Ali C

Even though I don't live there any more (although my dad still does) I'm really sad to see Hebden Bridge has been hit by severe flooding, all the shops I know are f**ked, my friends house is flooded and it could get worse. At least my dad lives up the hill enough to avoid it.

people complain about them being plastic but I've only seen one broken lever body. I think the material is fine (people who think it flexes I think are mistaking the high mechanical leverage for any soft lever feeling, I think they compare with a Hope Mono trials with a long lever blade feel wise). Hopefully they'll listen to feed back from Danny and beef up the lever blade, they did make some CNC prototypes for us but they need to be refined....no idea if they'll end up on production brakes though.

the lever blade has always been Alu

Pad rock with the MT5 pads is reduced and goes away completely after a couple of weeks use. Alternatively Trialtech pads get rid of it all together

the deer was pure muscle, I would say it handled it but it definitely didn't, at least it stayed in one piece. Yeah the deer took flight for some distance, then bounced out of sight.

I'm getting..... My Girlfriend a Zippo hand warmer as she's always got cold hands and needs to warm them up when she's at work massaging folk my Sister a smelly Skye candle My Brother in law some Sugru moldable rubber my Niece a book on Greek mythology (she's mad on it) I'm getting them all a joint present of some thermoplastic head moldable plastic that can be made into toys, DIY stuff and jewlery. getting my mum some spirits my Dad a hat my Brother some magnetic Sugru my Sister in law a smelly Skye candle Some Chocolates for my Uncle, Auntie and Cousins family

Hitting a deer was less than ideal for both it and my van. At least I'm ok, poor deer was definitely dead though

I would agree with Kenny that on a steel frame and fork tapered is overkill, it's just adding weight (even if it does look pretty). I'd deffo like tapered on ally bikes (mainly forks) though.

best rider by far!

22-16 is a little light so shorter cranks makes it have a bit more grunt plus there's the bonus of them being lighter and stronger.

Are BMXers in skateparks doing tricks? Skateparks are designed especially for that stuff.

I think it was more the limitations of the Hope cranks rather than designing to fit only the aluminium bikes

I'd love to run them so I can run the Inspired bash for them, they look so neat! it's a shame they don't quite work, I just wish Shimano had removable spiders!

it's been fine, no issues at all.

I can see where you are coming from but unfortunately there's very few ways to earn a living from trials. Demos can be great for riders, you get to travel and ride bikes (I just went to South Africa purely because of shows) and get paid for it. from riding with Danny, the shows aren't a million miles off what he'd be doing in his normal street rides so I think they are a good representative of trials. Sure it's not comp trials but most of the public find that hard to understand with the bikes not having seats and making horrible noises all the time. From speaking to fans and people at shows I know of quite a few riders who have started riding just from seeing a show.....I think that can only be a good thing.

lighter and you can get tighter spokes with alloy nipples. I've not broken one in 6 years.

That rotor is still going strong, Magura sent us some of these new ones so I thought I'd try them out. I can't feel any flex personally. The putty is going strong I had alloy chainring bolts but I snapped two and totalled my chainring, so they're steel now......could be tempted by Ti though!

I did have some V6 pdals on, I wore down the pins (which I expected), I plan on drilling and screwing in some metal pins but I'll save that for a dark rainy day The stem is very similar, I just like how I can use fewer spacers with it.

Mark saw I was struggling taking a good picture of my bike so came along and schooled me by taking this one. Spec is: Inspired Arcade frame-forks-Bars Hope Pro 2 hubs on Spank Subrosa rims (with alloy nipples). Continental tyres with standard tubes run at 45psi Shimano SLX 170mm cranks with tabs removed running on a Hope bb DMR V12 pedals Magura MT7 rear brake 200mm and Magura MT6 front brake 200mm "Extreme" branded 80x40 stem Hope Headset Inspired seat ODI live strong grips Ti bolts throughout, roughly 10.5KG

pretty serious!!

very nice!

I can't even begin to do them on a flyout! I find from back wheel easiest

I've got a general fear of taking my hands off the bars that I find really hard to get over. I went riding with a box buddy recently and he explained how to pinch the cranks with your ankles instead of the seat and that did help but it feels really awkward. I managed to do one on his bike but I still feel a long way off on mine. I think the main thing for me is that's I don't really find them a fun thing to do and I can't imagine ever getting confident enough with them to blast one out mid line so I'm fairly happy to leave them alone

My cat got to 22 so you may have a good few years left yet