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  1. Another vote for Hope Mono Trial 160 from me. I've been very happy with the 160 on my mod bike, and I'm probably heavier than the average rider (~95Kg), so it does have some work to do.
  2. I completely snapped my patella ligament, which is the ligament that pulls your leg straight (it pulls the lower part of your leg forwards/up). I had a couple of operations in order to reconstruct the knee to allow me to even walk again. I have a 12" and 2" surgical scars on that knee now, none of this keyhole surgery stuff for me. All this from a fairly short, but very awkward fall.
  3. Just a thought... Maybe some of the "my brake doesn't work as well after fitting a booster" people might not have the brake pad's setup quite as well as they were before fitting the booster. I found a big improvement whenever I fitted a booster to a rim brake setup, and I am a fair bit bigger than average, so my brakes have to work a lot harder than for most. An HS33 with a shimano carbon booster converted to 4 bolt fitment on an echo hifi frame with plasmatic CRMs worked extremely well, for a rim brake.
  4. Just a thought: The heat we've been having most recently has been accompanied by lower atmospheric humidity than the previous hot spell. Lower humidity seems to affect the discs on my bike. My brakes tend to be a little more grippy when the humidity is a little higher.
  5. MSM

    Rear V Break

    "I still like my v brake and now with my updated super uber home made pads, the brake is unstopable!!!!" Unstoppable brake? Are you using solid blocks of teflon in your uber home made pads?
  6. I wonder how accurate these figures can be, based on instrumentation and method. I know my bathroom scales are not calibrated particularly well, and they are electronic ones, in case anyone assumes that it must be accurate because it's on a digital display. FWIW: My scales, which overread, reckon my stock bike ( using the me+bike - me method ) weighs 24.8lb.
  7. Last year I restarted riding after five or six years break. I started up again on the old Pashley 26Mhz, but wanted to try something more recent, so I built up an Echo Hifi. I like a lot about the Hifi, but I did miss some of the Pashley's traits too. I recently rebuilt the bike as a short Kot MS2, this gave me a nicely in-between geometry and a halfway decent rear disc mount. I am having more fun on the Kot than I did on the Hifi. I find the Kot to be more versatile and forgiving than the Hifi was. I suspect that the Ashton would probably be a better bet for someone getting back into riding after a few years break. The Adamant has more than twice the bottom bracket rise of the Ashton, which makes it somewhat more extreme as a geometry and will make the bike less happy on two wheels.
  8. If you do choose to use anti-freeze, then be very careful with the stuff, ethanol-glycol is a poison, and it takes very little injested to cause all sorts of very nasty and irrecoverable damage and/or death. Seriously, when dealing with the stuff, do not take any chances of injesting it (priming syphons by mouth etc). Try and avoid direct skin contact with it too.
  9. Fair enough, that would be quicker, and less effort, but then he already has an XTR booster, and if you invest the time and effort to fit one properly, it will outperform pretty much any other booster out there, especially considering it's weight.
  10. I fitted an XTR booster to my echo team without any major issues. I don't suppose you are trying to fit the booster to the upper bolts on the four bolt mounts? Has the booster been drilled for four bolt mounts? If the booster has already been drilled for 4 bolts, and the top holes do not line up with your frame, then you may well have a problem. If the booster has not been drilled, then you would need to do this, get this done. Also, when fitting one of these to a four bolt mount, remember to use washers above and below the carbon, to spread the load and prevent the carbon failing. You are likely to need to modify the washers to fit to the top bolt holes as they need to fit around the shape of the booster such that they sit flat to the face over the bolt holes. All this takes time and patience, but it is well worth it as it's just about the best booster you can fit, if you can fit it.
  11. If you are copying text directly from another website, you could well be infringing someone's copyright. The least you should do, purely out of courtesy, is include a link to the source website. Just a thought.
  12. The C2 lever in the picture looks like a right hand one, which isn't the traditional side for the rear brake in the UK. Of course, some people over here will run rear brake to right, but if you don't, then I suspect that particular lever wont help so much.
  13. My 1085mm Hifi has always been 1100mm. This is with echo 415mm forks.
  14. You might already be doing everything right anyway... If you are consistently using the right techniques, but cannot get any higher yet, it might just be that you have reached the limit of your current muscle condition. Practice should help improve your muscle performance (strength and power) and consequently, over time, you should be able to jump higher.
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