Martin Direske

Just heard my all time favourite song in a nice trials vid.. I now can rest in peace.

Hi there again I now got hold of my Marino frame and put it together. Specs don't really differ from those of the Omen, of course Just went for a 180mm Magura SL rotor in front and added the Heatsink tensioner. I also swapped the blue Middleburn rockring for the black one as I had it in stock Frame: Marino (WB 1025mm, BB +30mm, CS 370mm) Fork: Inspired Team Headset: Unlabeled Stem: EX 90mm*35° Bars: Highriser Frontbrake: XT lever, Magura braided hose, Saint 820 piston, Avid G2 185mm disc Rearbrake: older model SD7 lever, Odyssey linear slic cable, Ultimate Arms, PhatPads, XTR-Booster, Onza adapters Frontwheel: Nox hub, rhyno lite, new TableTop DC Rearwheel: Trialtech hub, Spank Stiffy, Echo TR freewheel 108Ep, new Holyroller Drivetrain: GigaPipe BB, Middleburn ProTrials ISIS 170mm, Wellgo MG1, Koolchain, Echo TR on hub.

dito. I'm actually fed up with all those people screaming "Naaaaah, one more company tries to reach for Inspireds crown! Weak work.. bla bla bla.. copy here, copy there". Sometimes I even get angry when I see a company coming up with a decent 24" frame and I'm excited to see what is about, I look at it and it somehow looks really different to those which already are on the market and right in the first comments you see people complaining about all those 24" being rip offs. Just because companies jump on bandwagons like the steel-trend (which might actually started by inspired, to be fair.. well, not even that) doesn't mean they are just doing the exact same thing. NOTHING I can see here is somehow similiar to an Inspired. They just used steel. What's the point anyway, in the end Marino started using steel in the first place.. even before danny made Inspired famous in 09.. All steel 24" are Marino rip offs... ?! When OMEN came up with their frame it was exactly the same. I got mine and couldn't help but didn't find one single similarity, even though the geo is not that different to some older fourplays. But then it has so many features that Inspireds didn't have back then. The complete rearend/dropouts were different. Nobody really got to see one in person but everybody immediatly screamed it was just a rip off because no company ANYWHERE on this planet is allowed to built bikes/frames similar to inspireds anymore.. Had to be said, sorry. Just my opinion. I now continue to ride my Marino, which, of course, is an Inspired rip off. Martin

Yeah sure Look here: http://www.trials-forum.co.uk/topic/186362-new-bike-for-2014-part1-omen/ I just can't figure out how to get rid of the noise. It's actually the very first time I have noise-issues with this rearbrake setup. I can't help but think it got to do with these shitty Onza adapters - they flex like sh**t. Got myself some heatsinks instead which should arrive soon.. but I end up having a canti-frame anyway in March, so I don't put that much effort in it

I might just throw these pics in here Dicided to sell the good old Passat 2.0l 35i (350.000 km, still going strong somewhere) due to it being "boring" in the way of maintenance (just required a bit of oil and a set of brakes once in a while) and appearance and went for a E30 instead (user insomnia here brought me to it, he used to have a 318i touring which I liked a lot) It was quite difficult to get a decent basis. I ended up seeing lots of crap and rotten daily-drivers, I even stopped looking as there just didin't seem to be something worth to be brought back on the streets. Then I accidently found this '90 318i Touring just around the corner, no MOT, no history, nothing. 160.000km, no serious rust (not even around the boot) and 850€. It was stored in an old garage long enough for all tires to be flat. At first sight the brakes were unuseable, the cooler leaked horribly and both pars of rims were terribly rotten. We ended up taking it for 500€ and it took me 3 months to give it a full service (all belts ink. cambelt, new brakes all around, cooler, new wheels, control arms, oil, filters, bla bla blah) All in all I spent 520€ just for parts, got new MOT and everything turned out to be a great deal. I love it and actually can't still comprehend how much luck I had finding this car. Try finding a 318i touring (whereas 316i are sold more often) with less than 200.000 which is worth being rebuild under 2000€ The only problem I currently have is the special colour: Its not the regular lagunagreen but a very, very rare special green called islandgreenmetallic. There is not one single e30 part around here in germany.. I really need a left mudwing but I think I will end up getting a different colour and try painting it as good as I can hopeing it will match the colour good enough when giving the mixer the colour-code The dusty pic was taken when I first thought "Yep, you will be mine!"

We're glad you liked it. Those comments are what keeps us motivated to go on making edits like this - it means much to us that after quite a long period of not doing some clips like this you're still excited about it Winter is already gone in germany so I guess you won't have to wait too long for the new one haha, yeah I was wondering when the first ones will complain about the car-thingy as, for instance, I actually really FORGOT about closing the boot but just realized it when we were checking the clips at Moppel's headquarter There are a few embarassing details like this but since we did it just for fun we didn't really care about it (just finished repairing the E30 I bought off a garage months ago where it had been stored for ages) Thank you guys

Hi there! I went out with Moppel just like in the older days and we managed to put together some clips with the new bike We hope you like it For further information check the description on vimeo, I don't think copying the whole text would be a good thing to do 7.04 minutes. Enjoy

Is there a reason why you put the hose for the rear brake on the outer side of the stay? The danger of hitting the hose when failing a whip or something is much higher than when you just move it onto the other side of the stay (pointing to the tire)

Thank you It took ages for all these parts to be collected

It took a few rides for me to get into it. But now it feels great. Manuals were creepy at first but now stable as f**k. I really like the trialsy feel on the backwheel made possible through the short stays. Video is in the making - you might just judge yourself then Not one single footjamwhip to be seen in there... I promise

Uhh.. I remembered those rumours just when I took them off the box but wasn't sure whether it was about the Onzas. They flex extremely, that's right Might as well look for new ones. Need Heatsinks then

Hi there! As some of you might know I'm actually waiting for my Marino to arrive. I was hitting the streets with the mod instead, which, as well, is sold by now due to the 24"-thingys pushing forward. Meanwhile I got into the sweet situation of testing the Omen frame over here and took the chance to do so. Specs: Frame: Omen 24 Fork: Inspired Team Headset: Unlabeled Stem: EX 90mm*35° Bars: Highriser Frontbrake: XT lever, Magura braided hose, Saint 820 piston, Avid G2 185mm disc Rearbrake: older model SD7 lever, Odyssey linear slic cable, Ultimate Arms, PhatPads, XTR-Booster, Onza adapters Frontwheel: Nox hub, rhyno lite, new TableTop DC Rearwheel: Trialtech hub, Spank Stiffy, Echo TR freewheel 108Ep, new Holyroller Drivetrain: GigaPipe BB, Middleburn ProTrials ISIS 170mm, Wellgo MG1, Koolchain, Echo TR on hub. Just got to ride it a week now and it feels somehow "different" to the 24" I had before. It might as well be the short chainstays and the high BB. I'm quite surprised on how well stuff worked out on this bike. Not one single problem occured by now. Even the chain-line is somehow perfect, the backwheel doesn't move in the dropouts (my secret fear and reason why I never got around to build a bike with horizontals) and everything just works as it should. Only thing I noticed is that it weights even more than the Element frame lol Might as well say something to the copying-issue that was discussed back when they introduced the frame: Having owned quite a lot of 24" bikes, including a lot of Inspireds (2x Element, 1x Fourplay, 1x Skye) I can't really tell whether they actually copied "the whole" frame. I looked for similarities when I first got it and noticed that, as far as I can remember, only the gusset on the toptop/headstube is "exactly" the same. Other than that I find that especially the rear with the dropouts, yokes and upper chainstays differs a lot. The stays are more quare'ish and all in all its much less filigree (more massive) than Inspireds. It almost seems like they didn't even try to cut the weight (pay attention to the enormous dropout-section), the disc mount which, as well, is just "big". All in all the frame seems more flat, almost like a trialsframe with a seat bolted on. Video to be online soon! Martin

Did you just steal my helmet, Matt?

Not having a smartphone but a 29,99€ prepaid from you local discounter is the way to go. Just sayin

Less bidders since in BMX-section = your luck

yes right, an old 24UK I used to have the exact same frame laying around which Mücke got from Heatsink back in the day. Check for cracks, it's suuuper easy to bend and crack. I got mine re-welded a few times back then until I had to give up on it since the headtube was ovalized and it cracked again and again around the downtube. It had like 4 former owner to be fair What is nice to now: Milec Bikes (poland i think) would be able to replace single tubes from the frame in case you send him (?) the frame with a damaged downtube or whatever. Where did you get that from? Just curious.. Haven't seen one in ages

What happened to me once: Back when I owned an American Classic hub I had the issue that the previous owner seemed to have torqued the 6 bolts holding the disc too tightly. The result was, that the disc no longer laid plan on the hub without the srews tightened - when you tightend them the disc would bend until it reached the rest of the mount (I'm talking about 1mm or so) It's hard to explain.. in the end, no matter which disc you took, they all couldn't be straight right from the start due to the damaged disc mount and when you took a look from the top you could see that the inner piece of the disc with the screw-heads were maybe 1/2mm closer to the fork as the outer part (normally you would just see one small line,160/180/203mm*1,8mm) which made it impossible to set the brake up the way it's meant to be done.

Don't get me wrong, but I start believing there is something wrong with your ability to set up a disc brake properly. Whenever there is an issue with your brake you immediately assume there must definitely be something wrong with either the brake, the disc or even the forks

Me too, that's why I thought they might work with the saint as well.

I got myself a new 820 Saint for the front back in 2013 with an 160mm Icetech disc as I was building an Element. Although being used with just a 160mm rotor it was fine, but I never really liked the short leverblade and I couldn't seem to get a proper preassure-point no matter how long I tried to setup the brake correctly. As I used to have some 810 back on the Skye I was kinda disappointed. I rode it this way like half a year I think but now I got fed up with it and used the opportunity of a new bike-build to finally do something about it. The Icetech disc developed a crap load of play in the spider, which, together with the regular pad-play, turned out to be quite creepy when doing front-stuff. How do you guys get along with IceTechs? After having seen the problem using only 160mm disc in the front I can't imagine running them in the back with with 203mm I now grabbed myself a few bargains and try something new.. Link. The disc on the photo doesn't belong to it, a 185mm Avid G2 will do the trick instead. Didn't get to test it by now, though

Hi there Long time no see.. I was a bit in a hurry lately as I started studying engineering back in 2013 - I was promised a lazy student-life, I have never been so wrong lol As I'm waiting for my new 24" street-weapon to arrive I was on mod the last few weeks and Gorez got himself a new camera as well. So we took the chance and the nice weather to collect some clips. I hope you like it We recommend watching it fullscreen+HD. For the haters: Next video is definately going to be on 24" again Martin

As Elias said before Moppel, Elias and I plan to come over there Just a random question: It seems to be common to camp while attending your event, does that mean we actually have to? There would rather be an issue of space than of preference since we need to take a small car which could turn out to be a problem when we add a few tents to at least 3 or 4 bikes and 3 grown men in a Ford Limousine lol. Is there any chance of "couchsurfing"? If someone would be this kind and lives not too far away from the event or something? Shouldn't be much of an issue but it would simplify our planning dramatically, otherwise we just need to fit some cosy beddings somewhere in the car and find a place to rest over there - as long as there is no Monsun we should be fine Looking forward to you guys!

Just can't decide.. both sum it up in a special way hehe Rebuilding Gorez's bike at 23 pm with ghettoish methods, drinking ghettoish beer and going for a ghettoish test ride afterwards Or just riding a demo with children enjoying it quite a lot

The freewheel on hub confuses the wild trialer Just kidding, people don't seem to run this kind of drivetrain anymore, but I still love it. The most reliable, strongest and easiest way to keep your bike rolling Middleburn ProTrials 22T, Gigapipe BB, Koolchain, Echo TR 108EP/18T freewheel screwed on a stripped Trialtech hub, Heatsink tensioner with some extra-steel. Thank your for your feedback Martin