Ross McArthur

Riding around with a trials gear isn't easy. It calls for a unique technique. What's yours? An even pressure on the pedals as you rotate them technique is much more tiring. Pedal, pedal, pedal, freeeeeewheeeeeeel, pedal, pedal, pedal, freeeeeeeewheeeeeel. I go for starting with the pedals up and down (vertically) and stamping on the pedals one at a time. So, right foot stomp (Charlie Brown), freewheel, left foot stomp (kriss-cross) freewheel. Repeat.

Always used to run a small suss fork before I eventually moved to a Tuff Guy fork. My mate bought a set of Lite Guys at the same time and I can remember thinking, I need to work some overtime for that shit...

I loved my yon broon yin! I didn't underrate mine at all. Lets all just remind ourselves how well they rode by watching Danny. Also, here’s mine from way back.

I do this. 2000ft elevation gain. Only do 3 foot taps. how many taps did Ross do?

So, so good.

Piiiiiiic?

Copying an Arcade geo on looks and stupidly using a massively wide bb is certainly “different”. Buuuuh.

JD ordering an 83mm bb shell shocker

I took a step back from the whole sponsored thing a while ago. Round about the time Athlete Pages and hash tagging the shit out of things came around. It's just so cringe worthy. Shameless self promotion - for what? Because everyone else is doing it? A certain Mike Beck is the epitome of it. Attention grabbing video covers - Boalk! Instagram bio's from people... "Sponsored Trials Rider for 7 years". And?

Give John Shrewsbury a shout on Facebook. He seems to have been talking to him recently. I don't have a Marino and doubt ill be riding one again. I'm happy enough just riding the Element I have now.

That tap at 1.44. So good.

Fookin massive. Very good rear wheel control too. You seem to have sorted that out over the years. The tyre graphic on the back tyre

You have a couple of options. The most simple (and I'm surprised you couldn't work this one out for yourself, almost to the point I think this might be a hoax) is longer hoses... The second would be to run the front brake hose through the steerer tube. The rear you'll just need a longer hose. The most exotic remedy would be to use a hydraulic gyro. I suspect there will be more questions to come...Ask away.

Hahaha, great post dude. I was sniggering away reading that as I was thinking exactly the same. Its the best and worst thing I've seen in a while!!

Some quality stuff in there man. Really liked the Fakie Nose Manual combos. The stoppie to FNM and the 360 to FNM. The spot with the water fountains and the last spot looked awesome!!!

Yep. May I suggest higher bars? Its a nice enough looking set up/bike. A set of high rise bars, suitable for street riding would help considerably. Like Mark mentions, getting the angle of the bars is key. I mention "suitable for street riding" as, if you look at the Tarty bikes selection of high rise bars, quite a few of the newish high rise bars are designed for pure trials and the geometries of them wouldn't best suit street as they are designed to be ran tilted forward.

So many wrong statements in that post. You were walking instead of riding? Why? Trials gearing might be light but you'll always be faster rolling along than walking. Light gearing, good for going up hills. Rolling along on the flat, give those legs a reet good spin and carry momentum. Speed tuck. If you're finding it awkward to bunny hop the Hex, the issue isn't with the gearing, its most likely your bar and stem set up or skill level. Rubbish at pump track? Have you seen Ali C ride pump tracks on his Hex? I cant think of any reasons why the Pashley would be better than the Hex other than "nostalgic".. Its heavier, longer chain stays, etc. etc.. Post a photo of your bike and we may be able to give you some advice on set up. I'm pre-empting, higher bars, tilting them back slightly, pump your tyres up and put gears on?

Crompton with his RidelifeTV is the same. The repost is king.

New Tees!!! Hard tail lines.

Still love that pedal rotation get up thingy. Anyone think of a better name for it?

Going big there! I'd maybe move the camera a bit closer next time. Seemed pointlessly far away on a few of the shots. If you're happy with the distance away then that's cool but maybe adding some close up shots to mix it up a bit might give the viewer something extra. Also, if you have a lot of sky in the shot it creates a bit of contrast in the picture and all the dark bits just get darker. So something to be mindful of. Oh, and if Breath is a sponsor, having the crank and pedal covering half their name isn't going to go down well

Much more watchable Mike. Ill even go as far as to say I enjoyed that (maybe it was the song). Liked the low, lit (topical word) night camera shots. You have a big hop on you.

Ahh, so that explains Kriss Kyles move to....Kappa?

I recently listened to the HKT Podcast for shop talk and all these guys seemed to be super happy with the way the industry is at the moment? A large portion of the chat was about how social media (Instagram) helps their business. I guess Evans just weren't on the HASHTAGGING bandwagon...