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Nope, when you undo the 5mm allen bolt that holds the lever blade onto the lever body the blade will come away without going near the piston or water/oil. Would be a straight swap for the red plastic one which should take about 15mins max.

Hey dude, I've been riding for nearly 10 years (eek) and just got myself this to play on and so far really love it! Seems a really fun mix between proper trials and street. It bunnyhops like a beast and is nice for manuals, wallrides etc but I can also backwheel ~50" and sidehop ~48" just messing about. So yeah, good bike! You may want to upgrade the cranks and possibly rear hub but other than that it's a cracker! Dave

New style lever? If so they do that. Threads in the plastic red bit mess up and the TPA screws up. Buy a 74Kingz thingy.

Nice vid- those sections looked pretty extreme! Damn those boys are good... I've never understood the UCI events... ok so Kenny won every single UCI World Cup round this year and is World Champion... but Vincent won the UCI World Championships so he's also World Champion... That always bugged me about the downhill stuff too. Ah well, congratulations to Kenny for a clean sweep of the real championship!! And also well done to Ali C!

Website says £6.40. Woo. Hoo.

Local bike shops are rip off merchants...They'd probably charge you a fiver to do it. As you say, just buy some loctite and do it yourself and you're sorted. Maybe you could then charge your mates £5 each to do theirs

I've won... something. Got two main numbers and one of the random star numbers which apparently means I win something but the site haasn't updated the prize allocations yet. Not expecting much!

Just whack some threadlock on the bolts and do the cranks up good and tight. Should do the job. Dave

Just bought a few tickets... not gonna win if you don't try! Can't even start to imagine having access to that much money but hell would it be good!!

Ok, new forks added 'cos the ones Spunkey Monkey Boy sold with the bike were cracked . Also got the EA30's on now and changed the tyres to something a little more 'streety' (still not sure about the front as it's a cheap Tioga Comp III 2.125 but seems to do the job, may end up getting a 2.4 Moto for the rear and sticking the 2.2 on the front... good idea?). More comments welcome. Dave

I've used them a few times (actually got some bars and a stem stacker coming tomorrow) and most of time their on a par with CRC. One thing to note is that all my emails from them went to my Junk folder in Hotmail so be sure to check... For this order they didn't tell me they were having to order the bars in from Easton direct but when I phoned they let me know the score and all was well again! Dave Edit: Oh yeah, and Samdoman... cheers for the brake- got it on and set up and it works perfectly!

The amount of power you have is just silly. Doesn't even look like you're trying for most of those sidehops and bunnyhops!! Also Kenny is so damn good at bouncing over people!! He must practice that a lot... Awesome vid!

Jim Conner but from what I've heard he doesn't like just letting anyone go up there who he doesn't know so it's best if you can find someone who know's him (someone on the mototrials circuit for example) who can ask for you...

Say what now? Last time I checked both frames are made of aluminium alloys...

So what's the other 0.5%?

I don't believe how well Andrei was riding. He got round a whole lap of yellow on 3... His total for both laps was less than everyone else managed on their first lap alone!! Incredible ride without a doubt. Well done to everyone for making another wicked trial and for making sure it stayed dry! I'm a bit annoyed I didn't manage 3rd in Senior 'cos I was fully capable of it but just made a couple of stupid mistakes. 4th isn't too bad for an old timer though I guess!

I want more more MORE!! Very nice and smooth Fred, really liked it. Dave

You can run a seat on the Zoot. As with the T-Rex frames the conversion plate type thing can be used but looks a bit... ghetto. edit:

Who do you know to get validated so quick?! With regards wheelies, there's probably stuff in the Wiki section but as a bit of advice you will never have perfect balance while wheelieing (how do you spell that?). You're always altering the fore/aft position of your body/the bike using the pedals and brakes and left/right balance is controlled with the bars and your knees. Takes time to get them dialled though like anything. Dave

Thanks for sharing

Get off your bloody high horse and shut the hell up!! Back on topic, I used to run a red Echo EM2 which came with blue stickers. I then went with blue rim tape, headset, zip ties etc and it looked pretty sweet. Usually works quite well if you pick up on the colours of the stickers on the frame or component colours. Dave

1) Chains stretch over time. One that's 4 years old (sidenote: do you want to die?! I change my chain every 3 months) will have stetched quite a bit compared to a new one. It's probably due to that stretch that it's now too tight. If you count the same number of links and then hold the chains up to each other, your old chain will probably be an inch longer than the new one. The pitch of the links will have been the same when new though. 2) I had a cheapy BB tool that wouldn't reach my ISIS cups due ot the uber long axle so bought a Race Face one. So really it should work... Did you put the BB in in the first place with the tool?! In which case you must be doing something wrong!! 3) Just get a KMC Kool chain and replace it around every 6 months and you're unlikely to kill yourself...

I've used RS Graphics before and been really pleased with what they do... Don't know if that's any use?

Loverly! Do you have a new rear rim yet Steve?!