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fairy elephants

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  1. rich, you are officialy a fool! (Y) :blues:" loved the vid (Y) (Y)
  2. (Y)" dont want to cause an argument....but i believe ben here has done enough of both comps to no what he is talking about :) if your a UCI rider, then why no just ride UCI in a BIU comp? there is nothing stopping you... (Y)
  3. "real" trials, is getting through a section, in the way that you want. you can make it as difficult as you want, it can be whatever terrain that you want, and you can use whatever rules you want. trials to me, is about pushing your limits on a bike, in the way that you want... although there are obviously limits in other cycleing diciplines which are not trials. so i have now completly contradicted myself :"> (Y)"
  4. he knows what experiences he's had with them :mellow:
  5. i have just changed my brisa's over to a set of race face diabolus bars. they do feel weird on my bike, but im getting a new frame which sort it all out again. they are only 1" shorter than brisa's but they feel easier to x'up with. and you can adjust the angle to get it spot on for your riding/ bike feel (Y)
  6. YOUR A FOOL!!!! i thought i had explaind why you will regret it over msn :closedeyes:
  7. get the alibongo, you are tall, but so am i :P like i said earlier, the alibongo will feel long compared to the zebdi, but once used to it you will still be able to pull of the old 720 gaps etc :closedeyes: have fun doing them on a raven 5 :P"
  8. yea, just after you had been saying how your disk was set-up perfectly, and it didnt touch atall :- oh how the stories change to your advantage :D :-"
  9. the non-disk hub doesnt have the big flages with the cut-out bits in it....still looks nice though (Y)
  10. maybe you got it in a sale? the sus 120 (non-disk) hub is £22 or something. but the disk hub is £41.50. well thats the super cycles prices anyway (Y)"
  11. well you learn something new every day (Y)
  12. Hub: American Classic Disc 140 Front Disc Hub Time Used: Couple of months (not completely certain) Good points Weight Smooth bearings Strength (so far) Supplied with Quick Release Price Looks Bad points Couldn’t get the non-disk version that I wanted. When I first tried to order my hub, I wanted to get the non-disk version of this, but Super cycles didn’t have them, and didn’t no when they would be getting them in stock. So I decided to pay the extra and go for this hub, at a fair price of £41.50, which included the Quick Release. It then arrived at my door a few days later, and I swiftly took it to the shop to have it built onto my new Mavic xm719 rim. The hub on its own has a weight of around 130g, even though American Classic says it is 140g, which makes it roughly 70g lighter than a hope XC, and just 10g heavier than a hope mono. The hub can be this light due to not having a complete axel going through the complete width of the hub-body. Instead it has two bits of axel (one at each end) which go around an inch into the hub, so that the bearings rest on it. This could become an issue with the strength, but has been fine so-far. Before I put the hub on my bike, I had a quick look at it, to see how this axel thingy worked, and I noticed that the only seals were little rubber covers which go over the cartridge bearings, now I’m not really sure how this compares to hope hubs, but I was abit weary of it. I have now been using the hub for a while, and it is spinning better than my friend’s hope XC, which he seemed surprised about. And after the Hampshire comp on Sunday I took the axel out again to see if any dirt had worked its way onto the bearings, only to find a pleasant surprise (it hadn’t). I have been very pleased with the performance of this hub, and I think it is a very worthy competitor for the hope XC. Just thought I would post this to make a change from the pad reviews. Please say if there is anything I have missed out, or if there is any information that you would like to no. cheers, Alex. EDIT: pictures.... here and here sorry about poor quality (Y)
  13. the grass is always greener on the other side n all that :-"
  14. they will all work well.... what colour do you prefer? :sick: why not just read the many hundreds of reviews on pads that have been made recently? (Y)
  15. how was he to no that he didnt like it, untill he had read it....and then he has just writtenhis oppinion! :(
  16. well brisa bars are 29" thats what i run when i get on a bike with 27" bars they feel horribly small! but you would get used to that! get the EA70's, and see how they feel (Y) or ride other bikes with different length bars?!
  17. i started on a year 2001 kona scab....18" frame! :ermm: B) will try and find a picture of what it was, but it wont be of MY bike EDIT: this might work...the beast
  18. all looking abit fancy there! :(
  19. yea, i remeber the days of school band! me being the only trombone player in the school, they give me all the technical base lines, and hook me up to a microphone :"> if only i could read music properly! :("
  20. i have never heard of him. i have not played my trombone for ages, due to having no good music, and being pants at writing stuff :ermm: EDIT: just downloaded the samples on his site, and it makes me want to play again! :ermm: if only i had people to join a band with :S
  21. ok, so whats so good about this then? it just seems the the writing on my contacts list is smaller, so its harder to see who people are :ermm:
  22. sorting out pics of my proper instruments now (Y) trombone trombone again piano sorry about the realy poor quality, it was too dark for my realy poor quality camera (Y) what do you think anyway? :deej:"
  23. thats great, i have managed to find one place that sells them now. delete this topic if you like
  24. the question is in the title. delete this once someone has aswered the question :turned: cheers, alex.
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