Iain C

So many videos from thinking about this. Think i might have gone off track and just put nostalgic videos. Must have watched this about 49million times during the first TF vid comp Also a classic Basically a viral video before such a thing existed. And the video that made everyone go and buy long bikes

I was merely explaining why Heathrow is a lot harder to run than say Glasgow airport, whilst Glasgow can get by with less equipment Heathrow simply can't, it's a massive operation, and people wouldn't be happy if plane ticket prices suddenly skyrocketed to pay for loads more machines for the few days a year this happens. The chaos on the roads are down to incompetent drivers and lack of preparation. Also the sheer volume of traffic is far higher than that in Scotland so that's another issue you have to take into account, ie more people to get stuck in the first place and more incompetent people to cause the issues in the first place. Well played on shovelling and shiz though.

Heathrow has a plane take off or land roughly once every 45 seconds, you can't really compare it with Scottish airports. If it suddenly snows at Heathrow and the runway is unusable for just say 15minutes the backlog caused is enormous. This is why it causes so much chaos.

I don't recall Danny Mac ever riding an 04 pure? Anyway, the video was really well done, the opening shots were really atmospheric. Great work as usual Jonny.

Nick was also really busy with Uni and things, making a DVD takes a massive amount of time. Can't wait, postman best get a hurry on, it seems the one day i wouldn't mind him ringing on the doorbell at 8:30 in the morning he is jollying around doing other things.

As Tomm said try and get hold of an old short cage shimano 105 mech or tiagra /ulteraga. Nice and out of the way for trials and don't cost the earth when you do accidentally smash it on a wall. Got a perfect condition 105 off ebay last week for £3.67 so it's not the end of the world if it does get hit. Also you can take the spring out from behind the allen bolt that connects it to your mech hanger so it doesn't clatter and it will still change gear fine. Definitely don't get a 38t chain ring, it will look huge on a Pashley, 22t will be fine with a small cog on the back. In terms of shifters you could even consider getting a frame mounted shifter on the seat tube or something so it's completely out of the way and has shorter cable etc.

Having said that, if you're not used to a trials bike they do feel really odd at first to anyone who doesn't ride trials. I've got friends who used to ride trials on really old school bikes but can't do anything on a modern trials bike because they feel so twitchy and like you're about to flip over the bars at any moment, whereas old school trials bikes at least felt vaguely 'normal'. A lot of people get on a trials bike expecting to be automatically able to ride trials on them when actually they just feel really weird if you're not used to it. Clearly though progression in bike design has pushed the sport further, there's no way people could sidehop and tap etc so high on an old Dmr Sidekick or something. A good bike certainly can help you progress faster even if it's purely for the confidence boost that it's not going to blow up when you try something or that the brakes actually work but at the end of the day without a rider it's just a piece of metal and rubber, it's stupidly obvious which is more important. Skip to 2:18 for Damon sidehopping a bmx.

Ah, used to watch this all the time when it first came out. Cheers for whacking it up again man.

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Looks well good! Couldn't you grind the maggie mounts off to save a bit more weight or are you still going to use them?

From memory Select and Tarty both started at the same sort of time and i think over time Select has just sort of faded away whereas Tarty has boomed and got more and more brands etc. Not sure if Phil Williams has been doing other things and let it slide due to the success of Tarty or if the website is just sort of in limbo at the moment. Phil Williams used to ride for echo from when they first started. So that's probably why most of the stuff is Deng. Select are really good though, order always comes promptly. T-Shirts are cool too....mines lasted quite a few years now.

This is definately wrong, i massively twisted the boxxers on my downhill bike in a pretty slow crash because i run a direct mount stem, which is in effect the same as your splined steerer idea. The twisting force of bars if the wheel doesn't want to go that way is pretty strong. I think you must just have a dodgy stem if it moves every 5 days, i can safely say that mine never moves under normal riding, but thankfully does in a crash. My housemate who is a road rider has some grease for his carbon bars that has loads of bits in it which get crushed so the two surfaces grip together better under lower torque so you don't damage them, not sure if it would work on alluminium but it might be worth a try to help your stem/steerer problems. It's a bit like this http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/Pace_RC005_Carbon_Composite_Shield_%28Grease%29/5360048266/#more

Especially when they were cheap from America with the rubbish dollar. Mines about 7 years old now and never does anything wrong, probably my longest lasting bike related purchase ever. Not many things i would send back from now, definitely wide rims if it was 5 or 6 years ago to stop all the brake set up faff with a d521 but they were around 3 years ago. But one thing i would bring from the past would be the old pre 05 style maggie levers, felt so much nicer and didn't have such rubbish tpas.

The polar bear was left from some kind of experiment that the Dharma initiative did, the animals were kept in the cages that Kate and sawyer were later kept in. I guess some people weren't at the end as they weren't significant enough or something. What i found a bit annoying though was all the build up in the first few series as Walt being something special etc and then basically pretending he didn't exist as soon as he left and never really explaining where that was leading. Although i thought the ending was good as it left it sort of up to the viewer to decide i do feel as though the last episode just answered questions from series 6 rather than some of the massive questions like what actually is the weird light/smoke monster/ability of the island to heal people/how did richard/jacob live so long....etc

The only difference it really makes it when you start learning to sidehop to your backfoot side you don't destroy your rear mech/mech hanger if you're right foot forwards, i always used to wish i was right foot forwards instead of left for this reason.....with horizontal dropouts and tensioners out of the way now i don't think it makes any difference. I'm Left foot forward, left handed, regular on a snowboard and right footed at kicking shiz...i don't think there is any real correlation, just what feels right.

Yeah i know, i'm being a bit hypocritical as when i'm on my own i always ride with sennheisser cx300s and i am also brakeless and have avoided killing anyone/myself, but i was just saying it's a bit nicer if you have a bit more spatial awareness and outside sound, which nobody can deny having hearing is pretty helpful for. Main trouble with those Sony ones as Shamus has pointed out is that they are possibly the most unconfortable things in the universe, but the set i used to have were probably my favourite for actually riding with, definitely not a favourite for general listening with, too uncomfortable for that, on the plus side, they never fall out.

Exactly...it's not a matter of getting used to it. I mean i can still function wearing CX300s, i don't just spaz out but it's just nicer to be able to hear around you a bit...also you don't get the really annoying noise of the cable rubbing on your clothes that you do with ear canal ones. It avoids the scary moments with cars etc...and even more scary turning round at night to find someone about a foot away talking to you who you had no idea was there. One headphone in is the other option but then i find it starts trying to pull itself out more because the other headphone is yanking on the cable.

The only thing i found with Sennheissers/any ear canal earphones is that they cancel out all of your surroundings so although they have really good sound i found that for riding they aren't that great because i can't hear outside noise. I sort of need to hear what my bikes doing if that makes sense. I found these Sony ones to be really good for ridingLinky, sounds is pretty good, nice and cheap and you can still hear what's going on around you, and they last a fair while. Obviously whack the cable under your shirt otherwise headphones are lethal.

With that approach it's bound to go wrong at some point. Go on a track day or an airstrip or something if you want to find the limits, not a public road where your putting other people at risk...especially with your mate in the car. Although you may feel like your some amazing fast driver in reality you're in a 206 going too fast for the situation and you just look like a bit of a dickhead to everyone else. Hopefully you have actually learnt your lesson.

Crystal Castles--Untrust Us Awesome vid though, seemed really chilled out and relaxed even though the riding was mental.

Yeah, traction control was banned at the start of the 2008 season. If you ever see F1 in real life rather than just on TV you realise how insanely fast and loud it is and how much skill is involved.

Je agree, back in the day when 1065 seemed like the longest thing ever, credit due to Koxx for getting everyone off their Zebdis and moving frames in another direction. Although Zebdis were cool as well, until Grant went all weird. 04 Short Echo Pures also as they are just timeless and ride so well...and i own one. But yeah, the levelboss was the start for the frames around today.

Depends on what they're 'best' at that, in terms of winning competition/being insanely good across the decade then of course Benito is going to be up there. In terms of being the best at a certain thing, eg changing street trials and being mental at tgs stuff for a large part of the decade then i think CLS was pretty important. What i'm trying to say is to some people, the best is different to other people. They can be the best for doing something that was a breakthrough at the time, which is what CLS and Damon Watson did, the case of Danny Mac proves this, he certainly hasn't been riding the 24 the whole decade but his 2009 video was a defining moment of 24 for the decade. For example you could say that Pele was the best footballer of the last centrury and it doesn't mean he had to have been playing at the top of the game for the entire 100 years.

'Best' is very hard to define, if i had to pick 3 it would be Rowan Johns for stock due to his style, i'd say CLS for mod becuase he was so influential and before his time and for 24 it has to be Danny Mac, just because. But if you're saying 'best' in terms of what they did for the sport over the decade then that's completely different, at the start of the noughties Danny Holroyd/Adam Burns/Trialskings sort of brought trials media to life, so they were pretty major, then there were people like Matt Berridge and Phil Pheeny who sort of helped pioneer the whole 24 movement and then as i've said, Craig Lee Scott and also Neil Tunnicliffe paved the way for all the TGS folk. Sort of unfair to compare riders from 10/7/5 years ago to now as the sport has evolved so much. A decade is a pretty long time in a sport.

Yeah, i'm from Bucks, go to uni in Southampton....hence the pics from my house. To be honest the word Bucks doesn't sound like the greatest joke to me, you must be easily pleased.