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I loved the vid The editing was top and the riding too. I didn't realise you were so nifty on a BMX Peter! It looks like you're training hard too! Steve

Hi, Check out this neat video Kevin has put together. A compilation of urban and natural riding. If only I had boulders like that near me I hope you like it! Little news article about it and vid download can be found via the link below: www.heatsinkbikes.com Comments welcome! Steve

If you withdraw less than £50 then they charge you 25p. No where near as bad as the rate they charge on money when you receive it. That's 3.9% for my account set-up. Steve

My previous email was very badly written! A better plan than the plastic spacers - I like the look of the Hope spacer kit on Tartybikes. Surely a huge advantage to similar single speed kits because you can position the sprocket to match the front one to give that all important straight chain line. Steve

Yes you can "Withdraw" to your bank account from Paypal. Once you've set up your Paypal account correctly to do this - all help is in Paypal. I remember it being very easy but it may take a few days to sort out. Steve

When trials riders use a cassette, they wouldn't need the biggest sized rear sprocket (most spinny). The most spinny would be the one they use for trials, and this has no more than 20teeth normally for 22t front sprocket set-ups. There's no need for the sprocket you're wanting to use unless you're climbing very very steep hills - XC style! Extra useful gears to compliment the trials gear would mean some extra smaller ones for getting around. You have no need for you to need to use the biggest sprocket nearest the axle! You can make up a "Custom cassette" by taking apart 2 cassettes held together with the 3 bolts (rather than the ones with pins that have the ends flattened over) and then assembling a collection of spacers and sprockets that will be useful and having your preferred trials gear in the position that gives the straightest chainline so preventing skipping when put under alot of torque during trials riding. Steve

I could make a video debut with a little fakie vid - Could be fun! Steve

Another fakie variation to try; roll up to a curb at wallking pace and tip the bike forward using only your body weight and not using any brakes. If you tip enough then the front wheel will compress against the curb as your rear wheel rises and not bump up and over it. When the back wheel lands simply do the usual back pedalling and pulling backwards and turn the handle bars so the bike reverses and turns to face the other direction. Sometimes if the reverse causes me to loose balance then putting the brakes on and doing a little horizontal hop to bring both wheels underneath the bike helps. It's quite a useful little trick for manoevering your bike around just using your rolling momentum, and you can do it off walls, posts etc too. It's quite cool to be able to reverse your bike in circles with successive squeezes of the front brake + body weight forward when brake is on to compress the tyre followed by a pull back. You get questions from observers as to whether you have a special drivetrain without a freewheel. I think the fakie riding is more impressive to the public than we may think. I always turn the same direction as I reverse, and being able to ride backwards in a straight line would be harder! Steve

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Well done on what must have been a challenging night! I hope it all works out ok Steve

It's back! Hooray!

Thanks for pointing this out! I hope it's just a temporary server issue and should be up again very soon. Steve

I guess the keepie up stuff, although not directly used in a game, is very beneficial to improve your ball skill for games. When not playing a proper match, there's so much fun to be had playing the skills related games like "Cooler" as we called it, or was it "Volleys" where it revolves around scoring goals from multiple keepie-ups. I agree that watching all the passing stuff in football is boring, but actually running around the pitch and being involved in creating the passing opportunities is great. Steve

I prefer football and more specificaly playing rather than watching. Also practising keepie up and tricks like flicking the ball onto the back of your neck is un matched in enjoyment compared to anything skillful in rugby (line-out, ball kicking between the posts - boring stuff). Steve

I agree! Have a quick search on autotrader to confirm and you'll find the same. If you have a choice, a 106 is maybe a little on the small side for carting bikes and riders around. Why not look at slighty larger hatch backs in 5 doors?

"Courier" standard windows font is very close. Try the classic "Times New Roman" aswell. In Word, turn Outline on in the font menu, and play with bold too. The capitals are larger size of course. There are loads of other standard windows fonts which have a similar square shape to the ends of letters: Palatino Palatino Linotype SWComp SWGrekc SWRomnc SWRomnt Sylfaen Symbol Times To save yourself lots of effort I'd say the match is close enough if you have a look at these. Steve

I'd suggest adding more height to the top of the arch. If you hang a ruler off the edge of a table and clamp a portion horizontally with your hand and try and bend it, you have a similar loading situation to one leg of the booster upto the tip of the arch. Max stress is where you clamp it at the table, max displacement at the tip. In addition if you can incorporate a design where there is material concentrated on the inside and outside edges then this is the best place to resist the compressive and tensional stresses because they are at their maximum at the futhest distance from the centre line (the neutral axis). The material on the centre sees no stress so you can do away with this. Good luck! Steve

Please drop me an email so I can replace the pads for free The glueing together of my pads is now better than ever with me using refined degreasing of each part and in addition adhesive surface preparation solution to key the surfaces. If you have older pads and the gluing caused an issue, pop me an email and we'll soon have it solved. I hope that my thorough support of the pads, coupled with my dedication to make sure all riders are 100% happy, is something that marks HSB out as a company you can rely on As I posted in another thread, I want to hear if you're not 100% satisfied and I genuinely do go as far as I can to resolve this. Cheers! Steve

Hi, Thanks for all the nice words, but more importantly I didn't realise that there were some outstanding failures to sort out! Although I make it my priority to answer all emails, especially if a rider isn't satisfied, In some rare cases an email may be overlooked due to the amount of emails I get. If this happens just fire me another one and it will definately not get missed Don't be shy to give me a prod because I'm here to help. Please give your friend a shout to drop me an email with the details so I can sort this out albeit belatedly. I'm sorry if he did already, but I won't miss it this time. I popped a replacement pad in the post on Friday so if it didn't arrive on Sat then it should arrive Monday. Please let me know if it arrives ok or not. In recent weeks I have been struggling to get pads out in the timescale given on my site. This has been due to family life squeezing out HSB time. I didn't want to bore everyone with the details before, but I've been working extra hard recently due to rather extraordinary circumstances all happening at the same time. I have a son who is approaching 2 years old and my wife is pregnant with our 2nd baby. My typical day has been starting at 5:30am as Callum rises earlier than usual, and I work all day and into the night, finishing as late as 3am some times. I've genuinely been working hard to catch up with pad making, and when there are delays then my emailing time increases too as I answer queries about the delay. I've been unhappy that I've not been able to get parts sent out straight away, but I'm making steady progress to building up stocks of pads ready to send immediately. Thanks to those who are appreciating my efforts to bring some alternative British made and non-catalogue parts to the market. I'm working hard to improve so I can offer consistantly excellent service without blips due to other commitments I'm 100% committed to getting the HSB ship 100% ship-shape and bristol fashion, and this includes making sure riders are happy with all products they order. Once again, if you find that my service or components fall below the level of satisfaction you'd expect, pop me an email to steve@heatsinkbikes.com , and I will be on the case to sort it out to the level I would be very pleased to receive myself if I was in your shoes. This weekend I've made some real progress building up ready to send pads of all varieties. So these are looking for new homes and are ready for immediate send out. I look forward to your continued support and bringing out some surprise new offerings in the near future to broaden your choice of trials components yet further. Steve

For product navigation those images on the font page should be the links. Having a tiny and mysterious icon hidden away on the bottom left of the page that needs clicking to bring up the list is just making it harder to access the info. Product links on the front page, big and obvious! Steve

I'd just get the budget tyres on offer If I was a racing driver then it would matter, but I'm interested in driving from A to B a reasonable speed and safely. Steve

I was in the same position, before I found the solution. Really happy with my Dell Inspiron 1300, at the time their cheapest laptop at £399. I notice that they do a variation of specs for even less now too (See link below). Buying a second hand laptop was a waste of time I found in terms of the specs and the often additional cost of buying a new battery at £40. My usual places for buying electrical equipement (Supermarkets!) don't want to offer anything under £600. I'm well aware that many dealers will try and over sell you a spec that just isn't needed. 50% more price with only 5% more benefit. Very difficult to beat Dell's spec for the money. Things I was looking for and got in my laptop: Fast enough for what I do: Windows stuff, Email, Some solidworks, future vid editting. Built in wireless capability so no dongles needed that will be vulnerable Wide-screen would be good DVD reader/writer drive Reputable dealer with support. Look alright. The Spec is the same as the one listed on the far left of the link: http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products...;l=en&s=bsd I'd recommend you pick up a newspaper and see if Dell have special offers on. Literally every day they had full page ads in most papers. Our laptop had free shipping, but I notice that it doesn't at the moment. Worth checking the price of this, it could be £40 or more. Now I've got the laptop the PC never gets used. It's very convenient to be able to carry it around the house running on the battery, and at all points it picks up the internet. So easy to store away under the sofa when we need some room on the coffee table. So on convenience and space efficiency it has relegated the PC to the shed under various bike parts. Laptops ***! Steve

You may have seen Jeff featured in recent months in a compilation of some hard riding Russian riders that was posted up on forums around the world. Here's his compilation vid from a big archive of footage, including new filming too: www.heatsinkbikes.com ^ Check out the image of his beaten up Mod too on my site! Please no lazy links. Steve

Hi, Greg's put together this vid with a nice mix of riding. He's a very good rider (Best in Hungary?) and the change of environments certainly keeps it interesting! Please no lazy links: www.heatsinkbikes.com Steve

Here's a rough chart that I've made up. The graph was intended for a Stock set-up because of all those posts from the past where mainly stock ratios were being compared. Of course the actual ratio neglects to include the crank length or the contact radius of the tyre. [attachmentid=6505] The "Gear ratio" (not including the crank/tyre) is given on the y-axis. The 3 curves are for each of the front sprocket sizes with 170mm cranks, and the ends of the vertical bars are the 175mm (top) and 165mm (bottom) differences to this ratio (+- 3% compared to 170mm) This chart is useful if you're thinking of changing one of the following aspects of your drive chain on a set bike, for example: Front sprocketRear sprocketCrank lengthFor example: I've got a 22:17 set-up that I like on my stock with 175mm cranks. I'm going to be replacing them with another set of cranks with 170mm arms and 20t front sprocket, Q: What size rear sprocket would be the best match to my previous favourite ratio. A: From the chart, following the dark blue 22t line up, and taking the upper point on the vertical line gives a ratio of about 1.33. Following the pink 20t line up and considering the centre point of the vertical line (170mm cranks) shows that 15t would be a very close match. To convert a ratio between wheel sizes, simply multiply by the percentage difference. For example, taking the 26" as a starter, 24" wheels are 8% smaller, 20" wheels 23% less. so if you transplanted your stock drive train to your 24", if you understand how this effects the ratio, use this percentage to recalculate your drive train set up. Steve P.S. ^ The above could contain a huge flaw somewhere since I only got 3 hours sleep last night! P.P.S. If my lunch time was longer then an extra diagram would help make it crystal clear