Greetings

Aww thanks for all the comments Much appreciated. The frame can be bought from a member called Gazza but since he's currently traveling around Europe, he will get you in contact with a guy who is running his business for him. Unfortunately I can't tell you about the price due to Triton's policy. It's best if you just ask Dimitry. You said it Temporary, until the Hope arrives. I'm amazed at how well these pads work even on a smooth rim! Maybe it's just because they're new?

Usually ride about 5 times during the winter. Last year was different because the winter was very mild and one could actually ride in a t-shirt! Normally we have snow and temperatures below freezing though Apparently this winter is going to be even more mild than the last one though I don't believe these forecasts. The forecast for last year was that it was going to be one of the coldest winters ever. Turned out to be the exact opposite.

I'm sure you could get a DV camera off ebay for that price?

I'd look for inspiration here:

definitely somebody messing with his account...

Junior Jack - Stupidisco 2007?

A mate came over today to take proper pics of trials components I've got in stock and we decided to take pics of a few bikes as well. Didn't go too well since we didn't have a large enough sheet of paper. Anyway, here's my Triton, almost finished. No spoke tension, didn't have time to do that today. The last upgrade will include a 220mm Hope Mono Trial on the rear. Geometry is close to the 2006 A1 L, the headtube angle is steeper and the bb rise is lower. Also back to 160mm cranks which work brilliantly with the gear ratio I'm used to running.

Definitely Cousts. Used them for well over a year and I'll never get anything else if I ever go back to a rim brake. They're just amazing, especially in rain.

Everything about that video was absolutely amazing. The smoothnes, level of riding, every rider having his own beautiful little style... Just perfect. I was convinced until the first natural section that the guy on the coust frame was actually one of the Coust brothers

Really nice bike dude, looks simple neat! Some of those Pinigin frames look really cool too

Snapped steerer maybe? Deng forks have two tubes inside so even when the outer one cracks, the fork remains in one piece. Have a look at the steerer near the headset race and see if it's ok.

Same here darling

Exactly. There are few pro riders who actually know how to ride street so it's interesting.

Shame on you

Haha that was great. Happened to me as well a few years ago, was going from bash to two wheels but the bashplate got jammed between two bricks. Sent me flying over the bars

Have you seen the new Czar Freetrials (i think that's what its called)? They should be available fairly soon.

There's got to be a limit. The problem is that reaching it has as much to do with the strength of the rider, as with his technique. Strength is something that you can develop fairly quickly but technique takes ages. I think that there are no young riders at the moment who might start pushing the limits in the future. It's all down to the old generation, and from all the riders I know, I think Tra has got the closest to the limits of what's possible in this sport. I think that when he quits, we'll have to wait many years for another rider to reach his level. There's still Fontenoy, Bealey, Hermance and others but none of them have that amount of power, and at such a level of riding that's the key to pushing the limits.

I'm going to use Stewie's compliment sandwich for this one. Huge moves in that vid with a few really nice lines as well. Where you need improvement... Music was horrible. Some of the moves indoors looked really sketchy. And something positive again... Some very stylish moves in there, especially the front wheel over moves. Also really liked the pedalup to front wheel onto a rail, never saw that in a vid yet. And as it's been mentioned, you're actually quite smooth considering how large some of that stuff is. On a separate note: Oasis - Boulevard of broken songs goes very well with this video. Ditch that horrible music

Yup or soapy water. Probably a better way since it's easier to clean up

Well, it's not actually smoothening them out. A normal camera captures 50 fields per second. You need two fields to make up for a single frame. If you number the lines on a DV 4:3 clip (576 which is the vertical resolution), the odd ones will represent the first field, and the even ones will represent the 2nd field. When you have very quick movement in a clip, there will be a difference between what is captured on one field, and what is captured on the other. That's why the video appears to have lines. On a CRT TV, everything we see is interlaced, however, LCD screens can't handle interlaced video too well which is why it needs to be turned into progressive scan for it to be displayed correctly. The process of turning interlaced video into progressive is deinterlacing. It basically merges two fields into one frame. So, having said that, you need to alter the settings in Premiere for exporting. There should be a box somewhere which says deinterlace video footage. It will either be in the codec settings, or in general export settings. The other way to deinterlace the video is to squash it into half it's vertical size. That eliminates the need of having two fields. If you want to retain the smoothness of interlaced video, deinterlace it and give it 50 frames per second.

Very good read. Thanks for that! Hope you get over this and well done

You've just GOT to have that kind of music in a vid with large sidehops. Otherwise it's just pointless, like a car without wheels.

Loved it. Some nice lines in there. Beautiful surroundings as well, you're lucky to live in such a place. From what I remember you're using a Sanyo, what editing software do you use? Rav is considering buying one of these but is worried about how he's going to edit the footage.

Really enjoyed that, could have been a bit longer! Music was cool, as was the editing. You're getting the hang of riding a mod the way it should be ridden, not just treating it like a sidehop machine

If you're tensioning the chain upwards, I suggest you use a long ziptie to tie it to the top tube on the frame. Or just use a wire for that if the ziptie gets in the way of the chain. I'd also try using a file to create sharp notches on the part that rests against the frame.