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'Backmarker' was Scott Wilson, all ok bar a broken collarbone. He ended up mounting the banking like he was carving a wallride, then though sheer timing bashed fairings/barends with MD on the way back down. In other news, the noise of that Kwacker H2R on James Hillier's exhibition lap He mapped himself on strava; 206.9MPH down sulby and something like a 18.39 lap! Then the tech from kawasaki leaned in on the interview and said that due to the way it was geared that was absolutely maxxed. Found a vid that king of does it justice

Milwaukee yamaha do roadracing when they feel like it, like it's a nice little hobby to do when there is a gap in the calendar and any effort will always be second fiddle to the BSB for them. IMO they are the unprofessional dicks (Fing cowboys is nearer the mark), not MD He's also stated that milwaukeeyamaha and the bike have not delivered. (BTW there is a president there - having previously left Connor Cummins looking like a total mug at the southern 100 a couple of yrs back, because his promised bike was 'suddenly called upon' for the BSB.) Michael also went on record apologising to the boys with the spanners, who had done what they could. However the bosses parachuting in the engine builder at the start of practice week (also straight from MD's mouth on manx radio) to pick up the slack instead of at the start of the development program like was promised, and a fastest practice time of 123ish was, i would surmise, one of the multitude of straws that broke the camels back. EDIT: For context, remember that 125 and a bit MD did on that XR69 at the MGP in 2013? A 25+ yr old bike powered by a carb'd road spec GSXR1100 engine, and I personally watched it spit him across the road & try to spear him into the tree on the exit of hillberry. THAT was faster than the new milwaukee yam.

Odd... My lever body was plug n play, like it should be. And has been for over 2yrs. Out of interest are you talking about the complete brake (this style with the split clamp) which is the model released later, or the original 1 bolt version I've got which was supplied as a lever body only?

Study the absolute crap out of trashzen.com then go ride! Thinkbikes do youtube video tutorials too. I put some input into a thread a while ago where this guy lived somewhere snowy and cold, and could only ride in his garage. I'd suggest you check it out for ideas http://www.trials-forum.co.uk/topic/189888-short-progress-video/ Then practice your arse off!

Oh I just edited and refreshed only to see a reply. Check out my edit and see if you have the same problem, I didn't really believe ithe problem at first, it just seemed so unlikely.

My racing line master (original style, 1 bolt clamp one) has been faultless since xmas 2013/new years 2014, Has a racing line piston, also the old style one with two o rings, lubed with silicone spray for car window seals 2 finger magura lever, mildly stretched spring. 2nd hand maggie slaves, they're gonna be at least 5yrs old, lubed with 3 in 1 style poundshop oil FWIW. standard magura steel fittings and hose, except for a 12.9 stainless bleed bolt TT 2bolt on a 4play Syringe bled with tap water, all the fittings and bolts lightly PTFE taped. Nothing special and no fancy tricks, but it is the most solid brake I've ever had - others have made comments to the same effect, and other racing line brakes I've ridden (the full split clamp £200 complete setup jobbies, front and rear in this case) feel just the same. Mine sustains a solid bleed for months on end - Good careful prep and PTFE tape is all there is to it for me. Something is definitely amis. There is an air leak somewhere or your fluid is full of air. Locate some LHM fluid from a motor factors, I'm reliably informed it is the same as royal blood beneath the BS and I haven't found anything to the contrary, also was 4-6 pound a litre for me not >£30. EDIT: The lad with the racing line set did mention that he'd had a problem with one of his masters where it constantly lost pressure though what turned out was a pinhole on the inside of the bar clamp - took him/his mates an hour to find! I surmised that it could have been a manufacturing defect from when the cut out in between the squares of clamp bolt threads was machined incorrectly and the wall thickness at the back of the piston was made too thin and it leaked. Was all sorted on warranty anyhow.

Nah. Worked for me for about 6 weeks til the fork leg on spanking new because forks opened up like a ringpull. Steerer was fine though

That stem's not awful, It's the size/angle sat on my bike currently. Get them bars off though, they had a bit of a cult following back when, but I was never one of them. read what I said about TT highrise above and reverse it completely. In my opinion, total steaming dog turd These, in 40mm rise option would be your cheapest suitable alternative i think, but are bloody narrow. Eugh or these are wider, but will still be a touch flat even in 30mm rise. You're cranks are fine, very nice sort after items in fact. Just recently I had a problem where having too longer crank arms on made the bike feel low to the ground, sorted it with some 5mm shorter cranks which transformed the body position. I thought that you perhaps had this problem in reverse. It was just an outside bet. Get yourself over to trashzen, the old bible of trials basics. Thinkbikes do youtube tutorials too. Take these on board and then go ride. Your garden, your garage, the front curb, corner of a industrial estate, after hours at the multistorey - I mean ANYWHERE! Check out this similar topic I had a bit of input in a while ago http://www.trials-forum.co.uk/topic/189888-short-progress-video/ Ciaran.

Two stroke racers bible: a big loaded pull until it revs out then plug chop it. Cos i'd have said it was rich on the air screw myself, but thats a very simplistic way of getting it to work, not dialling in a set-up ie. the jetting n needle height being proper sorted. EDIT: You could have an air leak. If it's sucking post carb but pre cyl. that'll royally f**k you over and you'd be chasing your tail changing stuff for weeks. My ol fella preaches about this stuff called blue hylomar, and he's right, it's the absolute bollocks. I actually laughed in someones face when they tried to sell me some cranville instant gasket, saying "it's the same stuff". Nothing but nothing puts up with silko/105 octane acetone based ELF racegas mix for extended periods without reacting, losing it's stick and letting air in. Hylomar does. Trust me, I've scraped it off before as a punishment. NOT fun. Have a read Hylomar – Non-Setting Compounds

As far as I am concerned this needs no explanation. However, If ever I wanted or needed to explain how a life of Avgas, (castrol) R, fast motorbikes and putting yourself in genuine danger seems to be one of the best best anti-ageing tonics man has ever come up with, then Geoff Duke would have been a bloody good example. You stand next to, or watch, a garden gate Manx on full noise (especially round the island) and you try and tell me racers of that generation weren't bonafide legends. When I met him, he'd have been in his mid-eighties and was still pin sharp, funny, modest, & actually rather staggered that someone as young (14/15ish) as me new who he was, let alone wanted a photo with him. People that deserve the respect of so many are seriously few and far in between, so just watch the damn vid, ok? Geoff Duke OBE 1923 - 2015 (but he was 92...)

How about what the BB i made up out of bits off the 'shelf o' sh*te' over last christmas that I've dubbed the 'frankenbracket' Truvativ ISIS axle Drive side onza bearing The centre tube section is from a shimano un54 square taper NDS bearing is try-all The BB cups are onza and try-all The spacers the cranks butt up against are filed down onza ones, then faced on some wet n dry, as it's a 118mm axle And the bolts are Trialtech m12. 5 manufactures, one BB! Works just fine.

I feel as I can't help them out in any other way but want too, i should post it in here for those who aren't subbed. New BOM binky(ish) vid.

It was your posts I was tagging onto the back of. An inspired (like a) flow but with a simple 4-bolt mount alteration sold at around £280 - 300 frame only would meet my wants perfectly, and mabye still build into an £800 complete. As for the hydro to V brake adapters that would be needed on the complete, IDK. maybe spin it as user upgradeability? I feel like this happens in sub £1000 mtb line ups all the time (yes, yes, I take into account the differences in the 2 markets and the connotations etc when I say that). It used to be that you'd have the nice build at the top the full page MBUK ad, then the one that is/was usually the spec/money value ratio that could have a potential configuration change with a few bolt-ons invested in and then be nice, then the sh!t one at the bottom of the page that no one wanted... Since IMO inspired don't have and should never do a crappy range filler, the flow fits into the second one at the mo, but i feel it just lacks the freedom to change stuff around as you wish, being constrained by the rear V. I know that I am in a minority, but I'm damn sure that others feel the same, as when I mentioned I was getting a yellow element and not a 4play on a small group ride, I got a universal reaction of "eww, rear V, are you sure mate?", and since I've had all three types of rear brake (V, disc, hydro rim) on in the time I've owned my frame, it was one of the best bike decisions/bit of minor peer pressure I've ever made. Anyway, as you were... EDIT: Definitely on the the 'heavy' bike train here. Reliable and solid over pishe thin, bendy, snappy and too much time spent in the tool bag any day for me.

Personally I really wouldn't bet on it - read on... This. Thought they were identical personally, due to the amount of try-all parts (seemingly) coming out of a catalogue. And I put in a try-all in a stock once, did some normal kind of TGS stuff, all <40in, then bent the axle to an unusable state like it was warm chocolate within about two months from new, from memory. Also blew the drive bearing(s) on a like new 2nd hand try-all (thought I'd give them a fair chance, it was a tenner), can't remember whether it was the 14mm wide OE one or two 7mm wide ones like tarty's found was an upgrade, but either way it didn't take long at all. As such, I wouldn't think that a reset steel would be any more suitable for your needs over a Ti, in any case. Trialtech lite in steel or Ti seem to be a good shout if you've the ££, or use disposable onza ones if like me you don't.

I've been running 170 TT sport forged with an onza (now tensile) bb since about this time 2012. Not the exact same BB I must add but that's cos I bend them, which is not the end of the world, and only people who are left footed (and I'm right foot) notice due to it being bedded in my way. The reason I kept chucking them in is 'cos they are £18.99 sent! Just as a side note, this plan must work as I took my cranks off on monday and the splines are as tight as were the day they went on - still takes some right grunt on the crank puller. On 3yr old cranks I pretty bloody happy with that.

That's the reaction I expected. oh and I'll stop clogging too.

I did only find of it's existence today! I just couldn't put my confidence in something that relies on an entire market to adopt it. The one that comes to mind I the 25in wheel monty that required the big tyre manufacturers to get in on it, they didn't and the idea failed. Anyway, does it not smack of the big leaps forward have been done, so now they're just messing?

And steerers... And don't forget the hubs, and frames... Yeah the only reason I care is cos I need to know what to avoid compatibility wise when future bargain hunting. Still don't get whats wrong with whats available already, As someone pointed out on the PB comments, You buy a complete with all this kit and then you'll be stuck with SRAM corp. stuff for the life of that bike, It's like coca cola putting actual cocaine extract from the coca plant in the original recipe, It guaranteed future sales!

Finds PB article http://www.pinkbike.com/news/sram-announces-new-hub-standards-boost-148-and-110-2015.html My cynical approach to life says it sounds like another case of scraping the bottom of the "what haven't we done already?" barrel. Pointless. Read the comments on that article, all them peeps seem to think so too. I particularly like one comment from someone with a longer memory than most "why do we want 3in tyres they sucked in the 90's, they suck now. Didn't we learn this already??" Haha, everything in bikes is just a revolving fashion trend. The way Mtb is I feel it really does have the abilty to disappear up it's own gas cloud of marketing BS. I'll be sticking to my sub £400 26in 130mm hardtail then me thinks - built out of everyone elses cast offs, but proudly using ingenuity not a visa card. Give it 10yrs, it'll be 'retro' and back in fashion!

Centrelock came first though from what I understand?? Go back in time and you had like hope with a (failed) 5 bolt deal that are now worth sh1t loads of fleabay, and before that was a 4 bolt standard, i think?? I've seen hope hubs and late 90's kings with the centrelock deal that pre date the a unified 6 bolt standard.

From what I understand you run a successful self made business so thats a fair enough comment I suppose. But I have read stuff on here about your more-right-leaning-than-mine politics and the subject of the lower classes that frankly was rather grating (It should be noted I'm not a "lazy dole dosser" like you (might not have been) rightly berated the other week - Never been a GIRO on my bank statement, EVER). From my end it just all sounds like a lack of 'having been there' or understanding on your part. Come back to me when you have had to go out, aimlessly walk about, find a lampost or telegraph pole with leftover cable ties from adverts/planning notices that have long gone and snip them off because buying the £2.50 bag of tie-raps you need would put your bank into negative for two weeks. I have. Walk a mile in my shoes fella, given that I gather from here you have your own business, a car, a house/place of some sort of your own, and a whole bunch of stuff I don't possess. My '11 inspired is one of my proudest possessions for a reason. I really try not to 'bitch', moaning don't solve owt, but when you aint got coin but you and your friends get my/their buzz from ultimately expensive activities, "orrrh I've no money 'til ..." or the simple classic "skint as f**k mate" tends to come up rather alot! I work the absolute f**king sh*t out of every angle I've got to earn money, and my bike is run on a shoestring and they always have been.

Here I meant on the frame only side of things, like when the hex was a DD complete and a 4 bolt frame only. What about a dual mount frame that is sold as a frame only but also as a complete with a brake spec that will yield the biggest sales? Admittedly this is rear disc but this option would keep feed what you call the aftermarket - people like me who build up frames because that way not only do you get the bike you wanted, or get satisfaction of doing it yourself but more often than not it is simply the spec that is the best of what can be afforded. I'm so handy with the tools because it's only way I can afford these f**king money pits we call a hobby. I know business is not a charity but I just wish manufacturers could occasionally remember those at the bottom of the food chain who are diehard fans of a sport they by rights should not be able to do. Not having to piss away good money on changing out a now incompatible setup, incurring a loss on good parts and then paying impossible sums for the parts you now need, is one way of doing that. Situations like that is what makes the upkeep of a seatless bike so expensive/never ending, and I got sick of it and went 24. Thus far It's been good to me is this respect

Just (speed) read the last page and a half of this. Just regarding the exclusivity factor of inspired, yes it is an expensive brand, not just the product but the 'feel' of the branding and promo etc. But it's always been that way, I never thought I'd get to own one (after I'd decided I wanted one of course) as they were/still are pricing me out of ownership. (If/when the time comes for another new one I am truly f**ked) And to a point I didn't actually want an inspired at the time as I didn't feel I deserved one as I wasn't good enough (I'm still not 3 1/2 yrs later) and disliked the thought of being even remotely like all the all-the-gear-and-no-idea-poshboys that had gone and bought (or usually more accurately had daddy buy) a top of the line 2grand Danny Mac fanboy replica for their first bike .(All that is down to the deliberate branding by inspired no?) The second point reading this raised in my head is why can't there be a 4-bolt frame option, even if it is just a flow? Currently the only rim brake option is the V on the flow, correct? As hinted above, when the time comes that my 4play needs changing, I have hard choices to make about my brand loyalty, whether even to stay 24 or not, can I afford a Element 26 setup (as It was 4bolt last time I checked), do/can I even keep a spinny bike at all due to it's premium price etc. All that is down to the fact I have all my money piled into this bike with it's racingline/mag setup, & don't want to spend £300 upwards on a shiny new frame and have shit brakes of any kind, eg. V with standard pads cos I can't pay for owt better/cheap shit discs on DD setup and can't afford hope or saints and smash rear discs enough that it's not viable/EVO2s on expensive frame etc, Any of those would be an unthinkable fail for me. Surely there should be a 4bolt or 4bolt/disc frame as an entry level option? That way the the consumer can pick what set-up to run instead of that decision being predetermined by the manufacturer. Isn't that part of the reason we build our bikes ourselves not buy completes? To me It would even negate the need for the cheaper line too. The branding structure could stay the same and stubborn f**kers like me who have big brand loyalty but aren't swayed in their buying habits by the latest fads or what the top lads are doing, get the bike that they want.