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How did that happen? Is that an Inspired bike? to be honest the Clean street bike is their first foray into Street bikes and I couldn't find any reviews so for all I know it could snap on the first ride...

The Inspired is a little heavier and several bits of it are objectively beefier, so that's what I'm leaning towards.

A triangle is a truss, which is an inherently stable structure because all sides support each other in tension and compression. Any external force is distributed across all three members. As long as the lengths of the three members are fixed, the structure won't change shape, so it's inherently very stiff. In comparison, in a 4-member structure (like the Clean bike where you have the seat tube, chain stay, seat stay, dropout) both the angles and the lengths of all members must be fixed for it to retain its shape. The lengths of the members are inherently fixed, but the angles are not unless there is some kind of bracing. In this case the welds are what prevent the four-sided structure from deforming, so I'd assume the welds experience greater stresses in this configuration.

Has anyone had bad experiences frames that look like the red frame? The chain stay and the seat stay welds don't meet so in theory the black frame in the second pic would be stiffer and stronger.

Hi folks, after searching high and low I couldn't find anything on the bike in this video, is it a prototype/custom build? Any info appreciated, cheers.

will get there... eventually

That's pretty much what I'm going to do except there's no rear rack so using the seat post instead

ok 2 miles was what they told me, just checked the map, it's actually 4.5 miles lol those cheeky f*cks. Anyway I'm onto it, got some ideas from your replies, including---you guessed it---ben_travis's gif. Bought this clamp for about 3 quid and other bits which are on their way, I'm sure you can see where this is going. By the way here in China we have loads of public bikes so the plan is to grab one of those, slap the tow bar on, then when I get to my destination take it off and throw it in my bag, so I don't need to worry about a second bike.

Unless people are waiting for you at the end of 4 miles

Yeah I just prefer to spend my time riding trials than commuting. Maybe it was more than two miles though, took me nearly 40 minutes to get there. Overthinking looks like... Ali C has got a van

I need to come up with something. There are too many unexplored riding spots out there...

Yesterday my MTB mates invited me to join them in their town ride, about 2 miles from where I live. 2 bloody miles?? I told them it was too far to ride out on a trials bike, but then I was called a p*ssy so I pretty much had no choice. After all, nobody is going to give me a medal for not turning up, and two hours later I was on my way to the spot. As I had anticipated, it was a ton of fun once I got there, but the getting from A to B and then from B back to A after a 4-hour ride was pretty painful. Riding new spots is always fun so I thought there must be a way to tow a trials bike behind a regular bike. I have some ideas how I could hook it up to the seat post of an MTB, but I'm not sure that would work well in practice, has anyone here ever done something like this? cheers

For the time being I'm sticking to mod, mainly because my flat is tiny and I'd have nowhere to put another bike. Although I've been toying with the idea of getting an Inspired, after watching Ali C and Duncan's vids, those bikes really seem like a lot of fun

Flat vs slight downward slope, what's the word?

I'll crank up the PSI before tomorrow's ride. For pure trials riding manuals probably aren't particularly useful, but they look sick.