Muel

It's all to do with riding style, I'm 12 stone, and the only thing I've broken on my bike is the spokes, mind you, my bike isn't that light in 2008... I also don't understand the whole concept behind, "lighter=weaker", look at all the top UK riders bikes, they are all pretty lightweight specs, like Ali C, Stan Shaw, Waynio, Bessell. But I do agree with your take on the no compromise areas, and an expensive build definately doesn't mean it will ride well.

Sorry, but that has to be one of the ugliest frames I've ever seen, it looks super burley but the whole extra legnth chainstays thing doesn't really do it for me. Some really nice dropouts though! The headtube also looks really interesting.

Nicest Zona ever! (Apart from mine. )

"Hello and welcome to 1982, on your left is the Simpson wing, mmmmm nice....."

Your joking right? The wickets are about as high as his knees!

£49 for a set of bars which should be better than TIs or Rages? That'll do.

TK Maxx! I got a pair of DCs and some other cheapo brown and white things for £45! Bargin.

Petrol works brilliantly, or did on my Echo stickers. Peel as much as I could off then petrol on a rag took it straight off without damaging the laquer, as paint thinners does.

Yeh I do, do you. LOL.

I'm benching 30kg, 4 sets of 10. I only just managed to finish it once last week lol. I've had two 6 week breaks though because I damaged my shoulder.

4 months? Blacklist that dude!

Your sidehops are getting huge now meht, some mint riding there.

I just do freeweights at home, split routine over 2 days, Mon and Tuesday, then again on Thursday and Friday. It's working good so far. Managed to bench 51kg last night, sounds like shit compared to some people, but when I started I only did 42.5kg, so a pretty healthy increase methinks in 6 months on and off.

Jesus, what a way to die. Don't really know what else to say. Imagine what his family is going through right now. RIP Dude.

I weighed mine. The whole bike was 11.5kgs. :$

Yeh that's a point, get trialtechs. The Monty's really are short, really short. Depends how wide you're shoulders are though. I'll sell you mine? Then I can get some trialtechs.

Well I also keep meaning to get rid of the TIs and get some Rages, but with my extenders in they are 2" wider than standard TIs, but the Rages are only about 1" wider than TIs. I dunnor, the extenders are working well so far, the width is perfect so I don't need to change really.

Yes.

We'll be getting a wireless router with our new interwebness in a couple of weeks, and I want to have a networked hard drive. What do I need to look out for? Does it have to connect via Ethernet?

1045, +55 but the chainstays are pretty standard legnth so the cockpit feels really long. 2.3kgs, and with onza t-pro forks you can get it to 1065 with a knackered chain and the maggy slaves pointed downwards. EDIT: Hang on, it's +45 with Echo Lites, +55 with T-Pros.

My brother is on here, (wilf), and he's 11.

Well at least it's finally arrived, is there enough left in the fund or do you need another whip-round? I'd be happy to donate again.

I'd sell it and buy a trials bike, but seeing as you don't have it, you can't really sell it can you.

No problems yet Jon? Mine have been on for 4 months now with no trouble at all, and the set before that was 5 months and still going strong I believe, I rebuilt them both because the lever reach adjusters were fecked when I bought them, but other than that they were never bled.

Trialstube would be better mate? I want to download it and put it in my keepies folder.