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Ah, that would indeed be a shame.

I believe the image hosting site went down / was bought leaving a lot of the forums devoid of pictures… so how-to guides and galleries were useless.

Steady decline since about 2009 or so. Street trials divided a lot of the riders , even more so than the comp vs street contingent. Seemed a lot moved over to street, then couldn’t find the same long term enjoyment out of it. Lots of new riders ( seemingly) got frustrated quickly when starting out on street bikes and didn’t carry it on.    There was a flurry of innovation up to about 2016 or so, notably the echo 2011 range, crewkerz jealousy / cleeps and the first clean bikes.  Most of the Chinese brands dropped out notably Deng / echo leaving only the competition brands remaining.   Koxx overreached and went bankrupt, Hashtagg was their sequel but went almost entirely the same way ( only selling brake clamps and pedals etc now ). Monty seemed to take too long to adopt modern frame construction, when they bought out the m5 carbon not enough people bought them and they went down too. Onza bought out arguably their best parts / bikes then promptly went bust too. Ozonys got swallowed by crewkerz, Jitsie seems to be pulling back from biketrials steadily over the last few years leaving the two big C’s in competition trials to be the only options. Inspired seems to be doing well in street trials but its sister company trialtech isn’t bringing a huge amount of new parts out. Less people are buying frames to build… largely because they cant buy them anymore.  There are less riders , but those that remain are the core people who really love it IMO. We also have 4 of the best riders in the world here that also actually for the most part, get out and ride and socialise with the mere mortals. There are group rides happening and a few have really tried to do a lot to further trials in the UK. It’s a mixed bag… but there’s still a strong , albeit considerably smaller populous scene in the UK.    

Nope, I used to use silicone sealant in the tips of my MT5 blades, but the Shimano's are a slightly different shape or movement and never hit my knuckles. I've just installed some super cheap Shimano M4100 brake levers on some old Echo TR callipers (25 mm piston diameter) on my 20" bike. Feels amazing, surprisingly short throw, and seems like massive power, but need test them properly outside when the weather is good enough.  

I'm curious as to what the IMGUR issue is/was