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  3. Riding shoes / jacket

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    I have been out on the full sus every weekend since october through the rain sleet snow hail wind rain in scotland , and i can tell you the endura  stuff is great, yes its dear but i have been dry and reasonably warm through the winter and in january i bought the shimano am5 shoes with shimano spd caged pedals and been great, £100 all in for shoes and pedals and they feel like flats but with spd adjust to very slack i can clip in/out no probs now and great pedal efficiency so  im really looking forward to summer for long nights and dry fast single track and hopefully less bike washing more ridding

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  4. Ali C Vlog

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    I thought about rolls of foam but it wont stop the tire pinching on rim so has to be wider than rim idealy a keyhole/mushroom shape not too sure if the edging foam would bend around easy too

     

     

     

     

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  5. Ali C Vlog

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    Very interesting vlog of the tubeless set up, often wondered why they never made a foam idea for tires and didnt think to incorporate into tubeless good idea!!!

    Will see how yours last ali before i try it, I like to run lower pressure so would be good to see you do same moves at different pressures to see 45-20 psi or something, the enduro tire are able to run lower psi so guess so 

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  6. CHRIS AKRIGG - AS IT LIES

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    First things first, I think this vid is class, have you ever tried to ride a wet mossy river bed at a speed way harder than what it looks and Chris does this with style and ease

    Now roll back 5/10 years and "street" bikes were getting slated as non trials bikes and more like bmx........ Roll back 10/15 year  most trials bikes had seats of a fashion and were short and low bb.......(like street bikes)         15/20 years ago trials bike and mtb were almost the same and some trials bikes had sus forks and gears and also used mtb wheels/tires

    I learned to back hop on a full sus in the mid/late 90 and i feel like the age of the do it all bike is making a come back again just like mtb went from all round to xc/dh/4x now to "Enduro" all mountain 

    Dh racers  train on motocross in winter, xc riders train road bike, bike trials a lot of moves came from mototrials and vice versa 

    So to class this is as trials.................  why do we have to class anything 2 wheels and terrain does it for me 

     

  8. Short rider... is a custom bike my best option?

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    I have the same problem I'm 5"4 and have tried mods, stocks, 24

    im currently riding a echo pure24 mk1 shorter wb and a Marino 24 archive 

    i liked mods for weight and size but hated how small the wheels are and 26 back in the day were way shorter then current ones so opted for 24  

    I defo prefer short wheelbase you just have to play with bar/stem combo to suit I have short legs and long arms so makes it a tad harder to set up 

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  16. Ali C Vlog

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    Mark also very true about clean videos for inspiration ;)

    I used to watch the old echo vids when they first came out on dial up Internet many moons ago  before heading out 

  17. Ali C Vlog

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    On 13 May 2016 at 0:17 PM, Ali C said:

    I think I'm just wanting something that means I can get more content out, I've always been a quality over quantity person which is why I only let people see the finished edit in stuff like Clean videos. That has it's plus points as it means people will hold you in high regard riding wise but it's also a double edged sword in that people don't see how long it takes to land stuff and they'll actually think I'm a better rider than I am and potentially be disappointed if they were to see me in person. I don't ride big banger lines every day so these kind of videos are just more "real".

    The other side is that Danny has the "epic" video thing to a point and no matter how hard all his fans try, they'll always be second to him at that video style. These Vlogs are a way for me to be different in a crowd of people all trying to do the same thing, I don't want to be a Danny copy, I want to be known as myself.

    I preferred the vlogs to the clean version, I get the sense on vlogs that objects are harder to ride and takes many attempts and its practice make perfect and not all big massive lines too

    where as  the clean version looks all easy and a false sense of what a day to day trials ride is 

    think a vlog of making a clean version and the techniques used would be cool, also bike build and parts reviews too

    Anyways really enjoys these and hope a full series and mabey a few season come out keep it real Ali 

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  18. Ali C Vlog

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    I think in this day and age TV is starting to become a thing of the past and YouTube and people's blogs, online content is getting bigger and bigger. 

     This is the first time a well known person is doing blogs on trials bikes so a big congrats to Ali and hope it takes off for you, I certainly enjoyed it and hope to see more 

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