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I should have weighed it when unpacking it but forgot to. It's not particularly light. About the only part of the bike that shows any concern at all for weight is the seat post, which was trimmed down to minimal length. Everything else appears to be all about strength/durability. I'd say it's slightly (maybe 1 pound?) heavier than my green Inspired.

Photos of his "blue bike" from the period the video was presumably being made -- and the April '09 video itself seem to show the bike with either the silver Echo or a (what I assume is prototype) Inspired fork in white. Obviously a lot of components were changed on/off the bike in that period and perhaps subsequently. Some things like the mixed black/silver Middleburns, Thomson stem, Diabolus bars and blue Hope hubs seem pretty consistent. The decal positions and some of the scratches/gouges in the frame I have also seem consistent with what I see in those photos and the video. Here's a pic from Facebook labeled as coming from a "01-03-09 London Ride". Although it has the Inspired fork on it, just about everything else looks like the bike I now have. There are some photos of Danny in Flickr on what appears to me to be a newer and different blue Fourplay (fewer dings/scratches and decals placed differently) in about May 2009. It has some of the green Hope stuff (headset, stem, hubs) and the orange Race Face cranks. It's a 203mm Hope (I think) rotor. It looks similar to their current "Saw" models, but the pad contact area is a more conventional, non-"serrated" design with 3 rows of simple round holes. It uses the Hope HBIS20 adapter to get the caliper spaced out to the proper position for a 203mm rotor.

Ha!... Obviously. This is (for me) a "collector piece" and not for riding. I'd prefer to think of it as 100x as good a deal as this: Lance Butterfly Bike It remains to be seen if any riding skill "karma" was accidentally shipped over with the bike. I haven't found it yet.

Yup... Danny donated it to the BBC's Children In Need "Pudsey" drive and they auctioned it on eBay. The auction listing only included some very small photos where you couldn't really see too much of the bike and its condition/setup... so it was a bit of a mystery of exactly what it would look like (setup, condition, etc.). I was very pleased that it wasn't overly "freshened up" for the auction -- in fact, the BBC never really ever had it in their possession. The auction closed at £3100. Something like "Only ridden to church on Sundays."

I recently picked this up from a guy named Danny. Full set of pics at Danny Mac Bike

I've got 15 years on you there... so here's some VERY old school. The Bike is a Cunningham -- the only trials example ever made (from about 190 total bikes). The rider is Jim Trigonis -- who competed at the top level in the US in the late 1980's. Loads of old school details here: Toe clips/straps? Those pants!?

I’m Geoff... from San Rafael, California (just north of San Francisco). I’m a long-time admirer/follower of trials -- but brand new in terms of actually having a suitable bike and trying it for myself. As a college student in Durango, Colorado in the mid-80’s, I was fortunate to see many of the early mountain bike racing legends in their prime -- Overend, Tomac, etc. I latched on to mountain biking in a big way and began a now 25 year love for biking and bikes. In particular, I love the bikes themselves -- and especially the work of MTB pioneers Charlie Cunningham and Steve Potts. Trials were often an associated event or “stage” at those early races and it was always some of the best spectating. While legends like Ot Pi and Hans Rey were great to see, I especially liked those riders on interesting and/or one-off bikes from the really great MTB builders: Jim Trigonis (Cunningham), Andy Grayson (Ibis), and Aaron Faust (One-Off, Willits). A combination of a desire to improve my MTB bike handling skills and the mind-blowing videos from Danny M. conspired to have me finally break down and get a trials bike: an Inspired Fourplay -- hopefully winging its way from the guys at TartyBikes to me sometime next week.