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You say that but the way US Presidents are elected is pretty gay if you ask me. There is nothing to do with what the 'party' believes in or what they're going to do for the country and all about spending the most money in a pathetic popularity contest. It makes me cringe so much when I see all those morons whooping and cheering for someone they've probably been paid to cheer for. Plus if you think about it, Bush was elected in even though he's a total moron. That means that the majority of those who voted picked him. Making the majority of voters retards. That just wouldn't happen in the UK. In fact he'd never get near the head of the party because someone would step in and tell them there's no chance they'd ever be elected in so maybe they should find a different career... Not sure what you're getting at with the Blair comment but Tony Blair was a well educated, well spoken guy who you could believe kinda knew what he was talking about and what was going on. I don't think Bush could add 7 and 5 together unless he was wearing sandals.

Dunno about the car but it would certainly be much easier if we all had a steel cable towing us everywhere...

Link. With Deng now on the 24" train there's a good choice including the Trialtechs of course.

There are loads of options. Just have a look at the 24" MTB tyres on Tarty or Chain Reaction. Kenda Blue Grooves are great but fairly heavy, Maxxis make (made?) 2.5" Slow Reezay High Roller's and now do 2.7"s I think. Depends what you want really but I'm sure there are enough out there to stop it from being an issue.

You can still read the topics about rides so you know when and where a ride is happening and roughly who will be there. To get validated you just need to put a little more effort into your posts. Silly things like capital letters at the start of sentences and using the spell checker will help things go faster.

Of course they are...

Another article (only in French) on the Kabra. Interestingly they've gone for a +60 BB and 71 HA.

Has the design changed at all since the initial forks? There seemed to be a trend of them cracking at the rim brake mounts from what I gather (and my own experience with some second hand ones). I think so... with less people doing comps it leaves everyone just riding for fun on the street. A 24" trials rig wouldn't be a super light comp 26" bike and wouldn't be a crazy looking hoppy 20" bike but would be the perfect 'having fun riding trials' bike. Now I do that on my Inspired anyway (never really got into the more BMXey type riding) but I can still see a market for a 24" trials bike and the Limey's are pretty...

But that's what I said!

Basically the same as this.

Monty quad? Got a link to a pic of one?

Our taxes seem to be spent paying for immigrants to be housed and fed, paying for politicians (frozen) duck ponds and moats and invading other countries and waging war rather thab buying such ingenious contraptions. Priorities? Who needs em'?

I still don't get the advantage, even on a normal freeride bike. Ok so you gain a bit of ground clearance but that's not an issue for 99% of MTBers. It only seems to be an enclosed system instead of an open derraileur but the ugliness of it seems to outweigh any possible benefit...

I've done it with brand new brakes as well as older one's and it always improves the lever 'lightness' and feel.

You might as well try- water's free (pretty much) after all! You can always rebleed with mineral oil if you don't like it. Maintenance wise, I never bleed for the sake of it, only if I have the brake off because I'm painting my frame or replacing the TPA or something. I probably bleed it once a year if that. I've never actually tried antifreeze. Because I've never had a problem with my brake freezing I don't think it's worth the risk of damaging seals with nasty chemicals so just run tap water. Give it a go- you never know you might like it! I don't work there (if I did I probably couldn't advise you to run water because I imagine officially it voids warranty ) I just ride for them .

There aren't that many (new) frames available that would meet your needs. The current trend of streety 24"'s like the Inspired are your best bet at the moment however the 2010 Pashley range could be quite interesting considering their new rider lineup... Otherwise you could track down something like a Planet-X Zebdi, Onza Woodstock or even and old Pashley MHz! Validation vote added by the way .

Would look a lot better if the green brakes went red. Or raw. I know it's Christmas but otherwise red and green should never be seen... Also agree with 315r- mirror finish would look the dogs.

They lterally can't cope with snow or ice down here, Southern fairies brains just seem to stop working at the first sign of it and they immediately steer towards the first solid thing they see!

Have you ever used a water bleed? I've run water (pure tap water not even distilled) in my brakes for the past... 8 years? Never bother with any maintainence, never had any problem with seals, never use any antifreeze (bike's kept in my garage and never freezes) plus you get a really solid lever feel which has a much lighter action than maggy fluid. Win, win, win .

Yeah, if you meet him again keep an eye on where his hands are...

The M27 westbound's closed because of about a 30 car pile up. It didn't seem that bad going East but there you go. All the side roads in Southampton are completely sheet ice as well though- when I came in no one could get up any of the hills, there were vans in hedges, buses stuck dead and pedestrians struggling to stay on their feet! Go Hampshire council! Useless bast...

There's a slight difference between the (lack of) abuse DHers give their bash rings and what trials riders need them for though.

Afraid when I see a bunch of squadies out I think 'bunch of wankers' and then turn around before the inevitable fight starts... Probably unfair but then broken knuckles and nose sound about right!

It's the Zoot street and is in the 2010 lineup in a modified state. But don't bother with the bolt-on seat option like the Zoot.