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I know that this is not trials, but this is a video that we did at our local school of a MTB skills track that we built. We are looking to update this video as we have since added to the track with some more north shore, a bomb hole and replaced the banked corner with a wooden banking. I wish that when I was at school my school had had a track like this.

Hi, Thing to look at is how long the final sequence will be. 6000 frames at 25 frames per second is 240 seconds or 4 minutes, sounds about right to me.

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I didn't even know there was a Senior members forum I don't know what happens there, and don't really care, I enjoy the trials forum as appearers to me. I know that out there in the real world there are lots of people talking and having parties that I will never be invited to but so what. Get your own friends have a conversation and have your own party, I promise I wont insist on being invited.

Hi, I am using them at the moment and think that they are pretty good, but I have only been riding my trials bike for 3-4 months though and previous pads were the magura black pads and my understanding is almost anything is better than them. My main thinking was that for a fairly small outlay I would get better breaks and have CNCed backings that I can reuse. My next experiment is to try grinding my rims to improve the breaks in the wet. Tim

Hi, My better half did experimental psychology when at university and I think I remember some sort of study on an incident where a woman was raped in public on the street and people just walked by. Can't think exactly what it was or where but I will ask her and see if she remembers. Something to do with mob mentality, "one person walks by, everyone walks by" What might be interesting is to try a number of different levels of the same sort of situation as people may react to different offences in different ways. eg. man arguing with woman, man hitting woman, man struggling with woman on ground, compared with same but role reversal. Good luck and let us know where you get with this. Tim

Hi My concern with the ffw is the trend to go for smaller cogs as this will place more tension on the chain, leading to more stretch and failure. As a side note, if I remember correctly, at one point in the distant past someone came out with a free wheel that used rollers, not ratchets. This meant that there were no clicks and instant engagement. I think I remember one of the Martins testing them for MBUK and stating that it was quite weird having an instant drive. Are these still made by anyone. Tim

Hi, How much detail do you want. Each wheel could be broken down to component parts: Axle, Bearings, Retaining & locking nuts, Hub, Spokes, Nipples, Rim, Rim tape, Inner-tube, Tyre, Air Could go on for the rest of the bike but you get the picture. Tim

Hi, Don't know if you have checked this, but when I got a second hand bike and it started creaking at the bottom bracket, I found that it was in fact the bolts holding the crank on. Now that I have thread locked the bolts and done them up tight, no more creaking Tim

Hi, I use GIMP ( Link to Home Page ). It is a full blown photo editing program and with it being Open source, ( FREE ) it is regularly updated.

Hi, So much choice it really depends on what you want to do. Most hardtail bikes above £300 will handle reasonable off road riding, above that you pay your money and make your choice. Full suspension you are looking above £500. Mostly the lighter the better, remember that you will be carting it up hills, this goes double for the GF as she may not have the extra strength. For the GF get a bike built for a woman as the ratio of the top tube / seat tube is different, also spend a bit of extra money on a proper saddle designed for a woman. These are worth there weight in gold and quite often make a difference between getting in to riding and stopping. We bought a saddle at a bike show for my wife, from a company called terry who specialise in women's bike equipment, the first time she rode with it she said that for the first time she was actually not in pain after 10 minutes.

Hi, I don't know what your background is but there are a lot of people on this forum who have been doing trials for a long time and have been using water in there Magies for a long time with no bad effects. You've said What gets me even more is that people take said bike and take an angle grinder to it The idea of grinding a perfectly good rim, removing material so reducing the life of the component seems wrong to me but lots of people swear by the performance improvement, so it is up to them. You won't use water in your brakes fine, that's up to you, but I don't think that you can come on here sounding off at people who do. P.s. I have one brake with water in and one with oil I'm just indecisive me.

Hi, Are the brakes working OK, plenty of bite and hold? If so don't worry about it.

Hi, Don't want to be hijacking your thread so do tell me to bugger off if you want, but we have the same sort of problem at our local school. I have tried to create a short course to test and improve the skills of our youngsters. If you could look at this short video and comment on what you think, and any improvements that would be great. The problem I have is that most of the young people don't have any trials skills yet so the idea is that the first part of the course is relatively easy, but that it then gets harder. Thanks, Tim

Hi, I''m with these guys. You are never to old. I have been riding my mountain bike for years, with a little bit of low level trials thrown in. But now at 40 I have got my self a little mod to play on. I might find that it takes me a little bit longer to get the moves but I will get there. What gets me is when someone asks "who's bike is that?", and I answer " Mine", some times they come back with "Who's is it really?" Go and enjoy, and sod the rest of them Tim