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That stupid lass at 2.53 I think everyone has had one of those moments. I can see that 'WTF u doing dicked? Do I kick or what? Aww bollocks to yer then' thought process when you're doing them extra backhops. I know I'm riding semi-legally in public places, but as riders we (hopefully, otherwise you're being a dick) have to treat the public like we're treading on eggshells, and a certain slice of the public are either as thick as a barn door, oblivious to the surroundings, or simply self-rightous inconsiderate pr**ks who think somehow they are better than you and won't acknowledge your existence. More than once I've had some arsehole put both sides safety at risk by doing really stoopid sh!t like walking under my hanging front wheel or make eye contact then walk straight in front of me mind gap. Not really a vid comment I know but that's a rant I've wanted for a while...

That is pad wobble on slave cyl prong/pin. The front edge of the pad will be sucked towards the rim when the wheel spins and you end up with effective toe in on the pad, whether the cylinder is set square or not. You need new O-rings (if CNC backings), new plastic backings or if like me you're still using std magura O-ring clamps just adjust the slave to cancel out the toe in.. OR you have a loose/less tensioned spoke on the opposite side to the pad that's rubbing. Find it, could even be 2 or 4 holes away from the rub, and tighten it 1/4 turn. With me on the spoke key this usually completely cheats pad wobble.

That a TA brand carbon fork too?

I believe he means the end of the spectrum that involves little boys in fast food car parks trying to get a heinz tin exhaust to 'spitz phat flamez laad' by ringing the neck of a micra/frenchbox/corsa A etc, not anything that has genuine modified car merit.

Why thank you. Luckily I know how to successfully bodge build wheels with mis-matched hub/rim combos. Now all I need is a spoke thread rolling tool to make cut and bodged custom length spokes and I could slap together any old crap I like.

I'm in the same situation. Some bugger must be snapping up the auctions but it ain't me. I just seem to invest time & get sweet FA. check your PM. If the OP doesn't want it I'm interested...

yeah you'll run into those copyright issues these days on vimeo, they want you to use their music, not other peoples - believe that's the reason tartys have stopped using it. I liked vimeo and always used it over YT for my vids, but they have shot themselves in the foot and YT is the only real option now i think. As for the video, your ridings impressive - the fact you can bang together that much quality raw in just a morning annoys me greatly But the constant 'iphone and a coke can' camera angle got old for me - I know why you're using it - it's a great tool and I use it alot too, but you need to use it less IMO

Just bought the whole CD album to play on the big HI-FI stack in the garage (big noise - I've made tins fall off the shelf before) so next time that minipulative, scheming sociopath ***** next door has another cowardly ill-informed pissy rant stating false accusations about me or worse my family; she, her numb from the neck up dips**t boyfriend and the whiney kids can enjoy that riff at obnoxious levels. I'm a nice person, with a good temperament, but you do not f7ck me off. Trust me on this - if this world truly is karmic, from what info I've dug up on her, she is 100% f**ked if she makes it to the next life

This is most likely it as the upsweep and backsweep will be wrong for this bars-upside-down-like-a-road-bike craic. Turn em back to where they belong and see if the pain goes away. Alternatively I've just seen these whilst window shopping in the online bargain bin 661 Wrist Wrap 2014 | Chain Reaction Cycles £6.99!

I do understand that we cant ride PBs up f**k off hillclimbs, or use river sections, that is not what i mean. There has to be a few places with crossover potential - I reckon Addingham Moorside over Silsden way would be the best known one but I can think of maybe 2, possiblly three locations within 15/20miles as the crow flies from where I'm sat, which I believe are owned by the respective club committees. One has even had a tyketrial run on it donkeys back - I went to it - but they never came back for whatever reason.

Cos he wanted to swap it and dance around on the back wheel going look at me for the camera

This is more of what I was alluding too. It doesn't take much for peeps to grab a newspaper bag and go for a walk to collect the flags and tape, (one moto club round here uses the incentive of a 2nd free burger ticket if you're the observer and come back with your flags in hand) but it's one less job for someone else to do. My barrier against doing biketrial comps, as has been said, is always location - little if anything up this way crosses the border over from yorkshire to my knowledge, and to me that is a shame. I am aware it is probs cos no one has put their hand up, but if landowners are willing to let 100ish loud, smokey motorbikes scare the sheep & scar their field or fell for weeks in the name of fun, I'm sure they'd let pushbikes that do less than a tenth of the damage have a play? Just a thought. If I actually ever manage to get some form of 4 wheeled transport, this will be less of a problem obviously, but for now if there was a comp that was accessible by train (blackpool was effectively my local because of this) id be all over it.

Yeah obviously. You'd of had to be there but the example I'm thinking of was similar. The options were "murder clutch in 3rd gear with bike length plus 6 inches run up through a gap that would likely batter both pegs in the process" or "sneak through flag, ride over 12in rock to the right in 1st gear round the intended obstacle, hop turn, sneak through next flag gate" In the example given at brimham, I'd of done the same as that kid, (regardless of whether that makes me a dick Adam) and then looked smug as fook at all the "eh?WTF? Why didn't I just do that? UCANTDOTHAT" premaddona pouting I'd left in my wake ALSO a point I'd like to make taking the topic back to the OP: if you notice I said 'now when I observe', I, along with my dad, are one of the comparative few who are rider/observers and there has always been a lack of willingness to give up a ride on a sunday to stand there, get hypothermia and be shouted at by abusive (sometimes national level, heavily sponsored) riders, SO how many of you who are pedal bike competitors are willing to put back into the sport in some way? Going from expiriences I'd bet it would be 1, mabye 2 in 100 if lucky. Prove me wrong.

we're such a nurturing, caring and sympathetic bunch in barrow... Nice Clips Gaz, take it the places I don't recognise as barrow were that carlisle trip tother day? In other news, now need to be arsed to edit my vid, I mean I've had the raw long enough...

That is simply knowing the rules and using that knowledge as an advantage over every bugger else that isn't switched on when walking the section. That's not BS - it's intelligence. And there is no shaming to be done for using it. I did exactly the same at the last mototrial I rode in, and when the observer said it was a 5, I bit my tongue, went to the event steward at the end of the lap, appealed, and won. Outcome - a clean instead of a five. So now when I am observing, so long as the flag isn't run over doing so, I deem the rider to be 'in' and move on.

LEON triggered my memory.

This tablet I'm battering away at is an absolute pile of shite. That were 40quid well spent... * edited and typos corrected from my so far trusty 10yr old IBM laptop. F***ing piece of 2nd hand shopping channel tablet shaped crap - now to think of creative ways of destroying it.

A gas strut costs 20quid tops, no? or I'll go to the scrappy and get a couple of a van or something for that much. I appreciate what your saying but with everything else in life I ain't ever gonna have 80quid to spend on a seatpost. If this genuinely works and I can home brew it from scrap I see that as better than the standard post that I never put down because I cant get comfy again when I put it back, so I have to stop and faff til it's right.

Dead, as in not springy/rebounding fast enough? what tube are you using? Swapping tire/tube combos is my key to getting the right 'feel' - in a big maxxis a 180gr or lighter tube worked best for me when I had the stock built up (80ishKG basher). OR Thought about modifying the maxxis? Like cutting (or in my case an angle grinder and 6mm wide disc) every other nobble off? On a high roller the outer nobbles go large/smaller/large - if I was cutting it i'd cut the smaller ones off. Just did this with an ancient, cracked around every nobble, gone off and rock hard mod tyre and cutting transformed it into try-all stiky like fast rebounding pogo stick, but by using a thin tube (200gr tops) and a firm to hard PSI, in this case 25-30ish, was totally stable and would deform in such a way the bike would sit on the back wheel with very little input and no need for to even pull the rear brake. I'm a complete convert. Edit: oh and just another quick point - by increasing deformation, grip is increased too. In my case I'd say at least twofold

Reading this topic reminded me I'd seen a home brew dropper somewhere on my travels, then I searched, found the topic and realised is was you who did it http://www.trials-forum.co.uk/topic/178904-home-made-dropper-post/?hl=%2Bdropper+%2Bseatpost How did it work out in the end, Is it worth doing?? Oh and what did you get the strut from? i.e. i go into the motor factors, what do I ask for?

arh the good old trusty ajusty, there was a time in my teens where it never left my bag. It even saved the emo kid of a family friend from getting knifed by a gang of sweatpant wearing cretins about 2yrs his junior. I hope you brayed the shitbag's face in. Good on yer

Zoots run 175mm cranks as well the sensation you are describing i'd say is down to the 175cranks. i would give 170mm cranks a go. I've just had this on my mod, where I had to run 175mm Try-all experts (the same crank as onza zoots, owned both) cos thats what I had spare, swapped to some monty belaeys (stated 175, actually nearer 170mm) and it transformed the feel. Gave the effective feel of more engagement, put my arse n back higher in the air because my feet were closer together - (it's like you have longer legs) which in turn gives greater control on the back wheel because you place your body weight better and gave heavier gearing feel all because of the shorter stroke. It was faster cranking about too. Plus, and I did this on my inspired, ditching the zoots for some trialtech sports and a different bashring (highly recommend a tarty full ring) saves a butt load of weight from the centre of the bike, really noticeable on spins I've found.

Aye sack doing that. Thing is, when he pointed to the side of the stairs then went 'im going up that', anyone else think he meant using the the side of the stairs as a tranny kicker to surge the top of it?? Like on this Selectbikes vid using that flowerbed up to the wall?

This Is true. I often forget about the MTBs and BMXs too. I'm recalling a pic of a proto carbon race BMX monty did a fair while back for a show, using the 3box design of an M5, but dirty gret slabs of carbon instead of being slim and neat.