guineasmithpig

bashring is a tidy bit o work!! i'd like to try a front freewheel, but with the expense o changin cranks, and gettin me trousers stuck in the chain, i'm gonna have to stick with me hope xc til it goes bang! anyways, good job, well done smithy

read the thread!!!!

anyone?

could someone please inform me of the difference between the comp 24, and comp 24 S? also, the weight of 2.5 Hot S? lookin for summer tyres. 2.5 Hot S front, 2.5 Comp 24/S rear? i have 40mm front rim, anythin thinner than 2.3in doesn't work!!! and while i'm at it, anyone still usin hutchinson jumbo's at all?!?! they look pretty good, but tread maybe out-dated or superseeded by now.... any opinions welcome! smithy

jeeeeeeeez!!! plannin a respray for summer, and everyone keeps doin the colours i think of!!! Gunmetal, british racing green.... guess i'm gonna have to do pink again..... :"> top job geez. might try it myself in a couple o months. my koxx ain't quite as sexy as ur BT though smithy

ladies, ladies if there is sufficient seatpost sticking out of the frame, and room for the post go down a touch, simply bang the post down, into the frame, hence loosening the corrosive bonding. as ali c sed, u wanna shock it loose. once done, it should twist outta the frame ok. best way is with the frame upside down, and the post in a vice. plenty o leverage then. last resort would be gettin the post drilled outta the frame, and the seat tube reamed out. though i doubt ur everyday engineering shop would have tooling of that magnitude! or even better, a massive 'Easy-Out' tap (Y) anyways best o luck! smithy

get on it, ginger one! maybe we finally meet up?! smithy

will be there! hope we get some more nice weather for it smithy

Azonic shorty (they do upto 100mm x 10deg) with 2in rise SW bars :lol: don't buy DWs though! only snapped 3 pairs now! i prefer the sweep of azonic bars. since usin em, nethin else feels really flat and bent :P thats my 2 cents nehow smithy

great job dude! was cool vid. thank you for takin the time and effort for fellow sports fans. lagend! smithy

best o luck buddy! let us know if u find a bolt, because i never managed to get hold o one in that size!!! think it was M10 x 1 thread, but even wholesalers din't stock em ;) neways, let us know where u get em from. wud be a useful reference (Y) smithy

okidokey! fan q! smithy

tried the search, and not found much. gettin an xc with shimano 475 mech discs. i hear they have organic disc pads. no nothin bout organic pads. some one care to inform me? and how well they bed in/perform/wear? cheers smiffy

one of my faves. have a few more, but too big to upload (Y) oh, btw, this is the on where my back brake slipped when i landed on the bollard, resulting in a heavily bruised bum cheek!! hehe. must go back and give it another go one day.... smithy

errrrrrrm, don't steel ones bend? alu ones just snap! broke a dmr mech hanger with ma hands once. bag o w@nk.... anywyas, them new dmr tensioners look a bit pants. i made an unsprung tensioner a while back, and everytime i even knocked it, u have to reset it. sprung ones realign em selves (Y) much better. anyways, mechs all the way!! for now. y no1 done a better horizontal dropout on trials frames? if it works on mods, surely it can't be anymore difficult to do ones for stock? though i guess they gotta supply the majority.... smithy

i'm runnin a 2.35 nevegal stick-E on the rear. tis bout the same weight as my old minion rear. not really had chance to test it properly, as my rear brake is bein proper gay :ermm: did give it a hammerin touch hoppin onto some waxed scaffold poles, and it coped pretty good!! not really noticed any disadvantage of the smaller carcass, and spinnin on the rear wheel is made more difficult, even at higher pressures. the compound has a really slow rebound (?), usin the old 'twist a knobble' test. takes a good 10secs to return to shape, if at all:p wear rate seems ok, though agen, not 'used' them much. oh, and they are pretty inexpesive to boot! BETD/Goldtec (Midlands) sell them - 01782 629462. They got their own onsite shop now, and everyone there is really cool and friendly. tell em smithy sent you! gaggin for ma replacement forks! can't wait to get out and try em in the warm weather! smithy

anyone unimpressed, step up to the plate....... respect, mr ashton :lol: smithy

hey guys just need to know the size of seatpost for ma giant, if anyone knows off hand. tried searchin, put not found out yet. also, if anyone knows what size front mech would go on, that would be cool! tis to be a little street/park beast, with double ring up front smithy

i'm still using the same hose and claipers i bought.......... errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm.......... 6 years ago? i've never replaced the hose, hence the rear being a little short on ma koxx. weird, i know some people seem to have stuff break really randomly:S quite scary really. my first hope ratchet ring (XC hub) lasted 20 months before the teeth started breakin off! a friend of mine snapped the ring in under 3!? ah well. same as, i got brand new ronnie rim, run a nice grind over it, new rimjam pads don't even squeak on it. just make that horrible ffffffffffftttt noise. no bite or hold wotsoever. don't know what the solution is (don't have facilities to do another grind meself) ah well:S must be one of them things. for some unfathomable reason, somethings just don't work, or break for no reason! smithy

that was wrong (Y)

will be ridin oxfordia as soon as i got some forks sorted!!!! :S" will keep this post in mind and pm you when i and a few others r out again :o smithy

u tart!!! get an 8in rotor and get some massive gaps to front wheel done!!! u'll soon have the bastids broked!!! smithy

almost as sexy as u hazzy almost..... thinkin the pink brake mounts n pedals look bit wank. u gay or somthin? dunno what the F@cks goin on with all this pink crap. everyone gettin bent? bummers..... smithy

stem is what used to be branded as FSAs Diamond stem. old skool, superb stems the old FSAs. and they cost sod all nowadays!! i run an I-Beam, with 4 bolt bar clamp. cost bout £9 in halfords clearout! only retail at about £14 though :P good choice sonny! bike looks sweet too smithy

having stripped my maggies down, and washed all the cylinders out, wanna clean the outsides. will blastin a bit o muc off over em chew the seals up? will seal the holes with screws, but thinkin about cleanin the faces o the caliper cylinders, as thats were the most crap build up is. cheers smithy