Mark W

Are you sure your Hazard's got 48 engagement points? I think mine's only around 21-24 or so... Anyway, the new Echo hub isn't going to be out until October at the earliest (I think they said, anyway...), so no-one will have much info about it, other than what's on the site. If you want a new hub in the mean-time, try checking out Ebay or the FS section here for a Profile hub?

Ahoy, My new TryAll rim appeared today (shiney shiney :P), and I'm gonna build it up tonight after work. I've got a DX-32 on T-Master hub at the moment, so I'd just be taping the spokes together, taking the nipples off then bangin' the TryAll over the top of the spoke, doing them up, then riding away all happy 'n' stuff. BUT. The inside diameter (ERD?) of the TryAll rim is around 350mm-ish, and my DX-32 is 360mm-ish, meanign there's a bit of a difference. However, the second layer of the TryAll is raised quite high above the outer part, like so: This makes the inside of the Try-All about the same depth as the inside of the DX-32. By that, I just mean nothing shows above the DX's inner second layer bit, so nothing should on the TryAll. With this in mind, and the fact the spokes are going to technically be too long for the TryAll, could I jsut build it with the longer spokes? They'll stick out of the top of the nipples more, but they shouldn't poke out into the inner tube chamber part (not least 'cos there'll be a f**k of a lot of rim tape on the go :)), so would it be OK? Thanks for any help, Mark

Shimano weren't the first to do outboard bearings, no matter what MBUK might say :sleeping: Anyhoo, I reckon they're a shite idea just 'cos you can't use FFW with them, and...er...I do use FFW...

Or any mod or admin could look at your posts and tell you :sleeping:

Asking them to ditch their culture would be like inviting someone to your house, then having a go at them for having a different accent to you, for looking differently to you, or for having a different sense of humour. You wouldn't do that, would you? Anyway, enough...

Has everyone forgotten how utterly, amazingly well Ben Slinger used to ride his T-Pro? I know it's not long, low and silver, but c'mon people. Ask if the Mission has the 1.5" head-tube. If it does, ditch the piece of shite. You'll have virtually no choice of fork unless you fancy a 6" travel single crown sus fork...

Have to right click and do Open In a New window though, otherwise it just opens in that window...

News-f**king-flash, not all "muslims" are from another country, you clown! Did you even think that the girls in your year might've been from England/the U.K., so "Going back home" to them would be from the same place as you? Having different views on the world doesn't mean they're a different f**king species, in the same way I ride mod and someone else rides stock - that doesn't change shit. For f**ks sake, why don't some people use their heads. Always makes me laugh when you get people our age having a go at older people of a different skin colour and telling them to "Go home" when they've actually been in the country longer than us :D Maybe all you English people should f**k off out of Wales then? Our lack of top-up fees and so on's gotta be quite a draw to you English people? Oh, no, wait, that's different because it's you not f**king them. I didn't really want to post in here again, and an "angry mark" post at 2am's never a good thing, but some people on here are so f**king retarded (not meaning you solely here Chris, or you much at all really, more over others...). They have different coloured skin, and may believe in different ideologies. This doesn't mean they've come here to f**k your family, take your job and your money. Get over that f**king principle, you dickheads. There are other people in the world in far better situations than you, and far worse. If you manage to actually not think just about your f**king selves for more than a few seconds, you might be able to realise that other people are - yes - PEOPLE TOO. Compared to some other people in the UK, the asylum seekers who come here to work are f**king angelic in comparison. The binge-drinking wankstains who f**k up people's lives on a weekly basis, for example. The people too f**king lazy to get jobs. The f**king wankers in their boy racer cars going out and crashing, raising everyone's insurance premiums, taking up NHS care, making it a more dangerous place. The f**king chavs everywhere. The f**king idiots around who don't seem to understand that not being an inconsiderate dickhead might be a positive alternative to just being f**king impolite to people all the time (yes, old people who don't even partially move out the way when people are walking towards you on pavements, I f**king mena you). Now, perhaps, would be a good time to point out to the clowns on here who can't work out the difference between "Illegal immigrant", "Asylum seeker" and "Immigrant workers". Yes, there is a difference :D Illegal immigrants - someone trying to come in or who has come in, who hasn't met our fairly strict (holy f**k, I've used strict in the same sentence as "asylum policy". JUST BECAUSE YOU READ IT IN THE f**kING SUN OR MIRROR DOESN'T MAKE IT f**kING TRUE OR EVEN ACCURATE.) asylum policy. Asylum seeker: Someone seeking asylum from their country for a variety of reasons. Immigrant worker: A migrant, who is working. They can come from countries other than "Muslim" countries. Don't forget now kids, "American" people are technically immigrants here too, and go into making up the fact that Immigrants pay back all the taxes they take out in benefits from our system and ad another £2.5billion on top of that. That's right again, people - they actually pay back ALL the benefits they take out, and also give us an additional £2.5billion. Yes, there are people who cheat the system (please read the large, bold text above though about "I heard some darkie had a trillion mobile phones and 48 BMW's". However, what about people who cheat our system who are from this country? Someone I know who was the son of the mayor of the nearest town here used to claim Job Seekers Allowance whilst being given a lot of money by his parents regularly, and having a job. I wouldn't want to deport him to some war-torn country though ;) As we can all tell, it's late, I'm tired and irritable, but to be honest, a LOT of people on here are complete f**king knobheads when it comes to ANYTHING to do with people who don't look exactly like them in skin colour or ideology. f**k, I'm well gonna get flamed for this. Ah well, life's for living :P

The only good thing about Borth is...er... Anyway, there's good shit in Aber for almost the length of the prom. There's stuff to ride in loads of back streets too, and I just remembered some rails I've got to go back and do ;) I'm well excited now, just super stoked on riding :D(Y)

Still got it ;) Still though, if you're doing those moves with less experience than him, more power to you :D

Everyone's SO excited he's gapping :D Looks awesome though, I really wanna ride Bristol again now I'm not fully shite...

Awesome riding :D Looks pretty massive. They look like stills from a video, so that'd better mean there's one coming out soon...

Because people know it's still a Zona Zip, and it's still publicity for Zona/Supercycles, so they're getting a good deal out of it, if you get me? You're still spreading the word :D I could, but they'd have to be fairly large. Also, I've got the painted one and it's got a relatively matt finish (not saying it IS matt, but it's not as shiny as, say, the ZOO! Pitbull or the Cousts were), so there's not much shine to lose. Either way, I freaking love this frame, and I'm having too much fun just riding it to worry about fagging about with stickers any more. 360 bunnyhops learnt on it tonight ;)

Just to put my 2 cents in - my Gigapipe's gone in perfectly. It's creaking like hell, but it went in fine apart from Truvativ's shit BB tool interface, and the fact the interface part of the BB is made of clay.

Same thing happened with me going from an old Kool to a new. It f**ked up heinously whenever I applied power. Felt super rough, and didn't really work too well... ...so I even resorted to getting a whole new drive-train (what a well structured post :P), but it still didn't mesh properly. However, I just kept riding with it, and it just wears in. It's just because it's all new, so it's just got to bed in like most products. It just goes away. Mine still makes a funny noise to some extent, but I *think* it's largely to do with my haggard rear sprocket, still. Also, some chains just can't get their shit together and go round smaller sprockets, although the KHE Collapse can better than my Kool did (less noise). 3 stiff links in mine so, so it's not a prime example :D Either way, it goes away ;)

Libor Karas' video is the one which features one of the best all-time stacks ever. That one where he's riding along some kind of wooden rail above some muddy watery pond and it snaps... That's experience from YOUR life though. This doesn't really have any relevance to me at all? I know plenty of people over the 19-20 barrier who are all still riding, and have bought cars and so on and still just ride predominantly? Your circumstances are different to everyone elses', so assuming everyone else will have the same experiences as you is a little naive... Either way, you're still missing my point. Oh, and how the hell am I digging a hole? You're the one who was blatantly wrong, and now seems to be trying to turn it around so you're trying to say we both 'agree' about it? Especially after calling me "wet behind the ears" with relation to trials? I've got nothing against you coming on here to try and learn something or inform someone about something or simply to pass the time, but being patronising or condescending to people simply because you happen to have been born earlier is a bit out of order. You may have been riding for 11 years, but what of it? Chris Ratcliff's been riding for a year or two less than you, yet his knowledge far exceeds yours'. If you have to ask me who Chris is, you're kinda proving me right anyway :unsure:

They're American culture, aren't they? It's American culture - the way jeans became prevalent after being used as work clothes, etc. So we're borrowing American culture there, which is what I meant.

Yeah, I hope so too :unsure: Seems like an excellent frame, so I'm happy with it. Just to clear that up too, I have never, ever said that I wanted to replace the Zona stickers with ZOO ones, and nor am I doing it to try and make people think I've just got a sprayed ZOO! or anything. The people round here are only impressed if it's got full suspension, 24 gears and has "CBR" down the side, so it's not like I'm out to impress...

IF by "didn't explain that very well" you meant "Said the total opposite", then yeah, I'd largely agree. If you'd actually read my reply, you'd have noticed that I wasn't saying "how to ride", moreover, I was pointing out that you should ride as you want to. Also, I was pointing out that your idea of everyone on here being fashion-led 16-year-olds was factually wrong. Belittling people on here just because of "11 years" of experience isn't really on, and calling me "Wet behind the ears" shows your lack of maturity as well? Or do you just dig the whole "I'm older than him, ha ha ha" aspect of hanging around on a message board with an average user age of mid to late teens?* If it makes you happier too I've been riding for about 11 years too, just not trials but a wide range of bikes in a wide range of disciplines. The length of time you've been riding doesn't mean anything much at all, really. Libor Karas's World Tour had some "interesting" music in it, but that and other earlier trials videos (or promo videos like Hans Rey's) were aimed at the general public, and were made to go on sale as commercial items. However, someone on T-F who's editing a video to put up on here isn't aiming it to be sold as a commerical venture or to be "understood" by the general public. To the large majority of the general public, they're bemused by what we do in a "Why hasn't that got a seat?" way. Their opinion of what we do doesn't really make a difference to me. For example, townie kids telling me to "Do a wheelie" after I've just backwheeled a 4ft wall, and thinking that the wheelie's harder, and so on. I'm not making a video to inform them about trials, and neither are most of the people who are making videos on here. To compare videos with different aims of editing is pointless at best. *EDIT: Just looked at your Profile. 6 years age difference doesn't really mean you've experienced the world as such, does it? Certainly not enough to be as patronising and condescending as you are, especially seeing as it appears your idea of trials is more out-of-touch than others? Reinforced by, for example:

Most of it's fair enough, but to the people saying we should expel all foreign culture, are you going to get rid of: The majority of clothing you wear (a load of shoes, and general items of clothing are designed in other countries that we wear, e.g. skate shoes, jeans, etc. A large amount of music we listen to (a lot of influence from the earlier blues/rock artists in America, as well as rap, hip-hop, etc) Mannerisms we use in speech A large amount of the food we eat Our language and numeracy systems etc. I mean, fair enough, it is a bit shit that we're impinged on so much by other people coming here and saying we're oppressing them, but there's not much wrong with foreign culture. Unless you're completely f**king ignorant, then I guess there would be.

Just as a side note - you don't really need to bump on here unless it's in the For Sale/Wanted section, and you're limited to one bump per 24 hours, 'cos it got ridiculous with people bumping 7 or 8 times a day before...

Gonna sound stupid, but you're not Rafal Kurmurowksi (or however it's spelt :">) are you? In one of his earlier vids he was doing all the gaps 'n' sidehops you've got on there, on a Koxx Levelboss mod. That vid was awesome... Wish I could find it :unsure:

Dann! Shit me dude, where've you been? Last posted on July10th!

83% are better, but then again, 83% of them probably weren't installed with ME at first 'cos XP wasn't out, then ugpraded to XP, have never been defragged, etc. :unsure: I just use my computer to do some picture stuff, go on the ol' interweb and erm... talk on MSN? Not like I've got hugely exacting standards (N)

Me 'n' Mathuds0 are going to be there on the Sunday, just to confirm that. Not 100% what time, so if you (Ben (N)) PM me your mobile number I can give you a call/text to let you know when we'll be there on the day :unsure: