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So how the hell can i get my zoo cranks off. I soaked it in WD40 and tried hammering them off and put a screw driver between the frame and freewheel and tried hammering that in the pry it off but their wont come. So wtf should i do??

Ok yeah the thing that im concerned about is that my bb has come loose on me twice in the last 3 days. I use a First bb which is pretty much a try-all but without the sticker. The first time i just took off the crank and tightened the drive side cup which was the loose one, but then at the Bash at the Beach it came loose again which is when i stripped the cranks. So im not really sure what to do about the bb and if im going to have to tighten it everyother day i dont want to have to hammer my cranks off all the time. But i will try soaking them tonight and getting em off. Damn, this is such a piss off though, argh!!

So yeah i managed to strip the removing threads on my zoo cranks today so imma need a new set now. F**K!!! So i want to try 175mm cranks but also hear that the tensiles tend to break. I dont want to spend to much but if an extra 20 bucks between tensile and deng cranks makes my bike ride better ill go for it. So... do they suck or no?? Bear in mind im not crazy smooth but dont do huge stuff either.

yeah i just got vid 3 when i clicked the link, someone with the youtube link or on tv.isg??

If you get a bike frame thats designed for discs like the simtra or the monty then it runs really nice but no nicer thne a great set of vees. Pretty much the only brake worth putting on the back would be a hope or an avid code or similar brake which is like twice as expensive as avid ultimates and koxx pads with a nice lever and cable. Not to mention vee brakes have the best feel of the 3.

Yo dude go easy on him man. I heard my bike making this flicking sound and couldnt figure out what it was for the longest time, i took my bike completely apart and cleaned everything and it still happened. Then one day i felt something brush my leg and realized that the flicking sound was my crank are hitting against the cable of my vee brake, just tucked it in and problem solved. The simple things are the ones that get u man theres no shame in it!

yeah t-max has got it right there is a VERY exhaustive thread about all of this already. Though as for braking heatsink red are by far the best pads i have ever used, i have a really worn out grind and without even any tar they were already better then my rock pads, then after so taration....mmmmm good stuff. Heatsink reds for the win man Ian

your deffo gonna want a new frame pretty soon man, the geo on the p series is god awful and specialized is well known for making crap bikes. I broke 3 p2s in two months and i wasnt even going big and was maintaning them everyday. Get a DMR revolver or Black Market frame and youll be better suited, trust me!!

yo man what brakes are those, am i just like outta the loop or have i never seen those before, sick rig either way though

WTF man like why are all these awsome people dying like this, it gets me so down. We need to set up like a hospital for only trials riders or something cuz this is crazy. RIP Alex, the protector of man, my condolences to his family and friends, Ian

yo yeah man its weird i went to try to change my avatar and now all i see is like a 1 pixel line where the avatar should be, wtf is up with this??

While i really really love a clean looking bike with all the colours matching there is something special about a mismatched jacked out sprayed bike that no one can resist. Ill take a pic o my friends street rig and post it pink tires man wtf!!

I like to think im in pretty good shape its not that its just that like it takes me so crazyily long to learn any moves that its hard to really see any progression. And i can never manage to step away before i get pissed and throwshit. Like just today i was trying this like small tap and just couldnt get it and so rather then just deciding ill come back tomorrow i try anoth 30 times and get pissed and throw my bike and the wheel shifts and i have to walk home. Im considering just going to the smallest tap ive ever done and doing it like a billion times until i can do it in my sleep then going up like half an inch and do the same because thats the only way i seem to learn.

Like why is it that i have been working on my taps for 2 hours a day everyday for 5 weeks and i get them like 1 outta 40 tries maybe if im lucky and i get help from James Barton and Neil T and my friend has worked on them for like 2 minutes and can already go higher more consistently. I just get so frustrated when i ride at how remarkably untalented i am and how it takes me so long to learn any moves. It took me all summer last year just to learn how to up to the front wheel and like everyone else i ride with like just get shit there first time. Is there something im doing wrong or am i just dumb??

Yeah most police forces dont do to much about smokers, its the dealers they want. We got caught in a park a couple weeks ago and the cop scattered the weed on the ground and told us to leave. we went hid in a bush and waited till he left then picked up all the weed and had an epic session.

One with 26 inch wheels

Im not trying to like dismiss cancer and say like yeah its for sure cool to smoke weed im just saying that like if thats what you want to do go for it, its your body and as long as you know the downsides of what you are doing then its fine. I do not think the govenment should control what we do to our own bodies, if we choose to dye young from cancer then so be it its our life. Either way weed is a good way to have fun with you buddies and is relatively safe compaired to things like Cocaine, Heroin and Methamphetamines. So yeah i smoke weed, i also ride alot, have an 82 average and am the best keeper in ottawa. And you do not have the moral ground required to look down on me for it.

First off i think that this is a dangerous topic at best and if the mods saw they might not be to stoked. Secondly, hell yeah man weed is great, i have been smoking up for a couple of years and other then getting kinda flakey after a lotta sessions i dont really see many downsides other then cancer. LOL But you pretty much like bong joint pipe its all good just dont be dumb bout it and like drive afterwards and shit. Ive ridden high once and it was like ok but i wouldnt reccomend it as you get kinda sketchy with the balance and stuff.

Yeah man grinding take a bit of balls to do the first time but seriously you have to be like an gigantic retard to break i new rim grinding it. Like push really really hard while holding the grinder in the same place while cutting the rim with a bandsaw to really destroy it.

I would say tapping but because of this i think that might be in bad taste. NVM Id tap that for sure lols!!

Take a bearing outta your headset and put in oil instead of grease. Take the half the pins out your pedals run a smaller rotor ride without a bashring gripless cut your bars like all the way file down the material in your pads to almost nothing take half the spokes outta our rim and lace them radial grind your rims until the sidewall is super thin cut half the threads off of your nipples no rim tape cut down the shrader or presta valve remove all stem spacers and place the the star nut at the very top of the steer tube cut the threads on all bolts down to halfway grind tread off all tires until bald shorten break levers to stubs run as much separated cables as possible to reduce housing weight run breakless ride naked take a crap before every ride Dude common like what u want different components or what how can you reduce weight with all that echo stuff man. We need a little more info homes!!

ONE POINT WHAT THE HELL!! Yo props for james man ninth is sick man. oh my god i never thought that Gilles was so good, is he coming to canada sometime soon

Ok considering that the Jaw drop done by Josh bender is 60 foot with is about 15 meters and he has 12 inches in the front and 18 in the rear i doubt that this frenchie could drop 90 feet on a rigid. And yo calling someone a queer who is being a willy about a legitmate question holds not respect here my friend. So back the the original question i do believe that the 4.5 meter drop is still the highest officially recognized though i may be mistaken.

yeah its such a cool feeling, and like when you do everything right its so effortless.

ill get some pics up asap, the stem is pretty short though man.