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  1. Its all personal preference

    Also depends on what sort of riding you want to do.

    If your more into street then you can lend towards more slick tyres, or something bigger.

    If you are more into competition or natural riding then you want to focus on grip and mud shedding.

    Personaly I would say for street go for Scwalbe big better rear and Scwalbe racing ralph front, however these arent great for more muddy or off camber natural sections.

    Try all tyres and Continental der kaiser seem to be the best here, although the conti does weigh more than your bike.

    I would rate michelins for muddy stuff

  2. me and a few friends once robbed a bank. We went in, sealed the place off, took hostages. We made them all strip to their underwear, tied them up and seperated them into offices.

    We argued with the police for ages. While this was going on we knocked a wall down and build a false room behind some shelves. I hid in there with all the money and diamonds, while my friends dressed like the hostages, and set off smoke and ran out with all the hostages.

    A few days later I just slid a pannel over and walked out with everything.

    Oh wait.....

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  3. Theres a few tricks from the old days of tioga tryes you can use.

    Stick a car seatbelt inside the tyre

    Cut the valve off an old innertube, and then cut all the way round it on one skin, and wrap your innertube it it.

    Cut the sidewalls off an old trye and stick them inside yours

    Run a smaller tyre inside yours

    Or use a tubeless tyre. I used use a michelin comp 24 with an innertube in. Impossible to get a pinch flat even at 10psi.

  4. Which one are you looking at?

    I have a 2011 Solo, the one with the very small/cut out headtube.

    I love it. Rides really well, nice and light. Only concern would be the strength of the headtube for hooks, but I cant do them so no worries there.

  5. I shall be there. After a long Journey.

    Couldnt get sat off work either, so will be leaving straight form work sat afternoon, arriving there about 10pm. Only staying 3 miles away though.

    Lets just hope my right arm holds up. Have damaged the tendons in it.

  6. I wouldnt worry too much about the brake. As when you get this right you should be able to do it without. Try not to learn it relying too much on the brake, but rather learn it with a good technique

    Try finding a wall about bar hight with enough room on top for your bike, and a bit of a run up.

    Start with enough distance for a run up starting wrong foot forward. Pedal in with a small gap jump and land just infront of the wall with your weight back.

    Then keeping your momentum throw your weight forward and land the front wheel on the top corner edge so your tyre can bite in. Keep your head forward and your arse back (youll find yourself moving your groin towards the stem, which will move your weight backwards)

    This should bring the back wheel up, and when it feels right let go of the front brake and pull the back wheel through to the wall. It will take a few goes to get a feeling of when to switch, just keep trying. Too ealry and your back wheel will hit the front of the wall, too late and you wont have the momentum to swing through.

    Have a few goes at getting the front wheel on the wall in the right place, and youll need to keep a good momentum as you ride into it.

    Just keep trying.

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