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  3. brakeless Inspired Hex

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    4 hours ago, stirlingpowers said:

    It should be +20 on this frame, tell this Halfords guy to measure it and demand refunds if no match.

    Yeah I think it should be, it's actually about +5 lol, which is why I've been after some inspired forks  dammit 

  4. brakeless Inspired Hex

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    4 hours ago, stirlingpowers said:

    It should be +20 on this frame, tell this Halfords guy to measure it and demand refunds if no match.

    Yeah I think it should be, it's actually about +5 lol, which is why I've been after some inspired forks  dammit 

  5. brakeless Inspired Hex

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    Posted · Edited by Herbertlemon102

    pretty happy with it. tensionerless, of course. feels like a solid bike (other than the fork in wodges, but they're temporary until I can find inspired ones) im feeling improvement riding wise. :) 

    Also, can anyone confirm this: the BB looks (and feels) lower than it should. Is that because the forks have f**k-tons of rake?

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  8. Balance, backwheel hops and bunnhop tips?

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    practice makes perfect. adjusting the front end wont do much- especially if youre just learning. i think a really good thing to learn is falling off backwards- so leaning to far back on back hops and jumping off and the same with when youre rolling- leaning too far back and jumping off. itll give you confidence to throw your weight around more on the bike. just keep at it, it all takes time. :) 

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  9. Jack Carthy - Raw clips

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    far shorter, but much more of an interesting watch than "inside". clearly that video wasnt aimed at the trials community, but i much prefer to watch something like this. he has mad power. control and stamina. the whole package!

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  10. Jezebel

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    this was probably my favourite. subtle change in camera angles ive noticed, music went well, riding was top, i always said that i could never tell you were getting worse in your time off, but i can definitely tell for sure that you are somehow improving. the occasional switch foot goodness was tasty. gonna watch some more and then probably some more. 

     

     

  11. Can I make my super trialsy-mod a street machine?

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    45 minutes ago, jeff costello said:

    flipp's advice was to roll the bars back (towards yourself when on bike). many trials riders today roll their bars forwards (often called 'carthy bars'), but flipp, ali c and a few others like their bars more upright. (my guess is, people who do mostly rolling moves like their bars upright, pure trials rider who do more static stuff like them all the way forward)

    i agree that handlebar rotation changes the bike a lot. i can't sidehop at all with the bars forward.

    Echoing this, bar and stem make a mental difference. I had my bars rolled all the way back on my hex with a fairly long-ish stem, and couldn't sidehop at all really. Put my new shorter and higher stem on which made the bike loads shorter and I suddenly could, which made zero sense to me as usually shorter bikes make it more difficult :o playing around with the front end is always a good idea :) 

  12. Can I make my super trialsy-mod a street machine?

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    Posted · Edited by Herbertlemon102

     

    7 hours ago, omgnoseat said:

    I've been out of the sport for more than 4 years due to some problems with my health. I picked up a bmx last summer and it turned out to be a lot less straining on my body since the front wheel was so easy to pick up. In the end I really missed not throwing in some trials moves and sold it. 

    So I'm wondering if I can turn my super trialsy bike into a bit more of a street machine. 

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    I don't remember the complete spec list but here are the important bits;
    Frame : Echo lite 2013(?) ±1010mm wheelbase ±60mm bb rise
    Stem : VIZ 150mm 30° 
    Handlebars: VIZ no clue on geometry

    I'm super tight atm and really want to spend less than 100 bucks. But the chain and headset bearings are quite rusted so I'll need to replace them anyways.
    I was thinking of getting the Trialtech high rise bars to lift up the front end.
    Unfortunately the stem that comes with the trialtech bars is way too low

    I'll throw down what I learned from riding my alias, hope this helps!

    firstly- yes to trialtech bars. They make a big difference. 

    Flipp runs a 165 actually, and I ran a 180. Longer than most mod stems. Bars were never rolled back to inspired guys' angles either, rise of the bars perpendicular to the floor always.

    i owned the newer version of that frame with a 165mm stem, trialtech high risers and It rode really nice, I'll include a video of me bunny hopping and spinning it.  You have a lot of fork steerer too which will help massively. 

    Im 6 foot dead. 

    Ill include a link to Flipp riding what I believe is your frame too as it's still one of my fav videos :P (and the bars are low rise in that video) 

    is say it's very plausible as a general :) 

    EDIT: the 5 degree does make quite a big difference I've found. I rode my 26 with a 90x 25 that I thought was a 90x 30 and couldn't do anything on it like normal. I was dead confused 

     

  16. Setting trialtech tensioner's tension

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    4 minutes ago, niconj said:

    I did that when I broke the derailleur hanger on my 2012 4play. @isitafox said that he runs his without one as well. It worked fine for two rides but then the chain (KMC Z610 HX) started to stretch and hit the chainstays. Pretty annoying so I got a new hanger and put the Rohloff back on.

    put a bolt through the mech hanger hole, and a snail cam on the axle sorted :D 

  17. Setting trialtech tensioner's tension

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    Posted · Edited by Herbertlemon102

    Thanks all. I understand them now. Turns out id broken the spring at some point, which helped nothing. Which led me into the fact I've hit it at least 3 times on its first ride- I'm quite the basher.

    so to eliminate tensioner problems, I eliminated the tensioner. Much prefer it like this, looks cleaner in my books too. 

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  19. Setting trialtech tensioner's tension

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    3 minutes ago, dimosts said:

    Hello,

    I had the same tensioner. If I understand correctly, the silver protrusion is connected which the cage and is there so that you can make sure the tensioner sprockets are in line with the the wheel sprocket (silimar to the h-l limit screws in a standard derailleur). What I did was unbolt the screw (the pinch bolt), shift the cage to make sure the all the sprockets line up and re-tighten the pinch-bolt. No major forces go through that direction, so hand tight (at leas for me) should be enough for this. I am not sure about the double-sided thing. Hope I helped a bit.

    Cheers

    Hey dude, yeah I've got it all lined up, it's just not actually providing a huge amount of tension :) I loosened it and rotated the cage 90 degrees and did it back up, it seems to be a bit better now. 

  20. Setting trialtech tensioner's tension

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    Posted · Edited by Herbertlemon102

    Probably something to go in the beginners chat to be honest- 

    ive never in my life had anything other than Cams or integrated, and I've not come across this sort of system before. 

    (It's a double sided) 

    what it looked like to me was that I undo the pinch bolt, and wind the silver rod around and then do it back up. But that's a haphazard guess. 

    Its currently just a tad too loose to use. Not a clue what that grub screw does either.

    simply put, I don't want to be ham handed and break it. But couldn't find any info anywhere

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  25. Gear ratios

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    Posted · Edited by Herbertlemon102

    16 hours ago, aener said:

    I used to really love 18:13 with short cranks, but then people stopped making 158s.
    Obviously get the speed benefit with 18:12, but it still doesn't feel quite as nice as I remember the old setup feeling (very possibly rose-tinted glasses).

    Control AND power were better with the 13 on the rear, but I haven't had it for years and years so it's hard to say. Wouldn't want to try it on 165s - think that would be TOO light.

    I feel like trials is 90% rose tinted glasses :P if I remember right, back when you would've had those ratios you would've been more pedalling up walls instead of bunnyhops? (So, less speed required)

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