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So good. Love your style! Does John Webster still ride? You seem to have completely replaced him on the Canadian riding media front

Ah. Wasn't aware of the pad-knocking. Does sanding/taping the back of the pads not work? I like the lever feel of cable, plus the SD7s are sooooo comfy (and knowing they're <£20/pair means you can be less worried about crashing etc. which makes riding a nicer experience, in my view). All about putting a tiny dab of threadlock on the adjuster pin I think I'm just "a fan", and I'm even more a fan of the whole "80% performance for 20% cost" ethos (I'm aware those percentages don't quite work here, before you go there ).

If you call £10 cheap compared to £0.80 then yeah... Sure is!

From what I heard whilst being around them a lot, the SLXs are pretty damned good for the money. Getting a rotor and adaptor would put it at around £100, depending on choices. http://www.tartybikes.co.uk/hydraulic_disc_brakes/shimano_slx_m675_no_rotor_or_adaptor/c558p12335.html Maguras seem really hit and miss. Some peoples' work really well and never go wrong, where others' just seem to... not But really - BB7s were the go-to in trials for as long as they were for a reason. Really don't get the fuss with hydraulics - they're just expensive, complicated, messy and - for me, at least - unreliable. BB7 with an SD7 lever, rotor of preference and Trialtech pads. (Or if money's an object, even a BB5. Slightly different pad shape and only one side adjusts, but once you've set it up the performance is pretty much identical. The difference seems to just be convenience-expense really. Especially when they're £30 a piece, including a rotor (which you might find a bit small on a stock, but then Trialtech pads really are insane ), but since you've already got the BB7...). I never went in for the posh cable fuss either - just fiddle with the spring tensions until it feels right. I always got the 80p Wilko's universal brake cables

Thanks. Basically exactly what I knew was coming, but I need other people to say it so I can write it up as such Interestingly, some of the phrases are actually really clearly audible once you know what they say. Impossible without knowing, but obvious with. Psychoacoustics rocks.

Hi all - sorry for the spammy approach but it has to be done! Could I trouble you for about ten minutes of your time, please? I've made an absolutely awful voice synthesizer as one of my uni projects, and I need your feedback on just how bad it is! I know full-well a lot of it is hard to make out, but I need all your feedback to analyse which bits work best and worst. It explains in the form, but basically listen to the sound and type the words you hear - if any. What you can't make out, leave blank. The videos total about five minutes long, and it'll take about thirty seconds longer than that to complete everything. Thanks! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1n0MP5VioWWYkBN6GGOEXG8QyGBmOd6Q2xtUP6j7yh1A For those with any interest, it's as bad as it is because it's the ultra-minimal approach: between four and seven resonators acting as formants, one noise generator, one pulse-train, and one hell of a lot of envelopes/automation. For those without just write down any words you can identify if you fancy helping me out

What do you mean by "material"? If it's camera equipment: a Canon 550D with the standard kit lens, and very occasionally (when the camera can be far enough away!) the Canon 75-300mm. Glad you all seem to like it :3

Here we go, finally! I made this in a hurry to coincide with the release of the frames, but then their release was delayed, so this has just sat dormant for about a month. Granted, I'm a little biased being that it's a direct descendent of the geometry that's evolved in a string of custom frames over the past three/four years, but I seriously couldn't recommend these frames highly enough - the perfect hybrid!

You guys should come to this - especially as there won't be a TartyDays this year. It's ace fun. Like. Seriously fun. Food/drink is also crazy cheap out there. Check this out: http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=Czech+Republic&displayCurrency=GBP Perspective: Meal for 2 People, Mid-range Restaurant, Three-course - £14.42 Or, if beer is your thing: Domestic Beer (0.5 litre bottle) - £0.42

That was really, really cool. I hated the music, but I love your attitude towards riding. Perfect viewing before finally getting to ride tomorrow!

We do too That was nice to watch. Keep on enjoying yourself!

Pretty sure they come as standard on the Echos these days? Not sure on performance, but if people haven't been whinging loads then they're probably decent enough.

...I don't work at Tarty, and I'm not sponsored by "everyone". The people I am sponsored by certainly haven't got me on commission I used the Trialtech hubs as an example because they're just empirically good. I could equally have mentioned the Hashtagg rims/forks, or Monty M5, but I don't have first hand experience with them, so I didn't - much along the lines of what I was saying to you. The Lites weren't light. They were heavier than other forks of the time, and considerably heavier than the forks of today. [Edit: I should mention that I also snapped some Pitbulls quicker than the shortest-lived pair of forks I've had in the past five years.] Maguras aren't designed for trials to start with, so it's basically fair enough that they don't take trials' need into account that much - and even then, most people seem to use the new models without too many problems. It's just the people who have problems (or people who have been told by others who have had problems) are very vocal about those instances. That said - wasn't there a clip of you breaking an '04 just recently? Bersha uses singlewall rims, and he's way up in the ranks of TGS. Neil Tunicliffe's on singlewall rims too, as well as carbon bars and forks. I'm under no illusion you'll stop "being you", but it'd be beneficial for everyone if you just toned it down a bit. Try saying "Glory to TGS, I love it" rather than "TGS is the only way. Die, compy infidel." I don't really care what YOU think, but I do care that you're spreading misinformation, which skews perspectives of newcomers to the sport. I'm a fan of long-lasting parts too. It's great that weight doesn't matter to you, but you need to bear in mind that most people aren't blessed with your 14st6 worth of raw power. A bike under 10kg can make a big difference for them. It could also make a difference to you, though I guess you won't find out.

I refer you to both Mark's and my own post replying to your previous post of this nature. If you prefer and want to ride old Deng bikes, that's fine. If you choose not to use new componentry that is perfectly strong - at least as strong as the parts you're talking about, if not moreso - that's your choice. If you choose not to believe people who HAVE been riding for the past six or seven years and so have first hand experience with the products rather than - at best - something someone told them about something that happened some time ago, then that's kind of stupid but whatever. If you try and sell your absolute bullshit as gospel to people - especially apparent newbies - that's a different thing altogether. I had a set of '06 Echo Lites that snapped in two months. I had a set of '07 Zoo bars that snapped in three months. I had both front and rear older Deng hubs that, whilst weighing between two and four times as much as modern hubs, had crunchy bearings almost from new, and the axles snapped which has yet to happen with my Trialtechs after ~3 years. Deng freehubs were an absolute joke (although not a funny one, at all!), and have you forgotten about that period where Deng riders carried spare wheels on rides because the rims were so shit they didn't expect them to last out the ride? Come on now. Yes, some of it was very hardy, but some of it was also terrible. The same is equally true of the newer stuff. Leave evangelism to the religious. ...Unless you ARE religious, in which case stop it altogether. (N.B. The Church of Deng counts as a fringe religion in this case.)

I really like your riding. It's very well rounded. Reminds me of Ben Travis Wooshing through the white stuff at 1:35 scared the hell out of me. I thought a book was falling out the bookcase to my right, and I was sat there pre-flinched for about two seconds waiting for it to hit me before I realised what was [not] happening Haha.

My guess is that he's just so desperate for attention that he removes them in the hope of people telling him they're desperate to watch it and oh won't he please re-upload it. I've spoken with him about this a couple of times and thought he might've stopped being such a plonker, but apparently not. Best remedy is to just ignore it, by my reckoning.

No... Tucking on the front-foot side, there's a big gap your bum can move into so you can move the bike higher up in relation to your body. Tucking rear-foot side, your foot is in the way of that. It's the classic "Go watch Neil vs. Craig" argument. They both make their way work, but Neil always looks like he has to compensate/go around his foot, where Craig just... Sank. Haha. That's what I found, anyway. I used to sidehop opposite too, but one day it suddenly just felt more natural to go the usual way, without even trying. It was a really weird feeling Edit: Sorry - missed off the last sentence you wrote - was reading it on a phone >.< I'm not arguing that tucking that way is better - just that in terms of straight bunnyhops, being able to move the bike higher lets you get on top of higher things, assuming you've gone in with enough speed to lever your body-weight over the corner. I dunno. I'm a big believer of "do whatever feels best for you, not what someone tells you to", but this is what feel like a logical explanation to me

Yep. This. Constant pain in the ass. Very slowly becoming able to go both ways, but I'm still goofy at heart. That said, STRICTLY in relation to bunnyhopping up high stuff, I think tucking the sidehop way is beneficial for the same reasons as it is with sidehops.

Well... That was just f**king awesome. Like, properly mega. All over.

It's worth pointing out that a lot of the new stuff does have strength to it, too. You just need to pick appropriately. I've not heard much talk specifically about the M5's durability, though that's almost always a good thing. They're certainly not known for breaking! Other people aren't doing frames just because they're so expensive. Both carbon handlebars and forks seem to outlast alloy, these days. Carbon bars are pretty much the standard now, and forks are rapidly becoming commonplace. (Assuming you get ones that have been made properly, and not someone not knowing how to design them/copying something else and doing it badly ) I understand certain people romanticizing the "old school", but I'd urge you not to discount the new stuff off hand. A lot of it will still integrate very nicely with the older parts, if that's what you prefer (though carbon forks on an A1 might look a bit out of place ). If you're just getting back into riding, ride the bike you have. You'll probably enjoy it more if it feels how you remember. Geometries have changed quite a bit since then. If you're riding with others, try theirs and see what you like and don't like about the changes that have taken place. Also the weight. M5s are SO light... That, combined with a relatively comp-y geo, they feel very strange to ride at first. Getting on something as crazy-feeling as an M5 straight away might weird you out a bit.

I really want you to get out on your bike.

You honour me by assuming I'm so knowledgeable on the matter, but I actually just used plain-gauge mild steel tubes in whichever sizes were the cheapest. They weren't even seamless I just welded it all together and rode it - no heat treating. Maybe I got lucky and mild steel doesn't need treating or something like that, but I don't know anything about this type of stuff. That said, both of them lasted me nine months each, and the latter one is still in use (after having a few cracks welded over).

I did. I just didn't film there. The hub is a ProII.

I wasn't going to put this on here originally because I thought it was pretty lame. I only really made/uploaded it because my girlfriend wanted to see what I got up to in her home town (hence the lack of sponsor logos - here they are instead: Tartybikes, Trialtech and Industry rock, as you're all already aware!). Filmed it all in about an hour, but people seem to be enjoying it more than the ones I put loads of effort into. I'm unsure how to feel about that