TriаlsRider

I've rode my FR bike today on kenda negeval 2.35 and this tyres are complete bullshit. Even on snow you're like on ice. You can't even just ride normally with that tyres, absolutely no grip. Bike feels like your tyres smeared with oil. So maybe someone knows some good nonspiked tyres with good grip at winter that also will be good at summer (not only for FR, but for trialsy riding too). As far as I know they must have soft compound.

So the first things I changed was stem and bars. Will ride tomorrow and tell how it feels. What I wanted is to get a bike that can stand some jumps/trials and that is comfy for ride to longer distances and on which I can sit normally. It seems that I have an addiction to street-trials stems and bars, hate anything except of wide high rise bars and stems like 70-90mm/25-35deg, don't know why but.. they feels so niiiice.

So I bought today some freeride?dirt?4x? bike GT Ruckus SX 2009 with custom fork and pedals. Here's the specs: -Frame GT Riskus SX, S size -Fork Marzocchi 55rc3 2009 160mm (brand new) -Tyres: Kenda Nevegal, 26x2.35 (shitty ones lol, absolutely no grip at -6 on snow) -Rims: Alex FR32 -Brakes: Avid Juicy 3 S, 160mm (pretty awesome bite, don't know about the hold, but it seems that hold are great too even with 160 rotors) -9 speeds cassete SRAM PG-950 Power Glide II, 11-28T/SRAM X.5 Medium Cage/SRAM X5 Overall condition like new. Costs me 425 GBP for whole bike(dunno maybe it's a bit expensive for this bike?). GEO is: Frame: 1090 WB 410 chainstay ~668 Reach 0mm BB rise with this fork: Fork: 160mm (530mm/30mm rake) Pretty close to street-trials. With standard stem and shitty bars It really hard to bunnnyhop, so the first things I changed...

Nice frame in terms of geo and chain tensioning. Not sure about 120mm stem, I'd recommend 100x30 or 90x35 if you want to ride street-trials, not trials on street frame.

Okay. Let's call it local apocalypse.

Stupid bitches. How stupid you should be to steal TRIALS bike. Special are pretty unique bike, they even won't be able to sell it to a random person. What was they thinking? If someone tries or steal my bike I'll break his legs.

Czar steel cranks? Oo

I'm never "talking rubbish" WТF? I saw bended (almost teared) trialzone rotors on some forum(as far as I remember on here or on OTN) that was bent just by normal braking not an impact or something. Anyway this rotors is too tender to survive landing on them.

Rotors so weak they are tear just by regular braking. Now this. Looks like defect, but there are no warranty on pads, isn't it?

This is normal on zoot with long stem. If you want more comfort on 2 wheels you need to get shorter stem (90x35 or 70x35 or 70x25) and frame with lower BB riseplus turning your bars back a bit may help, but then you will feel less comfy on rear wheel. So you must to find the balance between that.

you have to watch dh vids from our time these guys rides for 3+ years, so much skill!

Tech is just made things a little bit easier. But if you have no skill even 1kg ultra-super-duper-megatech bike won't help your lazy arse.

Besides fatigue there are natural fluctuation of your abilities due to many factors. One day I can BH up to 1m without any warm-up, but another day I can't do 1m clean even in the middle of the ride. And there are not only physical fatigue, but also mental fatigue (tired of some tricks or just don't want to ride this day) + mood has a huge impact on all this.

>Basically can I take it off with a grinder ? No, you can't. You must take a challenge and get strong enough to take it off with your own hands.

Hi there! I have some questions about Tartys, because it seems that this shop is tеh best in UK. 1) Prices. If I choose Russia - prices are shown without VAT, so I don't need to pay VAT anyway? 2) Shipping costs. How much is average shipping cost to Russia for ~2-4kg and whole bike. 3) What shipping is better to choose in terms of delivery time and safety (not to loose parcel and money). And how much is average delivery time? 4) I heard about some problems with ordering expensive parcels and bikes, is it true? 5) What about customs? Any problems? There are limit in 1000 EUR, what to do with it?

And I'll think about geo and stuff. Colnago is my next street-trials bike, lol. Vid of tеh year.

Really good idea will be to at least consider reach(frame and stem?) + riders height (and maybe arms length). On my fourplay I have now 106cm from floor(crazy trialtech stem 90x35+TT High Rise turned back and 45mm of stackers) and 106cm-338mm=72.2 cm. Feels pretty awesome. Don't need anything higher(I'm 6'). By the way pedals are play role in this too - Platform depth (Thinnest point) vary and may give/take some extra 2-3mm if you are riding on pedals of course, not on BB axle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB0uyVCO0SM Funny fail of noobish DH rider.

Nope.

So this is a stupid fail(wtf? he pulled rear brake?) or everyone should ride in helmet all the time.

You're right about "o call people stupid weak pathetic jerks is pretty much an insult mate". It's just because I saw so many smoking people that constantly justify themselves about and coming up some stupid reasons why they smoke. Also few of my friends was smokers. I saw how they justify themselves + how they can't quit smoking and starting again and again after a week of break. This is why I'm angry about it. Some of them already have health problems in 22-23. So this is pretty sad.

This is a trials forum(not a hippie/addicts forum or something), trials is a physical activity, if you want to increase your skill and realize your potential to the maximum you must be in good physical condition. Smoking not leads to this. I don't want to "insult people for thinking differently to me". There are just no rational arguments for smoking at all, but tons of reasons not to smoke. Obvious ones: like lung cancer and decreasing of your abilities and lifetime(plus stink mouth for example, it's so nice to communicate with someone who stinks when he talk).

Smoking is for NOT A GOOD PERSONS. It's one of the most idiotic things to do in the world. You pay money for decreasing your physical abilities and slowly killing yourself. I don't know what you can discuss about it, everything about smoking is obviously even for kids. So you don't need vaping or completely quitting, if you have at least a little bit of intellect - you just will not start.