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One of your dreams in life haha. Well who are we to judge anyways? If thats what you gotta do to live the dream, so be it.

Perfecto.

Agreed... Talking of which, when are these suckers gonna be in stock again?

Type it.

Had one ride on mine, they felt real nice.

I had a 190mm mono trial on my stock for about 3 months, and recently changed to rear maggie. I liked my disk, was better than maggie for a couple things... But overall my bike felt better with a maggie.

Yeah.. I find rocks have sharper edges than the 90 degrees of street, and the off camber edges mean it rolls alot for take offs. Less noticeable on rounded rocks though. I used to have harder tyre for street but have swapped in the latter years of trial du monde.

Yeah, if its IS spacers won't do fook all. Definately the right rotor for the caliper? Do you have horizontal dropouts?

How or why people run lower pressures for rock I don't know

Which ones did you go for Ad? I've been using Five Ten freerunners for a good 7 months now, just bought some new ones but to be honest theres still loads of life left in my old ones. Anyways, I'd go into TK Maxx like at any available oppotunity, they always have deliverys of new shit.

Might be there if owt else is on

Pretty old skool these days... I guess it comes down to price?

Well good pics as always Ads (and Stan). Looks like a good place to ride, wheelswp/hook thang on the pointy rock looks like enjoyment.

Why do you always ruin decent bikes with nukeproof/da bomb shit? Nukeprood have the worst looking products around. I sanded off the nuke proof branding on my ti spring it looked so shit. Lyrics are nice though.

See if your local dealer does KMC 610hx chains.

Well good, nice one Mikey bey

Hang around saddles and paddles on the quay and you might bump into someone with an odd looking goatee style beard. If his name is Andrei, you have the right man and ask him all your questions

Single all the way, used to ride with VPs before MG1s came along, and always took out the inner cage as soon as I got new ones.

Might be in plymouth, not sure yet. Will be the kinda thing I decide an house before I leave.

I honestly can't remember UCAS points wise... Would 240 points be a reasonable number?

Looking hot Ads! Stans front brake... Whassat?

I only did maths at GCSE too, and honestly I am shit at it. I passed the tests at uni which are GCSE level. In my job if I need to do any maths its either done for me by Excel, or I use a calculator. Its only simple maths, seriously I wouldn't worry at all. Its also doable without geography, a few people on my course did neither geography or geology.

Yeah my work involves site investigation mainly... At uni they teach you about the chemical formulas for when granite forms in magma chambers and shit like that, which is fine, but didn't interet me. In my engineering lectures it was all about the top 30 meters of the earths surface, which did interest me. Was much more interested in solving civil engineering type problems than finding a tiny fossil under a microscope. Anyways, point being, my work deals with the top maybe 20m of soil and rock. Site investigations basically range from small bungalows with cracks in due to tree roots, to dealing with huge business parks being built on tough to work with ground like landfill sites, and everything in between. My job is pretty varied in that respect. Today I was in Barnstaple and Braunton doing some probe tests on housing eststes they want to redevelop. Last week I was on site logging window samples (cores of soil basically) for residential plots in Exmouth. Onc I have logged, sampled, potographed and made notes on each site, I head back to the office where I either schedule testing with the lab guys (to find liquid limits/shear strength/whatever), write up the logs to british standard, collate the photos, write the report, make site plans etc etc. Its a good job for someone like me (and alot of trials riders i'd have thought). You have to be fairly mechanically minded in th simplest sense, I'm always opening man holes, water covers, fixing equipment, making sure the vans are up to scratch, solving problem when you can't open a gate in the middle of nowhere and are 2 hours from the office, that kinda thing. Its also good because you spnd alot of time out doors, but have the comfort of the office to return to. Its also very varied, and learn loads of different skills with each site you go to. Grades wise, I think Plymouth was actually my lowest offer, which was something like a B and 2 C's in relevant subjects. I did geology at A level, but many didn;t and got on fine. Thy teach you all you need to know. Geography is a good basis, too. Its a kind of alround subject.. there are maths tests (even I passed them though), there are elements of A level chemistry, physics and geography, also essay writing and general awareness of current goings on and political issues. Its better to be good at everything than excellent at one thing. Think thats about it.

It rocks.

I've done geology A level, Applied geology at Plymouth uni and am now working for Southwest Geotechnical as a geotechnical engineer. CSM is well known for being at the forefront of geology, I had a look around when I was looking for unis. We (SWG) are actually doing some work for them at the moment at the tremough campus. The problem I had was its kinda in the middle of nowhere, and thought I'd get pretty damn bored. I chose Plymouth and am very glad I did, had a great time there. Both my bosses at SWG also went to Plymouth uni. Jim Griffiths is a lecturer there and he's VERY well known in engineering circles. Any other questions ask in here