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Yo! Awesome video, Mark! I shot some footage over the weekend, but it's nothing on this to be honest! Once again, great ride everyone! And also, would be well keen if someone were to arrange a weekend ride elsewhere... Ross, doing a Glasgow ride sometime could be sweet!

Hey Rob, I think I'll be there! Probably there around 1ish hopefully.

Hey, got home a little while ago. Thanks so much, Ian for arranging the ride today. Really enjoyed it, and was awesome to see some insanely impressive riding! Honored to have my own Phoenix Street Jam Tee! Great riding everyone, glad we hit some spots despite the largely shitty weather... Still the coffee, shower and dry clothes afterwards have never felt so good! DRY FEET!!!! Thanks everyone!

awesome! Great riding, as agreed, really smooth!

Hey everyone, very last minute, I know, but I saw a few people saw they were heading to ride barrow today on facebook. Who's gonna be there? Let me know as I'd be keen to head there!

Hey, thanks for the help guys! I opted for a touch shorter... Seems to be good, it its shorter than perfect, since the tensioners are only JUST being used by a few mm, but the chain does seem to come off without too much hassle. Good news! I think a halflink would have been great to get the ideal length, but this will do for now. Still getting used to built in tensioners, but it seemed to take me an age to get both 1) a good chain tension, and 2) the wheel in square. For some reason tightening the wheel in would seem to tighten the chain considerably, or pull the wheel off square. IS this common, or am I being an idiot? Or both? Thanks again for the help guys, glad to have a running trial bike again! (for now)

Hey guys, Sorry for the noob question: Just in the process of cutting my chain to the right length, however I'm unsure whether to remove another link or not... I'm using a frame with built in tensioners, and with the chain at its current (longer) length, the wheel has to be pushed quite far back into the dropout to achieve an ideal chain tension. Alternatively, if I remove another link it'll sit further forward in the dropout, however it'll be a pain to remove the chain when removing the back wheel. Is there a better option of the two? Is it a negative thing to have the wheel sat right at the back of the dropout? I guess that's what it's there for, but I can't help but feel as if it's kinda... flimsy?!? Anyway, any help would be much appreciated! Cheers!

Awesome vid! inspiring stuff! You're pulling some stylish, big + ballsy moves especially considering you've only been at it 3 years! Really enjoyed watching. Cool that you're hooked up with Think Bikes too!

Thanks mate... maybe I did move it a tiny bit with the pliers. Most importantly, nice to be riding a (very slightly) lighter frame

FIXED! Out of impatience / lack of confidence in bending, I thought I'd get a file to it. I just continually checked if a hub axle would fit before taking off a little more material. Thankfully, I didn't lose as much dropout as I thought I would! In the meantime, I'll try to land sidehops to my wheel and not my dropout! Still... guess it gives a me a little more life out of this frame! Thanks again for all your help everyone! Glad I got there in the end!

hey, cheers very much for the advice guys! Had a little pull with a pair of pliers earlier (adjustable didn't fit) but it didn't seem to want to budge at all! Might end up taking it to a local bike shop and see if they have any luck. Otherwise I might take the 'Jake-route' and file / grind it down until parallel, but my only worry with that would be that I might lose to much dropout! To work it down until parralel would make it into a sharp point, and there might not be enough material to hold the wheel in when further back in the dropout. Cheers for the advice guys, hopefully this is salvageable! Could do without buying a new frame!

Hey guys, thanks for the help so far! The good news is the wheel finally came out with enough wiggling. As for the dropout, do you think this would bent back? If it doesn't bend back, would filing it down work? Please let me know your thoughts! Thanks

Hey everyone, I was hoping I might be able to get some help / advice... Turns out my bike decided to combust today! My rear rim decided to bend after a few missed gap attempts, no massive deal... I'll replace the rim. Problem is, removing the wheel I discovered that my dropout (driveside) is bent from a missed sidehop attempt! So I have 2 questions: 1) how the hell do I remove the rear wheel when one of the dropouts is closing in on the axle? 2) Is there a way of bending the dropout back? Or is it terminal? Would appreciate any input! Apologies if this has come up before, tried searching, but couldn't find anything. Thanks

Yo. I'm based in camberwell / south east London. Keen to meet up for London rides in the future!

whoa! Amazing! Did anyone else have to watch that first gap twice to believe it?

haha... very true sam! Could've used sunglasses on Sat, not because the weather was great, but for the intense bike saturation! Haha. Had a great ride on Sat though, was good seeing a few familiar faces and meeting some new riders! Cheers everyone for making it happen!

Well up for this! And I get what you're on about Sam, so good that Ozonys are letting us use London for FREE this weekend! In all seriousness though, As a London based rider, I'd love to see more rides happen here! Especially now the weather is starting to look decent! Used to be tons, we've got pretty slack at getting our sh*t together. Looking forward to seeing everyone Saturday! Might be able to head out for more fun on the Sunday too!

Awesome vid! Really enjoyed watching it, and some sick riding! Quite nice having a loose narrative to tie all the riding together! Also, so much respect for the RC helicopter shot! Looks incredible!

you're the man, Chai! Come back and ride London again soon! Awesome video dude. Rolling gap is insane, and so is getting up that climbing net thing! AMAZING!

Great riding! I suck at natural so much, great to see you riding those rocks so well! Keep it up.

I bought my neon bow 24" frame a few months ago, and have since slowly changed quite a few parts. The geo is now exactly the same as the full build the sell on tarty, and also running dual maguras. I absolutely love the ride, and having come from stock, there some things I immediately found much easier. Its quite a bit shorter than the ehco, which suits me well. It would definitely highly recommend it! On a purely pimp-level, I'm not a huge fan of the graphics, and the weird tubing isn't to everyone's taste, but it still gives me a bow-ner (sorry) I had the chance to play around with a couple of different builds of echo 24s at radfest a few weeks ago. I really love them too. Quite a bit longer, they felt much more comparable to my old stock, I thought. They were really nice up on the back wheel, and as a taller rider, this length is probably more 'right' for me. That said, if I was given the opportunity to swap, I'd stick with my bow. Don't know whereabouts you're based, but if you can make it to a ride in London, you're more than welcome to have a decent hop about on my bow. It will feel nearly identical to the one you're looking at. Here's a crappy pic of how it's looking: Neon Bow 24 by thomhaig, on Flickr Hope that helps!

good shout. Tricks and stunts is what got me started waaaay back. Also Spode and friends guides are well worth watching too: http://www.voodoobikes.co.uk/howdoos

Been entertaining the idea of a backup plan to get there, if I'm not able to get a lift. Just to let you guys know, it looks like ingatestone is the nearest train station. I also called ingatestone taxis and they said chucking a bike in one of their taxis shouldn't be a problem. It might be necessary to get one of their estate taxis though. It's about 5 miles from the station to Barrow farm, so I don't think it would cost a huge amount.

if there's no lift option available, does anyone know how hard it would be to get from the train station to barrow farm with a trial bike and camping gear???

Hey guys... got my weekend ticket, and well up for this. Just need to sort out getting there. Is anyone out there able to offer a lift? I'm in South East London, but can meet by a london train station, and could pay petrol and get a crate of beers or something, to say thanks! Ideally looking to get there fri and head back sat night