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Well done! Great ride and great video. Pipped right on the line! I find this kind of road race immeasurably more appealing that crits. Part of what I love about cycling is the feeling of going on a journey, which, IMO, is more palpable on a bicycle than when travelling by car, plane, train...

You might have seen this one already, but I reckon this is pretty awesome: This is the same Pinarello Dogma raced by Team Sky at the TDF.

Thanks! I did have a go at meshing somthing based on your first suggestion. Pretty similar:

The first UCI Pro Tour race starts today - The Tour Down Under, held in Adelaide, South Australia: http://www.sbs.com.au/cyclingcentral/event/santos-tour-down-under-2013 They're going to venture out into the hills a bit more this year which should be interesting. Here's a climb which will...

I admire your effort. I tried running properly for the first time in years recently ... I figured I'd built up my bike fitness to be pretty good, so running should be fine. But I hurt so much afterwards that it kept me off the bike for two days. Turns out running and cycling utilise...

Check out the range of Assos (Swiss) and Rapha (British): http://www.assos.com/de/55/home-page.aspx http://www.rapha.cc/ Both make high quality winter (and summer) wear. Both are a little pricey, but you get what you pay for. I'm wearing Assos uno bib-shorts nowdays and they really feel very nice.

Awesome! Stay upright! Having not looked into it too much, the following might be all wrong ... ... but, as far as I can tell, the Australian racing system is a bit of a mess. If you're over thirty you race in 'Masters'. Masters is divided into ten age groups (M1 - M10) from youngest to...

No problem at all, I understand what you're suggesting and it's a better idea. I can scale these ones down and put them on the landers.

Well, you look well equipped for a speedy mountain descent! At the other end of the spectrum, Australia just experienced its hottest average national temperature on record: 40.33 Celsius (104.6f). In some regions it is expected to exceed 50c (122f) this week. Over the last weekend the Jayco...

You found some hills! :) I did a 'Skyline' climb yesterday. In my case the climb is so named as it ends when a 'Skyline Road' intersects the road you actually climb on - but still a neat coincidence. Despite my hilly surrounds this was only my second category 3 climb. Here's a description of...

Thanks! Have a look here (also experimenting with specularity on the tanks and habs - I'll reduce the glossiness you see here).

Here are some RCS shots from GMAX. I've tried to incorporate a bit of each suggestion here. Looking better? EDIT: Added some shots of the same design in-sim.

Given the discussion in this thread so far, is this RCS design altogether too conventional, or can we use it? I'm presupposing the hab rotation would be stopped to use the forward RCS.

I pulled the trigger. :) The wheels are somewhat of a downgrade from The DT Axis with Fulcrum 6, which is an OEM wheelset made of Fulcrum 5 rims and Fulcrum 7 hubs and spokes. It'll still be like magic to me!

Yes, there are fewer mesh groups now, I was able to join some of them (mesh optimisation). Try this: ;-----------------Hab Rotation ;Radius=68 meters ;Angular Velocity=2 rotations/minute ;Tangential Velocity=14.242 meters/second ;Centripetal Acceleration=0.304 g [ANIM_SEQ_0] KEY=G...

Thanks for spotting this. I can reproduce this behaviour if I start in one of the scenarios in the range 2.0 - 3.2 inclusively (Jovian and Saturnian systems). If I start from scenarios 1.0,1.1 or 4.0-5.3 the ship seems stable. Can you check if this is the same on your end? It may be a...

I've nearly finished updating the model with fusion drive and RCS. I'm not sure if the RCS looks quite right on the ship. Just from an aesthetic point of view, it might spoil the lines of the ship a bit. I'll post some preview shots soon, see what you all think, and then send the model through...

Sad news. His 1970 interview with Neil Armstrong was a nice meeting of minds. Armstrong seemed to relish the seriousness and candidness of Moore's questions and responded in kind:

Yes, you've absolutely helped, in this instance and more broadly. I probably wouldn't be about to get a quality bike if it wasn't for this thread and your riding videos. :cheers: The other big inspiration for me has been the realisation of how the body can be trained. When you find you can do...