Ali C

Carl, are you still stopping by Tartybikes in the morning? Are you OK to pick something up for me there? (crank arm)

Monto trials rotor I think, and the power is similar, if I had to pick I would say the hope felt slightly more powerful, but Stan rode it more so he would have a better answer for you

think I watched TV or went riding, true story!

Stan's Hope with the pro pads is actually insane!

no rain, but pretty windy apparently Could always head over to Stanley Park, not really much there but at least it's out of the wind

That's almost identical to the bike I started on (except mine had rigid GT forks). 18" frame, cantilever brakes, triple chainring, 1.95" tyres, 24" wide flat bars, 120mm flatish stem. I did a years worth of comps on that bike with no trials modifications and came 3rd overall that year.

Doesn't really work like that

no

you called? Errmm, yeah, I call bullshit

had rats in my old house, best method I found for killing them was to come home late, open the front door, get eye contact with rat at the other side of the room, watch it run towards you as it tries to get to it's hole and give it a good old full laces contact kick back across the room into the radiator. I guarantee that will work

if it's nice I'll come out for a play in Blackpool

I usually have a few ways of judging if a video is good. 1) can I make it to the end? check 2) does the video end sooner than you would think? Check 3) do I rewind to watch bits again? Check So yeah, it seems it was a good video! editing was swish, especially with the hammering and matching the song with the riding throughout the vid. Riding was big and inventive even if you do gap-to-front like a mong

40 for me

he's my favourite rider for a reason! Loved all of it, such a great rider.

I hate secrecy but yeah, all will be revealed in time.

sweet man! that's pretty legit!

good stuff, nice riding and edit. It's refreshing to see people still rocking front disc! The only gripe I have is the lack of bike noises, it always seems like what I'm watching is no way related to what I'm hearing which is a bit weird.

so you're suggesting that because I rode a bike without a seat then I rode TGS? Not sure if you're trying to insult me or not?

narr, I was riding Sheffield and saw Damon riding TGSing

I thought they might be harder to bend as the alloy centre should be stiffer, so far so good.

I've used that style rotor before, wasn't too keen

that's what happens when you use less steel

that's just painted steel, strength would be fine

they are the 6-bolt versions

I use Shimano XT rotors which have an alloy centre, they only come in black so might not appeal to you, but they are plenty strong enough for trials, the older Hope ones were strong enough (and not flexy like some people say) though they may have changed them slightly since I last used them to make them lighter. so yeah, if you want floating rotors, go Shimano