Ross McArthur

Been googling places to ride this summer and came across (wayhey!) this video. Start made me laugh. Bike box woes. https://www.pinkbike.com/news/mountain-biking-adventures-in-greece-2014.html

Been fine for me so far. Only thing I noticed was my 9mm QR axle on my front wheel had poked through the box. That was my bad for not putting a plastic stopper on it. Could always wrap a t-shirt/towel bla bla round bits like that. To stop the handlers from ripping the hand holds, I usually put a few layers of parcel tape around them to make them more robust. Could always use a layer of black bin bags round the box if you're paranoid of the rain getting it. Remember and pack extra for the return leg. In the case of Taxis. Most of, if not all airports will have taxi drivers jumping all over you looking to nab a fair. You'll have a big box. All you'll have to do is point to it and they'll soon point you to a driver with a big enough car. They'll be geared up for groups with large amounts of luggage. I doubt you'll have a problem finding transport, wherever you go.

They've got pro riders wages to pay.

While we're on topic of Nick Goddard, the father of smooth, DVD making and V-raps. (I was going to post the kerb video of all kerb videos but that wouldn't show the full extent of his awesomeness). I actually used to idolise this guy to the extent I wanted to dress like him. Before vlogs were vlogs... Check the attempts section over the wooden sheep. Way ahead of his time.

That was a nice front to back. Skinny wall points.

I tuned in dude. Sat and watched some videos with your tunes playing over the top and they all went really well! Good way to spend an hour. Will have to tune in again next time. The site asked me to sign up after 10 minutes to view the video. Didn't bother doing that. All it was was the decks, right? Maybe if you were hip thrusting in a mankini I would have registered

If you can do better than Zoot_alors I'll tip my hat.

f**k harsh. I don't care if I call people out on things I probably couldn't do myself. I'm glad when I get called out on. It pushes me. For me, the best "rule" was no set up or correction hops, or Ryan Leechs "Manifesto". Even before Ali or Ryan were preaching about it, Chris Akrigg was interviewed by MBUK (the fountain of all knowledge in the late 90s early 2000s) and said he followed the Trial Noir mantra. No hops, death grip, switch foot etc etc.

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That comment was about you btw.

Yea, seems like his riding could be so much easier to watch if he just took out those 2-3 extra hops. Its not like the lines he was doing were anything special where it would have taken loads and loads of go's. Liked the chilled tune but there was too much filler in there. No need for all the pedalling towards stuff. The "looks like he's wanking" clip wasn't funny the first time someone used it, back in nam. The up to front was nice, I agree. Much prefer that style to say, up to front and using the front wheel to hop round to back like I see a lot of riders do, as it often forces them off balance making them use another correction hop.

So. Dialled. Apart from that up to back @0.41. Nearly f**ked that shit up.

Barbara was pulling out marker tape in howling gales on boggin hill sides when (insert famous trials rider) was but a glint in their fathers eye. In this era of "squeeze every last drop out of trials to make a buck", where riders use the guise of "promoting trials" to scrape a living, its comforting to know there's humans like Barbara who acted as a back bone to the once only way to be known in this tiny sport - Competitions. Thank you Barbara, all the best.

I could never guess what Kenny was riding in that video?

An up to front aided by a BC, into ET with added recovery hop.

On toast is for the narrow minded. Get that shit on some spaghetti.

Why don't we hear comments like that when Ali's Rules vlog comes out then?

First tap on the drum beat. YES. Loved that you even spotted that rear wheel on arm rest line. But! Jabbing your brake like that on manuals is as bad as BCs.

That was all for the camera. Bigging the line up like it was massive or something... He could probably hop manual it - up the way.

I don't ride with anyone.