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Avery Island for Tabasco. Long drive though but you end up near Lafayette which is nice but small. Otherwise you're looking at bayou tours or crawfish farms. There are some ante-bellum plantations but, like English stately homes, are same-y.

My friend was violently mugged in New Orleans last week. Fractured cheekbone and nose and lost some teeth. He was in what is considered a safe part of the city.

Internal routed cables wrapped round each other. Any movement of the FD when shifting rear

If I have a circle of radius 1 then what would the radius of a second circle need to be for it to have twice the area of the first?

ocd venn diagram?

sqrt(2)

sqrt(2)

Edit: should refresh before posting. I'll add the working.

area = pi * r^2

if r = 1, area is pi
if you want to find r for twice the area

then
2 * pi = pi * r^2

cancel pi from both sides

2 = r^2
sqrt(2) = r

Area of a circle is pi×r². If you want circle A to have double the area of circle B you need a² to be 2×b². So a is √2×b as stated by the others.

Not sure if answered yet, but it's around 1.41.

Let's just round it. 1

thanks all. so, a circle with an area N times the size of the original would be the square root of N

Simply solve the following:

Edit: shit I got it wrong

yep

Having trouble finding a trad sling-type messenger bag with a simple cam-type adjuster… like the really old Timbuk2's. Especially one with a nice stiff shoulder strap instead of the floppy seatbelt stuff. Any ideas?

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Have you looked at what Crumpler have to offer?
http://www.crumpler.eu/all-bags/messenger-bags

Their shoulder straps aren't seat-belt floppy.

Ta! All buckles there though, no cams.

mission workshopz?

spenny doe.

Zoom in on one of the pics of the strappage on Muli Messenger L.
It looks a bit cam-like to me......

^ You're right, might look at those

If you were happy with the quality of your Timbuk2, I'll be surprised if you aren't delighted with Crumpler's offerings . Having owned both, I'd say they're in different leagues, in terms of quality.
@greenhell - Some srsly nice quality products on their site.

I have some Crumpler camera bits and they're not much cop IMO. Timbuk2 were decent early on but have been poor for ages. I bought one in SF around 2008 - the clips snapped after weeks. The blue one above is late '90s... it's been The Bag That Will Not Die. Looks rough as hell and leaks now, though.

I understand Crumpler's origins lie in camera bagging kit - but I've no experience of this.
As far as their courier / messenger bags are concerned, I think they turf out good quality and good looking kit. Chrome would probably be another contender, but while their products are tough as old boots (my everyday choice of bag) they don't do it for me on the aesthetics front. And they have floppy seat-belt strappage.....

Can anyone help me understand eccentric bottom brackets? They seem to a) be really expensive and b) all use very modern spindle things and fit into press-fit frames. I thought I'd be able to get like a square taper eccentric BB for £20.

It's for a bike with a 68mm (I think) BSA threaded BB, so like the most standard BB ever. If I have to switch from Octalink (I know) or square taper I'd be alright with SRAM.

A BSA bottom bracket fills a BSA68 bottom bracket shell pretty snugly, whether its internal or external bearings. In order to make an eccentric bottom bracket work, you need space so that you can move the bottom bracket around to various points in the bottom bracket shell. In order words, you need a BB which is significantly smaller than the BB shell. Hence why most eccentric BBs are designed to fit into BB30/PF30 shells, which have lots of space.

There's only one eccentric BB which I'm aware of which fits in a BSA68 shell, and that's the delightfully-named Trickstuff Exzentriker. Available from Bike24 for only 135 Euros.

Bottom line - you can't get a square taper eccentric BB for £20. Or anything close.

Ah, right. Well that's that plan out. Thanks