Matt Staples

omgz. my eyes. (Y) Shame about the music.

Meh. http://www.trials-forum.co.uk/forum/index....cmd=si&img=6006

Yaaaay ! I love Dave and ginger Phil. I miiight be goin.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahaha. (Y) Can one of you buy me a cam/bike/both ?

:ermm: :P Can someone lend me like £500 ?

I really love this sport/disapline in general, and would find it hard to ever give up. Also I'm sure I'd still be involved in it in some way, either through filming or just being a tag-along. My last few 'rides' have been bikeless, so I guess their more like 'day's-out'. Either way, they've been really enjoyable largely due to everyones kindness with their bikes. Jonney J, Mister Chai, Stephen M and Tim R in particular have all leant me their bikes for sometimes long periods of time, and haven't complained once. All top guys (except Chai, that bike is like 50% mine anyway) :) ...ha. Peace, Love and Joy-Joy feelings. Matt

Purple decals all round me thinks.

bitch. can i have your old wheels ?

you suck. If you want humor go on observedtrials.net. If you want irritating newbies and ginger people, stay on here. (N)

Hehe, Steve you legend. Portland / Poole / Bristol was defo my favourite few days of the summer. Even though I wankered my leg / foot and required masking tape, and first aid from Stephens wonderful Girlfriend. (N) Owe...I'm too excited now, like the disneyland advert. ''Mummy says its just magical'' :-

Hope it rains. :blink: EDIT!: Ok, may be comming along now. No bike, just Girlfness. AND! Look at this baaad ass mofo I might be getting. http://www.trials-forum.co.uk/forum/index....cmd=si&img=5734

That may be the inspiration I needed ... I want a BMX. :blink:

Defo Wellow.

I hope its employee's only aaaaaaahahahaha. I'll talk to the scum bag. (Chai)

+30 :o... Feels amazing.

The last time I made a comment about this type of thing, I was verbaly raped...Anyway... All I think is that people are trying to over complicate something which otherwise would be very simple. Considering the amount of different sports involving bikes out there, The difference between Matt B (Sorry dude, you should be taking this as a complement (Y) ) and his style of approaching obsticals and the way (for example) the Cousts do, is farely minimal. All he is doing is giving his moves style with more BMX orientated variations, whereas the Cousts may leave the back brake off when they tap. Despite appearing completely different, it's really the same stuff. Anyway, like alot of others, I think I lost the point somewhere...but anyhoo. Matt's probably quite a bad example...because I believe he's decieving us all. I think he switches his little red button under the BB shell, and his Curtis grows to 1100, he rips off his clothes to reveal a full length Curtis Lycra Trials suit ( for ages 10 - 13 for maximum tightness) and he goes a-tappin !

Yeah I agree 100% actually. The only move I have yet to master is the rolling gaps. I've tried many different things out, the most sucessful has been changing for a harder gear ratio. I tried 18:14 but I struggled with other moves. I'm sticking with 18:15 for the mo...and I can scrape about 10ft rolling...But when you are riding with the Magical Mr Chai 90% of the time, its hard to not be morally destroyed by his 13ft antics :D

I'm not sure you'll still read this, if you've made a clear decision but people should know. BT Raven's are not 'too' long for the vast majority of riders. People should realise its your style of riding (and by that i don't mean popping manuals etc..) I mean the way in which you appoach obstacles. This means that from the heights of about 5'6ft to 6ft + the wheelbase would be perfect if like I said, you approach obstacles and certain moves in a French-UCI-Badboy styleeee. Anyway...I'm 5'7-8ft and I find the BT easy to manual :D. Having spoken to Rav in much detail about future models it appears things aren't going to change and hopefully get a bit longer. :D Another thing to bear in mind for anyone who still thinks that the length will just be too much, is when you do get used to it, the potential for larger moves is obvious immediatly :D (Hooks, bumps sidehops) By the way...What I've said applies to all long bikes...I'm not just trying to be a hardcore salesman :D Although BT's are the only ones with 375 chainstays, unless you want to pay all the money for an 05' Pitbull. I'm done here... :D

Wow weeee ! Guys I'm shocked / impressed / Aroused. Soooo much better than what I was expecting, truely awesome. My new favourite vid...until something more Vincenty comes out. :)

100% Agreed