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The Raid is a budget(ish) street/24" cruiser/park/jump bike. From the looks of it it is in no way designed for trials in any shape or form. The License however is a do everything trials bike, for use on the street, at the park, natural etc but leaning more heavily towards street trials rather than pure street. I'm guessing that the License will be mainly available as a frame only like the ET was and like the Justice is, although pimped Martyn replica full builds probably aren't out of the question. That's my take anyway. Edit: Oh yeah, and Martyn said on Monday that he was hoping for a release of around October. Dave

I used Smart Guys on my T-Rex for around a year with a Hope Trial brake with absloutely no problems whatever. Really good forks if a little weighty and seriously ugly!! Dave

Haven't found any more pics yet... The blurb from Tim: ...when planets correctly align.... ***. Who/what is ***? Frank The Welder. This year to be inducted into Mountian Bike Hall of Fame. Why? Because the man knows frame design and construction like few other on the planet. Intrigued by the sport of trials, Frank has taken a clean sheet of paper and designed something that is intuitively logical. Strength, stiffness and simplicity of design are hallmarks of a great trials frame, and here we have an example like no other. Pics are of prototypes, more details to follow. What we can tell you is that for hand built in USA frames they will be quite reasonable (somewhere around $825), come in one color (hey....we are selling a precision competition machine, not lipstick fashion) and feature engineer principles versus buzz words. A couple of cool features that will be announced shortly. Look for Frank to be welding them up sometime this fall, the initial run being limited to approx 25 for world wide consumption. Geometry to be something like 72 degree headtube angle, 378 chainstays, 15mm up BB and 1080 wheelbase. If you want to know more, call us or zip an e-mail. Dave

*** Can be deleted as Tim's made a proper topic in the News section here. *** Sorry if this is a repost (I did search and found nowt). Anyway, I've just been on Trialsin.com and Tim's put up a couple of interesting pictures of a new frame in the prototype stages from 'Frank the Welder'... The second one expecially gives the impression of (quite) a unique design kinda like the Vario Styx. Dave

This is already over in the 'random pics' thread but I likes it! I appologise for the pants quality but the original's too big for imageshack to handle. Dave

Of course. It's just I've been keeping an eye on ebay for Zoots and the only ones it ever comes up with (including when I searched after you mentioned the one here) are the ones Supercycles sell... Just confused me a bit. Good luck anyway! Dave

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Any chance of a link? The only ones I've seen on ebay are the ones being sold by Supercycles at £449 which is only £100 less than what TB are doing them at. There are however a few differences I can see like the bar and stem but are these the ones you mean? Dave

I'd say that was more than a few holes... The holes help with heat dissipation and water/mud clearance but also some manufacturers seem to go for the 'less surface area=more pressure' route. If you want to give it a try, go for it and post your results. be careful when drilling though because the discs are pretty hard steel and the Marta rotors don't have much room for error!! Dave

Yeah but we all know he's insanely good at balance beams. But then I also saw Ohler riding onto the bike rail from the side and linking another few moves from that. Leech has just never really done it for me... probably stemming from Revolution where he always lands like a sack of spuds! Dave edit: How do you know these things Johnny?!! Your knowledge of cameras/lenses etc is insane!!

Seemed to be Thomas riding like an absolute beast, riding seriously cool lines including big moves and Leech doing a blunt... Going against the majority of the trials community here but I've never really rated Leech that much and that vid didn't do much to improve my view. Thomas though... sick!

Seriously cool video Jonny- you really managed to capture the day well. Awesome as ever. Dave And it was a silly game... was just jealous that I was having lunch when the first few pallets went on otherwise I'd have been up there too!

I thnk you'll find that Dougie rides mototrials...

This thread is doing a great injustice for camp sounding Scotsmen...

It was made for Channel 5 and then repeated many times on Challenge TV. Filmed back in 2001. Never found any pictures or videos online though. Have my one and the one with Tibeaux Moreaux (Sorry for the spelling Tibo!) but don't think I ever saw the one with Martyn Ashton in it. I have a few pics of the course at home (Scotland) where I happen to be going today so could scan them in and post them up if anyone's interested. The organiser was keen to run the program as trials only the following year but the UK people in charge weren't up for it so he was going to take it to the Germans or something if I remember correctly. Fraz Milloy was also on it (OldSkoolKool on here in NMC) being very cheesy. Crazy day. I was up against Rich Johnson, Eddie Tongue, Chris Ackrigg, Ian Cooper etc etc and never expected to do any good though. I do kinda wish I'd done something with the win though- with the publicity and stuff I could probably have got a good sponsor deal out of it but I was about to go to uni and just kinda rested on my laurels!!

That's gotta be 'shopped?! Must be unstable as hell... like ridin a bloody penny farthing downhill!

Damn those forks are fugly... Looks nice other than that. Dave

Plus name of account holder and branch location. Think that's it...

Yeah, I just found that in the angry thread... damn him!!

Don't you love Uni connections? Mwahaha

Do you mean that everything was easier on the A1? I remember a few things being easier, some things just being 'different'. I went from an Onza T-Rex (woodstock spec) to the A1 and did like it but didn't really notice a massive difference. Dave

I really liked mine. Didn't mind grinding the Tensiles and it happily took my 2.5" with a few mm either side to spare. Wayne just doesn't like anything that isn't French

So how come I ran a Maxxis High Roller 2.5" in my A1 without any problems?

Agreed. Also pretty sure it wasn't really a crap back brake stopping you keeping it edit: Also agree that tapping, when you do it, really isn't the way to go on mod. You can pedal up to back wheel over 50" quite easliy on a mod and bunnyhop even higher with a good run in.