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:( I'd like to know what they look like, I was in the supercycles warehouse, but they had none there.

Imagine a dark grey T-Lite, pretty much. It was literally a T-Lite copy, made out of various kinds of steel, generally covered in rust...

It's a bit of a downer in a way that I've lost pretty much all digital traces of a pretty significant part of my life...

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I started doing more BMXy stuff (Longer lines involving manuals, spins, etc.), and realised that if I was going to pretend I was riding a BMX I might as well ride one. Similarly, I'd done the biggest stuff it was possible to do in the town I lived in and couldn't really go anywhere else to ride, so it was like I topped out, in a way. There was really good stuff for learning to ride, but once the walls got past 52-53" tall, they jumped up to like 6ft minimum or so, so once I'd learnt different ways of getting up the realistic sized walls, there was no way I could do the step up. Same as the gaps in a way, longest do-able gap was about 10ft or so, and after that it was nuts, unrealistic stuff. I still think about getting back on a trials bike every now and again 'cos I can still ride them fine, but they're just so impractical and generally wank now...

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Thing is is that if I was going to ride trials on a trials bike, not faux BMX on a trials bike. My BMX is infinitely better than a Fourplay for doing BMX stuff on, so I'd rather just do 'trials'.

And yeah, the changeover between BMX and trials sucks. I wanted to get better at BMX, but my default setting was 'trials bike' 'cos that's what I'd ridden for 6 years. It's even the same now. Tic was in London with his mod and I backwheeled a foot over bars (Trumpet: blown) on it like 3rd go or something like that, then couldn't ride my BMX for 30mins 'cos it felt utterly f**king weird...

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Thing is is that if I was going to ride trials on a trials bike, not faux BMX on a trials bike. My BMX is infinitely better than a Fourplay for doing BMX stuff on, so I'd rather just do 'trials'.

And yeah, the changeover between BMX and trials sucks. I wanted to get better at BMX, but my default setting was 'trials bike' 'cos that's what I'd ridden for 6 years. It's even the same now. Tic was in London with his mod and I backwheeled a foot over bars (Trumpet: blown) on it like 3rd go or something like that, then couldn't ride my BMX for 30mins 'cos it felt utterly f**king weird...

:(

From what I've seen you're a pretty good bmxer, I think then you're doing the right thing of not getting a trials bike, it would make things worse for both types of riding.

I guess there'd be scope for picking up trials again in london, but you've moved back now haven't you?

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Less scope in London. Despite being one of the biggest cities, the scene in Central London sucked for the most part. The spots are also relatively spread out unless you do that same f**king route everyone does from Shell to St.Pauls, and while that's no problem on a BMX on a trials bike it sucks.

I live in Newcastle now.

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Alright, hey Simps. I got a question for you. How did you like your TI compared to the A3. I got an A3 now and am building up a TI soon. Just wanting to know what to expect. And how was the XTP compared to the Monty and A3?

Thanks

Oh, my super short timeline

old school Onza T-Rex

Adamant A3

Zhi Zm2

Will find pics later.

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2000-01:Mongoose DX6.7 - had FSA cranks, GT cromo fork, Azonic bars, Raceline HS33's!

02-03: Brisa B26 1st gen

03-04: Brisa B26 2nd gen

04-05: Zoo Pitbull

05-07: Koxx Kenny Belaey promodel

07+: Atomz AKT2

only have access to pics of the last 2 at the moment.

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Havn't got a pic of my t-bird :( which was my first bike, so after that i got this:

Onza T-rex standard

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Then i upgraded it a little:

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Then i went back to mod, with a zona i built with 2nd hand parts, frame was brand new though.

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Upgraded it a little:

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Then sprayed it:

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Christmas came, few new parts:

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Updated a little bit more:

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How it looked just before i sold it:

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Then got sponsored by MJCycles, and built this beast:

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Sold that, brought this beast: 05 python long

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Christmas came, stripped it and brought a load of new parts:

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How it looked before i got another stock:

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Echo control 06:

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Will update more later, off to work now.

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