durkie

haha, awesome. these are the ones that most recently came out, with the big holes drilled through only through one wall of the rim? (these: )

any idea where these came from? seems to be zero info about on dob as a company.

Pretty sure the try-all and trialtech are the exact same: weigh the same, look the same, and have the exact same erd.

really cool mechanism they've got there of spreading the pawl face out over 3 different teeth. i'm kind of surprised no one else had done that yet.

whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa you don't have mountain dew in the uk?

I've shipped bikes a couple times, and trials bikes are easy to ship - they're smaller, burlier, fewer parts, and probably already dented up anyways. a basic rule is just to reinforce anything that can be bent easily. On roadbikes, I'd take the chainrings off and zip tie em to one of the wheels (like a disc rotor) so that it's a lot harder to take a hit. for any wheel that i take off, i put an axle in the dropouts with nuts on each side of the drop out and tighten it. otherwise it's just a big lever waiting to get bent. put loose parts/bolts in a bag that can be closed and pack it separately or attach it to your bike securely. while you're at it, tie/ziptie/tape/attach everything on your bike together - your box can get pretty f**ked up, and holes will appear that bolts/pedals/headset spacers will fall through.

matt's letting the terrists win!

sounds like it's a 6" x 50 degree stem

something lovely about hearing this from someone so worried about the US becoming more communist or socialist. yall are a bunch of weirdos. vote for thread relock.

hello i'm from america go trials

that's probably true to some extent, but it isn't a necessary condition for having a good rear brake. my overall point is that brake pads are friction materials by design, and so they generate heat when rubbed against another surface. there's a reason our pads are not made out of glass, and why you don't want to get triflow on your rim. rub your hands together vigorously - they start to get warm, so heat was obviously generated. now rub them together just once - was heat generated?

so what exactly do you think is happening when you grab a fist full of rear brake and lock your wheel? where's that energy go? why is it important that brake pads are high-friction? just because something isn't hot doesn't mean there isn't any heat being produced.

sounds like you're doing multiple holes for one crack - you really just want to do one at the very tip of the crack.

Well...if yall want something experimental and don't mind not having a bashguard, maybe you should take a look at these. No guarantee that they'll work, but they have the same number of splines as middleburn, and you could run a 14t up front. And a simple email to them would resolve it. I think there's a good chance that they'll work, since middleburns are based on roughly 1.375" diameter, and the ENO hub probably is, since it used to be threaded.