Greetings

There appear to be quite a few twits on there. There's no shame in not knowing, there is in posting useless information.

A local trials forum, a drift forum, BMW forum, BMW M forum and that's about it. Part of a few others but don't visit them unless something important is happening and needs discussing first.

You'll need to buy new bearings but more importantly make a new axle and spacers. Not worth it.

You've made a lot of great videos in the past years but personally I'd put this at #1.

Sounds like that's the way to go then. Will look around for a Desire when I have some spare time, ideally need to play around with one to see if a smartphone is really something I can live with. Thanks for your time

Thought it was pretty good and worth sharing:

A decade is when you do it in the air, might apply to that as well?

It's funny how you struggle slightly with some trials moves yet manage to pull off such tricks with so much ease.

Cheers for the input. So frankly speaking Android is the way to go? However, if I'm not mistaken not only HTC phones run Android, is it just that those phones are considered to be the best now? What about Sony and Samsung? I've found browsing HTC phones very off-putting, they all look identical but have different price tags. Couldn't really figure out what the difference between them was so I gave them a miss in my short search.

Ok, this might sound strange but the last phone I chose was a Siemens S35 and that was like 8 years ago. Ever since I've been using "some phone", might have had 4 or 5 in my lifetime. My last mobile was a Nokia E52 which drove me up the wall. As a result, that phone is no more. Basically it was my first phone with more advanced features and made me aware of the emotional risks associated with owning such a device. I'd revert to a Nokia 3210 if it weren't bloody useful to have GPS, email and web access. I have absolutely no idea about mobile phones, I can't even begin to choose one. Read a lot of reviews but I don't understand anything. Android for instance, no idea what that's all about except that it's some kind of alternative to Symbian with some people saying it's shit. Basically I'm looking for a phone which WORKS, doesn't crash, hang up or lose signal for no apparent reason. It should take one button to answer a call, one button to access the phonebook and dial a number. Needs a fairly big touchscreen and preferably a normal keyboard too, a good camera would also be nice. It also needs GPS, a proper working email and web browser. Don't need Facetube or other useless stuff like being able to plug it into a TV. Also no more Nokias and definitely don't want an iPhone. Any ideas? I'm worried something like this might not exist

As long as people manage investments we'll have panic reactions to recessions which in due course become a self fulfilling prophecy. When you have everybody thinking "I'd hold on to my assets but others are going to sell theirs putting me in a difficult situation so I should get rid of my assets stat" you're bound to start a chain reaction. And that's mighty stupid but one must remember that in an economy money isn't lost or made, it's merely transferred. I think the problem with different opinions on this matter come from the fact that I'm not from the UK. I don't know what's going on your end, I've just heard that it's not good but didn't take much interest in what's really going on. Things don't look nearly as bad over here which might be why I'm a bit more optimistic when it comes to banking.

How is investing not a skillful job? It's not just luck you know. What about the thousands of people banks employ, should they also be working for free because they're not doing a skillful job, dealing with hundreds of thousands of customers the bank has? Also, if people are keeping money in banks then it means they want to. If you don't want your money run by a company, just keep it in cash. It is, from all the examples I know of 2nd hand (mainly from family friends and individuals within our family) people are turning worthless buildings or land into prosperous ventures. There's a lot of that going on over here. So long as there's more than one company on the market, chances are you'll compete trying to attact more customers. I recall having an argument with you a while back, were you not the person who said that competition is bad and we should have a monopoly? That's so ignorant, the whole point of banks is to generate money allowing for investments to be made Chances are that if banks weren't around, you'd be unemployed. That's textbook communism. I don't recall that ever going well in recent history?

Since when does Bonz make brake pads?

It's probably going to be hideously expensive. Some say that zip tie alone is going to cost 50 quid.

Thoroughly enjoyed all the vids, great music choice on all too. Sick 180 gaps there. Last vid made me a bit nostalgic, all I can say is that our sport is lucky to have a rider like you who is willing to share his riding the way you've been doing for the last 7-8 years. edit: can't spell.

What exactly? I've had some experience with the Deore M525 brake, paired the lever to a Magura HS33 which worked fairly well although it was too spongy. If you mean Deore lever + Echo TR caliper than you've got the wrong person here.

The main problem I see in publicly owned vs. privately owned is that privately owned enterprises are usually more succesful because the individuals involved have a personal interest in leading the company to new heights. Just look at what communism did to countries which were "blessed" by it. Every corporation deemed important to the state was nationalised and became public, essentially leading to it's collapse. The way countries are now coping with increased growth and debt is privatization which is essentially selling it's assets to the private sector. In most cases, it's highly beneficial for the private sector, as opposed to the public to own commodities of various sorts. To give you an idea of public banking, over here there is a publicly owned bank (perhaps there is one in the UK too?) and until it made its way to the stock exchange 2 years ago, it was absolutely rubbish. Very old fashioned, you couldn't get anything sorted out, lots of paper work etc. The only benefit of being with this bank was that it had a lot of capital reserves and was considered very safe which was why it attracted a lot of customers. Now, although the main shareholder is still the state, the bank has to worry about private investors who will not purchase stock unless they find it a worthwhile investment. Therefore, to address this issue, the range of products has increased drastically making the bank more competitive. That's one of the beneficial effects of selling a public institiution to the private sector. Secondly, the instruments governing how expensive it is for a bank to lend money (and as a result how much money it generates) are already in place. Changing ownership from private to public won't change anything. And thirdly, where should a country get the money from to purchase a bank? JP Morgan is worth around 2 trillion US dollars or something like that. And that's just one of many banks in the US (although admittedly the largest or one of the largest).

Why is it impossible to sidehop? Too long? A good stem/bar combo I've found on the 24" Echo (similar geo) was the 138x25 Echo Sl stem paired to High Riser TT bars. 150x35 + standard riser bars is also a nice combo. But at the end of the day it all depends on what you like. On TF I've noticed a tendency to have your handlebars fairly low in relation to the BB rise which I find annoying and uncomfortable. That's why on a stock I'm running a 150x35 stem despite only being 179cm tall. It's really good for natty.

It seems that they've replaced the long non-assisted lever of the M595 with a short SW lever in the newer model. That said, the M596 can be got over here for 35 quid so it'd be stupid not to try one out. The hydraulic levers are about 15 quid, combined with an Echo TR caliper that could give some serious firepower. Deffo going to experiment with these in the winter.

I've got a degree in economics so I'm well aware of how the banking system works and have been for quite some time now. I think the system is ok. What's not ok is that there are not enough regulations stopping banks from blindly lending money to whoever wants it. Personally I f**king hate banks, all the money I'm not obliged by law to keep in a bank I hold in a tin by my bed. But the truth is that without banks, no investments would be made and money would quite literally be wasted lying around waiting until investors have colleted enough to actually carry out their plans.

Do you mean the M596 brake?

At the beginning he explains very clearly how the banking system works. Haven't got the time to watch through all of it though. edit: Roughly the first 3rd of the video contained a lot of accurate facts, the rest is just a rant of a paranoid man.

Did you glue it together or weld?

What happened to it?

One has pretty much nothing to do with the other. Trials disc brakes are meant to have more locking power rather than shorter running in times. Cheers for the opinions, might give the XT a try some time soon.