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Well if you're gonna go around punching windows...

Come to Pompy Si.

Hi Lee, this is Dave Marshall. Check out the rides and locations area of the thread and come along to one of the Southampton rides. Although I probably ought to be doing the Waltham trial today I'm off on the pushbike to ride in Pompy but will give you a shout next time I'm going into Soton. I can give you a go on my 24" but it's not a totally trials specific bike so won't feel quite the same as a full on trials bike.

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Serves you right to be fair. Think I may be attending... can't decide whether to play moto or push but quite fancy playing in Pompy again...

I really don't 'get' street dance acts... Looks like having a fit on stage to me. But what do I know?!

It might've been if the guy was putting it on to be funny, like Ali G or whatever but he was just an untalented chavvy arse.

It will just make the gearing really light which will make it difficult to put lots of power through the drivetrain. Things like your gaps will suffer.

I'm going to ignore that and pretend you said 'freerunning on a bike'.

Fixies are gay and Mr Kenny, you're a liar!!

Oh my. Sooooo jealous! Damn you!

Boots. Get some. Front brake. Cover it. Nice bike though. I'm still messing about on a 98 Beta Techno 250 but then I'd rather not have to worry about trashing it when I stack it than have a lovely shiny new bike and cry when I scratch it! Where are you riding?

Absolutely not.

Born: between ca. AD 275 and 285, Nicomedia, Bithynia, Roman Empire (İzmit in Turkey today). How dare you, he's virtually related to Pat Butcher.

Also love the footjam stoppie over the box type thing... looks like fun to learn!

24"'s quite clearly the way to go...

I bet if it'd been edited and filmed as slickly as Danny Mac's vid it might be getting a different reaction. It's another of those 'fine line' things where yes, most of it is BMXey but there are little bits of trials which makes it something else. Front hook on a BMX? Thought not!

This topic kind of sums up what's wrong with trials... Over classification is a bad thing. The great thing about Danny Mac is that he just rides his bike how he wants and has fun doing it. He'd probably call himself a trials rider but at the end of the day IT DOESN'T MATTER! The Inspired, and 24" trials in general, seem to allow the rider to just have fun, regardless what you're doing and for some reason it stops you from thinking in such a restrictive way... it's weird!

Watch Ryan Nyquist (barspin king) and you'll see he pinches all the time when barspinning. I thought it was kind of the 'old school' way of doing them, and the new school kids don't need to pinch much like they don't need brakes 'cos they're tooooo cool .

I'm confused by what you're trying to get at there... No, you couldn't ride singletrack or dirtjumps on a 20" Monty... not with any level of success anyway. However you can on an Inspired while also being able to backwheel and sidehop pretty much as high as the Monty. In theory the Inspired is less 'specialised' than a full on trials bike, however the geometry and feel of the bike means it still manages incredibly well with whatever type of riding you throw at it.

Did you pinch the saddle when you learned? Because mine's slammed that doesn't seem to be an option... although I know a lot of BMXer's don't bother pinching anymore. Would definitely like to learn though.

That's really rather impressive... Really wish I could barspin . Edit: And tailwhip! Nice find .

Both. Plus a bit of park if you're that way inclined, or singletrack if you've got the gearing and a mamma seat post, or dirt jumping if you fancy... It is simply a very versatile bike for everything. I've ridden mine on dirtjumps, north shore, street, street tirals, 'proper' trials and am also doing the Hampshire comp series on it this year. And to be perfectly honest it feels 'right' for everything I've tried on it. They really are awesome little things! Edit: didn't vote for the above reasons.