N.Wood

Best vid I've seen all year!

Well good, used to love the cultiv8ed vids!

Good stuff - No Try-All brakes though? Bars look nice, good to see they've made them a bit wider!

I f**king hate SMs, they're all useless bastards.

More that you can bend steel back without it cracking/snapping off.

Loved the old one, hated the new one.

Looked like well good fun!

Nah you'll be fine, just do it slow and methodically and it'll be all gravy.

You've probably snapped a spring. No special tools needed. Take cassette off, pull off little metal axle end (drive side) with mole grips/whatever. Pull lightly on freehub bodyand twist anti-clockwise slightly. The freehub body will come off in your hand, hopefully with pawls/springs intact. Clean it all out, check springs and pawls. If you ain't snapped a spring you've probably done the freehub shell bearings in. Check them out and replace if neccesary. Once its all cleaned out lube with light oil, push freehub back onto axle. Use screwdriver to ease pawls into place. You'll need to seat the green seal so use a screwdriver to gently press it back in place. Put axle end back on, then cassette and lockring. And there we are.

Don't do this. Undo the stem bolts. Tighten topcap bolt slightly, rock the forks back and forwards every turn or so. Once it stops rocking and feels good stop doing the bolt up and do the stem bolts up. If you tighten the topcap up it'll crush your headset bearings and you'll be f**ked forever. (or till you get a new headset)

18:15 on my stock with 175mm cranks.

I think if you're used to mod and had no issues I can't see why stock would be any different. Lots of stock riders love them.

Sounds like enjoyment.

You know the brake in the picture isn't a Mono Trials right?

Nice one, Ad you're a bit good these days eh! Better than back in London when we used to roll deep on our Giant Trials Teams! haha. Awesome work as usual Ben.

Was it that bloody River Yarty?

Yeah try with one finger, the earlier you learn this the better

I went halves with my missus on a Marmot waterproof jacket for her present, so romantic.

Man that would be over sick.

Something I had over looked! I guess this is the reason you don't see many around... Edit: Interesting... The one bike I've ridden thats been ffw (had a bash) I caught my trousers in it, and happens pretty often to some beys round here all with bashguards.

I may well be out after around 3, I'll let you know

Whilst I should probably know this, would there be anything stopping me running an ENO on some sort of fixed 135mm hub? Why don't people do this too often? Would be easier to change from my current set up to this rather than going FFW (and I like my trousers). Cheers!

Trials

Yeah, a melon.