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i think its the angle of the shot in the second pic, its a handle to hold on to isn't it? hard to make out with the yellow. looks sweet though. whats it gonna be used for? i say pub bike!

hmmm loving that geometry.. i hope if it comes out its a competitive price.

i'm interested!!!

awesome vid chas! had a well good day out. nice to ride with some new faces. will have to sort another one out soon!

yeah a moto has less tread on it and rolls faster where as the moto digger has got more thread on it.

sweet pics tim! was a really good day. feeling it today though... yeah wait for the vid to see the full extent of danny's riding!

if its designed as a clutch lever on a motorbike then its designed to be pulled all the way into the bar whereas a trials bike brake only moves a small amount compared to this. if you look at the distance between the piston pivot and the main pivot its smaller than a normal magura brake and the lever blade itself is longer that what we're used to so you'd have to move the lever further to move the piston the same amount, however you'd get loads more power this way. if it was set-up properly it would probably work but the window for getting it right would be very small. i think...

sweet vid! some wacko lines going on there. could have done with some hoping over some rails and sidehops though... out tuesday and thursday this week?

awesome vid man. where were you riding? looks good!

sssssshhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiittttttttttttteeeeeeeeeeeeee i'm sure your a good rider but that vid didn't do you any justice. showing me crash doesn't really tease me.

urg i dunno. confused now good bit of banter though edit: yeah i'm talking rubbish. think i'm confusing it with if your crank arm was longer then you'd have to move your leg more...?

haha i bet its more like 25mm +/- 10mm depending whether or not your sitting on it

ahhh. i give up

cool pics, cheers tomm. shame the vids don't work. its impressive how they managed to 3D model that headtube!

ok i've drawn a pic to show what i mean. if you look at the blue teeth on the inside of the ratchet (8 for simplicity) and there's a black line, a indicating how far the pawl has to travel along the ratchet tooth before it engages again. each freewheel has the same number teeth inside the ratchet but if you can see the bigger one has to travel further for it to engage. do you see what i mean?

I study mechanical engineering and i've started using Abaqus for FEA and also a little bit on Solidworks using cosmos. Just interested in where the stress intensity points are as i've never seen a frame being FEA'd. Cheers

i don't think thats completely correct... if you increase the size of the radius of the ratchet and still keep the same amount of teeth the distance between each tooth will increase. so that means you will have to move the crank further for it to engage. i think i'm right by saying if you double the radius if the ratchet you would have to double the amount of teeth for the crank to move the same distance on the orginal ratchet for it to engage. thats why its more accurate to use radians rather than degrees because radians is a measure of radius over angle swept. i might be taking complete rubbish though so feel free to prove me wrong.

owch! good work boon! get on the white lightening mate, won't feel a thing when you back in leeds?

have you got some FEA pics out of interest or is it top secret? hehe. i like the idea of fastening the frame together from different parts. my only worry would be if one of the fasteners did break it could be catastrophic! at least with a welded frame you can see a crack know when to stop. i had a thought a while back that it could be joined by means of cables with threads on the end, make the thread really long and make the thread in the lug really long too? cables pretty strong and if you had enough thread?

dmr revolver and an eno. works for me and i'm really fat.

my mate at work (bike shop) pre-ordered some wheels from hope at the start of the summer, i think he got them about a month ago. they were the hope hoops wheelset. i'm guessing these ones are the limited amount ones, with a disc mount. they look pretty sweet, strange that hope arn't making the full production ones with disc mounts... i'll try and get some pics when i see him next.

i'm pretty sure you can only buy them as 'hope hoops' which come on a 26" dt swiss xc rim. so me think they're for xc use. they look beefy enough and you can hear the freehub from a mile off. we had some floating round work a while back. they come with disc mounts too which supports the for xc/not for road theory! basically a guy at work (bike shop) is running a hope pro3 wheelset on dt swiss rims on his xc bike. they're straight pull spokes and have got disc mounts. you can only buy them as the wheelset and not individual hubs.

yeah heatsinks are the way to go for V if you have a grind. not too sure on the colour though... check that pad review thing at the top of the page.

pics look sweet tim. the ones of mike definatly look better on screen. bigatup to timbo

i know what you mean about the v brake. locks up quicker and has less modulation which can be good in trials. i was going to say go for a deore v brake at a tenner if your on a budget but if your willing to spend a bit more defo go for the avid sd7. i'd personally spend the money on getting a decent pair of pads rather than a brake booster, you might not even need one. my mate used to have a giant team trials and he ran an sd7 on the back with a grind and no booster and it was very sweet indeed. hope this helps.