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Cheers mate - that Inspired ice cream was yuuuuuummm (Thanks Ben Swales!) Both of these things were legendary and have just made me chuckle to myself thinking back to it!

Brilliant weekend. Well done to everyone involved in organising it and making it happen. Such a great bunch of people to hang out with. I think Adam nailed it when he said, "trials feels like a community again". Some AMAZING riding went down - very inspiring stuff. I was psyched to be a part of such a great event. Looking forward to Mark's video. Thanks That means a lot because I - like you - don't find it an easy job either!

Well done Mr. Rowlands and thanks very much Mr. Travis. It probably goes without saying that I thought the use of the zoom was very particularly innovative and perfectly legitimate [/joke] Peace

Great it's the 31st May - 2nd June. I'll keep updating this page with details too: http://addoteam.com/features/the-bikefest/2013-event/

True. The best in the business without question. Thanks to those of you who provide feedback - I'm glad some people liked the video. I'll be starting to sort out the rider list for Bikefest 2013 soon so if the video made you want to get involved then keep an eye out. Carl, you'll be first name down on the list IF you promise not to eat my share of the burgers

Absolutely brilliant.

Good memories of a fantastic three days of riding at Bikefest. Comments and feedback welcomed. Riders (Abc): Matt Arkwright Matt Barlow Euan Beaden Matt Everett Carl Hopps Sam Oliver John Shrewsbury Mike Singleton Tim Stedman Andy Cap Willan Jamie Williams Vimeo Video -> Original Video Peace Barlow

Park at (or near) the railway station. Go through the subway (under the tracks) onto the sea front and there is loads of riding stretching all the way along the sea front. Map: https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&safe=off&q=penmaenmawr&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x48651cc5b17a40c3:0x5dfe500cd5cb0bd,Penmaenmawr,+Conwy&gl=uk&ei=EVsfUYjXOMvP4QT6uYDoBg&ved=0CK4BELYD

Yeah! Penmanmawr at midday? It's got rocks, street and a skate park.... EVERYTHING.

I really enjoyed reading the whole interview. Thanks for sharing. Amongst other points you both made, this particularly resonated with me

Aran Cook and I started filming but got kicked off our spot by an angry person - pah! We'll try again tomorrow at a different spot. We have now come up with something relatively controversial, which may get us disqualified, but we are going to do it. However, we re-read the 'rules' and think it's worth at least trying our new method and seeing if it is OK by the judges. Peace Barlow

No worries Certainly doesn't look tame to me! For injuries like that it sucks how tiny bones in the feet and hands often take longer to heal that big clean-breaks

Yeah but he kept on doing trials! https://vimeo.com/24660536

Here you go Ali. The clips of your foot-breaking-crash are uploading now They'll be on the following link on Youtube in about an hour: http://youtu.be/LWwFBFO9r4g It made me cringe to watch the footage back, it was bad enough being stood 10 foot away when it happened.

Thanks for the positive feedback, thumbs up to Nick G! That is caught on tape but I didn't think you'd want to be reminded of it so I didn't include it! Want to see it? Glad you had a great time.

This is raw unedited footage from Tarty Days all the way back in 2011. It's never been seen before as it's been stuck on my hard drive all this time. Nick Goddard filmed it but never had the time to edit it, so here it is, raw. It features lots of different riders and different styles (Abc of first name): Ali Clarkson, Andrei Burton, Aurélien Fontenoy, Ben Rowlands, Euan Beaden, Jack Meek, Joe Maher, John Shrewsbury, Neil Tunnicliffe, Rick Koekoek, Sam Oliver (and many more) Can I take this chance to say, once again, a big thank you to each and every person who helped me with this event.

I'm sat with Aran on the couch in my living room and he's eating the chocolate I got for my birthday. He's regaling (I like that word) me with tails of his most recent Canadian and US adventures. So... I thought this video needed resurrecting. Bosh.

Absolutely. With that in mind, I should have pointed out that the reason I use sus forks is purely a consequence of having knackered ligaments in my hand. After all...

I have a 22 tooth up front and then 2 cogs at the back (spaced out on a chris king single speed hub) The two cogs are 15T (trials) and 12T (skatepark, jumps etc). With the Trialtech tensioner it is a really quick and easy job to manually switch between the two gears dependent on the style of riding I am doing. Peace. Barlow

I run my Inspired Fourplay team with 80mm sus forks and love it for trials as well as dirt jumping and pump tracks. See: http://matt-barlow.com/matt-barlow/news/spring-dust/ The bottom bracket of an Inspired Fourplay is obviously higher than a 'traditional' dirt-jump geometry but I think if you're used to it then it's not a hindrance.

http://vimeo.com/43566315

Ticket = purchased. Psych = high.

Cool pics Carl. Looks like you're really getting on with the brakeless Inspired. Will you riding the Woodfest demos brakeless this year!?! (With that in mind, get your diary out. I've just started discussions with the organisers regarding Woodfest 2012. Dates are June 2-4th June. I'll pm you in the next few weeks with more info as I have it.)

You could always use 9:16 as Paul Higginson did in this interesting experiment: http://vimeo.com/4873425 (Shared for general artistic interest rather than a serious suggestion that 9:16 will ever be generically favoured over 4:3 and 16:9)

Ooh I read that wrong and got a bit too excited for a second: I thought when you used the word 'stock' you meant '26 inch', and you knew something I didn't I thought "Oooh sweet - Inspired are also doing a 26" version of the Skye with disc tabs and bolt through axels!!" ah well.... (The Skye Danny was on at the Red Bull Street Light Sessions looked amazing! Some really cool tweaks and ideas have been implemented)