Annihilation

Ah right. I always wondered. So the HS11 had no TPA, the HS22 was a bigger lever piston the HS33 was the most useful, lol the HS66 was a road bike lever with ordinary slaves and the HS77 was a proper road bike set-up... Not bad...

A version of their brake for road bikes, no less...

No, I disagree. If Damon can learn Danny Mac style riding, he'll have the edge for style AND power. Cmon Damon!

What the hell is a HS77?

A well set up avid brake is better than some hydro brakes. They never need bleeding, or leak, and its easy to set up - you twiddle the red knobs either side of the pads, which can cure any kind of problem, whereas with a hydro that's automatic, so a bent disc is always going to be noisy.

The scariest thing I've done is a 5ft drop, haha. You had a choice, either to jump up onto a ledge before dropping, or starting on the ledge, and dropping off. There's another drop next to it, which is taller than me, but I daren't do it. I tried, and my body felt all funny and I couldn't do it!

Hehe, its a bit easier for me now, I've got a job so I can afford a bike that does what I want, rather than having to modify my own. Still, nothing like a bit of the old-school. That's one criticism I've got for the new types of bikes, they just don't bunnyhop well. I know I'm wrong about this, because it just can't be so, but I can't see how people find a bike that doesn't bunnyhop on demand good riding. Haha, that's my two cents. Still, they have their uses, long things. I might end up building up a long thing and a streety thing. Aah, I see I'm no longer yellow!

Thanks, yeah. I remembered about this account here, so I thought I'd check it out again. I've got the services of a t-rex, haha. It does the trick, I stuck some DMR wing bars on there to try and get it to manual better but it doesn't, which is disappointing.

Hi, It's been a long time since I signed up for trials forum, but I've come back. Originally I started out on a Barracuda Subway, which was a really nice jump/street bike, I enjoyed that a lot. I first learnt to backhop on that, many moons ago, and I remember how chuffed I felt having been able to do it. That's one of the strange things about this sport. Huge sidehops and big gaps look impressive to the outsider, but if you think about it, you appreciate just how hard it is just to learn how to pedal-kick at all, although I know some of you have picked it up in hours; there's always going to be naturals like that. I for one took days to learn it. I kept asking as many people as I could how you do it, but until you make the connection in your own head, none of it makes sense, 'it's pedal, jump, let go of the lever.' 'it's let go of the lever, pedal, jump.' until it clicks, its as good as talking french to a german. Anyway, I've got past that stage, I'm a reasonably competent rider. I still do things like, drop my front end when I gap over a certain distance, or gap from a foot from the edge of the object I'm on, but these tricks take a little bit of perseverance and attention paying to them, and I'll have them down. This summer really should be the most important summer in my riding career, when I get a proper car, and decent skills, and I can produce videos to show the whole trials world just what I can come up with. Hopefully, I'll be able to meet some of you, which will make it all the better! Yeah, so I suppose this is me saying hi to trials-forum. Do any of you have fond memories of beginning trials, like I had with my Barracuda?

I used to rate those, the old ones, which were £5. The £6 ones have way too much treble, and scream in your ears, and are shit. I hve some sport sennheisser ones, but I keep losing the rubber rings to hold in your ear. They don't match now, lol.

Probably 68mm.

Where is that from? Get used to throwing your hips around, it will help you with anything that involves turning. As has been said, twist the bars a bit as you travel upwards in the jump. You'll not turn particularly fast, but you should turn. You might want to learn to do what I do later, which is to go from two wheels, pedal-kick to rear wheel and turn 90deg in one move. It's a similar technique, you'll get the feel for it.

Rise, rise rise. That's what makes a streety bike. My stem is maybe 35deg and 100mm long, and my bars are at about 48deg from the point of the steerer clamp and they're about 3" of rise. You can really feel the difference when you hit a setup that bunnyhops well. It's lovely As for a more TGS style, I don't know. Frankly, I don't understand how you can make a bike not bunnyhop well and it still ride well, so in essence my answer to a TGS setup is, who gives a crap? It IS a 24" after all

You could get an Onza through Moore & Large, but you'll need to do it through whatever business you work for. It would help if they've already got an account with them.

You really do that? I hope you don't do it in the kitchen, that would make a stink, and a mess. Grind your rim. Tar is ok, its just very sticky, but when it rains, it goes awful. I don't know if it's the water staying on the surface of the tar, or the tar liquefying, it doesn't matter, you still can't stop

The most important bit on a BB is the spline, if you wanted you can swap out old bearings for better ones like rolls-royce bearings! After looking, I'd go for the trialtech one, but it doesn't matter really. Perhaps the viz one if you can afford it, it is lighter, lol.

Either bolt the tool to the crank arm, put the tool in the vice and a tube on the crank and turn, OR, put the crank arm in the vice, bolt the tool on, and use a massive wrench. That should do the trick You need a vice that's not going to move, mine is loose, which is useless. You could also just cut the old freewheel off with an angle grinder, but you must be careful doing this, not to wreck the threads.

i'll have a look-see, but I was going to buy a trials bike in the summer, perhaps a t-rex or a t-raptor. thanks.

hello dudes I ride a barracuda subway, and since I decided to take up trials, I've been looking at getting some rigid forks. The thing is, i want to know what forks to get, because I don't want to loose too much height off the front end, if you see what I mean. With my current suspension forks, it's perfect, but the longest rigids I know, kona project 2's, mean I lose like 5cm. Anyone got any ideas? or even better, if anyone has/had a subway, what forks did u use? safe.

Hi I'm new to this forum, and to trials. I ride a barracuda subway, I'm trying to get rid of the suspension on it for some rigid forks. I can back-hop, trackstand, hop forwards and sideways. It doesn't help that my tyres are going a bit thin on top, and that when I settled my mind on doing trials, it decided to snow and rain, and has been for the last 3 days. plus, my chain keeps skipping, but I should be sorting that out tomorrow I live in Nottingham.. I've only seen trials riders maybe twice in the town, so I'm not sure how many people on here come from Nottingham. so, there we go.