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  1. Hey all, I'm a pretty tall rider at about 195cm with long arms spanning about 205cm and I'm always struggling to feel confident that I'm fit properly to the bike I ride a 2022 hex and I've thrown a 40°(I think)/160mm stem on it (seriously) and it feels like the best fitting setup I can muster. Still though I feel like there's room to go. Might be down to my technique but it's hard to not feel crammed on the back wheel around the cockpit. My bunnyhops are fine with the stem, around bar height maxed out but I'm just curious if there's anyone out there with similar proportions with advice/input or if there's any other options to make the bike feel longer besides stem choice? Or does it not matter much at the end of the day and I'm just blaming the bike instead of my shitty technique? Cheers
  2. +1 with textured paint, I've mixed a bunch of sand with regular house paint and it works pretty well. I've seen others use chicken wire stapled down but I don't feel that'd be quite as good
  3. Admittedly the history of trials does seem like it's had big cultural waves compared to other sports, but I think in terms of skill progression it is pretty slow. Skating is also really cheap- 50 bucks or whatever for a decent setup that will last you a long while versus many hundreds on top of repair costs which will shut out a huge demographic. Another issue is I think digestibility. Comp riding I feel is hard for people to get their head around so for the laymen it can be really foreign. Anything street oriented is better publicity IMO because it's so much more understandable. With the newer street moves it attracts younger people even though it can be tiring seeing another FJ whip. In order to grow it has to be sexy and street is just much sexier for people. The grungy TGS stuff and Danny was pretty easy to understand for people and it still hasn't caught on massively so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  4. It's fun ripping on younger generations, but there's still mass appeal for skills that take a long time to develop. Trials develops really slow but most people cant kickflip after 6 months of skating and I see skaters all the time here in the US Skating culture is really attractive for young people so that's probably why It's a shame trials probably won't catch on in a massive way- it would have happened after Danny- but I don't think there's any less young people nowadays that would stick to trials versus back in the 90's/00's.
  5. And unfortunately "mothers life at risk" sometimes only applies when the mother is in immediate risk, so they either have to get it someplace else or wait until they're literally dying to be allowed to get one.
  6. I'd say a street bike is your best route. It won't really hinder you in any way compared to a comp bike when it comes to backwheel/static techniques, and it's also as you said a much more versatile bike.
  7. I mean more how during that time this sport was in a big spotlight. Obviously it didn't lead to trials being a mainstream dicipline at all but it seems like it'd be an interesting time period for the sport. FWIW I think Danny did inspire a lot of younger riders, they just post on Instagram not message boards and are riding street instead of comp style
  8. For those that are seasoned, what was it like seeing trials be blown into global spotlight after Danny started making his massive videos? I can imagine it was great having trials being exposed that much, but I would be interested in hearing how the trials community reacted to that level of exposure
  9. If you mean the 360 nose drop thing, what clicked it for me is to get good at steep 180 pivots, then when I'm doing it over a ledge I do a pivot faster than normal and move my bodyweight upwards/pull the bars up and the rotation will come naturally.
  10. Alyksett

    Covid19

    There's never been a piece of research ever published that takes in to account 100% of the variables of what they're looking into. Sure, we might not have the specific vitamin D levels and social behavior etc of every covid case (And I bet if we did track all that people would complain it's a violation of privacy) but it wouldn't make enough of a difference IMO to hold anecdotal evidence of friends and family at a higher regard like madmanmike and others do
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    "I do appreciate my social media circle isn't large enough to give solid proof, but I don't have access to a lab and 10,000 volunteers." Fair enough, it would be great if there existed some publicly funded organization that had access to world tier labs and millions of cases to analyze the symptoms of Covid with/without the vaccine... And then when these labs publish their findings you discredit it and say "We're just told that"... ?
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    Covid19

    Just to echo Pete M, there's a lot more impact related to Covid besides deaths. Long term side effects can be crippling, hospitals being full with cases impacts everyone else that needs to go to the hospital (A big reason to get boosted/get the vax), healthcare workers have been getting destroyed the last two years, etc. Hard to really quantify all this but it's a lot more than just looking at the death numbers
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    Covid19

    Thoughts on Pfizer's Covid treatment pill? I haven't read too much about it, but it seems really promising. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizer-says-covid-19-pill-near-90-effective-final-analysis-2021-12-14/
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    Covid19

    I'm not familiar with the intricacies of the UK, but I think we have a generally have a good enough idea of the behavior of the virus and the relevant numbers to, at the least, come to the conclusion that if we went hands off and let the it run it's course then millions would die globally (as they already have), at some point in the future the dominate variant may be mild enough to let herd immunity work, especially when our hospitals can handle it. But at the moment I don't think we're at that stage
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    Covid19

    I was just bringing it up, I see people mention herd immunity when they might not realize the implications. and yeah I wrote it wrong, It's 1.6%, I didn't type the percent converted number out, see my edit for the math. Considering the US has given over 750,000,000 tests, I think that it's close enough to do some basic math to figure out that millions will die if we go with herd immunity. Even if the actual rate is 3 times lower at 0.5%, over a million people will die and that's with a conservative estimate, and not even factoring in immunity decreasing over time which would lead to more deaths.
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