Mark W

Enough Simon/Kerrie stuff. They've sorted it with themselves, that's what matters.

Like you did with your post? Meh, either way, let's leave it I suppose. (To my understanding it was already reduced to 2 people pretty much anyway, but that's beside the point.)

I had the ZOO! STEM!!!! They lasted for a record 4 hours total riding time before I sold them on. Worst. Feeling. Ever. Got a T-Master stem (Pretend I said "TEAM" stem for you label whores. It's exactly the same stem (Y)) with Pazzaz CF risers, and it rides awesomely. Sikamon tried mine, and he ended up buying the same set-up :D It just complements the frame really nicely. It makes manuals, bunnyhops and spins pretty easy, but gapping and upping still feels frickin' awesome. Short and high = best mod ever. Benito digs it, and he's a machine :o

When males adapt to realise how ridiculously manipulative girls are, your game will be up (Y) Either way, I regard Simon as being a pretty damn decent guy, and you seem to be being un-necessarily harsh to him. As I'd class Simon as a friend, I'm inclined to look out for best interests, and seeing as he DOES feel like shit, phrases like "I feel like a silly little toy" are a bit harsh.

Yeah, I getcha. Just a loss in confidence maybe? Anyway, what I meant was that when people drive like dicks it annoys me as a passenger 'cos I don't feel safe, which is totally un-necessary. It always used to happen here when people used to pass their tests, then just go out on their own with friends in the car (on their own as in no examiner/parents) and drive like retards (i.e. fast with no skill). No fun for the passenger, and it's just needlessly dangerous. Calculated risks are fine, but some people are just tools.

If I'm in the car with someone I'm confident about being a good driver (e.g. my Dad because of his advanced driving teaching shit, my brother 'cos he's been taught by my Dad, etc.), it's OK I guess. I wouldn't punch someone's eye in half 'cos they did 75mph in a 60 area or anything, but I utterly hate it when I don't feel 'safe' in someones car who is taking me somewhere. No-one should have to feel like crap when they're travelling somewhere, so it just annoys me...

Silence, Monkey (Y)

I've been told not to develop it. EDIT: So Mr. F doesn't get skull-f**ked or anything, I didn't write that for him or anything, just a personal opinion... (<- related to un-censored post...)

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I was refering to the production pads he had initially, as I kinda knew the blues would be more proto than production. Unless I'm mistaken and the reds he initially had weren't production items.

Doesn't black sometimes just get refered to as a 'key' colour or something like that, meaning you can use it but it isn't actually one of the print colours? They were under legal pressure to change it from that though, weren't they? So they just came up with Fire Beer Mayhem? Or is that just them making fun of the 'tard BMXers who didn't know it was Fat Bald Men or something... Stupid world.

Matt Hudson was riding with me a while back, and he did some move at our school. Anyway, it was a touch on the "harsh" side of "Brutally savage", and we all thought he'd have had a pinch. He went "f**king hell, got away with that!" or something along those lines, then we just heard "FSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS". Some weird delayed pinch. Tres funny :) Anyway, not since the days of DH and single wall risers have I used bar braces...

/|\ | Word. If you have his number, why not, y'know, call his number? Or text him?

He was refering to why people used them in the first place, and I meant that it's harder to get hold of good V-brake pads than it is Magura pads, pretty much. Judging from the fact that Steve does all that oven-curing and shit like that and the pads still fall out, I wouldn't trust me, a knife and some glue to have much success :)

Call me f**king silly here Wayne, but in BIU comps you quite often have to go to bash. In fact, most of the style-less faggots who seem to hang around the mod classes at comps use it pretty often. Therefore, the fact that people seem to be cracking the tits out of the bash mount would suggest that in competition use, it would still dent in as there is still no gusset? If you use the bash, it's putting pressure on the downtube mount. With no gusset, it's just up to the downtube to have enough strength to resist weight being pressed perpendicularly through it at a weaker point around the weld. So if you ride a comp with it, you can still f**k the downtube up simply because of that. Equally, comps tend to be fairly rough towards frames too, so you're likely to dent the tube in those too. IT happens more in street, but at one of the YMSA comps I went to you pretty much had to scrape through one part of it. Plus, jaggedy arse rocks aren't friendly to downtubes either (just ask my old T-Pro frame about the rocks at Porthcawl). Anyway, my main point was about bash use in comps... If they made the cylinder block weaker than usual because of a design flaw (such as, say, having the material around a stressed point of the block being thinner without any support? :)), and you drove it and it blew up because of that, you'd probably have something to say? What the f**k are you talking about? The downtube could probably be a bit thicker and it would still have this problem. The downtube bash mount is what is at fault here, or specifically the lack of a gusset. There's nothing to spread the force, so it's pressing into the downtube fairly hard in an angle that it wouldn't usually take a load at. Because of the fact it's welded around it so it'll also be a little stronger than the surrounding tubing, it increases the chance of it doing exactly what it does - denting in easily. If you can't accept that, then think of it like this. T-Mag frames haven't been sold as quickly as T-Pro frames have. Therefore, if there was a shared problem in the frame, you'd expect the T-Pro to have more of these faults reported, wouldn't you? Think for a second. How many T-Pros have you EVER heard of that have been returned because the downtube mount has been pushed up into the frame? 0. Zip. Zero. Zilch. That is out of the many hundreds (probably?) of T-Pros floating around there. Now lets think. A lot less T-Mags have been sold. How many of them have you heard of having to be returned becasue the downtube mount has pushed up into the frame? 3+. Which frame has the gusseted downtube? Oh wait, that'd be the T-Pro. Shock-er.

It's a lot easier finding grippy Magura pads than grippy v-brake pads, for a start. You can get better clamping force out of Maguras than a lot of V-brakes too, just because they're a hydraulic system so you've got more mechanical advantage with a Magura than a V. Anyway, yeah... I hate long wheelbase frames. I know everyone creams over them, but I waaaaaay prefer a shorter frame. This is with mod though, but I also found Mark Lloyd's Zebdi to feel a lot nicer than most of the barges around now. I also like a high front end. Maybe I'm just anti-fad? :)

They never seemed to affect my Xen that much, just felt like there was more "cuppage" around the two bumpy bits on the back of your skull. Pretty much all I used 'em for anyway :)

I'm going to be there. Are you?

You can get away with the 123mm (or is it 122.5mm spindle? One or the other) from what I can tell. That *should* make tension OK, I'd have thought. The main problem with the T-Mags is that some people pelt the downtubes too much, so they dent. That's not a f**king surprise, is it? No. No, no, no. As long as you don't try, say, ups to tube, gaps to tube, sidehops to tube - that sort of thing, you should be fine... Seeing as you use a bashring anyway it should be diamond, as another problem seems to be people hammering the bash mount through the downtube wall.

You could laminate the wooden arms yourself*. Also, you can probably half-arse bodge the bolts? Just threadlock to f**k the lower one (at the worst you might have to hold a spanner on it to stop it turning if it keeps spinning too), and could probably make something for the top. Alternatively, just recess a hex-shaped hole at the bottom of the lower wooden arm so the other bolt is held in place, then have the top bolt with the arm fixed so that turns the thread? Complicated? Yes :) *Wood might be sketchy, although saying that laminated wood is pretty strong :)

Similar font, same name - the HB bit. The BMX industry's probably pissed enough with FBM out too :) But yeah, it's just pretty similar...

Should do :) Well, theoretically. Basically, the shell will be smaller because it's just got foam and not foam + some polystyrene, so it *should* look smaller for the same head-size... if you get me?

This thread: From boring -> interesting in 2 posts.

I just got some basic ones. Triple LED, triple feature front in a rinky dink little pod thing. Had a QR bit on the clip for the bars so you could take it off super easy. The rear was fairly slender (again just a triple LED one I think) and it was as thin as my seat-stay on my T-Pro so that's where it went. Drive side, 'cos that way it's visible, plus I'm right foot forward so it meant it was safer :)

Mat Hoffman would tear your face off your head for stealing the Hoffman Bikes logo though...