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I dremeled my lever after it had a ~9mm crack in it and it's been fine for 18 months now. It's easiest to completely remove the superfluous lumps of metal that the cracks start in- put a nice big rad on that, including removing the crack itself and you're laughing.

Wish you'd pointed that out before I went and bought a Trialtech half guard!... Hadn't considered that!

Another vote for 18:13.

Yes. I used to ride mod and basically always wore shorts to avoid destroying trousers but since running front freewheel on stocks and now 24" with a bashring it's only happened maybe twice in about 5 years.

I've had good ones and bad ones- the quality just isn't there compared to the 'proper' trials freewheels. I finally gave up on claws when one lasted me a week. If you can afford something better go for it but the ACS should still do it's job fairly well if you need to keep to a budget.

Not sure how these'll go down with the proper XC types on here but I got a set of Suntour Epicon's for my bike last year and I've been really pleased with them. 1.8kg, 100mm travel, remote lockout, air shocks with rebound adjust for £145... worth a look anyway! Link.

Which t-pro is it? The browny/greeny ones were anodised which will alter what you need to do.

I don't see bells on the Onza's either, another stupid 'legislation'. Pretty much every single BMX and (quality) mountain bike doesn't come with a chainguard thing...

I despise fisherman. I grew up in an area where all the rich people were chavvy fisherman who effectively rape the seas. They see themselves as 'farmers of the sea' but they put absolutely nothing back. Farmers break their backs ensuring good crops and sustainability in their land and stocks- with fisherman it's just take take take and it makes me really angry. Other things that make me mad are retarded Japanese who continue whaling under stupid 'research' banners and Chinese who think that the hands of Gorilla's etc have magical properties...

I seem to have missed the bit where me paying £1500 a year council tax doesn't pay for them to collect my god damn bins... it's like having road tax but also making every road a toll road. If this goes ahead the only thing that'll happen is that fly tipping cases will go through the roof and the countryside will turn into one huge pile of crap.

For sure .

"Badly damaged"... badly damaged? It's been levelled!!

Mine are always an absolute bitch to come off. My Eno removal tabs are pretty much destroyed from failed attempts, even with the tool being bolted on!

Most important thing is to bolt the removal tool to the freewheel through the cranks. Otherwise you're never going to manage. Once that's done it's a case of getting a ton of leverage on it- as shown in the Tarty video (although I'm guessing the one in the video hadn't been on the crank and used for a few years prior to filming that- I reckon there would be a lot more swearing and fighting with it if so!).

M5 if it's 4 bolt maggy mount though...

It should do- the tensioner mounts to the derraileur hanger rather than anything to do with the hub axle/bolts. You may have to fiddle round with the location of your sprocket on the hub as the tensioner doesn't have any adjustment.

Cool beans, wasn't sure if I was being dense and not seeing the tab or link or whatever at the top of the forum page.

Sorry if this has already been asked but how do you get to the Wiki from the main forum? Apart from clicking through on Tomturd's signature of course .

Whatever happened to the IRC minuteman tyres? I used to love those... had to buy them from Tim@Trialsin of course but they were still awesome .

You missed the 'QFT', Ben . Anyway, go to your female! Now they really are unimaginably complex creatures... and after all, "The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell."

Fair enough but you can't deny that 99% (guestimate) of Christians take the religion at face value believing in Jesus as a miracle working son of God (the guy upstairs with the beard) and consider that by being Christian they should secure themselves a place on a cloud with a harp and a halo? Of course there will be those who read deeper into it all and consider the true meaning behind the Bible and its teachings but at the end of the day I would guess that most are simply sheep following what they've been brought up to believe. I guess it is that majority which pisses me off- those who don't question or look around them to consider things for themselves.

But that's it- they all had to originate from 'Christ'. At the very best he was just a regular dude standing up for the rights of the oppressed. There was no 'God' or miracles involved, that's just all tall tales. As such anyone who identifies themselves as Christian must believe to some degree that of all the bits of the Bible they don't believe, they do believe that Christ was the son of a 'God'. By definition I therefore don't see any merit in Christianity as it is built on a foundation of lies, deceit and fairy tales. Now that almost certainly wasn't the way it was supposed to be considered by the authors but now I would hope we've progressed far enough to realise that just maybe it leaves something to be desired in terms of explaining the origin of life and the unanswered questions... With regards science being our saviour, I don't think we really deserve a saviour! Sooner or later something's going to happen which may well result in the extinction of our species. Maybe when nature rebuilds itself and evolves into semi-intelligent beings they'll make a better job of things than we have!

But Christianity, any denomination or manifestation, has to be derived from the Bible. I think I've been fairly clear about my thoughts on that subject . As has been said many times before, any failing in Science is considered, researched and the concepts change and evolve to take into account the new information. Christianity simply cannot claim that. It seems unable to even slightly deviate from the bible's basis because to do so would go against everything that Christians base their belief system on. I'm certainly not saying 'the concept of a God (read first cause or whatever you fancy) is BS', I'm reiterating that the deeper we get into the philosophy, physics, astronomy etc of the Universe, the further we get from anything which is mentioned in the Bible and as such further from Chrisitanity. Edit: I know I'm not very good at getting my thoughts across on here without coming across like a bit of an arrogant arse but the way I see it the author's of the Bible tried to explain the unanswered questions about life, the Universe and everything. That was fine but you'd think that in this day and age we've moved on enough to realise that, to be fair, the whole thing's just a bunch of fictional stories to try to answer questions that the people of the time had no way of investigating or understanding. I think if someone was to consider the possibilities of the origin of the Universe (and not just the big bang but the possible 'first cause' or whatnot) we wouldn't start righting about a beardy guy in the sky, his magician son who came back to life etc. because it would be laughed off straight away. It would sound as stupid as the story of Xenu and the Thetans. It is in that respect that I think of the Bible (and hence the basis of Christianity) as BS.

Yeah yours is the Tibo XS mod version . I'd say it's pretty rare (possibly more so in the UK than France?) but not necessarily very desirable/valuable except to quite a specific person!