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sand paper will do very little for your pads in terms of increasing performance. gimme a minute while i find something well this will sort it out should it be something on the rotor, but you will also want to check around the pistons and the lever and all the hosing to make sure you havn't developed a leak anywhere. EDIT: here's a little something i made earlier: (i did this to my louise and it is the best disc brake i've ever used now) Mine was like this up until two days ago when i sorted iot out. Here's basically what i did to it and it has made it absolutely awesome. Take your wheel out and then take the brake pads out of the disc brake. Take the pads into the kitchen and turn on one of the gas rings on the hob. Hold the pads with pliers or something else that will result in your hand not getting burnt, and hold them in the flames after a while they will start to smoke and you will most likely see little sparkles of bright light burn from them. I burnt mine for approxiamtely 2 minutes. Do this for both the pads. Get hold of a saucepan and fill it with water. Then put that on the gas ring and let the water get hot. Drop the pads in and leave them in there to boil, mine were in there for around 20 minutes to make sure it worked. At the same time as the pads are boiling you can bring your wheel in (you can use wire wool as well just to take the majority of the crap off the rotor but this is optional) and put some washing up liquid on a clean or preferrably a brand new cloth or sponge. Just put a little washing up liquid on it and rub it in to make sure you won't have too much washing up liquid on there, just a slight bubbly mix ias all you need. Proceed to clean off the disc rotor with the washing up liquid and then get a clean dry cloth to dry off the excess moisture when its been thoroughly cleaned. At this point your pads should be about done. Take the saucepan off the gas ring and pour the hot water into the sink. then pour some cold water into the saucepan just to cool tha pads off a bit so you will be able to hold them. Wipe the surface of the brake pads on a clean dry cloth, i used a teatowel but do so at your own risk of raging mother syndrome. You should find theres a load of black muck thats smeared onto the cloth at first, but after a good rubbing this black brake crap will be pretty much gone and you pads will now be ready for putting back on the bike. Re-attach the neccessary parts and bed the brake in as normal. Just hold the brake slightly as you ride around (not so it locks up) and when it starts to get noticeable more grippy pour some cold water on it, you should get a load of hissing and steam from it if you got it hot enough. Then ride around with the brake slightly omn again to clear the water off and wait for it to cool down again. That should be it then, you'll have a nice working front disc brake! have fun

It was blatantly a rudeboy skally then that got annoyed when he saw the sticker, look at it this way though... you technically insulted him after he'd stiolen it. Well Done You!! I'm glad you've got it sorted dude.

Right okay then here goes. Theres a wall in front of me, with a fairly large drop on the other side and another wall on the other side of the drop that i'm planning on gapping to. I take a run up and bunnyhop at the first wall, this is where all the irrelevant things start to lose their focus. I pull really hard and then mangae to bunny hop onto the wall, Now my eyes are looking at the wall where my rear tyre is now on. As soon as I can see that my tyre is on the wall i lift my head and seek out the landing point on the next wall. I genuinely cannot see anything around me other than the two walls and the though i try not to look i can also see the gap, I think this is where the excitement comes from and a sudden rush of adrenalin as i subconciously realise its make or break time. Even if i wanted to i don't think i could look around at all the things going on around me. But i can hear them all, from lorries to cars to peoples footsteps, I reckon i could most likely hear a ninja trying to sneak up on me. As i look at the other gap i quickly compose myself again and get myself into a comfortable position with a couple of little jumps so that my back tyre is bouncing on the wall, this also means that my tyre isn't obstructed or stuck so i won't fly forwards when i go to do the gap. I'm now fully concentrating on the landing area. I lower my self and thrust myself forwards, instinctively and without thinking about it i release the brake start to jump forwards and kick the pedals. this all happens without me really thinking about it and happens so fast it might as well be all at the same time. The take off point is when i'm going to find out whether or not i'm going to make it i can tell in the air how i need to shift my body weight and despite it happening really fast in actual time i feel like i have all the time in the universe to pull the bike upwards and bend my knees, i then look out for that landing area again because its been knocked out of my sight when i jumped so violently I can ever really recall what exactly my head does at this point but i just know i have to find that landing area again. my head points in its general direction and my vison becomes crystal clear as i see it again and i start to stretch my legs forwards and try to place the rear wheel pretty much exactly on the landing area. If i havn't put enough power into the kick on the pedals i have to corect it now. This is where i push the bars right out in front of me to get just that little bit closer to where i should be and i have to try and move my shoulders in line with the bike as well so i don't land akwardly and get a puncture. As the wheel touches the other side of the gap i have to feel it land and at that exact moment i have to start to bend my knees to soak up some of the force of me landing. I don't really see where i'm landing now because i look up and try to concentrate all my enegry on staying on the wall, I have to shift my bodyweight forwards so i don't slip back into the gap and if my tyre isn't seated properly on the wall i have to jump up a little bit so i can get the wheel onto the top of the wall my centre of mass begins to move forwards. As soon as my body weight gets central over the bike i can stand up and at this point i'm free. For i have just made the gap and have escaped the certain injury that i would have got if i had fallen in the gap. All the real world starts to come back to me now, i need it to so i don't mees up when i'm coming back into it. I'm more relaxed now as well and dropping off this wall back down to the pavement is going to be so smooth, I can hear whether or not people are going to be coming around me by their footsteps and i cna see all the things in front of me with pin sharp clarity and i look down at the floor ready to falll down onto it. Another bounce on my back wheel and i kick the pedals again and fall back into the real world. There you go, i hope that was what you were looking for. i could make my own trials novel with this stuff, how boring would a book be really! I also have a picture that pretty much sums it up with how the world loks to me when i'm ridingso i'll stick that up for you to better understand it.

well i don't think many of your posts are very helpfull mesaman, you seem to try and cause arguments everywhere and i remember when you kept posting all over the place just for the sake of it being a post. It WAS VERY IRRITATING!! To make a thread thats as usueless as this one is going against several of the things you said above, like being childish and immature. Wouldn't it have been a bit MORE mature for you to have pm'd the mod/admin that you have a problem with instead of plastering it all over here? I get the fact that you seem a little stressed out, but hey this is an internet forum. It will have little kids in here and it will have more sensible people in here, as with just about everything in life. And as for it being a dictatorship, maybe some people like the forum! i know i do, the only thing i can possibly think of changing on this forum would be for people to be allowed to put up pictures of their bikes in sites,vids, and pics. but even with me wanting this i can see and completely understand why it isn't allowed. I don't think you have any right to go around moaning about being banned from posting and how everybody is immature with some of the things that you have said. Calling people "f**king c**ts" isn't really acceptable or appropriate is it? i just think you need to relax about it a bit more or just plain go away, if you don't like it why stick around?

Well nobody in this thread has mentioned anything about burning rotors! that would just be plain silly. Magura tell you to clean a rotor in hot water with washing up liquid and Hope actually advise you to clean a disc rotor properly by placing it in the dishwasher. advising people to put white spirits on a disc brake is very wrong indeed. it just leaves a greasy film on the rotor and after that the brake loses all its power. DO NOT PUT WHITE SPIRITS ON YOUR ROTOR!! And i did exactly as i said in my post further up there to my own disc brake the other night and it worked much better than most of the suggestions i had about how to get it working again, so i know it works!

Thats why you burn them first, believe me it works. and seeing as its not a car and the wheel can be taken out by undoing a bolt or quick release skewer its not really that hard is it? The boiling isn't neccesarily for the wd-40 but for any other crap that might be on the pads as well... in my case it was brake fluid that had been put onto the pads from my old dirty rotor. But burning the pads should get rid of the wd_40 because it should evaporate or just plain blow the shit out of most of it.

well seeing as you asked so nicely i would be more than happy to do it for you. What exactly do you mean by "blow by blow" account though? do you want every little detail of doing a gap? or do you want it simple in a list?

I don't seem to be able to visually see much thats going on around me but i can hear it all perfectly, its like my ears have to listen out just in case anything does happen. My vision is fully locked on what i'm about to do and my mind is almost completely blank. Its like all my senses are loads higher than normal but they're all doing different things. And the balance isn't really something i notice, i mean when you've been riding for long enough your balance is already really good so it just seems normal for you to be able to sit on a wall on your back wheel ready to jump. And if things don't go as planned, like if you land akwardly, i seem as though my brain is working twice as fast as normal. I seem to be able to think "oh shit, move that way more" almost before i've landed. On this subject i also find it is much easier to avoid things when i'm riding.. like me reaction times are much higher. i have managed to dodge several things hitting my head (like footballs) and the other week i managed to move my head around hitting a metal bar whilst i was in the middle of a gap, i was actually dodging it as i was flying through the air. There's also the increased knowledge of how to move your body. I can perfectly blance things and stay upright in the most unusual positions when i'm not on the bike so i guess that riding has helped increase my contriol and senses in everyday life as well. Which helps for being able to perfectly balance a pint of beer on my knee when i'm sitting down without spilling it everywhere, i can even wiggle my foot around without it falling. I also find that i can play computer games better after i've been riding. I'm much faster and more accurate when compared to if i havn't been riding. I love the feeling of being like this, I reckon its the closest i will ever get to being superhuman!

Sounds like this is actually getting somewhere now then, i bet your counting down the minutes till you can go round at touch it again. I know i would. I seriously hope you get it sorted out though dude.

Mine was like this up until two days ago when i sorted iot out. Here's basically what i did to it and it has made it absolutely awesome. Take your wheel out and then take the brake pads out of the disc brake. Take the pads into the kitchen and turn on one of the gas rings on the hob. Hold the pads with pliers or something else that will result in your hand not getting burnt, and hold them in the flames after a while they will start to smoke and you will most likely see little sparkles of bright light burn from them. I burnt mine for approxiamtely 2 minutes. Do this for both the pads. Get hold of a saucepan and fill it with water. Then put that on the gas ring and let the water get hot. Drop the pads in and leave them in there to boil, mine were in there for around 20 minutes to make sure it worked. At the same time as the pads are boiling you can bring your wheel in (you can use wire wool as well just to take the majority of the crap off the rotor but this is optional) and put some washing up liquid on a clean or preferrably a brand new cloth or sponge. Just put a little washing up liquid on it and rub it in to make sure you won't have too much washing up liquid on there, just a slight bubbly mix ias all you need. Proceed to clean off the disc rotor with the washing up liquid and then get a clean dry cloth to dry off the excess moisture when its been thoroughly cleaned. At this point your pads should be about done. Take the saucepan off the gas ring and pour the hot water into the sink. then pour some cold water into the saucepan just to cool tha pads off a bit so you will be able to hold them. Wipe the surface of the brake pads on a clean dry cloth, i used a teatowel but do so at your own risk of raging mother syndrome. You should find theres a load of black muck thats smeared onto the cloth at first, but after a good rubbing this black brake crap will be pretty much gone and you pads will now be ready for putting back on the bike. Re-attach the neccessary parts and bed the brake in as normal. Just hold the brake slightly as you ride around (not so it locks up) and when it starts to get noticeable more grippy pour some cold water on it, you should get a load of hissing and steam from it if you got it hot enough. Then ride around with the brake slightly omn again to clear the water off and wait for it to cool down again. That should be it then, you'll have a nice working front disc brake! have fun

Ha ha its well funny reading all the people trying to defend the ipod, and in turn apple as a company in general. They are overly hyped products that don't seem to have a high build quality to them. My mates one is always stopping and freezing and getting replaced. Well not always but he's had 4 of them because they stopped working. Yes they play mp3's and not wma's which is a bit of a mistake seeing as it would be better to allow the user to choose what music type they listened to. i would be very pissed off to have a music collection in wma format only to buy an ipod and realise i can't put all my music on it as fast as i could if i bought a product with more compatibilty. i would imagine encoding 2500+ songs like i have would take a long time to encode into mp3 using i tunes (yes i have the program, and yes i've changed wma's into mp3's before) I would say go for one of the sony porducts, the nwa3000 showed earlier seemd a lot better than an ipod. I own one of the earlier versions of it the nw-hd3 which is a lot easier to use than an ipod and has been a lot more reliable. I've had it over 2 years now and it's taken a lot of abuse, including falling down stairs, on rocks, being dropped, kicked, and sat on. It is a bit scratched and has a couple of chips out of it but that isn't a manufacturing fault is it... and its hardly a functionality problem. Plus the battery lasts roughly twice as long as an ipod does. plus at £160 its cheaper than a similarly sized capacity ipod as well. Edit: haha he said apple bummers, not mac bummers. yet again this was turned into a computer mac vs pc argument. u did get "owned" though. There's no way you can say that the ipod's were well designed. there was like 8 versions of the original huge ass ipod when it came out because they had so many flaws. Like with the i pod mini which was designed so badly that if you gripped the top too hard when you pulled your headphones out the circuit connecting the two main boards inside snapped and the ipod was from that point on "f**ked".

A security system for the island. Crazy french chic explained that one. Pay attention! I've also seen episodes 1-9 already and have to say it only gets better and more confusing as it progresses. They've also already filmed the first 3 seasons of it in sunny old hawaii. Apparantly its not illegal to download it because it has been aired on t.v. in america so if you really wanted to watch it you could have flown over to see it. It's something to do with it being because it was freely distributed or something like that. Which is also one of the reasons you can infact buy the next episodes of lost, desperate housewives, stargate, neighbours all on ..... yep you guessed it, good old ebay.co.uk

I don't like macs, but i do like pc's. The macs just aren't as versatile as my pc is, my pc runs adobe photoshop just as well as any mac does, but the macs don't play the games like my pc does. they also don't like most of the other software that my pc does to make things like dvd copying easier. I like the style of the mac with the nice blue ripply background and the white menu bars but thats about it. Oh, and the ability to make folders different colours. But my pc can use images though so it kind of makes different colours obsolete. And i suppose if it was that big a deal i would be running windowblinds to change it to the mac style. I also don't get why most people seem to think pc's aren't reliable. I've only had mine for around 10 months but i've never had any major problems with it except when the shop upgraded the gfx card and the motherbard couldn't cope with it so they had to upgrade that as well. It never crashes! And it never gets virus's and spyware, well its had one trojan but it was automatically deleted so it doesn't count as having one. i think its fairly safe to say that its the user who manages to f**k pc's up. "oooh whats this on limewire?... a song thats 186.3kb in size and is in a .exe extension that must be a good song." It also does little things that are completely baffling like when andy was trying to sort out whether or not i should upgrade my hard drive it doesn't display any information about my hard drive in the device manager other than the fact that it is, a hard drive. And when i put in a dvd movie the computer stops for a second and then carries on again. This gives my pc more of a personality than a mac. Basically what i'm trying to say is...... Shit topic, people will almost always be biased to what they have because they like it. And the majority of people on here have pc's.

Whitby is a seaside town, i think he was referring to the picture that was in your quote not your name! I don't like riding too far to get to a riding place. About ten miles is the most i'll do happily, but if i have the chance i willl always get the train there instead.

odi longneck bmx grips, cut the flanges off and the jobs done. They feel so nice, unless like me you manage to be able to turn the grips sticky within a couple of months. They'll last for years though.

link to headphones (black) link to headphones (white) Same ones as above just cheaper than they are at crappy currys. They do sound absolutely brilliant, I had a pair about a year ago and they are still working now only the rubber that surrounds the inner cabling has pretty much completely eroded away. Its a common fault with these headphones, but i was bought another pair this christmas and the rubber seems to be completely different so it looks like they changed it. They have an absolutely brilliant sound quality and have 3 different earbud sizes that fit into your ears so you can get them to perfectly fit your ear canal. And they're rwally cheap when you consider the fact you could get a pair of shure e2 headphones instead.

I just bought one of the hope +20mm adapters from chain reaction yesterday and it seems to be pretty good. I did find that the little tabs that stick out the inside of the caliper got stuck on it so i just cut the tab off. works a treat as well. I also got one of the a2z version 5 disc rotors from the woollyhatshop ebay shop. It looks awesome and stays a lot cooler than my old magura one used to get. The brake hasn't fully bedded in yet but it is already so much better than how it was before i bought all these new bits for it.

i will do, awesome. cheers dude. so is there anything i need to do to the rotor? or do i just have to wait for my postman and bang it all together?

Wow this is an immense video, I bet the poeple at tv.isg.si are most likely going apeshit that this video has taken up so much bandwidth. It was really well edited and the filming and angles and quality of the shots was truly awesome, only problems is i was mega bored at the end. But i would suppose that this is a good thing, because it means the rding at the beginning was so good it made me want to go out and ride. Then as the video went on the hunger for riding just grew so i ended up getting bored and going out on my bike. Not many vids make me wanna ride this much, so well done to you!

The second series is apparantly also legal because its been shown in america, therefore idf we really wanted to we could go over there and watch it so for some reason its okay to download them/ buy them over here. Well thats what ebay said anyway, yuo van make a right mint selling series 2 on ebay sometimes you can get almost £30 for about 10 episodes on 2 dvd discs at really shit quality. These last two are going to be good, i won't spoil it for you or say anything other than they'll definately leave you with lots of questions and definately wanting more!

oh i was hoping someone wouldn't say get new pads, thats another £16 doen the drain then. Would it harm my rotor if i just tried the pads on it to see if they work? or is there any way i can make sure their clean? surely, if i file off some material and then burn them and boil them they should be alright shouldn't they? The only problem with bleeding my disc is that i can't make out what the magura manual wants me to do, i pretty much have a hs33 bleed kit. I just need a new syringe for it, will this kit work or will i need something else seeing as its a fancy disc brake?

Shakespeare definately knew his shit! I love riding because its f**kin awesome to look back and see how you've managed to ride over the most unimaginable thing in the world. Like a gap from a roof to a phone box to a rail then to another rail and back onto the safe floor. If you look at the items on their own and think how can i ride them , its just puzzling. I mean, its a roof and a phonebox and a rail. How should it be possible to ride them? Thats what fascinates me. plus all the other stuff like keeping me fit and it being fun and relaxing and a way to escape life for a bit.

Someone should be riding in a wood on logs in the snow for decemeber. And on sea defenses in the sunshine for june or july. I think it'd be a good idea and if i have any images that might be helpful i will put them up for show.