Muel

Just do them yourself mate. Get an angle grinder, turn it on and move the disc around the rim with it at 90 degrees to the rim. The faster you move it down the rim the harsher the grind. Also try and get a diamond tipped disc, they give a better grind. Also make sure its a stone/metal cutting disc.

Seconded, best mod frame ever, if a little heavy, but mine has all onxa bits so is mega heavy anyway. 11kg. Go on laugh.

And you also talk mostly utter shite in nearly all your posts, for example: He is looking at a GU Typhoon, about £1300. He has ridden a decent bike and therefore a MAD is out of the picture.

I learnt by getting my dad to teach me. The actual building of the wheel s a peice of piss, getting the right spokes is hard, you can use tables of rims and hubs to guess but you just have to build it, then find out how much longer/shorter they need to be. I have just done one for a mate, look HERE, I built and tensioned the rear wheel, my Dad just trued it exactly right but said I had got it almost exactly straight anyway. The front one is a Tarty build I think.

My Dad was pretty funny when I got my first trials bike. DAD: Why do you have those silly holes in your rim? Surely they would let water into you rim and corrode it, you'll have no rim left in a couple of years. ME: Well I'll have a completely different bike by then, having broken everything on it by then. And before that I'll grind through the rear rim anyway. DAD: WHAT??!!! That bloody things brand new and your telling me its going keep breaking??!! I have had my neil orrell (Hand built road bike) for 20 years its still going and I've done over 10,000 miles on that frame. ME: Well you should stop wearing lycra, learn to negociate curbs and once your ancient computer says 10,000 miles on the ODO, it telling you to get a new bike. My T-Pro cracked 3 weeks later. Bollocks. Here's some others: DAD: Why are your brakes all squeeky? DAD: Why on earth do you grind your rims? It just wears your pads out doesn't it. DAD: Get you levers closer to your grips you puff, you can only get one finger rigt on the end of each lever for christs sake. DAD: Why are your brakes green they look so gay. MUM: Whats that horrible noise? CHAV: Do a mint wheelie. CHAV: Why the fook have you taken the giro off?? You can't do barspins now. This was when we at the skatepark the other night on my Scott YZ0. CHAV: f**king hells mate, watch this, crazzaayyy moshohz! We nearly pissed our selves at him. Crazy moshozz.

The fluro, (Painted), try-all rims have both front and rear sidewalls coloured, whereas the anodised ones have the front sidewalls coloured but the rear cleaned off. If you want anodised rims with coloured sidewalls on the rear, get echo 07, there is no real difference in strength I believe.

One of my mates has one, it seems OK. Try to ride other bikes and then you will decide what you like.

Looks sweet Joe, how does it ride with a smooth rim? I know your grinding it anyway btw.

I heard from the welder at my Dad's works that what you actually need is a big industrial oven, put the frame in it and heat it up to a certain temperature, (depends on the grade of aluminum), over the course of an hour or two, then take it out and let it cool slowly, just in room temperature air. If you quench it in water then it will be too brittle and will snap, so its best to leave it on one side and just let it cool slowly. It might be worth noting that you may wish to re-paint it after wards.

I really don't think that Hope would have designed it to have a spongy lever feel, it is a trials specific brake after all. I prefer my brakes as firm on the lever as possible.

Here are my freewheel reviews, just to help, (Maybe the moderators will make this a sticky topic just for freewheel reviews). TENSILE FFW. 60 ENGAGEMENT POINTS. 6 PAWLS. £35. I have one. It cost me £35 six months ago, it has never skipped, never come loose and I have never had to rebuild it. If I ever have to buy another freewheel I will buy another tensile because they are so good and so cheap. You can buy the internals as a kit from supercycles for £18, or just buy a new one because they are so cheap. Probably won't last as long as an ENO but it's half the price, and I doubt you will get through two Tensiles in the lifetime of an ENO. ACS CLAW. 36 ENGAGEMENT POINTS. 4 PAWLS. £11. Absolute rubbish. I have three in bits from various mates because they have to get binned for a better freewheel. I got mine welded because it came loose so often, then it started skipping like mad and I couldn't rebuild it, so I cut it off with an angle grinder and got my tensile. TRY-ALL 108.9. 108 ENGAGEMENT POINT. 9 PAWLS. £50. I haven't owned this one, my mate has and it was rubbish, after a few weeks it started skipping like mad, he rebuilt it several times but it never stopped skipping. He got an eno instead. WHITE INDUSTRIES ENO. 72 ENGAGEMENT POINTS. 6 PAWLS. £70. I havn't owned this one either, but two of my mates have had three between them on various bikes. Hardly ever skips, never needs rebuilding or tightening. A good point about this freewheel is that all the parts are available seperately, so if anything breaks then it can be mended. I'll keep adding to this as time gets on, let you all know how the Tensile is getting on.

Your not allowed to advertise in new-members, and as you are a pre-member I wouldn't advise trying to sell anything until you get validated. Don't buy a saracen, or a mission, or a da bomb. They just aren't worth it. The only half decent starter bikes are the Onza T-Pro/T-Comp, Zona Zip and the Monty 219 Alp/Magura. I would recommend that you don't buy anything unless it is on this list, (thats if you budget is less than £500). Nothing else is any good really, any cheaper and they are really heavy with rubbish geometry and parts. Have a look on tarty bikes: HERE. I would buy second hand, trials bikes depreciate like nothing else. I would wait and buy a better bike than buy a Saracen 2.0, I have ridden one. I won't be riding one again. What is your highest budget? Once we know that then we will be able to recommend further. If you can get £500 then I would get a Zona Zip, it is a really well made frame and give you a starting point to get upgrading.

Get a T-Pro from ebay mate, but get it checked out by a rider before buying.

Ours was free from the scrap yard down the road, my Dad knows them so meh. 15 years old its still mint. OK I'll stop going on about vices and headset presses now. I dare say your set-up is slightly better than mine anyway.

That is well bad luck mate, you'll get through it. I bought a t-pro that had barely been ridden and after a month I cracked the frameon the downtube. So I bought a Zona Zip. And cracked it at the rear bashplate mount.

I got past core 1 and binned it. I didn't understand a word and got a U in my exam in january so thought its not worth it. I aint going to pass a levels anyway, they're absolutely solid. (What kind of a knob chooses physics, maths, IT and product design).

Don't format it! First you said that she had lost the boot disk, then you said she had lost the windows disk. These are different things, take it to a shop, explain the situation and they will be able to sort you out. If you have lost the windows disk, contact microsoft. I'm sure they have a system in place to deal with stuff like this happening. But don't go typing fdisk until you have some advice from experienced computer geeks.

Downloaded, "Application is not a valid win32 item", deleted. If anyone has a working version please post.

Well many pre-members have trouble using the search on here, maybe he is trying to help them out becuase they can't operate any search engines? Oh wait he is a pre-member. And he is already sponsered! Seriously though stop posting the first thing that comes into your head.

My dad's garage looks like that, but yours is full of loverly new bikes, not 3 knackered AJSs in bits. And our vice is bigger than yours so there! (But I don't have a headset facer, but I do have the tool for pressing the cups into the frame).

How long till this thread gets closed? If its your frame why make a thread, just PM the mods tell them there has been a mistake and they will sort it out.

This is something I though about, but do it on a webcam, then we could all watch it live. Infact why not leave the webcam on all the time, where the pics are that show the whole place up on that balcony thing.

I so want to come down with loads of dosh to spend, then go running round like a mad man buying everything that catches my eye. I'd better get saving!

Always best for me, then if you really need to use it, like when your on a ride, the lazy pad will (hopefully) still not drag on the rim.

Buy one, if it don't fit then get some tensile offset mounts aswell.