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So nothing actually happened with this?

Agreed, we don't call football 'kicking balls with nets' And considering in all of his interviews he has said 'I'm a trials rider' then they write down 'I am a BMXer'. I can't even comprehend the stupidity of these people

Ayy, look awesome. Price is a bit steep for me but still good to see some new ideas out there. If I could be bothered, I'd be tempted to go rear disc now.

Loved that. Fast paced, well filmed, good song, un-boring riding made it awesome.

Loved the street moves, the spinny moves, the beasty moves, the ridiculously controlled moves and everything else. Really amazing riding

Could just imagine "Could you stop staring at my breasts?" "I'm afraid I can't, actually I have to continue for another 8 minutes"

I know they sound a bit harsh, but it's not like we're completely detracting the seriousness of the situation. Just attempting to put a bit of humour in something that does depress me. I've never found holocaust jokes funny, but I have heard and read tonnes of them and I'd bet that almost all of the people making those jokes don't think of the holocaust as a good thing.

And also it makes sidehopping to thinner landings easier

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I also do this, but the higher I can do it to front the higher I can do it to both wheels. I'd sort of say keep your weight more over the back, I think.

The Japan jokes just keep flooding in I am also sorry

From what I've seen of it though it does look pretty apocalyptic. With the water, then the fire and the roads breaking in half. Even seeing people running and slabs of concrete running were they'd just been. Although, I'm curious to actually live in that situation to see what it's like from a first person perspective, in the same way people (people like me) plan what they'd do in the event of a zombie take over.

Wouldn't have thought the bike would have made that much of a difference to his style. Beasty stuff, wish I could session a wall that high

I just hate the use of Ks instead of Cs

Yea, music ruined it, pace of your riding didn't suit it. The riding was amazing though, just the song and pedaling really fast let it down for me. Edit - My comment sounds pretty negative, but I did actually really like the riding, especially the taps onto the gate and th fence with the curved things.

New 360 tyre tap tutorial added in first post

haha, agree with you, but still I know how annoying it is being wet for the rest of a ride

Just forget him, if he continually rejects invitations he's not worth inviting. It's not your job to motivate him, find someone else or something.

I think it's important not to force yourself to ride at the point where it's not fun anymore. I'm in a similar situation where I'm essentially the only trials rider in my town and travelling to the nearest place takes and hour, and I don't have time for two hours in a train to go for a few hours ride. One thing I do is I think of making a video. I think of what I would like to see from myself in a video of my riding and I push towards making that video. The problem with this is that, while doing so, I think of new lines so can never decide when 'to quit improving' and make a video. Yet I feel that from this, and I don't want to sound arrogant here, that I am in a constant state of progression. And when I'm in this sort of mindset it tends to continue. But constantly riding by yourself is hard to do, and much more physically demanding usually. Sometimes when I'm getting depressed about riding I just take a week off where I just don't think about riding, then I'll start when I'm genuinely excited about the thought of riding, and hopefully I'll progress at this point. Generally though I'd say to watch videos you like, think of some new lines that you can push towards and possibly ride to music if it doesn't distract you.

For ages I've wanted to know a song I remembered from some Winnie the Pooh show, and after going through every soundtrack I finally found it

Looks awesome, shame they don't sell them as black anymore

Pretty good But I think you should ride skateparks in a more suitable manner, and cut your steerer

If you're not sure what size wheels you want it's worth trying to go on a ride and ask some people to try them out, although since you've learned so far on 26" it might be worth keeping to that. Just found this, just so you know what sort of stuff's out there - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MAD-Phase-1-1-Trials-bike-AS-USED-MAD-TEAM-750-RRP-/180630686237?pt=UK_Bikes_GL&hash=item2a0e6d8a1d#ht_621wt_932