Culshaw95
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I've reached a point where i'm not really sure what to do with my trials bike. 4 years ago I build up a Onza Limey 3 which was a pretty good TGS bike which i felt most comfortable with which then i started working and
things went down hill from there.
I could finally afford decent parts and started changing my bike quite drastically. I ended up getting an Echo frame and changing my whole stem geo and pretty much everything which it did work but I then lost confidence in power moves and became a little more technical. After a while I started building a Breath Yes 20" which actually was quite a fun bike to ride and found myself doing more and later neglecting my 26". I then sold my 20" like an idiot and kept my 26" because Thats the bike I put the most time and money into.
Time went on again and i got a ZOO! to try and recreate the Limey and again then messed up my geometry thinking I had it all sussed out and then the crewkerz stem and clean carbon bars came about and thought i'd get on that hype and that has now really thrown me off thinking if its good enough from top riders maybe i'll get use to it. Basically what i'm saying is I'm thinking of selling my trials bike and starting fresh which i'm not sure it's a good idea or not and didn't know whether to look at a 26" street trials for maybe slight more variety in riding. Last time i rode street was back when i started trials which i had a Onza Zoot which didn't go too well but was a first introduction to trials.
Video to show riding on 26 and 20
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been ages since i last went on a group ride D:, great riding and looks lots of fun. Kinda swaying me towards a street bike now though...
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Good riding! but personally think it could do with some music or something. Raw footage is okay for a 5 minute video but as there's a lot here it kinda puts you off a little (No offence) either that or it could have worked better as parts rather than a full video. Other than that some pretty decent riding!
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Slight update on the bike. Recently gone back to front freewheel, Carbon bars and got on the Crewkerz stem hype which actually seems to be working out for me
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Single speed commuter, mountain bike and trials bike. Built out of spare bits and new but rides like a dream even with a heavy ratio it's still exceptionally fun riding trials on it
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7 minutes ago, Ali C said:
Arm pump was the single biggest problem I had in comps! I still get it now if I enter one or ride DH.
I found no difference in brake lever positioning but having them pull closer to the bar helped slightly as did thinner grips. Another thing that can help is an elastic band around the lever and bar to make it easier to pull.
There was one thing that got rid of my arm pump overnight though...a rear V-brake!
You can adjust the spring so it's even easier to pull than a magura with water plus a V-brake has better backwards holding power too which is the direction brakes nearly always slip, this means you don't need to actually pull the brake as hard which is obviously good for arm pump.I've just come off v brakes thinking hydraulics would be easier but i always seem to get issues when i go back to hydraulic so far i've not had any faults... I adjusted my levers so lowered them as they were quite high and moved the blades in but still no luck. I may order some grips and see how that goes but if not i still have my xt rim brakes as a back up
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Couldn't of had a better day off work
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2 hours ago, ogre said:
have a play with brake angles and distance too. i've found having the blades close to the bar helped with my arm pump. do you do anything to strengthen your arms? pullups and that could be quite helpful.
I go climbing every weekend so use my arms a lot :L i'll move my blades in a bit and see how that goes first then order some grips if its no good
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1 hour ago, vRS said:
How's it going bud, I started getting arm pump a couple months back and I was constantly changing my bar angles to try different riding techniques and I thought that might have been the problem but I thought it was due to my grips in the end because they were either too big or too small to get a perfect grip on with out feeling like I was death gripping them haha. I ended up buying loads of different kinds, even ergonomic ones to try and help and eventually got a set that felt right and either my hands and arms have adjusted or the grips helped :/ so no real conclusion, but something maybe worth trying
hmm grips could make sense as I went from Trialtech foams to hope lock ons. I'll try the Trialtechs again and see what happens. Cheers
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I was just wondering if there are other riders who also suffer from arm pump or anyone who's found a solution to it. I started getting quite bad strains in my forearms a couple of years ago after cutting my arm open. Once i recovered from that i wasn't too bad be then after being asked to do a show my forearms started to lock up after a few sections. 2/3 years on i'm still getting it quite bad and im not sure if its due to being out of practice on the bike or set up. I've currently got a 150x30mm stem and Clean Carbon bars (I had trialtech highrise previously) but i am quite tall and feel relatively comfortable with my current set up and this is probably the most stable i've felt on my bike but just need to know if theres a solution
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cant seem to embed it https://www.instagram.com/p/BRswXfLjolY/
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Very nice! I use to have a similar brake set up on my echo, definitely one of the best feeling V brake levers.
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8 hours ago, Dave Anscombe said:
Nice clips man ,whats the new frame ,a zoo of some kind ?
like the v set up too
Cheers!. Yeah it's a Zoo! I thought I'd give a lower bb ago again which so far I'm preferring it. Just gotta get riding more this year as I've not used any holiday at work yet D:...
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Few clips from last year. Nothing entirely special as I didn't do too much riding due to working a whole lot but hopefully planning to get riding more this year since recently buying a new frame
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Nothing entirely special just a to front i was quite please with. Just regaining my strength back after being ill and first actual ride on my new frame
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Video didn't embed properly. Nice riding especially if you havent been riding in over 4 years
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On 11/18/2016 at 2:15 PM, Wu Yuze said:
Hi,how do you think a low bb with high riser? I think it's to long...
Personally i prefer it due to me being very tall. I use to run a similar set up a few years ago which back then i think my riding was at its best but then I changed to a higher bb and it was nice but i just didn't really get on with it.
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On 11/10/2016 at 11:10 AM, Ross McArthur said:
Oft that things a weapon.
Watch you don't get to close, or you'll cut yourself!
Haha cheers :L, quite odd to get use to at the moment because i'm so use to having a much higher bottom bracket but by what I can do it rides like a beaut
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Recently decided on a change from the echo so i thought id give the zoo! ago as i kind of prefer the lower bb. Really happy with this but i have hardly any tyre clearance... guess its time to cut some nobbles.
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Wait a minute I know where that is. Never thought anyone rides Weymouth other than me o_O nice riding though haven't ridden that bit in a while
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1 hour ago, Bottleneck said:
What kind of bad encounters were they? As long as you have good pads, a decent grind and nothing is leaking, hydraulic rim breaks are rather reliable imo
I am currently running three sets of rather old Maggie HS11 levers and the matching slaves, and though this isn't the newest or lightest setup, I don't even want to think of anything else for their place you can get for the same price
Magura: 2005 HS33. Cracked on back pannels. HS11 2011. Piston in lever kept seizing. HS33 2014. Brake lever snapped whilst doing a side hop
Racingline: When they first released. Leaked. Newer Complete brake. Fluid gushed out the lever after a few to fronts.
I thing the only hydraulic brake that has been rather successful was my tensile tocco which i still have i'm just skeptical with what to try as a rear brake I've never had to do anything with my V brakes but they just seemed to work but they do become effort to use especially when doing some long lines as my fingers/forearm starts to strain
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I'm thinking about possibly going back to hydraulic and just wondering if anyone has used the new Magura HS22s? I have had some bad encounters in the past with hydraulic brakes so i'm still a bit hesitant about going back. What brakes are leading the way now? i've been running cable for a while now
Being indecisive. 20, 26 or Street
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I think my issue is I get bored very easily and make too many bike projects which currently i've built up 3 other bikes in the past 2 years a Ti Cyclocross, full sus and old school mtb.... Safe to say I enjoy building things from scratch but of course never the cheapest thing to do. I think what i may do is just sell my bike and start from scratch with either an Echo 20" or 26" and set aside the street thought as i'm not 100% sure if i'd get on with it