Ross McArthur

LOL, yea man theres always rides in Glasgow. We usually ride at the skate park for about half an hour to warm up and get everyone met up then go ride some natural or street whatever takes our fancy. Theres quite a few riders of all standards. Keep your eye on www.glasgowstreetriders.com its under contruction just now but will soon be full of new photos!!!!!!!!!

Hey, I have just snapped my Ashton and I am considering getting an Aorta. Does any one know if they are any good? And by the way smarty pants the search doesnt seem to work for me dont know why!! Thanks

Yip like bryan said, slippery when wet. I run afront 2.1 and noticed the side walls wearing a little. But there very light for their size and the red ones look no bad.

04 sarcen mad. disc mounts whipped off like a warm knife through butter. Major crack in my base where the top tube and seat stay met. Onza lite guys major cracks right on top of the welds of the four bolt mounts. (still using them!!!!)

Yea the old ones are better imo because the insweep of the new ones hits my middle finger when I pull the brake, but the old ones have a better out sweep.

No bother. Some people might say that zoo bars are streety but when you consider they are just using them to side hop and drop off stuff then thats not really steet is it?? I run the azonic double walls and they are soo good for riding street. I also run a 90mm stem I think with bout 15 degrees rise. The bars are 2.5 inch rise and the bike feels luvly. that should suit your giant perfectly. Should bunny hop really easy. Youll have to think where you put your steerer tube stackers though on top or below just have a play about and see what you like. Plus man a set of azonics and a hope stem will look lurvly well done.

Hey. I have found that having a longer stem with less rise means that the front end of the bike is pulled up higher and the balance angle is much more upright, which means the frame will be pulled closer to your chest. This also means that when dropping it is easyer to hold up the front wheel when landing. imo. And when gapping you may find that there is more room to manouver the bike thus being able to throw your body further forward without hitting the bar making you able to gap further. But this doesnt mean that putting a metre long stem on will make you able to gap like Neil Tunniclife it just means that you wont be able to pull up on the bars to get to back wheel as easy. Haveing a shorter stem with a little rise will make things like spins and manuals easy because the bike is shorter and the weight of the bike is not as far forward. Having rise means that the balanceing point is already quite far up from the horizontal meaning you will be able to pull up toi back wheel easyer. It also means thaty your riding position is changed and when track standing your body is straighter which in my opinion is more comfortable!!! Again it all depends on riding preferance.eg natural, street, park, that kind of thing., And whether you want a big rise on you bars or not. But as you want Zoo's! then they dont have that much rise compaired to the likes of some downhill bars or jump bars which people like to use ase streety bars in trials. So to some up. as an average inbitweeny stem id go for a 15 degree rise and 100mm long

Yea the sweep difference between the 2inch and 2.5 inch is what threw me off totally!! I had 2 inch DWs and 2.5 normals and the felt soo differnt and wonderd why, so thanks very much for backing my own thoughts up

Yea man seen it on Chain reaction. Thanks for the help,I just thoght there might be a difference in the geometry of them( if I that can be said for bars) I do agree they do feel soooooo goooood! way better than Racefaces or Titec or Easton!!

Mmmmmm......I already have the normal double walls jst wondering what the difference was between them two? I love my zonics to bits and dont really like the feel of the tryall bars and felt the zoos on ashtons bike and the just didnt feel right!! Does anyone know the difference??

Hi, does anyone know the difference between the Azonic double wall bars and the Azonic double wall DWs? Apart from the price of corse... does one have more backsweep than the other or somthing?? please help.

Thank you!

Hey can anyone tell me what size of hole is in a gear hanger please? I just bought a old Pashley and the gear hanger is slightly bashed and the hole isnt exactly cylindrical now, Im going to have to rethread the hole so I can screw in my tensioner properly. hope someone can help thanks

Done pretty much the same thing with my Christopher King though not as extreem!!!!!!!!

Yea I seen him do it for the first time for the public at the bike show on friday a couple of years ago. Though Chris Akrigg didnt have the camera ready so he had to do it again right after!!!lol

Yip the tarty lot are fan daby dosey. I even trust them with my bike parts and thats sayin somthing!!!

I suppose if I can get a drill bit the correct size of the hose that would work fine and I do (I think) have some spare hose about that I could use. Il give it a bash thanks! Alternitavly I could ask my mum she should be able to get me a siringe from work. or one of my smackhead friends could lend me one!!! just joking. thanks.

Does anyone know if I can buy the magura seringe and little pipe bit on there own?I think thats all I need to bleed my brake. Ive seen the whole bleeding kit with all the mineral oil and stuff but I want to just use water with my brakes so wont be needing it. Ive tryed the tarty bikes site and select bikes site too but they dont seem to have them! hope you can help

Hey I hope you dont come across any problems but when i cut off the top of the seat tube of my base the frame definetly had a reconisable weakness in it. It cracked right under the top tube where i had sawen it! As i say hope you dont come across any problems.

I was only resting my wheels on two diffferent rocks and I was going to hop to backwheel where my front wheel was, crunch. Right over the bars.

Yea it was a really crap chainring! Why I decided to use a weak road one i dont know, probably because it was light or somthing stupit like that! think I have a picture somewhere of it if you want to see?

Quite liked that mate, well done. One thing a would say is that there was a bit much slow-mo! but it was better than some vids that are out with way too much effects! how do you feel about bunny hopping your zoo? I tryed to bunny hop my mates and thought it was impossible! So well done on that front.

I snapped 6 teeth off my 17tooth rear cog and snapped my chain at the same time too!

Nice one man thats always a cool thing to do but not to be proud of I suppose. I snapped my tensiles the other week and got a big scar on my calf. woooooo hooooo might get a tatoo round about it to make it look like a vagina!!!

What kind of switch bud?? Happy to help but dont really know what you mean??