murph82

I'm 28 and just started again after a ten year gap. If anything i'm actually better already after only 7 or so proper rides! Two bikes for the win!

+1 for ban.gotta be a benny to start a row in a thread about someone shattering two limbs. If it happened to you leaving it, I would imagine,hard to walk as 1 you have a smashed leg and 2 not being able to use crutches as one of your arms are smashed as well. Injury can affect the mind as much as the body! +1 for ban.gotta be a benny to start a row in a thread about someone shattering two limbs. If it happened to you leaving it, I would imagine,hard to walk as 1 you have a smashed leg and 2 not being able to use crutches as one of your arms are smashed as well you'd think it was pretty serious. Injury can affect the mind as much as the body!

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friggin immense, however, you probably wouldn't need a bashring? all of a sudden a straight line from pedal to edge of bash makes them sound less stupid????

Plus ed tongue. He and his brother were behind the first,in my opinion,real street trials bike with the pashley 26mhz, a chromoly bunnyhop machine! He also rode bmx and perhaps its possible he was the 'original' danny mac as he was the first to really fuse the two disciplines in an obvious way? Plus ed tongue. He and his brother were behind the first,in my opinion,real street trials bike with the pashley 26mhz, a chromoly bunnyhop machine! He also rode bmx and perhaps its possible he was the 'original' danny mac as he was the first to really fuse the two disciplines in an obvious way?

I dont know about paying,but they were sort of promo days for local shops and local cycling events. Nothing of a massive scale. If the rig is that easy change it then? Make your gaps bigger,put some extra pallets in somewhere,if you could ride a spot so easy you'd go elsewhere or look for different lines? Demo's are a little different in the sense that where you would session a line or obstacle and it wouldn't matter if you mess it up people dont want to stand and watch someone fall off their bike time and again so there is an element of staying in your limitations so you dont look a prat. However, work on it, set it up somewhere and change stuff round with pallets or moving gaps further apart, its no different to practicing for a competition,you practice to improve if your as dedicated in either discipline so you feel more equipped to cope with the given route at a comp or to be able to make that bigger gap or whatever on your rig. street or natural is trials,its you v's the thing in front of you,wether you tap up and roll down or bunnyhop then 180 off. Demo's i think aren't that different to comps, its the mindset. The other point i think i'm seeing is about wether people are a trials rider down to if they get paid or not. Well everyone is a trials rider, its if they are professional or not. This thread has obviously been good for a discussion but has kind of highlighted that there are some very strange and elitist attitudes in a sport where its really not needed or welcome as its something that seems to be on the verge of acceptance in the masses. More people can only make it better!?!

Yeah,i rode a couple,was even in mbuk in the first hop idol competition,to be honest,i wasn't all that good,so i always tried my hardest. You said you always put maximum effort in on sidehops,pushing your limits and trying to clear an obstacle? Pardon me but is that not the same thing. I hope you do help riders in the comp scene,but with this attitude you'd be a virus killing peoples interest as,franky,its snobbery, and only snobs like snobs,and that's the last thing the sport needs!

+1 on the poor ambassador remark.

If you haven't given up already with this i'd do so quick,your making yourself look a proper tool. I've seen enough demo's to know most riders put maximum effort in.the pro's who ride at events like the bike show's at the nec were taking a day off being a trials rider to be an entertainer? Cant say i was amazed by any stand up routines but was impressed by the huge and ballsy moves they were pulling which were only possible with complete commitment and total effort. But on the flip side i spent all afternoon trying to ride some massive rocks in dover but wasn't really trying. Whilst we were all negotiating obstacles of huge variation in difficulty,by your definition i'm the trials rider and the others aren't? That shit is anal. I rode years ago and i'm getting back into it,back then you had a trials bike,you rode it over rocks,mud,pallets,walls or if you were lucky enough a man made rig.its all the same.its all trials. If a kid draws a picture and colours it in,its art, when van gogh painted pictures that was art. Its attitudes like yours that would balls up any kind of acceptance into the mainstream as its splintering a sport which is so good because you can do it in the street or the woods, everyone has somewhere and something to ride! Rant done.....

alright mate, just getting back into it myself, couple of my mates are just starting out as well. PM me your mob number and I'll get in touch, should be riding sometime next week! Cheers Kevin

Cant speak for the blues,but i've got heatsink whites and there great in the dry or wet on a grind,heatsink make quality stuff,keep em!

Spoke tensioner.best of both worlds? I just made one as i threaded the axle mount on my sts,which dmr replaced free i hasten to add, easy to make and really works,made mine first go as well.wasn't sure i'd trust it as seems to simple but had to ride before part turned up and not sure i'll change it back to the dmr tensioner now

Anyone got any other asks?

I rode one of these with use tfi forks years ago,had greenfrog hs33's,rs7's,hope hubs,mavic rims,azonic bars,was well into how it felt but wished the the back end had been shorter,always felt heavy on the back wheel compared to the monty's and the brisa b26 that had just come over to england (that's how long ago it was!)

Looks right tidy mate! Should be fit to ride in 4 weeks or so,i'll come see it in the flesh!

I had a uci machined down to 3mm to fit on my uci tensiles with a 96 freewheel. I also wondered if it would fit between the cup and frame but would it or could it damage the cup or either thread? What length are your cranks? Am i right in thinking cranks shorter than 170 are generally for mods so dont have the thread for a bashring?

pharcyde- runnin heavy old skool hip hop track, gonna use it when i make a vid eventually

Erm.......i dunno,just edit and delete the text would be my best guess?

Hi guys This might seem a little unnecessary but if you've posted discussion points about weights, set ups etc rather than what you want and why would you mind deleting them please? Its just that way the likes of phatmike wont have to rrawl through a lot of stuff that isn't relevant and that way hopefully no good ideas will be missed!?!

That was exactly the point so people like yourself with the means to could produce solutions. It seems to have been lost though. I only put why i wanted a 22t bashring to justify the want but the whole lightweight obsession thread has come back. I personally couldn't give a toss about weight,i know i could get burns and that its a stock specific request. I just want the option to run what i like and the idea of the thread was to be more of a resource for those in the know to find issues to fix,not debate about why i should run this that or the other. Its basically a suggestions box for trials components! Just read more threads and people are now using properly! Thanks

But why should i have to spend well over a hundred quid on new ones when something for about 25 would sort it is the point.why should rear freewheel set ups mean havin to use only one very expensive trials specific crank? Its all a bit follow the herd for my liking

The splined freewheel thread made me think. Everyone said it was great, to me , aside from production implications it seemed obvious, but did anyone actually tell atomz its what we wanted? The idea of this thread is to post up ideas for stuff that we want that we cant get and why. No stupid suggestions of anti - gravity tyres etc please. My suggestion is to stop making bashrings for screw on cranks in only 18t. 22t would be good to! I'd prefer a rear set up but when a decent hub can cost as much as a whole singlespeed wheel my budget means its ffw set up as i've got tensile trials cranks so the freewheel has to go on the front as i cant get a ring for the cranks to protect a bigger chainring. Also i'm not really happy about a trouser munching, ankle busting chain constantly moving. Between the rear brake and the fw its arguably the most confidence building part on the bike so to take it away from where it can be subject to impact and possible damage and putting it on the rear wheel where its quite safe and unlikely to ever get struck would make a lot of sense to me?!

Personally i'd like to simply see a 22t bashring for screw on cranks so i can run an affordable freewheel on my fixed hub and get the performance of a king etc without the massive outlay that comes with freehubs. I know all the arguments for a ffw about balance of the bike etc but frankly it all seems a little much. Who can honestly say it makes such a massive difference to their riding? Maybe i'm just not good enough that it does make a difference to me but it seems its all lead by what the pro's do and not what's actually cost effective and practical. I've had to run ffw as i haven't got the money for new burns. I'd much rather the chain stayed still,who wants to risk a broken ankle from an errant hem line as they ride to their spot,its an all time set up but does seem flawed that you have to freeze in shorts in winter or dress like a gaylord roadie to ride safe. The splines are a good idea though. I'm fairly new back into trials after a 7 year leave and when i first tried getting my acs off thought it would be so much easier if it was splined?

Have they got the spline at the end of the thread for a uci ring?if not i'd guess there optimums,it should say on the outside of the the drive side arm?

I've got some 170 optimum's,is that what they are? The standard uci ring is to thick,i had to machine it down to 3 mm. This is in conjunction with a tensile 96, this just about gives enough thread, i believe tarty say to have 7.5 mm thread contact,if you cant get anything machined i think the trial tech ti rings are 3mm?