Ali C

my fave pics (that I can get hold of, hence they are only of me) all taken by Ian Clarkson (my dad) apart from the bottom one which was by Chris Rathead (Y)"

new global forks? (Y) news to me (Y) there not just my old ones are they? what did they look like? they were good forks, just as stiff as cooke spagetti though :)

yeah, cheers for taking me aran, better late than never :) dont forget your 360 disasters. I fufanued the gersey barrier which I was pleased about and was getting x up 180s and tabletop 180s, hours of fun (Y)

ewll done guys, good results, but I do have a little rant. I didnt know anything about this event untill a few days before it, I would have thought a big event like this would have been advertised more, I would have loved to have entered but seeing though I didnt even know it was on I couldnt. I would like someone to direct my to a page with details of these events and licence/entry forms. Maybe in the future, these things will be advertised more, then more brits can enter and have a better chance of getting the country some results. rant over: :(

I dont want to be a stick in the mud, but I was there when dans forks snapped, the left leg fell off lol

sorry I didnt come guys, I have waited till 1am for iolo to get in touch with me, but no luck (Y) I wish I knew he wouldnt take me than I would have caught the train at 8, I really wanted to go too :-

bongo, I know its your birthday bash, but do you have any profile crank bolts I could borrow? or if anyone had a chainring shim, or a chainring bolt I can buy that would be nice Also, I will be turning up late, about 11.30......cya there

I dont know where anyones riding because I havnt heard anything off anyone. anyway, my thumb hurts too much to ride my trials bike, so I am skipping it anyway.

Ill be there, hopfully Iolo can give me a lift and I can bring my bmx and trimx, if not I will catch the train and have to make a painful decision on what bike to bring (Y) Doesnt matter really, I wont be riding. I fell off iolos bmx thingy (just before it broke, coincident?) and hurt my thumb :-

arm pump is where your arms and hands go numb from holding on, you cant pull your brake levers and can barly hold on.

kinda off topic, but does anyone have a copy of premire that I could have? ta

two fingers for 3 years, then 1 fingre for 3 years (and counting) get really bad arm pump using one finger though (Y)

I aint too keen on nokon. I have had it twice on my trials bike and front and rear on my bmx. On my trials bike, it was the dogs danglys, but I found it crimped quite easily and it got rougher and rougher, I tryed renewing it with a new inner, but the kink in the cable just made it always feel rough. Same story on my bmx except they only worked (reasonably) well for a couple of weeks untill they were unusable. straight out of the box the nokon isnt the smoothest either, even cheap no name cables felt better.

I didnt vote because it was cold and wet outside and I had a nice warm fire on (Y)

these are the type of slopes I am comming down (exept riiight from the tops) and my avid never caused me any probs. (my house is by the road in the distance)

I just got some clarks stainless cable this morning (for my bmx) its the smoothest, flexiest cable I have ever felt! This is with no lube or anything. I turned the cable through tight bends but it still slid butterly smooth. With some wd40 in there I cant imagien a smoother cable!

that blue frame in Akkers pic is actually a GT Hans Rey model, mongoose didnt have a frame for chris in time (for that demo at least).

I think I will just give it back to Ride-On and stick with an avid

I founf my avid was the best brake I have ever used for down hill duties, it never faded at all and you should see how steep the hill are around here!! Maybe it depends how you bed them in, I did mine by going to the longest steepest hill I could find and just riding down it, by the time I got to the bottom the brake was awesome. I do use a hope floating disk too, maybe that ressists heat more than normal rotors. I had a mono trial, it seemed cool, but while at a comp on sunday I rode down a VERY small hill and all the power went! It would grap or lock, even with two fingers, all it did was make the worst noise in the world. I dont know it was because that pads glased or maybe it had a leak but I wasnt a happy chappy.

just finnished watching it. I thought it was pretty cool, some nice editing althought you did cut some people mid moves with is annoying. I liked the flatland bmx, I didnt really get a chance to watch them, the're a bit good (Y) a very tired Al

another vote for th avid. I had a hope mono trial, I never want one again.....nuff said!

narr, thats just my tash. Is an ace machine, I didnt fancy having a go in the lake though, bit too unstable for my liking :P

my finger slipped off my brake lever due to, arm pump, sweaty fingers and nerves. thats another one of Chris's pics (one of my faves). Its from Tech 04 where I had a crash very much like at the bike show, I fell off the reels I am gapping too, somthing went wrong and I fell off 6ft on to my back across a kerbstone, that hurt loads (look at my foot on the pedal) I think chris should have a gallery where he posts his pics and then people view them and can pay for copies of their faves, I recken that would be ace

ha ha, I was hoping someone would have got the fall on film, I wanna know what it looked like. I didnt ride the rest of the day because I trashed my rim when I landed on it, BIG thanks to Dave and Adam for getting me up and running for the next day. I rode all the other demos apart from the last one on sunday when it was too painful to ride. It still hurts a little now, like coughing or sneezing and sleeping on my left, the doctor said I have bruised ribs.