Archive for July 24th, 2008

July 24, 2008

TECH: Mobile phones, SARS figures and cancer…

By benfrain in Personal, Tech-tip

Despite growing evidence supporting the theory of an increased Cancer risk from mobile phone usage (latest article on the BBC here) there seems little grass roots level debate and information on the potential dangers. For example, what happened to S.A.R. ratings? The Specific Absorption Rate (crudely speaking the maximum amount of radiation the device emits) [...]

July 24, 2008

MTB: Ghetto Tubeless, the what, why and how…

By benfrain in Personal

What is Ghetto Tubeless? It’s a way of converting ‘ordinary’ rims and tyres into a tubeless system. Our American cousins coined the phrase ‘Ghetto Tubeless’ as it denotes the budget nature and slightly subversive way it overcomes the problems associated with existing tubeless systems such as ‘UST’. Why? If you do any degree of mountain [...]