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that downtube protector is such a joke. I have some broken old frames that I like to test stuff on, to dent a 2.0mm tube with a hammer you literally have to hit it with all your possible strength. You could not even chip the paint hitting it that hard without the protector on. Well the protector might work but I mean the test they show is garbage. I was buying a new frame and my old one had a stripped bb so I took a hammer to it and tried to break the toptube but I couldn't. I only put tiny dents in it. Anyways what I am saying is its a bad test

could you link me to where I coudl buy some? Would be much apprecaited

did you even read what I wrote? I said if he meant it would improve control after you switch back to having brakes then I understand it, but if he meant that whilenot having brakes you are more in control then with brakes obviously that can't be right. For trials anyways. You would perpetually accelerate unless you do a 90 but in many scenerios this is impossible, for example a triple rail gap would be impossible brakeless.... well maybe not but a quad would probably be... you know what im saying

you do realize that if your stem doesn't turn it still won't break when you drop your bike. What puts more stress on a stem a big gap to front or dropping your bike.... If your stem would break from dropping your bike then it would also break from leaning forward... so you should actually not lean forward when you ride with my stem system because it will also break if you do that. The only part that can prevent damage by moving is brake levers, because by sliding out of position the bar takes the impact for it. It really annoys me, every time I do a spin my stem shifts a tiny bit unless I do the pinch bolts up really tight which is what I do do, but thats annoying because the stem still "creeps" very slowly so like every 5 days I need to set it straight again, and I hate riding with allen keys. I just don't like the idea of anything on a bike staying in place only by friction because friction is sketchy. Unless its low torque like brake levers.

sorry but you can't possibly say bike control improves lol at least for trials riding. I think I get what you are saying, when your brakeless you learn things that you normally would not learn so that if you put brakes back on again you would have developed new control techniques. By no means do you have to ride all tgs with brakes though you can just change your mentality instead of changing your bike. The only actual difference is the having 1 extra finger on the bar, and 500 grams of weight. I don't know brakeless seems the same as chainless to me. For trials anyways. If brakeless is more fun though then do it.

Actually it would be lighter, because you could eliminate the pinch bolts altogether. That doesn't seem like a logical point about crashing, I remember I would joke about this guy who claimed to have a "break away stem" he would just leave the pinch bolts loose so if he crashed the bars would fack up. Anyways I am sure you don't want your wheels to shift in your frame, bars to rotate, or anything like that having the stem move is just annoyance especially on a mod. Precision is not a big issue at all with splines as long as its kind of precise because if their is a lot of splines you can run it just like a normal stem and put it on whatever degree you want but it will be locked into position and can't rotate. With a mod stem this is even more usful because they are long and have lots of leverage and are prone to shift left and right. + trials companies already have this degree of precision easily. They can make your bars perfectly perpendicular to your stem and this takes even less precision. The best way to do it is simply cut chunks out of the fork and add the splines into the stem. With those giant U6 4mm steerer tube you could easily cut small grooves without comprising strength

agreed

-116 mm hope pro 2 -colored magura hosing.. its plastic you can make crazy neon and transparent colors -splined forks and stems (a fork and stem that has a cut out spline so they never can rotate and you never have to align your bars with your wheel ever again) -spanish bbs. well its already been invented but all trials frames need to have them. They are mechanically simpler and less likely to have problems and slightly lighter and echo already makes bbs for them

nah its not the same thing, if I was better on a bmx I would ride one obviously but i suck crap on a bmx, Ali C is amazing with brakes so I am wondering how it has improved his riding without having them. Its good riding but if he had brakes he would be like better than danny mac.

that was really nuts about 3/4 into the video the riding gets really crazy. However I think brakelessness is pointless, I am sure he could have done every single line in that video with a brake, so like 50% of the lines in it are only hard based on the fact he has no brake, meaning its restricting the riding. Ali Cs favourite trick of mine has always been his 360 nosepicks which their were none of. Now the video was really amazing, I am just saying riding brakeless seems like riding a road bike to me. Sure more impressive because its harder to do stuff on it but its not progressing the riding unless you are doing things you could not do with brakes. My favourite trick was at 4:47 for some reason I liked that the most I was thinking their is no way he will possibly maek that. The last manuel was either totally insane or filmed so it looked a lot crazier than it was its really hard to tell how narrow and high the ledge was. The only other thing I don't like is fish eye lens but the filming and editing was very good.

I still like this video the best I know you are going bigger now, but the style I like more. Anything you do looks ridiculously big so I think you should actually go smaller and more technical. This is just what I like to watch though, make videos for what you enjoy. What I mean is I would rather see hooking up a gate than just the biggest hook possible. Both are good though I would rather see both in a video but it seems like in most the tricks you are going as big as possible. edit: actually its about the same ratio of bigness to techicality I don't know what I am talking about, I just love the gate hook and dumpster hook at the end. Best 2 tricks ever done on a bike.

I have a question for you. Do you ever get injured? That is insane beyond all comprehension but is it possible to actually get better or have you maxed out? Your flying man it doesn't even look like trials. This is the highest extent of unexpected riding ever. It just looks physically impossible to jump like 15 feet forward on a bike with no prior momentum. Mind boggling. Not only does it look amazing it is amazing... 61" you clearly just photoshopped the tape measure into the pic, and then just played the clip of you hopping up that in reverse. You don't actually expect anyone to believe you can hop that high.

lol why on earth would he get a bmx it would make him 1000% worse at riding... Almost every single line in that video was either a pure trials move, had a pure trials move in it, or combined bmx moves with trials moves, and as for the lines that were pure bmx he does them as good as any bmx pro so why would he loose like 90% of the tricks he can do to be 1% better at flairs and huge 360s? Probably not even he would probably be worse on a bmx seeing as how he is better at pure bmx riding than 95% of pro bmxers and he is not even a bmxer

I think you are by far the best and most styling trials rider in the world. You could ride a cardboard frame. You should make a video with all your best clips from all your videos and call it the mother video.

they are bad. The problem is the lever design flexes like mad so you get no power (by lever I mean master cylinder). The echo tr slave calipers are good though better than magura, i replaced my magura calipers with these, they feel exactly the same and are a fair bit lighter as long as the hose is tight they don't leak. I would either use the echo cnc lever, sl lever, or a regular hs-33 lever. The pads also are really non-responsive with the tr brake as in you have to push the lever a large distance to make the pads move a small distance which results in you having to put the pads really close to the rim and the brake rubbing the rim with the slightest bend. I highly recommend not buying them. Its worth the money. However echo revised the 2010 design. The one I owned was 2009. The problem is the design not the workmanship. They work ok but the design was flawed

danny mac can do a lot more than in his videos though... he does those tricks the most probably because he likes them the most. If you watch his older videos he can do half a billion other things. I guess he just assumes those are his best tricks. A video isn't about showing every possible thing you can do always. His tiretaps are my favourite trick personally and I don't mind watching like 20 of them in a video part. All riders do their favourite tricks mainly. Bmxers are all wallride, railhop, barspin. Trials riders are hook, gap drop, side hop. etc... but I am sure most trials riders can do like 180 gaps and stuff but just don't put it in their vids. and hooks, nosepick 180s, gaps, huge bunny hops, front flips, back flips, wallrides, manuels, backwards manuels, g-turns, fufanus, and not to mention the 3000 different ways of combining those tricks

I think this was a "fun" video rather than just clips of his best riding. The clips were really variant, some were really easy and some were really good, it looks more like the kind of video targeted at a non-riding audience.

headtube angle, fork length, and fork rake effect the number a lot so its hard to be consistent. I think they should measure from center of headtube to rear hub axle. This way you can know exactly how long a frame is before buying it, where as wheelbase does not tell you the actual length of the frame.

the weight is so low its 1650 grams geo is 990 wheelbase 350 chainstay 75 degree headtube +55 bb I won't be able to film anything for a while. A blizzard just came in and their is 2 feet of ice everywhere. Their are some major mistakes on this frame though too so I can't ride it and will go back to the because frame until the final version is complete. The major problem is wheelbase. As I said before people need a better way to measure wheelbase. The steeper headtube and low fork rake and shorter fork on my frame made the measurement off by 45mm. I think it makes a great trials frame but its really hard to spin as it is 40mm longer than my last frame.

I have been building a frame with easy bikes (creator of fans and speedrace) This is the first prototype. They did really good work on it, but it needs revision. Looks pretty cool though so I thought I would slap a picture up.

wait a sec, spanish is the same size as euro and mid is bigger right? Well then doesn't it make sense to use spanish because euro already works fine, and deng already makes berings for them.

yeah its great! Simplicity is always less prone to failure and weighs less too.

why don't trials bikes use spanish bottom bracket shells? They are lighter, and they can't strip so less prone to failure. I imagine the reason is because aluminum is too weak, but that makes no sense. If bering cartridge is sitting directly in the frame vs sitting in a cup directly in a frame the shell is still taking 100% of the impact either ways. Integrated headsets work fine on trials frames so why not go for integrated bb shells? I got the idea cause I saw this (second product down) http://www.echobike.com/

180 nosepick to backwards manuel??? how??? that was amazing. 10/9

Its funnier what he says than what happened.