Alex Dark

nice video boys...enjoyed it, pengelly's gap from the little post to the wall was shweet.... wheres the big concrete ledges to towards the end?...kinda looks like a seafront to me

anyone else heading over?

im not there today...but theres going to be a big ride on the weekend

just use a tensioner if needed..if the chains slack...it needs tension, if not..leave it

biking related: the hans rey story, manifesto, roam and the collective Non-biking: Transporter 1 and 2 , all the american pies

1. Trials = low gear, no seats, strong brakes ; bmx = ridiculously high gear, has a seat, pretty poor(or no ) brakes 2. Fairly practical i guess, i ride mine to college most days...mines extremely low geared with virtually no speed, but loads of acceleration, a real hill climbing gear 3. You can pick up a nice specced beginners bike for as little as £250 nowadays....e.g http://www.tartybikes.co.uk/product.php?id=2115 second hand they're even cheaper 4. For a beginner it depends where you've started...if you're small and quite young or rode a bmx ...then mod, if you've ridden a mountain bike, then stock....if you ride street or dirt jump then probably a 24" 5. A lot of the videos you were probably looking at were either oldskool videos, or street trials ( bunny hops, spins kinda stuff ) Modern trials bikes look more like this nowadays:

I'd never use a split-link for trials...i just don't trust them

shame it doesnt have a price for it though... does anyone have apicture of a chris king hub cut away..as i have no idea what one looks like to be honest

er....it kinda is a trialsy move...streety i suppose

there really must have been something wrong to have ditched a big sponsor like koxx though....

i might head on up to bristol soon for a ride...what bike have you got now?

zona's shouldnt need a booster to be honest, my friends one manages fine without...i have to use one on my other three bieks though because of the hugely flexy chainstays ( onza woodstock - onza carbon booster, zoo pitbull - rb booster , trek 820 st - outland booster )

i ride, an 04 zoo pitbull, a trek 820 st dirt jump bike and an onza woodstock for proper streety trials

mate , you're doing well...but remember , when you front wheel hop the power comes from the waist down, not the arms 360 front wheel spin?!...sweet move if you can nail it..most ive done is near to a 270*

maximum 10..normally about 7 or 8

i bought my dmr v8s for £5 second hand and they're brilliant...ive dropped one pin so far, but apart from that they've been amazing

supercycles do the kmc kool chains (k710 ) for £6.....i used one for about a year until i got given a k-5c ( bmx freestyle one ) for free

zoo for frames....echo for parts id say

exactly...im sure someone could whack uop an adaptor...im sure quite a few people would use it as well

a really well set up 04 magura, with heatsink reds, a harsh grind, water bleed and a booster if needed will own most brakes.... the only thing i will say is that obviously having a brake that has cables instead if fluid is far easier to replace vees are so oldskool ......

the mono trials is probably the best hydro trials brake....or the bb7 with a 220mm hope floating rotor

i tried for ages...mr fish does them and selectbikes.co.uk used to do them, i was desperate for some red ones

yeh ive seen it, well worth a watch, tis a really good documentary

probably about 50, although....i did 50m hopping on the backwheel as a challenge....my god did my arms hurt after that

1. At the moment he's using a t--???? stem, a steel one thats extremely high and fairly long ( 120mm + ) 2. Just wondered because a lot of people say that their alloy tpa's just thread themselves and break 4. what bar and stemi for the holroyd? he's using answer pro-taper risers with a 90mm x 30* rise kore stem atm and its pretty rubbish