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monkeyseemonkeydo

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  1. You think too much. Just ride the bike. For barspins the shorter stem should make it easier. Maybe once you have the technique dialled put your longer stem back on but otherwise just ride the damn thing.
  2. What are you riding at the mo again? The premium is the cost of insurance for the insured period i.e. £1992 going by your £166 per month... ouch. I've never bought a car or bike without checking the insurance costs first. Silly billy.
  3. There is quite a lot of intel that goes into any strike though (I hope). It's not just indiscriminate bombing of unknown villages but directed strikes on what are believed/known(?) to be al qaeda strongholds and training camps etc.
  4. Showing my ignorance (again) but all these 'invasions for oil' theories that knock around, is there actually any truth in it? Is it all now UK and US companies who are exporting the black gold from Iraq? I'm not convinced that's the case... Stealing all their oil certainly hasn't shown up in reducing the cost of bloody petrol/diesel that's for sure...
  5. So what shop do you work for?...
  6. But the things that happen on a daily basis in Bangladesh, Somalia etc. are all also linked to Islam aren't they? So does that mean that Islam is even more evil than our pathetic Western media have us believe? It really is f**ked up and does remind me of our history lessons when 500 years ago we used to chop off peoples hands for stealing, treated women like third class citizens etc. It seems to me that Islam has no place in modern society in it's retarded backwards ways. I like Family Guy.
  7. Is it wrong that since 9/11 I do have a dislike/distrust/general lack of respect for the Muslim faith? It's pretty well known that I dislike religion as a whole but there's a real anger that wells up inside me when I see stuff like this where these nutters are doing things as god's will. I hear what you're saying, Ben, but the atrocities carried out by the US (and 'us') has never been in 'god's name' but (in theory at least) have been aimed at these sort of fundamentalist f**ktards. If I see a Muslim in the airport or on the tube I do look twice. You may say that it's stupid to taint the majority with the extremist views of the few but then when someone calls their teddy bear Mohammad or draws a cartoon of Mohammad with a bomb turban on the result is hundreds if not thousands of Muslims baying for blood and demanding that all Americans/soldiers/Danes or whatever should be violently killed for their slur against the prophet it just makes me hate the concept of Islam that little bit more. It seems to me that their beliefs are stuck in a time centuries in the past- their treatment of women, laws etc. When a mother is willing to murder her own daughter by burning her with acid because she may have looked at a boy passing on a moped there is something seriously, seriously wrong. Anyway, I probably am wrong and religionist or something but it's all just too messed up for words. Except maybe clusterf**k.
  8. Good ol' religious extremist f**ktards at it again. c**ks need to be strung up. Edit: Was it actually linked to road rage? The video on ITV and the description just make it sound like a couple of Muslim freaks being retardedly violent.
  9. To be fair Maguras were never a trials brake, they were just adopted by us.
  10. I would say they're not... For someone in the business you don't half spout some shite. Oh, wait, that's what bike shops are trained to do... vs. Slightly different IMO. From what I can see they're more likely to be Aerolites: http://fairwheelbikes.com/aerolite-titanium-pedals-p-1002.html With cleats that look like this:
  11. Yup- they've never gone. Although the best variety of chocamallow has...
  12. To be fair to him the amount of demos he must do for school kids and stuff, introducing the brands to a huge audience, must far, far outweigh the fact he's not pushing the limits of trials to the likes of us.
  13. See I'd agree with Jeff Lenosky, Martyn Ashton, Hans Rey etc. but Ryan's always been an 'also ran' in my book, much like Martin Hawyes. Good riders but just nothing special. In the days of Revolution etc. I'd much rather watch Lenosky, Gregorowicz or Martin Kelivard than Ryan. I know he's contributed a lot to the bigger picture of trials but I still dislike his style!! I only do it in every thread because I've forgotten how much he makes me cringe when I watch his vids!
  14. Not landing like a pile of crap from pretty much any height. See that does nothing for me either. Again landing like a sack of spuds doing nothing all that impressive. He's got excellent control and manual skills but overall I just don't rate him. Edit: That Ride to the Hills segment is definitely one of his better ones. I guess part of it is that good riders make things look effortless/easy whereas whenever I see him ride he makes everything look like a struggle even when it's only some backhops across small gaps.
  15. I just don't like his riding... That video did absolutely nothing for me- not smooth, not impressive. Showed good control but that's about it. Would've been acceptable about 15 years ago but that was just... meh.
  16. Hi Charlie, sorry I couldn't make it today but rest assured that I was wearing my FBM t-shirt!
  17. I don't think you need to worry about people getting the wrong impression about you.
  18. It really doesn't. Dave's a complete cock and that's the only plot here.
  19. Lol. Sounds like classic Cytech advice... Just replace your chain with a KMC Z610HX or a ZH510HX depending on your setup. Having said that, what freewheel are you running? If it's something half decent stick with it for sure.
  20. I think this would be awesome and novel:
  21. Established middle class for the win.
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