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Gu'day everyone! Well it has been a while since I've been active on the forum but I thought this needed sharing with the community. A friend of mine that I ride with back home needed a new wheel build, basically just to put a different, straighter rim onto his existing hub. I'm sure that we all know that it's a lot easier to lace a wheel with the sprocket off the the hub right? And I'm sure we all have a similar way to removing said sprocket. Well, long story short, this is how his local bike shop went about removing the sprocket... I wasn't there when he got his freshly built wheel back but I wish I could have seen his face! I would have been horrified!! Thanks for reading, James

Haha, yeah... being 6ft3 does have an effect on how tiny a mod can look. Cheers fella.

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah it is on the right side just for personal preference... Just decided to swap them over one day to see what the change would be like and its just stuck, mainly because I used to ride a BMX with a single rear brake which was on the right. That wil be because a lot of the photos are of the same line that I was trying to do and we were trying to get used to the capture speed so i had to repeat a few things a lot. Thanks for the reply anyway fella.

Cheers for all the replies. Mark, other than greasing the threads between the crank and freewheel itself my current steel Echo required very little, if any maintenance at... is this the same for the Ti models? The only reason I've considered the Ti is that you tend to get what you pay for with bike parts. Thanks again.

Hello Everyone, Last time I was back home from Uni for a few days I took the bike out for a little bit of a check up but also just because it had been a while since I had last used it. A friend of mine had recently bought a new DSLR (some Canon I think) so we took that out too to see what we could capture, here's the results with some added photos from another time he took it out on a ride. http://s1164.photobucket.com/albums/q576/JamesHarrisMedia/Action%20sports/ Thats the link to his photobucket... theres some really good stuff on there, let me know what you think. Many thanks, James

Good Morning forum, Its been quite a while since I was last active on the forum... but anyway, onto the topic in hand. I've been running an Echo SL freewheel (one of the silver ones) for quite some time now and its served me awfully well, but its slowly coming towards its ends and I don't fancy it giving up on me when out on a ride. Obviously I'll be looking for a new freewheel up front and with how pleased I was with the Echo SL I want to stick with them, question is... are the Echo Ti freewheels worth it and has anyone had any problems with them at all? Many thanks, James

Really tidy edit fellas!! Cant wait to get myself a car so I can embark of trips like this!

Once you've got a new frame I suggest you invest in a tripod if your going to continue making edits

The frame looks perfect for anyone that needs to be constantly reminded of the build and geo. Exclude the quite frankly poor graphics and it looks like a pretty snazzy frame.

He's a slightly different version of the original video for all those who use youtube, the song had to be changed for youtube due to their copyright. I'll leave you all to decide yourselves on which song goes with it better. Thanks for the feedback so far, I hope theres some more to come haha.

Cheers Rich, after riding tonnes over easter I'm even more eager to keep it up, will definitely be up for a few rides in Plymouth!!

6ft4 actually haha. Thanks for the feed back aener. Oh and thanks James for another tidy edit!!

Tidy edit James, love it. Would be funny if you ended up using this as a piece of work for media. Cant wait for the next one to be done!! Thought I'd post the main link just to make things easier, rather than the 3 different ones in the opening post haha.

Alright George, as far as I'm aware that adapter should work a treat unless theres something I'm missing. You finally brining yourself to buy a Tech? That one looks insane!

Skills to pay the bills! Love how original Sean is, showing everything you can do on a bike, not just the 'same old/normal' stuff. Big up's to Watson!

Loved the chilled and calm vibe from that, the music worked really well with the filming and riding. Good job mate!!

That is a brilliant point Ali!! We never thought about that one ollie haha, but to be honest ollie, I recon slapping in some spacers either side of the drop outs would have worked perfectly, just this way your wheel if pretty much part of the frame, those 'parts' will make it a tad annoying when you have to take the wheel of I imagine.

That would have been massively high with 50mm of stackers, higher than my current set up, I think if I had that stem then I'd get away with less stackers.

Cheers mate, I can probably do without the pictures but thanks for the offer, I found riding my mates stock which had a low front end it felt really nice on the rear but not so good with both wheels on the ground rolling about. The only way I'm going to solve this problem is to mess around with the stackers I think and just see how it goes, what trial tech stem did you have? the one with the highest rise? Cheers everyone for the help and advice.

Brilliant vid! Look like a smashing trip, keep it up lads! Makes me really want to break the bank and build myself up a 24", just love the style of riding and looks like such a laugh!

Well my bike isn't all together at the moment best thing I can suggest is to measure out 55mm on a ruler and look at that, same thing in the end haha, think I will have a play about with the stackers on at a time. Thing is I do love the feel with the bars high, I just don't like all the stackers haha, and I wasn't sure if there was a reason for loads of riders having a low front end.

Well Tunnicliffe looks like a tall chap and he rides one of the new Echo frames. Just have a look for the ones with a long wheelbase, I'm 6ft3 and ride a mod haha.

Thanks for all the comments so far. I think the only way I'll be able to test this is by removing a spacer at a time, I also switched (by chance) to a high front end when I bought my Lynx frame and loved the feel of it but I've never tried the heights in-between. I didn't know wether having a high front end would effect the height that I could progress to (with side hops for example). Im very into street moves which I understand that having a high front end is better for but that doesn't mean I don't like doing all the 'TGS' stuff, just want to find a set up thats sort of best for both..... Thanks again, keep the replies coming haha.

That was top draw Neil!! Love those gaps to front, they are just, well.... Insane!!

Gu'Day Everyone. Today while looking across my room at my bike I thought to myself whether a change in bar height would help progress my level of riding (lower or higher). As it stands I've got a Zoo! Lynx long frame with Echo Urban forks, on this I have a Try-All 3D stem (150mm x 30°) with V!Z Pro720 bars (88mm rise), oh, and beneath my stem I have 55mm of stackers so as you can imagine its a high front end (very high) on a mod but the other thing is that I'm 6ft3. So, I would play around with the stackers but the stem has a sloping top cap which makes it less easy. Would lowering my bars at all, say to 30mm of stackers, help at all with progression? Whats the pro's and con's of having a high front end/low front end. Thanks, James.