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There can be only 2 and Dirt was a pure classic and the guy on the cover actually died not long after it was made after crashing his Harley not far from here. He was called Jason Mcroy an was a proper mtbing hero as well, check his website at www.jasonmcroy.com, be impressed if you can get hold of Dirt as was a freebie vid on MBUK in the early 90's an very rare now. Think they wanted to reproduce it on dvd but were struggling to get hold of the master copy to burn them from!

Read the rules

For that amount you could start from scratch and build your own bike up, thats what I'd do if I had the spondoolies at hand!

Thats an old trick, get an old inner tube, cut it open an line your tyre with it, really good for stoppin pinch flats! Might help a bit but its not very strong that way, its strength is how sticky it is. Remember my old rockhopper I could guarantee at least 1 puncture a day no matter how small the things I rode, turned out to be a problem with the rims as once I switched them the problem went away!

Too right, remember snipping the teeth of my middle chainring to use as makeshift bashguard until my dads mate could make me summat out of stainless! Still got it as well I think in ma dads garage, gonna have a look tomorrow night when I finish work. He made me a bashring for using smallest chainring and one for using middle as well for when I was riding quite far! Yeah that prob was us, round about 98/99. Used to ride a lot in Whaley as thats where 3 of my mates lived and my cousin lived in New Mills so used to bod about round there an down the Torrs! I found an old mavic wheel in my mates shed he said I could have, lasted bout 2 days before I pretzelled it sidehopping off a 5ft wall so I took the STX-RC hub an had it built into a new wheel! Proper budgeteering!!

Whatever takes your fancy, no rules regarding what you should and shouldn't have. My mate used to ride with a leopard print one, an I always wanted a union jack seat!!

Aye, I started on a 13" Rockhopper, my cousin on a mk1 Azonic DS1, two of my mates on old 14" Zascar and one on a 14" Kona! Proper oldskool, make it up as you go along!!

Here's the pics, poor quality as taken with my iphone!

Come on mate its not hard, magura website, downloads, instruction manual, job done! http://www.magura.com/uploads/media/downlo...rakes__09_E.pdf

Aluminium differs greatly, remember showing a stem I snapped to a guy who used to work as an engineer for Mercedes and he saw what was wrong with it straight away, if its made cheaply the compound isn't smooth and thats when things snap. Look at the surface where the forks snapped and see if the metal looks good or all bubbled an horrible, that'll show you the quality of the materials.

Surely its just street bmx then? Not being a fan of bmx I can't be sure!

I'd have dropped him aswell!!

This is quite true! Boo, hiss, read the rules, this is no place for advertising, ban him, etc, etc......

Should have nutted him on the basis that he'd grabbed your bike and was probably gonna nick it. Then sell your story to The Sun, I can see it now, Police no longer required after brave cyclist tackles 7ft 18st mugger!

Update. My wheels came from Tartys yesterday, superb service, so I took them to my dads to try them on (the bike, not me) and found that as the frame is so old the dropouts for the axles are a bit too small to take the new wheels so they'll need fettling with. Managed to take some pics though which I'll post when I get home, next step is grinding out the dropouts so the wheels fit nice, adapting the Tensile maggy mounts to work on a V mount so the rear wheel actually fits and stealing back my IRC Kujo's off my dads bike!!

Possibly the most unPC thread ever? Why not also ban crap riders aswell for making the sport look bad!

Was gonna say you've got one hell of a mix and match goin on with them!

Must have loved them to have so many!

Don't you worry bout that, she'll work like a dream, besides its the only thing I can do as had already bought the rear magura an couldn't afford to change for a rear disc. Just one of the problems of rebuilding an old frame but anything can be overcome. If people are making headtube extensions and pulling it off sorting the mounts will be a piece of piss!

Finally took some pics of my bike if you could call it that?! Currently running an old (bout 7-8 years) Heavy Tools Trials frame, FSA headset (whatever was popular back then), unbranded forks, Specialized stem (off my dead Rockhopper), Azonic World Force risers and a new Magura on the back. Due for delivery next week is my Echo TR hub and rim wheel builds and Tensile offset maggy mounts so the back wheel will fit! I'm deffo gonna be a fashion victim with this build aswell but pics of her with the wheels on will reveal that! Will hopefully get it weighed at some point, probably when the wheels come to see how heavy its getting for all the weight weenies to laugh at! Opinions welcomed

I go commando, will this help?

Not sure who made them but I remember years ago someone brought out some HUGE caged pedals that were bout twice the size of standard ones

Bearing in mind it is almost a 15" frame, and from Heavy Tools you wouldn't expect much less!

Started off on an unbranded frame I got from chainreaction or someone and originally used for bit of XCing. First bike I bought specifically for trials was a 13" Spec Rockhopper which was superb but got snapped on some dirt jumps we made. Was well gutted as it was superb, everyone including the bloke at JE James told me at the time that it was too small but I argued it was perfect, had the cheapest yet greatest front V in the world as well!

Not sure how much mine weighs but this thread intrigues me so gonna nip down ma dads later and weigh it (without wheels and drivetrain however) but I believe the frame is supposed to be about 2.23kg, not sure if thats good or bad?!