Nick Manning

I'm not going to koxx days, so i'l def come to bristol on friday, and hopefully il be along to oxford on the thursday. see you'll there

let me know on the dates and il get the week previous and after the event booked off, you can never have too much help

tank, i beg to differ. given that my frame is the same my bb is +75 and wheel base is 1145 due to my unbranded forks. i agree with it feeling like more effort for everything to start with, especially taps. BUT i have had my bike since christmas and am now finding taps are getting better, gaps are becoming a doddle along with drop gaps and sidehops. low bb and short wheelbase is great for BMX STREET style riding on a trials bike, but providing ur wheel base is adjusted to the bb height (not like a 1080 hi-fi, big mistake), then i think for street and comp the high bb has its advantages. just simply depends on ur style of riding. I rode with Nick Vaughn (PRAWN) a few weeks ago, he previously owned a hi-fi, couldnt get on with it at all (wheelbase was too short for bb height), so went back to old frame. now when i rode with him , he had a go on my czar ivan, which as i said is +75bb and 1145 wheelbase. he said that it was nice to ride, and he liked it, but because of the hi-fi he's now put off high bb's. If u go high bb, i would say that ur wheel base ideally needs to be longer. EG: With a +20bb, u could run 1080 wheelbase fine (like a control or triton deema), but with a higher bb on a 1080 wheelbase, the bike feels alot shorter than +20bb with 1080 wheelbase, and therefore will feel horrible. Best way to find out what you want, is to try other peoples bikes with different geometry and set-ups.

well i was looking at riding ferndown, but if ur gonna come down poole saturday, then i can get everyone over saturday instead.

Nick Manning Bournemouth Dorset BH4 9JG 07854503274

Anyone up for poole this sunday? il be down the station from 12noon.

my bad

il be down, but andy's right, if salsbury lot are coming then it'll rain, but ahwell.

sick, u ride to much haha

il be there (again if people turn up, then i wont be on my own again)

that was on my black saracen MAD last yr in southampton

there's already been a post about this, but anyway. my mate got the koxx xtp today and as ive got czar, we compared them, and at first glance they appear the same, but the design and geometry are 100% completely different. the czar has higher bb and is 5 mm longer (unless u get the short czar) the koxx has a lower bb and the top tube is higher. my tensiles are 170mm and they cover my maggie, on the my mates xtp he's got tensiles in 175 mm and hes got atleast 1.5" clearance between his crank and his maggies. there are a few other differences, but they are the main ones.

static, ive done about 8 ft, never measured bunnyhop, ive done 16ft pedal hop, dunno, its quite poor, lol. prob the same as static

A picture of me hope this will help

london london london london london london london london (just make sure you turn up, last time i went no-one showed )

if the xWxYxCx are going then i guess il have to make an appearance

yeah, i cant come now either.

i may come along to this, aint ridden nottingham in ages.

mines 49"

we got back at 10:20am, they ran 2 coaches from newcastle to london, we had to get on the non-stop to london coach so we got to london 1hr 20 mins early, so i went for a wander round victoria, cos i was that bored, lol. we went back to the coach station packed our bikes up, then walked into the high street and went to pizza hut, had some food and saw plenty of outstanding birds (Newcastle totty is amazing untill they speak) then went back to the coach station, where sean and matt (the 2 guys with me) both fell asleep till the coach came, lol

same proplem, says the file name dont exist

yeah thats me, the one who came up with 2 other riders from bournemouth and spent in total 19 hrs of travelling on a coach i also had some new forks on, cos of a previous mishap that morning.

yes fred, that was me on my czar getting air in the park

sounds like a plan!

unfortunately, i dont have a picture of mines as yet, but mine rides real well, ive got the long version. as im running viz curve forks my wheel base is 1125 and my bb rise is +75, also cos the forks are high rise, the stem im running is 120mm length qith 10 degree rise and one 5mm stem stacker to raise the stem. The only issue i have with my frame is that im struggling to tap it cos i gotter hit the walls lower than normal, but for everything else, it feels sweet for im 19 and 6ft tall hope this helps