the mysterious leemur
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*Old lady runs out of house screaming *
"Your not welcome here ! Your making too much noise and disturbing people !"
I was on a mod bike , with disk brakes and her house was like 100 meters away
She then proceeded to call the police , I later found out that she calls them all the time for unimportant reason and is just generally bitchy to everybody .
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Parkway drive's deep blue album helps me get into the mood.
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Parkway drive's deep blue album helps me get into the mood.
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I recently switched direction , I find to make sure you land of both wheels , preloading before the kick helps me to do it just because it gets you higher up and thus removing the need to pull up the rear of the bike .
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Well this is odd but as some of you said I now sidehop both ways to the same hight ( just above 5 pallets (blue)). I got a 24" and after two weeks worth of riding it not only can I sidehope the "normal "way but to the same hight as I could before . So here's proof changing to stock or 24 increases your skill very quickly
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Well I have them on my 24" and I agree about the low tyre pressure , it just makes it feel flat and gives hardly any bounce
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Well I know it's not exactly the same but recently I got an Echo 2011 24" and even after just a couple of days on that I had noticed my riding was better and going back on my mod I could side about 2 inches higher than before so I use it as a street bike and learn moves on it so when riding the 20" for natural I preform better . I assume it carries over to switching to stock .
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Double disk on 20" Magura rear and disk front on 24" and dual mags for 26"
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Anybody tried kenda kinetics ? Got some coming and wondring what opinions of them are ?
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New story
Was attempting to hook up a wall and got most of the way up , I put to much weight forward though so I was doing an endo on the edge of a 130ish cm wall , the break slips meaning I faceplant and as I had nothing to clean up the masses of blood covering my face I kept hearing stuff like
" See he's a real man , loves his girlfriend every day of the month"
I was not happy ...
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So let's hear about injuries of the funny variety , mine was ...
Riding on my 20" a couple years ago ( as a noob) using it for dirt jumping . I got into the air , feet slip off the pedals I fall onto the frame so if you can imagine me sitting on the rear of the frame with my ass on the tyre . The bike land giving me one hell of a bruise on my " man area " and tearing and burning a large portion of my ass . :$ I haven't tried it since ...
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I have done about 1.5 miles on a mod, was bloody knackering, had to rest for half hour after befor I could ride,
Mile and a half ? I do 2 everyday on mine ? You might need a new chain .
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You've obviously never seen the 24" frames designed for pure trials.
I own one ....
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Pour water on dis & pads then cycle around with the brake on slighly then do a gap every so often , I bedded in my hopes doing that in 5 minutes . Side note how to you face forks ?
Also never get the roter hot then put water on it that will glaze the pads and completley ruin them .
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It all depends on you style and what you prefer as said earlier there are 6:5ft + poeple who find mods comfy and pretty short guys who ride 26 .
20" and 26" are pretty decent all round bikes for street , natural and comp style riding whereass 24" in more for street style moves incorporating bmx and trials tricks .
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I would say grind is much better , it stays working in the wet , gives great performance ( TNN LGM for the win) .
Side note on tar , although it helps performance it can make your brake stick on which isn't fun , I have dislocated my shoulder because of it .
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In my opinion as your first bike I'd get a cheaper one as in a month or two you may decide you don't want to do trials , I have seen it many times with people buying £600+ bikes then quitting after a few weeks and wasting quite a lot of money.
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sounds like you answered your own question in that case
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sounds like you answered your own question in that case
Was just saying why I found it easier , I wanted to know if their is any solid noticable performance increase .
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Not a problem! I can guarantee if he learn to go to his right hand side he could go higher!
Don't forget Macaskill
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Just to add in more info , I can sidehop to both directions but the "right " way I can to quite a lot less and find it much harder as much emphasis is on the rear of the bike whereas the "wrong" way there is more on the front which I find gives you more control on the landing especially on natural terrain . I also ride quite a bit of street . Might not make a difference but I ride a pretty long 20" bike wheelbase is about 1035mm.
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Cheers just got back into trials again after a 4 month break and can barely manage 5 chub anymore :$
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Had the same problem problem on my k124 was a total pain . Seems to a problem with try all snail cams
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Well ever since learning to sidehop a when I was a total noob I have always been told that I sidehop the "wrong way " . I am left footed and gap to the right like most people but I sidehop with my left foot towards the obstacle . Is there actually any problem with doing this as I find the "normal" way uncomfortable and tend to get my right pedal caught . thanks
Why Are There So Few Trials Clubs
in Trials Chat
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Well a while ago I created a group on facebook for guys to organise rides and sell stuff ect . But sinse nobody ever seems to want to properly organise anything all we do is bitch about each other . We got a petition for a local trials park to be made that got something like 150+ signatures but nobody did anything with it which is annoying :/