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If I would be building a new bike for 1000£ I'd most probably build one myself from scratch. Tarty has some nice Adamant frames on sale (click) and it would be rather easy to gather a nice bike around it for that money. I've never ridden the Element but I'm sure you'll find people here who has it. I'm not a fan of the rear V and would most probably invest to Fourplay already because of that but that's again a personal opinion.

I had similar sound some time back and tightening fixed it.

No custom fees when ordering to Sweden (thanks to EU). Tarty has great customer service and I have never heard that anyone would've any problems with them. What comes to shipping, it usually is rather cheap especially if you are comparing to Scandinavian shipping prices. Zoot is a good started bike but you might as well order new chain tugs as the Onza ones WILL break. These will work great. It's a pity that the frame doesn't have 4-bolt brake mounts on it but then again it is damn cheap deal in my opinion. You'll just have to setup the V's properly or get a EVO 2 adaptor for HS33's and be prepared to spend few hours swearing while you are setting those up. For 500£ it's a great bike but if you have 1000£ to spend then you might as well look in to the higher end bikes.

If you go for Locktite just remember to use the blue version. The red is used for "permanent" hold. (not entirely permanent as it can be easily loosened by heating the bolt)

Or you might also consider welding a spacer to the end of the broken bolt and use pliers to twist it out? And if you decide to drill it out, you should try to get hold of a reverse drill bit for it. The broken off bolt might even come out while you are drilling with that.

Brilliant Your next build will be much easier, it's always the first one which gives you trouble. If you are going to add some dish to the build ( what I guess you'll have to) true it firstly straight and then add the dish afterwards. One side -½ tighter and other side +½ looser until it is as you wish it to be. When you got the dish right and everything trued it is easy to do the final tightening if needed (+½ on all spokes until it is right) I'm no pro in this in anyway so follow my instructions on your own risk but then again my wheels hasn't failed me yet under my 85kg dynamite packed body

What do you mean by "off center"? Off center in dish or off center so that one side of the spokes is shorter? Have you measured all of the spokes? Did you mention the correct drilling of the rim to Tarty when inquiring about spoke lengths? (32h/36h) I checked Tarty's website quickly and it seems that all Hope Pro 2 hubs are for disk brakes which would mean that you need to be adding some dish to the build. Maybe that's why it is off center as you haven't dished it properly? You should check out this website as it has basically everything you need to know about building and truing a wheel. (You might have already found it as it comes up rather high up in Google) And as a final advice from my amateur background; if you are building a disk wheel, tighten it properly! Get a good spoke tool and crank it up or otherwise you'll end up with a wheelbuild which will flex every time you brake.

Don't know about that specific bike it you might need to add a spacer under the stem (the bit that does the steering ). Is it the whole front fork which is wobbly or is it just the handlebars? If it is the whole fork then most probably that small spacer will do the trick.

You are going to be fine with the heavyduty tensioners. Mine lasted for two weeks before they snapped. The tensioners are essential atleast for me. I can't ride a meter without those.

Good to know, thanks!

So those can be removed by unscrewing even though those are perfectly round?

I'm sure we can argue about this forever but I've been running Evo IIs on my Zoot for a while now and it is great! But then again it is a PAIN to setup properly and I'm running those at the rear so I guess my opinion doesn't count.

I can tell from professional point of view that supports are not what you should be looking for! I can't think of a reason to use a support unless you have a physical reason for it (hyper extension ect.) The best way to "sort out" your ankles is to get the muscles around it strong enough to support the strain. When you are using supports it suddenly means that your ankles are getting weaker due that and you problem gets even worse. You might want to consider using "vulkan" style support which basically is only a neoprene half-sock. It will make sure that your muscles are getting warm enough without giving too much support so that you can still strengthen them. Just stay away from metal brace supports unless you REALLY have to use those. (and with "really" I mean that you have snapped a cross supporting ligaments in the past) So finally, my final advice is to get some light weights and a balance board and do some daily exercise. (Just stand on it with one foot and try to balance as long as possible, good for strength and coordination) Muscle strength > weak joints

From my experience, just tell Tarty which hub and rim you got and they'll fix it for you. Hasn't got wrong this far for me.

Oh crap, well thanks anyway.

Has anyone removed the tabs from their Zoot? I thought it would be easy as taking a wrench and just unscrewing those but to me those seem to be completely round. Any experience from other riders?