JT!

If you plan to get another bike, a proper trials bike I'd just leave it as it is, it'll be pretty difficult to lean trials on that even with rigid forks.

I'm unemployed but it takes me around 17 mins to have a poo so I voted 15-30mins.

Only forks with suspension dampening will reduce the bounceback. Chances are the forks you have are just a basic spring and there's no way you can dampen them without buying new forks. Sus forks should never be used in 95% of trials anyway. The bike you bought shouldn't ever be classed as a trials bike, however it could be classed as a trails bike (note trials / trails).

Being uninsured in the USA does get me weary when riding, but at the end of the day it's against human rights in this country to not give medical attention to someone in an emergency situation. If I fall off my bike and break my leg, it'll be fixed and i'll be stuck with a bill that no one can make me pay and won't effect my credit score.

I think it may be a private OTN joke...

Seems like the admin don't have a great deal of time on their hands as they have real jobs and whatnot, just like the admin here, so they don't really have free time to get the forum back up and running quickly. I'm sure it'll be back up eventually though.

Alphabounce, it's ruling my life right now.

Firefox is your problem.

I'm 23.

What did one snowman say to the other snowman?

A coin purse.

It's knee high today, and the worst is due for today. Crappy pic i didn't take:

Blizzard warning for us. Basically, we're going to be wiped off the face of the planet.

This forum needs more OTN guys. It's a shame the admin of OTN can't just put a link to this topic on the homepage of OTN.

I never said people don't work hard for their money, CEO's and people with top paying jobs, even when the government takes their money from them, they still have 10 times the amount to live a frivolous life. I also never said teachers should get paid more.

That's pretty much how it is though. The amount of tax you pay depends on how much you earn. It's like that in all developed countries. It's true it isn't a perfect system, but it's giving money to the disabled, the old and generally people who can't look after them selves. There's nothing wrong with that is there?

Socialism is good in come cases. Pubic school is one of them. No one is bitching about how we all pay for schools which is free for everyone. People can get a head in life, and i'm not saying we should all have the same car and the same house and the same clothes etc. Surgery is better in this country, that's true, however what're you willing to sacrifice for that? Besides in the UK you can pay for private healthcare if you so choose.

And America isn't?

http://www.trials-forum.co.uk/forum/index....p;f=13&id=3

Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that. The problem is in the USA there's some people who can't afford insurance or have been denied because of existing conditions. In the UK no one is denied because in the UK it isn't ran like a business. Health insurance companies do employ a lot of people, but those people loosing their job in the grand scheme of things isn't an issue. It's like saying lets stop littering, oh no wait we can't because we're putting the people who pick it up out of work. How has people living paycheck to paycheck got anything to do with my mother in law? I don't care if you diss her I don't agree how she lives her life in any way shape or form. At the end of the say heath insurance companies make 30-40% profit, Medicare makes 1% profit. US citizens are essentially giving their money away to the insurance companies to pay for the whole thing to be ran when it isn't even necessary. UK citizens pay around 300 pounds a year towards healthcare it's estimated.

I'm not an American i'm just living here at the mo.

$100 isn't bad, but what you've got to remember she is on a disabled medical program. If she was in the UK, she would get all her pills free because she is disabled and only able to work earning a part time wage. I personally don't work, but taxes seem to be pretty similar, however if you work for a place that'll give you insurance, they'll take around $100 from your for every $800 you make. Or you can opt out of that and buy insurance yourself for stupid amounts of money. I've seen all sides of private and public healthcare, the quality of healthcare here is better than at home, but here people who have no insurance and really screwed, being asked to pay $300 for a months worth of one type of pills is just crazy.

To explain myself better, considering a lot of trials moves through all the different types of riding, you've got to think about how far you are physically moving the parts. To do a side hop, you have to get onto the back wheel, the weight of the bike doesn't really effect the move up to this point. Then you have to look at how far the rear hub moves compared to the front hub when you are actually doing the sidehop. If you somehow could double the weight of the front hub, and did the sidehop and then took that off and added 50% weight to the rear hub, doing a sidehop would make the bike feel much heavier with more weight on the rear hub. Same goes with a street rider doing a 360. Think about the path of the rear hub compared to the path of a BB throughout this move. The bb does a tiny circle where the rear hub is traveling many times the distance. The weight of the rear hub is much more significant than the weight of the BB. I personally noticed this when switching from a front freewheel setup, to a rear freehub setup. The weight difference wasn't that much, but it was all moved from the center to the back making the bike feel really sluggish when doing certain moves.

Well everyone pays taxes, the more you earn the more you pay. That is socialism, the rich looking after the poor. So really every country has socialistic elements. In the UK you really don't pay anything for healthcare, here you can be paying 4 figures a year. I know my wife is spending around $100 a year on pills, and there's been situations where my mother in law couldn't afford to buy her meds. So if a socialistic view on health care is going to prevent this i'm all for it. You're just a run of the mill conspiracy nut.

This is generally the view of a lot of americans, i live with my mother in law who is convinced that sine flu is going to be used as a means of closing the boarders into this country so it can be put under martial law. And that the H1N1 vaccine is some kind of... i don't even know what. Anyway Obama seems to be doing a good job and he's doing a lot of good for the country's healthcare which is total BS at the moment.