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Ease off. Grammar is as important to a literary enthusiast as geometry is to a cycling enthusiast.

Mine too. I assumed it was "The needle in the haystack was important..." It bugs me when reading American people's writing talking about "an herb", 'cause over here we actually say the "h". It just looks really wrong.

Really?That's blown my mind. I had no idea. I've never seen anyone whip that fast before. Outrageous. (And awesome nosemanuals just top it off!)

He never outright said it, but I'm pretty sure that's what he himself has been angling at for most of the thread

How is it that a new-comer to the trials world posting in a foreign language can "get it" so much more than most people that have been riding for years? A lot of people need to take a lesson or two from this guy! The only thing I disagree with is calling it "pure" trials. Please don't do that - it implies the other aspects of trials are less worthwhile. I know it's only a word, but - to quote V: "Words offer the means to meaning" - and so are much more important than a lot of people give them credit for.

Yep. Which made it even more impressive a claim.

A few weeks ago I went off from the main group a little way to scout for lines. Two middle aged guys walked by, stopped and looked at my bike and said "'Scuse me mate, is that a trials bike?" "Yeah," I said. "I thought it was, but there's all different ones aren't there? So I wasn't sure." "Yep, quite a few. Some look pretty different to others too." "Have you seen that guy on YouTube?" he asked. "I've seen lots of guys on YouTube. Which one?" "The famous one... Danny something-or-other." "Ohhhh. Danny MegaSkill? On the orange bike?" "That's the one!" he said. "Yeah... Pretty much any trials rider ever has seen him. Haha. What about him?" "He's my step-son." He walked off with the most contented smile I've ever seen.

I ran splined hubs/sprockets for a long time with zero issues. From my experience, they're just as reliable as each other, though the splined flavour has the benefit of not having threads to strip, and being MUCH easier to remove.

That was Coca-Cola's decision to start making it available here again, because it originally was, got taken away and the public demanded it's return. It was not a supermarket going to great lengths to import cereal Also - how dare you imply that Vanilla Coke is "bumf"! Haha.

Screw starting to stock American bumf. They need to RE-stock Soreen's Apple and Sultana Malt Loaf

At the very start - mainly going off the title - I expected this thread to become a shit-storm. I was pleasantly surprised by TF when several people actually offered insightful opinions and took note of other peoples'. It took a massive dive on page three when one or two people began assiduously detailing how much they dislike brakeless riding (which is irrelevant to the topic) and a couple others got [perhaps overly] defensive. It's kept declining ever since then, and it reached an all time low when people start claiming it's not trials (even more irrelevant). For the record: if you don't want to classify brakeless as a part of trials, I personally couldn't care less. Call it what you want - it's a form of entertainment for which I don't feel labels matter all that much. I understand that some brakeless riders will object to being so heavy-handedly dismissed and excluded, and resent being rejected just because they enjoy riding a little differently, but I feel it just doesn't matter since I know it's only a few extremists that seem bothered - and typically they're people who's opinions I couldn't give much of a shit about if I tried. I'd refer to it as a subsection of trials as the majority of the riding has more in common with trials than anything else, but if you don't want to, then don't. I'm also fine with it if you don't want to even consider it a sport because there's no competitive aspect (aside friendly rivalry) for the same reasons as above. The fact is, people who are attracted to brakeless riding tend to be less inclined to subscribe to the competitive mindset, and seem to just want to ride in the way they find fun rather than riding in accordance to rules and being the best at it. (N.B. I'm in no way saying enjoying that type of riding is a bad thing - just that it usually is poles apart from the ethos of people who enjoy brakeless.) To whoever it was that mentioned my missing tooth: almost. It's technically not missing It's gone dark because it's dead, though that's because a delightful example of humanity considered smashing me in the face with a skateboard when I was younger a form of entertainment. It's not even a little bit related to riding brakeless. Finally, thanks to the several people that have paid me compliment in here. Makes for a good feeling on a dreary Monday morning! tl;dr - calm down, no-one cares

But then he's got the low bar/stem combo to compensate, so what's the problem? From the build, it hardly looks as if he's going to be worried about ground clearance How does it handle the more hoppy end of the trials spectrum? It looks as if it might make it really difficult, but then looks are usually wrong! (Though it looks very nice That's one instance where they're not wrong.)

I dunno. I couldn't get the hang of doing it with my back foot whilst staying on the pedals like he does. I tried some one my old Leeson and found jabbing a foot between the stays/saddle/seat got it to lock up. Can't pinch hard enough any other way :/

Just so you know, lawn-mowering is f**king difficult without a seat to wedge beneath - and this is speaking from experience only on walls, never mind rails

Dan's so small in physical size that he often unwittingly bigs things up too much I'd wager no mods/admins have replied since they intentionally removed the "like" thing to stop people making outrageous posts with the sole intent of receiving them. Now if you get one, it's them giving a you a quiet nod of approval/support, rather than publicly praising you for it. They've also been mentioned in a lot of arguments, insinuating "TF gangs" are supporting each other with likes etc. I think it's a good thing they're gone, maybe.

Actually, no-one did (unless the notifications have gone wrong/been disabled too)

Got the seals, just waiting on the oil and then the fun/massacre can commence.

Soak it in a bucket of super-dense ferrofluid for three days, and then when it's fully saturated you can extract it easily by blasting it with strong electro/magnetic field. You'll need to restrain the lever in a clamp or something though, as the magnet will attract the bolt it's stuck in too.

Would love Manifesto Pt.2! Love videos where he does riding, rather than the other recent ones in which he talks about riding. Hook-to-front-over was cool! Edit: Snaked

f**k off Sam.

You've gone from being good at riding to being insanely good at riding in a very short space of time. That front gap at the Red Walls in Leeds... I've only ever seen Prattley do that! Beastin'.

It is a re-post, but when he's that good, who gives a damn? He also detailed why he runs that brake setup somewhere, can't remember where though. Something along the lines of liking the modulation and feel of rear disc on uneven surfaces, but a front disc not being snappy enough for those absurdly large front-gaps.

I know this might seem petty, and I'm no way whatsoever claiming that it wasn't cool as f**k, but it's a touchy subject for me: [Edit: It's touchy 'cause I've been trying really hard for a long time, and just cannot do them ] That was a stoppie (/whatever your region calls them). $nosemanuals('difficulty') = $stoppie('difficulty') * ~∞; Very cool watch! Only room for improvement would be if it had been called "Six" with more of him back on a trials bike

I disagree. I personally had to have two jobs (one before lectures began, the other in and around free time) because the maximum loan per year I could apply for was £300 less than my accommodation per year. JUST accommodation. I still needed food/living money on top of that. ...And it wasn't particularly expensive accommodation. Some people do manage to get the best out of the system though. I guess my parents make just the wrong amount of money Can I ask why you're running a plate in stead of a ring? I can't see any advantages to a plate, and am constantly baffled as to why they're even around any more - much less on the super high end frames.

If it makes a difference in our frames, it's marginal. The frame I've been riding for the past few months has a curved one too, and that's still fine. So does pretty much every Onza of the moment that's not a Limey 4, and when they die it's vary rarely the downtube. So do most Montys. So do the new Koxx frames. Theoretically, you're right, I think it's purely academic. Don't think we put enough force in for it to matter.