Mark W

That's why the 4-finger blades are so good! I used to run mine in a similar way to yours, and due to the length of the 4-finger blade the 'hook' is at a different angle compared to the 2-finger blade - plus the extra 16% power too.

I have no recollection of writing the quote in your sig...

If drop-gapping off a roof (or stack of pallets) to a mark on the floor goes the way of the on-off sidehop, most TGS videos are not only going to have to be called 'T' videos instead of 'TGS', but they're also going to be about 30secs long and that'll primarily be an intro anyway...

8.7kg-ish. Nice bike Tom, was admiring it when it was getting built-up/picked up (by Santa, obviously )!

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Cool. It's the same with my Lynx for me, really - I like riding a mix of street and natural, and the Lynx isn't too biased in one direction or the other. Probably a bit more street-orientated I guess, but it's still really light so it's pretty easy to move around on the rocks

Turned 23 two days ago - it's all good I ride BMX and trials, and it's both fine really. My brother's 3 years older than me and is awesome on his BMX, and some of the best BMXers out there are in there later 20's. Age doesn't have to be a big issue as long as you're reasonably fit and healthy.

There's only about 20mm in it in the reach - how tall are you? I'm 6' 1" or so and I run the long frame and it feels pretty comfy!

Just as a side note, make sure you're still getting decent chain wrap around your rear sprocket! In that picture, it's kinda borderline, but if you had less than that you're starting to run the risk of the chain skipping more, or just simply putting more pressure on the chain by having less teeth on the sprocket engaging with it. If you can get your chain to go above the first jockey wheel of your mech then that'd be ideal.

Where do you work? Supermarket/shop of some kind I'm guessing from those hours?

It sounds like a massive cop out, but it's basically an all-round frame. It's not an all-out, super lightweight comp frame, but it's not a mega-weighty street tank. It's a fairly middle of the road frame in terms of weight, and the geometry's not too heavily biased one way or the other. Your choice of stem is going to have more of a say in terms of what it's 'good' for as a frame.

Brakes!

I have a name, you b*****d!

Riding, having my birthday, seeing family, etc. - same thing most people do over the holidays! Oh, and being warm - that warehouse is pretty cold these days!

If you know any BMXers, chances are one of them will run the Interlock chains. If not, could always phone up a few BMX shops that are proper shops (not just a mail order, so they might have to fit some chains to customer's bikes) and see if they've got a few links spare somewhere. Worked for me! Split link: Half link: They're alright, but they stretch like buggery which ultimately weakens the chain. Best off trying to get a spare link or two, then run a 'normal' chain and run one of them in it. You'll have to run a 510 or a 710 to use one though, 'cos the 610 and 810 are 3/32 and the Shadow chains aren't.

Had to get up at 5:30am to leave my house at 6am to drive through the snow from Wales to work for 9am yesterday Got there at 9:30am, but that was 'cos I got raped by gritters. Dedication, haha.

From the site.

Majority of couriers/Royal Mail weren't doing collections or deliveries today, so you wouldn't have had your stuff sent out until Monday anyway, meaning you can call us up on Monday, use your voucher, and get your stuff the same day you'd have got it if you could've ordered from us today... ...if that makes sense

Possible back in the day, but with how freakishly expensive most food is nowadays, probably a bit harder Pot of stock solves that shit - it last for forever so you can absorb the cost of it over a few weeks. I tried existing on a primarily noodle based diet, but got pissed off 'cos they give you approximately no nutritional value so with riding being done I got knackered almost instantly. Not cool. Anyways, bearing in mind you'll almost never have to pay the price of a new oven/cooker wherever you live it's not really an accurate question. It'd also be shit in terms of nutrition, and it'd also be no fun at all. Cooking can be pretty enjoyable, and it's nice eating a meal that tastes f**king awesome that you know you cooked from scratch. More variety too!

That's what I was getting at - I was saying that you don't need a long bike to ride TGS...

Which headset is it?

Regarding the "It's now long and low, therefore it's not good for TGS" thing - Benito runs a pretty short frame, and he can put almost all 'TGS' riders to shame at TGS...

What Matt said - BMXs are infinitely better for street than trials bikes are (hence everyone copying BMX moves when it comes to trying to ride street), and they're almost all 74.5° or 75° head angles now. I went from a 74 to a 74.5 to finally a 75 HA on my BMX frames and they progressively got more nimble and better for front wheel tricks. As Matt said, you're talking about altering the reach which you don't have to do with a steeper head angle. You could also quite easily cancel out the difference in reach by rolling your bars to a different angle, but your wheelbase being reduced is not changeable unless you buy new forks. Like with my BMXs, when I went from 74.5 to 75, I rolled my bars back a touch so my body position is essentially the same, but I'm benefitting from the wheelbase being reduced, and from the angle my forks are now at in terms of quickening up the steering. It's not even like it's an opinion based thing - it's a fact that when you steepen the head angle of any frame it'll make the steering faster (and therefore make it twitchier to steer), it's just a case of how the rest of the frame is set up geometry (and component wise) that'll decide how it rides.

It seems at the moment that everyone loves running super low stems on their mods, and I have no idea why. Well, that's a lie - the reason seems to be that they 'feel nice on the back wheel', which tends to translate to 'I just do sidehops so it feels good for them'. There's no doubt about it that a lower stem means that once you're on the back wheel, most bikes will happily sit there. However, for pretty much anything other than sidehops, they really ruin the feel of your bike. I quite like doing pedal ups and bunnyhops and the like, and with a low stem on they just feel shit. I tried a lower, shorter stem than my Trialtech Race (I'm running the Try-All big boy stem now - the £28 one - and it's really nice too. Not had much of a chance to test it, but it's a bit lighter and looks a bit better), and on pedal ups and bunnyhops I was always only just getting the front end high enough to not plough into whatever I was riding simply because they're effort to lift up. Your weight's further forwards, so it's naturally going to be harder to lift. I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you just like putting the S into TGS, and that's about it, a shorter, lower stem would probably be fine. However, if you plan on doing other things, it'd probably be a pretty good idea to trying something like the Trialtech Race, Onza T-Master or the Viz Forged stems. They just make your bike nicer altogether, and also make manuals and spins a shit-tonne nicer too if that's of any interest. If you want to try it out, I've got a Viz forged stem for sale for £20 plus a few quid for postage. EDIT: Oh, and I've been running the Trialtech Sport bars and the Try-All carbon bars. Both are awesome, but the T-A bars are slightly more awesome-r, although they are obviously a lot more.

Whoa whoa whoa there - why, if you're going to be doing streetier, BMXy stuff, would you want a slacker head angle?!