Ben Swales

The TMS riders do their bit for charity! - Photos from an unusual demo by the TMS Bikevision team as part of a nationwide charity event in France this weekend... Atomz Co Factory 2010 & Quark II - Atomz are recruiting for their 2010 Co-Factory team (although it looks to me as though it may only be open to riders in France). We also have some photos and info on the 2010 Quark II range. New ViZ products at Trialprod - Trialprod have received a new shipment of ViZ goodies - including the new super-light single wall rims and ViZ Light Forks. Street in Melbourne - The latest video from Australian Champion Joe Brewer and friends, with some impressive moves and original angles. New Rock products at Trialprod - New Rock products at Trialprod; riser bars, forks and pads with CNC backings. The Biketrials.in project - A great new online resource putting trials riders all over the world in touch with each other! The phenomenal Patrick Smage - An 18 year old American lad who has mastered trials in all its forms... incredible!

I wouldn't have gone that far, but yeah, not a massive fan... I much preferred it when it was going to be like this:

That paint job is classy as f*ck - big fan!

The production models of the Ozonys Curves arrived in France a few days ago and the Ozonys team took them for an inaugural ride at Buthiers on Saturday. Here are a few night-time pictures of Bruno's Curve. As you can see, it's evolved even further and is now effectively a monocoque frame. I'm a bit disappointed with the new looks - I really liked the proto and its shape, not such a fan it now... You can read the Tribal Zine article here.

The Curves have arrived! - The long awaited Ozonys Curves arrived in France a few days ago and the Ozonys team took them to Buthiers for an inaugural ride! This way for photos and a quick description. Better photos and a test article to follow!

Just seen this on the Photo By Sergio site - it's a collection of all the stacks and bails that they filmed over the year; some of them are pretty savage (00:50 for example!) Bloopers. (If you don't like ska-punk, stick it on mute!)

Rowan Johns - CS - A super-cool video from one of our favourite street riders - fakie manuals anyone? Kiss Roland on his TMS Evo 3 - The first video of the TMS Bikevision team's latest recruit on his new Evo 3. The Rockman Maladie frames - A closer look at the long and high 20" from Rockman. Nicolas Luque by Ded Wygledacz - A collection of photos of Nicolas Luque on his TMS Evo 3, taken by his brother-in-law, who just happens to be a professional photographer!

Ah nice.. I should check in there more often. Those graphics look pretty cool, looking forward to seeing one of the production frames! Knut Fosse by TRA

Where have you seen the graphics? I'd like to see them! I like the look of this frame too, shame I can't really afford to make any bike related investments at the moment! While I'm here: Rafael-Tibau-by-Aaron-Levy - A short, explosive video of a young and successful comp rider from Spain - one to watch for the future! Jack Carthy in training - Jack's latest video, filmed largely in and around Matlock. He just gets better and better! and... Sam Oliver in Chester - A few (impressive) snaps of Sam on a street ride in Chester over the Summer

Dani in Viladecans by Sergio - More media from the PBS roadtrip last month, this time a video of Dani Comas, with some bonus moto footage!

Sorry mate, all I know is that the production models *should* be available in about a month. As soon as we hear anything we'll post it up EDIT: that being said, there's no reason you can't order one from Spain, providing you don't mind paying the extra postage...

I've just translated the article on the Kabra 24". It seems that the production model will be available very soon!

Cheers mate Juanda's Kabra 24" - A closer look at the new 'non-street' 24" from Janda de la Peña, with some info on release dates! A "low cost" Hydroxx 26 II LT - A low cost version of the Koxx Hydroxx II LT available from K-124 until January! Forwards by Daniel Gray - A short feature on Daniel Gray's great web video Fowards, featuring some of the UK's biggest talents!

Gilles Coustellier by Sergio (video) - The video of the French, European and World Champion at the legendary rock in Saint-Blaise.

Full geo: WB: 1060mm Chainstays: 368mm BB Height: +60mm Head Angle: 71° There's more info in this article. Only in French at the minute, I'll get the translation up tomorrow evening I hope

Transport to the arena is a piece of piss. The tram goes right by it, as do bus routes 17, 69, 130, 208, 209, 210, 287, 424, X5, X40, X69 and X73. Accomodation is OK, although living here, I've never had to actually look into it, so probably not the best person to advise you one that. My mate is the PR manager at The Harley, which is right by the University tram stop, about 30 minutes from the arena, so you may want to check them out. I'll be going along, if you fancy someone to go with

I've just translated our article on this frame, you can check it out here. I think this bike looks brilliant, nice clean lines, interesting concept, and his build looks good too. I'd be interested to see if it does what it has set out to and combines the advantages of both 20" and 26". I'd be a definite customer if it did! Unfortunately there's not much info on the geometry at the moment:

Tribal Zine & Trial Mag - We have entered into a new partnership with Trial Mag France and will be providing the bike articles for them. Expect to see some more creeping into Trial Mag UK in the near future as well! Join Ozonys' Team 2! - Ozonys are recruiting for their 2010 Team 2. We've got all the info you need to apply! It's already Christmas at K-124! - A look at some of the great Christmas offers available from K-124. Check it out and grab yourselves some crazy bargains! A 24" for natural - A quick look at the future 24" from new Spanish brand "Kabra", aimed not at the street riding market, but at natural riders! YT in Reason to Be 1 - Don't know how we missed this one! A stunning 24" video from the 'French Macaskill'! The 2010 UCI Calendar - The UCI has revealed its calendar for 2010, with a 100% European World Cup and a World Championship that will take place at the prestigious site of Mont-Saint-Anne in Quebec!

We sometimes test parts on Tribal Zine, but mostly full bikes. There's also a full test of four top-of-the-range bikes in Trial Mag France this month (no good to you if you can't read French though I'm afraid). Otherwise, you're probably best asking people on here I reckon - there will be someone who's tried the part you're interested in!

Tribal Zine is an online trials information and media magazine. Updated pretty much daily with new articles, videos and photos. It's a French site, but I usually get English translations of the articles up within a few days of the original being published, and we're currently in the process of internationalising the site; there's now a section for English articles only, which you can click to see all the English articles, or click on one of the sub-headings to see a category (eg. videos): There are now also two flag buttons (on the camera) to click to see the English or French versions of the site, which we are currently working on. Pretty soon English will be the default language of the site. Otherwise, as people have mentioned, Trial Mag is pretty good (a bit moto heavy at the moment - although that may be changing soon!), Trials and Motocross is another good one (again, quite moto heavy, but with the odd bit of bike stuff in there and MBUK has a 2-page trials section in it.

A demo by Biketrial Vadese - An HD video of a bike/moto demo that the riders of Biketrial Vadese put on over a whole weekend last month. Alan Cappellacci is particularly impressive! "The Cat" in Fabregues by Sergio - More images from Photo by Sergio's recent roadtrip; this time of Marc Caisso at his training ground in Fabregues! We've also made a lot of progress with internationalising the site. There's now a section for English articles only, which you can click to see all the English articles, or click on one of the sub-headings to see a category (eg. videos): There are now also two flag buttons (on the camera) to click to see the English or French versions of the site, which we are currently working on. Pretty soon English will be the default language of the site. Watch this space for more developments and for some pretty exciting news regarding Tribal Zine and Trial Mag!

We've got an article up on Tribal Zine about this new frame - French only at the moment I'm afraid - should get the English version up at some point tomorrow. Looks very interesting!

Kiss Roland Video - The latest video from TMS Bikevision's new Romanian recruit. The Second Orrius Classic - Information about the second round of the classic circuit in Catalonia with some photos of some of the bikes of yesteryear. There's some beauties in there!