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How do you know that? Was it because of the video's comment: "from EARTHED III Europa"?

Old old old old old. But really good Think it was posted in the brakeless vid thread a couple of months back. I'd never seen it before that though os there you go.

Couple from when a good friend (and uni supervisor) was killed Kitesurfing last year... Blink 182 'I miss you' was played a lot around that time and one which isn't really a sentimental track but something I'll never forget is 50 Cent 'What Up Gangsta' which was played at his funeral while everyone walked out past his coffin (complete with kite surfing board on top), not because he or his wife liked it, purely to catch people off guard and put a smile on peoples faces. Can't watch Edwin's part in Can I Eat? now without thinking of Charlie

I'd really like to see my shin bone without any flesh on it... I reckon if someone from Time Team looked at it in a few hundred years time they'd conclude I was victim to some nasty form of torture. They've really taken a thrashing over the years!

Yeah but why not?! It's still a trials bike... Nowt wrong with a bit of dirty deng.

No comment. Except that Canadians are weird.

I think I'm more 'comfortable' on my Inspired than any other trials bike I've ever had. For whatever reason, it just allows me to do everything I want, from 45+" pop manuals, 50" odd backwheels and straight up to fronts, 45+" sidehops etc as well as wallrides, spins and anything else you care to throw at it. Plus it's one sexy mofo of a frame! Set up wise, it's up to you really, I'm running an ENO FFW setup (controversial!) singlespeed with a shortish stem and hi rise bars, Echo Control forks etc and find it perfect for me. Other more fashion victim types () will try and avoid deng like the plague and stick to conventional Profile/Hope hub setups with middleburns and the like. Do what you want and enjoy it, because believe me, you will!!

Always kept mine in my room, except when I knew there were going to be room inspections. Never had any hassle, just had to be a little careful hauling it up and down the stairs. Another option is to keep the wheels off when in your room and if anyone moans just say you're fixing it or whatever. Know people who did that but then stored the whole lot in their wardrobe too... Be wary of bike 'cages' and the liek at Unis- a few times while I was an undergrad professional criminals just cut holes out of the cage, cut the locks and knicked thousands of pounds worth of bikes. Not good.

Thanks Looks like it might be a preproduction/random booster/being run upside down to how the designer originally intended... pic from Henbikes:

If you look at your brake under pressure though, without a booster the brake kind of pivots about the frame mounts, i.e. frame flexes outwards but also the bolts can flex to allow the whole cyclinders to rotate slightly about the mounting point. By putting the booster so it 'sandwiches' the cylinders with the frame, you'll help reduce both frame and bolt flex more efficiently. That's how I've always thought of it anyway.

Come on, it wasn't exactly the worlds greatest 'Trials Chat' thread in the first place was it? It would be vaguely acceptable in random small questions but still unecessary as it's been answered many times over anyway. Meh. In.

Wembley.

Has he not dented the chainstays yet? Or snapped them for that matter?... I had two Revell mod frames, both dented badly at the bashguard mount on the chainstays the first time I rode them and the first one eventually snapped after being modded and rewelded at the factory. Me no likey (the mod that is). Edit: Thems a lot of stem stackers...

Can I just apologise to Mr HEN bikes... I know all my posts have been kind of nit picky but I'm a bit of a perfectionist and like to understand things like the brake and have a bit of an eye for picking out minor issues in designs... Just think of it as a bit of constructive criticism to try and help.

Just looking at this again... Can I suggest that you sort out the booster/clamp design so it actually sits on the frame? That looks like a problem waiting to happen to me...

Inspired for the mf win

Helicoil

Monty. Had mine for 18 months and still going strong, although I'm about to replace them as the bike's now only used for comps and the edges have rounded off a bit too much for my liking. Still plenty of tread left though which would be perfectly ok on street and rocks.

Did you get a puncture on that gap near the start? Thought I heard it go!

It's my girlfriends mum's 50th and the whole family are going down to Dartmoor for the weekend. Been planned for ages so can't get out of it I'm afraid. A real shame because I love attending the DJ rides. Sorry peeps.

Crap balls and booooooooooooo... Can't make the 7th Sorry peeps.

Cheers for all the comments Unfortunately I managed to kill my Echo forged cranks today so it's time for a minor upgrade (thinking Trialtech may be the future...) and have also whacked on a 90x20deg Easton EA50 stem to see how it feels compared to the Simtra.

Ok so for some reason I'd got it in my head that the demo was today (Sunday) not Saturday... otherwise I'd have probably popped along. Sorry guys!

All these 'give 'em a smack' or 'just tell 'em to f**k off' responses to people asking daft questions doesn't do yourselves or the sport any good. Obviously sometimes such questions come from arsehole chav's trying to get a rise but half the time it's from just random Joe Public's who simply don't know what they're looking at. In which cases I always try and be polite and helpful and try and educate them a bit as to the way of trials. Just helps to stop people seeing us as mouthy little twats who are commiting a sort of social disorder via vandalism. The fact that '15 years later' falls off a wall if someone talks to you is something you need to deal with seperately... I often have conversations while doing silly things on my bike, even while 'concentrating' in the middle of a comp section.

I blame Prawn.