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nicklouse
nicklouse Posts: 50,675
edited April 2009 in The Crudcatcher
Guess the head angle?

pbpic3035447.jpg

I measured it today.
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  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,695
    1.12 radians. (64 degrees)
  • docker0141
    docker0141 Posts: 605
    i say 66 or 67 degrees
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    66/67 deg with a 12" travel fork do you think so?
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  • Chaz.Harding
    Chaz.Harding Posts: 3,144
    Hmmm...

    About 20 deg :lol:

    Seriously, I'd guess at 59-61 deg.

    Who's closest?
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  • Chaz.Harding
    Chaz.Harding Posts: 3,144
    PS, nice bike Nicklouse.

    Where'd you get it from?
    Boo-yah mofo
    Sick to the power of rad
    Fix it 'till it's broke
  • nicklouse wrote:
    66/67 deg with a 12" travel fork do you think so?
    dunno what the frame is supposed to have on there... was going off their webby :wink:
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Front wheel is a bit lower than the back in the pic so creates an illusion.

    63.7 degrees.
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    PS, nice bike Nicklouse.

    Where'd you get it from?

    Err heavy bike. some factory in Taiwan.

    Oh and 63.5deg.
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    supersonic wrote:
    Front wheel is a bit lower than the back in the pic so creates an illusion.

    63.7 degrees.

    measured today on the level.
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
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  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,695
    If we round to 2 SF, I was bang on.

    Woo.
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    whyamihere wrote:
    If we round to 2 SF, I was bang on.

    Woo.

    but you were being tooooo Geeeeeeky with the radians.
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  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,695
    I'm a physicist dammit! I haven't used degrees for ages!
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    and Engineers use Degrees.

    We make things you just think about them.
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
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  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,695
    Actually, I tell a lie. There's a wave equation which is used by chemists which uses degrees. It also uses fecking decimetres. At least engineers stick to SI units...
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    I love standards.

    I hate the feekers who keep changing them or think we need new standards to replace the old standards.
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    I still talk in feet, yards, inches, pounds and especially pints ;-)
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    supersonic wrote:
    I still talk in feet, yards, inches, pounds and especially pints ;-)

    i am a right mix now. over a foot and it is imperial. less than a foot and it is metric but then it turns back to thousands of an Inch for the small stuff.
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
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  • And i'm from the era that doesn't know what the difference is between metric and imperial :D
  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,695
    It's not a proper unit unless it can be fully expressed as a power of 10!
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Can you imagine a mint metric? Yuk.
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    whyamihere wrote:
    It's not a proper unit unless it can be fully expressed as a power of 10!

    whats this Power of 10?

    8/12/16/32ths yes but 10?
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    supersonic wrote:
    Can you imagine a mint metric? Yuk.

    would be a bit Bitter.
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
    Parktools :?:SheldonBrown
  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,695
    Metres = 1
    km = 1x10^3
    mm = 1x10^-3

    It's so simple!
  • Chaz.Harding
    Chaz.Harding Posts: 3,144
    :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

    +1 for mint metrics.

    :lol:

    Although imperial does have it's uses (steam engines, old Massey Furgerson tractors etc).

    Also, people who are coincidentally from the Jurassic era use imperial measurements, right Nicklouse?

    :wink::lol:

    PS, please don't kick me off bikeradar!! :oops:
    Boo-yah mofo
    Sick to the power of rad
    Fix it 'till it's broke
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    I'm a bit of a Fred Dibnah fan!

    And Keith Floyd - 'cook at wood mark 6'!
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    bigchazrocks
    i would let Sonic do that.

    And i would never ban anyone for a personal attack, on the forum, against me.

    I real life i would just sit on them. :wink:
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    supersonic wrote:
    I'm a bit of a Fred Dibnah fan!

    And Keith Floyd - 'cook at wood mark 6'!

    Fred Rocked RIP

    Floyd he just could not be arsed.
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
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  • Chaz.Harding
    Chaz.Harding Posts: 3,144
    Haha. You can't be that massive as to cause injury to me. I have 'fights' with one of my 21stone friends. (Needless to say, he's NOT a biker, haha)

    You can't weigh more than 21 stone!! Besides, you'd have to catch me first! :wink:

    And I was only joking!! I still use inches (albeit in thousand'ths) at work using vernier calipers. Yes, I am only 20, and I use inches.

    And yes, my argument is now void... :oops:

    :lol:
    Boo-yah mofo
    Sick to the power of rad
    Fix it 'till it's broke
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    bigchazrocks
    Ahh i am just a grasshopper to you Sir. But an Old one.
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
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