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He's a bad bad man who didn't get it from Tarty. A bad man.

Ok, ok, I get it... I'm the token old dude (along with Mike Steidley who was on the cover of an Observed Trials Magazine riding by a river in... 1998?!!). I guess it's lucky that I actually do act my shoe size rather than my age...

I could watch Joe on that kids bike all day long!

Parents are a bit sad... T111 JDY on the Mini (Altered slightly to read TIM JOY (their names)) and dad has T111 TWM on his toy (TIM and his initials).

Yet that's what the Ashton Effect comes with... go figure.

Yup, spot on. I run 18:13 for 95% of the time to do street trials but run 18:14 for comps

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 .