N.Wood

At 1:35 on a wednesday afternoon, I miss those days

Subtle 'praise me on my hop' thread.

Thats what I was thinking too Mr C.

Go in to your local branch and have a word. More likely to get something sorted than over the phone.

Baller bike, baller crib.

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OT, OTN.

If you can bunnyhop pretty good then pulling up is easier (for some) because it doesn;t matter how fast you're going, the front will pull up the same. The faster you go, the harder it is to raise the front with just pedals because you kinda run outta steam and the front doen't come up. Try both and see what works for you

Regarding hooks... They are HARD. So practise on a wall thats just under vert to get used to timings and stuff. I'd say you need to go faster, make your front wheel only JUST land ontop of the wall (as opposed to clearing it, the bike coming down into contact with the wall, then you trying to spring upwards), lean over the front more and keep practising.

Wisdom.

The highlight of my last few months was shaking it with a genuine Caribbean sista on a beach in the Caribbean.

With you on that. I like a bit of choco sister.

Bright green with shit loads of Monster stickers would look sick as hell

Think you can if you space between the jockey wheels and the cage to allow the wider chain through.

About as far away from you as you can get... Cornwall.

Only needs to resist the freewheeling force bros, all the actual force is put on the pawls and ratchet like normal. Perfectly good way of doing it, overkill if anything as Ali has mentioned.

Some good quality engineering

For me, personally, they should have made it +35 and 135mm rear end, to fill that gap in the market. Other than that looks like a pretty good value frame, although bb yoke could be a bit cleaner looking.

Was that because you had the bolt hanging out halfway or something? For it to happen so many times has got to be user error...

I wouldn't mind going to uni in California.

Snapped the barrel? The brass one? I don't really care what brake you go for so not pushing you towards Hopes, but i've had about 4 pass through my hands over the years along with experience with about 10 others, and never had this problem so curious...

A couple of avenues, none of which will be too great... Can drill a small hole at the end of the crack to stop it spreading or can get someone to drop a blob of weld over it. Thats about it... The weld will mess the heat treating of that area of the frame so will weaken it, although if it does start spreading its pretty much a last ditch attempt to get a couple more weeks/months out of it.

Keep an eye on it, if it stays the same size its not a major issue, if it grows everytime you look at it, you'll need a new frame sooner rather than later

Exactly.... Exactly.

Probably gonna be some nerds who tell you other programmes are better, but no one has replied yet so I'll go ahead. Malware Bytes and Spybot search and destroy are 2 free, easy to use programmes which will hopefully help you out. Can use both together. Google them and they'll come up straight away.