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Why not just buy some new brake pads that were designed to be... brake pads?

Not necessarily wrong... it's preference at the end of the day but if your brake's half decent there's no reason you should need to use two fingers on the brake and having the remainder on the bars will allow you to put more effort into lifting the bike and in theory allow you to ride better. I only ever use two fingers in comps when I'm getting cramp or something in my normal braking (index) finger.

The accent itself sounds quite like the standard American one but they have a kind of 'twang' that makes them stick out. Especially more out in the countryside rather than in Toronto etc. They also use quite different ways of using pitch and do say 'eh' a lot making lots of statements sound like questions. And yeah, I don't think Ryan Leech is a penis... he's a bit weird and thinks too much I reckon. Quite innovative when it comes to riding though.

Yes. He is.

1. You're a full member. You've been a full member for quite a while. This is New Members Chat. 2. This topic has been covered many times over the years. Search. 3. Look at any of the pics in the riding pics thread and you'll see that 99.99999% of people use one finger on their brakes. The other 0.00001% Are doing it wrong.

Going over a bar is defintely more difficult- Because you have to get the distance to clear the bar laterally.

All the records on the Monty site aren't really 'official' though, only recognised by the BIU I think. As far as Guiness records are concerned, they don't differentiate between wheel sizes, it's simply 'Highest bicycle bunny hop' (which officially was set by Dani Comas (Spain) when he cleared a bar at a height of 1.21 m on the set of Tous Les Records in Port Leucate, France on 23 July 2004). There's also a sidehop record which Martyn Ashton held for a while but I take it someone on a mod's smashed that a few years ago.

Oh look... Posted 2 days ago...

Bargainous!

Front tyre's a classic! All my bikes from when I was about 3 to when I started trials at 15 had those or copies of those! Also really light and surprisingly good. Think John Shrewsbury uses one on the front too... Already available . Arrived in the country last Wednesday I think and are available through TartyBikes among others .

I never use any form of LBS for anything. Ever. With about £20 of bike specific tools you can do absolutely anything, and you won't be wallet raped everytime something goes wrong. But yeah, follow the instructions in here (except 15 years later (sorry 15YL)) and you're laughing .

I've even treated myself to some new tyres for the first time in 18 months! Woo!

Ah, but it's better to combine the both... Be respected for your riding and ride a pimp ass steed .

Not true (click me). I expect TartyBikes would be able to get hold of one of these for you if you ask nicely .

Socrates? Or was it Aristotle?

How did they get Mr Tumnus to pose for that image on the front page? Agree with Tomm that there needs to be more segregation/better differentiation between the 20" and 26" stuff.

Awesome riding from Ali- that's one seriously crazy line! Good job! Oh, and mad skillz from Boon too...

Oh Mark, Mark, Mark... Scarily enough I even Googled the Games-Workshop site to check that Warhammer wasn't something I was making up in the first place!!

No chance! I was shocked and appauled by the price of the XTP when it first came out and will probably never pay more than £400 for a trials frame, at an absolute maximum. I got the 221Pr and upgraded it slightly and it's lasted me over 18 months and still going strong. Plus I could buy 4 Pr frames for the price of 1 Ti... it just doesn't seem worth it for how I ride and what I use the bike for. Again with the Kamel, I like the design but would never pay that much for a frame. Hopefully the 220 Kamel will come in at a more reasonable amount... we'll see.

Totally agree. Saw a load 'cruising' along the A31 last year, holding up a massive queue of traffic while looking like complete twats in their anoraks. Sorry to those who like the 'mod' scene but it really is incredibly sad...like warhammer sad...

Yeah, fair enough. What I'm getting at is that people will pay the money to have something which is reasonably well thought out, light and (most importantly) seen to be optimum machine for the job, probably because someone like Kenny Belaey, Vincent Hermance or whoever ride it. However, those with a bit more sense (like me!) buy the 221Pr which is under a kilo heavier than the Ti, yet has the same geometry and will (possibly has?) outlast any 221Ti... Which is why I'm waiting to find out when the 220 Kamel will be released and how much it will cost becuse f**k paying £950 for some aluminium tubing!

See, without a violent bone in my body, I'd still want to punch whoever rides something like that: Just...why? Surely that can't look good or cool to anyone with a brain, plus it's entirely pointless and even makes it useless as a bike because you end up the width of a f**cking car!

I just don't get scooters. Why would you volantarily choose to ride one of those when you could ride a motorbike? All the crap that people bolt on is just stupid too. Like the stock looking custom painted Vespas are fair enough (if you like that sort of thing) but what the hell is with all those dumbass mirrors? They actually make me a bit angry for their completely pointlessness. I'm obviously just a 'rocker' at heart and would just be laughing and pointing if a mod ever rode past on one of those heaps... Each to their own I guess.

And you ride that in public... in Croydon?! Brave man...