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I say stick with tar, its quick and easy to apply. Balls to all that grinding your rim/pads don't work/what grinding disk/wheel collapse bullshit. To name but a few! ...shit in the rain though, but meh`

Rode past last night on way home from college on my XC bike, 9ish, didn't see you obviously!. (prob watching the match?) Do you stay there or move around? I will catch up with you guys one day! ...actually changing which foot I ride forward with (it's complicated! ), so I'm no use to anybody at the mo` ...take some pics, love to see em!

I get this when my maggies have been set-up badly, not equal distance between pads. I thought the pressure would equal its self out, but it doesn't... set em up spot on. My prob is my wheel flexes when riding, putting power down with my right foot = rubs like a git on the left pad, so left pad has 4mm space / right pad 2mm. Bloody Pro2 with tight spokes and fun bolts on a Trex, stupid thing! Sorry, ranting!

H`mmm? How polished did you get it, I imagine that grind you had on it effected what kind of shiny surface you could achieve, regardless of how you sanded it down, well kinda? Did you also use that wax polish stuff that you use with those machines? Mine is an un-grinded rim with a good smooth surface, I have high hopes. ...post a pic please, in good light.

Yeah but with in a week you will, a week goes fast! ...5 days, go for it!

Nice!

Bill Hicks Quotes: Take you pick! Todays favorite: “It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.”

If aliens landed, and they where all friendly like... could you even go to work the next day/week/ever/get on with your life? I'd be running down to wherever they landed and beg them not to talk to politicians and take me with them... and my bike! ...I'm off to build a mound of dirt that resembles a mountain in my garden!

...nothing yet!

First dibs on killing something /a species! Ah thats great, be like Superman n` shit!

Lovely, a new planet to mess up... can't wait!

Everytime! Welcome back mate.

Oh yeah! Urm, both really, just discovered the joy of natty/local woods. Less people staring at me anyways! (miserable bugger I am )

Nothing has arrived yet obviously, I hope you get it sorted for me!

Well lets hope so. I'm not taking this as a `he intended to rip me off big time` But he has been pretty slack about things, and that `sent em last week` sounded like bull to me? So, come on Mike... please send me those bars! and... I noticed a thread a while back where he bought this expensive, Monsterboy bike I think? I was like `come on!`

Just think back to something you where hesitant to do before and how it worked out in the end and how comfortable you where with it... then just go for it. It will feel alright in the end! Last year I enrolled in a web design night class, shiting myself about it, new people/college etc. Was a bit weird for the first/second class... twenty weeks in, it a piece of piss, super comfortable with it. I'm going to apply that logic to everything from now on = designer job I applied for few days ago.

I would imagine so. Let us know how it works...t`was your thread after all!

Stay in/dry then?

I'm not trying to be funny, and I know this doesn't help you, but this is why I don't bother with a grind. I read about more people having problems with grinds/pads/rim materials/stone disks/metal disks etc, than I do with people using any smooth rim with a little tar. Seriously, what the point? Use tar IMO!

I'm sorry to have to do this, but I've had enough of this guy! Arranged a swap BEFORE Christmas I think, I send him some car speakers (pain in the arse to pack and post), and he sends me some Monty riser bars, 31.8 if you can now be botherd to send em! Said he was skint at the time, so I trusts him anyway, sends the stuff in the hope he sorts me in a few days/weeks, can't remember. Then -weeks pass- "someone has pinched cash from my bank account" -weeks pass- "will sort in a few days", then last week "I sent them a week ago" = bullshit! How much/hard can it be to send some bars? Shame on you dude... if anyone knows him, give him a kick up the arse from me and tell him to sort it! I still have his addy, maybe I will take a drive upto Lochardil, Inverness sometime and get my speakers back! ...sos, had to be done!

Weird, I must have super dry palms, I sweat everywhere else like a SOB when riding! If I needed a bit more grip, on my grips... I'd lick my hands a bit, as nasty as that sounds, but certainly not to the point that they are wet/been raining etc. I find that after riding with gloves for a bit, my grips become dry ie: loose their `fresh out of the pack tackiness` so the old lick my palms comes into effect? I haven't a clue about skin to rock though, although I imagine chalk to be bad, like a dusty surface? ...weird

Er`m :$ Why do people use chalk on there hands for grip when climbing, or sometimes riding as I once read on here? As regards to riding with rubber grips, if my hands and grips are super clean, it would take an incredible amount of force to separate me from them! So why chalk, seems like the `worsed` thing to do to me? Always wanted to ask someone that! ...I fear this my be a stupid question, but this thread seems the place for it.

Your right clicking it and then `save link as` right? Not just clicking the thing?

Results in a week or two... its gonna take a while sorting it all out. Unless someone else is gonna try it, I'd love to hear how it goes.

My god I loved that vid, amazing powerful riding!