Eeens..

Fixed a few more bugs :)

Added support for FF2 and Opera. The VE api doesn’t support these directly at the moment so it has to be conned into running them. Works fine in FF2, but Opera seems a bit more fussy. It works in Opera, but not quite as smoothly. AFAIK microsoft are updating the api to support FF2 in the very near future. No idea if the same is true of Opera.

Swapped over to V4 of the virtual earth API. This supports funky 3D map displays providing you’re using XP+IE7

Added a couple of methods of listing all the GPX files held, but these won’t really be adequate if you have lots.

Next on the list is to move over to proper XML on the AJAX stuff. At the moment I really on sending back Javascript from the server, that the browser then executes using eval. It’s simple, but not very portable, so I need to move over to correctly parsing XML responses instead.

I also want to try a 3D fly though of a GPX route for no other reason than it will look cool :)

No, not boots of leather, but stainless steel sprockets of a White Industries twin sprocket freewheel.

I bought this for use on the roadrat - which might even be finished this weekend.
Of course like any real man, the first thing I did was take it to bits. Here’s what’s inside-

With the top cap removed the single sealed ball race, retaining clip and O ring seal are exposed.

Removing the rear seal exposes the stainless ramps.

The body just pulls out now leaving the shell and catridge bearing.

The stainless hub with o-ring seal and three pawls.
And that’s all there is. It’s a really simple elegant design that looks like it should last well. The only slight niggle, and it’s really slight, is that it would have been nice to have a stainless top cap, rather than an anodized ali one. Unless you have a specialised pin tool that can lock onto the freewheel then the ali one just strikes me as a bit to soft to be turned with just two small pins. I hadn’t got a pin spanner with the right size pins, so used a hammer and punch.. I have left out pictures of what the top cap looks like after I removed it. People who like shiny things would cry :)