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Really nice! I watched this one so many times: https://www.pinkbike.com/video/581760/ Andrew Tonkery ... he had always some nice edits!

Ridiculous indeed! Thanks for sharing.

Your progression impressed me a lot. Nice edit too. Hope you did nor hurt yourself when the crank broke.

Do you want a bike that is more stable? What is the year of you Fourplay? The Fourplay is not so much twitchy compared to a Skye or an Arcade. The first Fourplay version is even more stable. So I think you are not used to it, it is not related to this specific model. What background do you have? MTB? Bmx? If you are used to a MTB, a Hex is for sure easier to get used to. To make the bike more stable, you can change the headset angke.,for a slacker one. There are some angleset headset available, but that is quite expensive and not all frames are compatible with. So using the adjustment available on your bike, you can only lower the bar and tilt it forward, so that you get more weight on the front.

You can go for an old trials bike from the 2000s: Megamo radical, Megamo Equip pro, Crescent, Monty, leeson, pashley, or giant trials, orange zero. If you swap the freewheel, the stem and the bar, you can have something riding really well already.

Do you want to use this hose with HS33 or with disc brakes? It makes no sense to use this type of hose in combination with HS33, because the system uses low pressure. This is not the case of disc brakes. According to my experience with Hope tech 3 brakes, the feeling of the rear brake was better than with the original one. It makes no difference regarding the front brake. But good hoses like goodridge shall be as good as hope aviation.

Really like the almost stealth look! Hope you figure out the tensioner solution soon. Maybe a TartyBikes RD Hybrid Tensioner?

Nice to know. But I am not sure about the stiffness of the lever: I have the same generation of XT lever with servo wave and this type of clamp, and the stiffness is really bad. It is OK on a trail bike but even on a DH bike I did not like it. The clamp is narrow and there is an insert made of plastic to mount shifter/dropper lever. The newest design has a small appendix that improves the stiffness quite a lot. It seems there is still no newest XT trekking version though ... But a Deore version (Shimano BL-M4100) for 20€:

There is a Spank that is not single speed specific but is used by Yohann Triboulat successfully. There is a DT Swiss single speed hub, but the number of POE is low, 54 or so. You want a freehub, right? Else you could go for a Waw hub with an 18t freewheel (that implies a 22t chain ring).

Looks much more like trials than the UCI thing ...

It is not a silly question! It has a thread, but I am not sure about the width of the freewheel. As you can see on the picture, there is a kind of snap ring on one side making the freewheel quite wide. If your bottom bracket axle is wide enough, that shall fit!

I prefer freewheels using industrial ball bearings like the hashtagg. https://shop.hashta.gg/collections/roues-libres-freewheels/products/roue-libre-hashtagg-hashfree-12018

Fully agree unfortunately. Even someone as passionate as I am does not watch it till the end🫤

All freewheels with more than 72 poe have a lot of drag, due to stronger springs. The 135.9 with closed ball bearings seems to have slightly less drag than the 108.9. But even so, it is too much for street/trials. I have a brand new tensile freewheel with 60 clicks if you want. Regarding hubs : Y. Triboulat rides a spank one and he is happy. Some people are also happy with industry nine hubs, but some others had failures.

It seems that the Shin Dig is covering the world cup in Poland. Thank a lot to them!

I meant the black ones (not the blue race ones). They are for light to medium grinds according to trial-world.de but "smooth rims in dry conditions, but is also suitable for light grinds" according to tartybikes. On the Jitsie website, they mention "works best with grinded rims". I had good results on light to medium grinds. But maybe that is the reason why one part broke.😆 I think they wear faster than my Crewkerz or Coustellier pads. The price is amazing tough.

But if the callipers are even further, then you might have an issue with the cranks. So you will need a 128mm wide bottom bracket at least. Regarding the brake booster: the original one from magura does not fit most trial frame. That is the main reason why I prefer a V-brake setup on a frame with v-brake bosses: deore calliper, avid lever, shimano sp41 hose, jitsie pads or bmx pads from odyssey and you have an amazing combo.

The old Magura Evo mounting hardware was asymmetric, so that the offset of the callipers could be increased for wider rims. Here in the narrow rim configuration:

I recommend only trial specific ones, even with medium grinds. The best ones I had were some orange ones from Crewkerz. I liked the feeling a lot and the wheel never skipped. I have some Coustellier and I think they are not as good. Maybe they are too old (got them with an used bike), but they sometimes do not hold as the Crewkerz. I had also some Jitsie/Tr1al: they were not too expensive, quite loud but very powerful. I Iike them a lot, but after riding for a few months with, a part of a pad broke (one third of it). Maybe bad luck.

Thanks for the input. Thought about this in the past, but then the brake pads may hit the booster.🫤 Regarding the seat angle, you are right. It is a seat combo, so I cannot adjust it.🙁 Need a pivotal, but I don't want to spend much money on this build: I ride this bike as much as twice a year.🙄 This bike will never be a beauty...

Hi, not much to say about this bike. I use this bike when I visit my parents, so it is a cheap build. It is a KST Acidrop from 2006 (almost 20 years old my gosh...😳). KST was one of the subbrands from Koxx. Bought it more than 10 years ago and swapped time to time parts. The original ones were crap but now it rides quite well. Good enough for the small skate park around.

Got your point. Some people use really thin oil to fix the wandering bite point (e.g. putoline). Maybe you can try some old Shimano levers or the XTR race. They do not have servo wave. Regarding the mechanical brakes: this is what I meant with "feel of the lever". It feels less precise and there is much more friction. If you really like modulation, that is not the kind of brakes you want. As I wrote,I would like to test a MT4 caliper with a Magura Louise lever. An old shimano one could be a good alternative though.

In my opinion, mechanical Avid brakes are really the best for street trial. So predictable, so reliable, easy to fix or to adjust and quite cheap... Some might complaint about the feel of the lever though. I also use Slx and since a few weeks magura rotors. The magura are slightly thicker, so I hope they bend less. Will see.