trialsmax04

Outstanding!

Love my urbans. Although i do know trialtechs are good, i would have said its fairly even. Just bare in mind new urbans are front mount magura.

Surely sidehops that big are illegal? That was nuts!

Im deffinatly with Matt and Ben on that one. Its that attitude that got the global population in trouble. Ben - I salute you!

that could be said about other energy sources too though, like wind turbines. Cost a shitload then 5 years they need replacing. More development needs to be put into solar power and geothermal energy really. With regards to oil supplies though, there is still a fair amount left. Oil and all hydrocarbons will never run out. But oil as a reserve will. By definition a reserve is the amount of a resource that can be obtained using current technologies in an economical fashion. Just need greedy companies to get off their back sides and put their astronomical profits into development and not shareholders.

Been getting into this topic fairly heavily recently being a geology, geography and science student. Its also really annoying when you look into it when you see the vast volumes of hydrocarbons being wasted due to the extraction of them being either too costly or too difficult to extract. For example coal (still widely used for power stations ect) can only be mined economicly when the seam is a certain thickness, or if the bed is below 5 degrees in orientation. Now in the year that we live in not enough development is being put into new technologies to solve there issues. Another example is that every day, each half of the plannet gets 6000 times of the current global electricity consumption, equal in energy power from the sun. Now that is a shitload! But not much is really being done to try to harness the power. With most renewable energy sources, companies are trying to tackle the big picture. Yes, we need clean energy. Yes the global population is big. But building huge solar farms, wind farms, wave farms or hydroelectric plants isnt really going to meet the globals energy needs. The best way to combat it as a whole in my opinion is on a small scale, ie small domestic wind turbines, solar panels, solar heating, ground source heat pumps ect. Just wait till everyone wakes up, smells the coffie, and nuclear power becomes the main power source.........

the pig will definatly be going when funds come in!

cheers for the reply. Head was definatly skimmed, coolent flushed and oil replaced (twice now). The coolent level will drop from just over the maximum to just below the minimum in about a fought night. The oil level remains pretty consistant. One theory that it is a blocked crank case breather forming condensation in the oil but im not too sure. There is definatly a small seep on the water pump gasket so might change that and give it a bash.

Hi all, Ive had my head gasket in my clio replaced fairly recently (last 6 months) and all seams to be fine. Although now i seam to be having a few issues. There is a shitload of white gunk on the oil filler cap (water in otherwords), and the coolent level seams to drop. Adding to this when i start it from cold it is really lumpy firing. I had this isue last time and turned out to be water in the cylenders (head gasket failure). However, my coolent level droping could also be the water pump gasket, where i know it has a small leak (can see red crystals on the engine cases), and there is no water in the oil when i check the dipstick. And also the car is not down on power. Once warm it runs like a dream. So really there are factors that tell me the head gasket has gone again. Yet there are others that would say it hasnt. Can anyone mechanical minded please help shed some light on this subject? cheers max

they need tightening asap.

9 times out of 10 a creak from the bb or crank area is due to the bb splines being dry (especially with square taper bb's). In which case you need to remove use crank from the bb and grease the axel

Why dont you stop picking on my riding? Running 40psi and pinching literally every 5mins is not my idea of a decent tyre. Just my opinion, not that it counts for much.....

Haha each and everyone to their own Dave marmite is undergoing some changes at the moment. A new rear wheel and possibly some new cranks has got me quite excited

you will flat it no problem. Mine flatted like every few mins.

The "Donk" from that one ^ made me wince.

organic = better performance. Sintered = longer life. Simples

Liam your bails are just brilliant!

Riding has improved about 100% since that trial up at liskerd the otherday man! keep on it!

Sunday is the day for trials luke would have been up for this but lack of a working bike means otherwise.