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Sigh.

Pretty bad I'd say. Depends what you want it for and how it'll be treated and maintained.

Really?

What an awesome idea. On a different note, I honestly don't understand how you (Ryan) can't see how you're the one causing all of this hassle (time and time again). Your attitude on here is shite, not anyone elses. Refund this guy, grow the f**k up and if possible please never use T-F again. It's incredibly disappointing that people like you are asked to represent big companies such as Onza (though I think that arrangement has actually ended now hasn't it?). You give a bad name to trials with your attitude and you can't even see it.

Yeah, 'cos that'll work...

The 'Disputes' section has at least three threads of him buggering people about so you're not alone...

Inside the headtube I believe.

Also run CCleaner and Eusing Registry Cleaner. If it's still running poorly after that (and it's understandable when the HDD is fairly full) have a look in the Program Files folder and sus out where the storage is being used (unless it's in your documents by videos and pictures of course). The other thing to do is open up task manager and see if anything is using up lots of memory or CPU.

Why does Sean run a full cassette when he's got the mech locked out and running it singlespeed?...

Did that result in his death? Christ... brakeless?! I can justt imagine the bike looping out massively on landing after extending to make the landing.

I think they're mistaking gimmicks for progress and smart thinking.

Shorly not.

Not really. The crown race needs to sit snugly on the steerer which can only happen at the crown of the fork.

As Steve Parrish has said, I wonder if Rossi will consider taking this opportunity to retire... Colin Edwards as well for that matter.

I think a small community like trials deserves to know who they are buying from, particularly if there is a degree of deception involved to try and hide who is really selling the goods. Dan f**ked over way too many people without any sign of remorse in the past and I sure as hell wouldn't ever buy anything from him or someone acting for him. Do spill, Ali.

You could compare his season with that of Lewis Hamilton's, but he was so much more of a happy, fun loving guy he always added something to the mix. He'd reigned it back in a little towards the latter part of the season and was really looking good (third last weekend in Oz). A real loss of a rider just coming into his prime.

Link.

Ah, fair enough- the rendering fooled me! Are you planning to try a carbon downtube/toptube to see how it goes?

It'll only need be stock carbon tube (I assume). The expensive bit will be the metal parts!

The carbon looking tubes are carbon tubes, the machined looking (orange) bits are metal (aluminium or welded steel I'm not sure). Following on from that, how tricky is it get it all straight and aligned? Without a jig it must be an interesting problem! Can I ask what sort of weight the final proto has ended up at?

He was trying to keep the bike upright and bring it back. An example of what might've happened with far more room and no Rossi/Edwards to collide with:

Yeah I know, it's just the way it was worded sounded like you were saying Simoncelli had accidentally run a bit wide and was then intentionally scything back in to retake the racing line. Just clarifying for others who didn't see it. See a couple of posts up- Marco had already lost the bike and was trying (and failing unfortunately) to recover. The bike gripped but Marco had effectively fallen off the side of the thing and had no control, bringing him into the path of Edwards and Rossi.

They haven't released any real details. I think it was a bit of everything- massive internal trauma from being hit at high speed by Edwards and Rossi, the head trauma after his helmet came off and potentially neck trauma if Rossi did actually ride over him (which I din't think he did from the initial video angles). I have a feeling that the initial report that came in saying he was conscious may have been incorrect. The first reports say that when the medics got to him he was in cardiac arrest. He may well have been effectively dead before he stopped sliding.

Just to clarify that, Marco had lost it but he was trying to get it back upright and by doing that the tyres continued to grip rather than slide out as you would expect and at that point he had no control over the direction of the bike. If he'd just let the bike slide out initially he would still be here today, but the point is he was a racer through and through and so was trying to salvage the situation and continue. In the end that raw racing instinct cost him his life.