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thanks andré,the short seattube thing is basically to have the possibility to cut down the seattube overlap if it turns out so trialsy that a seat is nonsense. pretty aware of that,its quite over the line between street and trials,towards trials. edit:i know a seat is nonsense on even a streeet trials bike,but it makes the look complete,you know what i mean though

some people can cook delicious meals with stuff from the discounter. others make their own stuff. at the end of the day it depends on the cooks skills.

and russians

looks nice so far,are you going brakeless?

dont forget to jodel when picking up the phone lol

marinos are forged,not cast. edit:thinking that over ,everything could be cast,then forged haha

tensioner is pretty much a sheet cut out of a saw blade with a teflon glider and held onto the frame with v-brake spacers for alignment,then. its needed for me as with the planned gear ratio i have to go a bit forwards with the same chain lenght as before,letting room to change back to 22:16 if 22:17 isnt my bag. havent ridden a marino fork other than an old mild steel one that was pretty heavy but solid though,i´ll see what its like

so,guys n girls,i´m bored of waiting for it so i thought i´d show the building progress and see what people think about it. full bike pics will be added on the day it arrives,to say the least i´m an impatient personality and having a full bicycle workshop at work will get me to build it instantly when its here haha. geo is 1025/355-370/+50/73°,and marino and me tried to put as much custom into it as possible so the tubing is very thin,a tensioner mount for my selfmade tensioner concept is attached under the right cs,and the letters on the frame are my design,too. comments are welcome greets peter edit:may i add the fact "cuy" is the spanish word for guinea pig,i found it funny those animals climb rocks more than twice their own body lenght in height,pretty much a goal for a human trials rider to achieve lol. in peru cuy is the national food,yikes,nother funny fact edit:today the stuff arrived(well,here in germany you got to go to customs to get it),stoked like hell,tomorrow my boss will see me in the workshop despite i´m off this week!got to build this! sorry for the fuzzy carpet,its packaging material(i was in de-packing rage lol),and i was to lazy to get the vacuum cleaner out before taking the pic... edit 2:So,the bikes built up,let me know what you think. had a quick roll around on it,all i can tell so far is that it sits on the rearwheel for the time of a cigarette,and its bunnyhoppable and spinny. every measurement is how its meant to be,it ended up 1030/+52/358/ with a 22:17 gear ratio. only thing i have to manage now is my tensioner(one hole has to be made offset to get to my chainline,didnt think it would be that far out) and the usual adjustments during riding. pretty happy now! weight 11,56kg

most of us ride alu frames,do you know its energy consumption in production is 4 times higher than steel? just wanted to throw that in

http://alex.phred.org/stemchart/Default.aspx something to play with

looks funny,but what exactly is this mounting position good for ??

i´d want to see a movie like premium rush with street trials actors i think it was "revenge of the warrior",with tony jaa, where street riders (bmx) appeared in a fighting scene,was kinda cool!

http://ride.ru/media/uploads/212/mvi9059.mp4.ogv

that looks oldskool,cool bike but that hub needs replacement,seriously

looked like great fun. sad i cant get something like that started here,i´m the only trials rider in a radius of 20km,and i only ride bicycle,dont like cars

in psychology this is called procrastination or dissonance reduction. its the synapses in our brains that need neurotransmitters to keep us going on with our lifes. if we didnt had that firewall we´d go nuts on the littlest things or get depressive forever. so the brain is searching for a balance of its metabolism to keep itself healthy. we push negative things away,out of sight-out of mind,and thats a big problem. if there only was the same awards we get from the rest of life as i get from riding...

you can order the same pads form discobrakes,4 pairs for like 20 euro.

+1

i think it doesnt matter on what kind of bike the brake sits, as long its no commuter .just one with maggies,one with disc. to have some kind of comparison. i made the experience disc has brutal braking forces,depending on rotor size though,while still having precise modulation. maggies are reliable and on/off.

i´d say no, jd´d say yes. you have to figure out what you want personally,i think. couldnt you ride a pals bike who has one or the other,or both? its the best one can do,ride both setups,then choose

if moneys your decision point you´ve already chosen one :wink2:

el angle grinder with el metal cutting disc,disc against the rim in an angle(depending on roughness you want),go round the rim in one direction. wait... http://s226121068.websitehome.co.uk/movies/tarty/Grinding.flv

dito^^

brakes are a thing so much depending on preferrence,its unreal! i couldnt ride with a rear disc anymore,bcause the maintanance was a pain in the... (and i say that altough i´m a bike mechanic) compared to maguras,theyre so easy to live with. the other thing was me killing 3 brakes in 4 weeks while only learning backwheelhopping, the IS adaptor snapped and to take that oportunity the slave got rid of one of its mounting eyes. same sh... 3 times. switched to maggie,not a single problem since that,except to learn how to grind rims.but thats relatively easy

the frame thats on its way to me is +50 BB,1025 WB, funny it´s 665 reach,but a "streety"bike. i´m trying to say that to keep the same reach you´d have to change other geo data,too,wich i´m certain you´d not want seeing the type of bike it is. sometimes little things are the answer,i´d say bring the bars in line with the forks and try that,made a massive difference both in look(ugly haha) and,much more important,in bunnyhop/manual and up-to-rear ability...it just no longer had that "levering"feel