N.Wood

You people havn't been riding trials long enough!

...With oil/bird shit. If you put a lubricant on something that works on friction it won't work. I use an Avid BB7. 6" disks on a mod is fine, you have pussy wheels that only need pussy disks

You all need to get proper dogs, they're all ricey lil fellas.

Just make up a shite name and use it, thats what everyone else does. As long as you and your riding buddys know what it is, it doesn't matter what you call it.

Could try fitting a shorter stem and riser bars to your current bike and see how it feels? Raising the front end will help with bunnyhops and manuals too. If it's still not street enough, i'd go with the 1065 version over the Planet X as there were some problems with snappage on the PX's.

Useless post ahoy: Mine snapped in exactly the same place/way, obviously quite the weak point. I'm running some KOT forks (£60 last time i looked) and they hold up well for UCI type riding. I have some Ashtons for sale if they tickle your fancy, wing me a PM.

Nice informative topic, maybe should be copied into the FAQ's by a mod? A+ would read again.

Real ballers use semen.

Built my first t'other day, took 3 hours from full wheel to full wheel. Still true enough, touch wood.

Lolz. Shit vodka + Brita filter = decent vodka Anyone tried White Lightening? Holy shit.

Thanks for the enlightenment there boys, don't know what we woulda done without you...

I'm a cider drinker in a pub. But wherever possible, proper cider as opposed to Strongbow/Blackthorn. Can't beat proper west country 7.5%+ cider If i'm feeling a bit girly, i love Ammaretto either straight or with (diet!) Coke. Baileys is nice too. Vodka and coke is okies. Slag punch is where it's at for getting crunk - left overs from all the spirit bottles poured into a jug and mixed.

Damn you Welshies and your decent natural! Very cool pics, looks like a great riding spot

Personally, i'm against everything you've pointed out in your thread. Hence my disliking for Craig Lee Scott's/Neil Tunnicliffe's riding. From my point of view your post has highlighted everything i hate about trials. Not everyone is trying to be the best, no matter what you think. Being 'the best' is subjective anyways. Stick either of the aforementioned riders in a technical situation that requires skill, technique and smoothness and they're royally f**ked because thats not what they've learnt. They've bypassed the skills trials needs and replaced them with hight and distance. Personally i think they're about the least awesome riders i've seen. Yes, they're sponsored and thats probably because they're great tools for getting people into biketrials. The avarage Joe wouldn't care about a sweet little technical move that takes a hell of a lot more skill to do than a huge gap drop landed like a sack of shit. But yeh... Back on topic, i don't carry a tape measure but know roughly ho high i can go. I generally measure stuff the Mark way (bars/hips/ribs whatever) but i know i can sidehop ~40", which helps me know what other people mean when they're talking about a 50" wall. Just gives a handy reference point and a universal way of telling where everyone else is at.

Just cut it off with a sharp stanley knife. The barb is made of metal (brass?) so as long as you're fairly careful theres no harm in cutting it off as you won't be needing it any longer.

Haha, that'd turn it into a perfect dildo shape... Great if you're into that kinda thing!

22:18 on 175mm cranks. The choice of winners. (and me)

Compared to what? Compared to a standard lever (i.e the standard ones that come on a Maggie) it has a longer blade, different piston ratio, and a carbon lever body. The blade is ergonomically shaped.

They should be able to if they're any good, worth a try as the barbs are bast-hards to get in. They should be able to supply all you need. If not, CRC sells all the bits and bobs if i remember correctly.

A modified ODI Ruffian bar end kept my scrote intact for the week i thought it might be cool to run no seat on my Giant. Your common or garden cork could also work well. Anything like that should work. Or go ghetto with the good ol' pipe lagging.

I live in Kent/London. Go to London nukkas.

Search, there are 485798789571 posts on this biz-naz.

You'll need new hose. Get a suitable length, salvage the 2 barbs from the existing hose, put the barbs at either end of the new hose and you're sorted.

Was just gonna post this in't happy thread but this seems more appropriate. Had my first mock test today and passed with 7 minors, pretty happy. I hope i can replicate it for the real thing!

Nice, mine's a 1999 X517 CD built onto a Hope XC by Adam and it's still as true as the day it was born, been riding it for 2 and a bit years now