Brian Bleech

it totally depends on your course and what grade you wanna get! but most (if not all) uni's encorage to do things outside actual work, sports, societies, etc so yeah you will have free time! plus you can do stuff during the day (ride you bike) and work at night and stuff - outside lectures you can organise your time to get the most out of it. uni > real life mike

cool...

i reckon there is plenty of life left in ashton holyrod like boon said... akkers will be back but waynio i think , he has already been in it.

i learning on vertical walls dude but its cracking the leeson...eeeeekkkkkk hopefully i can get some pointers off peeps on this leeds ride at xmas because i am the only trying outta our group of riders. but yeah like bongo said mix things up a bit -try manifeto style! try different moves - rail rides if you don't normally do them or whatever. try not to get stressed if you can't make something. I was trying a 5.5 - 6 ft gap last night and gapping pretty shitly. so i thought f**k it and tried to do it in a sidehop gap instead - took me a few goes, but made it biggest one yet! its all good. maybe set your bike up differently more streety or more trialsy! go out have a laugh try a few random tricks - just have fun! mike

I just ride for fun (inc messing about with mates too) and progression - riding does keep me relatively fit and heathly, especially compared to my non riding mates but to me thats a bonus! I do care about how my bike rides too - because you set it up 'how it is good for you and your style' but that ain't the reason why i ride. I think everyone wants to be good anyway and everyone wants to get better, thats obivious, but some people are more fussed about being the best than others, but thats how world champions are made! Yeah I have riding goals and aims, some are just I wanna be able hook, do that gap, etc by next summer or whenever and some i just think 'wouldn't be cool if i could do that' (these are normally just random tricks though...hahaha I do think sometimes trials riders are too harsh and get too stressed, because one night they can't do a gap or can tap49" instead of 51" or whatever. take a step back and do a different line, move, techniques and come back and try it a different day. mike

Wtf are you doing to break forks half way up the damn steerer tube. I would never buy any forks after seeing a set go there. thats shockingly shit, imo!! mike

lmao

my 8310 has taking an absolute beating - plus its third hand off a few mates Its still pretty small too. Mike

your joking right ? i had more grip that time i ran an oil slick intead of a tire... mike

i think the tensiles are awesome cranks - i have given mine some real abuse (grind, bunnyhop to 90 onto crank/pedal, drops, random tricks and just generally smashing them into stuff) and they are still going. They feel way nicer than the burns too. mike

yeah but they are pretty rare the mavic xy rim is probably the best 24" rim i have never had

i enquired and ymsa and tykestrials will allow you ride 24" - ride in stock class... its all good, it just bikes! plus i know peeps that have ridden comps on 24" and i seem to remember eddie tongue riding his 24" at shipley glen, in a mbuk article

i can't take credit boon came up with it on a ride a while back tis mucho fun though mike

meh may aswell not my best clip, but one from today tv.isg.si/site/?q=filebrowser/leedstrials - its the mikegranite.mpg mike

i have been using the news reds too and i also paid for mine... i was after new pads and steve helped me out! i have been rising i dry and wet , with a toatlly f**ked rim the pads don't hit the rim fully on some of it. The pads a working great basically! great stuff mike

doom (i'm the doc) - dr octogen mike

definately

i like and and trust 'proper' bike makes too - theres hardly a trials component on my bike frame wise i would buy all of them except monty and toxsin, but koxx are generally overpriced parts wise i would only probably go with onza and probably echo, but just for rims.

haha nice dude a great random trick

matt rides with us lot at leeds now (he is at uni here)! rode with him wednesday and thursday this week. On an ashton et, been in last couple of damnation vids! He is still active on forum a little too. might be a different mafu?? since your not sure on username. mike

www.thetrainline.com reading to llandudno if a long f**king way

awesome - rode last night for 5 hours fantastic ride everyone was killing it, one of the best rides this year, except i hit my head falling off trying a hook to fakie out

hahaha tim was telling me last night, just some cheap 3 piece bmx cranks, they chopped them down and then drilled and threaded a hole for pedals!

bring it sunday, just whack it int van!! me and matt rode uni for an hour tonight after wakie

tim, that is the greatest thing ever, we getting that shit in d7 lmao @ the maxxis tire