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as soon as people mention plionometricsercise (or whatever) my eyes glaze over and i go ride my bike i guess longer cranks win - I definitely want more leverage from static/slow starts. also throwing money at a problem until it goes away is a fairly standard way of dealing with things so who am i to argue?. i assume everybody will say tensiles if i ask which cranks to get a cheaper solution to the XC bike is to ride a mod 2 miles to work and back every day.

I want more umph when I pedal up stuff. Ive got the standard 18 - 12 FFW thing with 165mm cranks on an 05 t-pro and it just doesn't feel like i can get enough power through my bike when im backwheeling stuff. 2 solutions occur immediately to me .. longer cranks or a different ratio (bigger freewheel or smaller rear cog). what do you lot reckon? will longer cranks help? if so, which ones? if not, can i get a bigger freewheel without getting an eno? or can i get a smaller rear cog? i dont really want to go rear freewheel because it'll cost a fortune and im only experimenting . ta :sleeping:

i was there at the beginning - i had a white da bomb then and i went home early cos i had to move house. didnt ride much because i was embarrassed with my crapness are you local (cambridge)? Wing's left me to the mercies of Julien who keeps bouncing up and down and demanding i get my bike mucky on logs and stuff.

i used to run a motocross chain on my bmx - good and solid - if a little heavy. not sure itd fit on a trials bike though.

i get paid for doing it - seems sensible to me

oo - doesnt it just make you want to bite it? ...just me then fortunately you're too short for the missus so im on safe ground. did you come for the cambridge ride in august and do everything that olly can do or am i mixing my joes up?

yes there is - and it looks quite nice . unusually it has a sensible shaped frame - check their website . dont know how long etc it is but then who gives a toss really.. http://www.aortabike.com

welcome to TF moo is an excellent username. all things cow are great - the missus would approve wholeheartedly. does anyone else think mods look a bit like cows ?

he has a good point. on a related note - if you can wiggle the pistons you're probably in trouble - if its just the pads then that'll explain the noise.. on an unrelated note can you post a pic of your arse please joe - ive been reading that signature for ages and im curious to know how much better than mine it is cos the missus says mine's perfect.

just to reiterate.. get a t-pro if you can afford it, they're lovely and green otherwise a t-bird rather than t-vee because its easier to upgrade - less bits will need changing at one time - i had a dabomb with much the same spec as a t-vee and ended up buying a whole new bike because it only worked about 50quid more than upgrading it to the sort of spec I wanted.

ive got a louise FR disc - it feels much nicer than the old louise so dont let the name put you off - i believe they cost less than the hope brake but don't quote me ive also got a drilled sidewall hog rim which seems fine - its a mod one so i dont know about the stock version but its dead sexy with its little hedgehog cutouts and holes in the sidewall

bloody kids with their heavy metal ... :rolleyes: hallucinogen technical itch wu tang

thats an awful lot of pot you know..

quote... Arguing with someone in new members is a lost cause, i love pete for his multiple personality disorder . Reminds me of two guys that walk around the town near where i live, they think they are driving a bus. They take the same route that the buses do, they even cry when the kids pretend to slash their invisible tyres. People like pete are a gift to this world and i am looking forward to the electromagnetic hub (if i remember correctly) ....quote thats the funniest post ive seen on here for ages - its also the second of 2 only posts that were worth reading . cheers for the frame checking link as well mark

it sounds like a very tiny, but very wet fart - it comes from the lever - theres no fluid obviously leaking out though

another disk question (i should probably have stuck to a maggie on the front really) theres a very quiet squelch noise when I pull my front lever, it's really short and the brake still works fine - i didnt notice it until i was doing a bit of tweaking and tuning while waiting for my wrist to stop being sprained its a louise FR, does it need bleeding or do they all do that? if its a leak i can get a new one off magura cant i? - it's only a couple of months old.

tada! - trashzen as always http://www.trashzen.com/climbing6.html thats your basic 'pedal-hop up something' technique right there. for crap rider technique see the slowmo one of me getting on a rail. it's just a bunnyhop with a quick pedal as you leave the ground to get you going forwards - the hard bit is the timing. Learn it up high kerbs to start with because you'll actually make it up them. Everything else (sidehops, gaps etc) kind of stems from this technique so it's kind of essential learning.

1 . probably - i did my bmx and had enough left for my forks . it takes bloody ages though 4. it didnt change the colour of the chrome on my frame but it made it much shinier. I reckon itll look lovely on bare metal.

on a vaguely related note. .. anybody had any joy removing the 300 or so onza decals from a t-pro without destroying the lovely green anodising? i think they're painted on.

That sounds easy enough. i scared an old lady nearly to death with the noise on the way to work this morning so i reckon i ought to get it seen to. ta (Y)

Theyre the standard forks off a t-mag, I wouldn't imagine they're engineered with surgical precision so that sounds highly plausible, which is good news - means i can ignore it. Is facing getting the disk mount flattened properly by a nice man with the right kind of angle grinder?

it goes away if i pull the brake harder so its probably not catching the spokes. could it be the pads bouncing off the disk because they're wonky or something?

Ive got a louise FR on the front of my bike, it's not very old a month or two at most If i pull the brake on enough to slow me down but not enough to do a stoppie it makes a nasty noise - like the the little holes in the rotor are pinging over something. the brake still works, the rotor doesnt rub, it doesnt look bent, the pads are still in the caliper (well, the cotter pin's still there) and I can't possibly have worn them out yet so I cant figure out why its making the stupid noise. I know nothing about discs so i haven't fiddled with it yet. any ideas?

speaking as a professional, thats pretty damn good - what are you using, just out of curiosity?

when its icy you can do 2 wheel skids - how many other reasons do you need?