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I've got the Arcade frame kit built up with primarily Skye Mk1 parts and agree with all of that. I rode 'proper' trials demos on it at the weekend and wasn't far off what the other guys were doing on pogo sticks but it's also happy blasting round a pump track or at the skate park. I also got the frame kit from Free Flow and they were really good and if it's of any interest (pun intended) the 0% can be done on up to 36 months. I did 18 months on the frame kit just because I could. Out of interest where does the 15% discount come from?

Or is it a post mount setup that doesn't give you enough lateral movement? If that's the case I'd probably stick some washers between the rotor and hub shell.

For info the funeral will be on the 5th August at Portchester crematorium (South chapel) at 1230. Dress is smart casual. RIP Dan

Blatantly not Jack posting due to the correct spelling and grammar (pretty much).

Have you seen the stuff Dan Brooker puts on Facebook? He's got some serious patience!

So clerict, thoughts on Vladimir Putin?

Yarp.

Maybe it's a difference in apparent difficulty and how impressive something looks. Taking those two examples if someone had said to me 10 years ago 'you know what, in ten years someone will do a shove-it to wallride' I'd have been surprised that no-one's done it before and now I've seen it I'm pretty underwhelmed. Maybe it's the risk element? Seeing people that have the bottle (stupidity?) to do some of the stuff they're doing on BMX is crazy. The potential outcome if things go wrong when doing a 3-whip down a big stair set or doing a barspin to icepick down a big set or doing a double peg to front flip makes those moves (and therefore videos) far more impressive to watch than the skate world where things tend to be a fair bit 'tamer'. I know the risk of things going wrong and injury is probably far, far higher for skaters but it doesn't stop it from looking far less impressive (in my opinion!).

Pretty much, yeah. Put it this way I don't think I've watched a single 'recent' skateboard video that's made the think 'what the hell, that can't even be possible' whereas in BMX I think that regularly (double peg to front flip, front flip down a set of stairs, crazy brakeless nose manuals etc.) or even trials (Danny Mac with his smack-your-front-wheel-into-a-signpost-front-flip or the Road Party vids). Skateboarding's just kinda stale in my book and has been for years. But then I'm probably wrong!

Grip in the endless grey, wet, snowy Russian tundra?

I'm sure that's not even possible! See the car thread for a list of appropriate words to use for your housemate.

Being weird on a skateboard does not a progression make! I know what you're saying but when it comes down to it it's still people doing the same stuff in unusual ways or unusual places. If you look at BMXing they're doing stuff these days that people just wouldn't dream of 5 or 10 years ago but skating due to the very nature of the board and the limitations due to how it's used has a limit as to what's possible which from what I can see was reached a long time ago.

He'd discovered motocross and downhill last I heard. And looking at his facebook also mototrials, BMX, surfing and testicle piercing...

It's still just the same moves of old- kickflip, 360 flip, wall ride and whatever. From what I've seen I don't think anyone's actually come up with a new trick for the past 20 years. I have massive respect for what they're doing 'cos f**k is skateboarding well difficult but Rodney Mullen was doing similar stuff to Daewon when the latter was still in nappies!

Yup, that's more like it!

Skateboarding seems to have totally stalled in terms of progression. The stuff people are doing today seems identical to what they were doing 10/20 years ago... I guess there's a fairly hard limit of what's possible when compared to BMXing where people are doing more and more silly things.

I got plastic pedals. I then drilled and tapped them to take M4 capheads as pins. Just because they were brown. Ha.

But then Cav seems to be more of a bell end than Brad!

Shows you how much I know about metallurgy!

Not necessarily the case. Lighter wheels aid acceleration (and climbing of course) but heavier wheels will help you maintain a higher speed due to the extra inertia/momentum. Just finished reading 'The Hour' by Michael Hutchinson and some people deliberately ran heavier wheels for their attempts to help maintain the speed once there.

Ah, the infamous 'on the piss' exhaust

If you do attempt bending it use a bit of heat otherwise that's just gonna crack and snap off I'd say.

I am

Still in the manufacturing process . 9 month lead time on the components y'know!

How times change... Apparently it's now down to ~1.7 in the UK which weirdly is exactly what I currently have.