planet x alan

What's to ride in cramlington?

What chain? Mod or stock, what length bb? Is your chain line out?

Date changed to sunday the 2nd!!

Looks like the rim will be quite thin so if you have a trials specific frame then you might struggle to set the brake up, also i doubt the rear hub would take much hammering! If you're new to trials and have an old school type frame then should be good!

Thinking of re organising this for the weekend after anyway. Last time i rode the toon i we ended up getting moved on from most of the riding spots!

Every few months or so i visit family just outside of frinton on sea and i sometimes take my bike down with me.

Sounds like either there's not enough tension on the tensioner spring, or you may need a new sprocket.

cool beans! I'll let you know. I remember most of the spots mind but there's probably some new ones and other stuff I don't know about.

It seems sunday the 2nd is a better idea for riding. Durham OR Newcastle. I'm easy going which. I'll leave it down to you guys! I should be taking a few people from my area up with me. Should be a good day!

I'll drive it to france myself for you for £789. I bet you could send it on a pallet for much less than that!

Yeah good plan. The drill bits needed look pretty inexpensive so I'll give that a try when i have a bit of time spare! Thanks!

May give that a go actually, they are hardened steel so VERY brittle when smashed.

Thanks for the suggestions guys, the idea of welding a bar onto it i could not seeing work, it's a 4mm hole so he'd heve to be a pretty shit hot welder to get a bit of steel in there without melting my brake mounts to bits. As for cutting a slot, as Adam said there's been a bit of torque gone through it to shatter it (Yes I did go at it with brute force and ignorance and paid the price!). I think my plan of action is gonna be to live with it with a jubilee clip holding it on until a decent frame pops up for sale cheapish!

Yeh ofcourse... On freewheels like the tensile and such that you would normally run on the front the lock ring is on the opposite side as they are designed to be run as ffw set ups, whereas bmx freewheels aren't, hence why running an ACS claw on the front (like a lot of budget trials bikes used to) the lockring came off, whereas if fitted on the rear you'd experience no problems at all.

Back in the day I ran an ACS claw on a dmr revolver hub using 22/16 ratio. They don't unscrew as you pedal and the freewheel never seemed to skip on the back. This would probably be the cheaper option. More expensive option would be to run front freewheel, white industries or similar (heard people saying the echo SL is a decent one aswell but I've never used one so can't really comment on that). Probably still marginally cheaper than going down the pro2 route. Running a freewheel up front seems to give better pick up on the engagement. But I think a freehub on the rear would be a bit more reliable with a deeper, wider ratchet and larger pawls.

Yeah that's what i was thinking. I'll have a look around but the jubi clip will probably have to stay on there a lot longer than i hoped! Thanks for the quick reply!

The tap has well and truly snapped off inside the mount and not retreivable using long nosed plyers or anything like that. In hindsight i should of used better quality stuff for the job! The question is: If i were to drill the whole lot out would it be worth it/possible for an aluminium welder to fill the mount back up and for me to re drill/retap the mount. Would the heat involved weaken the frame in any way? Bodged it together with a jubilee clip atm and it's holding up well enough but would be nice to be able to fiddle about with brake set up while out riding! Any input appreciated.

Hahha yeah a little bit short notice ! Do you have any days off in the week or anything?

Yeah for sure. Just been talking to olds'coolfool as I realised his topic was pretty much the same as this after I posted... D'oh. But yeh shoot me a PM when you can ride and stuff and I'll try to sort something out.

As the title says. Wanting to get back into the sport and stuck for people to ride with!

cheers everyone for all the good feedback

best answer for a little chav, but if its a big b*****d something on the lines of "nah mate it's broke" normally works. tell them your wheels f**ked or something and they believe you. But if its a drunken bloke or something i just let them have a go cause its funny, if they do decide to try and ride off on it, they aint gonna get far on 18/14 gear ratio and aint gonna be able to ride a bike with +40bb and no seat lol.