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I'm meeting Jon (no bottle) at 11.30 at Civic on Saturday.. Lookin' forward to seeing some old (and new) faces again.. I wasn't as rusty as I thought I'd be after 3 years with no bike.. Just need to work on my balance mainly! Anyone bringing a camera? (incase there's a faceplant version 2) Also.. If anyone is about on Wednesday, I've got day off work so can have a lil ride before I go out for new years eve..

Me and Jon will definately be riding Southend on the 2nd!

I would go Ipswitch but I wanna wait until I've got a bit better again Yeah that sounds good.. Let me know!

I wanna go Basildon on Sunday for my first ride in 3 years.. Anyone care to join me?

Southend next Saturday sounds good to me.. But what about Basildon this Sunday (28th) I'm gonna make a new topic about it..

Street! The only natural I used to ride was the essex biketrials competitions back in the day lol. (do they still do them?) So what's the date.. Basildon on Sunday? or tomorrow (will be busy though!)

Yeah I'm up for the 2nd! Wanna get in as much riding as possible! Anyone up for a ride before that though? This Sat or Sun ???

Oh dear.. I just had a lil play on some walls near my house for about 20mins on my own to see how the bike is and how rusty I am.. I AM RUSTY!! My balance / technique / power has all gone.. and now I'm home, i feel like I'm about to die! I didn't realise how unfit I've got! I hope after a lil while of riding I can start to get fit and good again! ..Was fun though!

Well I have my bike now! Well happy with it! I'm up for Basildon this weekend if you lot are?

Hey Santa's bringing me my bike tomorrow.. I havent rode for about 3 years, so I'll be slightly rusty (and I will fall off every 5 mins- That'll be nice) But is anyone up for a lil ride in Basildon / Southend sort of area some time in the next few days? Let me know, I wanna ride as much as possible so I can get good again Mart

My face missed the rail by literally an inch.. Jon (no bottle) took that pic, quality!

Me in Basildon a few years ago (I managed to stick my hands out that time though!)

Cheers! I actually can't wait to ride again! Countin' down the days til xmas like a lil kid haha! We'll have to arrange a meet for new year!

To celebrate me riding again (well I will be when I get my bike for xmas) I have uploaded 2 old videos of me riding lol. Trials-Forum Video -> Full View • Download • Upload Trials-Forum Video -> Full View • Download • Upload

I used to use HDMI on my 360.. I had a £10 cable which done the job.. Then a few months later I got a £35 cable and the difference was noticable straight away.. It's worth spending a lil bit more for better quality graphics / picture. I know use component again though, because my surround sound uses the optical connection..

Yeah Jus need some middleburns for it and it'll be puuuurfect

Thanks, i'm well happy with it! I'm looking forward to riding again and getting back into the trials scene!

Zero Punctuation If you like gaming (360, PS3, PC) then it's definately worth having a look at these video reviews. Actually funny! If you don't like gaming, then it's probably worth having a look anyways! I check it every Wednesday when he adds a new one!

PS3 is a good blu-ray player.. that's about it. considering 99% of multi-platform games are developed on 360 and then ported to PS3, a lot of the games that are out on both have nicer graphics and better performance (frame rate, anti-aliasing, lighting effects etc) Most PS3 exlusives are out on 360 now (Tekken, Final Fantasy, GTA etc... Even developer of MGS4 has said they are looking into ways to bring that to xbox). Then theres games that will prob never go to PS3 like GOW, Halo, Fable etc Xbox live is a much better online service than PSN.. So people dont mind paying £28 for a year for it! Plus things like PS3 having to do a 10min install before they can play most big games is a joke.. Thats due to the slow read speed of Blu Ray. There's an update to the 360 dashboard coming on 19th November, re-designing to whole look of it and adding loadsa new features (avatars, saving games to your harddrive to make it quiet to play, group chat / partys etc) I'm not as much of a fanboy as i sound lol, it's all facts though.. http://www.eurogamer.net/ do a face off every month comparing the same game on both consoles, swearch for 'face off' on the site and have a read.. it's interesting stuff!

Here is my bike that will get me back into the world of trials (after having no bike for about 3 years!) It's a xmas present from my dad though.. So not allowed to ride it until 25th December.. Gutting! Nice old school street bike, like the mark1 Zebdi I used to ride Nearer the time, we need to organise a ride... So I can be taught how to skid and endo again.. I'm gonna be SO rusty

Yeah.. Gutted! Will be worth the wait though !

Yeah thats honestly the main thing i missed about trials ever since i stopped riding! just how everyone becomes good mates, even if we got nuffin in commin apart from trials, every trials rider jus respected every other rider, no matter how good they was! theres no other sport with a proper community like it! i picked the bike up today off Leon and dad put it in his loft until christmas lol... i cant wait!! i took some more pics though

Do people still ride Southend / Basildon? Any new hot spots? I got some serious catching up to do.. 3 years out the game!

Yeah think I need a full face helmet this time..

Cool, I live in Wickford! I used to ride a mk1 Zebdi and kept it right up til I gave up.. This was the time when everyone was getting Koxx's and BT's! I like the old school 'street' feel