F-Stop Junkie
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I've got say, bloody Nora Tarty has come a long, long way!
Top work Ad, place looks great!
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I agree with Mark, some of them are pretty good...
But can you please turn the off-camera flash down a third of a stop or so? You've got triggers, we get it. The fact I'm looking at them going "That's off-camera flash" rather than getting involved in the photo shows it's too hot.
Also the washed out fad ended about two years ago. Don't be afraid of colour. It's fun.
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Left eye ain't a problem if you use Da Grip.
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Man rides through field, crashes into rock.
This pic is only stunning if you like pictures of men's bottoms.
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Motherf**ker just found Waldo.
WALLY! You're not American. You sound like a damn fool when you say it wrong!
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it turned from bashguard.com to trials-forum, I think anyway. I didn't find it, it found me.
A few sites got rid of their forums and just pointed straight to TF after Tom took Tenby Trials and made it a bit more... general.
Ah, I remember when each area had it's own website, 'team' and photos scanned from MBUK
a banner or link on either section 7 or trials nation..... oh back in the day!!
Definately wasn't Section7!
~goes off to find T-shirt~
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So what happened?
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Take the picture on my phone
Edit photo
upload photo
link to forum.
That's my workflow these days on my iPhone.
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Thin clients have been around for a long, long time, and the problem is always that local computer and speed of experience is both more powerful and responsive than anything possible over a commercial LAN - especially as the ISP has no interest in providing you a good experience, and spreading their bandwidth as thinly as possible. People like posh graphics, local storage, and running big complex apps like Office and Photoshop, even though something simple and free might fit their needs better.
Anyway, PC hardware is so cheap, it'd be hard to have a commercially viable thin client at a significantly cheaper price when you'd need a hefty Internet connection to get a similar use experience.
Small volume cloud storage, and access anywhere for certain files wrapped up in a simple interface is possible though.
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Bankruptcy? What's your credit rating like?
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I bet you they would settle on that loan for 25% of the total.
Hahahahaaha
If the "Have you been a refused a loan or got bad credit" people won't touch you, then you're in pretty dire straits. If the loan was taken out at (say) 8%, then moving it onto an 18% credit card is a bad move, especially if you credit score is so bad that the credit card people won't touch you.
Your account won't have been frozen either, it'll be racking up interest and missed payment fees month by month. If there's a debt collection agency sniffing around too, then they'll want their fee too.
£4k is not an insubstantial amount. The longer you defer too, the more charges rack up, and the more likely legal action will be taken to recover what money they can. Debt collection agencies and banks don't care about you, they want your money back.
Right now, you have a large number of debt payments showing as unpaid. That does horrible things to your credit score. You can carry thousands of pounds in credit card debt, loans and overdrafts, but keep making they payments and show you can handle the debt, then you'll keep a good rating. Miss payments and you're stuffed.
Get it paid back, get something formal in place and you can recover. Go speak to debt collection people or whoever you took out the loan with in the first place. Get the dogs called off, and get payments restarted. It's not in your interest or theirs to have unreasonable payment terms, so something smaller which you can *and must* keep repaying over a longer term will earn them more money, and mean you have the possibility of getting a mortgage or any form of lending in the future.
Keep running, and chances are you'll never be able to get a contract phone, let alone any other borrowing in the future. Yes, you'll probably have to sell stuff and/or go without lifes luxuries now - maybe move back in with the folks - but it'll give you a future. That means no new bikes, blu ray players, iPod touches, King hubs, etc... If you're buying that stuff, why arn't you repaying the loan instead?
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Tim, I'll try and dig out a photo or two, don't know if I have them on a harddrive. May or may not have hydro fluid in the picture
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Earlier this year I finally dug out and processed almost 40 films going back as far as the 90s. This was actually a bit scary - what the hell would I find there? Rubbish, mainly. If I'd been developing them as I went, perhaps there'd have been some feedback and I'd have learned to use a camera properly. Instead I just blundered on in a hit or miss fashion. I'll spare you the school disco ones and share a few of the trials ones that aren't too blurred or out of focus.
Funny looking at pics over time, you can see where people started buy digital cameras and the quality of shots leaps!
I've got four ring binders of slides at my parents house - that was after I cleared out all the dross I'd been keeping. Got a stack of Fuji boxes to sort through too still... To think, I used to get through 80-100 rolls a year at least. Still, buying ten packs would get the cost down to about £6.50 a roll. I'd love to hand them over to a lab and have them all properly scanned and cleaned, post them somewhere as an archive of our sport...
I'll start with the first bike that looked anything close to a trials bike....
The Azonic DS2:
Addingham Moorside? Michael Graves in the blue Hebo and Matt Tongue in full factory Pash get up behind him?
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at the same time though, i think as the sport has evolved and the quality and diversity of riding has increased, the trials community has declined, maybe its just me being a bit cynical, but a lot of the arguments and the like that are seen now, nothing ever seemed to happen like that in like 02-05, it was happy days, if someone scammed someone, the whole community seemed to be against them, now when someone scams someone, in the uk, in a lot of cases,some people side with the scammer( I liked the way how in romania(i think) when someone scammed a few people on tf, the riders over there, pretty much disowned him).
maybe its as ive grown up, the magic of trials has worn off, but it feels to me, as if the kids starting out in trials today arent having the same experience we had when we started out and that saddens me a bit. sure the availabilty fo parts etc is better, but some of my fondest memories where taking apart bikes on a friday evening, bolting 2 32t rings together, grinding the spikes off, and then refitting the crank with a bit of a coke can, just so i could ride saturday morning. You wanted to ride so bad, nothing else mattered.
And the circle of life is complete... People were saying the same thing in 2003 when you were joining the forum!
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Imagine how the regular members feel.
I'm pretty sure they don't care.
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I have no words...
Mark, remember that some of these young pups in the trials world don't remember when a bicycle had a seat (or at least had one zip tied onto the area where the protuding seat tube used to be...)
These kids never knew the old school, or had Union Flag headtube graphics or blue top tube pads because the Tongue Brothers used them and they were cool.
For those reading this who don't know what old school is, here's a handy guide:
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I work in the IT department of a German bank in central London. I look after the bank's global financial servers and networks. 24 hour support so I often work over night!!
so your on a wedge then! lol
Ha! How do you think Banks post such large profits if they pay their staff well? Which bank is it?
Poker player
Cool? Which sites do you play on? What's your user name?
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The first without a seat was a 98/99 monty x lite. The blue one.
Was weird seeing it for the first time!
I thought it was 99? Wasn't the first one green, I remember Paul Thomson having one. That had a seat tube, and a clamp so could have taken a seatpost, but instead had a neoprene pad covering the hole.
The Onza Master frame was the first truely low slung frame designed without any consideration for a seat. It also had high BB. It was designed by us in 1998 and introduced on the Master in 1999 closely followed by the Mag in 2000, using the same frame. When we designed it there were only 2 other trials bike makers in the world, Monty and Megamo. They both produced seatless frames, but still with a diamond frame look about them. GT had dabbled, influenced by Hans Rey but had ceased production by then Brisa and Echo followed in about 2000 and I don't think Koxx arrived until about 2002.
The only reason we didn't continue with that frame was due to material issues with the frame maker.
Mike, the Megamos (And Echos and Brisas...) of that time had those tiny plastic seats that retailed for a fortune. I think the Koxx Levelboss was the first 26" bike to not be able to have a seat at all.
I haven't got all my slides scanned, but 2002 for the intro of Koxx sounds about right. Onza appeared on the scene well before that! (Heck, I remember seeing the first mod frame in the old shop in Notts! Either end of 99, or early 2000)
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Apparently, from being told back in the day, an american dude called Macey was the first guy to do a bunnyhop.
I've *never* heard that in 15 years of trials riding, and 20 years of being into cycling...
It also doesn't show up on Google.
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A Macey hop, as opposed to a european style hop.
A what?? Where are these names coming from?
A bunny hop is pulling up on the bars, then lifting the pedals under you without a pedal stroke. This has been the case since, well, forever. Back in the BMX days I guess in the 80s?
Hopping on the spot, lifting both wheels at the same time is just 'a hop'.
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i was riding my trials suited bike today, and realised that you cannot actually bunny-hop American style
What is american style?
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Victoria's mine..hands off!
... pending your Mum's approval.
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Plus it's a personal site, I am the client, the client is happy. I'm definitely open to suggestion and whatnot though.
See, that's interesting.
I *absolutley* get that it's your playground. You build it how you want, it serves a need only you really know. The web developers I know and have worked with put so much effort into their personal work because it's a real public portfolio of what they do. You're only as good as the websites you've produced.
If you want to work on personal projects which may reflect badly on you (despite what you may have wanted from it) then I'd advise doing it offline If I was considering you for a comission, and I Googled your name and saw that site, I wouldn't get a good impression.
TartyBikes has new owners - full info inside.
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Agreed. Glad you've found folk to take it on and move things forward though!
Any thoughts what's next Adam?