Krisboats

You stop that right now. Votes are for people who use correct grammar and who do good things. NOT for people who post mindless drivel or put up wanted style threads when it's against the rules.

That's okay then. I was worried for a minute

You clearly haven't tried one, or at least if you have you're massively inept at being a man. A proper shave with a double edge razor offers so much more than those crappy little disposables. It also turns shaving time from being a chore to being something you actually look forward to doing. You can pick up a double edge razor kit for around £40, which includes the handle (much nicer shaving with a proper weighty solid piece of kit) around 50 blades (which should last you a year or two) and then the pot of shaving cream and applicator brush. The blades are made to a much higher standard, the feather blades being exceptionally sharp. Which means far less irritation than a standard razor and they last longer too. It shaves closer so you're smoother and have more time between needing shaves. Basically after using a double edge razor a gillette power chav ultra will feel like you're trying to shave with a wallpaper scraper. Considering heads for the chavtastic razors are like £12 for 8 and they last 2-3 weeks before needing changing you're looking at around £20 a year anyway. Once you've bought your D.E. razor handle and accessories new blades are incredibly cheap. Merkur 38c is a good one to go for.

Having such a great group of friends is my best slow-gathering achievement. Giving a job to someone who was out of work for several years was fairly rewarding. Nearly finished building my own subwoofer. I love it, that's one i'm proud of. Getting paid to sit by a pool in dubai for a week in a 5 star hotel was quite nice too Sorry if it's supposed to be your ultimate bestest most amazing achievement. I'm a "cups half full" kinda guy!

Lets not turn this thread into a wanted thread, hey?

Yeah, it was on the back of my old jump bike until i realised how much lighter it was than the tioga i had on the front at the time. It would have been rude not to swap them.

Limey 2 - 2007 Also, while i think about it. Coustellier St blaise. (2004 according to biketrials.com) Base ta26 2004 Several pics in here.

Yes ben, time to get you out and about riding again. Coincidentally i actually saw some clips of you on youtube the other day in a related video link, made me wonder if i'd ever see you outside of a drunken night out in loughborough again. Bike looks lovely, hope your arthritic joints are up to it

Yeah, couldn't quote on my phone

Funny you should post in here. The bike the rim will be going on is your old one

Where abouts do you have the adjuster pin on the lever? Furthest position from the bars makes it less spongey and closest makes it more spongey. Also, i always find using a new cable for the first time it will stretch a little with the first few hours of riding and need adjusting again anyway. I'm using an odyssey linear slic now on the bb7 and compared to the wilko's cables i've had before it's slightly stiffer, though not massively. The only really obvious plus side is the fact the odyssey cable doesn't tighten if the bars spin round.

Well that was fantastic. There are so many there to play on and some of them are bloody HUGE! We played around on the ones here for quite a while. Also the ones on the top of this ridgehere looked great too, though there was a walking group there with park rangers who said we couldn't ride our bikes over the fields. I didn't really feel comfortable using a loud rear brake near them while they were sat having lunch so we ventured out and were too tired to ride them on the way back to the car. The rocks themselves are great, nice and big, not too techy and grippy as hell. I tore my glove open on a flat one when i slipped as the surface is like 100 grit sandpaper.

That looks fantastic. Those rocks look like a right old challenge!

:$ Cheers dude. It still needs some things changing as i got into some really bad habits. Seems every time i land i land on the edge as well no matter what size it is so i need to get myself into the mentality of it being okay to land on top sometimes as well. Riding rocks helped out a load with it as well, such a different skill set to just bashing from one wall/bench to the other.

Think i just jumped quick for that one mate. It isn't a new technique in general. It's just when i used to gap i did some silly pre hop thing before every gap and found it very difficult to gap from a stationary position on the edge of something. I also failed to preload so i've ditched my old technique and am starting to pick up this "new" one that is standard to everyone else. Previously i would have gone ryan leech style and landed in the centre of the first bench and then gapped straight from that, using my momentum to travel forwards further. Since i stopped doing that the other week and strated doing it how most others do i can jump a lot further and feel far more controlled in general. Which is great i guess.

Yeah forecast is drizle rain on and off all day with a bit of a downpour mid afternoon.

Bowgie, bowgay or bow-ger?

I know, trust me when i say this. It's not happening any time soon. I need more speakers before i even look at getting new bike frames! I would like to try them, but at the minute i've got other things to worry about financially so it'll be months off yet if i ever do get round to looking into it. My plans so far are huge wheelbase and then kind of build around that. This plan has currently been in the making for over 2 years though so it's not going to be flourishing any time in the next 12 months i don't think.

Who's got your knickers in a twist? What's the issue if i try it? I'd drop the stem size down and run a slacker head angle so the effective cockpit change is only a few inches for me I don't like being so far over the front axle, i want long but not front weighted.

Most of the best ones are. How many people do you think said that before they went to the moon? (i'm in no way saying this is the same level of awesome ) 1120 increases the wheelbase by the size of my fingernail, what's the point in that? My kona has a longer wheelbase than that! I've already done the tape measure thing when i first thought about this a few years ago, i've even held the front wheel in place with a coat hanger contraption to see where it would put it when the bike was on the back wheel.

I don't know of anyone over 6'4" trying a bike this size, no. The only one i recall was pete wrights 1200 thing with holes and i don't think he was particularly tall... I'm not saying i have to, i would just like to try it. Where's the harm in that? I've never met TRA but tunnicliffe isn't that tall at all, probably around 5'11"-6'. I've got a huge bar and stem combo already and the next longest stem i can see without going into silly angles of rise is 138mm. That's only 8mm longer! It's already putting my weight too far forward on the bike in comparison to the front wheel axle. The difference is they're trying to sell them to a mass market and i'm looking at a custom geo to suit one person.

Exactly. My full suspension bike has a wheelbase of 1180 and i've used that for trials and i can spin it no problem. Admittedly the head angle geo and chainstays are completely different but the wheel position was perfectly manageable.

On the contrary, you were standing on a yellow pages if i remember right Unfortunately i have things i need to pay for first, deposit for a new house is going to be a killer so it's not going to be soon or rushed into in the slightest. If it ever even happens.

If people were so cynical all the time humanity wouldn't have accomplished anything. It's not a waste of time at all, i'll either find out if it works or if it doesn't. If it does, it'll be one of the only ways i'll ever get one that fits me like that as it'll never be adopted into the mainstream trials market. My armspan is well over 2 metres, how many other riders can say that?

I've always wanted to try one. Proportionally speaking a purely TGS frame that feels long for most people still doesn't feel long enough for me. I would absolutely love a trials frame with a 28-29" cockpit area, but most seem to be under 27" I think a 1250wb bike with 29" wheels would feel to me how a 26" 1095wb feels for most average height people. Would you say you're about average height then? (note how i'm leaning down to you as well )