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What makes you think that?

That was really, really good. Enjoyed it a lot! Sitting-down-head-on-stem wheelie was especially note-worthy! Hahaha,

I know what you mean. Being as vague, blunt and uninterested as possible in anything to do with your interests at every conceivable opportunity is the easiest way to be cool as f**k and awesome. Both Koxx and Try-All have been around considerably longer than you and I have even been riding (assuming your registration date even roughly correlates to when you started riding), so whilst it's not "new" by anyone's standards, it's even less "new" to you.

They are/were virtually the same as the newer Pures, so what the hell are you on about?

Awesome riding, boring video.

Easy there champ. He's Belgian, writing in a second language. For someone so keen on grammar, how about an apostrophe every once in a while? Or at least a capital letter or "you" rather than "u". I'm not trying to start a grammar-Nazi brawl - just saying... Make exceptions where they're due.

How come you didn't ride like that when I was around? :'( Just awesome! Smiling like a giddy idiot the whole way through. Struggling to believe how much better you ride that frame!

So goooooood. Really nice to see footage of someone like that without the whole "professional videographer" bullshit that makes a trials video all but unwatchable.

That was based on the technical details. The older style Trialtech forks would occasionally break, and I've heard of a few sets of TNNs dying (no details, sorry - just rumour really). It is a proven fact (via both machine and rider testing) that the Sport Lites are stronger than the old Trialtechs, and by extension (and a little assumption) the TNNs.

Soooooo cool! Flaming skid had me laughing for ages. Also some ridiculously big stuff in there!

From my experience - headphones at <£100: Sennheiser, every time. Other brands higher-budget ones can be really good, and Sennheiser's more expensive ones are also great, but it's only Sennheiser that seem to care about their mid-price range customers. I'm pretty sure you've got the right idea since you've not mentioned them, but just in case: absolutely do not go with Skullcandy. If you care about the sound quality even a little bit, and not the fashion, you will hate them. Even the £9 Sony in-ear ones I use for solo-rides sound better than them, and I'm not exaggerating.

Saw this a couple of days ago and forgot to comment. Now I want to go to Iceland even more!

Bangin' My favourite bit was realizing that everyone's bike has changed in at least a fairly major way, if not completely, since that was filmed. ...Except Ben's, which is the same exactly the same as it's been since the dawn of time (Minus grips/pads/tyres, obviously.) Real cool riding from everyone there.

Easy tiger. If he wants to send you one he'll be in touch - mentioning it four times a day won't expedite matters.

Maybe so, but it's not what the thread's about

From my personal experience, Hope Trial Zones and Techs are considerably more dependable than Saints. My MT2s were consistently really good (not as good as Hopes/Saints) but then both irreparably shit the bed at around the same time. Edit: Though Saints have the advantage of ServoWave, so slight buckles in the rotor are much less of an issue. Depends which you hit more, brake or rotor

Fun! Tyre line was just st00pid

They did, yes. Every frame I've ever had has cracked, though the Jafs lasted far longer than the others. They were also fine after welding them back up. I'd like to take this opportunity to accuse almost all of you you of mob mentality. Sure - there's better welders out there, but I think you all seem to be a bit preoccupied with the appearance of the weld, rather than its strength. I know I don't know much/anything about welding, but I know that a bad lookingp/i] weld isn't always shit. My frames have had welds that look similar to that, but the shortest lived one was 9 months. ...That's nine times longer than the Echo, and twice as long as a Marino. I'm not saying Jaf frames are perfect - I've first hand experience with many of their issues - but you're all being overly harsh. People claiming they're utterly useless need to tone it down - they might not be pretty but they got me a frame in the geometry I wanted when nowhere else could. I do sympathise with many of you, I think he attacked a lot of things from the wrong direction and I would've done them quite differently, but it was his project and I regret that it ended the way it did.

If you'd read the thread, you'd have read that he's mentioned on more than one occasion that he won't be selling any frames until he's done exactly that. Hope this venture goes well for you dude! Custom frames aren't needed by all that many, but are invaluable to those that do.

All the front wheels that come with full Deng bikes are 2x on the disc side and radial on the driveside, so I'd say 2x2x would be absolutely fine.

Just for the people searching in the future - he doesn't mean this the way it reads (or I hope not ) You can only use the domed washers with the Avid adaptors, and if you have an Avid adaptor you have to use them. The bits that just out are slightly shorter than the Hope/Magura adaptors to accommodate the spacers. You can't use the domed washers to straighten out the caliper on a Hope adaptor without it being too high and not using all the pad surface. If you use an Avid adaptor without the domed washers, or a stack of other washers the same height, it'll be too low and the top of the disc will clip/hit the caliper.

In some peoples' minds, yes.What he's saying is that he feels the exact opposite and that riding in one style is making him less competent at the other. I can sympathize with your frustration - been through similar phases. I ended up getting a bike that could do a bit of everything and - after the initial "getting used to it" period - either stayed at the same level or progressed evenly since I could do anything type of riding at any given time. If you're on bigger bikes, an Inspired or Zoot or something of that nature (King of Dunce's are supposed to ride quite nice - no experience with them though) might do you good.

You are possibly one of the biggest arseholes I've ever encountered. Rapid progression is rapid! Look so much more composed already. It looks as if you're overcoming it by yourself (in the brown concrete one) but if you're having trouble with hook-type manoeuvres, go in with the mindset of just not stopping (the blue brick one). If you hesitate, you start going downwards. I find I have to switch through as soon as you hit the wall. Going up from a point where you're already going down is really hard - to the point where on vertical walls you have to preload pretty much before you've hit the wall (That's just a tip, by the way - it's just that it took me a long time to figure out so thought I'd save you the potential irritation. You'll likely find your own, better way - mine's not sophisticated: hit it fast and hit it hard )

Kyle came up for the weekend, but these few clips from Friday night are all we filmed.

On a similar note to FamilyBiker - I felt that got better as it went on. Thought it wasn't going to be much good after the first few clips, but then things got more interesting. The 180 down the steps and half-cab/fakie on that sloping rock was really cool, as was the slope-bench-alley oop 3 off line. There were a few other good points, but a lot of it felt as if you were trying very hard to be like someone else rather than yourself. Don't take that to heart - it's probably just something about the edit and me being overly touchy Good riding. Considering how relatively new to riding you are: really good riding!