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The second I saw no helmet on, I stopped watching. Sorry!

Who is Matt?

For my first frame, he did the same! I think he always does this when he has nearly finished a frame, he tends to begin something new before finishing what he is doing. I had my last update tonight at 4 am! Tell me if you have news man! No, I prefer trusting someone with experience and also making a business that is worth it work. Also getting new tubes would cost a bomb. When I was at school, it was cheap as I didn't pay, but now...

Hello, After having made a frame myself with 6061 Aluminium, I have found out I probably made it too light because the tubes are really fragile (dented one with an allen key...) and also my welds are not the best quality ever. I penetrated too much into the tubes and that causes flex and even more fragile frame. Whenever I ride it, it flexes a hell of a lot. With pedal kicks I manage to make my rear wheel rub onto the pads that are setted 4 mm away. Also the frame isn't stiff at all and makes a frightening cracking noise. So I decided to forget making my own frame and relying on someone I had an excellent experience with. That is Marino, of course. When I rode the Marino Comp (Panther, or phanter for those who remember), which was the first frame I had ordered from him, I hated it, but that is because I didn't rode it with a 20" stem. Trying that on my current geo works perfectly well. So what I am riding now is pure comp geometry as this is what I ride the most. It's 1100; +70; 380; 72HA with a chain fully tensioned. I decided to go for something a bit shorter, but also higherso make the reach a bit shorter, more nervous and that you can rotate faster in sections. So I finally decided to go for 1090; +80; 375; 72.I asked for the same features (gussets, welds) than for the marino comp except for the triple seat tube which was useless considering the way I had designed it. I fully trust Marino's work now so I only sent my plan: and he sent me the first photos here: Update 21 May 2011 Here is the text I asked on my frame. All the text will be written in black colour. I had to change a little thing in the geo. The Chainstays will be 380 instead of 375. Not a big problem, just a bit less nervous, but more stable once on the rear wheel. Here is the frame so far: Update 27 May 2011 So, I had some news 3 days ago but had no time to update this stuff. So he sent me these pictures that show a nearly complete bike. It just needs gussets to be welded, brake mounts to be welded, heat treatment, and paint. That's how it is at the moment: Here you can see the additional welds I asked for: That's the rear of the frame: And now for the tire clearance, as you can see there is plenty! And that last picture is to check the tire clearance with the 380 chainstays, considering this tire is bigger than what I will use, Iam pretty happy with it: I asked for brake cables attachment! Update 1 june 2011 He sent me this picture to show the BB gussets he will add. They are bigger than the ones on the first version I had. Then this is the frame finished in the oven. No chrome paint yet, just the prepaint has been put on right now. I guess he will paint it today. I received my Try-All light tires and my No War black rear rim today as well as my rockman in CNC backing pads. This bike is going to be awesome! Update 2 june 2011 SO, this morning I had a great surprise checking my mail! Loads of photos had been sent! The first one shows the bike after painting. Now the frame is finished, he only waits for his stickers to arrive to stick them on! So I shall wait a long time only to have them I guess... The next photo shows the rear triangle area And this one shows the front end: On this photo I realized he added a gusset I didn't ask for. Now I asked for this type of gussets on the first frame, and a friend told me it was going to be quite useless so I removed it. Now it's on, so there is not much I can do abut it. Let's hope it doesn't put too much stress in this area! This photo shows some quite nice features he added that can play the role of brake booster. One thing I regret on Marino frames is the weak rear brake area, so maybe these gussets will change this point! And one last photo to show the gussets on the chainstays: Update 2 June 2011 These are the first stickers applied. He is getting the last sticker tomorrow hopefully! I think the new Marino sticker is pretty nice! Made in Peru of course! 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. Update 13th July 2011 I put a disc brake on the front because I wanted to try disc brake. I absolutely love it, and I feel this is what I missed on my bike. I tend to roll when I make a front wheel transfer so this is ideal! It is a BB7 203 mm that I ordered on Tartybikes (Thanks lads for the usual awesome service!) mounted onto a Trialtech Disc fork with a Hope adapter. My cat likes the bike pretty much. She keeps rubbing her head on the new fork... Thanks!

How is the pinch flat resistance?

Very nice. What is your rear tire mate?

If you want a TR freewheel, buy a black SL from Tartybikes. They will send you a TR. At least they did it for me!

"real" cousts. But Heatsink and coust pads are the same compound so go for it!

Geo of the HiFi? I love it, it seriously looks awesome!

Awesome as usual. Just one thing: Your tap technique is not dialed because this technique is all about pedalling. You arrive freewheeling and then you tap. You should constantly pedal and you will get much higher, much easier!

My own frame built mostly with trialtech/Echo.Rockman components

Has anybody else had problems with their trialtech rims not holding a grind? Because I have used a sport 26" rim and two SL 26" on the rear. I also have used two front square holed 26" rims from trialtech and I think they actually hold a grind amazingly! I have also found out that TNN belaey eat the grind as they are pretty hard compound. I have used Coust! pads and Heatsink yellow pads. They are soft so maybe that changes things. I am now using try all Yellow pads because I got a deal with try-all. I received them today so I need to try them. They just need time to bed in but then we'll see if they eat the grind as they are hard compound.

No worries. Honestly I don't have time for other photos as I work 6 days on 7 and as I work 50 hours a week. I'll give it a try though. I didn't search for other companies and I don't know any. Sorry. It does!

Wow! What is the song name please?

If you had read you would have spotted it. 1,8 kilos

Exxagerate the move, fold your legs to the maximum, and by that I really mean to the maximum. First it will be difficult but it will be automatic soon. Then try to get as dynamic as you can standing up again. You can practice this move with skipping rope. Just fold your legs to the max at every jumps and you will progress loads in terms of height. When you finally get this move dialled at the highest speed you can, tuck to the max when you are up the wall. This is difficult and will hurt your legs big time but it will help you getting some extra centimeters. To train that you can just jump by foot on top of palets. You will automatically fold your legs at the top of it, so it will train this move. Then get this motion as fast as you can and you'll do awesome sidehops. My coach told me to do this every day in the week and it works really well. He is a french champion if that can help you get motivated.

Thanks a lot.

you're welcome

My ZOO? I never had a ZOO...

V!Z rims are definettly not holding grinds. They are utter shit!

The last frame I had was the mist. I bought it one year ago. I don't think it's that often. The 90 bb rise is quite weird at first but I got used to it pretty fast thanks to the mod stem. I feel it helps all my techniques, especially up to fronts. It is just weird for taps. Yes of course it got heat treated. It got heated, then cooled down really fast and got reheated a bit. (sorry I don't know the technical words in English for metallurgic stuff). This treatment is a T6

Here it is... Finally. Thanks a lot to Tartybikes for the awesome service and the amazing parts. They just sent me a echo 72 freewheel when I bought an SL 108 but I can't do anything now so I'll just stick with it. I made my own frame using 6061 tubing. It is basically the same as my Marino except it has a different geo and that it is 1,8 instead of 2,2. I just used the same stuff than for the marino. Gussets in the same area, triple seat tubes except the gussets are a bit longer, the tubes are internally butted, I cut a square hole in the front and I added more tire clearance. I used my Marino frame to make the tool to assemble the tubes and weld them. The geo is: 1090;+90;72;380 and my Marino was 1100;+70;72;375. This bike is awesome but I only have been riding it for 2 days now. Specs: Drivetrain: -Trialtech Lite BB -Try-All cranks 175 mm -Echo 72 freewheel -Speedrace bashring -Z610 HX chain -Onza Hognesium pedals Rear Wheel: -Trialtech SL rear rim -ECHO TR 135mm rear hub -Sapim black spokes -Continnetal Rain King tire -15T sprocket Front Wheel: -Trialtech Square-holed front -ECHO TR front hub -Sapim black spokes -Kenda Karma tire Steering: -Trialtech 150*30° stem -Rockman Carbon Handlebars -Trialtech grips -Trialtech magura forks Brakes: -Front post-2005 HS33 long lever -Rear post-2005 HS33 long lever -Front black (colour match!) ECHO TR mounts -Rear grey (colour match!) Magura mounts -Yellow Heatsink pads (best ever!) The total weight is near 8,5 kilos Any questions please ask

I tried. Try to grind a front carbon wheel! Bad idea! ALso it's just too rigid for taps.

I had been riding comps with it and also a bit of street. Mine was a prototype from Bionic. It broke after 2 months.