SQuiT-man

Right, basically I met a stunner of a girl who I get on with great, but shes not 18 yet (although she looks about 19/20) and we wanna see ricky gervais which is "no under 18s" does anyone know, do they ID you or anything at the door? Or ID at all for that matter? Cheers, Scott

the overall effective gearing (when you take into account the size of the wheels as a factor) is pretty damn similar on a mod and a stock though. Besides, to achieve the right gear ratio, if you get a smaller front chainring you generally get a smaller rear also, so no more tension? tis true That sounds a bit more feasible though perhaps, but only if the load is spread across each chainlink which is engaged on the chainring (and not say if there was any slight slack between links when it's on the chianring, all the load would always be on the last link so it wouldnt matter on how big the chainring is) Id still think the chainring size shouldn't matter much though , mods are a great example of this

Ive looking into this a lot because I have absolute killer hangovers all the time (e.g. yesterday i spent the whole day vomming). i hate those people who can wake up feeling fine (normally girls lol) Hangovers are infact NOT all down to dehydration and loss of electrolytes, which could be sorted simply by downing lots of water and lemonade-y stuff theres a lot more to it- if you check out some of the latest hangover-preventative pills and things you can buy (they work but I can't afford to use them all the time, they're bloody expensive) a lot of them have certain carbon-based ingredients which attatch themselves to the congeners/impurities found in your drink, which is left as a product of fermentation and often gives some drinks their flavour. Because this is done inside your stomach, absorbtion of it into ur blodstream can be prevented, but the alcohol is still absorbed. It really works- you don't get hungover this way, even though you can still get very drunk So basically this means that in a way the above is partially true- there is no real hangover cure, only preventatives such as pills or drinking water to avoid the dehydration part, etc. One thing you can do though is get your blood flowing so youre body can work faster at kicking those congeners out, e.g. sticking out the rough feeling and going for a jog. Im often not feeling upto it, but it does seem to work much, much faster on days when I have!

Why do people think that smaller front chainring puts more pressure on the chain? As long as you adjust the rear chainring accordingly so the gear ratio is different, there would only be two reasons I can think of to higher stress: i) putting force through the drivechain with the back brake on, which we don't really do (chains go while you are in mid-pedal surge, not when the brakes are on) ii) the bash being too small, so that the chainring/chain is exposed to the surfaces you go to bashguard on but the second one is pretty valid.. Personally I'd probs still go for the heatsink just out of my preference

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/hope-185mm-disc-roto...1QQcmdZViewItem Will this work? Also, have people found that wavey-style disks work better than the standard circular ones? Is there noticable difference between different rotors?

Im in need of a new disk rotor for my avid bb7, which came with a 185mm rotor.. I'm running FATTY forks btw, don't know if this makes a difference since i know nothing about disk attachments, etc Can i run a 205mm hope disk, or 203mm avid disk, without the need for additional fittings?? Also, what rotor replacements would you reccomend bearing in mind im not made of money? lol. Cheers, Scott

Just now was my first ride on the control and I was getting a bit too into throwing everything into my gaps to front on the my new control, when this happened lol, ive never seen a disk cripple so bad without warning anybody else had this with their avid disks? Scott

Does look nice, but also does look longer, perhaps a little long for my taste. Also, the BB looks a bit heigher to me, if it is I'd prefer the older 221's I reccon, this doesn't look quite so bunnyhop-inspiring

The safety problems i was thinking of were more things like.. what if you crashed and landed the wire "downtube" on a rock or something? Surely this would cause the bike to fold, since a small amount of force applied through the middle of the wire towards the hinge would multiply the tension in that wire no end!? Also, since the wire is giving no side-to-side ridgidity to the frame, surely there'd be a lot of sideways stress on that hinge, since it's the only thing keeping the front and back of the frame pointing in the same direction? Just don't do skids i guess! lol

that was pretty amasing, i never normally like comp footage videos but that was impressive.. definately make some proper videos!

great vid, was lovin' the ride too, it suits u

Im tempted to grind down the flange on the dropouts since it would cause no structural damage to the frame.. I guess if I filed the chris king bolts it'd always be damaged whenever i change frames in the future/sell my king, wouldnt want that! Do you think this was done on purpose so chris kings couldn't be used, but deng hubs could be? Do deng bolt-through hubs use bolts whose threads are no larger than the diameter of the bolt itself (unlike King bolts, which widen at the thread, hence causing the problem)? If so, thats a bit cheeky/clever

Hi, Does anyone out there use a Chris King in their control, with the heavy duty bolts? Mine don't seem to want to fit in the frame because of the way the dropout is formed having a big flange of metal stopping the bolt from slipping in correctly.. Ive never heard of this problem before, how did anyone else get around it? Cheers, Scott

i live in ringwood, closer to bournemouth than soton, and im off to uni at warwick most of the time but might be out at a big ride someday

i cant see any new vid..?

I think thats an awesome idea, id love a slightly more newskool orange zero

is that the one of you riding monte halls? if so ive already seen it, infact ive already ridden those halls this year, my best mate's adam white if you know him? think he might have swapped his giant trials team with ur mate's zona, if ur who i think you might be lol p.s. cheers for the vid!

y dont you like the frame? and did u come from an adamant a1 '06? cos i'm about to probs get an echo control short to replace my '06 a1 long, just for the change.. sweet vid btw, i really liked the idea behind it

humpage

it was a carbon fibre wheel btw

that wall hook looked ridiculous, sweet vid mate

haha, good ol' monte halls i was riding those kitchens drunk a couple of terms ago

having a gander on that oldskool video page, i thought this was pretty impressive.. looks huge for a pedalup on an oldskool rig: http://biketrials.com/b/videos/01-Keyesvil...un-TouchHop.mpg

pretty good, looks like u have fun riding, with the spins/mini manuals, etc

is there anywhere else it could be uploaded? its taking forever for me, got to 2%..