A right now thread
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Just watching footy in my pal's bar.
His shitty Kawasaki is spoiling the view
His shitty Kawasaki is spoiling the view
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Just finished grinding one set of bearings out of a swingarm linkage with a dremmel, I was planning on fitting a new chain today but I thought I’d grease the pivot and linkage bearings while I had the wheel out and found the middle bearing on the linkage was solid and the collar pitted and rusty.
Think it’s time to get a proper tool for this kind of thing and stay on top of maintenance, thought I’d only greased them a couple of years ago but it was actually 2013
Think it’s time to get a proper tool for this kind of thing and stay on top of maintenance, thought I’d only greased them a couple of years ago but it was actually 2013
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2 hours into an Ikea TV stand build. Fuck knows how I didn't get the big 'ammer to it. Speshally after nearly getting barred from the shop
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Have just done battle with our fancy drawing printer, it should just be a matter of printing it on A3 paper but no it prints the diagram half size, so it’s print it on A2 and cut it down but no, we’ll print from both the roll and the sheet paper and jam! 30 minutes and half a forest of paper later I’ve managed to get the size diagram I want. Bloody thing hates me.
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Sat having a beer after awesome 5 hour Enduro.
I'm improving so much, they ask me to lead the rides sometimes.
But being the trailblazer means that I hit problems first LOL.
Had a few places where took 2 folk to get the bikes up and over rocks and through tight gaps.
I'm used to both wheels being loose now and get the back wheel spinning in 6th on the long sandy tracks, which feels awesome.
And confident to have both wheels 'moving' on the hard paths covered by loose stuff.
That was until the front decided it didn't want to play and had a lie down at about 50 ish
Best shirt ripped, but the body armour saved me
But I'm chuffed I can still do 5 hours tough stuff in high 20s
I'm improving so much, they ask me to lead the rides sometimes.
But being the trailblazer means that I hit problems first LOL.
Had a few places where took 2 folk to get the bikes up and over rocks and through tight gaps.
I'm used to both wheels being loose now and get the back wheel spinning in 6th on the long sandy tracks, which feels awesome.
And confident to have both wheels 'moving' on the hard paths covered by loose stuff.
That was until the front decided it didn't want to play and had a lie down at about 50 ish
Best shirt ripped, but the body armour saved me
But I'm chuffed I can still do 5 hours tough stuff in high 20s
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Never noticed, before seeing that pic, that the leading edge of the wing isn't a smooth curve, it has a 'corner'.
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Yorick wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 3:50 pm Sat having a beer after awesome 5 hour Enduro.
I'm improving so much, they ask me to lead the rides sometimes.
But being the trailblazer means that I hit problems first LOL.
Had a few places where took 2 folk to get the bikes up and over rocks and through tight gaps.
I'm used to both wheels being loose now and get the back wheel spinning in 6th on the long sandy tracks, which feels awesome.
And confident to have both wheels 'moving' on the hard paths covered by loose stuff.
That was until the front decided it didn't want to play and had a lie down at about 50 ish
Best shirt ripped, but the body armour saved me
But I'm chuffed I can still do 5 hours tough stuff in high 20s
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It didn't start out that way, the prototypes had straight edges. They soon learned that it didn't work in the then hitherto speed and altitude ranges they were flying in.
Fascinating period in aerospace history, the pace of development was insanely fast. That photo is from the early 50s, 5 years earlier propeller driven straight wing planes were state of the art.
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Whittle was designing his jet engine when the UK was still using biplanes as front line fighters AFAIR from what I read some years ago.
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An amazing time. 24 years from Will and Orv to Lindbergh. 42 years from Lindbergh to Concorde and Armstrong (a piece of the Wright Flyer was taken to the moon).Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 9:31 pm
Fascinating period in aerospace history, the pace of development was insanely fast. That photo is from the early 50s, 5 years earlier propeller driven straight wing planes were state of the art.
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You can see where the stories of triangle shaped alien craft came from. If you were used to seeing Spitfires flying over your head and then late one night you saw one of those on a development flight, you'd wonder what the hell it was.Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 9:31 pm
Fascinating period in aerospace history, the pace of development was insanely fast. That photo is from the early 50s, 5 years earlier propeller driven straight wing planes were state of the art.
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Filly's mother lived in Rugby during WWII. They heard jet engines being tested (somewhere) but obviously no-one had a clue what they were.
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Probably at British Thomson-Houston, where Whittle originally set up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_T ... prov=sfla1
He later moved to Lutterworth, which is why there's a model of a plane in the middle of the roundabout as you come off the M1 junction there.