Zordon

Hi, I am writing a master's thesis. The topic is - "The consumer behaviour on the biketrials market in Great Britain and Poland". To finish it, I need to conduct a survey amongst British and Polish trials riders. I have prepared a questionnaire for you. It contains 17 questions regarding mainly your preferences about online trials stores. It should take 10 minutes to complete it. THE SURVEY IS OVER, LINKS REMOVED I know there are many surveys around and you may be bored of them but this one is about biketrials so I hope it will be interesting to you as well. Please, take your time and fill it in. You will greatly help me. Moreover, the survey's results will be available for anyone interested so they can improve trials stores and, ultimately, your satisfaction as customers. It will be very kind of you if you also share the questionnaire's link with your trials riding friends. I need to collect at least 50 completed questionnaires (preferably 100). If you have any questions, do not hesitate to post it here or send me a PM. Thank you for your help in advance Best regards, Zordon EDIT: Ok, the survey is finished. I did not expect such a huge response within 72 hours. I received almost 100 results from the UK survey and over 120 from the Polish one. Big thanks to everyone who participated! Now I am going to make some sort of summary. I will post it here soon. Thanks once again! EDIT2: The survey summary is completed. It contains all raw submissions and simple tables with questions, options, number of votes, and percents. Sometimes percents for a given question do not add up to 100%. They maybe less than 100% when some respondents skipped this question, then it can exceed 100% in case of multiple choice (checkboxes) question. I had to disqualify some responses (they are shown in the results file), e.g. when somebody just clicked "submit" without answering any question or when somebody declared to live outside the UK and still continued to complete the whole questionnaire. Surprisingly, some people were unsure about their sex and left the question empty, maybe I should have added more options for this question. Let me know if the file doesn't work. The link: http://www.biketrials.byethost9.com/results/uk.xls

Sorry dude but I think long arms can be found only in cheapish vees Like these (110mm) - http://www.nb-saima.com/v-brakeen.htm or these (120mm) - http://www.cycle.net.cn/index.cgi?job=pros...id=p4mtidxxcnuv Low price can mean crap material. Put it together with longer arms and you get unbearable amount of flex.

How to download the video?

I have found an idea. It could be a next step in the evolution of trials frames. It is some kind of convertible 4bolt mounts. Upper mounts are unchanged. Lower mounts are oversized, threaded for M8 steel inserts, which themselves have M5 internal threads. Such a frame would be Magura ready. I think brake clamps would have to be modified slightly to accomodate for the wider lower mounts. To use v-brakes, the inserts would simply have to be removed and canti studs installed. Then only a small little plate with three holes for the brake spring should be placed between the mount and stud. Voila, v-brake ready frame. Nice and clean. No adaptors required. Stiffer brake. Lightweight. Better clearance for tyre and cable/booster. Bigger brake power.

I ran a king for a year. It disappointed me to be honest, because I broke it (needle bearing fall apart totally) and it skipped on me once or twice a day. Not on big moves but it was destructive enough for my mind to be scared of doing pedal ups, for instance. Then I sold it, bought a fixed rear wheel, freewheel, and I still had some spare money left. The freewheel have skipped only once on me since then (10 months). One disadvantage of freewheel I can see is that I have to run at least 123mm bottom bracket, 'cause the freewheel it's wider than a screw-on sprocket. I remember with sprocket I run a 118mm BB and I still had some room so I could go for a 113mm bb. There's a lot of superlight BBs on the market at these widths

Maybe he wasn't satisfied with the wheelbase, too long?

You should have spent more time on reading my specs, inner tubes are included (2x90g). Kamel frame is definitely not lighter than Dob, after all it's made of alu not magnesium.

Cables' weigh is included, grease is normally included in the parts' weighs too, and dirt is not much if you ride in good weather or indoor

Lotto results, sports results, stock exchange/forex second-by-second records from the past few years. Should be enough to make it to the Forbes richest people list in few days From the trials point of view: - monty freewheel - rear vee brake - Gu '06 long mod frame

The amount of EPs would be exactly the same. It would still engage 108 (with Try-all ratchet) or 120 (with Macmahone one) times per crank revolution. The only advantage of these "multi-pawls" is that the force is better distributed over the ratchet teeths so their wear rate is considerably lower. And probably also pawls last longer due to its size.

I hope they will come in v-brake version too. Otherwise it won't lower the total weigh as I'll have to put a disc brake and disc hub. If we are speaking about xc/road bikes, Rob, your find isn't the lightest Scott Scale Limited '05 - 5878 g (cross country) Agresti U2 - 4166,9 g (road)

Sorry my bad, it's Extralite You probably mean Kcnc. I could of included this in my list but I'm afraid it wouldn't of been a trials bike anymore. That's why I added rear dengura and front proper v-brake with trials pads.

I've always wanted to make the lightest possible trials bike specification. Finally found some time. Here we go: Many of these weights are estimated, so the final weight surely isn't the most accurate (can be +-200g, I think). I believe there is still some room for improvements. If you have some ideas, tell me The bike wouldn't be suitable for tgs. Perhaps it wouldn't last too long. Anyway, probably it could withstand one comps. Don't ask me if I'm gonna build that, I'm not (ask Adam from Tarty instead)

I'm not a member of OTN so I'll leave my opinion here. The brake definitely doesn't weigh 405g. It's probably the weigh of lever, hosing, caliper and the adaptor thingy only. I don't know If I would like to use the brake in its current form (i.e. not thoroughly tested, proven etc). Anyway, I respect the author because he tries to make something new. It can eventually turn to be an outstanding braking solution for biketrials. He shouldn't be flamed for that.

High school, computer lessons, designed a q-basic program which automatically played the "deutschland, deutschland uber alles" anthem at every startup.Put it on the teacher's computer together with the hitler's flague as the wallpaper. Never got caught. Never stolen anything from school. Reading so many post with things stolen from school, now I understand why my tutor at some English food warehouse i worked for showed us how to steal things unnoticed. I was shocked.

Before falling asleep the other day, I was thinking, as everyday, about bikes. Avid Bb7s have only one pad moving, the other is fixed and it's one of the most powerful brake in trials. So what if it could be used in a rim braking too? I mean, on one side there would be still a hs33 piston but on the other there would be only a kind of pad mounting. The lever should be changed (probably to some disc one as they have smaller pistons) to retain the same hydraulic leverage. A rotor has some flex, a wheel has it too so the moving pad would hit the rim and bent it so it hit the fixed pad. The same principle as in the bb7. Benefits - lower weight, easier setup, less problems with leaking. What do you think?

Maybe the reason is completely different, i.e. not money/business related. Making it that ligther has given him an advantage over many comp riders. Mass producing these parts would simply mean losing that advantage.

Internals of the Industry Nine freehub. I've never seen such big pawls before! Details 6 huuuge pawls, each with 3 engagement points 60-teeth ratchet pawls engage 3 at a time - it means 3x3 engagement at any time 120 eps

Could also have the dick and balls amputated, one kidney removed etc. From what I've seen on vids, many riders could do well without their brain. They don't seem to use theirs while riding.

The idea is good. But it will only work with a specific 4bolt mounts spacing. Not sure if all trials frames have the same today.

It's not all about resistance - except Ultimates, every vee I've seen had play - some bigger, some smaller. It makes pads hit the rim not perfectly flat when you are braking forwards/backwards and they don't stay flat as they constantly round off themselves. After 1,5 year of using Cousts with Ultimates, my pads are still flat.

Cnc is not as important as putting both arms and levers on cartridge bearings. I wonder why only overpriced avid ultimates can have such bearings. I'd love to have a heatsink CERAMIC MAGNESIUM rim in my mod to match the heatsink adaptors and coustvees pads. Until this you cannot call braking sorted

With all those bad things he did to his bike, why haven't he cut that ugly tail off the frame yet?

I rode two shitmano's silent clutches - indeed it is only instant in theory and spongy as hell. I calculated the actual eps by measuring the angle crank has to go before it engages and dividing 360 degrees by the result. It was something around acs eps (36).

They can't be the same - my mate and me have got a monty freewheels, they both are very loud. My other two mates got Viz ones - they are silent. I'm not gonna argue whether their internals are the same but there is for sure a difference at least with respect to the amount of grease used - montys seem to almost don't have it.