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Lilley

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About Lilley

  • Birthday 04/13/1979

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    Tim Mullaly
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    Australia

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  1. Over the weekend I grabbed some training footage of Janine "J9" Jungfels on her new bike with a brand new buildkit thanks to her generous sponsors at Trialtech. http://youtu.be/5KtSbQWks8Q
  2. Yep there are plenty of riders in Brisbane, though a couple of the regulars have just moved or are moving interstate Best ways to get in touch are through the Queensland Bike Trials Club http://www.facebook.com/pages/Queensland-Bike-Trials-Club/289135146951 or on OTN http://www.observedtrials.net/vb/showthread.php?t=29936&page=19 or at the ExpressiveBikes facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/ExpressiveBikes/164929373518281 If you don't do Facebook you can also go to www.expressivebikes.com Kangaroo Point in the city is your best starting place for an urban ride or Toohey Forest is great natural. If you travel a bit further Springfield Lakes is awesome. I'm down the Gold Coast so if you are heading down this way I would be happy to show you the local spots. I should add that all the riders in that Pt Elliot road trip video are from Brisbane.
  3. I had the opportunity recently to talk with Gemma Abant about the trials school they have in Sabadell. They have a local training park where the kids come and ride every weekend and then once a month they might head out to the mountains for a trip away and some time riding natural terrain. I thought this was a pretty good idea, encouraging the kids to practice locally and then giving them the opportunity to travel further afield for better locations. It would be hard work but maybe if you could recruit a talented/ knowledgeable local rider as a coach and a couple of old learner bikes you could get some local youngsters riding. You wouldn't need to run competitions or events but you could perhaps still create "a club". I am president of a trials club in Australia and our club was started by an ex moto trials rider Richard Kent who wanted somewhere for his son to ride push bike trials. It was Richard's hardwork that made our club happen and since then others have taken over the mantle. Unfortunately the lessons from this is that if you want somewhere for the kids to ride you may need to be the one to take the lead. I know one of my big motivations this year is the fact that my 5 year old son has taken an interest in riding comps and has even has even had a little go at our last 2 events. One other thing we are going to try this year is to get kids from the MTB community involved. I do the commentary for the local 6 hour XC races and at at every event their are half a dozen kids playing around on little 20" mountain bikes and BMXs. We often run little mini loop XC races for them and I think they would all love to ride a modified version of a trials course. So this year I plan to set a small fun trials event for them and try and motivate some more participants that way. I guess this rambling post was my way of saying that sometimes you need to take the initiative a build something new, it might only ever be small but it can be very rewarding.
  4. Nice work, I really love to see a passion project of this kind. Resources like this exist for other cycling disciplines and can be very useful for parents taking on a "coaching role" with young up and coming riders, especially if they themselves don't have a back ground in bicycle trials.
  5. The 5-10s are extremely popular with the natural (and street) riders in my local area. The 2 best models are the Freerunner (which I like myself) and the Chase. Both are excellent, with grippy soles and decent pedal feel (unlike the DH models). If you are used to pixie boots you might initially miss the ankle protection but people seem to make their peace with that pretty quick. Heaps grippier then the Ribos. We all ride them and are happy to pay retail for them so I think if you are getting them free you will be super pleased.
  6. As Mark says there is something special about a print magazine. I subscribe to Trial Inside magazine and even though my French is terrible I love receiving my copy in the mail. Being able to browse the pictures and articles at the breakfast table over a coffee is so much nicer then staring at the computer screen. Unfortunately putting together a magazine is a lot of work so unless you have the skills, time and are prepared to throw some money at it for the love rather then financial gain it is going to be tough getting something off the ground. That said most things in our sport exist because of people with that passion. DVDs like Trials Is Dead and GET 2 are passion projects for their creators, maybe one day someone with a passion for print will do the same with an English language magazine or perhaps an annual.
  7. You need to post up some pictures. Also did you buy a complete Echo or just the frame? Rear hubs, sprockets, cranks, freewheel spacers etc can all effect chainline. You talked about using the parts supplied by echo but I got the impression from your post you had only purchased a frame kit not the complete bike.
  8. PM sent I have plenty of axles made up to suit the 116 hub.
  9. I guess the point I wanted to make was that after expenses a business (Rockman, Tarty, my own) needs to make a profit (doesn't need to be a huge one), what they do with this profit through creative accounting, reinvesting, donating to charity or distributing to shareholders is up to them. I just know from experience that if your business is only breaking even it only takes one unexpected change and everything can start to look very bleak. A clever business will find ways to give back to their customers through things like event sponsorship and as a result their customers will be happy to keep them profitable. There is certainly a balancing act here, overcharge for your products and your customers will soon desert you. To return to the orginal post if to many Rockman parts become available on Ebay under other brand names then they will need to innovate or loose their market share. Very true, we could always become freegans but I would rather ride on bins then forage through them so I'll stay in the economy for now.
  10. Well they probably make enough profit to pay the wages, rent, electricity, website hosting, freight, increase stock levels, invest in workshop tools etc. Hopefully after this they also make a profit which will keep them in business for many years to come.
  11. I had an Echo 24" that I got when they first came out. It was an excellent bike. I've always liked long mods and shorter stocks so the Echo felt like the perfect in between (as you would hope). I've since sold it but I would certainly recommend it for anyone struggling to find that happy middle ground. Mine was built from frame with a mainly Trialtech spec. The only thing I should have done was make the front end slightly higher with some Trialtech High Risers and I think it would have been perfect.
  12. Recently one of our demo riders set up his Inspired Fourplay with dual TR discs specced with Hope Pads and Hope Rotors and he has been very happy with the performance to date. My feeling would be to go for the Hope pads.
  13. For me it is all about building bikes in different ways and the fun that comes from that. Of course you can ride any bike brakeless, just like you can ride your mountain bike single speed by not changing gears. However when you set up a trials bike brakeless or an XC bike single speed it changes the way you ride. Whether that is for better or worse is a personal preference but I reckon the variety is always fun. I had my Inspired Hex brakeless when I first got it, now I have brakes on it. Changing from brakes to brakeless makes it feel like a completely different bike even when all the other parts stay the same.
  14. Love the Kermit avatar popping up as the first reply. I guess he knows "it's not easy being green"
  15. Rocking the vintage EXB stickers. New ones are in the works.
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