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I had to tell someone. It's green, clicks a lot and seems to weigh a shocking amount. Do I have to anything do to it before I start riding ?

doesnt sound all that safe to me - you can get a fixed cog thatll fit on your cranks for about £12 still, they're your teeth (Y)

im not 100% on this but i think stock hubs are a lot wider cos the frames are designed round having a cassette . a profile built into an onza rim is £215 ish - theyre about £150-170 on their own a chris king bmx hub is around the £400 mark - nice if you can get someone else to pay for it. the echo ones look pretty good value - i was quoted £185 for one built into a new echo rim - the bad news is that nobody seems to have them in stock yet.

I think it looks quite pretty . Theres loads of pigeonholing about riding styles and which bike you need - most of it is complete arse. Obviously a specialist bike will be better suited to a specific type of riding than a general purpose one but to say you can't ride trials on that bike would be wrong. If it were me I'd ditch the bouncy forks and make sure i was running some nice low gearing.

if memory serves.... the eno trials freewheel has 6 pawls and 72 engagements now the maths.... if you put an eno on the front you get 72 engagements if you put the echo hub on and run 18-12 gearing you actually get 98 engagements at the pedals i've had a fight with onzaboymark about this in the past and he was right going the echo route means you end up forking out a lot of cash - say 120 for the hub, 40 for a rim, 20 quid for the spokes and build, 15 quid for a front sprocket = 195 quids. compare that to 85quid (which is the most expensive I've seen) for an eno and your decision is made for you ... theres also the fact that i cant find an echo hub for sale anywhere yet.

:P - nice one mark. yours doesnt look like you have to buy it from a sex shop though.

i ride in the weeny skateparks in camridge quite a lot. the local bmxers are pretty cool as a rule and they all think front freewheels are funny. theres much joy to be had on ramps and going the wrongway up funboxes is lovely too

www.trashzen.com pedal hop basic pedal kick I have to pimp Julien whenever possible, its the law

I made the mistake of telling my missus how much my bike cost - I was in all sorts of trouble to start with but then... I pointed out that her gym membership for the year came to more than my bike and that she probably spends more on warpaint, face cream, hairbands and shampoo in a year than my bike is ever going to cost me. If all of that fails, tell her that free with the bike you'll be getting a lovely pair of man boobies (the good kind), a nice new arse, a lumpy stomach, bigger arm muscles and (on average) an extra 15 minutes poking when you have those special cuddles (due to increased stamina from all the bouncing). Also, don't forget you dramatically reduce the likelyhood of the prostate problems and erectile disfunction associated with cycling by riding a bike with no seat. there you go - wife sorted :lol:

Its not going to snap the first time you ride off something (provided you dont ride off a 14foot drop and land flat - which is going to sprain both your wrists and probably your ankles anyway). the more experienced members will no doubt correct me if im wrong but I think im right in saying that comp oriented frames aren't designed to break as soon as you ride on the pavement, they just have thinner tubes compared to 'streety' frames and wont last as long if you keep bashing them into walls. As long as you take care of the frame (ie - avoid gapping to downtube) it'll probably last you plenty long enough to decide whether you like trials or not.

i envy people secure enough in their sexuality to get pink rims ( apologies if you are a big bender :'( ) it does look pretty but I reckon you want to try some black rim tape , the red&pink are a bit clashy EDIT how does it feel compared to the original bar&stem ? i reckon i could do with a longer stem on mine but im not sure which one to get .

or for the same money you could get a shiny new python/team/gu\etc etc frame or go on holiday or pay my council tax for this month and get me some new shoes. if it broke that quickly its probably a manufacturers defect, hubs aren't supposed to break that soon. my cheap as chips fixed onza hub is still fine after months of gapping and bouncing etc..

looks like a weeny stock. i like the bashguard arrangement - you could probably get away with plastic side bits on that design as well - which would make it cheap to replace and reduce the shock going into the mounts. on the bashguard vs no-bashguard argument. why dont they just build a mod with bash mounts that dont poke out very far ? its not like theres an international standard for bashmount fittings to worry about (probably ?) EDIT: they are plastic arent they.... dong

...bit of both Im just trying to point out that some b*****d is always going to take the piss out of you no matter what you wear or do.

I regularly take the piss out of people for wearing silly goth clothes and make-up , mismatched burberry ensembles and flares. I also take the piss out of fat people , stupid people and ugly people. This is because I'm a b*****d not because they choose to ride a stupid little bike with no seat. And - just to be clear, trials is much gayer than bmxing. I chose to take up trials cos it hurts less - which is a bit gay. EDIT/QUOTE etc.. : 'If you really want to see bad dress sence and bad colour coding etc.. look at a woman. Seriously they get away with bloody murder' i think spacemunkee is great :P

Its really nice to hear someone talk positively about web design as a job these days, I gave it up a couple of years ago as I felt the whole thing had got stagnant ( plus I wasn't getting away with charging £35 an hour for ASP sites anymore ) I dont reckon you need the vector package cos since v6 photoshop has had acceptable vector support and your end output is always going to be bitmaps . anyway - glad to see someone still enjoys it :P

just set it up properly Im running standard koolstops on an unground onza rim and my brake doesnt slip much at all. It will slip if i drop/gap off something more than about 3 or 4 feet high but thats easily sorted with a bit of tar.

....and luton used to be such a lovely place when i was a boy

er, he said fixed hub didnt he?

if it comes out good will you make me a tricycle?

carry loads of change in your back pockets ?

or don't, go for the t-bird if money really is tight - get a t-pro if you can stretch to it. if you get the t-vee you'll likely end up buying the following over the next year or so a rear magura ( to stop you killing yourself) new pads (to make the magura work) a complete t-pro ( when you realise you cant get a decent replacement rim because its got a 20inch backwheel and a 19 inch one wont work with the brake mounts where they are , you shatter your bashring because its made of polystyrene, bend your cranks and (horror of all horrors) snap the noodle on your front V.) (I should point out that the rant was based on experience with a Da Bomb mod that costs about the same as the t-vee. -the t-vee is probably a better buy)

creepy crawlers - cos they came on my new bike and they work fine

so am i - it causes all sorts of trouble in cambridge cos they wander around wild all over the place - even ones without udders. have you ever been chased by cows? thats what put me off them

the 05s are fine ive got 2 sets on different bikes and they're all still perfectly fine (1 set is a year old, the other about 4-5 months). they dont suffer from the TPA breaking off because it doesnt poke out like on the 04 version, the levers are nice and close to the bar and if you mount them far enough from the grips they dont crush your fingers when you use them. the levers wont snap if you dont tighten them up to the bars too much - it says that in the manual if you actually read it. the 05 version is supposed to be easier to fit to V mounts - it took me about 20 minutes to get them set up and working proper and i'd never fitted an HS33 before then. I should also point out that the booster shaped thing on the 05 evo2 mounts isn't a booster, its to aid with fitting and appears to work quite well . that said, if you can get 04's for 40quids then go with them. If they're coming from CRC i seem to remember there only being rear ones so you're gonna end up with an awful lot of extra tubing flapping around at the front end.