Joeman

*hits Joe on the nose with a rolled up newspaper* No, bad Joe, no. I think the forums broken. Nobody took the bait!!

Yeah, leave it on. You don't have to access the battery to out the bike on trickle charger. They all come with a socket you wire to the battery and leave hanging out. Here's a photo of my bike showing the charger socket :

I had a go with a sky Q box tonight. Terribly cheap feeling remote control, and the user interface is appalling..

I've got sky, Amazon and Netflix. Sky-Hd is ok but films limited. Amazon has some good content but they do cheeky stuff like giving the first few episodes for free then charge for the last. Netflix is best for movies. I use the Amazon fire TV to run the Netflix app. Amazon prime is good for free next day delivery.

Erm... So what are we seeing here??

Centrifugal. As the wheel spins, the force acting on the valve is in an outwards direction. As the wheel speed increases, so does the centrifugal force (g) to a point where it overcomes the rubbery bit and the metal bit moves towards the rim. High enough wheel speed will give enough centrifugal force to exceed the shear limit of the rubber and off it goes. The force is quite large - if you consider those spinny things used in astronaut training - the person gets quite badly squashed down and pass out under single digit g. Assuming a 17" rim and a 10 gram valve, your valve will undergo somewhere in the order or 350-400g at 70mph. Just because I like stiring things up. It's not centrifugal force that makes your angled valves rip out, it's the fact the valve isn't strong enough to provide sufficient centripetal force to prevent it ripping out. Like a heavy weight spinning round your head on a bit of string, it's not the centrifugal force that breaks the string when you get too fast, it's that the string can't provide sufficient centripetal force to keep the weight spinning - the required force exceeds the tensile strength of the string so it snaps and the weight flies off in a straight line as there is now no centripetal force causing it to move in an ark.. Centrifugal force doesn't exist.

It's actually the absence of sufficient centripetal force that's the problem..

7yr old: Mum, what happens if you eat lots of tinsel? Mum: probably emergency surgery to prevent obstruction somewhere in your digestive system. 7yr old: *blank face* *small voice* you get tinselitis.

Calcium from bones. My old dog did poos that turned white because we fed him on a raw diet that included bone. I think these days with heath and safety and dog food having to be safe for human consumption they've had to take the bone out.

Cyclists littering the roads... And it's supposed to be more environmentally friendly... Grrrrr.

haha dont we all!!

Litecoin is my favorite at the moment. Bitcoin is just too overvalued, but Litecoin is doing really well. Some people predicting it will go up 50% by the weekend.. it dropped today, so i bought some more.. im ready for the rise!

curious to know if anyone else is trading cryptocurrencies.. im into Bitcoin and Litecoin at the moment, just dabbling, nothing too serious.

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When I was 18 i stopped at a traffic light on my XT500 ....I had trainers on and my laces got caught around the gear shift I couldnt do anything as I had already started tipping the bike to the left as I went to put my foot down I simply Flopped slowly onto my side with the bike on top of me A nice car driver behind me got out to help me up as I couldnt move..............I dont think we got a full sentence out between us, as we were Both Laughing that Hard it was REALLY Comical I Only wore Bike boots from that day forwards It could have been a lot worse I had a similar accident at a pedestrian crossing when the kickstart got stuck up my trouser leg, just as a girl from my school and her mum were crossing the road in front of me... much street cred lost that day! haha

Be wary of laces.. they get tangled up, you can't take your foot off the peg, and you topple over in a heap on the floor...

what did you do? hack into the airline's weather computer and make it look worse than it really is, or just phone through a fake bomb scare??

Back in 2013 when we had proper snow in Sevenoaks, this was dumped by the side of the road for a few days until the snow melted..

Neither. It's a gap between the window case and the sill. Gap is too small to get foam in there hence the reason for asking if there is a liquid alternative that will flow into the gap and preferably set white or clear not foam-yellow.

I tried, I really did because it's about bikes and so I should have enjoyed it, but don't think I got to the end of the first episode..

My Audi on snow tyres would have eaten that hill for breakfast... I'd just cruise past them all like a typical Audi driver lol.

Low viscosity, now we're talking! Sounds like it would flow nicely under the window case and seal it up properly all the way under.

Yes, it's just a very slight draft in the bay. It's annoying so I was hoping to fill the track with some sort of liquid that would find all the gaps and fill them up and then set.

That might do the trick so long as I can get it in there.. hopefully its really liquid and can flow into the gap.

Thanks guys, the gap is very small, just a few mm, so can't get foam in there and would struggle to squirt silicone in there too. Hoping to find a liquid that would flow into the gap sealing it right the way through, not just the exposed gap. See the separation between the window case and the track its supposed to sit in.. it's tiny.