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What's going on there? Looks like there's a sleeve that's welded to the headtube and the downtube then slides over it to add stiffness to the join? That's not actually a question is it?!

Good stuff! You're so lucky having that stuff to play on at your house... I really miss the stuff I have in Scotland Liking the gap-log-gap to front's

Really disappointed I can't make this... was going to go and then they changed the damn date!! Grr. Hope to see some good pics .

To be honest that is just BS. The British trials competition scene (beyond the club scene of course) seems to be (still) completely on its arse and needs a massive effort from those in leading roles to get things back on track. I really feel for you Ali as you clearly put a lot of effort into progressing your riding and are clearly one of the best riders the UK have. Obviously congratulations to those who have made the team but the selection process is apparently quite seriously flawed.

Should I ask how it was worked out?... Seems like a very small squad to field when we have such a lot of real talent.

Not another one?! Looks good fella! How does the rear King BMX hub work in the 135mm frame?

No, seriously. How the hell do they do that?!

Flamer. Indeed. Can I ask why the extra 'i' in your name? Just curious .

Sounds good to me . Have fun!

If it was me (and I did this to my old GT Backwoods frame back in the day) I'd leave at least some of the weld since the seat tube piercing the top tube will be adding some added rigidity to the frame and taking the tube all the way to the join may cause problems.

Boo! What happened to lose the Portland venue? I was really looking forward to that.

You seem to be missing the idea that a loud brake does not have to go hand in hand with a working brake. When you use the booster, does the brake work well. Not 'is it loud' or 'does it wake up your neighbours' but does it work? Because unless you're doing something very wrong (like a badly set up brake or whatever) your setup should be really strong.

The point was that he was giving advice about typing correctly and using grammar while completely ignoring it himself. Or maybe that was deliberate and I missed the irony of it all? I wonder...

Dude, the point Nick's making is that if you just take a bit of effort to make your posts easier to read (and stop being so arsey) you'll get a far better response by everyone. You're the one who signed your post off with 'timmeee' and that quote (which was aimed at Gu-triials (interesting spelling of trials by the way), not you) was just an observation that you both live in the same place as each other and apparently, judging by your posts, have equally poor literacy skills. And that's not meant to be a dig at either of you- as I said in my first post, I'd like to shoot your English teacher. Anyway, send the brake to Hope and be done with it.

Cool, disregard my drivel then

Do you mean pretty much everyone on the forum or pretty much everyone in trials back in the late 70's/80's? If it's the latter then I think you'll find that the first biketrials bikes were 20" wheel jobbies made for Ot Pi...

Tensioner's a modified 74kingz. There are some pictures somewhere in the 'homemade tensioner' thread. Edit: Pretty sure it's similar to AliC's:

Reported. Give it a rest kid.

Chill fella. Dude. Seriously. Christ, I feel like the damn Spelling Bee!!

Looks like they're pretty much identical to me... probably made in the same factory from the same material. Choose the one with the right geometry for you. I've only used the Echo and it did a grand job of holding my bars to my fork via a metal tube .

In what way is (or can) the wheelbase of a 20" modified?! Because 26" bikes are supposed to be mountain bikes, with gears and seats and stuff. Only modifications that used to be carried out really were the addition of a bashring (bashguards being against the rules in competitions). 20" bikes have always been allowed to use funny sized rim sizes (19" on the rear), be singlespeed, use proper bash guards etc hence being 'modified' and therefore 'mods.' Hans Rey still rides what I'd call a proper mountainbike/26" trials bike. He runs like a 16" frame with suspension forks and the only trials modification he uses is a bashring.

Lol at MSN's choice of picture of the little glamourised epileptic (keep 'em coming Bongo!)

Do you go to the same school as Timmmmmeeeeeee by any chance?

Sounds like a totally BS case... Surely if the bars were faulty the buck stops at the bar manufacturer. What are the importers supposed to do? X-ray every bike and component they sell and carry out strict metallurgical tests to ensure nothing ever breaks in the lifetime of the bicycle? Impossible. I'm sure all bikes come with stickers and instructions ensuring the rider knows that bikes are inherently dangerous and any failure due to 'mistreatment' (which can usually be taken as riding off a kerb) is the responsibility of the rider and not of the manufacturer (or of course retailer).

Don't know about your brake (kind of gave up trying to read the post to be honest) but I'd like to shoot your English teacher.