Luke Dunstan

Sorry only just seen this, would be well up for joining. cheers!

Evening all. bought a brand new hs33 and did a water bleed, not used the bike since and it’s been sat inside for a few months. Now when I squeeze the lever it sticks pretty much every time until you squeeze it a little again. is there a simple solution to to sort it, or will it need a full bleed with the proper oil? apologies if this has already been discussed a million times but I couldn’t find the answer when searching. any help appreciated.

Hey man, sorry for the late reply to this. so much has changed in 10 years. Deng going under is like a gut punch. As even though the bikes were expensive the market was pretty full of second hand parts making bike builds easy. Not so much now. ive set alerts up on eBay for anything echo/zoo related, so now it’s just a waiting game, kind of like fishing 🤔

So bought a second hand Ozonys last week, couldn’t wait to use it. first thing that happened is the hs33 lever jammed up, luckily have a mate who donated some racelines. then went to use it for the first time yesterday and the bottom bracket was loose. The tool I bought didn’t reach the teeth on the BB. After a trip to decathlon they took both cranks off and tightened it right up. turns out the chap there used to ride a DDG Shooter back in the day and might have loads of Magura spares still kicking about, swapped numbers so well worth the trip. get home and just giving it a test roll in the street and the chain snaps 😂😂😂 new chain arrives today so fingers crossed nothing else goes wrong 🤞🤞🤞 RingVideo_20240713_103547.mov

Hi all. been away for about 10 years, got married, had a kid and the usual 30s stuff. hope all of you are doing okay. I bought an echo to get back into it, but struggling to find Echo Urban forks. In fact looking on the normal go-to trials store here in the UK it looks like there isn’t half as much choice as there used to be. can anyone fill me in on what the current landscape is? what’s been going on in the last decade? Edit: so Tarty has new owners. Echo/Zoo is dead and Onza moved on from trials. 😢😢😢

Still a few riders in Swindon, just started back after 10 years out and live in Wantage. Not too far away at all

Would say a Fiat Ducato or Peugeot Boxxer is a great idea, they’re a little wider so you can get a standard length mattress in sideways which is great for layout designs.

I like the look of it. Magura could do with some competition.

Hey everyone. Looking at upgrading the old grim astra for a newer one. Can anyone tell me if this car is any good?? http://www.motors.co.uk/car-39715431/sp

Now this is my kind of old school. (Y)

Snip

Other peoples perception of "Old School" make me feel old.

Then I'm one of those people that annoy you. Apologies.

Pinkbike is full of bibbles. I left an ad up for a bike I was selling over a year ago and I got an email asking if it was still available.

Oooh I had a creepy experience a few months back. My mum lives in an old farm house which is above a small caving network up on the Mendips between Bristol/Bath. It's in the middle of nowhere and seems to always be in the clouds. I was visiting with my GF at the time and we popped out to pick some blackberries whilst everyone was out. After about 5 minutes we heard what sounded like someone wailing, a really horrible noise but 99% certain it was made by a human. Ran in the direction of the noise and started shouting out to see if anyone needed help but couldn't find anyone, even searched near the cave entrance but found nothing except for a herd of cows which looked a little confused. We carried on picking blackberries putting the strange noise down to the cows even though I wasn't convinced. We started walking down a very thin trail which was surrounded by dying bracken and brambles which was about 3-4ft high when my senses went into overdrive (Hairs going up on end now just thinking about it). Anyway, I could just sense that we were being watched or that someone else was nearby, at the same time we both started to get a feint whiff of mothballs/old unwashed human smell which is unmistakable, I'm sure you've all got the same smell from an elderly relative or a homeless person. Again I started calling out, asking if anyone was there, the undergrowth was that thick that somebody could have been untying my shoelaces without me noticing, we found nobody and both being freaked out headed back to the house. To this day, I still know something wasn't right. My theories are either a homeless man was running about on the Mendips for no good reason. (Doubtful as it's nowhere near anywhere worth setting up get food/shelter. Only other thing it could have been is someone in the cave network, though the cave entrance was locked up and nobody was meant to be there that weekend to use it.