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It's strange that in 25 years every car manufacturer has failed to beat the original hatchback for style, design, quality, and pretty much everything really.

You could walk through with a massive cool box with "BEER" written on the side, and they won't take it off you. As long as they are tinnies it's all save (Y) James

The who and Pink Floyd. I was watching slack jawed in awe at them. Both amazing, vital bands who if werent together in their prime music would probably be very different. It was amazing seeing Pink Floyd in the original line up. Very heartfelt and emotional I thought. James

I just meant a long fork as in longer than a standard rigid fork :( James

Hey Mike I think you'd be better off looking at Race Face components, Azonic, Thomson, Easton and that sort of thing. Gusset stuff is definitely aimed at the very heavy duty end of the market, I have their 3 piece cranks on my street bike. On the stem side of things I'd recommend completely the Race Face Deus stem Available here In 100mmx 15degree rise. This is the best option in my opinion as it gives you stability on the backwheel but you can still bunny hop and manual with relative ease which is massively affected by stem choice. For the handlebars look at the race face line up again, and find something that will fit your budget, another brand to look at are Answer who are well known for their Pro Taper (taperwalled tubing inside) Motorcross bars which are solid and light. You can find these here. Most people i think will recommend the Easton bars, EA50's or EA70's are the ones to go for B). On the rise side of things 2 inches is usually about right. Make sure that you get all of the above in the standard 25.4mm clamp size otherwise they won't be compatible. Fairly recently manufacturers have brought out 31.8 clamp diameter which is what most flat trials bars use (Onza, Pazzaz, Monty etc) On the forks side of things it's a hard choice, as far as I know you're going for the Hans Rey frame which the geometry will be designed to run a long sus fork on. Based on this you should probably go for some sort of suspension fork because rigid's will mess up the handling by tightening the headtube angle and lowering the bb. THESE will probably be spot on as you can very easily change the travel down to 80mm or wind it up to 120 if you wish. Personally Id run a seat, It'll just look gay on that bike otherwise and it's always nice to have a perch to sit down on rather than a piece of plastic. I'm assuming the seat tube diameter is 27.2mm on the frame so any micro adjust post and a nice XC saddle will do nicely. Any other questions just shout. James

I shaved my hair through choice and it's great. So liberating after having a full on thick bushy beast of a barnet for 3 years. I don't think I look like a nazi, mainly because I don't look arian, but even if people did call me a nazi I'd probably just ignore them. Or ethnically clense the b*****d and toast his ass.

Tell them you're a serial rapist and you can't help but piss everyone off for your own satisfaction. Then try and convince them it was your lame f**ked up humour. LOLOMGZZZZZ!!?UIHHBJ!"@!!!

Nah I was saying honda's are immense lol. Sorry I could have made it clearer James

Ahem Honda (Y)

I bet your girlfriends really attractive, what with all that beauty sleep.

It will still be extortionate on your mums insurance. Good Luck. James

The wheels are 4X100 pcd so if the current ones are then they should fit fine. The max size you should put on are 14's really as these are what come on the g40 as standard. I'm assuming you're thinking about putting R.A's on like these? It's an 8 valve digifant multi point injection engine and has about 75 hp on a 1275cc engine, they are pretty nippy but if you are looking for a "quick" car you'd be better going for a g40 mk 3 polo or a mk2 8v golf gti.

I had well long hair, which wasn't "gay" and slick like that but I got fed up and cut it off. Skin head all the way now. How they can't think it doesn't look gay is stupid. Second post in this topic I know but I was just thinking about it again. James

Sorry mate but you will never get reasonably insured on anything wit gti written on it or over 1400cc till you are at least 20. Most insurers won't touch you with a barge pole, especially on a mk2 gti!

The irony though is that they are all stereotypes. I thought it was really funny as did everyone I linked on msn, It was weird that I had this link in my msn before Tom posted this. Great minds think alike. James EDIT: My avatar says it all.

Sorry mate but I don't really like your sig pics either. I'm not gonna ever imply I could do any better but I've definately seen better. Your just look like you've merged several different pictures, added a few colour filters, and then put a transparent text box over them with the same fonts. Lets be honest mate, It's not your life we're ripping into (not that simon even was)and I'm sure if other people appreciate your sigs then you don't really care. They are all full of pikeys, ugly slags and shit cars though, whoops I said it. Someone else is having a bad day too. James

Wow I made a succesful topic. I take clarityn tablets, they seem to do the job but aren't amazing. The annoying thing about the itchy eyes is once you start you just can't stop and it makes it worse. And if you're a contact lense user like me it proper messes them up and you can't see for shit. Oh well, a few weeks and it won't be so bad. James

Rightyho I can probably speak for lots of people when I say that hayfever can absolutely ruin your spring and summer time, runny nose, streaming eyes, itchy throat, the sneezing.....It's just horrible. I bet I'm not the only one on here who is suffering epic style right now so bitch and moan here about it and let us know how you survive. What medication do people take and does anyone have any tips on helping it out? I've heard that local honey helps it out but haven't tried yet. James

Will you be riding a mans bike though dave? (Y) I'd love to enter, I'll let you all know nearer the time though as I might be away. If not - I'm there. James

Newspaper is fine usually. There's a couple of threads in the F.A.Q James

Sounds to me like she's schizo like every other girl in the world. Give her a little while, and quietly assure her you still love her etc with messages occasionally and then arrange to meet up casually. She'll come around don't worry. James

Nah that's true, I think I was getting a bit excited in my reply but you get what I mean anyhow. James

The thng is though the arent really designed for trials. Just rims picked out of a catalogue and marketed as a trials rim. They aren't designed from the ground up or anything like that and over at pulo their original intention for the products probably wasn't trials. Just clever marketing and such like has made them seem like the perfect trials rim.

On the Pimp brake side of things. I have black pads, on a dead grind, with an Oil bleed and everyone who has ridden my bike has agreed it is satisfactory for trials, people have even commented saying how it's better than their 19quid brake pad loaded, water bled maggie with 10 tonnes of booster preventing loss of power through flex. My brake: 03 Magura with Evo mounts, Standard hoses, Oil bleed, Black pads. Pashley booster Dead grind on a Tioga rim. (The grind was purely to remove the paint, have not reground since) If my brake suddenly turns shit then I will retract what I have said, but 3 months down the line on the same pads without touching the brake at all would suggest that isn't going to happen. Oh yeah, another benifit is it is pretty much silent. Thank God. I put my good brake down to a good set up and a proper bleed with the intended fluid. If anyone says it's not been ridden hard enough to see if it's good enough then I will give example of Nick Manning tapping my 24 up a 50 inch high skip to back wheel and not struggling with brake slip in any way at all. James

If any of you can actually point out the difference between any Viz, Koxx, Echo, etc etc rim in the manufacture I will be very surprised. Most of the parts are just picked out of a lovely big book with the following options. Insert Logo here. Width Type of drilling Colour Eyelets or no Eyelets. Then all the importers/companies just put in a nice big order and 3 weeks later they arrive in england on the back of a tug boat along with several other 'brands' of exactly the same rim. Any noticed the similarities between the B.T stem and the Zoo one? Or how about the really old school 'bike gas' hubs and their most recent incarnation, Viz ones. All just rebranded, mass produced shite with no actual design thought or research further than what colour shall we make them, how wide do they need to be, and shall we have Eyelets or not. It's simple as that. Ever wondered why your forks have got f**king pannier rack mounts on them? Or why they have a reflector mount at the top? It's cos' each individual bit is picked out of a book. Dropout kj6789 etc etc....Yes that's right, bits originally used on trek's and any other taiwan made consumer bike are what's keeping your teeth out of the ground, and you're paying silly amounts just because it says "Insert brand name here" on the leg with a wonkily applied sticker. If one Koxx rim takes a grind longer than a Echo one, it's very likely that Koxx were just more lucky with the quality of material used in manufacture, I mean lets be honest. Do you think Koxx use electrolisis and ultrasound to test the integrity of the metal before manufacture? If they did they wouldn't be cheap. If they aren't cheap then they don't make an extortionate profit over cost, and if they were checked like that - they might be strong which would mean people wouldn't be buying them all the time which means less money in the bank. Anyone know where the Koxx factory is? How about the echo factory? Or the Viz one? Find them for me and I guarantee they will have a nice big "Goods in" door at the back where all their products come in from the far east and are then beautifully assembled by chimps on a production line who know f**k all about bikes. The monty factory is rumored to have middle aged women putting the bikes together then chucking them in boxes and sending them out to all the clever distributors here, who are making a mint on cheap ass bikes that they know people will pay out of the arse for. You pay for them because you see the top class riders using them. It's called clever advertising. The top class riders use them because they are paid a mint to and get free bits left right and centre. The world class riders go through them all the time, you just don't realize it cos' in the back of the van there's another part they will just replace it with. At the koxx days TRA went through loads of stuff, i have been reliably informed. At the end of the day you can all go on about which rim is better, "least cheesy", and it'll be like falling down a black hole because every rider will have a different opinion or a different sponsor chucking them free bits for a good word about their 'products' on the forum. Rant over. James