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  7. New Member? Introduce Yourself Here!

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    Posted · Edited by mjewl

    hi, Tomas from Gällivare, way up north in Sweden.

    works as a welder/mechanic on huge ass machines, built to crush, dig or haul ore in one of the mines around here.

    did some "trialsy" riding when i was about 15-16 on a ddg shooter, smashed my kneecap trying to gap in strong wind so i've been off for about 10-11 years, until last year when i drunkenly bought a downhill bike...

    found out downhill bikes aren't much fun without lift's so i bought another bike, and another, and so on...

    Current bikes consist of a Inspired Skye, Fourplay, Specialized demo 8 and a demo 7, Scott FR30 and a Black market riot

    got a really wonderful fiance who puts up with all my hobbies.. computers/electronics/knifes/guitars/photograhy/snowboarding/downhill etc

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/wr0m/ - flickr photostream with practically everything i upload, should give a hint of what i like and do :>

    cuz i'm a greasemonkey yes i am!

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    P&H4100 at work

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  9. Where can I buy a 4mm carbon stacker ? 1 1/8"

    in Trials Chat

    Posted · Edited by mjewl

    I'm with you there. I'm pretty sure the tolerances for headset/fork/stem set ups don't have to be too tight!

    Another alternative is you could shave off 1mm off the top of your headtube,

    or 1mm off the bottom of your stem.

    or 0.5mm of the top and bottom of your headtube,

    or 0.25 off the bottom headset cup, 0.25 off the bottom of the steerer, 0.25mm off the top of your headset cup and 0.25 off the top of your headtube!

    Saying that though you'd effect your riding position by 1mm and that could be a total nightmare!!!!!!

    heh, i litterally don't see how 1mm could be crucial for it to work.

    as i recon they're only there for one thing, tightening the headset so the bearings works as intended, shouldn't even use much torque when setting it up.

    your steerer and headset spacers aren't supposed to be level, the spacers/stem should always be a little higher than the steerer to make sure they put torque on the bearings, and not just locks to the steerer tube?

    http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Tech-Tuesday-Steerer-tube-length-2012.html

    would be if the star nut was in too deep/threaded steerer just too short, but then i wouldn't trust just 1mm anyway

  15. Trialtech Freewheel 16T trustworthy?

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    Posted · Edited by mjewl

    "This freewheel must be bedded in before trials use, to ensure any grease used when assembling the freewheel works away from the mechanism. If the freewheel is subjected to trials use without having been bedded in, the pawls will not engage correctly and this causes the freewheel to skip, damaging the pawls and ratchet. If you wish to speed up this process, you can thin the grease down with light oil like GT85 or WD40, by spraying it between the centre and outer teeth of the freewheel and rotating it. Failure to bed the freewheel in correctly will void the warranty."

    i read that as "this product will most likely fail within a unreasonable short period of time, and it will be your fault."

  17. Brake adaptor for Skye + Trialzone?

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    my pink hair is gone though, and it's just one purple wall :)

    kids plaster do stay in place, and it's always kinda fun to smear some insecurity on "badass" guys commenting my use of colours, or just have people commenting/starting a conversation when partying ^^

    i kind of dress in "douchey" clothes and adding some parts of "feminine" colours just seem to make people not judge me by the first apperance :)

  20. Brake adaptor for Skye + Trialzone?

    in Trials Chat

    Posted · Edited by mjewl

    You need a hope post to is adaptor. To fit to that mad mad creation.

    Please tell me what do you intend riding on it too?

    strictly street/trials, so damn tired of hurting my wrists while doing drops so i thought i go for a little more plush front...

    EDIT: haha, jokes aside, i was just bored and had a boxxer lying around... 100% sure that it would work if i just put a 203mm disc up front (source, IS M4 on another boxxer i had)

    now that it's back to normal i almost regret i didn't fit the fork properly and took it for a spin though.

  25. my Skye and Fourplay pro (updated)

    in Bike Pictures

    Posted · Edited by mjewl

    the reason why I ask it because I had only 1 disc brake in my life. that I bathed in mineral oil thanks to a dead hs11. and one of the bolt is rounded so I cant change it.

    So I do not really know too much about disc brakes :D

    heh, reason i go for only disc brake is a weighing on pros and cons, have to get perfectly straight rims all the time vs straight rotors, the hs33 sounds really loud and awful.

    disc brakes are dead silent as long as you dont get water on the rotors...

    and since i'm already running hope brakes on our 2 downhill rigs i'm used to them and got bleed kit with the knowledge on how to use it :)

    i can see how hydraulic rim brakes fit onto competition trial bikes, but they aren't for us as we just like to ride around, balancing and hopping on stuff.

    take the riding as a better option to sitting in the sofa all night watching shit tv-shows :D

    my colour scheme isnt everybodies cup of tea,too:metallic red frame,white,black and neon yellow parts.

    but the sky is........

    ....so purple!

    i´m just kidding you man.

    no trolling intended.

    like the pic of the fourplay a lot,it matches nice with the glass ornaments

    make sure you marry your gf if she starts riding,most likely to be a one-off thing with women lol

    haha, just got to say that i love your way to see £50 IKEA glass doors as "ornaments" :D

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