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  1. bah yeah I amv donew with riding. Everyone who bikes is an ass.... I don't get why but they are all sociopaths incapable of empathy. Bikers are the worst humans on earth. O boy if I did what mark does, quoting people and then looking for contradtictions. Nooo i wouldnt find any... apparently I am upset because he said not to bitch crank, and he only give objective constructive criticism... like you are stupid beyond all belife... thats helpful objective criticism. If I cared enough to go through all his posts he said to me and look for contradictions.... I am too depressed to care. Seriously read that ross thread which is like 30 pages long... he is clearly giving ross helpful objective criticism... which is what forums are for right? lol apparently i cant take criticism on a video that I worked super hard on when its constructive, like the music sucks and doesnt go with the riding... thats totally oocnstructive objective cristicsm. Yet when he makes a video produciton and all I say is i think you should loose the fish eye he says I suck at riding. "after all all you do is low level bmx on a trials bike" remember saying that??? I did cause it made me really depressed. that is very good "constructive criticism." (sarcasm)and no its not even true, I see lots of lines in pro bmx vids that I can land. I am not better than garrete reynolds but i can throw down some sweet lines and you know it. Problem is bullies/tyrants always have and will have power and control everyone, and when peopel stand up to them they will just get trampled cause they play everyone else too. So whatever, I will never post on this forum again and you can also enjoy not watching my new video production. Too bad you get to miss more than 3 years of full time labor in riding and artwork which I would have shared for free. PEACE DUDES I am done here.
  2. partially, I never experienced love as a human and as a result am very emo and overreactive, I headbang in fields to express disconnection and a sense of freedom from the world. I was never physically abused though. and I actually took the time to dig through some old threads and quote mark here to see if he does bully me or I am just misunderstanding... "I really can't be bothered going into any more detail about this, it's f**king unbelievable how stupid you are" hmmm I would say my feelings are pretty valid, I didn't search very hard either.
  3. spinning it off a 10 set puts a hell of a lot of stress on the frame. You are right, I misread and I didn't notice the part where it says "looks" I thought it said was better suited, point retracted.... Yes it was originally cun* and I feel its quite well deserved. Though I am not sure of the degree of insult in the UK it certainly is meant to be offensive on par with calling someone an ape, troll, etc... would be in my opinion the same so as the degree of insult is not to be confused. He can call what I say total bull shi* despite it not being bull shi* I obviously thought I was right at the time and had reason for thinking the way I did.. and admitted to being wrong, and I want to offend him to prove "how little he cares about what I think". The fact that he will write a 10 page defense about how I am a worthless pile of crap and should kill my self and then ban me form here should pretty effectively prove my point because what I said about his values are true and digs right into his insecurities in the worst possible way. But since I wrote this he is screwed, if he writes a huge defense he proves my point and if he says nothing then he let me win. At some point in time I stop apologizing and trying to fix riffs between people. Some people need to change and I don't like how he bullies people.
  4. here is the problem with that... 1) 20" rear wheel and narrow tire makes manuels way harder. 19" are better for manuels. How do I know? cause I have run both a 20" and 19" on a mod multiple times... 2) long stem will break and makes too much leanover. 3) fork is curved and probably has too much rake (40+) 4) I prefer hs-33 over vee brakes. 5) Is it tested? Have you spun it off 10 sets and know it is safe and reliable? 6) titanium is very ridgid metal and I prefer the feel of aluminum and a softer bike because of my wrist injury. Riding a ridgid feeling bmx kills my wrist. As for the geo of the frame, I have experimented quite a bit... this is the 4th custom frame I built. All the bb height, chainstays and so forth are exactly where I want them.. I gurantee you it doesn't have this exact geo which is what I feel is the best from having tried virtually every form of geo out there, long and short chainstays, high bbs and low bbs, steep and shallow headtubes... Mark... grow up... yes I know you clearly don't care. Just like you didn't care in that thread by Ross, where you argued for what 25 pages? I thought it was hilarious how Ross stopped posting in that thread and you banned him. You know how I know you care? because you will reply to this lol, and also because you didn't admit to being wrong and still pertain to the prospect you knew what you were talking about. You know how else I know? Because you actually remember what you said to me. If you don't care and aren't emotionally invested in a subject you will.... NOT REMEMBER!!! Sorry but fact is you don't remember things you don't care about. Sorry man but you really are a pretentious fanny... I OPENLY admited that I was wrong. I VERY easily could have just NOT said what the engineer said, or lied about what he said... So yeah clearly its a SALES PITCH. Admitting a product is flawed is how you sell stuff right? Now lets see you point out the flaws you see in eskimo's design. You know for a fact a bent high rake fork will break easily and fack up spins. You know a long stem causes a COG too far forward and too much leverage.. Lets see you say some "constructive criticism" on your friend's design. You can't apologize or feel remorse because you have too much pride. You can never be wrong, and let me guess why... your dad was a fanny? By any chance is your dad the kind of person who always must be right? Don't follow your dad's morality think for your self man...
  5. You are aware being right for the wrong reason doesn't make you correct? It is quite fair to say that neither of us understood the correlation fully of how the angle of the vertex transfers power before the engineer intervened. It is the LOWNESS of the frame (the short seattube distance), that accounts for the weakness in vertical stress when landing on 2 wheels. If I were to make a diamond frame with a 3" seattube vs a triangle frame with an 8" seattube the triangle would be stronger. So no you are also wrong, a triangle frame could be stronger than a diamond frame depending on the seattube height. Its the acuteness of the angle that reduces its ability to transfer power. If you understood it you would have explained it correctly and I would have understood and agreed with you because common sense verifies this principle... and I was actually using this principle to justify that it was stronger which is INCORRECT BECAUSE.... I applied the principle incorrectly and by creating a straight toptube/seatstay inadvertently mad the toptube/downtube angle more acute in the process actually reducing strength from the frame slightly. In the instance of a low trials frame such as one like this whether it is diamond shaped or triangle shaped it will still be weak for vertical stress applied in a flat landing, however it will be MUCH stronger than a regular diamond shaped frame in a rear wheel first vertical type landing BECAUSE the downtube/chainstay angle is much more obtuse. So the question is balancing the stresses out. I based my reasoning largely on how most low trials frames are switching to the triangle design, and failed to research this better and rationalized it as stronger. But you are also wrong, because like I said being right for the wrong reason makes you just as wrong as being wrong for the wrong reason. Now in the unlikely event that it is just a mere coincidence that absolutely every single post for the last what 4 years??? has been 100% without a single exception criticism... one tends to think 1 of 2 things... 1) This person beieves that the purpose of a forum is to educate based only on constructive criticism 2) This person antagonizes certain people based on politics and personal grudges... Since I have seen you make positive posts in other people's threads and you can look BEYOND just what is flawed then I would say number 1 is my conclusion... In the event you are actually NOT antagonizing me, and really out of the KINDNESS OF YOUR HEART trying to help me improve my design so that my life is easier, then I sincerely apologize, and retract saying you are a troll. I believe though.... that you are a troll because the evidence points more towards that. However if you will honestly state that you are not antagonizing me then I will go by what you say because I believe in extending trust. Talking crap consists of antagonizing people. Some guy makes a video of 40 tricks and mess one up and all you talk about is the one messed up thing, you obviously have a negative prejudice (not saying you did this just making an example up on the spot). Not basing this entirely on this thread, but over many years of absolutely nothing but "constructive criticism" which happens to ALWAYS without a single exception is negative... put your self in my shoes. I am inclined to believe that any post I possibly make you will spend your time carefully nitpicking to find a flaw, hence your opinion in general I am inclined to omit because if I listened to what you say I would just quit riding and give up on life. You need to get a better attitude man... You don't always have to be right for people to respect you... and if you didn't antagonize me and constantly try to make me look stupid I WOULD respect your opinion highly because you do have lots of useful knowledge and experience.
  6. yeap 50 minutes of headbanging should proove that. Seriously though less than half the vid is biking, but its also a longer vid so it equates to a decent amount of riding. If people aren't interested I won't sell it. I don't care... I don't need the money. I am just creating the opportunity to have a mod available you can buy for a reasonable price that allows you to do a wide variety of riding, something I was never privileged to have in my riding experience. If you like 20" their isn't much of a market for non TGS bikes other than bmx, which eliminate tgs. Think of it like this if you are interested in doing more than TGS on a 20" what bike do you ride? You bought a TGS bike and just ride it non-tgs which was designed entirely for tgs... This is better than anything you can buy, even if their are flaws it will outperform any TGS mod you can buy at street riding, while still maintaining the ability to do trials.
  7. so my engineer friend talked about it and discussed why, and I am wrong a regular frame is stronger... or rather just a frame with less actute angles. Since the frame is so narrow its like bending a horizontal stick vertically. However if you built a diamond frame a low seattube height it would be just as weak because the angles would be still very acute. The regular diamond frame is stronger because the vertex near the headtube and rear dropouts are on such a steep angle that the toptube provides less structural support than if they were more shallow. However to change the vertex angle significantly enough to actually improve strength the toptube would have to be quite a bit higher up... so the question is... is the bonus increase in strength worth the extra weight and having a higher toptube? How much does a low toptube actually matter for trials? What is your opinion. I would say yes, however their is a better solution... since the frame is so low the entire frame can actually be turned into a box tube this kills 2 birds with one stone. It will give the strength of a diamond frame, at the cost of adding some weight. By adding a guesset connecting the toptube along the downtube you can make the frame 1 solid piece rendering it utterly indestructible as the tubes them selves are what usually crack and tear. (similar idea to the GU frame) Of course it doesn't need to be fully connected, it would add ridiculous weight. In any case the frame currently using is very strong (based on experience and testing), I will build this into the fifth prototype but right now it is strong enough for my needs, but I do want it to be perfect. This guy is a professional engineer and he is one of those people that can actually think and not just memorize stuff to look smart so I would say his assessment is the best. Dude I don't care what experience Mark has, I am 100% sure if it was actually perfect he would still talk crap like he does about everything ever. He is incapable of giving constructive criticism, he can only look at something in the most negative way possible. I just can't stand people like that.
  8. yes but you are the mother of all trolls so I have learned to ignore you... I am not saying its strong becaue its one big triangle, as opposed to a diamond like a normal frame. I am saying itss strong cause.... because of bb flex blah blah blah the stuff I said I don't want to just restate stuff. But if you were to look at it like that I think it would be true anyways. A diamond with a line hitting two corners, is weaker than a triangle with a line hitting a corner and the center of an edge. I will ask my friend he is an elite engineer, but I mean I didn't design this frame just my self, Cao did lots of input and help with the designing and he designs all the frames for speedrace/fans. So we worked back and forth a lot for 3 years getting it good. For people who aren't interested please don't criticize. If you are not actually interested in potentially buying one, then your opinion is quite irrelevant and I don't want to wade it equally with someone who does. I am listening to feedback and considering adding the seat, personally I think the bike looks weird with or without a seat might as well just accept that. My friend gets asked where is his seat and he has a seat on his bmx. Its a mini seat and low so people can't even tell. , lots of bmxes run plastic mini seats, remember when trials riders used to have those? All they need is a pro to go seatless and they will all be. I am totally open to feedback, I personally want to push the limits of kinetic street moves on this bike and have optimized it the best for my self as I feel I am one of the few riders who have serious interest in this area and probably have the most experience of anyone as I have devoted my entire riding experience to getting a mod compatible for this. Seats are nice for transportation, but my question is do most riders just drive there bike to where they want to session and then ride, or do you usually ride your bike to get places? I get the impression most people don't use their bike for transportation much cause any trials bike is usually pretty bad for this But yeah I am open to ideas for improvement as long as they are from people who would actually consider riding it, otherwise I will just design it entirely based off what I like.
  9. I actually agree the fork looks bad lol. But like I said I don't have the time to design a custom fork... and mods don't have much selection in terms of forks. For the single big triangle design the best way to visualize it is trying to crush a stick vs trying to crush a stick shaped like < The bent stick will take a lot more pressure on the bend and will need to be stronger to not snap. If its reinforced on by the seattube which normal frames are this area will flex instead of snapping. The way force works when landing a drop is the main area of impact would be your bb which makes the frame want to fold inward, by having the toptube/seatstays staight it reduces flex a lot at the seatstay/toptube/seatube weld because it is crushing the tubes into each other rather than pushing them outward. and the bb welds as a result are more rigid since the frame can't fold inward the slightest bit, making them less prone to snap as I have found the 3 spots that snap a lot on mods are the bb weld, and the headtube/downtube, headtube/toptube welds. (from street riding) Their is also an extra guesses at the bb/downtube weld on the innerside (you can see it) I have snapped trials frames 180ing a 3 set, this thing takes a 10 set no problem multiple times. For the toptube and downtube welds I have put in special gussets that help spread the load bearing onto the side of the tubes as well as the top instead of just the top. Having the gusset cnc'd out down the center makes the center of the gusset flex causing most the weight to shift onto the sides spreading load much better. Also the frame uses thicker tubing than most normal mod frames. Most use 2.0 or 2.1 where as this is 2.2... how much does .1mm matter? A ton. I rode a 1.8mm frame and snapped it in 1 bunnyhop (literally)the tubing actually tore apart, where as my last frame was 2.0 and has lasted a year of abuse. This is 2.2 so its much stronger. I know your position and I agree, I trust practice more than theory... seeing danny mac ride a fourplay gives me a lot more confidence in its design than someone explaining why its strong. I will take it on some hard hitters.. but I mean you probably bought your current frame without talking to the designer, but hopefully I can convince you. I am giving a video part demonstrating practice as opposed to me just saying its great. Well I am saying its great, I mean as opposed to me only saying its great. For the COG its fine. The headtube angle doesn't move the bars that much forward, it doesn't feel off from a normal trials bike. I have ridden A LOT of different frames (as compared to a because simple, echo team, revel, toxsin 20.1, bionic b2r, GU, dob, fans, bionic b5r etc etc.. (though some of those I wouldn't call normal heh) What frame do you ride? I have probably tried it and can give you a fair comparison. The steeper headtube angle is absolutely essential and makes spinning and nose manuels significantly easier. The stem isn't a long stem, its the shortest steepest strong mod stem out there, and I have tried it with bmx bars and its horrible. Well no its not, it basically is an aluminum bmx, and as you no doubt know doing pedal kicks and moves where you need to shift your weight forward are very hard on a small cramped cockpit. Like I said coming from bmxers they say the bike feels very natural to them it takes them no time to adapt and are landing manuel 180s first try, I would like to have more elite trials riders test it though, Put it this way I can do what you do -25% and most the trials testing is done by me. But you are a lot better than me at trials. If you rode it it would probably be -5% for static moves and +15% for street. That is a pretty realistic comparison. I can almost bunnyhop 540 this thing. But I just don't know any mod riders in calgary who can test it so i am sorry I can't give you a better assessment from a trials standpoint. What makes COG suck is when you have long chainstays and a far forward cog. The short chainstays make it feel great and having the weight closer to the center of the front wheel helps spinning as you use the front wheel to offset your weight, the closer your weight is to where you are offsetting the easier it is to spin. This is why long ass frames are so hard to spin.
  10. http://broadbandsports.com/node/10940 You haven't seen my videos then This video is like 6 years old though and I have come a long way.. but if I could ride trials on the toxsin 20.1 I sure as hell can on this frame heh.. and no their won't be 60 side hops in my new video, probably just 1. Most the trials I am adding in is static spin moves rather than pure trials, but yes their will be some pure tgs in it as well.
  11. The cockpit distance is good, I have tried bmx bars and stems and its way to cramped. Not sure why you think its ugly, it looks good for a mod I think. I think it looks really nice, really straight clean look. I guess you get used to it, but for people saying it looks ugly I think you are just trolling... compared to a normal mod it really doesn't look that different. Trials bars and stems are much lighter and quite durable and the geo is preferable, if the cockpit gets any smaller trials becomes really crumby. so I would prefer to keep it as is + the brakes are hard to mount as the lever clamp hits the curved part of the bar. I am not saying the seat makes it harder to get off the side, I am saying a higher toptube would. The carve is good, its not too twitchy or sticky. For disc brakes I don't mind them up front, but I usually carry two sets of pads with me when I ride, squealers and slowers and interchange them if depending what I feel like riding on. I don't want them in the back because I can't run them... if they make a 116 disc hub I could, but I hate track cogs and fixed hubs, they totally fack up your manuels so hs-33 is only option for now and hopefully someday their will be a better 116 10mm freehub than profile. If you think it looks dorky.. their is absolutely nothing I can do, but ask your self how does a bmx or regular mod look any less dorky? The only reason people don't think a bmx looks dorky is cause lots of people ride bmxes so its normal and accepted. Some pretentious road biker would say your 24" inspired looks dorky... Appearance isn't a valid reason to change the core fundamentals of the bike. This bike is optimized in this priority... 1)Strength... Must be safe never break ever... You land smooth you land rough it doesn't break.. you ride the way you want and it lasts period... Strength = safety... 2)Geo... it must be well balanced geo that allows you to do what the part is designed for, though this bike focuses slightly more on doing kinetic moves i didn't take away its ability to ride static, everything you need is there. 3) Weight.. everything that can be saved is saved 4) Appearance.. as far as appearance goes the only thing I care about is colour.. people saying a super low frame designed to save weight and improve strength look stupid is like saying a ferrari looks stupid because its appearance is all performance based and doesn't look like a conventional car, and it does look stupid you just are prejudice against the appearance of my bike, but have accepted a ferrari as a good looking car cause its common and fed to you that it looks good. If you ride then you would agree with me that these priorities are by far the most pragmatic logical way to design a frame... and on my priorities I am sure as hell not going to jeopardize weight, geo, or strength to improve looks. That would be like making a Ferrari shaped like an SUV so its more "normal looking" learn to appreciate the appearance is what I am getting at. This is the 4th and final prototype. I haven't built one of these this is the 4th time I have tweaked the geo to get it perfect, and I can safely say nothing can be improved.
  12. The stem isn't long, its 150X35 so its pretty short and steep and yes it does feel horrible with a normal mod stem on. I had a 170X25 and it was the worst feeling ever hahaha. The chain tension is built correctly for a 72 link chain, the problem is my chain is stretched and tarty bikes is closed so will have to use snail cams in the mean time... the fork is ugly, but as far as having a low rake reasonable geo straight blade mod fork goes its the only one in existence. I will build a custom fork eventually but I don't have the time. If people are interested then this bike can be more available. In all honesty I am thinking of just dropping the trials market entirely and selling it to the bmx market. Bmxers seem to show a lot more interest as it doesn't seem their are many mod trials riders interested in the more flowy style of riding. It allows a normal bmxer the oppertunity to do trials/static moves, and a normal trials rider to do bmx without loosing anything. My bmxer friend chad takes his custom mod off jumps and does pure bmx on it and says it rides exactly like a bmx but in 1 ride he already learned pedal kicks, up to rears sidehops, and is tiretapping 4 sets. Literally 1 ride. i wish people could base their opinions more off riding it than theorey. Fact is I really doubt any of you have tried geo remotely close to this, but if you doubt short bikes working for trials check this out.. This is on the toxsin 20.1 short which has geo shorter than my antitron frame. Too bad I am in canada or I would let people try it.. I used to actually ride a 20.1 toxsin, they are horrible lol it kills your back. its interesting but what is a normal geo bike today is radical geometry. Trials frame have progressively become more and more trials specific which is fair enough as that is what they are designed for.. but it limits the room for doing non trials specific moves. This bike has totally reasonable geo but it sounds radical because everyone is used to riding radical geo.
  13. -its a 19" rear wheel -hydrallic brakes are better, much more power much less maintaince. I run one sticky pad and one magura black pad, this way you get power when you need it but the brake doesn't "goose honk" and jerk you down when you tap it allowing you to still do manuels and stuff with good control. -bmx cranks give the best strength to weight as far as I know, I tried some trials cranks and snapped the bb, they said I needed a stronger bb, and to get one stronger it would end up being more weight than bmx cranks. I have tried lots of different isis bbs, and I have just found that 48 spline works better. It lasts forever and never develops creeking. Its a personal choice, you can obviously run either on the bike -its a low and no seat to save weight and allow easy side ways bail. I might put a seat on it not sure... The reason it is low is because I wanted the toptube to be parallel to the seatstays. This way the frame is one big triangle and folds inwards when pressure is applied compressing the top tube into the seatstays, but since they are parallel it puts the stress on the tube instead of the weld which I believe improves strength a lot I tried lower bbs, at +50 this one is a good height it feels more balanced to me but comparing 50 to this I would say most things are the same, 360s and manuels are a little easier on the higher bb, and it feels a bit easier to pull up and hop. Its pretty normal height I think, don't you run a 20" wheel? It sounds a bit high but when compared side by side with a normal bmx its exactly the same height. At the skatepark I don't even get to ride my bike hahaha everyone wants to try it.
  14. who is flipp? Yeah if you try it with an open mind I think its really great. Everyone who has ridden it likes it. Bmxers hop on and are busting perfect nose dived 3s first trick. I can do all the basic trials moves on it, but I would like to have a pro test it specifically for pure trials as I simply lack the skills and my wrist can't take any more trials, power moves just hurt way too much. Most people have never ridden anything like this, and their really is nothing like it on the planet. Theory means nothing unless you put it into practice, and I have. (well I have actually never ridden this frame) but I have been bashing the prototype frame previous to this one for a year. The geo has been refined multiple times, and its been given the durability test. The current prototype is twice as strong as the last one and the last one never broke. It is the exact same design as the previous version, with a few more guessets, and thicker tubing so realistically it must be much stronger.
  15. Here it is the ultimate mod street frame. This is the fourth prototype so by now its utterly perfect. (unless your tall) It can do all the basic fundamentals of trials, you sacrafice a couple inches off your top numbers and you get a bike that you can do virtually anything on. Spins like a dream, manuels and nose manuels like a dream. Hops soooo easily. Total bike weight 19.1 lbs Geo 958mm wheelbase +53bb 345mm chainstays 76 degree headtube internal headset euro bb 116mm spacing dropouts 6066 aluminum construction, and all 2.2mm tubing (except seattube which is 2.0)While 7005 is harder 6066 outperforms 7005 when tested in a machine where it is vibrated till it snaps, giving a bike that can take a constant hitting without snapping. Drilled gussets to help shift stress onto the sides of the tubes instead of just the very top This thing is a tank, and still very very light. The design is optimized for the highest balance of strength to weight, and so that stress is spread as well as possible and everything that can be weight reduced is. The steeper headtube makes everything a lot nicer nose manuels are much easier, and you have more stability while doing front spins, super short chainstays make the bike really "pop" making bunnyhops effortless and manuels super in control, shorter geo helps a lot... the larger cockpit allows the bike to be short but not feel like a bmx where trials would be rendered difficult with the cramped geo. The bike is very easy to balance and your center of gravity is at a very normal height to balance stability, while still being high enough to help boost hops. The wheelbase is balanced perfectly to get the most amount of maneuver and control.. adding any length will reduce spin substantially adding only slight control, and taking away any length will reduce control substantially while adding only slight maneuverability. when you get on it feels very natural to any rider coming from both trials riders and bmxers, the geo is not radical in any way. Problem is at 500GBP its not a good price at all but that is because its highly economically inefficient to build just 1 single frame, but if a lot of people are interested it will be much much cheaper like probably half that price. I will be able to promote it a ton in my upcoming video which will be out around november this year. Another bonus is the bike doesn't look stupid, no dorky mod stem hahaha. 150 X 35 makes the perfect stem geo for this. (might be 155X35 its a trialtech sport forged) The geo is designed very well from a practical standpoint. You can run any size of front or rear cog without the chain cutting into the seatstay, and you can run bmx or trials cranks without the crankarm kicking the rear brake or chainstays. Compatibility all works very naturally, you can run the rear wheel all the way in without the brake messing up, or push it back furthur to increase the chainstay and the brake will still work perfectly. This way you have a choice to run bmx or trials drivetrain. Their is also rear dropout guards to help protect your dropout/seatstay/chainstay welds. If you drop your bike a lot and it "flops over" it can really smash up your rear end, this small bump takes all the hitting and you would need to drop it about a million times before you start chipping your welds down. Sorry I forgot to take close ups. Feel free to share feedback. The overall principle I designed the frame on is balance. Everything comes down to trading a lot of something to get a little more of something else which is how I feel most bikes are designed today. To get those extra couple inches on a hop you close a door to tons of tricks that become rendered very difficult. The opposite applies too, the bike has all the fundamentals you need to ride trials on it, you can pedal kick rail gaps and side hop without radical effort as well. This is sort of like a 20" inspired.
  16. Good stuff. I would say I enjoyed the 24" riding the most. Most memorable thing was that crazy gap which was really high up. Some really good bmxing and skateboarding in there too.
  17. please send the vimeo link to me cant watch it
  18. great riding, your bike looks really sweet. Those backwards brakeless nose manuels were really cool.
  19. can't watch it in canada. Could you do a vimeo upload? (or upload it to youtube without music as well) edit: o 18 minutes holy thats a big one. Preferbly vimeo cause I think it would be a lot better with the music but yeah I am interested to see a 18 minute video
  20. The riding was really good. The filming looked really professional. Great style. 10/10
  21. because they don't warrenty the hollow ti ones and the hollow steel has a lifetime warrenty and they say the hollow ti one is for racing only. titanium is weaker than steel for sure but of course it depends on the grades and treatment. Low grade steel is weaker than aluminum. Titanium may have the same tensile strength as steel but that doesn't mean anything. carbon fiber has a higher tensile strength than steel, but its a million times weaker cause its brittle much like titanium. Anyone who would trust carbon fiber over steel is nuts. High grades of steel are stronger than titanium but I am just assuming this based on the idea if titanium were equal in strength then every pro who gets free stuff would run all titanium everything. I am not a titanium expert though and haven't studied the different alloys and their performance so I am just going off common sense. You can't determine a metals strength based off its tensile strength. For example U6 aluminum has lower tensile strength than 7005 but is less likely to snap. When actually placed on a machine that vibrates the metal until it breaks U6 outperforms 7005 by a lot. U6 is also the slightest bit lighter.
  22. Fantastic video! Had a really nice atmosphere. Most nature vids are dry but this was a lot more entertaining than most street vids. That tree gap was so awesome, I expected your back wheel to slip when you landed on the second tree. Some really cool lines in there.
  23. if you can pull it off then run no chain tensioners and just slam the wheel all the way in. Its a guaranteed way of never having any mechanic problems with your rear wheel ever. getting the chain the exact right tension can be hard though, but if you are not too picky about gear ratio it can be done easier. Or just do what adam said its a lot easier. Only bonus of slamming is you save a couple grams cause you don't need tensioenrs
  24. garret reynolds (spelling)? uses profiles which is the main reason I trust them. If he doesn't break them no one will break them in a million years. A lot of their other products break but their cranks are made well. Saints are good but I think they weigh more than profiles and cost the same. Mine were 300$ new which is 150gbp and if u want to save a ton of money just use the hollow steel, its not that much heavier. Don't quote me on that though, I ran saints 4 years ago, their design may be a lot lighter now. All I am going to say is avoid using an isis bb whether that be freeride or bmx cranks. Danny mac runs freeride cranks and they work great too.
  25. hmmm you have 2 options really. Hollow steel solid Ti their is 2 more options but they are bad ideas... Hollow ti will snap solid steel is way to heavy the hollow steel is about 40 grams heavier as i remember.. but a lot cheaper and really easy to buy than the solid ti. The solid titanium is about equal in strength and a bit lighter but really hard to find as profile stopped making them and they are much more expensive. If you are set on the solid ti spindle I will help you find a link to one, but otherwise I can easily link you to the hollow steel. the only other possible problem is your gearing. What size gear do you run in the front, and do you run a front freewheel? You can get profile cranks in basically any length and then just add spacers and stuff so your cranks feel exactly the same. Its well worth it you will never have to replace berings or tighten bolts or any of that crap ever again you just forget about your cranks completely. In 4 years I have tightened the side bolts maybe twice and that's it.
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