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Is high wycombe anywhere near oxford? welcome to riding etc. Im in abingdon but ride oxford a fair bit if your anywhere near...

oh my god that thing is beautiful. I love it.!!

O so true. Hmmm what does everyone think to the quality of clips 1 and 2? (3 isnt my phone) remembering its dark so that messed it about abit..... I recon that might be o for a coupla mins of video....

well here are a couple of 20second clips of max riding, sorry about the quality its off my phone and was then further raped by pootube. P.S yes i laugh like a retard in the first one. And i would have edited them but there not in the right format for movie maker. clip 1 clip 2 cheeerrsss

You put the cams on the axel. Then as they are exentric cams they get thicker the further round you twist them Thus as they get fatter they push the axel further from the bolt head sticking out of your frame, gaining chain tension.

I really liked mine with rigids...maybe even more than sus! I love mine tis nice that looks nice, bit more typical mtb than mine though.

That czar looks so nice! and the gu le 20/26 and tp 20/26 look sooo sooo nice aswell! they actually elimintated a seat tube completely

16 and saving for a flat.. mental! Im 16, but have had a savings account made up for me since was born so since i was young etc. I have had cash put in there, so im sorted on the car front really, Im going to use my mums corsa for the first year or so anyway since she hasnt driven it since we got it as she has a company car! So thats effectivly mine aloud to put alloys on the lot But personally im not to worried about the flat thing, I would guess i will probably rent a flat to begin with so I will just live at home until im 18 or whatever and have a reasonable and stable income and 10quid a week on bikes is easily enough, i dont understand how people spend so much. I built my whole bike for around the 350mark and id say it isnt badly specd. havnt spent a penny since! although im going to get a new frame. but other than that its fine!

cheers, thats some really really good advice. Helped me alot. Really well thought out and informative and spoken from experience.. Thanks alot

I saw him on mtv one the other day was pretty amazing, it was a short advert type thing, skills on wheells or somthing bit of tunni then some skating and crap. was pretty good to see trials getting onto tv though along with other "bigger" sports

Cheers everyone, this has been really helpful! I think my mum is m biggest problem really, she achived alot at school and went through uni and got a degree the whole shebang! She expects so much of me, wants me to go to uni and expects me to get As in most things. I dont doubt that i am capable of an A, teachers have told me I am but it would take alot of work. I dont really think im a particualrly academic person. Currently on saturdays i work in a bike shop although im looking to change that as working solidly on a saturday restrics what i can do on friday nights! (I know that sounds like a very bad attitude, but I am perfectly happy to work 5 days a week which i am currently doing but I am still young and would like to enjoy myself and have as much fun as i can within reason.) I always thought i wanted to do somthing mechanical but having worked in a bike shop (not rocket science i know) I am pretty sure that its not the sort of route id like to take in life. I am still 100% sure that I do not want to do anything with computers or in an office or anything. but then i dont want to do somthing with a "restricted" pay where you reach a peak amount of say around 30,000 a year. I mean thats a perfecty great amount of money. But i really do aspire to do somthing with my life. My whole outlook of life tends to be that there are so many people plodding along in average jobs driving average cars on average wages. Fine that suits them there happy with it thats ok. But I really want to do somthing iv been given a life i really want to get the most out of it and do the very best i can! I dont know if that sounds abit silly, as im sure i will more than likley end up on an average wage doing somthing that i probably dont enjoy. But i want to do everything in my power to not have to do that! I think thats why I did A levels, but there not working out and Im not the sort of person that is inspired to work on somthing i have no interest in what-so-ever! no matter what grade i may get at the end i just cannot force myself to learn it! college courses are quite apealing but then i really have no idea what one id do! I will stick in school untill i find somthing else to do. I wouldnt mind starting a small buisness that could grow etc. but iv been thinking alot and so far I havnt had any inovative ideas of what to do! I figure in that market to be sucsessful ideally you need to be doing somthing no one else is doing at a good price with good service etc. Sorry if this is boring anyone but its good to get it out it seems to be easier to express what i mean when im typing it. cheers

Im not 'ard enough! And yea, i will do what i want, which at the moment is to get out of the shitty school im in! Thing is i dont have a clue what i want to do thats the only reason i did A levels to put off making that decision. But I feel like i can stick it. soooo i need to find somthing to do now....

Right Im 16, iv been doing my AS work for over a term now, and to be quite frank its making me want to kill myself. I have always had issues aplying myself at school and find it really hard to focus etc. Its mostly due to my attitude of "when the hell am i going to need this in life..." Thing is i got through gcses simply by not being an idiot, i was really lucky to get what i did considering that I did absolutly no revision and had bad courswork and didnt do too much work throughout year 11. Now Im really struggling at school. My dad has said if i can find some career that is promising in some way he will allow me to leave school and he may help me with some inital funding. My dad is currently (due to my mum kicking him out of our house and saying we need to sell it and get new houses) looking at possibly going into property development, he said if he does i could join in and help etc, aslong as i put in half the work. But Im not to sure if he is really going to be doing it or not. Im not the kind of person that wants to just settle and be average (otherwise i would have gone and got an aprenticeship and set myself up for having a set sallary for most of my life) I really do aspire to do somthing and i want a healthy income later in life. I guess what im asking is advice on what to do? Im sure most of you will think im just another stupid 16 year old thats bored of school and isnt going anywhere particular in life, but abit of help would really be helpfull. My parents have very conflicting belifs, my mum wants me to do uni and become academic in an office etc. which i really do not want to do atall. and theres a fairbit going on in lafe at the moment so any help would be really apreciated alot. sorry for any bad grammer or spelling :$ cheers xx

haha I got asked on msn, i said: women and shite

Went for a very quick ride alone today after seeing this, reminded me of the first time i went riding with him all those years ago Happy birthday mate. xxx

any news on the artist impressions of the place?

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Im trick or treating you fo' sure

egg'd much?

used to wear my nice tight topman skinnys, but there pretty expensive and kind of restricting! So i must say i have recently taken to wearing adidas trackys, its the only time i wear them though jeans ***. normally some topman shirt and hoody, dont think i look to bad when i ride, maybe a tad chavvy. But to be honest i dont really care what people think of how i dress i dress how i like. and i mean they should look at my riding not my clothes

well i was reading the paper this morning, and aparantly there is still a whole warhouse full of back logged parcels from strikes etc. so i dunno they could be there.

Right dont tell me to go back to NMC this is a genuine issue for me! Im not an amazing rider by any means, but im not apauling. If i really push it i can gap over 6 feet and can occasionally get to what im guessing is around 6.5ish (i dont measure i just got a 6foot tall friend to lay down in the gap) and i can back wheel, all that shizzle. BUT! :$ I cannot sidehop for anything. I have been out of riding for ages and never really did it to seriously before. But now im into it pretty seriously so i want to sort it out! Now i always thought that side hops were just kind of crank hops but side ways, and it seems the person i meainly ride with does that and he also lands front wheel and sort of pivots the back round. This works well enough for him. But i have been watching videos to try and get the hang of it, and i noticed that although there is a kick of the pedals its not the same as a crank hop atall, it seems like it almost is just put in as the rider "jumps upwards" and simply helps to keep the front wheel up? I dunno thats how iv been thinking it looks. But seriously all help is much apreciated as i think this is quite a big thing holding me back at the moment really. cheers

orrrrr if your a short ass

hes got the idea here.