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Yes I don't really know why I confused. Maybe because I have only tested yellow pads from try all and seen brown and reds works. I have seen protos lkfe the greens and white too. They are all the same more or less for me in terms of performance. That's why...

What is that rim tape on the rear wheel?

The reach is 660 mm!

The complete weight is 9,2 kilos. Frame alone is 2,110 kilos. The BB is +82. Wheelbase is 1088; chainstay length is 378 and head angle is 72. I will measure the reach later on. Thanks mate

Complete bike picture in first post! Update 21 June 2011 Here is the first picture of the complete bike. I rode with it today at the demo and I must say I like it really well. Very stable, very predictable, the rear brake is very stiff without brake booster. I feel I am already used to it. Thanks!

Yeah maybe tomorrow or Wednesday. But tomorrow I have a demo and on Wednesday, I have a very important meeting. So if I build it it will be on Thursday.

It won't be here today...

Yes you're right, that compound could be closer to the try all croco red than the yellows... Sorry for that You're right too about the compound. I was just guessing (and wrong apprently). I was speaking of the pads wearing at an angle near the edges because of the rocking in the cylinders yes.

For me that is the best video of trials I have ever seen. It just made me want to ride when I have no more love for trials. Thanks a lot Kevin, you listened to me the other day. The GoPro cam footage made me think of Mirror's edge video game! Loved every second of it!

If everything goes well, this beauty should be here tomorrow. Hopefully, it will be built in the afternoon and I will finally get better and want to ride it.

He is the belgian man who designs the try-all croco pads and the Trialtech sport pads man! He has been working a fairly long time with Koxx along with other engineers. But when Koxx decided to make its study office smaller because they were making less money with other companies appearing, they fired some people like the engineer who designed the Boxx and Thierry who now works alone making pads and training young riders during the Klinkenberg trials camps! I think he has an material degree in elastomer sciences. He also contributed to create the sticky tires working with engineers from Kenda. So he is a fairly important name in the trials industry.

Yes no problem though. I spotted the trialtech pads in TNN backings on the complete pictures of his bike but when I watched the videos the brake sound wasn't the same. I thought I should just point that out! The trialtech pads are just some other pads made by Thierry Klinkenberg like the Try-All Croco pads. They are awesome pads but the thing is this compound is just too hard so it eats the grind too fast resulting into a brake that wears out very slowly but which needs regrinding often to have a great sound and great bite. They are also less tolerant to brake movement so they wear out at a weird angle near the ends faster than other pads. I am sure they work well though but I'll just stick with my Heatsink Coustsink pads with chamferred edges as they don't need a grind that often and as they work just great!

Anything but Rockman

Sorry but at 0:58 in this video we can clearly see the pads he uses are Heatsink Yellows in CNC backings.

I wish that never ended...

Just get a Marino dude! ANy geo you'd like, bombproof frame!

He uses Coust pads straight from Michel Coustellier (michel.coustellier@voila.fr) They are in plastic backing but work a treat!

Same factory as Try-All 108.9=fail! Don't get one!

He is actually the one who owns Kabra. He is the one who designed it and everything.

New video available in first post. It's the second part!

What is the geo?

It will change the overall feeling over the bike. Believe me it's so much better!