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JoeEden

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  1. Welcome to the forum mate enjoy yourself but still follow the rules, Most frames do not have rear disc mounts and IMO rear disc will get in the way a bit and keep catching your rotor when side hopping and other moves like that maybe you might need a new rotor nearly every time you hit it or you can just leave it battered, i think your front is harder to hit i have never hit my front rotor and if i had rear disc it would be battered it is just IMO but it does not need as much setting up as a magura its your choice if you like sorting brakes out :lol: get a magie, if you dont like sorting brakes out and you still want your brakes to be good get a disc its your choice all the way, and i love my front hope mono trial disc with my rear magura.

  2. Well i had a mission reefer :lol: that rode poo, but now i have a koxx caisso its ok if you are short and you like low bb rise and i dont like short bikes with low bb rise the lenghth is 1050 and bb rise is +10 but thats soon to change i should have either a gu 07 frame if the man i am buing it from can still get it for £200 wow, or a czar 07 for the same price great i will tell you the reviews on that when i get it.

    good luck with your frame change dude.

  3. Yea basically as said its like a brake will grip a lot better to sandpaper than a peice of metal... so you skimm an ANGLE not AXEL grinder across it just to rough up the surface. Rims nowadays can usually handle 10+ grinds depending on how deep into the rim you go! My brake didnt work at all yesterday, so today took off the rim gave it a hard grind and now the brake works scarily good again! You must get specially designed harder compound brakes though, look on tarty and where the pad is reviewed it will say weather it is ment to be run on a grinded / ungrinded rim. If you use very soft compound pads like Zoo!'s on a grind there wear rate will be stupidly fast. But for something like Koxx bloxx the wear rate is fine!

    My Heatsink red pads in CNC'ed backings have been run for over a year now on a grind and almost all the material is left on them! you really have to experiment with pads and see what suits you personally, some people like grabby brakes a prefer to have a little bit of slip in my brake for manuals and things!

    But awsome posting skills man! your english and punctuation is really good! hopefully you'll becombe a new member really quickly!!! :)

    Cheers simpson, do you still have your gu that you brought off of dan and sorry for going off topic.

  4. Welcome to the forum and you should try runnng it without tensioner first and see how it comes out just take some links out of your chain give it a bit of tension and you might be lucky you just have to give these things a try, good luck mate.

  5. Well my mate has an avid bb7 front cable disc and it is so great (Y) , i have a hope mono trial disc and it is great i did have a hydrolic v brake wich is a magura and it wasnt as well as my disc i have got now, and another one of my friends has an avid sd5 front cable v brake and it is imense i love it, so it just depends how you set them up realy and what pads you have and if you use tar or not or if you have a grind or not.

    hope i helped out mate joe.

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