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Granted I'm coming from USA so the budget tools are different, but the big brand are the same. I used Ryobi for years for everything and they worked, a few of their newer tools are really nice. Now I'm doing carpentry full time and switching to DeWalt for the things I use daily and the quality and power difference is pretty awesome. But if you already have Ryobi batteries they are pretty decent for 90% and the price is pretty good.

In the USA I think the peak was the late 90's and early 2000's. That's when you saw a lot more local comps and larger group rides. That's also the peak of USA based shops and websites. For me when I was starting in the early 2000s we had a local series that followed the local downhill series, and group rides of 15 or 20 people in my city. Fast forward another few years and I was only Rider within a couple hours. Things are starting to pick up again. I'm seeing more riders and for the first time in almost 20 years have someone local to me, a few younger guys and all of them ride Street. I believe that some of the social media work, vlogs and youtube things that have been highlighted on places like pinkbike over the last few years have really given a better view of trials to the mountain bike community. People like Sam pilgrim and other more well known mtb riders dabbling in trials makes it seem like a fun addition instead of a weird sideshow. for a little while things like road bike party and stuff were really fun, but maybe a bit tacky. Also, appears that most mountain bikers now have multiple expensive bikes, for all sorts of different situations, so adding a trials bike seems normal. All the local trials riders I have now still ride their trials bikes less than their mountain bikes.

How do they feel? I have a pair of pedals I bought on Amazon I used for awhile, similar construction to the new echo pedals, fairly light. But the axle area was a bit higher than the rest of the platform area so you didn't get all your weight on the pins and they my foot would shift too easily. I'll find em tomorrow.

Yeah, there's a disc fork on AliExpress that is marketed as for trials. For $70 usd. But like you said, not something I'm willing to get hurt for.

Anybody try the new jitsie rim brakes? I'm not sure how I feel about the design, seem fairly moto influenced. Anyone have any experience with them?

Do you know what city Echo's manufacturer is in? I have a lot of connections in China. Some cities seem to go on as if nothing is happening, and other people haven't left their apartments in over a year.

Here's a link to the blog post on their website about the build. of course they title it a "trails bike" but it's there. Honestly, while I don't think I'd want one to be my main bike. I think building one could be super fun. Although I'd be more likely to build an all mountain hardtail than a trials bike. https://bamboobicycleclub.org/blogs/club-news/custom-trails-bike-by-anders

Yeah. I initially got pictures of a tacked up frame in may, no response for a few months after. 26. Lol, it's a bit of a ridiculous design.

Good luck. I paid my deposit on Feb 3. Have yet to get a shipping number. Frame looks fun

Anyone have any decent solutions / bodges for this? I got some new plastic backed pads (cousts, but the backings are all the same). They're pretty loose on the piston, and don't retract with the piston, just kinda sit there. Makes well adjusted brakes feel like crap since they always rub a touch. Piston nipple isn't cracked or anything. What do you all do to improve this? I'm about to cut the pads off and jb weld them to some echo cnc backings, but that seems overkill.

Thanks for doing this.

It was pretty doable on old school bikes with a regular hanger and a cassette hub. I used to have a setup with a road derailleur on my old zebdi that was pretty easy to switch gears between for longer stretches. might be a lot more difficult on a fourplay and would lose a lot of the advantages of modern tensioning systems. adding a gear on the rear would mean switching out the hub and you'd have trouble having both gears align with the in built tensioner. adding a gear on the front would most likely make clearance issues on the chainstay. I think it's possible with a cassette hub, to add a 2nd lower gear in the rear, you'd have to readjust the tensioner every time to make it work. Would probably be a pain to make work well and take some time to switch between. IMO not worth it.

I don't think Ozonys used an integrated tensioner system until the V4. The V2 used snail cams. What the random hole / fitting in the chainstay is for is beyond me though.

Crewkerz / waw makes a tapered one. https://www.seriousconnection.com/fourche-waw-carbone-ultimate-26-disc-c2x30808481

Anyone have a good solution for a M6 booster for the echo / gu frames with M6 brake mounts? All in all I really like the M6 setup. While m5 has always worked on my other bikes, I do like the extra stiffness and durability. But, I'm wanting to put a booster on. Drilling out a booster and getting longer bolts is fairly straightforward. But anyone have a good solution for spacers? Last time I had a gu frame with this setup I just had a giant stack of spacers, which was kinda clumsy.

Dude, this bike looks so amazing! For anyone who has seen Robbie ride, this bike is perfect, he's got a really smooth old / mid school style, and is also pretty tall. Can't wait to see it in action!!

Yeah, the MTB industry is very different than road, which has big organized teams. It's important to understand the difference between being a sponsored rider and a part of an actual time like in road. While many MTB sponsors may use the phrase "team", they're really not as their riders are not employed but rather promote their product for a certain level of perks (with a few exceptions of course). So in the MTB industry, you couldn't even enforce a minimum wage, because there is no one responsible. Industry wide it means that MTB racing, even at a high level is much more accessible to privateers and such. You can't make it to the podium in road without a team. But a good rider with a good bike can do well in mtb riding, even if you have to foot the bill. This isn't just a financial situation, but is reflected by the crazy team strategies needed in road, in road even the best rider in the world can't make it to the podium without a team. Switching to high level salary, contracted teams like road would be good for a few high end riders, but I don't think the industry would really be able to financially support it.

Snail cams seem to work for people under like 185 lbs. Heavier people universally hate them. (Or at least I do) I've sold frames I loved the geo on just to get something without snail cams.

That's just awesome!

You can still get 36 hole alex DX32's. It's not quite as side as modern rims, but they're strong and work nice

Remember the plazmatic rim coatings? Ha, that article is an awesome read I always wanted to grind a rim and then have it re-annodized. Since the anodize is so hard it should make it last a lot longer, but I don't think it's thick enough to round to edges significantly. Any engineery thoughts?

Nothing special, but not getting kicked out of this campus was reason enough to celebrate. https://www.instagram.com/p/CNBbaflJkZs/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link edit: what's with embedding instagram videos. Didn't that use to work?

Awesome riding! I'm not really active on social media, so it's nice to see.

I tried it years ago, but on a +45 or something. It'd be interesting to try on a high bb modern bike, as the geo wouldn't be fighting the gearing nearly as much. It would take some retraining on anything with precise rotation timing, which was the thing I remember being the most difficult to get used to.

6 months and already dropping 4+ feet? That's pretty good man! It sounds like you just need to give it time. Just keep on riding and eventually the mental block will at least move to a higher level. Big drops are cool, but can legit mess you up if you get caught on the edge, as you continue to ride and develop extremely consistent drops you'll feel better about it.