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Just like to say there is no "BEST" 26" bike, its all down to personal choice, everybody has different taste as to what they like in bike, but for £200 you could pick your self up somthing nice in the forsale section!!, get posting get your self validated and stick a thread up in the main forum.

Matt still rides to my knowlage, i just think hes busy and doesnt have as much time as he used to to make his awsome videos!!

get your self a good deep grind, make sure your grips are nice and tight, water proof your self, and ride as you would in the sun, it will do NOTHING but improve your riding, and if your bored of your local spots, you may find it quite entertaing as it adds a slight bit more thinking about, and you may have to approch stuff at new angles!!!

180 hope, with out a doubt, avids heat up and tend to fail on you when there needed the most.

Hey there, ive owned one of the 06 adamants with the high bb and i didnt really get along with it, i had the short version, i couldnt quite point out what it was, somthing up front felt very strange about it, ive alos ridden the 07 and, that felt AMAZING!, i belive its simelar geo to the ZHI, with the right bar and stem combo, its a very nice ride!

heres the geo for both frames, thanks to trialsman and tartybikes ZHI • Wheel base: 1080mm • Rear Chainstay: 380mm • Head angle: 72 degrees • Bottom bracket rise: +35mm • 1 1/8” head tube • Dedicated 4 bolt mounts • CNC machined dropouts/Chainstay yoke • Weight: 2000g Control Wheelbase: Short 1060mm, Long 1080mm Chainstay Length: 375mm BB Rise: 20mm Head Angle: 72 degrees Centre of BB shell to top centre of head tube: Short 655mm (25.75"), Long 675mm (26.5") it may seem small but the extra rise on the zhi bottom bracket will effect the ride of that bike SO much, ive ridden both frames and ive owned more than 1 echo control, so im going from personal experiance, there both amazing bikes to ride, it just depends weather you want the high bb or not, if your new to trials id probly recomend the ZHI as it will help improve balance slightly quicker and will feel alot easier to ride because of the slight rise on the bb

ive used both rims many times before and if only mavic made there rims wider, i dont think there would be a better rim on the market! Mavics also build REALLY well, and from my experiance grind ever better!!!, but the dx32 is my personal faveorite "wide" rim, these grind just as well as the mavic and i never have any problems building them, although i DONT think they are eyelited (is that right?), but i cant say ive found that a problem, ive got friends who run these with every other spoke missing,(32 hole rim 36 hole hub) and they still sware by this rim, look out for alex dx32 xlite phatso planet x bmf Old skool onza rim in red megamo(same rim with holes) All of the above are the SAME rim, so any of these would be fine:) to some up: d521 FANTASTIC rim, but far to thin for trials dx32, amazing rim from my experiance.