Muel

Surely the weight of those 219s is a mistake, 622g? Don't get them, they'll weight the front of the bike down loads, PRs would be a better option on a budget.

According to the Ebay page your bike was advertised on, it was built in 2007, and they don't look like the old ones to me either, they look like the newer flatter ones. Keep the stem, get Monty TI bars, sorted.

I can? Pics look good dude.

Strip the brake down, polish the pistons, new seal kit and a fresh bleed. For advice look on the hope website or in the wiki on here.

Haha, who's who anyway?

No mate, sorry. Mod and Stock sound good, Stod.... Might aswell have called it Mock. It'd be factually correct at least.

Pliers? Screwdriver and a hammer also works. I assume it's striped and jammed? Hope you got a metal TPA, the plastic ones only last about a week in my experience.

Yeh they've got holes. The Monty ones will fit, just won't be able to reach the bolts because the dropouts are about 6" long. Get some big ones like TrialTechs. Also remember, you need a hub designed for them, otherwise they won't fit in the frame. If you have a T-Pro hub you could always get the hub spacers machined down 3mm either side easily enough and they'll fit no trouble. Or you could just grind them down, but they need to be square with the axis really, otherwise they may put uneven pressure on the cone., which could make it wear unevenly and have tight spots as the axle turns round. So if you know someone with a lathe, it'd be ideal, you could just get them to take 3mm off each spacer.

Best Hope brakes ever them aswell.

it was a demo though, so if he ever did do a demo there, it's probably him.

If he's the guy I think he is, did he used to ride with Trials Kings? If so I think I've ridden that bike, I had a go on someone's Pace at the Hayfield Sheepdog Trials about 8-9 years ago, well before I started riding, when I was 9/10 years old. He was pretty impressed that I could do some super basic stuff like trackstanding and riding up a couple of pallets, I was tiny at that age, I was by far the shortest in my class at school. This is if it's him, he looks very familiar and has/had the right bike about the right time, if he has had it for 10 years.

Just washed them out with a pan scourer and washing up liquid. Now when you squash the grip together an try and roll it between your fingers, it won't whereas before it was easy. Everyone needs to do this when the grips are new, then they'll never have a problem making them stick.

Go to hospital, get them to stitch it, don't take no for an answer. If it is 1cm wide and you leave it, the scar will be rather nasty. Get stitches! They'll probably try and use glue on you, it's pretty shit, I had it on my eyebrow and I have a 4mm scar in it now. Get stitches!

Use a rubber bar bung to seal the opposite end of the bar, slide the grip on as far as you can, stick the valve leverl thingy end of a track pump in the grip, squeeze hard with you hand and push into the bar while pumping gently, it inflates the grip slightly they it just pushes on, no need for hairspray and shite that don't work. (I've tried hairspray, deoderant, WD40 etc, they all seem to work until you get it wet.

Or you could read the thread before posting in it...

Grips too! They wear out faster than tyres or pads I find.

May be up for Manc, providing I get my bike together and all is well with it. Maybe JMC could come?

Seniors are mostly oldies who can't ride any more due to being a bit fat/knackered. Yeh shorten the sig mate, tis a bit long.

They don't grip well and they arn't that bouncy and feel horrid to ride, the reason being there are very few available and they're generally realy cheap and nasty these days. The last place I knew to have anything 20x2.5 was Bike Dock, and they don't appear to have them now.

f**k you.

Thats a bad design if you ask me, I would have continued the gusset round so it filled the gap on the BB shell, so it would be making contact with as much of the shell as possible. The gusset5s not doing an awful lot, the chainstays are welded straight onto the BB shell.

You can get a 20" 2.5, but they're wank, and the bike will still ride like a T-Vee. Sorry to be blunt, but if you want it to ride better, get £100 together, sell it and get a T-pro. They have 19" rear wheels, 4 bolt mounts, decent geo etc, so they make a much better base to upgrade.

It just feels like that, and I'm sure there was a topic on it but I can't find it. EDIT: Found it now, took me a few page but i found it: http://www.trials-forum.co.uk/forum/index....howtopic=136921

I just gotsome of the new trialtech grips with the logos on, and they seem to have some sort of waxy stuff on the inside, they don't feel as grippy as my old ones. Is there a way of cleaning it off? Normally I inflate grips to get them on and never have a problem, but these just push on and can't stick.

Has it got holes drilled in it to save weight?