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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?!

Already ordered

To be fair, if you saw him (and I use the term fairly loosely) walking down the street you'd probably think 'artist' or 'poet'... together with a few other stereotypical derogatory comments I won't mention here Is he really calling chavs romantic heroes?...

Meh. I'm perfectly happy with XP and couldn't see a single advantage to Vista, particularly when it's fairly new. In a year when they fix all the bugs and release a Service Pack or two maybe I'll reinstall it. If the security is better, it's only until the hackers and virus people haven't had it long enough to expose the weaknesses. To clarify a bit, my GF's laptop is one of the cheap HP ones going for £299 on ebuyer with 512k RAM. When the box was opened the first thing we saw was the notice from HP saying that to run Vista MS recommends at least 2gb...

My GF's new laptop came with it installed and I couldn't see anything that was better or easier than XP. The main differences I noted were 1) It slowed the computer down loads because it's so damn memory intensive and 2) Every time you click on anything it pops up asking you if you're sure you want to do that and flagging up possible security issues. Wasn't having any of that so wiped it clean and put XP on instead...

Right click on the desktop and then select 'Personalise desktop' or something along those lines. Alternatively remove that Vista cr@p and install XP again...

It's definitely a bit Marmite. Personally I think it looks really nice. The hump is a bit wierd but the rest of the bike is sexay. How long before they use the design on a Pr level bike though 'cos there's no frickin' way I'm spending £600 on a bicycle frame!!

Strange question!! I really enjoy watching both. I've skateboarded and BMX'ed in my time and have to say that skateboarding is seriously difficult to get any good at. I have sooooo much respect for someone like Rodney Mullen it's unreal. Proper BMXers are also incredibly skilled and stupidly ballsy. Love watching BMX vids. I think you need to add 'inline skating' to the poll though 'cos that would get my vote. I used to be an 'aggressive inline skater' in my yoof and really enjoyed it but watching the X-Games 10 years later and nothing's progressed. The stuff you see today is exactly what Arlo Eisenburg (great name!) was doing back then. There's only so much you can do when you're attached to the skates. Meh.

Cheers m' dears, have bought myself some hi rise (2") Easton EA30's and a pimp 20mm carbon headset spacer to finish the bike off.

What's the concensus on bars? Would need to be 31.8 clamp and preferably have the same sort of sweep and rise as Onza Carbon risers (!). Are Easton EA30/50's strong enough for trials stuff? What about the Wingbars as mentioned above? Other options? Daylight pic: Dave

Completely depends on gearing. Saying a rally car can only do 90mph is silly- they will be geared to only hit 90 if the rally demands it. However in somewhere like Sweden speeds can hit 120-130mph. If you were to use a standard power WRC car on a tarmac runway I'd guess it could hit 100mph in around 5-6 seconds.

I know this thread was pretty much dead but would like to share: One of a few he signed for me. Got Jimmy's and Alistair's too. Part of a massive collection of my dad and I's including everyone from Ayrton Senna and Nigel Mansell to Graham Hill and Jacky Ickx. Dave

As I said last night... bar steward

I think you're right. The Zoot has lower bars than my Monty at the moment... even with about 20mm of stackers! Reckon the Adamant bars may go onto the Monty and I'll get some big rise beasts from CRC...

Silly boy, you make it sound like I've actually ridden it!! Rear brake's a bit dead so won't really be able to play properly 'til Friday at the earliest. The Adamant bars are seriously low rise which is a bit annoying but hopefully with a few stem spacers it'll even itself out. Yeah, still rippin' the Monty, will keep it and ride it on natural and at comps but reckon I'll have more fun on the streets with the Zoot.

That's actually the main reason I'm trying 24". I used to ride BMX but always wanted to be able to do trialsy stuff as well. I reckon with this I can mess around down the skate park and play at more streety stuff with manuals, wall rides etc as well as doing the usual trials stuff. Still got the Monty PR for comps but will probably play on this most of the time between them. Dave

Haha, easy fella!!! Now I just need to sort out a new rear brake lever 'cos the body on mine's cracked and the lever blade's proper fooked... any offers?! Forgot to add the Viz white rim tape for pimp value... Dave Edit: Thanks to Samdoman for sorting me out with a brake

Ok, so for messing about on I decided to give this 24" thing a go. Bought a Zoot off of Spunky Monkey Boy on here and, well, it was a bit of a heap to be honest so I had to pimp it up a bit. Let me know what you think. From this... To this... Main changes are a new paint job (not 100% on the colour, expected something a little paler and lighter), Echo 07 rear hub, echo forged cranks, ENO, GU bash, modded threshold booster, Simtra stem and Adamant bars... think that's about it... Anyway, leave some comments please! Big thanks to TartyBikes for sorting me out with all the bits (the stickers will be going on once the paint's dried ) Dave Edit: Sorry for the poop pictures, will get some proper one's in daylight when I get the chance.

I'll sponsor you if you cycle the 140 miles in two days on a trials bike Chris...

Some really nice locations there and nice tech natural lines pulled smoothly as I'd expect from Dan! See you on Sunday

Very very sad news. Especially that his 5 year old son and 6 year old friend were killed too. Just Tragic. My thoughts are with Alison, Jimmy, Alistair and the rest of the McRae Clan. RIP to a legend. "Those who risk nothing, do nothing, achieve nothing, become nothing." David Jeffries.