RantMachine

'Tis the season for squealing drum brakes, it seem! Had another thread about this last week: http://themotorbikeforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=58727 If you didn't get any advisories about the brake then it's probably just dust in the brake drum, give it a clean out and you should be fine.

Bloody hell, all the press surrounding GP is one hell of a lot of fuss about nothing Roll on Dakar! The only way that ever makes the news is when (note that I don't say "if") someone dies

I would say "and Lexmoto", but I know at least one former member of the forum is working on that so it probably isn't necessary to say anything

If we're going to turn this into a bicycle hate thread, somebody needs to PM Nman

I'll be there!

Seeing as we're talking about London, I assume that the "relevant jabs" are given with a folding knife and administered by a teenager wearing a hoodie...?

Nah Stu, I think you'd be far too busy with the whole "OH GOD I'M ON FIRE" to worry about that

I concluded that him and my brother must secretly have been lovers and that's the look of a man who is heartbroken to have to arrest him. My brother did not appreciate this suggestion.

Yeah, it's called "Buying a DR-BIG on eBay when the BMW finally dies"

See there's the thing, I haven't owned a bike with more than one cylinder and five gears so it doesn't bother me in the slightest

Nah, not twins of any kind - I'm far better looking. But he certainly gets up to some batshit crazy stuff...

HOLY POOP http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news-new-bikes/hondas-crf250-rally-is-heading-for-production/28408.html Fingers crossed there will be one of those at Motorcycle Live! I assumed it was never going to go beyond being a concept... http://procrasti-nation.eu/wp-content/uploads/Shut-up-and-take-my-money.jpg

I always thought that they update constantly so that they can introduce new errors as soon as their customers have found a work-around for the old ones

Cyclists with a stupidly bright light on top of their head pointing straight forward into my eyes! Flashing or not, it's bloody idiotic!

Cheers, but I've done it now. It's more the principle of it that pisses me off; I don't need Adobe sticking things like that in as safeguards against accidentally overwriting the original file without giving me the option to disable them. I'm a grown up and I can cope with these things. I'm saving with a different file extension in a different folder so there is no danger of overwriting the original, and I don't have layers that will be lost by saving in PNG because I only have one layer and I can't flatten it (which would stop it adding "copy") because that will remove the transparency. Grr.

My NOTD is whichever crapturd at Adobe decided to make it impossible to batch convert PSD files to PNG format while maintaining transparency without adding "copy" to the end of every single file name I now have to go through and manually remove it from 165 files. Cheers Adobe.

I need to get my brother to join the forum, he'd raise the bar in this thread

At least it's in Bedfordshire, rather than a county that any reasonable human being would ever want to visit...

The increasingly common illusion that people have a god-given right to not be offended by anything. And subsequently, the people that cave in to their complaining. You don't like it? Don't look at it. Voice your opinion. Have a damn argument if you need to (I know I usually do ). But acting all outraged and starting some big social media shit storm and crying until it gets changed to something that you find more inoffensive? f**k you, I don't want a world that's been wrapped in cotton wool. If you don't like it, you know what? It probably wasn't meant for you, so quit looking at it and let everyone else enjoy it instead of shitting all over it. You have every right to not like something, or to argue about it, or complain about it, or whatever. But nobody and nothing has to change just because you can't deal with it, and you should expect that you won't like everything you ever see because it's called f**king LIFE and people are all different.

I've encountered TinEye before, very handy way of checking if your photographs are being used without your permission! Regrettably though, most of the stuff that I have to hunt down consists of logos embedded in PDF files, Word documents, the odd spreadsheet, and god knows what else. Got to get the in-house clearup done before I start thinking about checking if any of our clients are using our old logo anywhere... And irritatingly, once again it's usually contained in PDF document that we supplied them with, rather than in an image format that a reverse image search like TinEye or Google will be able to find On the second front - that would be so very very nice Maybe if the old marketing team had done their job. As it is, instead I have to locate every one of these things and create such a central location, and then afterwards speak to the heads of each department about maybe just maybe NOT to go around creating their own stuff and squireling it away in bizarre locations any more thanks very much.

It's a drum brake, isn't it? Does the brake have a sort on on-off feeling when you're applying it, almost like there's a pulsing motion to the braking? Could be that the drum is a bit oval and needs to be skimmed or changed, that can make it squeal a bit. My front brake is going that way, need to get it sorted some time soon.

The last three years have been a complicated process of rebranding all three major business units within the Ede & Ravenscroft group. Now it's finally over-ish and all future material can be produced in line with the new branding, we (that is to say, I) have to do an audit on any legacy material that still may be in use. I say an audit, it's more like chemotherapy, because the old branding has spread like a ruddy cancer. There are so many little departments that have spent decades circulating their own self-generated collateral and plastering our brand identity across documents that really could have just stayed as plain black and white text, and the lazy gits in the previous marketing team just turned a blind eye. So now I have three warehouses (soon to be four) and four servers to search for any trace of the old logo, colours, contact details, etc etc. And as if that wasn't bad enough, today I encountered the biggest affront to our logo that I have ever seen... whoever created this abomination is my NOTD. Now I have to find how many places they actually used it... Left - their logo Right - what our full logo should actually look like Edit: As a side note, the third royal warrant on their version of the logo is that of the Queen Mother. No prizes for guessing why that being there is a problem.

Nope, just Panasonic did the decent thing and actually quoted the refresh rate in hertz rather than using their own bullshit measurement systems like MCI or PQI. A "Motion Clarity Index" of 400 supposedly equates to about 100Hz, and a the Samsung PQI is literally just a scale ranking all Samsung TVs against one another, ranging from 100 to 2400... so a PQI of 300 means it's the joint third lowest picture quality of all the TVs Samsung make. Also if I'm not mistaken HDMI can't handle more than 60Hz anyway, so that will be the governing factor for anything involving external devices such as gaming.

What about this one? That's just about as all singing all dancing as you could ever hope to get for under £400, and it's a Panasonic so you should be able to count on it being pretty decent quality. http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/tv-dvd-audio/televisions/televisions/panasonic-viera-tx-40cx400b-smart-3d-ultra-hd-4k-40-led-tv-10133366-pdt.html

Does this relate to yours? http://www.600riders.com/forum/fz6-technical/1795-changing-speedo-reading-kph-mph.html