Ali C

I actually feel really strongly that a minimum weight limit would do way more good than bad. They have it in Road racing (and XC?) to keep things under control. All they need to do at the start when you get your number is weigh the bike....pretty easy thing to do. They used to check all your gears were working, you had bar ends, shoes with ankle guards, cables had the ends neatly capped back when I did the worlds. That was a much bigger challenge yet it worked. If there's no limit bikes keep getting lighter, keep getting more expensive, the sponsored and rich riders have a clear advantage, people compromise strength of parts and reliability goes down, I wouldn't be surprised if eventually a bike will break in a comp resulting in the serious injury of a rider. A minimum weight limit is my idea of keeping trials from getting more specialised, not making it more.

the way I see it, compentition trials will always be the geeky spotty My Little Pony loving little brother of Mountainbiking. He'll try and tag along with the bigger brother and his friends but they'd much rather ditch him and go have fun and show off to the girls. Trying to get such an unwanted, weird looking, ugly little runt of a kid popularity is pretty much impossible in real life and I think the same goes for comp trials. I'm not saying some girls won't take pity on him and some might invite him into their group, but they'll never really want to physically touch him. He might also have friends who are also into My Little Pony and stuff, but he'll never be one of the cool kids. I personally think both Kenny and Giaco make good points, but I've been thinking recently how much I dislike modern UCI comps and sections, it seems it's all about who can sidehop the highest or who's bike is best on the rear wheel. I also disagree with Giaco that trials is comps. That's a very blinkered way of looking at it. I'd like to see more BIKE in Biketrials, I want sections with mud, rocks, kickers, ramps, sprints, roll-downs, tech etc. I don't want a carpark with random scattered rocks or logs where all everyone does is go from the floor, up and over a rock and back to the floor and repeat. Sections need to be clearer and more tech where the rider doesn't touch the floor till the end gate. I think that rather than sacrificing sections (and the progression of riding) to get more spectators, get the bikes back out of the cities and into the woods and hillsides, screw the media....if you want money from trials then comp ridings a bad choice and most people knew this when they started. If you want money, take up a more popular sport and fight it out with the hundreds of other people who are probably miles better than you. I want the World Champion trials rider to be the best f**king BIKE rider on the planet! Not just the best weird bike hopper. Trials should test ALL riding abilities and bikes should be compromised to suite anything thrown at them. This will make the riding more flowing, better to watch and everyone would benefit from being miles better at riding. The bikes would look more normal too and perhaps more people would be interested in it? I also think bikes should have a weight limit. 8.5kg for stocks and 8kg for mods. Everyone would be on a level playing field, bikes would be safer and more reliable (no more drilling the f**k out of stuff) and it means a new rider could have a bike pretty much as good as a pro rider without spending hundreds on carbon forks and stuff. I think competition trials has been going downhill for a few years now, it's just SO specialised now it's shot itself in the foot. I think it NEEDS a radical makeover. It needs a complete overhaul and resetting from (nearly) the start.

that's pretty sweet, not sure on the stem though, look how far ahead of the axle it puts the bars, must be the most twitchy riding thing ever!! I think a frame like that with a BMX bars and stem would be sweet, just make the top tube longer to compensate for the shorter reach of the stem.

Those frames are a bit too low for my liking, I prefer the looks of slightly bigger triangles (stronger too). if I ever went to a mod I'd get something close to how this monty looks, just with more modern geometry, parts and a disc mount.....again I can't see many people agreeing haha

it's got a seat, clearly a bmx :wink2: I'm gonna get hate for this but I do have a sweet spot for these, no curves, just functional and stiff.

looking good Chimp! My girlfriends mum just bought me some charcoal and pastels, I've never tried them before so I thought I'd try drawing her dawg. I'm reasonably happy with it.

Yeah currently riding MT7s, pretty surprised by them too. I tried pretty much every brake out there and non compared with the M810 Saint, but I'd go as far to say that these are slightly more powerful and with a lighter to pull and comfier lever. The brake as a whole is lighter too and the calliper tabs are pretty beefy too so shouldn't snap. I'd say the only down side is the pads sit quite close to the rotor (due to the high leverage ratio) so it's a bit harder to get them running without rubbing like a saint. Some people might not like the softer lever feel (compared to a saint) but I'm not really bothered by that.

I'm Now 31, I'm going to keep going as long as possible

Shall do

That was decent, had a rough sound which is cool but I quite like a nice Pink Floyd esc guitar effects and distortion sound too. Electronic psychedelic blues rock would be a good description of what I like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Nuun_P1ZQ

Psychedelic rock for me. The band is Dead Meadow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiV9_EZrJLw

My favourite band are finally coming back to the UK and playing my local venue

she loves black metal! Her last name is Black so that works well.

quite a few WTF moments in that!

My gf (sorry to go on about her) being from Glasgow is a protestant, she's not highly religeous, she doesn't go to church or study the bible, she just is open to the idea of a higher power. The funny thing is she's totally into death metal music, like REALLY into it!

haha gotta love a bit of chinglish I wouldn't base my life on it though

My GF is a biomedical scientist working in haematology and in the bloodbank in Glasgow and she told me about the blood transfusion thing, I didn't believe her at first.........Just because the bible says in one tiny bit that "But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.". The women who spoke to me said "you need an instruction book to set up computers, furniture, TVs etc, the bible is an instructionbook for life" My issue with this is that instruction books are not open to interpretation, they are clear concise and to the point.......the bible is far from clear (hence all the types of Christianity that split off because they disagreed with what the book was saying). That quote about the blood is not clear at all, to make life and death decisions from such a tiny and vague bit of writing in a book that's full of errors, psychotic characters and contradictions is in it'self insane.

Never seen that, but yeah that's a good example

well, I was quoting Attenborough who made the same point years ago, It just so happens that Fry made the same point just recently I apologised to them for re-quoting stuff on the internet (even though I saw it on TV).

Had my first ever Jehovah's Witnesses call round. I'm converted!! Well, no, no I'm not. I like to think I surprised them, asked a few tricky questions, got the usual "God has a plan" "God work's in mysterious ways", They couldn't think what use a flesh eating worm crawling out of your eye has, but apparently leaches have a purpose (cleaning wounds) so we've just not found a use for the worm yet. I said it's rather egotistical to think that every animal is there to serve us, but no, God made the earth and everything on it a paradise for his children. They said that God says in the bible to love God like you love a parent. They stumbled a bit when I told them my parents didn't teach me to love them, their ego isn't that big. I love them because they are kind. God say's he is a jealous God, he killed thousands in plagues and floods, he will smite down those who use his name in vain. He demands you give up a day each week to worship him.......That's not very loving at all really. I'm preparing some notes for when they come back, it seems a little unfair when they have done hundreds of door knocks and prepared speeches and leaflets.

that's awesome!!

for some completely unexplainable reason I quite like the Raptor too...... I really don't like this though

best yet in my opinion, fewer crank induced spins and more backwheel tech and big hops, ideal