craigjames

Don't think it's a case of dodgy welding at all really, you see this on a lot of steel frames, lealone ones made in a shed in Peru! I tend to get all my BB threads chased through, it's the one thing you can't afford to ever knacker really. Get off your lazy arse and sort it!

Doubt it mate, Profile being American probably use some uber gay imperial thread size. Just nip down to a hardware store/engineering workshop and get some nice 8mm headed M10 allen bolts.

As Mark has said, take it to a bike shop and get them to chase the threads through to ensure they're cut nice and clean and to make sure that they're cut far enough into the BB shell. You want everything butted up and torqued as it should me, don't want to knacker the frame by running it incorrectly installed!

I imagine its due the rim on your rear wheel being too narrow for the frame, the offset mounts will allow you to move your brake in closer to the rim so you can set up your brake. Something to look at for the future would be to upgrade your rear rim/wheel to a wider set up allowing you to run a larger volume tyre with reduced tyre roll, increased bounce, stability and grip.

Myself and Josh Kydd wont be coming along to this one either as we both are pretty damn broke

Caged pedals aren't generally used in Dh and freeride because they don't support the foot as well as a platform. Personally i much perfer the feel underfoot of a platform and the grip is more than enough; i use Wellgo MG-1 pedals on all of my bikes, light strong and good levels of grip.

If you've managed to snap both the axle and the tensioners there's only one thing at fault here and its nothing to do with the bike!

Aye the 510 is a good choice, can get them filthy cheap if you look around

I'll be about monday for a ride and maybe tuesday.

Yeah did over do it didn't I.

Nice to see you're improving and enjoying it. I'll be out riding sunday and monday, most likely with Luke and Charlie, give me a text 07816319696 if you're thinking of coming out riding

I'm the same, some weeks i don't get to ride at all and others i'll ride for 10 hours+, so probably averages to 4-5 hours really.

Aaaahhhh Yeah!

Down to fronts are the trials equivalent of having a 12" cock but not being able to ever get it up, completely pointless and not nice to look at.

Well if you didnt live on the wrong side of the country you'd be ok!

Looks really nice, some nice touches and nicely colour coordinated

Some good pics, but overly shopped and very arty farty. Even with the one piece skinsuits of old, that happens to be the most homoerotic trials photo ever.

Indeed Luke, i would say that my CRV's on the back are pretty quiet on a dead grind, but the requirements i have form the brake on my 24", as i imagine are similar to yours, are very different to what i want on the proper trials bike.

Indeed the blinkered tainted view of what trials is. Gaps down to front are pretty horrible looking. Well done for making the gap, but not my cup of tea at all.

Does look really smart, but as has been said mahoooosive stem!

I'm pretty sure it's a miniaturised version of a Rohloff, a small plantetry gear set up. Very neat, not overly light at the moment, but certainly a good idea. Comparing similar suspension designs and saying they're the same really isn't a good idea, there are only so many effective and efficient suspension designs so designers are limited by this. It does look like the Orange, with looks like a Commencal, but i'm sure they all ride differently and have their own traits. I mean the Giant Maestro linkage is similar to the DW linkage on Ironhorse bikes, which is similar to the VPP set up used by Santa Cruz and Intense; having ridden a few Iron Horse Sundays and owned a few VPP bikes and a Giant Glory i can safely say the subtle differences between them in pivot placement make a world of differences, even though they all look very similar and work on the same basic premise.

A booster will definitely help, although those pads are loud on most set ups. I'd strongly recommend against toeing in the pads as they will wear incredibly quickly. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a quiet brake pad compound that bites and holds well on a grind.

Well you know i like it, definitely looks and feels sturdier than the original Kortz, the geo feels nice too If you're about this weekend, go for another little ride mate?

And unknowingly following us off the motorway so we could stop and me and Shrewsbury could go for a piss good job we didn't get stuck in that car park you would not have been able to get over those curbs!

Exactly the reason i bought one, reasonably light set up, but normal replacable cartridge bearings; ideal as isis BB's are reknowned for having tiny little bearings that die easily.