stirlingpowers
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Oh noes. I soo hoped for the brake lever to be the first proper trials lever besides the Echo, since Magura, Racing Line and Tensile chose
to go with the obvious design flaw of a rear protruded handlebar clamp, resulting in constantly injured legs and knees for some of us.
The latest prototype does have a knee-friendly handlebar clamp! So if it is not leaking or breaking too soon, we finally have a decent lever.
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My theory is still that learning how to properly manual will help your pedal-up (-to-front, especially)
and even your sidehop by improving your ability to feel and correct wrong front wheel
heights.
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Riding a similar configuration here. Radix, 2011 Magura including clamps.
Had Heatsink Blue with Kabra/Bonz rims. They were really good in the dry.
Tried to switch to TNN ADM for the last winter for wet rides:
Just threw them on, and my brake performance was gone, no honk, no bite, no hold on the rear,
some hold on the front. Switched back to Heatsink Blue, front was ok again, rear shit.
Tried adjusting, tried grinding, different grinding discs, new rim, let others grind, nothing. Not
with the original Heatsink Blues, not with the new ADMs.
Bought a Because rim for the rear, which has parallel sidewalls.
Also TNN clamps. Grinded with a very thin, new disk, barely touched the rim
to give it the smoothest of grinds. Now the brake works with Heatsink
Blue again, loudest ever, good bite, fair hold, even in the wet (!), for almost
three weeks or 25 hours now (without sand or mud).
I still have the TNN ADMs, and I will try them on the new rim with the
TNN clamps, report back here.
I came to the conclusion that I am just too stupid to properly
align pads and rim with angled sidewalls and Magura clamps.
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Can't watch. Censored in Germany, as usually.
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Oh noes. I soo hoped for the brake lever to be the first proper trials lever besides the Echo, since Magura, Racing Line and Tensile chose
to go with the obvious design flaw of a rear protruded handlebar clamp, resulting in constantly injured legs and knees for some of us.
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Here's tribalzine's version, for those of you not too much into facef.uck:
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Try steering with knees out and in (therefore bent legs) and/or steering with the handlebars and pulling/pushing on the bar ends with your arms
to tilt the bike towards the direction you want to go, i.e. the side you are currently falling towards.
Wheelieing took me a good many months to learn, perhaps even two years, I don't remember. But it was the Nineties,
nowadays people learn to sidehop over a meter in the first year.
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Crewkerz had a prototype this spring, around 200 grams, platforms, looked quite reliable.
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Sick edits.
Seriously: These are the best trials videos since at least 2005.
Edit, I am in a more positive mood right now:
We need more stuff like that. TGS like its 1995.
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Totally sick comments here.
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Sick.
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And filming. The man should do a trials video. Preferrably with DW starring.
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Then I'm out. I'll tour Magura instead.
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Okay I rephrase that
I have not got a clue, why anyone would use hydro rim brake, apart from trials riders, whereas a V can provide enough power for normal road use, or if you need more, there is the disc brake, that can provide greater power, good braking surface, no damage or use of the rim, so I guessed, it might be a little bit more power than on a V... or just for a pub story that "yeah, I have a hydro on a roadie"
Exactly. If you brake a lot down from higher speeds in the wet or mud, discs. If not, V-brakes. I had Deore Vs with XT levers and cables on my commuter,
which lasted from 06 to 13 without touching it, and then only needed a pair of new pads. I can't see getting that from a hydraulic brake.
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Please check these apps
If they allow people to take their phones with them, they should really rethink their security policy.
Cavity search is the minimum today.
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maybe buy some of the 2014 HS33's.Wait a few months, if you don't need them.
The Clean brake should be out soon, according to Abel Mustieles.
Then there is the rumoured Hope prototype, and the Racing Line, of
which we will soon learn more about its ability to work with water
in the long run.
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Team frames are 100% custom, so weights are largely unknown.
Forks break at certain places, and he breaks them all the time,
so he probably knows the weak points resulting from his riding.
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Worldcup elite rider David Hoffmann put many holes into the legs of two Trialtech 26 forks.
After many months (which is a long time for his massive riding) they cracked nowhere near
the holes.
The only thing which worries me here are the holes on the lower end of the steering tube
and on the downtube reinforcement plate. But hey, if it holds, it will advance frame building.
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Kewin is not a nobody.
He gets in UCI finals or is on the bubble of them regularly.
He is currently #5 in UCI world ranking, with only Dunand, Carthy, Gilles and Hermance above.
This is not beginner level.
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Aglae is by far the most stealthy of the Super Final riders. I quite like that.
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I want to see a picture from the graduation ceremony.
Ever been to Business Land? The conformity is even more impressive.
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The is whatsapp the same as texting MASSDEBATE (lol wank)
in Chit Chat
Posted · Edited by stirlingpowers
Ok, we discussed the UI. Now on to the inner workings:
Usually, with free text services, you pay by allowing companies to build a personality profile based on
your contacts, vocabulary, locations, stimulus reactions etc. to sell to advertisers, banks or insurance companies.
Normally, in the privacy policies for personality analytics commerce, there is a lot of lengthy irrelevant text,
with the exception of a well-hidden totally generic phrase that allows to do anything with your digitalised
thoughts and reactions.
Whatsapp is paid by second-year onwards fee, so the company could operate without dodgy legal texts.
While there are statements like http://blog.whatsapp.com/245/Why-we-dont-sell-ads, they seemingly
still claim the right to sell any data to anyone for any purpose in their privacy policy:
"We do not sell or share your Personally Identifiable Information ... with other third-party
companies for their commercial or marketing use without your consent", while consent
is defined there through continued use of whatsapp.
While it is debatable and perhaps even illegal in some countries to define consent
through back-door tricks, it is established industry-wide practice to do so.
For the comparison to SMS services, just look into your national com legislation and
the privacy policy in your phone provider contract.
But since this is an increasingly important area of power and influence over people
nowadays, it is very tedious to compile information on this topic.