Mike Poyzer @ Onza

Skim rims have been used by us for a couple of years now. They are double skin and are made for us by Weinmann and have been really good with no problems. They are only used by us as complete wheels on our bicycles and feature extensively on the new 2007 mod range, in both drilled and undrilled versions. We have never supplied them as after market rims as we use the hogs or reggie\ronnie. They are different rims to the Alex DX32 which we used to supply as Full Fats.

Looking at Marks drawing, he shows a flange on the slave cylinder which does not exist. This appears to stop it sliding out. If you omit that flange then the slave cylinder does slide outwards by approx. 5mm either side allowing that much extra rim width. The new clamps will be with us in a couple of weeks or so.

I'd just like to add my thanks to all those who made the show a resounding success. A great shop window for bicycle trials to a lot of people completely unfamiliar with it. In particular I would like to thank Dave Butler and family and Carol Slinger for their tireless help and work in promoting and organising the event, and anyone else involved in an official capacity. I would of course thank sons Chris and Joe, and other staff at Super Cycles for their hard work and long hours and Adam and Giles for their illuminating commentaries. Finally I would like to thank all the riders for taking part in the event, this year proving that home grown UK talent is a match for many of the continental riders used in previous years. ( Special thanks to Wesley Belaey, the only non UK rider this year) The attached photo of Andrei Burton gives some idea of the scale of the courses used this year. ( too busy filming to produce many stills) A professionally produced DVD is in process, futher news when available.

I have tried to stay off this thread but things are being said unjustifiably. Here are the facts. 1.The frame is brand new. It was never used as either a demo, team bike or anything else. 2. It was built to check angles and clearances and nothing more. 3. It was AUCTIONED on ebay and clearly described as a prototype. Several photographs were taken and posted on the auction which clearly show its condition. 4. He paid £132 for it, well under half its standard retail price. 5. We have offered him a full refund less our ebay fees. Remember it was an online auction not a normal mail order sale and we incurred costs in selling it. 6. I am confident that we could resell again for the same price and am perfectly happy to do so. In fact we contacted the under bidder on the auction, when the buyer first complained, and he has indicated that he would buy it for the same price. This guy clearly does not wish to return the frame but just wants to blag some money off it. 7. Whichever way you look at it he had a great deal and then proceeded to complain to ebay, paypal and left us very derogatory feedback. I quote "very bad ebayer. Buyer stay clear". Did he not therefore expect us to reciprocate with negative feedback in return.

All Tensile cranks have always had replaceable pedal inserts.

We sell hundreds of items a week on mail order, ebay etc. You win, you pay, we send. If we had to acknowledge receiving everybodies payment and sending their item we would have to employ another member of staff to do it so all the prices go up.

Did you fit the spacing washer behind the freewheel? If you do not fit that it makes life difficult.

We do sell the Tensile crank inserts seperately but you have to tap out to a larger size. We also re bush alloy cranks (ream and tap to a larger size and fit a double threaded steel bush to the original thread size) This is a service though, not a DIY job as you need the right tools. Cost is £12 per crank ( plus p & p if required) including the bush. You need to send your crank and pedal to us.

The BT freewheel is a blatant copy of our Tensile freewheel and as such is taking advantage of the many hours of development work which we have put into the project. It clearly infringes our registered design ( it does not matter how many teeth you knock out - it is still 20 tooth spline) and we have already taken steps to try and ensure that it does not reach production.

16 tooth 3/32" ACS claws in stock now at Super Cycles.

We have three. The standard open bearing Onza at £11, the mid range cartridge bearing at £19 and the Pro sealed bearing at £29.95.

Actually the first prototype 96 was around over 7 months ago, long before we began production of the 60 so the theory is wrong there. We are now approaching 2000 sales worldwide, at this stage with only the 60. We are getting OE manufacturers enquiries and it is shaping up as a BRITISH success story. So far I can confirm tht despite some negative postings just after release, we have so far not received one freewheel back here allegedly faulty and I can confirm the same situation in our other export countries. Our patient development strategy seems to be paying off.

The Tensile 96 will be £37.95 as against £35 for the 60. Available approx. 3 weeks. We do intend to continue the 60 for street use and the 96 for competition use.

Wider bottom brackets are not really down to rim widths. They are down to short chainstays, fat tyres and CNC yokes. Our Tensile cranks are really stiff partially because they are straight rather than cranked. This makes the requirement for long axled b/bs' even greater and we have even looked at wider b/b shells on the frame. With regards to the Magura mounts I would welcome some data on their use with narrower rims as it is not something we have given great consideration to, other than to notice the facts in my opening post.

Thats why bottom brackets are getting wider.

There has been some discussion on the news section reference our new patented Tensile offset Magura mounts. I would like to point out that they were specifically designed to allow the use of wider rims in standard frames. Whilst they can be used the opposite way round, they do not confer such a big advantage and certainly will not allow the use of much narrower rims in your frame. The reason for this is the limitations placed on us by the design of HS33's. You can move the brake in but only as far as the point where the right angled upturn of it butts up against the mount. Therefore the inward movement is little greater than a conventional mount. You will however be able to run a rim up to 10mm wider than a conventional mount design.

The Frame Danny is using is the new Limey 2 available end of August. Edit: and the photos you wanted:

I do not need to defend the Ronnie as its record speaks for itself. I think any rim will be considerably weakened after four grinds. I do however want to make some corrections about the Onza Hog and the Kris Holm rim. Kris does co operate with us on certain areas and our rim manufacturer on those rims is the same. The material on both the Onza Hog and the Kris Holm is identical, 6061H (the heavy duty version of 6061) The rim is made in 38mm, 42.2mm and 47mm. We use the 47mm with hog piercing and Kris uses the 42.2 undrilled. For your further info we are introducing 42.2mm Half Hogs in August to add to the 47mmWhole Hogs to cater for those who need a slightly narrower rim. I would also point out that Kris is now changing to 47mm with 18mm drillings to replace the 42.2mm undrilled for his future deliveries.

The newest T-Vee forks are the same as the T-Bird, T-Pro, T-Mag 1 forks apart from the Vee mounts. They weigh 1300 grams and are even more indestructable. The original T-Vee fork with the more rounded crown had thinner walls hence the lower weight. To make the more angular crown of the current version requires greater wall thickness or the bend flattens in the machine when they are made. This accounts for the weight increase.

The T-Vee forks are 1100 grams, just weighed them. Why do you all make such stupidly wild guesses?