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"You hit my bike, you dick, you dick!" ..haha! Cheers for having a look through my site Matt

New Video! I've made two different edits, each with different songs (Wishing Well and Life Line, I'm a big Blink-182 fan). Let me know which you prefer..

I prefer the geo of (stock/26") Urbans to Trialtech, they are similar but my Trialtechs stick out a bit far in front compared to my old Urbans. EDIT: However Trialtech's are a little stiffer and seem to be better made.

I put in 20PSI front and back, then I start taking a little out of both as I'm riding until my tyres feel nice and bouncey.

Started filming a few days ago, I've uploaded a small collaboration of new unedited clips onto the page 'Films in the Pipeline' on my site. Check them out!

Cheers Mike, I'll never be able to get my head around all that HTML code stuff so this is really all I can manage on my own at the moment. I tryed to mix up the style of the site as much as I could as I really don't like the look of the 'standard templates' for websites like mine. Glad you approve!

Didn't have any money to go out on the beer tonight ..so I stayed in and worked on the site for a bit. In my opinion I made my site look a whole lot better/more professional. I didn't think to get a screenshot of what it looked like before but your thoughts on how its all looking now would really help. Edit: Also I'm going out for a big ride tomorrow with two mates, one whos also biking, and the others filming. So I'll be throwing together an edit of all that tomorrow night and posting it up for all to see.

Hey, I've been uploading a couple of my trials videos/photos today onto this site and would like to get some feedback My website. If anybody takes some time to have a look at it I'd love to know what you think. Cheers!

Lush geo, and vee mounts ..I want one!

Sound, pick it next time your down in Tenby then.

Dave, I've got a Viz Welded stem in white thats 150x30 that I'm currently not using. Borrow that if you want? Its probally a bit heavier than what your looking for, but its got a 4bolt clamp.. EDIT: just checked on Tarty and their not that heavy, around 220g. Where as the Try-all/Rockman (2bolt clamp) stems are only 20 grams lighter.

For a 26" or a 24" trials bike I believe that vee's are the perfect brake.. -They offer so much hold compared to a Magura, -They're much easier to set-up, -You can tune them to exactly how you want your brake to 'feel' with all of the leverage adjustments on the Avid lever's, the reach control, the spring tension, etc.. -They're so simple to fix if theres ever a problem with them where as with a Magura I always find that my day is over if theres a slight problem with them, But sadly on a mod they're not great purely because of tyre clearence. For example my Avid Ultimate on my old Zoo Python '05 and my old Echo Team '06 I forced to run my chain extremely tight and have a very bald rear tyre just to try and get a little clearence, and even then the vee's 'cross over' cable between the to calipers must have only cleared the tyre by 1 or 2mm. So unless you find a pair of stupidly long vee brake arm's then a vee isn't really an option on a 20" trials bike.

There are a couple of factors missing from that list: Length of the caliper arms - this directly determines the amount of leverage you have (granted you can alter the amount of leverage you have at the lever with most Avid levers). Quality of bearings/bushings at the pivot points - for example the sealed bearings on the Avid Ultimate make a world of difference over any other vee that I've used, they completely cancel the wobble found on cheaper vee's with open sealed bearings or with bushings. Type of springs used for tension/re-centering - alot of cheap brakes use a coiled spring around the pivot point usually adjusted with a screw, this method makes the brake harder to pull at the lever whilst not being as effective at re-centering the calipers after the brake is pulled, and generally makes the brake more sluggish compared to a linear set-up typically found on Avids or Shimanos like this.. Strength to weight ratio - theres no point having a massively over built pair of vee's that just way a tonne, and theres no point in having a super light pair that just flex and offer bad preformance (well not in trials biking anyway), so having a well designed pair of arms that arn't heavy and don't flex is critical to trials. In my opinion they are lots of factors seperating cheap vee's and high quality vee's, but each to there own..

And you actually rate them? hhhmm.. I breifly used a set that came off of my mates (either 2007 or 2008) T-pro and found them far flexier than my Avid Ultimate & Avid SD7 calipers, they actually flexed more than my Shimano XT arms (which have the super flexy parallel push system) which was surprising. Perhaps they have been different Onza Vee's since then that you have tryed as we can't be talking about the same calipers.

You've obviously never ridden a bike with a well set up Avid or Shimano v-brake. The Onza vees are more comparible to super cheap Tektro or Promax brakes..

I found the complete opposite to this! TNN's slipped all day long, where my Heatsink Whites just held no problem. The bite was very similar on both pads..

I see exactly where Dave is coming from, the original form of Trials Biking is certainly competition trials: getting though a section of obsticles, getting penalty points or 'dabs' for putting a foot down, generally mimicing Moto Trials on a push bike. So naturally if someone competes in these comps then are riding the original type of Bike Trials and could consider them selves a 'true' trials rider. However, like nearly all sports eventually trials evolved into having many differnt aspects - competition, TGS, street/24", etc.. I find it funny that people can't see that if someone rides one of varients of Trials they are still a Trials rider! For example: Rugby union players and rugby league players are both still rugby players. BMX street riders, BMX flatland riders, BMX vert riders, BMX park riders, BMX racing riders, etc.. are all still BMX riders. Competition trials riders, TGS trials riders, Street trials riders, etc.. are all still 'trials riders'. Is it really that hard to understand? Personally I think its a good thing that Trials now has so many varients, it gives the rider more choice of how they decide to ride their bike, and its all proof that trials is a growing sport By the by I've only skimmed through this topic so maybe I've got the wrong end of the stick here..

Echo SL. Great strength to weight ratio, and its splined interface is far better than 'screw on' hubs/cogs..

Your frame is proof that Onza mess all there frames up with rubish paint jobs, keep them raw like yours and they look 10 times better! ..those rims still need a grind Theo, your Monty brrake spray must be all used up by now

Heatsink Red's are my favourite pads ever made, great hold and bite in wet and dry conditions, on a medium grind they were perfect! Shame they're not made anymore.. If you can find any of these second hand then you have to give them a try. On the market right now I'd say Koxx Browns have the best hold, and Cousts have the best bite - but neither have out-preformed Heatsink Reds on my set-up.

Your bike is so cool! It's so good to see old school frames still being ridden today, that Orange Zero looks brand new

Eh? How'd you work that one out? If you buy second hand you could pick up most of the parts on here for a fraction of there RRP. By my calculations you could get all of the components neccesary to improve your T-pro for less than £200. I've seen countless pairs of Echo Lite forks being sold on here for under £40, and decent front wheels go for less than £40 too. You can pick up good spec'd rear wheels for around £60 (with afixed hub, obviously a Profile is going to bump the price up a fair bit). All sorts of stems and bars are sold at around £20 each. And pads with CNC'd backings you can find for around £10. ..and if you not bothered by dents and scratches here and there I'm sure you can find cheaper asking prices again.

T-pro frames are actually very light frames, its the rest of the bike (on a standard build) that makes it heavy. If I were you I wouldn't upgrade the frame untill it breaks. Fair enough if you feel cramped on your T-pro, then you should go for something longer - or just get a longer stem. I'm pressuming your bike is still a fairly standard spec? If it's not then don't pay any attention to what I've written below, if it is however then I think your money would be much better spent if you upgraded your wheels, brakes, forks, bar and stem. Replace both of your open bearing hubs (with cones) for sealed bearing hubs.It'd be a good idea to upgrade your rims too if you replacing the hubs, if your quite a light rider then a pair of 'single walled' rims can save you some weight.Get a pair of alloy forks as they can be around half the weight of your standard steel forks.Again your bar & stem combo massively out weigh an aluminium bar and stem. A pair of 'riser' bars would also be alot comfier compared to the standard steel 'flat' bars.If you still have standard Magura brake pads then you have to get a decent pair of pads (Rockpads, Phatpads, Heatsinkpads, TNNpads, Koxx Bloxx..) for both the front & rear (especially for the rear).Grind your rims (if you get some of the pads I recomended above) - lightly on the front, deeper and shaper on the rear.Fit a 2-bolt booster on the rear, as I always found T-pro's rather flexy.Purchasing those components would make a huge difference to the way your bike rides. An Onza T-pro frame with the above components would make a much better bike than a Zoo Python frame with standard steel components..

That's stupidly light, just look at the pedals..