Muel

If you can fit a 200mm rotor, definately go for one! I have a 180 and it's enough, but you can never have too much brake power, especially in rainy/muddy conditions. My caliper is mounted between the seat stays and the chain stays, so a 180 is the biggest you can get in there unfortunately.

A far as I know, they have very dated geometry compared to modern frames, I'd say go for a 2004 onwards T-Pro as they had much more modern geometry when they came out.

The only difference is the colour, the lever blade and the TI bolts, (I think). I'd say they are definately worth it, I've got carbon blades and they are absolutely brilliant, much more comfy than the 06 or 07/08 levers. I'd also say it desn't matter if you fall off a lot, the newer 07/08 lever blades bend pretty easily, I'd be surprised if you managed to snap the carbon lever blades, they are carbon fibre after all. I've got a Mono Trial on the rear of my mod and my stock, they work brilliantly, you can't compare them to an XT, XTs were designed for XC, so they need to give lots of modulation and power, but bite and hold doesn't really matter.

Imagine the weight of that! I see no disc mount though. If you want a bike to get around on, road bikes can be found for next to nothing these days, and would be a much better commuter than a Megamo.

I usually stick to this website, they've got some quality programs on there and they're all free.

Haha, well said Jon! It doesn't look hardcore at all, your riding a trials bike and doing BMX moves on it, as a result you have to spin the pedals so fast you look like a complete retard. Are they suspension forks on one of the bikes? You say: "I tried to move away completely from the whole skateboard/bmx/rollarblade/etc". You look like a BMXer having a go on a trials bike.

The problem with that brake is it is designed for XC/Downhill, where you don't really want the brake to lock up if you can help it, so they were designed with loads of modulation in mind. By all means try it out, it won't break the spokes though, but if your changing it for another disc, get a Mono Trial. Apparantly BB7s don't work well on the rear.

Mine came up with London, so only 200+ miles out.

I thought his address got PM'd round by someone that had done a deal with him?

You could get some pads for a smooth rim, rock pads are best on a harsh grind.

I don't really have one, apart from you just telling everyone to "f**king grow up", normally I would ignore it because it would actually have something to do with the thread, but there is no reply in here that is childish as far as I can see. Who cares? Try living with it.

We're having a discussion, but don't worry, you don't have to read any of it if you don't want to.

I genuinely believed that it couldn't affect spelling, because that's what my consultant told me! She just said read more books to widen your vocabulary, your just a bad speller. I'm always reading books but forgetting passages that I've read, like the information suddenly doesn't go as far as my memory for a while, so I have to go back and read that bit again. It's really annoying but I've been doing it for as long as I can remember reading novels for, which must be around 7 years now. I routinely have Word open at the same time and copy my post into it, it takes all of about 10 seconds to check the post over, althought it's only for certain words these days, like necessary.

I watched a documentary on it a while ago and have read a couple of things in the paper about it, and had to go and see a special consultant lady. They all said the same thing, dyslexia affects your ability to read and hand writing, and not spelling. In my case, it was never really the reading of the word itself that I struggled with, it was reading sentences at the speed of speach and managing to keep it in my head as a sentence and process it. I actually can't read my own handwriting a lot of the time, which was the main reason that my all my notes for when I was at sixth form were useless, that and I kept leaving words out or getting them mixed up because of the speed of the lessons. I did go way over the top there, I'm sorry to have offended anyone. It just really winds me up when people on here write in "txt tlk", and then blame it on dislexia, they just can't be bothered to read what they have written before they post it, and never had to struggle through school like I and every other dyslexic person had to. To be fair, I never said that you were a thick b*****d who never read a book, I said he was, as I just imagined the generic NMC member who never bothers to make the effort to make their posts legible. But you're right it was completely unnecessary, but it winds me up so easily, doesn't help that my Dad never understood it, and just told me to make more effort with my "spazzy handwriting".

Firstly, shut the f**k up. Dyslexia has nothing to do with spelling, it is to do with reading and hand writing, which I know full well, because I had help all the way through primary school with it, in year 4 I had a reading age of a year 1, and I still can't write legibly. You can't spell properly because your a thick b*****d that never read a book in your life. You've f**ked Joe around, and then expect him to go out of his way to post the stem to you? Get over it, he is working a full day week, which is 9-5 for most of us, and the post office is only open 9-4 here. I don't know about you, but I think he's doing his best by going on Tuesday. No doubt you'll leave him bad feedback, which will be removed shortly afterwards by OBM, so do enjoy yourself.

I have never looked at a bike with coloured cranks and though, "I could live with that," they always look horrid.

Any oil left in the system will slowly work it's way to the top and sit above the water, so it will have been rebled with water but not cleaned out too well I would have thought.

I don't think many haven't cracked, and I don't think they're available any more, or the stock that the Trials shops have is all thats left. Tarty can't get in touch with Dob to order more, and someone else can't either but I can't remember who.

The bottom bracket should, unless it's one of the cheaper T-Pros off ebay with the 1mm oversize bottom bracket. The headset definately won't, as the Zona takes a standard headset with the bearings sitting outside the headtube, and the T-Pro take and internal one, with the bearings sittin inside the headtube.

I'd say yes, the hold you that my brothers 180mm on the front of his mod delivers is unreal, it bites really harshly though, theres a lot less modulation than with a mono trial. I've never used a BB7 on the rear, but I've tried a few on the front and just don't like them

I've half read some of it. I'm far too lazy to read 25 pages of stuff, I don't do weights much any more anyway so I don't know why I wrote it in the first place.

Stoopid forum not allowing dynamic linky tag things!

Yeh I have to agree with Jake, why? I'd much prefer it with the original paint job and all black parts.

I've heard so much shit about body building, how much of it is actually true? I tend to just stick the the basics. Workout hard, eat tuna/cheese on toast afterwards.

I used water on my brothers bike, it's never frozen. It doesn't even damage them when it does freeze, unless the pads hit the rim while the water expands, in which case it can blow the seal in the lever.