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I don't know what you expected man, you gave us a picture that may or may not have been taken with a potato.
I have to let it harden for 2-4 weeks. It was cooking in the sun, but had to bring it in due to rain.
What do you guys think of my first home done spray job? Keep in mind the entire bike (not just the frame) was bought for a little over a hundred bucks.
Shot of it as originally bought
It really is quite unstable, shakes when I walk on it. Was going to get started on tearing it down and building a new patio, and then winter happened.
Set up my Aventon with a very scary wheel (it's an older model so should be safe).
As a new rider you may want to consider a complete bike before building one. Use that as a guinea pig, and once you're a little more comfortable with diddling and doodling your bike you can move to a...
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Hah he said that I couldn't strip paintover paint without damaging the paint underneath. He was right, about most conventional methods of stripping the paint. However, I was able to get 90% off...
Today I tried to strip the paint from my rear wheel, even though Scrod implied it wouldn't work.
Do you know what axle diameter the Cinelli Mash Bolt front fork requires? I only have two wheels to try and neither fit.
Good buy. You'll be able to flip it for a decent price once you're sick of riding a bike that doesn't fit. I would recommend you get a bike that fits though, as no matter how nice a bike is, if it is...
I would size down to 58cm if I were you and adjust accordingly. You do have really long legs (compared to me I'm 6'0 with a really long reach but only 32" inseam), but sizing down is always smarter...
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I'll have to check them out. I'm thinking of picking up a Leader Renovatio or Cinelli Vigorelli and want it to be as light as possible.
Some random seller from Aliexpress. Don't have the wheels anymore, they weighed in more than Deep Vs.
Bought a pair of China carbon deep section rims laced to novatech hubs recently, they appeared to be bonded to alu. Same with a couple friends. Definitely not light wheels though.
I wouldn't buy that. Conversions are something you throw together from spare parts in your parts bin, not bikes you invest in.
I've ridden china carbon, they're generally solid and usually just bonded to an alu rim. Laced to novatech hubs, so nothing super fancy. I suggest you set it up properly before riding them.
I might be run outta this forum for suggesting China carbon, but these are 1350g...
I'm looking to build something nice. I'd love to buy from your shop because you ship USPS. Any frames that you could recommend for distance riding as well as the occasional trip to the track? I'd...
Over here in Toronto we've been plagued by -40 winds, over salting, black ice and falling trees. It feels nice to have some above zero tempurates for sure!
In my desperation, I have to admit that was still funny :cry:
I've been scouring the web for these frames, found three but they're all asking far too much ($900+). Any suggestions on where I can start to find them. I've checked ******, velospace, pedalroom,...


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I enjoy many of the thought provoking topics presented at the TED conferences and the variety of interesting subject covered in their video library. I'm a fan of Daniel Pink's writings and noticed he had done a session at TED, so I watched his video on
This topic is about what motivates us and how business works....something our Lotus social software solutions can be instrumental in addressing. More importantly, I found it interesting that 11 other IBMers had also bookmarked this video. That might indicate that they, like me, found this topic of interest. Some commented on their bookmark, but most didn't. So I wasn't sure why this small group of people found this interesting, but I wanted to know more. The bookmarkers were a diverse crowd from around the globe (a learning facilitator, IT Specialists from Lotus and ECM, Designers, Consultants, Engineers, etc.).
I've reached out to these fellow "motivation" enthusiasts and have gathered comments from most of them regarding "why" they bookmarked this specific video and their thoughts on motivation at IBM. I ended up creating a blog (in an internal IBM Social Software Community) about this "experiment" and am discovering a number of examples where the act of "social bookmarking" has lead to the introduction of one enthusiast to another. Within a corporate community, the act of social bookmarking can server to confirm, challenge, encourage and better enable innovative thinking through a gathering of "like-minded" individuals.
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LAS VEGAS -- We hear a lot of outrageous claims from marketing and PR people here at the Consumer Electronics Show, a conference built on bluster and extreme confidence. Hope springs eternal in Vegas every January, as tech companies from near and far arrive at the Las Vegas Conference Center with products that will "take on the world" and "will not fail," "surefire hits" that are "better than ever," "ingeniously designed," and (a personal favorite) "something our whole team is really proud of."
But one boast this year really caught my ear. It came from the Robotics wing of CES, which housed the TOSY Robotics booth where Justin Bieber performed. But that wing was also home to a booth belonging to a small company called Innvo Labs, and the Hong Kong and Nevada-based company had something on display even cuter than Bieber (heresy, I know!).
Innovo makes an oddly lifelike robot dinosaur named Pleo, which debuted at last year's CES and was back again this year to strut its one-year-old stuff.
"The Pleo RB is a companion pet, kind of a substitute for a dog or a cat," Derek Dotson of Innovo told the crowd during a demonstration.
"Without the mess," someone in the audience interjected.
"It's the pet that doesn't poop," Dotson dead-panned.
Perhaps this author's fond memories of puppies, kittens and birdies past and present are clouding his judgment, but calling this dinosaur a replacement for a pet seems a bit overambitious, no?
Nevertheless, the Pleo RB ("RB" stands for reborn) does achieve an impressive level of verisimilitude (and cuteness!), especially in its physical movements. The life cycle that Innovo Labs has programmed into its robotic dinosaur is a nice touch, too. Pleo RB goes from Hatchling, to Infant, to Juvenile, "evolving" in its movements, attitudes and playfulness as it ages.
Here, for example, is how the Pleo RB reacts when you first turn him on -- er, birth him?
A new Life Form opens his eyes for the first time. Awareness glimmers as Pleo adjusts to the light. His limbs try a tentative stretch. The world is a flood of sensations. He'll notice you as soon as he's ready. Watch… Wait… Nurture… Your soft words and soothing touch are just what he needs.
(Funny, I used to say that last thing to my ex-girlfriend all the time).
Anywho, is the Pleo RB really a substitute for Rover or Mittens? We snapped a short video of the robot ($470 plus shipping, via the Pleoworld website) at CES so that you could judge for yourself. Check it out below.
Visit our CES Big News page to see the strange sights and gotta-have-it gadgets from the convention.
Take a look through the slideshow to see 7 Ultrabooks from CES that could give Apple's MacBook Air a run for its money.
Hewlett-Packard jumps into the Ultrabook game with an extension of its Envy line of premium laptops. It packs a 14-inch screen into a body that is coated with "midnight black glass" on the outside and "silver glass" on the inside -- read all about it on HuffPost here. The Envy 14 Spectre goes on sale in February 2012 and will start at $1,400.
Acer's already got its toes in the ultrabook pond, having released the Acer Aspire S3 in 2011; now they are back with what they're calling the "World's Thinnest Ultrabook," the Aspire S5. The S5 weighs less than 3 pounds and is only 15 millimeters "at its maximal point," per Acer. It's got a 13.3-inch screen LCD and Acer Instant On, which brings your Ultrabook back to life in less than 1.5 seconds. No price for the Acer Aspire A5 just yet, but the company says it should be coming in the second quarter of 2012
Lenovo's ultrabook for business people retains the classic look of the Lenovo Thinkpad but sheds a little weight and size. The 14-inch laptop isn't the prettiest ultrabook, but it's still slim: It weighs less than four pounds and is about 0.8 inches thick. Internally, the T430u comes with a choice of Intel processors and solid-state drive (SSD) storage, and Lenovo says it gets up to 6 hours of battery life. The Thinkpad Ultrabook T430u will be available in the third quarter of 2012 starting at $849.
Lenovo introduced two new IdeaPad Ultrabooks at CES: The U310 and the U410. The two Lenovo Ultrabooks are twins, save for their sizes -- the U310 has a 13.3-inch display, while the U410 has a 14-inch display. Both are fairly thin, at 0.7 inches and 0.83 inches, and fairly light, at 3.75 pounds and 4.2 pounds, respectively; both get 8 hours of battery life and come with Intel core processors. The IdeaPad U310 and the IdeaPad U410 will both start at $699 and will be available starting in May 2012.
The Dell also joined the Ultrabook pack with the XPS 13, which weighs in at a hair under three pounds and measures less than a quarter-inch at its widest point. Its 13-inch screen features a resolution of 1,366x768-pixels (720p). Dell has outfitted the device with a 4GB RAM and a choice of two solid state drives (128GB or 256GB). The device boasts an impressive battery life of nearly 9 hours, according to Dell's tests. The Dell XPS 13 will be available starting at $999 by the end of February 2012.
Toshiba offered a prototype Satellite Ultrabook with a roomy 14-inch display (1,366x768 resolution). Despite its size, the new Satellite weighs less than 4 pounds. Dell reps offered few details about internal components and were mum on the pricing or release date. Image via Engadget
Vizio's "ultrathin" laptop has no official name yet. Since it won't be called an Ultrabook, it might not be built around Intel's ultra-low voltage hardware. However, very few specs have been released at this point. Vizio has said that the device will feature solid state storage, USB 3.0 ports, and HDMI-out. Other than that, we'll have to wait until Spring 2012 to see what else Vizio has in store.


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QR Codes are not a new phenomenon.
QR codes are those square matrix bar codes that appear to be a bunch of random squares which, when scanned by a mobile device, allow users to download content, read messages or visit mobile sites. Try scanning this one on the right.
They have been around since 1994, and were devised as a Quick Response (hence the QR in QR codes) method initially used for tracking parts in vehicle manufacturing. Since then, the humble QR code has moved on to become an increasingly used feature in commercial tracking applications and convenience-oriented applications aimed at mobile phone users, otherwise known as social scanning and mobile tagging.
In Japan, QR codes are used for everything from giving away free bottles of tea to providing nutritional information of McDonald's hamburgers. In fact, earlier this year, as part of Internet Week 2010, the city of New York covered Times Square with gigantic QR codes which, when scanned, drove traffic to several websites and offered free ringtones and chances to win free tickets to the Tony Awards.
iPhone apps such as SCVNGR (also available on Android and with partial support on other mobile phones via SMS) utilise QR codes as a part of their geolocation checkin services. Even the venerable Google has taken to using QR codes to enable people to instantly learn more about a business, by visiting a mobile version of the business' Place Page whenever they scan said QR Codes.
That's not all. There's actually a blog out there that's written entirely in QR codes. Now, that is awesome. Catch this video report by CBS and CNET's Natali Del Conte showing how QR codes may change the future of advertising.
With many bigger companies now realising the potential of social scanning, the QR code is well on its way to becoming a widely used feature for social marketing.
Do you know of any other cool QR code marketing efforts out there? Share them with us!