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Hey, I have been out of riding for a bout a year now and i am looking to get back into it, so i am all sorted ubt i am a bit stuck on cranks. i have a GU 20" frame but as it has no bash plate i have to fit a bash ring whch i have never done before. Last time i rode with a front freehwheel i needed a 127.5mm bb so that there is enough room for a FFW but now i will need to run a bash ring and a front freehweel as i cant afford a rear profile. The cranks i am thinking of running is a set of isis try all cranks so what size BB do i need because i really dont have enough for a £50 KO bikes one or the like! If the first idea works out to be to exspensive i may look at running a set of buns but i dont know what ratio to be running as i have always rode 18:12 so what gear ratio should i be looking to have if i was to run a pair of burns? Thanks

Great vid joe but ive had to pause it just to say, you sounded so camp when you said "thats actually imposible" Ah joeseph thats why we love you

Revell are also a manafacutrer to look at, they are great frames and they are also made from steel .

fractured skull (at 12) ,Shatered my knee cap, fracured my hand (one of them not sure what one) tore my ackilies (sp?) tendon, torn numerous ligiments, hundreds of scars many Ko's and numerous hours days of concusion.

i ride a Gu and i love it to bits but if you want double disc id strongly advise the monty 221 PR 06, GREAT value for money, look and ride like sex and to be honest i think its better than all of the frames that you listed mainly because of the value for money and performance!

I started out on stock and i have continuously flittered between the two, mainly becauase i got alright on a mod and thought id try my hand at stock again then realised i liked mod more and went back but then gave up so its kinda long winded, But i am now getting back into riding on a mod. to be honest its personal prefferance buy i hear that mods are reffered to as "toys" load of rubbish hehe! but whatever you chose stick with it! But yes Stock is a lot better, Mods are just uber fun!

yep on here he is called girizzly, not a rapist i can asure you he is from a town near me.

my dad used to be like that aswel Kerion, wouldnt let me ahve anything bike realted for chrimbo or birthdays, he made me pay for it all out of my own pocket, never let me get a MX bike either, now he has gone ive had a KX and 4 cars And now that im alowed bike stuff for christmas im putting my money together with my mummy and getting a long 20" GU full bike hehe cant wait

Humm that sounds like a great idea but seems a lot of hasle on the idea of runningthe chain through the chainstay idea, getting everything to the right size so everything lines up ect, you would also be weakenging the chainstays a lot i suppose. I like the idea of the intergrated tensioner, i used to have a DFX dragonfly with it (i think) and i dont suppose that it is to much of hard work making one, have a thich dropout and then dril and tap a thread in and hey presto you have a intergrated chain tensioner. To be honest i dont know what people look for in bikes, i am looking ionto getting a GU soon and i have choosen it because its nice and long its got a bit of BB rise on it and it doesnt look to bad but what does the majority of the trials riding community like in bikes? high bb low bb what?! I am thinking of using some king of bmx bb so that BMX type 3 pc cranks can be used, like on daves new adamant. The locking idea on the old montys made me look twice and was a rpetty kool idea on the sides that it resulting in not having to fork out another £20 odd quid every other week for eating wall. i used to have a bike when i was pretty young, it had run the brake cables through the top tube, and that made a few lads riding around (on them old giant "maritn" things) my area stop and look even though i was about 9 and now i see that Iolo has incoreperated this into one of his new 24" builds. I also really like the idea of having two top tubes like the evil imperials and Dunckan Cocks because thet definately made me stop think and eventually buy one. the only problem i have at the moment is designing something thats really good and then being told that the techniques of the collage are not up to making it, although i doubt it.

i remeber asking a blind kid what he saw, because i always thought they would see red for some reason. he described it as a hard colour, and id think that is black? I think they imagine things of what they think is going on around them, what they feel because you can get a vauge idea of what some thing looks like withought seeing it just toutching it so i think they dream of shapps and what they think is happening around them. i dunno

wasnt it bigman that went from a justice to a zenith? he said he was kinda gutted that he had left the justice but he much preffered his zenith by quite a bit.

I have only read the topic title and the first post so i may be comletely wrong but wasnt it some think like if the fly flew at so many hunderd tousands of miler per hour and the train went some thing like 10mph and the body mass of the fly was some thing stupid then it could work? cant really remeber

Ive never had a problem with them but when you buy your ticket from the both make clear that you intend to take the bike on the train with you and you can deal with the problem there instead of being kicked off of the train in the arse end of no where.

it looks past vertical no you point it out!

I might start going up there on weeknights after collage as there is nothing to do at home, will any one be up there?

i stole mine from the back of tescos! Aaron I'anson on here can tell you are rather funny storry of carting 8 crates home in tesos trolleys, we got stopped by the police and i hid in a tree and got away with it hehe If you go into local warehouses they will probably give you them for free! EDIT: also got a few spools aswell

I used to have them bars they are ace! get a crawler buddy!!

Thanks a lot for the replies guys! The course i am on at the moment is my first national diploma which i was taken out of school for. So far i have been designing with habitat and i have been with them for about 3 weeks now and i will have to find some where else to go in january. I am studying graphics design and i have been extremely drawn to the idea of making a trials frame. Next year i hope to complete this corse and aplly at KIAD and take place on a graphic design corse for the next 3 years and then i will see where i can go from there. I just need to get my grades in my GCSE's 4 C+ grades and one of them being in english. I have not really sat down and thought to hard about the idea but for my last unit i designed and produced my own chair. it was a sun lounger which had incorperated the ideas of a rocking chair covered in zebra print material and it looked ace! I will try to get some pics up! The collage i work in is a enginering collage (although the corse is run by KIAD) So i THINK i should have the privilages to use the welding stuff at the collage and get the frame built for me as long as i can provide sufficiant plans. To be honest i am not entierly sure what i want the frame to look like apart from a long and low kind of thing, I will just go and have a read through your post steve! I will be back in a mo! Thanks guys, Tom

I have dmr v8's and azonic x things and to be honest for the price of v8's id choose them over my azonics price wise and value for dollah. I have 2 sets in the garage in the pit i think, and they come in a funky box aswell

Should have pretended you was going to the shop, always used to work, now when my mum asks me where im off to i tell her "to smoke some drugs and make some babies" At least im not lying hey. Must go to see them always wanted to go and see "A day in the life" aswell

Hey! Well in collage today i was talking to my tutor about my Major Final Project in my course i am taking> The breif is extremely wide open and i have come up with the following idea and i would like to hear thoughts and hear your ideas ect. As my MIG welding skills are getting better I have decided to design and make my own frame as you may have guessed from the topic title, I am planning on making a long and low mod. To be completely honest with you it doesnt need to be structuraly amazing because it doesnt need to be riden (although it will be) It just need to be some thing that stands out from the croud. i am planing on taking the main features like magura mounts (might even go for a vee) head tube and bottom bracket from a steal bike which i will borrow from some where. I want the frame to be extremely low and rather long as i am getting on for the 6ft+ mark now. Apart from it being long and low i have no idea on what i want it to be like, I am thinking some thing slightly like the GU but with square tubing and some pretty extreme gussets. Could anyone give me any advice or pointers on anything please as i would like to ride the frame after it is produced maybe take it on a london ride or some thing and show my master peice off. So i would really like to know what you guys like in 20" frames, what atracts you to them, what makes you stop and stare at them and makes you say to yourself "Jesus christ i want one of them beasts!" Thanks a lot guys, Tom

never really thought about going to see a gig, MUSt go and see them some time! Listning to blindsided as i type EDIT: Dont think he was to happy hey! He is rather scarry!

i am 16 and i only drove them around my uncles front drive but that still couts dont it? And if sitting on bikes counts I sat on a GSXR 1200 with rizzla colours once he he

something rather inportant runs trough your tounge and if you hit it, erm your screewed so i hear. A mate at collage did it and ended up in hospital with pretty severe blood loss. kinda like drilling into a wall and hitting a pipe and water pissing out everywhere, your screewed. No holes in me im a real man

i am still waiting, cant be long now.