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Have a look at this page, it might give you some ideas: Janek's Brake Booster Project Otherwise, if you base your design around the XTR booster shape you really can't go far wrong.

Sorry, my bad. 7.6% seems quite a lot, but I guess it's better then taking loads of coins to the bank to cash in (maybe that's why there are long ques at the bank)

Do those machines take a percentage of the money you've put in as payment? If so, how much?

Earlier on before my exam I was watching all the t33zr bail movies, and I saw he had a video titled 'how to grind' ( http://tv.isg.si/site/filebrowser/teezr ) I've never seen it, and my internet is really gay so I can't have a look at it, but hopefully it'll be of some help Dan

I came across that post quite a while ago (like 6 months ago!) on the forum you got it from (don't know if you're allowed to name it or not) and I found it was a real useful post. Did you come across that thread as a current topic or were you searching through the archives? Dan

I heard about these levers ages and ages ago, and it's interesting that they've only been released now; it would of made a lot more sense to release the levers when the 04 design maguras were still current. Now there's a smaller potential market that these levers can reach. How come there was such a long wait for these to be released? When I saw them I thought they were a real elegant and simple approach to solving the problem of non-working TPA's and that there wouldn't be too many issues with the design. Maybe it's just because the company is run by one guy and he's probably got other things going on. Still seems a shame that they didn't come out before the 05 brakes though.

Ok the original question is a bit daft, but my bars are try-all 'yourself replicas' (something like that), and I thought that they were flat bars, even though they're not literally just a straight piece of tubing. If you look at the two pictures that were posted, yeah I can name which one is flat and which one is the riser bar, but if you look at the geometry of those two, the ends where you'll put your grips onto looks to be about the same vertical distance above the stem clamp area, and even the angle that the grips would make relative to the middle of the bars looks the same, so geometry wise, what's the difference?

Hey, I live in Hereford but I hardly ride trials at the moment (hardly matters as I'm crap anyway!). When I was back from uni in the christmas holidays I met another trials rider called Adam in our local bike shop. I've never got the chance to ride with him but he said he rides with his younger brother and a few other riders; one of them has a pitbull, so maybe it's your friend max, but they're the only other guys I know in Hereford that ride. Dan

How come they're so much cheaper then they used to be? Ages ago I heard that they stopped making them in the USA and were going to make them in the east somewhere, and if that was actually true maybe that's the reason why they're now 40quid cheaper.

So it's a bashring yeah? If it fits on like you say then just buy longer bolts??

This is all getting a bit technical isn't it? If we rack it up a notch, one can argue that it's best to use distilled water that has been boiled and cooled just before it has been bled into the brake. When the water heats up and wants to turn into a gas, then the impurities in the water act as a catalyst for this change of state to occur: When physicists are looking at radioactivity and ionisation, they sometimes use this idea, by having very pure liquid hydrogen under pressure in a massive tank. Just before the experiment, they quickly release the pressure, and the liquid hydrogen becomes superheated (I think that's the term): It wants to become a gas again because the conditions are extremely favourable, but can't until some ions come shooting through the liquid from the experiment, which allow the hydrogen to form into a gas along the path the ion has taken, and so physicists can see where an invisible ion has been by looking at the path of hydrogen bubbles. I'm sure though all this science isn't needed in trials as the effects are negligable, but in theory, it might help to distil and boil water if you want to give it a go.

The post to be honest is pretty pointless in itself; I agree it's better then a 'how high can you sidehop' post, but all the post is saying is that mods are generally for small people and that you should use the internet and bike shops in choosing your bike. It would be far better if the geometry of the bike was mentioned in these sorts of posts, because when this information is mentioned on Tartybikes I still don't know whether a 1065 wheel base is relatively short or long, or what difference the head angle makes to the feel of the frame.

1 hour 30 minutes after I locked the bike up to go and buy some bread and milk, I finally managed to ride back home (does'nt sound much like a conveniance store does it?!) My parents were away this weekend and so I couldnt get my dad to give me some ideas; I first tried prying out the broken bit of the key with some needle nosed pliers which werent slender enough, and then tried wedging an old knife blade in there to pry it out (sort of worked but the top part of the locking mechanism kept turning). Then my girlfriend's dad, Rob, turned up outside the shop to my surprise (she had rang him to see if he could help out). He went to his mates house who was like 3 minutes walk away and returned with a hack saw which didnt do the job, and then went off to go and borrow his boss's steel/brick cutter (was'nt really sure what it looked like). In the mean time I rang up my dad's friend who is an electrician to ask for slender needle nose pliers. He was away for the weekend as well, but his daughter drove over to my house after searching her dad's van for a pair. Tried the pliers but they didnt do the trick. Rob came back without the saw because his boss was out as well, but he had a magnet and hammer & chisel. The hammer and chisel scraped the plastic off the lock but that was it. So he drove out back to his house in the country to get his anglegrinder. Got the angle grinder but was searching for a transformer as the grinder was 110v; then his mate who lived near the shop rang him asking how we were doing, then realised that he had a 240v at his house(!). So Rob comes back and gets the angle grinder from his mate. By this time I've carted my bike and two trolleys round to the back of the shop :$, and then within like 30seconds he cuts through the lock! I couldnt believe it, 90minutes of messing about and all the time there was an angle grinder 3minutes walk away! I was pretty embarassed by it, 3 guys actually asked if I needed help, and were suggesting ideas to me (such as supergluing the broken parts of the key back together). Still, could of been a lot worse though. I was lucky that I knew the manager of the shop. and that Rob could get to an angle grinder, because at the time there wasn't anyone I could think of who could help me, and my bike would of still been locked to a couple of trolleys! Sorry for the real long post, I thought I'd just let you all know what happened and what the end result to my ordeal was! Dan

I rode my bike down to the local co-op about 30 minutes ago, locked the bike outside with a specialized d-lock, and when I went to take the lock of the key broke of inside it! Do any of you have any ideas on how to get the lock of? I've tried needle nosed pliers to get the broken key out and then use my spare, hammer and chisel, and hack-saw (ok I was getting desperate at that point!). We're shortly going to attack the lock with an angle grinder, but do you guys have any ideas, and have you been in this situation?? Im just lucky I get on with the shop manager, he's finding this quite funny! Dan

Slightly off topic, but cs2 is the complete suite yeah? if so, I've seen the titles of the other programs that are included alongside photoshop, but what do they do, and is it worth gettin cs2 instead of photoshop on its own? By the way, get an evaluation copy of either winzip or winrar (I'd go for winrar) to unzip the files, but check to see if you can extract without getting the programs; some files are self extracting I think.

I dont like it; whenever I see that program it reminds me of Noel's House Party and it brings a tear to my eye when I remember how good that program was!

Looking at the picture of the bashring fitted onto your bike, could you not have machined the bashring to a smaller diameter (it looks like you could easily fit a larger chain ring with the bashring still protecting it)? Or maybe it's a bad idea to have a really small bashring?

From what I've seen on this forum, hi rise stems seem to be the thing to have for pitbulls. So if you can get your hands on a second hand hifi stem for instance (theres one in the for sale section I think) then it's definately worth a try.

It's worth a try if you have alternative grips just lieing abour, but to be honest I'd just say stick to it, you'll soon get used to it (unless you're not a new rider and you've been doing it a while!) I use v-brakes with crappy standard levers, but I have not had a problem with them and they work fine for now.

Well it started since I was a nipper, and since then it's progressed into a job as a lifeguard. Now, at university, I compete in the university league which is awesome because you go to different unis, compete and then stay over for a social; hardly any other club I know of does that. What level have you got up to? I guess when you go out on big rides you're deemed as the 'first aid guy' then!

I did'nt think that under sixteen year olds were allowed to do resistance work (as in using weights as opposed to push ups) in the gym, only cardio work. I would'nt advise going into the gym anyway to be honest, just take up another sport? Dan

At university I do swimming, lifesaving (it's not about 'how many lives can you save in a minute'), taekwondo and running. To be fair those sports don't help my riding in any way whatsoever because I still can only just backhop and I don't ride that much, so the endurance that I might have gained doesnt really contribute into my trials riding

Even though I still can't even pedal kick, after seeing that I've decided that I really need to invest in a decent helmet!

Yeah that's right. All paypal can do is just not allow further transactions from that account until the money has been paid to you first. If you have any details of this guy (i.e where he lives) then what you should definately do is go to your local trading standards office and you can get some pretty good information from them; they're primarily there for like regulating high street shops etc., but they can help out with eBay transactions between individual sellers and buyers, so hopefully they'll be able to help you as well. What I imagine they'll tell you to do is to take it to a small claims court and sort it out there. (You do something like go to your local courtroom, and buy this special form for like £50, fill it out and then get it filed, and then eventually it will be heard in a small claims court) Defaintely don't rely on paypal though. Like someone else has already said, they're customer service is terrible, and you'll end up getting more stressed when you're being put on hold for like 10 minutes at a time. Dan

Is this for your front or rear brake? I think people like having front disc brakes on the front because they offer more modulation then an hs33 does, except with the avid bb7 (which I would reccomend if I had to choose a disc brake) I've heard that it's pretty much on/off, just like a hs33... so I'd say out of the two choices you've given, go for the hs33. Personally though I'd just stick with V-brakes, and maybe just upgrade. (i.e avid sd7 or ultimate brake, odyssey linear slic or nokon cable, and xtr or ultimate lever).