Dan_Trials

Good stuff man, hope you enjoy it!

Ah right ok, thank you. Was kinda hoping for a Tricks and Stunts 3!

Does any one know what the first part of that video is from? Looks like an interview of some sort, can't find it any where. I still ride my first one today (although it's black but that can be changed). I have another one as well with Middleburns, RaceLines, DCD etc. The main reason I want to buy a new frame is so I don't break one of them as they are pretty rare these days.

You will get some play in the head set, it will feel pish and wear things out quicker than normal. If you slide one of the bearing cartridges over the steerer tube you will see it can move side to side, the compression ring fills this gap evenly around the whole tube.

Great riding there man, makes me want to get back out on the bike!

Awesome, loved it, thanks for the share!

I did have this the first time round, never thought about the bar and lever angles and wish some one had mentioned it so I could have tried it! Anyway, what I read it to be was a fatigue of the hand muscles leading to cramp. What I did was exercise my hands (man that's an open door for innuendo jokes!) with those sprung hand exercisers, a PowerBall, and fitted some larger diameter grips as my hands are quite big. This seemed to work for me, but try the bar/lever angle adjustments first because Mark isn't usually wrong to be honest!

Massively inspiring! The next time some one tells me they can't do something, I am going to tell them about you. You are the sort of roll model that today's children should look up to.

Come to Scotland next time, we know good food

This diagram should help you out with putting it back together in the right order and all that. The part with the slit in it is the compression ring (4th from the top). Also remember you'll need a star nut for your new forks. Hope this helps.

The first thing that comes to my mind is that you can do trailsy stuff on any bike. I get the feeling that you have been riding bikes for a while so maybe you have an old rigid frame (the smaller the better) and some parts kicking about some where? Perhaps you could build this up with some cheap parts, rigid or short travel forks etc. It won't be ideal and I know you were aiming for 20", but if you just want a taster of trials and don't want to spend too much at first this is a good option.

As has been said, could well be a mounting bolt, you can eliminate this problem by adding washers directly under the head of the bolt, there by shortening how much of the bolt shank protrudes out the other end. If it curse it, it will also give you an idea how much you need to remove from the bolt (measure the stack of washers).

Nice one! Thanks for the upload, got the DVD around somewhere. It's great to see the old skool stuff again and as someone said already, it's about having a laugh with your bike and your mates!

I recently found my trials bug again (after not being on any bike in over 2 years) by feeling I needed to work on my fitness, just in general really, so I dug my XC bike out of the shed and went to the local trails but I found myself trying to do trials stuff every where, falling off and wishing I'd brought the trials bike! I just ordered a few bits for it and hopefully getting a new frame soon too, I definitely think some shiny new parts get the juices going, even if you don't really need them just a bit of a re-style can make all the difference.

It just looked tatty all chipped and scraped off, I have every intention to respray it as it should be though!

Thanks Ross. Aye, well I am across the water from Ullapool, in Stornoway. You's should come over for a sesh, bring the Skye boy too! Thanks man, yeah if you like rain and rocks it's ace. Actually, there's talk of building a trials park up here.

Built up one my Martin Hawyes trials frames with Cannondale Fatty-R forks, Middleburn RS7 Pro Trials cranks, Magura Raclines, a cassette, rear mech and a DCD! Just thought I'd share the nostalgia!

Can be a way to fine tune a part to a riders personal preference.

Lol, aye aye mate...

I don't think 'wodge' is even a word so guessing you mean 'wedge'. This is different to what you describe: http://youtu.be/ikf3TxqC310 Think what you mean is like this shown at 4:35 and 7:42...

Also start collecting 'things' to ride on/over such as pallets, logs, car wheels etc. Then you can lay them out in progressively more challenging and interesting ways and you don't even need to leave your garden to 'ride some thing different'.

Laughing to puking in 60 seconds.

Should have said 'neither' (assuming it's single speed) see what he thought of that! I did once ask a skipper if his boat had a diff-lock (just out of sillyness, I know what the answer is). I ride an Ashton Justice so always getting comments like "ooohh that seat looks painfull" and "how you supposed to sit on that all the way down there?" or "haha where's the rest of the circus act?"

Ah well, fair enough then. Just thought I'd put it out there.

Parts as new then.