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I presume your local sign makers will be able to knock together whatever you need. Have a look through the yellow pages & see what you find, then wander on over with some photos or detailed drawings of what you want. That should sort you out. P.s. If using photos of a bike try to get the camera looking dead straight at the frame so as not to get picturedistortion.

I ride a Beta 250. I think it's an 05 model but I'm not 100%, I nicked it from a mate while he's not riding. I ride in the woods right beside the back of my house. One of the neighbors owns the land & loves bikes so we don't get any grief.

That's bleedin' mad. I might consider it on a town bike or a commuter but surely it would be suicide on a trials rig? I'd spend my days waiting for the ring to collapse in on itself & send splinters into my legs just as I piled my knees into the steerer & took a wander off over the bars to taste some of whatever I was riding on. All that said, I really wanna give it a go to see how it looks.

Man I'm impressed with those things. I'd love to see how they'd look if they came off a CNC machine. Really inventive engineering though, .

Just throw as many thin layers as possible at it. Rub it down with water and super fine wet & dry between coats. Don't worry if you're not getting proper coverage. That will come with more layers. And try to leave as long as a day between each round of sanding / spraying. You'll get a great finish if you're patient enough. I sprayed my frame in my sitting room with a sheet over the couch & the frame hanging from a clothes horse.

DMR V12's all the way! Never had a pedal so well suited to everything! I ride them on my trials, jump & freeride bikes. Well I did till I killed the Stinky.

Only wear them 'till they fill up with sweat & get all loose & shit. Then I ditch them in favour of bare hand riding. Brakes always feel odd after taking gloves off though.

Lots of Hed (PE)! Tippedy Top Video music. I discovered them from MX Vids.

Give the new pads to a mate who runs a grind for a couple of sessions? They'll probably fit just fine if you leave them long enough & somebody gets to knock a bit of use out of them... Gots to be better than cutting them down, getting an un-even surface & you'll always resent the fact that you lost out on those 2 mm of material when it's time for new pads.

Yeah I'll concede that point alright. More than enough grief doing the timing belt with the motor in the car & the water pumps are a touch delicate... Three for three the pugs have eaten a water pump a piece.

You sure the helicoil is the problem? Sounds a bit like the helicoil insert may be threaded onto your bolt just fine & spinning in the frame? How hard were you tightening it? Is there enough material left to use the next size helicoil up? If it all turns out the worst possible way & the old helicoil has pulled through & there's no way to re-do it - Strip the bike down, Rub all the paint away with sand paper & Take it to the local Aluminum welder. He (or She) should be able to blow a pile of material into the hole for you & re-drill the mount once it's cooled. Then It can be tapped or coiled, whichever you fancy. Best of luck though.

Who's really that pushed? It's like asking if you'd prefer a turd sandwich or a giant douche! And if we're talking about hot hatches, look no further than the French! They build mundane, excessively safety conscious cars all year long in the hope that the engineering department gets to do a silly car. Then **BLAM** we have another 200+ horse power hatchback that weighs in around the tonne. Then to take it a little further they make their cars handle the way only an exciting French car can. Beat that! And yeah I know that means you end up with French electrics but, & it's a BIG but, no-one that's driven it cares! And since everyone else is at it I'll list my previous cars. 1. Opel Corsa 1.0 2. Ford Fiesta 1.25 3. Peugeot 306 1.4 4. Peugeot 306 2.0 5. Renault Megane 225 2.0t 6. Peugeot 205 gti 1.9 (on twin webers with supercharger) Still running the 225 with the 205 as a weekend car.

If I can't ride I start to gather up a big pile of nervous energy. So I generally wind up vegging out in front of the xbox with good ould Mary-Jane or more often than not visiting the missus. I reckon she will start to get pretty pissed off when Summer comes round & I'm nowhere to be seen for days on end. Ah well.....

If you drop the chain off the bike, is there any noticeable stiffness from your cranks & BB or from the freehub? If the stiffness is being generated inside the freehub then you'll need to service the hub. Hopefully there won't be anything broken but I don't know a whole lot about Profiles. If the stiffness is from your crank, stick in a new conventional BB & make sure the chain ring isn't hitting the frame. If it's neither of these then it can really only be your chain. Hope it comes good for you.

One of the finest tutorial websites I've come across is http://www.trashzen.com/. I like to give it a look whenever I feel like it's time for something a bit more challenging. And the Giant looks like a very nice bike! Best of luck with it.

I'm on a single speed stock bike at the moment. I use an old road mech as a tensioner. Just with the limit screws run in so it can't move. Works a treat!

No idea what you might be able to find local to you but....... I'm from Irealnd & one of the local industrial estates has a unit (very imaginatively) called the bearing shop. They source high quality bearings, sealed, loose & in cages for industrial applications. So far I haven't had any problems finding any bearing I've needed. I've re-built the tail end of my DH bikey & the main pivot of a mates with their parts & whether it's all in my head or not it feels better than new (probably because I want it to!). The only bearings I've replaced for a BB were a BMX item & they pressed into place easier than expected & lasted until after I changed bike. The needle bearing units or taper bearing units are considerably more expensive than std. ball type bearings.

Hope headsets are pretty well engineered & do a great job. ..... BUT...... The FSA Pig is so fantastically reliable that I can't help suggesting it. I've had one headset through 5 bikes now. It's had a hell of alot of DH time, it's been on my jump bike & both of my trials frames have had it. Maybe it's a little heavier than others but I just can't see a downside to something so cheap that just won't break. I don't even think I've changed the bearings yet!

I'm riding a pair of Try All s at the moment but haven't had them very long (maybe a month on the rear & a fortnight on the front) Been doing some fairly big drops & gaps. There hasn't been a sign of a problem yet.

It's gotta be the DMR for me! It's just so overly simplified! There's nothing to go wrong!

Electroinc Engineer in the automotive industry Monday to Friday. Bike, Car & Moto mechanic Saturday & professional lay-about Sunday. Most of my riding is in the evenings as well. Getting alot tougher to find a dry evening to get out riding too!

Know what annoys the sh*t out of me?? Folks who can't spell! Don't get me wrong, if you want to abreviate a word - go ahead. Sometimes abreviations can be a very useful for time & space saving. On the other hand when some semi-literate "genius" comes along & posts a topic about the weather, I read in expecting to find folks having similar difficulites to the ones I'm experiencing... I can't come to terms with the fact that Summer's over. It's just crappy! Instead I get the same topic I've read here daily... 'Weather' or not to change wheel size... I really don't care if you're changing wheel size, you can ride trials on your Ma's ironing board if you like (& if you can figure out how that might work). I might enjoy reading about that, pictures of it would even be cool! Screw it, I'm going back to work.

Sounds alot like a dying frame. My last bike diedthat way. It was snapped behind the BB on the drive side & everyt time I'd put in a pedal stroke it would flex 'till the tire hit the frame. Give it a good clean & a look over. Hope it's not broken though.

I started on a Saracen & I loved it! Can't rate them highly enough! Check the cranks for tightness often though... Cranks seem a bit soft or something makes them come loose. Mine was also a bit prone to the chainring getting too close to the chainstay & eating a groove out of the frame..... Then it broke, so I welded it... Then it broke again further down, so I welded it... Then it broke again further down, so I welded it.... You see where I'm going with this? Ah no, if it does anything like that I've heard you'll get a warrenty replacement.