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I found anything rear wheel related easier with a lower longer stem. It gave a bit more leverage with manuals so you could do more precise adjustments, i still sucked at manuals though lol... i'm only just getting the hang of them now.

That was some awesome footage, chases riding didnt really do much for me but his little hand plant over that branch on the dirt jumps was awesome. I can't believe some people dont think this is good riding. Just because it isn't the conventionally boring and repetitive hoppy hoppy style of todays impressionable youth doesnt mean its not good riding. I think some people ought to stop breaking down riders into categories and saying "thats not trials is it!". Or is it the fact that people have gotten into the mentality that trials is purely hoppy hoppy UCI moves and have lost all ability to register something unique and original as being remotely trials orientated.

They did a half and full fat rim set a while back, only thing i can think of that remotely related to being skimmed .

There sure is, i'm going there in a few minutes to have a play. We'll chat about it on msn or soemthing mate, sort it all out.

I can get the train straight from loughborough and be there for around 4.10

Can you elaborate on that please? Did you mean weak and overpriced or cheap and tacky?

Like the old owner grinding the outside I beam parts off the cranks because it "dug into his heel". Effectively leaving the cranks with a thinner weaker section? because thats what he did, he didn't sand/file the sharp edges down, he ground the ridges and the entire logo section flat.... Get some burns john, their one of the most popular and widely recommended cranks available... for a reason too, can't wait to get some myself.

Tis one mighty fine colour'd frame you got there Very nice, pretty tall stem though... i was a fan of the 110mm 5 degree rise on that steed, but to each his own i guess. hope you have a shit load of fun with it.

I guess we are, we usually do. Aparantly the rain is gonna hold off and the sun'll come out tomorrow so it should be a good day

Ha ha, with me being the legend that i am i fixed that crazy pingle shaped wheel

I'm gonna really annoy you now and let you know that, on average, it takes somewhere between 3 and 10 minutes for me to get to sleep. I just usually lie there face down on the bed, take a deep breath and let it out and thats it... usually i'm asleep. However if i can't get to sleep for more than 5 minutes i get agitated, this results in me then having to try and get to sleep, for which i do exactly the same, but i think about a scenario that i could be in... like riding in a competition or having fun riding a skatepark. After about a minute of lieing there, eyes closed thinking about riding i "make it more interesting", this usually involves something really far fetched like pulling off double backflip 360 tailwhips or something equally crazy, after another minute move on to something even more crazy... aliens lazers and spaceships trying to stop me riding should do it, and at this point you should find yourself already starting to drift to sleep and the story your imagining will start to carry on without you thinking about it. Another minute and you'll be asleep Apparantly it has something to do with concentrating on and using the creative side of your brain, the one thats most active when sleeping (for dreaming obviously), if you concentrate on using it while lieing still the other parts of the brain have nothing to do (motor control, problem solving... stuff like that) they effectively go to sleep, this, funnily enough... also sends you off to sleep. Works everytime P.S. If at the "drowsy/dreams taking over" stage you realise your going to sleep, dont get excited think of it as an accomplishment and smile, or reposition yourself to get comfy for sleeping because you've just used the motor section of the brain and will have to start again to send it off to sleep.

You knows it

I've tried using a ouija board before, nothing happened. I do reckon things exist though, my mates house is proper freaky. Me and him were talking one night about the weirdest/creepiest thing we've ever seen and he told me about how he's seen a person at the end of their dining room, like a kid who walks around or is sat down on a chair, he said he only ever sees it briefly but its long enough to know its there and to quickly see what it looks like. By the time he he's turned his head to look properly at it its gone... But anyway... He was describing it to me when his sister walks in from the kitchen with a look of horror on her face and finishes off the description of the kid. They both sat there in complete shock because they'd never told anyone about seeing it before. Since they got a dog as well their dog sometimes stands in the lounge barking and growling at the end of the dining room in a way i've never seen it act before. And i admit i have seen something when i've stopped round for the night before, i was almost asleep on the sofa when out the corner of my eye i saw what looked like a little kid running across from one side of the room to the other, but i guess it could have been shadows or something.... unfortunately though it was like 2 weeks BEFORE he told me about it If aliens exist, do you reckon they have trials riding? And do you reckon any of them can gap further than Tunni or TRA?

Quote from a famous british film, however it was slightly incorrect. "liberate tuteme ex inferis" Liberate is a plural imperative and the reflexive pronoun should be vos or vosmet, not tutemet. Means "save yourselves from hell"

I went 3 weeks ago and the place was dead, went on all the major rides twice, biggest que was 15 minutes for Rita and went on air like 3-4 times. Might be up for it if i can find someone local or passing through my way, who wouldn't mind letting me pay for food and some petrol

I've made 3 different kings skip, not by a lot but they have. It seems easier to make them skip when your being smoother on them and its nearly always been when i'm doing something really tiny like a little roll forwards as opposed to a beasty gap. My hope has skipped once or twice and so has an eno i've been on. A mate's profile has skipped on me too. Basically, any hub will skip, theres no difinitive design thats completely ideal for trials. As to strength issues, i've seen a cracked profile, a cracked king, cracked hope, snapped king hub flanges, snapped sun ringle hub flanges and snapped axles on all but the pro II hub (i dont know if anyone has yet have they?). All i'm saying is there will always be someone that will break something somehow, whether its a product defect or useage that causes it, don't be put off just because a friend of a friend of a brothers uncle saw a picture of a cracked one once.... think of how many there is in use and just choose which you think'll be best for you. Hope are british though so warranties are quicker/cheaper than with a king, with king being in the U.S. and all that.

I dont get bank holidays at uni.... saturday it is

I use a 185 bb7 rotor on my stock bike and its a beast with the standard pads, bit shite with fibrax pads though... they definately prefer sintered pads.

Yep, he's right

You had a look at the forum? Theres a search button at the top of the page, under the advert banner... looking somehting like this: Forum Gallery Calender Search Members Guidleines Contact The search is useful, it gives you all kinds of things, next time use that before you make a topic to see if ones already been made recently and you'll find These topics just by typing in grind in the search box. Have fun

Why didnt you just buy a modem/router combo for like an extra tenner? Gets rid of all the mess and means you only need one device seperating the signal from the socket to the computer instead of having 2.

What the hell gave you that idea? My T-Rex bunnyhops about 41" and my old base TA26 used to bunnyhop 42-43"... I find High BB bikes are a hell of a lot harder to bunnyhop because they loop out easier.

That engine sounded awesome, i would love an american car that purred like that, i would hate those giant red and yellow light block things though, if they're only lights couldn't that have used LED's or something

Lower centre of gravity too? When i go on high bb bikes i feel like their less stable laterally than level bb bikes. Say if i was gonna do a bridge gap between two high rocks, i would be more inclined to feel less stable on a high bb bike than on a level one. Mind you with my height a level bb bike makes everything looks pretty small anyway. High bb frames are for people who aren't man enough to keep a level bb bike steady on the back wheel

2.35 minion had loads of room and a 2.5 michelin comp 24 fitted fine, essentially the same tyre and tread type as the maxxis.