HargrovesToby
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removing - either use the tool or screwdriver and rubber/copper mallet.
installation, place the cup on a desk or workbench facing up. then place the bike over it, put the block of wood over the frame bottom cup and then hit it with a hammer!!
these methods work all the time perfectly!!
toby
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trucky duck tape mate,
iv taken a few nocks, just as well you were wearing your helmet unlike some people!!
if it startsto pull any more, get a new lid which i would do anyways in the longer term. just for safety right, whish is what a lids for!!
toby
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i could really see backflip dropoffs taking off.....then coming back down again quite quickly.
really what we do isnt made for flipping!!
toby
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had to be done, was waiting to happen, might have to put my mates suzuki sv650 in a skip then.
hmmm
toby
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hey people,
yeh i am still here, just!! i think having the stitches out hurt 10x more than having them put in!! god damn staff. and i didnt see the nice south african nurse either but im seing her in march so no worries there!!
healing alreet at the moment reall,y lots of pain in my eye which is because of the tear duct but il be ok they say.
my bikes still mint though lol, damn grass is to forgiving, still trying to shift it as im going to be out for a bit now due to hospital and my knees!!
toby
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well here we are a week on, had the stitches taken out today and boy oh boy did it hurt, started to bleed again too.
heres a small pic, just top make u cringe, and i know i lok like a twat in it, also im not crying, its where my tearduct burst all over the place!!
enjoy!!
toby
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hey guys,
thanks for the support. i go back on firday morning to see an eye consultant as i made a hole through my tearduct so they want to have a look at the damage and see what they are going to do next, hopefuly all will be well.
today i feel a little better, face hurts like a mother though.
i think il just have to start wearing those cool shades as that guy said, or just the traditional paper bag job lol haha.
once again many thanks,
toby
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Hey people,
whilst riding my bike yesterday, i had a little tumble, pictures to follow but i would share a thought with you.
Was just balancing on the back wheel, as you do, then a gust of wiund threw the bike upwards with the reservoir of my hope mono trial front brake hitting me in the eye, then piercing a hole through my eyelid, around the lower of my eye and out through my tear duct. 1 shaking toby a hell of alot of blood and an ambulance later, i was going into shock as it fooking hurt. you could see my eyeball through the hole, its 56mm lowere than my eyelid on my right eye.
after going to hospital, and seing a really hos south african racial consultant, i had 9 stitches in my eyelid, 2 on my eye, 1 on my tearduct inside my eyelid and a lot of injections into my eye.
now my whole right side of my face is like a balloon! one of those things you really wish you hadn't done on new years eve! Il have pictures on here soon as my mate thought he'd take a few to stop him passing out (he hates blood!)
i totally sympathise with anybody who has had any facial injuries from trials as i think its possibly enough to put me off for a fair while, so if anybody wants a bike, ask me!
toby
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heya mate
i live just up the road from you, in chichester kind of way and we wrote to our local youth representative a while back about getting a park for us to use somewhere here. of course, the youth representative though it was actualy a good idea but nothing has come of it....predictable!
if you do however get permission, do let us all know!!
toby
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mate i have a perfect plan,
take your bb tool, put it in a vice facing upward, then place the cracnk arm on it, with the splines interlocking with the freewheel. place your left hand on the crank above the freewheel and push down, then get a large rubber mallet or hammer ans hit the crank arm anti clockwise to unscrew the freewheel. it was worked for me every time to this day.
toby
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YESSS! Someone with some sense who lives in the real world
Phil
Motion seconded. Hes right you know, i know people that have absolutely no spacial awareness and end up riding into most of the time because of it!!
toby
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maybe they just feel like they are riding for the fun of it, dont want to take it seriously and just want to ride for the fun. i dont know really, its a bit of a pointless arguement really isnt it!! its kind of a personal matter or preference, i love riding street and natural, just find street isnt chalenging enough.
toby
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i have a story like this
moral was low with the lads recently, what with crappy weather and no light late at night, all getting a little bit boring riding, then suddenly, we all got right back on the ball, and as nick so lovingly said, "upped the level."
Now were all back into it, riding huge natural lines that we would never have imagined riding, which in turn brings a massive sense of achievement, like today, a line was a 6 foot gap with about 4 foot upwards to an awkqardly facing rock, at an angle....that was a challenge, these things ive me sense of achievement, sometimes falling off is good as it does prove that you cannot do things first time al the time.
Just go out, look at trials with a whole new view, try everything and anything, i think when people start getting good on the things they have been riding for years, they forget to look outside the box a bit, now im a better rider after just 1 day or natural riding, some huge lines today, huge sense of achievement and even though i have a dodgey knee and shouldnt be riding, iv come away with the biggest buzz ever.
go find some huge lines, try them, then perfect them.
toby
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or cum even further over like chichester, bognor n even worthing, damn that place is good to ride!! or just go to southsea on a big ride!
toby
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love the bike, looks the part, cant wait to see how it rides as if the KOT breaks, i know what comes next!!!
toby
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Looks nice, i personally wouldnt have one, solour and a really displeasing shape is not for me.
toby
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One thing to say - Sexual!!
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People her are totally right, its notjust about paying tax though, ok so we do have to admint, how many of us when we become old (if some of us ever get there) really want groups of guys on bikes riding outside our flat with damn noisy brakes waking us up on a mid-day slep??
At least thats how they see it. Part of the problem is that people dont actually appreciate what we are doing, at he end of the day, would they rather us ride our bikes or go out and mug old ladies and spraypaint walls??
Having said all that, the police around here aren't too bad actually, a few have stopped me just to ask why my bike doesnt have a seat and another was actually encouraging us. The governmet need to sort them selves out, they complain about youths vandalising property, they why dont they encourage people to do something more creative, even if it does mean ploughing a flower bed with a nice maxxis tyre, shrely we would be doing better to them if they made a place for us to ride, then we would be off the street and doing our own thing.
they have shot themselves in the foot!!
Toby
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heya there
i was recently the victim of a fraud using a web based company called www.trading-security.com which turns out to be a spanish guy trying to trade under a false name then taking your goods and not paying. i had this done to myself, and i am powerless, has anybody got any ideas as top how i can get either my product or money back from this man?? he does live in spain though.
more worrying, he works on ebay aswell, so watch out for those bike auctions as he may try any buy and if he asks to use a escrow comapny, dont do it!!
toby
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Anyone about for Wothing on saturday, weather permitting?
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If the weather is ok the bognor lot should be out, with spare chaind this time!
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no worries dood, pm if u get real stuck,
toby
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i run 18-16, used to run 22-16 andnearly killed meself, but 22-18 pretty close in feel and response if that hleps, its what felt right for me,
toby
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firstly, you wil gain confidence the more you are on the bike, the more you ride it the better you become at understanding where the bike wants to move to, and how it wil respond when you put it in certain positions.
once you become more familiar with the real basics or backwheel balance, front wheel work and trackstands, then just try this, it helped me alot, mark two lines on a road, or up a kerb, and practice wheel switching, just keeping the pressure on your pedals, and using your weight to hop both wheels off the floor to bring the back wheel to where the front was. this helps you to gain the motion you will need when blunting adn tapping really big things of having to throw the bike from beneath you.
then, find a wall, no joke about a foot high, no bigger, preferably with nothing on the other side, becasue this height wal any bike can rol over with no problem pretty much nd it will gain you confidence in trying to blunt.
right, then approach the wall at a fairly brisk walking pace or a slow jogging pace with your WRONG foot forward, you are trying to push your front wheel over the edge of the obstacle not hitting it, the most common problem people i ride with have is they take off way to early, giving them no drive with their feet, you are trying to take off late. as you come to abut a bike length away, pedal hard down raising the front up then with the remaining quarted of your pedal stroke left, stamp down hard whilst throwing the bike from beneath you with eh motion you learnt earlier, transfering to the rear wheel, then locking the brake funnily enough!!
when you start to get better, your take-of has to be perfect, to late and you wil hit it, to early and you wil bottom out on it hitting the downtube of your bike on the wall or goin head first into it, just take off far later that you think you have too, try and misjudge it and give it loads of power, keep your weight quite far back, this way ther is no danger of you goin over the wall.
practice makes perfect, i have tried to explain it but there are bound ot be things im missing out, just go balls outl loads of power and dont be afraid to mess up, give it all you have and practice loads, you will soon be a better rider!!
toby
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lots of snow!! good couple of inches.
toby