The Dude

nope, your responsible. its a good frame and its good to learn on, but dont blame someone else for your mistakes. some people brake them, but they ride them hard and they fail beacuse of it. echos are good frames, strong but amazingly long. a freewheel will fit on your cassette hub if its got a normal freewheel thread, and it is the cheapest way to make it single speed, however if you want a well specced bike that is less likely to fail get a cassette hub and a single speed kit (i suggest hope xc/pro 2 and a gusset kit for the best price/quality ratio), but again a standard hub is fine for learning on, but you may find it breaks sooner than you may think. take it easy and keep riding Si

its going to be a good ride guys. see you there

good watch and different riding, i liked it

i might aswell come out too

moving it to next weekend.

Todge and I are going to ride Hunstanton rocks (and a bit of street of course) does anyone else want to come to a day on the beach?

Trials...i vaguely remember that... i guess ill have to come down and join in then looks to be a good turnout anyway

ive only had mine about a month, but im loving them so far, but dont put them through much abuse. i have experienced them shedding pieces of material from the inside, but there still pretty comfy, and for the price there amazing.

I like it, alot and pretty much sums up what i was going to say. Astounding DVD showes alot of new lines over very different obstacles, the size of them was just rediculous, ive seen it once, but i might buy it just to refine my technique by watching people do it to such extremes.

just like any bike, they are, once youve got used to them. if you build a pure up nicely it will be able to do anything, aslong as you learn to handle it. ever thaught about a 24uk, imensley chuckable and pretty good price.

Not quite Spot on, some one suggested it, looks as if it would fit (but dont quote me on that, cause ive never tried.

as far as i know there arnt any 24" ridgid forks, apart from the rewelded pashleys or ashtons. If you ask clive Leeson to weld some 24" mounts onto another set of forks youve found, he might. could try the old idea of upside down maguras, no idea if it would work though.

it is the one thing trains are lacking is good bike supports. most effective ones have to be the hanging ones, about 6 of those hooks in a train would make luggage space, and make trains a whole lot easier. id be willing to sign a petition to get better cycle racks, at the moment they are either innefective or non existant

Im a rider, can you sponsor me? i cant get any pictures without a camera, but can do if you buy me one as a sponsor

Trials is almost the same as any sport really, as it requires balance, power and accuracy. you can be a pro and lead the latest cool moves. (cls, ashton, danny way) or whore the market to make millions (zhee, zoo..nike) Or just have a bike and do a bit of hopping on it, just the same as you can be one of the millions of people who play with a football, because its fun. the only difference between trials and most other sports, is its mine

buy some new tensiles, its all that bike needs, everything else on it works.

11 at the station it is see you all there.

what time does your train come in mate, i can come and meet you at the station and go to the skatepark from there, as it seems the best meeting place. 07725510570 is my mobile number if you get lost, or i dont get out of bed we will probably move on from the skatepark about 12, so every one whos going to be there, get there for before 12

walls near the train station at 11 sound good to anyone else?

Looks a beautiful job todge, muchos complimentos.

well said. dont take any tripe from it, get a pair of pliers and bend it back, so it wire by wire EXACTLY on the bend, or itll make a bigger mess. best to just leave it, or save up for a new one.

gusset tyres grip pretty well, basicly moto tyres and fairly light aswell. and now in 24" pink (i know its not on the site, they the do them)

right, boredoms taken over me and im getting back out on the bike. Will anyone else be riding?

not really, just not experimenting enough. i used to run them on a smooth rim, they worked astonishingly, but were amazingly tempremental and sometimes just completely slip out. so i ground the rim, and it made it commitable in all weathers, just didnt have much lock. nowadays im running one of the now 2 year old koxx blox with a heatsink red on the shallowest grind and it works amazingly. just play with your brake if its not working.

were you running the disk so the splines were pointing forwards? it makes quite a bit of difference on where the stresses go to (difference between allocated stress points instead of all over the disk) as said before, it looks like it snapped, and after some more riding its just completely given up and dicintegrated. send it off to hope and thell send you a spanking new one, there pretty proud of thier parts and sort them out if thier broken.