Mike Poyzer @ Onza

Just like to add my congratulations to Danny and also to Ben Slinger. The British riders showed a great depth of talent for the future.

This also is my last word on this post. It was not me who came on this thread saying, Get a Tensile, we have sold thousands and I have heard bad reports on Monty and Tryall. I would never do that as it would be discourteous and bad practice towards our competitors. For that reason the facts I presented do not need evidence. The evidence I presented as facts is ,however, all here available in my office if anyone cares to dispute it. Secondly, is it seriously being suggested that all he sells is Monty freewheels. Thirdly, 65 premium priced freewheels is a lot of freewheels and I would suggest that very few, if any, shops would sell that many freewheels of one model, in that price bracket in 10 months.

Selling 65 Monty freewheels sounds like a shop to me . Or are you perhaps a charity and sold them on at cost price .

Surprisingly enough to you, I do have an excellent life. My objection is that somebody like you who admits to selling at a profit, Monty freewheels, comes on an open forum and criticises competing products. I am quite happy for you to praise your Monty freewheels as much as you want. It is however very unprofessional to then present vague references to what you have admitted is hearsay about ours and other products, as "facts" without any hard evidence. I have plenty of information about broken parts of our competitors but I would never use it to try and smear their products. Once you start selling parts and making money out of your fellow trials riders, you lose the basis for making reasoned and unbiased comments about competing products.

Onza Ronnie. Unique rim Kris Holm is identical to the Onza Hog, Try All etc. etc. Was a narrower 42mm width but now made as the wider 47 mm version

"I know some people who have had severe problems with Tensile freewheels" This is complete hearsay and attempted product smearing by a competitor without giving any hard evidence. Fact. We haven't had a distributor in Poland until this week,when www.trials.pl took their first delivery. Fact. We have never sold one to customer in Poland but I cannot of course say that Tarty or others may not have done so. Fact. Approaching 5000 made with absolute miniscule returns. Fact. Now fitted as standard original equipment on four leading trials bike manufacturers. Fact. Fully serviceable and all parts available.

Thanks John, Great Pictures. Thanks again for the Demo at the weekend and I'm glad your impressed with the bike. Any chance of the photos from the festival demo?

Colour is pearlised white.

Why do people use such emotive terms as "Snap Happy", the implication being that they all break rapidly. Let me give you some facts. The old style. Produced 3200 pairs worldwide. Replaced FOC 36 individual cranks. Most were heavily battered and most were older than eight months. Replaced half price 28 individual cranks. All heavily battered and over 1 year old. Obviously others may have broken but we were never approached about replacements so I can't comment. The new style, Urban Legend we have now produced our third 1000 batch and so far replacements have been absolutely minimal. They are used by several top ten world riders and are fitted as original equipment to two top French brands and of course the top Onza models.

Still waiting for the final prototype. Scheduled for release as a bike just after Christmas. May come sooner if released as frame only. I haven't decided yet. PS. I just returned from holiday and read the thread about our new "Cleaner". The Hitman is based on the existing T-Rex frame and the Cleaner has the new hydroformed down tube. Ref. the Cleaner, did you guys not see Pulp Fiction or the Assassin. Every Hitman has a Cleaner. Harvey Keitel in a pinafore, I don't think so.

Thats the Outer Ring which will be back in stock in two or three weeks

Why does everyone keep saying get an Eno because it is the only one with spares ALL parts for TENSILES are available ex-stock. Pawls, springs, shims and caged bearings are stocked by us and several shops. These are also available as service kits. Inner ring and outer ring, temporarily out of stock, will be available again as spares in about three weeks. All these parts are comparatively cheap as well. A full service kit, 6 pawls, 6 springs, 2 caged bearings and 3 shims is £12 post free. This compares to 1 pawl at £6 or 1 pawl spring at £2 for an Eno.

The frames do keep selling but we repeat them. That "brass coloured insert" is the naturaL COLOUR of heat treated aluminium.

As Joe said we now have official distributors in 19 different countries around the world. We offer a range of products in a range of colours. Some distributors pick the colours, some don't. We have given them distribution contracts and cannot force them to have every single item in every single colour. I would be quite happy to add Orange to the range of colours available in rims but I cannot force the UK distributor or any other distributor to stock them.

In answer to the comment that we are slow on the uptake, our coloured rims have been available now for over a year and have been sold in Russia and other markets. The fact that they have not come to the UK is because of the changes in our UK distribution. The UK importer that we appointed is new to Trials and we have to introduce products to them gradually.

We supply David at www.trialshive.com in Australia but I think hes on the West coast.

The Onza Dual is the new top model ( other than the Limey 2) in the 26" range being launched at the Bike show. Availability will be a little later than the first three models which will be available probably September/October. For the Dual we are just waiting for the final production sample from the four prototypes so far produced and gradually improved upon. The other new models are the Spirogyra, Hitman and Cleaner. Photo's will be posted a little nearer the time.

Please bear in mind that Super Cycles is the name of our group business and major changes have occured in what we actually do over the last couple of years. We leased the retail portion of our premises to Raleigh last year so for over a year we have not retailed conventionally. We contracted distribution of Onza and Tensile also last year to Moore Large, who are a major UK bicycle and component distributor in the UK. This was part of our strategy to make cycle trials a more main stream pastime and bring it to a bigger cross section of the public. This strategy is beginning to work but the changeover has been frought with difficulties as Moore Large knew nothing about it prior to this. They are learning fast and hopefully supply problems will improve but we know that there have been difficulties. We are still developing those two brands as worldwide brands and now have distributors in 16 different countries, as well as distributing and developing our Conspiracy dirt brand and our Guess road and X/C brands plus also distributing X-Fusion and Spinner shocks and forks and VP1 components. However we still have many thousands of pounds worth of stock to dispose of and if your order is anything of that, there should be no problem. If however you are placing an order from our Super Cycles mail order operation and it is not a stock item there may be a problem. Super Cycles as a Mail Order company is slowly being wound down and wiill disappear entirely probably in the next year or so. This does not mean we are abandoning the internet and mail order sales as we have exciting new plans for expanding in those areas in the future. It may however be prudent to check by phone on the stock situation before ordering product if you need it urgently over the next few months. Come September when Moore Larges first direct parts order arrives then supply problems should ease and our new product roll out will continue. Shortly after that we have the launch of our all new 26" stock range, hitting the shops well before Christmas. Hopefully availability will rapidly spread to your local shop as well as the specialist trials MO operations. Businesses like Tarty bikes will of course always be a major plank in our strategy and their well deserved reputation for good service I am sure will continue. We honestly believe that broadening the appeal of Trials bikes is essential to make the sport and pastime a serious contender for recognition. The governing bodies of sport like the Olympics committee are now starting to recognise that kids today connect to things like BMX and Skateboarding and they need to introduce them as Olympic events to maintain interest. Yachting, Equestrian events etc, etc. are always going to be elitist by their very nature but street sports are not. Just remember that snotty kid on a T-Vee could well be a world champion in a few years.

I'm glad you have filled me in about a spork. I thought it was what Waynio built his wheels with. My apologies in advance for that Wayne.

I have steered clear of responding to this thread because it has attracted so many idiot replies. However, after the last two postings I thought that something needs straightening out. First of all we have not had T-Master rear hubs in stock for several months. In response to dealer requests we always try to help out in such cases as we have many damaged wheels in stock from half price replacements and team bikes, from which we have tried to find something suitable. I accept that our response may have partially fallen short of acceptable but the customer and the shop in question must shoulder some responsibility. What to him is a major problem , is to us a minor matter as we grapple with a worldwide bicycle and component distribution company. We need regular prompting for such situations. There has been an ongoing problem confirming whether it was 32 or 36 hole and finally today we have ascertained that it was 32 hole. Unfortunately after extensive checks we have nothing suitable. To try and help the dealer and the customer, we have a small air shipment coming tomorrow on which is 10 of the new rear sealed bearing hubs in 32 hole which were use with prototype bikes and team bikes. We have decided in the circumstances to make one of these available for him and should ship it tomorrow. Please be aware that we have appointed Moore Large and company as our UK distributors and there may be supply problems on certain items as distribution moves from us to them. I would like to say that we have a well publicised telephone number and maybe it would have been better contacting us and trying to sort out the problem directly rather than opening this can of worms. In answer to some of the other criticisms and abuses on this thread, 1. We may be a lot of things here but we certainly are not f**kwits. (what is a spork by the way?) 2. Onza is not crap. 3. Far from copying everybody elses designs and ripping people off, we are one of the most innovative trials bike companies in the world and certainly one of the biggest and we probably give the best value for money. Fortunately for us our products are often better appreciated in other countries of the world than here in our own home market. 4. We have more than a " clue " about trials bikes. We have been designing, building and riding them now for over 10 years. 5. Where do some of you think that Tarty buys there Onza and Tensile parts from? If we don't have it , it is very unlikely that they will. 6. A special thank you to Synergy for a sensible response. Finally, the previous posting is a total lie. I presume he has all the evidence for making this outrageous claim.

Developing this freewheel took a lot of time and funds trying different ideas. Once the configuration was decided we invested a lot more money on tooling for pawls, springs and toothed rings for production. Producing a 22 tooth and a 16 tooth are speculative ventures to a large extent and to have designed and developed different internals to those of the 18 tooth would have tripled the development costs. Since we felt that the 18 tooth was our optimum, it made sense to use the same internals on other sizes. Therefore the only change required was the outer toothed sprocket. It was a case of either having other sizes with the same internals or not having other sizes at all.

The Citrus Lemon pads are designed for smooth rims which is where they are most effective. There is a new Lime version on the way which has been extensively tested and which was developed for longer life when using a grind and we are also developing the Orange for wet weather.

Can you elaborate on what the problems were. The Tensile is fully serviceable and all internal parts are available.

Just like to say thanks for the many positive comments made about our Tensile Freewheel. Just to add a little to the debate, we spent over two years prototyping and testing the freewheel before coming up with the final version which you see now. As many who helped us in this project will know, we tried out 60 , 72 and 96 engagement versions as well as several pawl combinations. We decided after much checking that the standard version now being produced was the optimum for engagements, reliability and wear life. This decision has proved to be the correct one and demand has exploded beyond our production capacity at the moment. Just to put the engagements aspect into perspective, on a standard 165 crankset the linear travel per engagement on a 60 is 1.72 cms on a 72 it is 1.44 cms, on a 96 it is 1.08 cms and on a 108 it is 0.96 cms. The massive increase in longevity and reliability when dropping to 60 for a minimal increase in pedal take up has proved decisive. As well as being fitted as original equipment on Onza bikes, they are now being supplied as original equipment to both MBK and Atomz/Sunn bicycles and we have lots of other worldwide enquiries coming in every day. Once again thanks everybody for their endorsements.

Most D/H or Freeride frames have front suspension with between 4 and 8 inches travel which is why they seldom break their handlebars no matter how high they jump from. Trials bikes however have rigid forks so even the shallowest drop can put great strain on your bars.