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DAB

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  1. 13ft off a school roof!!!!!! drops are boaring now.. and there's loads of threads on this.......
  2. It won't be the star nut as all their meant for is to hold the head set together and tight till you do the stem up!!! if your headset come loose it's the stem, pure and simple... you even said it your self that the bolts are f#cked...... get new bolts or a stem
  3. DAB

    Hope

    If all you have is the axle in the hub body left... support the hub by the flange(where the spokes go through) and take the other half of the axle and place it where it snapped and give it a tap with a rubber mallet (of something simm) and the other side will fall out.. the support the bearing and tap the axle out of the bearing.. if any probs sent it to hope or go to a good bike shop..
  4. 9 and half foot...... The trick is to get your weight on the front wheel for the first spin and when you lift the front wheel off, really flick it round(almost the same as a stand still 180), then push the back wheel down and absorb the landing like on a big drop off.. the easy way to learn is to roll in to them then spin... when you get good you can start in a track stand and do a clean 360.. the main thing you need to learn to control is the after spin, if your still spinning when you land thats when you fold wheels and eat floor try and do a small hop when your back wheel lands, that takes some of the spin out, and learn on small walls till you get it dialed.... it's to easy to get wrong and hurt yourself off big walls.
  5. Safe and warm in my flat!!!! thats were my bikes live..... and got them on the house insurance, the leeson's insured at £2000 any where in world, which is nice
  6. If you keep playing around with it, it'll never settle.. take the caliper off the forks and push both pistons back in to the caliper, then make sure that the wheel is in right, then put the caliper on the disc (but not bolted to the fork) then pump the lever till you get the the normal feeling.. with the brake lever still on (so the caliper holds it self to the disc) re-shim and bolt the caliper to the fork. When you do this the caliper should be where it wants to be and should be in the center.. as for rubbing theres not to much that you can do, as disc brakes are prone to warping and the pistons have a habit of sticking some times and need pushing back to re-center them selfs.. Hope that helps.. if not it's off to a bike shop.....
  7. I do light weights, ti-che and mild yoga to keep fit and toned But my favourite past time to trials is sleeping
  8. DAB

    Forks

    Fatty R's are one of the strongest forks around, and i've been using the same pair for over 4 years now, and that's using them with maguras and a disc, street and natural, There was a point were all i did was brake forks, it's normally caused when your learning and have your front wheel up on objects and are hopping around, what happens is the forks are forced forward and then snap.... Try not to hop about so much and when you do, try and unweight the bike as to not put so much stress on the forks.. if you go to frount wheel alot when you land try and shift your weight to the bars and tuck the rear end using your feet, when you do this most of the force gets lost though you and where your not putting your weight on the rear of the bike it's not acting as a lever!!! if you see what i mean... Have you snaped any bar's? they hurt more that your pride
  9. The ACT are a bunch of idiots and wouldn't no a bike from there arsehole.....
  10. My riding buddy uses the 30" onza carbon bars on his czar, and there very stiff comfy.. Don't use xc bars as they can't take being pulled on and snap Ps: you should change your bars every two years to be safe no matter what you ride
  11. I might be tempted to get up early on a sunday for a ride.......i'll check with others and let u no..
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    Retro Disk

    I meant as one of the fist gen of disc brakes.. I had a hope mechanical and it was snappy as hell then when hope bought out the first bulb and the rear torque bar adaptor to go with the c2's, i was the envy of everyone, having front and rear discs on a trials bike on a one of a kind s-works m2 with kona p2's...
  13. DAB

    Retro Disk

    They were one of the first batch of disc brakes to come out in the mid ninty's O, and they were sh#t.........
  14. If you don't have a booster on the front that will lead to poor braking.. and the normal, right set up and bleed.. If you get it right the front should always be more powerful the back...
  15. Thats not a giant team trials.......... The reason we said it would brake is because you said you had a trials frame with a triple crown fork but the pic you have on that web site shows that the frame you have have is not a trials frame and yes it has trials team on it, but the geom is all wrong.. if it was a trials frame you bb would be higher and head angle would be lazy and unridable.....
  16. Let me have a look at it and i might be able to sort something out or even get you a new one as i'm a friend or the doneys and can get them cheap!!!!! and there steel...
  17. Used to be called white max.... they had a trials comp and down hill ect, even kites and surfing ect, can't remember what it's called nowadays!!! don't think theres a comp anymore!!!
  18. I ride a bmx as well, and as for the 24"-26" hybrids bmx/trials.........whatever
  19. Coffee's ok unless you drink more than 5 cups a day if you do drink lots of water to balance it out
  20. Mavic tubless seal and a latex based sealant.. sometimes it worked, most of the time not I ride both types of trials (street and natural) and i if you run 50 psi in your tyre! whats the point!!!! ride a bmx
  21. Tubless is more of a gimmick for cross country!! if you want to run tubless get the right tyres, rims and valves.. The problems about thorns will still happen as i was given a mavic tubless wheel set to test when tubless was a fad 2-3 years ago.. when you get a puncture from a thorn/glass/nail your trye still goes down and you have to fix the tyre with a special patch!!! then as for trials use the rims and tyre choice for tubless is sh#t on the rear and if you dent the rim theres a chance it can leak (as i fond out on my cross country bike on a steep rocky fire trail) Stick to tubes there's more of a choice and there easy as piss to fix look at what you have to do to seal a bodge tubbless, then ask yourself if you want to try that out on the trail!!!!! And yes i try'd the tubbless sealing goo to stop punctures and it's crap.....
  22. The best excise i found for trials is ti-che for tendon strenght. a bit of yoga for flexibility and symetrics for muscle training... and drink lots of water based drinks (ie not coke)
  23. Saved me typing it, chears mate
  24. To sort out the chain braking... buy a rohloff trials chain there the stongest chain bar none.... and i'll swear to that....
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