT03, Suzuki Sv650, Honda Night Hawk 650, kawasaki ER 650, Ducati Monster 620, perhaps Buell Blast (never ridden myself) or similar).

I have being riding motorcycles since 1989 and had my only accident a few weeks after getting the licens.I was driving slow but miss judged the car and went of the road with hurting thumbs and knees, cause the speed was low I was up on the bike the next week.

If you want your knee down go racing instead... There you will learn how to go fast and be safe and there will be medical personal at site cause you will crash.

Riding in traffic is hard in another way, you have you take care of your self and look out for kids, bad asphalt, trees, drunken drivers, animals, people doing misstakes.

best regards
Tooby

or Eddie Van Halen

Quote from egghed6 :

never heard of him...

Perhaps taste of music or age (feeling old there, am I). In my book a good blues guitar player.
edit: just found this....funny, his is in some of the games "Guitar heroes" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... Ho7t0&feature=related)

Last edited by Tooby, Tue 17 Jun 2008, 18:53.

Stevie Ray Vaughn
Edit: Doing some Jimi Hendrix (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GSpbuFSr2o)
Edit: ...or one of my favorites (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... Wj9lI&feature=related)

Last edited by Tooby, Tue 17 Jun 2008, 18:36.

Thanx!
Really like this. There is one thing I miss, when driving GPL there was a program where you could compare laps and in that program it was possible to "see" the speed difference on track with different colors.

keep up the good work!

Quote from DarkTimes :

I meant the HTML export I wrote for LFSPoints is crap, not the C# language itself. Sorry for the confusion.

While C# has lots of nice classes to help you write XML files, the same cannot be said for HTML. I did end up writing my own HtmlWriter class, which works the same way as XmlWriter does, but even small web pages can have hundreds of lines of code, and programmatically writing them all is a bit of a nightmare.

In terms of C# the language, I love it! I wouldn't have worked on the same .NET program for almost six months if I didn't!

Good that I missunderstood.
Found the project but you perhaps don't need it.
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/xml_serializationasp.asp

Quote from DarkTimes :

...Hopefully by adding these I can ditch the HTML export, which is a total pain to work with in C# (and is crap anyway). ...

First, sorry for editing in your text but my question is about (and is crap anyway). Do you think C# is crap? just wondering because I find C# nice to work with regarding XML. Search for how to Serialize / deserialze XML with C#.

I had a really good project before but can't find it at the moment...
Look here: http://www.codeproject.com/inf ... ;ed=10/19/2007&Page=1


Best Regards tooby

Last edited by Tooby, Fri 19 Oct 2007, 15:33.

Something like this
http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_parser.asp

For IE-6 I think...And you have to learn XSL then you're lost
<html>
<body>

<script type="text/javascript">

// Load XML
var xml = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
xml.async = false
xml.load("cdcatalog.xml")

// Load XSL
var xsl = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
xsl.async = false
xsl.load("cdcatalog.xsl")

// Transform
document.write(xml.transformNode(xsl))

</script>

</body>
</html>

Last edited by Tooby, Thu 18 Oct 2007, 17:49.

Quote from toper :

http://www1.freewebs.com/blendermats/index.htm

free materials for blender : )

Thanx for the link.

Hi!
I have been doing some changes to the UFR and have come to a knowledge of what a BIG job the team of LFS have done. It's one thing to try to do some small changes (but it takes time...) and another to make it from a scratch. When I tried to smooth out car I was wondering why the had made the modeling the way they had. When I tried to map the LFS skin to the "new" car I noticed what a big job it is to line up the UV mesh for the car. Thats the reason why I only show the car in one color...

Hat of for the team of LFS
/Tooby

Last edited by Tooby, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 22:05.

Hi!
Doing a wireframe for a kart (or any vehicle at all) is not easy done. Then you have to align a picture (your set av stickers) on that wireframe, and that hard work too. Then to make the render you have to either know some about lightning or do a lot of test renders. So asking sombody to do this for you is asking for much.

The simplest way forward in this case is to use a good picture of your friends kart and do the work in Photoshop or Gimp (free program).

Quote from jonaz lindberg :

I mean do a floor or ground just like robps has done here.

I will read the tutorial tomorrow, don't have the time now but thanks

Oops..Sorry
1. Add a plane
2. Scale to size you want
3. Add new texture
4. go to tab "mirror transp". Enable "Ray mirror" and "play with the values for "Ray mir (0.5)" and "fresnel (1.5)"

Setting blender GUI:
http://i174.photobucket.com/al ... LFS_Blender_mirror_II.jpg

"Result"
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w107/sir_tooby/UFR.jpg

Hope this is what you where asking for

Quote from jonaz lindberg :

Realy nice of u to share this tutorial

But there is two thing i wont to now how to do and that is:

1. How to do mirroring floor?

2. How to change rims?

Thanks one more for the fantastic guide.

Hi!
1. Regarding your first question I don't know what you want to do..
Try to follow the red squares in linked picture and you will be able to mirror selected mesh.
http://i174.photobucket.com/al ... by/LFS_Blender_mirror.jpg

2. To change rims you have to make new ones. There is a tutorial for a car at:
http://forum.rscnet.org/showthread.php?t=249187

Hope this helps you.

Last edited by Tooby, Sat 22 Sep 2007, 21:22. Reason : Picture link would not work

@ Bogey Jammer
Thanx for doing a tut for rendering. I have mostly used blender for lowpoly building of motorcycles and just started to try to learn rendering.

Put your HD in a external carrier and buy a new HD where you install Windows

Sorry for not starting watson, done that now....
I got a crash using U30. We pressed end race and just as that happen I pressed F1, then LFS crashed

Edit: forgot to say I was online

Thanx all!
I re installed the 4.6 driver and now it works again. or should it be ...now it's harder to buy the G25...

Quote from Hyperactive :

Do you more than one LFS folder in your computer? It may be just some strange file corruption (dunno ).

One thing I did...I copied the U28 to another folder before I installed U30, perhaps that started the problem?

Last edited by Tooby, Mon 6 Nov 2006, 18:03.

Thanx!
I'll try re installing the driver and se what happens.

I have restarted pc and LFS an no difference and force don't work in profiler

Hi!
My force feedback have stopped working and I don't know from when?? I tried my brothers G25 and now I noticed that I have no force and then when I start LFS I get a error message: dierr_unsupported


The wheel could be broken but what with the message from lfs?

Quote from tristancliffe :

Here is a picture, taken at Rockingham last year during a Ginetta Owners Club meeting. Shortly after it did a few laps of the track, which was nice, and confirmed what a dull waste of space Rockingham is.

Nice looking car!

Quote from XCNuse :

lol i guess your hte only person seeing the thumbnails then:
http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a392/XCNuse/Ginetta%20G4/

Shure looks good

Quote from XCNuse :

progress is.. well usually good (is in this case i hope)

i seriously wished we had this car in LFS would so be a perfect match for the LX6

http://photobucket.com/albums/ ... etta%20G4/th_72f8a80d.jpg

http://photobucket.com/albums/ ... etta%20G4/th_d634b402.jpg

I really like your car. Would it be possible to se a larger picture of it or is it just me seeing a small small picture. It don't have to be a fancy render, the car looks good without.

Quote from Taavi(EST) :

ok it's not much but it's a start...mixing part 1 (ford writing will not be included in the final version...)

I found a tutorial with that car...are you using Blender? I am just starting to learn blender been doing some in 3ds max before

I am working on a race Porsche at the moment but this car could perhaps be a part of LFS (Suzuki GSX-R 4):

Quote from ebola :

^^^^what he said^^^^

You want to know what I said?
I thought I should explained to EmiliO thats it's possible to get and "internetcard" in Sweden. I don't know if you have it in England and it easier to explain in your native language.