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Education is hard to come by. A Hungarian girl once spent about 10 minutes explaining to me how to pronounce Magyarország, and I'm still not confident about any of the sounds apart from the initial M. Forrins don't really help themselves though, the three Os in молоко all make different noises.

Fark! That's harsh ^^

At least Polish letters all have a particular sound and that doesn't change when used in different words, unlike English randomness.

I didn't get a handle on Ł until I realised that it's the same sound as the L in the Cockney word for молоко, miłk

Would longer TT not make it have a smaller headtube, assuming a standard lugset?

There's difference between the frames I'd like to be riding if I had the money (namely a DF3, the 59cm DF3 is 59cm TT, 55cm ST, 140mm HT) and the frames I could afford to buy, that's more like the Pre Cursa where a 58cm frame has a 57cm TT and a 180mm headtube, I could stretch onto a 60cm without much hassle to get the benefit of the 605mm TT but then the headtube is 200mm long and I'd be too upright.

With most of the affordable frames I've looked at by the time the TT is long enough for me the HT has grown exponentially and I can't get low enough. I fitted a really steep drop stem and my B123s to a 60cm PreCursa last week just to see and a)It looked awful and b) still wasn't low enough.

The cheapest option is to use the frame I already have which has a 58cm ST and a tiny short 55cm TT but a sensible size of HT (not sure exactly but as you can see it's not huge) and a 150mm stem that cost me £10 from PX.

You can't really do fades in powder coating, as it's electrophoretically applied it goes everywhere, not just where the powder nozzle is pointed.

You can, but it's not pretty.
I had a powder coated '93 Rocky Blizzard that, underneath the white decals, faded from black to white.

Any tips on convincing my hands to callous rather than blister from lots of bmxing? Getting very irksome.

You're young ain't you? Wank more

That will callous over eventually. I had the same issue when into trials.

Then the callouses will get hard and tear off the softer surrounding skin and the whole lovely cycle can start again.

Oh how I don't miss that. I'll just have a soak in the bath, now I only have 50% of the skin left on my palms.

It's weird, my hands used to blister, then callous and all was good. Now they just seems to blister, then blister, then blister etc. I reckon I'm melting.

If you can stand to wear them then gloves will help. if not just accept it as part and parcel of riding silly bikes.

Gloves ftw.

Hitting your head on a concrete wall does make grow callous wrapped around the brain?
If yes, does that protect the brain from internal and/or external expansion of stupidity as well?
Does it work it in the same way for male female and ladyboy?

Wut?

No.

Ignore Marcom, he's a bit odd.

Done.

I didn't get a handle on Ł until I realised that it's the same sound as the L in the Cockney word for молоко, miłk

"wuh" or "wur" or some approximation of W is what I use.

"I don't speak Polish" is my best Polish phrase.

Then the callouses will get hard and tear off the softer surrounding skin and the whole lovely cycle can start again.

I just peeled them when they looked ready. Sometimes this went too far and resulted in hurties but mostly it was ok.

Climbers tip, use an emery board to file them down.

Not many climbers where I'm from.

The only callous I get is when I play with marionettes, only on my fingers though.

ooh cryptic!

#nwo

Sweet jesus that looks good. I need this framed on my wall.

Whats wrong with just cutting the callous off with a pair of small scissors?

My Swiss Army knife is ideal for this.

Use a bench grinder.. who cares. It achieves the same end.