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You wont be too tall for it, with a 15" frame and a full sized seatpost your seat clamp is going to be around 21-23 inches above your bottom bracket... which is going to be more than enough to comfortably ride around on.

It doesn't have to be a specific height or else you can't ride it. Mines got a 14" seat tube and a seat post thats fits down to the very bottom of the seatube, when its pulled out it puts the seat height at something like 22" which is more than adequate. I can't stand to ride bikes with a seatpost that is so high you might as well be standing up, they just irritate me. And yes i ride about 8-10 miles on mine to get to bradgate park to do some downhilling and i dont have a problem. Stop asking loads of questions, go by a frame and enjoy it

Costs all of £99p for a litre at wilkinsons

I personally hate the look of that GT, just not my kind of thing at all. I prefer the look of the kona XC bikes/santa cruz kinda thing or the orange bikes for downhill. But.... That bike is truly gorgeous. Looks so sleek in black, like a ninja. The only thing that could possibly be changed is the silver burns for some black ones... but after a bit of use they'd be mostly silver anyway so its not too big a deal.

Hardly, you should see me when i'm in a swearing mood.... especally if i'm drunk

If your looking at doing dirt jumping on it i would say a 15" seatube is really the biggest you'd be comfortable with. I'm 6 foot 5 and my current dirt jump bike has a 14" seat tube and i still think this is a bit big. I find it much more comfortable to ride my friends 13" 24sevenas things like can cans are easier on it, its also easier to do things like tweaks and tabletops

I can pretty much guarantee this won't go to court. At the end of the day its nothing compared to when my sister logged onto my mums ebay account (automatically stored passwords, gutted mum) she went round bidding on dvd's cd's and everything she could think of that she wanted... it was over 30 auctions she won within one afternoon. We found out later that her method for consistant wins was to put a bid of £100000 on and she would win everytime. Obviously my mum didn't want to pay nearly £3,400 on ebay auction winnings so she just ignored everything to do with ebay and forgot about it. We looked a while later and she had received negative feedback from everyone my sister bidded on, but my mum still had full use of the ebay account and could still buy things off it. Be prepared to receive negative feedback, but don't bother offering a bribe, ebay will pay his relisting fees so theres no need for you to pay him anything... especially if you want the account being hacked excuse to be remotely beleivable by ebay. If they find out you give him a bribe you'll most likley get banned from using ebay. You've told him what *supposedly* happened now forget about it and go out riding.

Something i wrote for Joe Elding in his video thread but i guess could be useful to you as well.

That was a very fun to watch video... and i think the song put the right kind of air to the video. Gave the impression that riding is fun which is what a lot of videos lack these days, they're too serious. Cheers for the video

He can't take you to court... he can leave you negative feedback and can file an unpaid item strike against you where he fills in some form telling ebay what happened and they then check it out. I've had an unpaid item stike when i left my computer at school logged into my ebay site and my mate thought it would be funny to buy an air filter for a car... i just told the seller i didn't have a car and didn't buy the item and got a message saying that i'd had an unpaid item strike. That was all that happened about it as well Also if he relists it because you didn't pay, ebay will pay the relisting fee's so don't worry about that, just forget about it now... you've done it, the most they can do is ban you from using ebay, and what they are more likely to do is look at your previous references... see your a nice guy (if you've got some good feedback mind you) and just let you know you've received an unpaid item strike... whatever the f**k it is There is absolutely nowhere on the ebay site that describes what one of these strikes is. Don't be a c**k again and hope they let you carry on using ebay. EDIT: just found out "eBay will issue a strike on the account of the buyer who does not honor their obligation to pay. If a buyer gets too many strikes in too short a time period, their account will be suspended indefinitely." Too short a time being 3 in a year.

6'=72"..... 72"/3"=24 so the gerbil is going to be 24 times bigger than normal if its 6 foot tall. times the height a gerbil can jump normally by 24 and you get..... 72 feet.... hmm, guess i must have made some balls up somewhere... in my first go i got 9000 somthing inches, :$ I only got an E in A-Level maths

Gerbils are where is at for getting up stuff. A cat stands like 3/4 of a foot tall and can do 8 feet, thats 10.7 times its body height. A gerbil is roughly 3" tall and one of mine managed to jump onto my tv landing on its back feet, which stands at 35" high (its on a small tv table thing) which is a whopping 11.7 times its body height. So in a land of camels hooking walls and dogs doing 25' drops a human sized gerbil would be able to jump an amazing 819 feet up something.

Yeah going from a king to an el cheapo isn't something i'd have thought you'd be inclined to do. My old forks were so cut down it only clamped using the bottom bolt, i just made sure the bottom bolt was done up very tight indeed and that the top cap bolt was tight as well. That was untill my mate had the brilliant idea of bodging it. What we did was get another piece of steerer tube and cut it to the correct size so that there was enough steerer tube up the inside of the stem clamp.... so the piece was about 3/4 of an inch long. We then placed this piece of steerer tube into the stem while it was attached to the rest of the steerer tube in the frame and tightened up the stem bolts. The fantatsicly unusual next bit was to carefully hammer a second star fangled nut into this new piece of steerer tube so there was a star nut in both the new piece and the steerer thats attached to the forks. Once it was in place we tightened the topcap bolt up through both star fangled nuts and is seemed to last very well indeed. Well the forks snapped at the bottom of the steerer before the bodge broke

Ha ha, simon you legend.

The riding was alright, definitely a watchable video and i didn't find myself thinking "christ, this is soooo lame" like i have with other videos, so well done there. I do personally reckon that bike doesn't suit you in the slightest... a very nice bike it is but to me, you seem more of a stock rider and that you make the mod bike look very small indeed. Plus your riding position seems more like that of a stock bike rider, but hey it could just be me You seem like you've got sidehops dialed alright, better than mine anyway And you said you wanted a comment on the editing, so here goes. Well windows movie maker can make some alright videos, not great but they're okay to watch. I did notice that there wasn't even a remote hint of you using a transition between different clips, or any crossfades for that matter. It helps to break the video up and to add a bit of interest to the video... it can also be used to blend clips that are very similar in composition (the position of the rider/bike and the direction their gapping/travelling in etc.) so that the viewer gets hints of the move, kind of a subliminal mind f**k thing. Also in videos that are meant to have a fun feel to them the use of bolder transitions is good, like giant star shapes or rotating clips. The use of effects can be put into a video to help emphasize the move you wanted to do, for example, using a black and white filter and slo-motion on a clip helps to emphasize that it was big to you... you could have done it on the drop at the beginning to make a more dramatic start to the video, or to some of the larger gaps that were in there to help show them off. Also listening to the tempo of the song helps to get the video to seem more flowy. If its a slower beat more relaxed editing can be used showing the initial lifting of the front wheel then the move then the rider rolling out of the move where as faster tempos will suit editing where it cuts into the rider already about to gap... which ultimately keeps the viewer interested and eager to watch the video. So for slo tempo's things like sidehops and manuals seem to go well, where as for faster bits bunnyhops and large gaps go well too... though these examples can be used in the opposite scenario with the right type of editing, say for example you've got a large drop gap... it can be done with slo-motion and in a sepia (kind of tea stained black and white effect) to a slow tempo or can be edited sharply using only the preload of the gap and the landing in time to a faster tempo.... so its all about using your instinct at the end of the day and just experimenting with things. There's also a little phrase i heard somewhere that you could take into account when out and about which is "A part of editing that won't be found in any software is the camera work" something like that anyway, what it means is that a commonly overlooked part of video work is the actual filming... using unusual angles and using the zoom on the camera can all help to create an even more interesting video. Things like walls eye views of streety moves like bunnyhops and really zoomed in shots of the wheel as it moves past the camera all help to make the video that little bit more unique... so try to bear that in mind as well. After a couple of videos you'll start to see what works and what doesn't and it'll become easier to make them... so stick at it and bash some more out. Sorry about the length, i'm bored and it seemed to flow out. Hope it helps anyway .

ha ha, count me in.... theres some places nearby that i think we'll have to check out.... like a quarry 2 miles out of loughborough

Don't go to loughborough, its such a waste of time.... and the people there are losers

Ha ha, cheers, knocked it up in about 5 minutes'ish

Ha ha, what a topic... I personally think they'd be able to hook about 7+ feet for the fact that their legs are like 5 feet long so if they jumped they could easily get their front legs up a 7 foot wall, then all they have to do is haul their ass a bit and the jobs a good 'un Now the real question is how well can a kangaroo fufanu a wall?

I remember the spelling bee from when i first joined the forum. I never heard the buzzzz noise in threads that contained posts of his though . I want to see the bee get to work in new members chat tonight, that'd annoy them a lot (<<<notice i got it correct). Go bee, go!

Wikipedia is the best... its just soo true left click link

Yeah, nobody else wears them either

I'm pretty sure thats the reason most people buy a bike. And why are you making judgements on it... for all you know it could be such an amazingly nice bike to ride, if it rides well it doesn't matter what it looks like. I personally think mod bikes look stupid but i don't complain about them and i will freely admit that some mod bikes ride realy nicely.

FSA headsets are pretty decent, the pigs are tough and i've been running an orbit XL II on my trials bike for the past 18 months so again it should be fine for you. Unsure about the forks, they're pretty budget suspension ones aren't they? You might be better off with some rigid forks to help keep the weight of the front end down and to allow you to throw the bike about a bit easier. However, i say might because you could be one of the people that will prefer suspension forks... which can be used for trials (ryan leech for example, uses suspension forks with ease) though i think you might want to check on ebay for some second hand rock shox forks, they will be fairly light and will almost definately be more durable and hard wearing than the rst's would be. I take it you got a 2003 TA26 then, with you saying its blue and brand new.