John Shrewsbury
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You can unbuild the wheel and send just the hub (excluding the spacers and sprocket) back to hope and they should be able to fit a new axle for you and possibly service it. Theres normally a small charge as it’s an old hub, but at least it will be repaired within a week. It’s best to maybe ring them first and see what the deal is with this type of hub as they have upgraded there’s to Pro 4s but I don’t see why they couldn’t repair it if they have spare parts in stock for older hubs.
There Warranty form is this link which you fill out when sending hubs back. https://www.hopetech.com/_repository/1/documents/hubs_2019.pdf
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38 minutes ago, monkeyseemonkeydo said:
Fairly sure that's not really the case with Danny (with respect to Santa Cruz). He had hundreds of millions of views from his video on his Fourplay/Skye. Any bike company would give an arm to be associated with someone so imaginative, talented, successful and also just a thoroughly nice guy. He's a sponsor's wet dream!
I do believe someone mentioned Canyon contacted danny, but he went back to Santa Cruz saying they offered him a deal but Santa Cruz stepper up to give him a better one. Either way there both got great sponsors now, and Fabio pushing the boundaries further suits him with that team.
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Everyone has to work hard to get a sponsorship deal or money out of the sport in some way if there good at it. Either demos competitions or now YouTube/social media. He wants the fame and to enjoy cycling. MTB is changing bigger and better and we’re lucky trials is becoming a part of it again and being noticed now even if you have to ride a full suspension bike going big or riding trials on one. Plus the bonus is getting a big company like canyon to even think twice to make him a bike. Same as Santa Cruz with danny’s bike. Danny had to prove he was worthy of a sponsor through Santa Cruz before they even took him on. That’s why he borrowed bikes and did videos then Canyon contacted him for a deal. But he felt comfortable on a Santa Cruz, deal was made. If these guys worked hard for it, then they deserve it.
Good luck to him, looking forward to seeing his videos and what Canyon will do for him.
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Mongoose suited him well, but a change is always good. Great to see a few clips never shown before till this cut.
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If there like the forks I ran years ago then they will be very heavy. Just had a look and there Weight is 1200g which is quite a lot. Is the cost stopping you buying something more effective for trials? There is a big variety of forks on the market for your needs. Just depends how much your willing to pay?
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I ran a 28h hope hub on a Mavis rim once. Had to have it straightened out on every ride I went on, so it kinda ended up worthless. Making the spokes tight enough won’t make much difference either. I even had @Ali C straighten it out once on street ride in Bristol.
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My 26 spank rims are doing the same, noticed other week when I built up a new hub. Shame it’s happening
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I just built up a new Pro 4 hub as spare because I rounded the ratchet in my last one and needed another hub straight away (sent it back to hope and they replaced the body, paws and springs for free) New ones tend to skip a bit at first as the grease inside needs to circulate around I believe, as it might be dry in areas of the hub. So maybe if you pedalled around a bit the skipping might wear off. But who knows, there could possibly be another problem if it’s happening a lot. Make sure everything is tight, including the lock ring holding the sprocket/spacers on.
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14 hours ago, johntrial said:
Hey guys,
does anyone have experience with these tyres? Please let me know
thanks!
If you mean the ones with the tan sidewall? Then I wouldn’t recommend as the side walls are very thin and rip easy. Had a pair to try once and didn’t last.
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1 hour ago, dk2 said:
Hi john Dont know if i have a problem ;-), just wanted to hear if there where people riding smaller rotors. im 82kg 180mm rotor & running shimano zee 4 piston brake (never slips, but i think 140-160mm could be fine to)
-1 getting it out of the way i for when i bail of the bike (etc tailwhips , i tend to land behind the bike and sometime cut my leg on rotor.)
-2 less flex = less change of pad rub
-3 more ground clerance
well gues only option is to try it out.
Running that setup won’t be a problem. I have a zee brake on my bike for the rear and it’s been great. Also I’m running a 203mm Shimano Deore XT floating rotor. Maybe if you still want power maybe try trialtech or like myself Red EBC pads. I find a rotor like that one has more material on it compared to any other rotors so it has more bite, a lot of rotors have big holes so they cool down going fast but for trials you don’t need that. It’s why I don’t run hopes or cheap rotors.
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10 hours ago, dk2 said:
Hi anybody who rides 140-160mm rear rotor and has enough brake power? Just wondering if a 4 piston brake would be strong enought with smaller rotor. The bennefit would be more ground clerance. And in teory there should be less flex in rotor & less weigt..
What’s the main problem you are having with rotors? I haven’t used anything smaller then 203mm with a 4 piston caliper with Red EBC pads which works as a great setup.
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It’s still in testing mod atm, and I believe there’s one being ridden at this time. Can’t give any further details. If you want to know further contact Extension through there Instagram.
links below
https://instagram.com/extention.potential?igshid=v2osh03gtksf
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I remember him being part of the Trialskings crew back in the day along side Danny Holroyd, Adam Burns, Dave Finny and James Hyland.
Sadly Chris has passed away during a senior TT race, here’s more information
https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2019-08-24/rider-dies-during-senior-classic-tt-race/
RIP
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What part of the Uk you heading to?
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Claud Butler, I had one years ago and it had CBR printed on it. Crazy how popular the frames were to build as a trials/jump bike back then.
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Ted James seems to be producing some nice frames. He previously built Dan athertons 24inch Bmx https://instagram.com/tedjamesdesign?igshid=q37mb18pyuz7
also Curtis bikes are still around https://instagram.com/curtisbikes?igshid=1nojathjh0lew
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Hi dude, should be around that evening if you fancy a spin in porthcawl. Drop me a private message.
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Always wanted a pace trials bike. Found on google images. One of Akrigg’s first ever bikes I believe.
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Spanks are disc only ( remember Ali c trying one once with a rim brake ) but I wouldn’t recommend it for long purposes. Try and get a Mavic D521 or Mavic EX721 off eBay. I had no problems with them on my hex and other bikes till my setup changed over the years and I went to dual disc. Ran my mavics with discs then upgraded my rims to spanks. You can run a wider trials rim around 33/35mm I believe if you were struggling to find something. For pads anything really, I ran Heatsink for years and just put a bit of Tar on the rim and worked fine.
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On 07/02/2019 at 11:28 PM, Ross McArthur said:
So had a little chat with Ed, posed a question, here’s his answer. This my friends, is the source of The Nile.
I totally forgot to mention Ashton gave me a whole 24inch prototype bike to test for a little while which had the horizontal dropouts. I will have a browse on one of my old hard drives to see if I have a decent picture when I had it.
Got some screen shots of it, but it is in the beginning of this video which we blanked out as it was hush hush at that time.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CXgEkoxVQ6M
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