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Damn, snaked. good watch though.

If anybody cares there's a bike build vid, although the 'humour' gets old quick. For what little I care about tarmacers and the lycra skinsuit clad tits that love them, even I can tell they put together a pretty sweet bike, with custom paint, 11 speed, and I think electric gears as well. Basically the bike cost someone a few bob and all in the full knowledge that it's chances of survival were pretty slim Link

Agree with rob totally. I/we take it for granted and forget how good you (and bert as well) really are - that was sooo good! Proper stoked 4 you lad

I watched him throughout the weekend at tartydays and even in the presence of the likes of Vincent and Dani his style looked next level. Vincent got that wound up in the freetrial demo he took him on and couldn't compete.

it's no bother and I've done half a dozen or so. The wheel works perfectly well and lacing up usually works itself out , i.e. you'll put in a spoke hole where the spoke will very obviously not reach or tighten up, then put it in the one next to it that will. Have a go. Just lace/tension it as if it was a normal 32h build - round of 8, flip the wheel over, another round of 8 and so on and so forth. Edit: I've just thought of a top tip. Buy spoke nipples - If u have standard 12mm nipples that usually come with spokes, replace them with 14 or 16s, it'll make it so much easier as you'll never have the situation where the spoke isn't long enough to thread in to the nipple. It is SO f**king annoying when this happens!

Your thinking of 'black eye friday' - pisstakingly referring to a bumper night of going out, spending traditionally bonus stuffed pay cheques getting lashed on £2 doubles and street fighting. Although spend a night out in barrow and you'll realise that people are not kidding about.

NOT UNLESS YOU WANNA END UP IN A&E! Do it out of the bike in a workmate or the like. Or failing that, do as above and treat it like grinding a rim, in which case I reckon 'ealth-n-safetytastic boots are in order cos unlike grinding rims, when cutting nobbles the disc tends to snatch/grab to fook. That is of course entirely up to you, but I feel better having giving you a heads up about it.

I've always found that keeping my hands softer delays callouses. Trim the dead, hard skin with the nail clippers like gaz says, but instead I slop moisturiser into them like I'm packing grease into my hub bearings haha. Does me right.

6mm thick metal grinding disc on a small grinder like a 115mm or similar so you can be nice and neat. I've found having the tyre pumped up nice n hard (50psi or so) is a must, as is using the little screw in handle. Then to make it proper smart. I use a triangular mouse style sander and some 80grit to finish the job off. Edit: ^ a 40 grit flap disc ain't a bad shout either - depends on how worn the tyre is i guess.

yeah yeah i know its a cover. I'm not one of these youtube people who think that NIN covered this song when in actual fact it is a NIN song. EDIT: Trent Reznor is often quoted as saying that his version doesn't even come close to Johnny Cash's. I like both versions myself - Johnny's has the context but Trent's has the a kind of scary venomous quality to it. In the wring state of mind it can freak you the fook out ha ha

^^ your joking surely? That's the kind of garbage that makes me wanna turn off other peoples car radio. Now this ought to do it. For context; this is from JC's final album and the last song he ever did, he had buried his wife June 3 months before - he had lung damage from pneumonia, and knew it - the treatment had stopped working and he knew he was dying. He died before the music video was released and it is his epitaph. Think about and absorb all that before you listen to it. If you don't feel even the slightest thing, check your wrist for a pulse and hit the repeat button; you clearly didn't listen well enough.

I know you can, but evo2's to me are proper clumsy, restrictive, lack adjustment and never stay put. who really wants to use evo2's anyway? Especially on a frame that cost me/I otherwise love to pieces as much as a box fresh inspired. The current streamlineing of inspired's range to go largely disc only or the V only frame would be a major issue for me come new frame time, I cant be the only one.

On that note I'd like an inspired frame with a magura mount option not V only. That way all bases are covered and the user can decide what brake they want.

Going to a sprint on sunday (28th). thought i'd voluntarily drum up some support for it as the venue hasn't hosted an event since the late 60's and thought since a fair few of you are up this way it may be worth spreading the message. Since it's not just a car thing I wrote about it more in the MB thread (near the bottom of the page) If you prefer here's the FB and site page Lower level motorsport like this needs to exist and at the moment round here it's not doing too well, so I'm sure your support would be appreiciated! cheers Ciaran.

Going to a sprint on sunday (28th sep) at this place called leighton hall near Carnforth. The reason I mention it in here is because the last time it hosted a motor event was in the late 60's. It is only happening at all because the Barbon hillclimb in Kirby Lonsdale has decided to do away with 30odd years of history and stop running a bike/3 wheeler event to focus on two car events instead. So if your up this way of the woods, I think an exclusively bike/threewheel event like this needs all the support it can get. Should you need convincing: 1. There are no noise regs like there are so often these days. Yeah, no noise restrictions. That means open pipe potential and Avgas n R the way the guy upon high intended. 2. Car show for the intervals or the ADD minded (meself included) 3. Rumour mill says that John McGuinness has an entry and is gonna have a run out. I've already put 50p on him bringing the speedway bike he's got, just for shits n giggles ha ha. Anyway; Here's the site and facebook .

Not 4 this specific set up but If a stem has a torque figure etched into it, it is usually 4nm for an m5 bolt and 5nm for an m6 bolt.

At lee mill with a certain (not naming who) world champ rider??

I've heard on the grapevine that they exist, are being tested currently, are the muts nuts and if production ones happen, are gonna be expensive but worth every penny, like all hope products. It is all only mere speculation at the minute though and I know no more than that.

As you say given the evidence of poss. another break in says this is most probably a random act where they'd have stolen absolutely anything, smash-grab-run kinda deal, although busting the doors (my assumtion based as to that's how it's usually done) should have taken longer than that. I would say I'm surprised neighbours etc. didn't hear anything, but no one ever bloody does, or will own up to it if they had. I completely concur. Guessing the arrangements security wise will thought about more, now that this has happened??? Leaving valuables in a vehicle on the street overnight will always carry risk, high crime area or not and although it's a odds thing i've always took the attitude that things can be done to swing those odds back in your favour. Eg. I've seen inside a pro speedway racer's van and who was so precious about his gear staying his (I don't mean that in a pisstakey way - it's his stuff, his investment, his has rights to protect it and after all, it's his livelihood at stake. It's effectively his tools like a hammer or power drill or saw is to a builder, and just in the way Danny's bike is his tools of the trade) that he'd made two 5mm thick steel 'L' brackets and welded them to the back doors so he could barricade them shut medieval style with a cut to length 8x4in piece of solid timber that had a former life in a barn roof. He'd then load the 3 bikes n gear and sling two ratchet straps (breaking strength of around 2tonne each he assured me) round said timber, rigging it round the base of the passenger seat though a holes in the bulkhead, then hooking it to the side door and ratcheting the whole lot down tight. Add in the fact that his bull terrier liked to sleep in there and get high off the methanol fumes and I declared it to be ned/chav/stripey jumper wearing cnt proof. Even if the van got driven off somewhere and immobilisers/good alarms mean this is less likely these days, (I'm sure most people will know the easy steal is the stuff int back) the thieving twats still can't get in the back Haahhaha. That is most deffo the route I'm going to take if I do ever get me van.

Yeah the matt black bell faction i had before could of been used as a frying pan. Not fun when riding in temps >20deg. When you keep ur hair as metal as i tend to do it all helps.

I've a Giro Section in white - colour picked on how cool (temperature - not how good it looked) it would be in direct sunlight. I use it on all me bikes except the hack. It's so light/comfy with so little encroaching into my eyeline it feels like I'm wearing a beanie. I think it would be perfect for your requirements .

I'd use this (the tab in knuckle bit may need removing) and add this as its the cheapest one stop set up I can think of. Assuming you will be using the standard cranks and 22t sprocket, (Pics of your exact bike would be helpful) buy either the 18t (i'd consider this the 'norm' when converting a phase) or a 17t. Either way buy the tensioner in long arm version. If you value your knee cartilage/gonads/teeth, buy a good chain too. My personal rule is that if a chain don't say KMC on it, then it isn't going on my bike. As such I'd stress buying either this/this (In 1/8 form it is the same thing) This is what i've been running for waaay longer than I should of. The 510HX is the better of the 3 because 710's can stretch so much. Just a heads up that the tensioner may require the fitment of two washers between the jockey wheels and the chain cage. Simply remove the cage nearmost in this picture, put in a 2.5mm-ish washer on both the shaft and bolt then whack it back together. Hope all that lot helps and sorry if it were a bit 'painting by numbers' for you - I don't intend to patronise. Ciaran

For someone who really was trying to avoid being in this video, I seem to have positioned myself into 75% of the b*****d shots on the eliminator. Not sure how I feel about that... Kinda wish i'd watched more of the organised stuff like the freetrial - for example, even though I was there, watching this back is the first time i'd seen Abel's massive gaptofront (4.45) or the sidetoback that preceded it, cos at the time I was about 4 feet deep in the foam pit, face first, failing to learn flips Also I looked at that gap afterwards and the camera angle i dont think does it quite enough justice - it was huge - tarty Adam's verdict off mic. was a classic

use a two jockey wheel sprung tensioner (superstar/Trialtech/tensile etc. or splash on a Rohloff) and get it tucked up into the chainstay. most likely (almost deffo) the cause of your chainwrap issue. A single wheel tensioner will not do. The other one I've had is that some sprockets don't have the depth on the teeth others do. I had it with a king cog and solved it with this gusset sprocket. You can see the difference in the photo, with the king cog the chain roller just climbed up the tooth and then skipped, there's an outside chance this could be your problem.

The wire brush and some tennis elbow works better than any chemical.