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The best wishes from Germany! I very much hope he will be able to say this very soon:

One addendum: Using this technique of emphasizing throwing my head and upper body up and back, I can now coust over narrow rails, i.e. without letting the bike roll on the front wheel for a bit to support the wheel swap. Thanks again. I had a serious mental block there.

The coust to the small wooden rail. Holy.

and I seriously like it. Awesome bike.

You enlightened me.

Very interesting link. Based on that, which should use three days of browsing history, Google thinks I want to buy Baby Food and watch the Olympics, listen to Rap and stuff. I think I can safely say - even if I take my unconscious mindf**ks into account - that Google personality, mindset and thought spying is still sucking big time. If the site reflects Google's state of algorithmic psychoanalysis about a user correctly, they know shit about me after approx. 10 hours of random search.

The man. BTW: What's this Haha thing? Laughing (why?) or Nelson-From-The-Simpsons-type Haha (meaning Haha, you can't do that, you fat lazy f**kers)? It's everywhere on the Internets nowadays.

Be you sorcerers? Pigeon and "try giving yourself a whiplash" made it in my head! I can do it now, learned it within minutes on a 30" flat obstacle, and I don't even need self-destroying momentum. Thanks a lot to all contributors, you freed me from the Static curse!

Horizontal, yes, my bad. So magic friction it is, as I understand from your comments.

How is the axle kept in place with the new type of vertical adjustment system (like on the new Arcade, the Marino, Ozonys, Zoot Pro and others)? Mostly, there is just one screw. Ozonys have another one perpendicular to the chain direction to press the slider onto the frame to prevent it from moving forwards under chain load, so do the others also rely on this principle, but just use the axle screw for this instead? Or in other words: Does it work properly, i.e. better than the annoying snail cams?

Ok, thank you all, then it is as I suspected: Abuse until whiplash. There seem to be two different styles: Some people go over the bars with a straightened out upper body, almost not moving the legs, using them only for compression, while others crouch a bit and keep their upper body relatively centered over the handlebars (for example Giacomo). I can jump up 30" using my legs with an approximation of the latter technique, but then I don't have enough forward movement to stay on the obstacle. So I will try to focus on tyre compression and whiplash. Perhaps that is the direction for improving my move. Perhaps I should also try a 150x30 stem, as I have currently a 165x35 on my 24 high-bb bike - which would help in not hitting the stem every time I do this move.

0:42, for example: http://vimeo.com/32915050 How can one obtain so much momentum to push 30" up - almost without going down to pre-charge the legs. Of course there is a lot of load in it, but I don't know how to get this fast from the starting position with the handlebar in your way. Do you know some good mind model related to it? When I focus on a point a bike length away on the obstacle and concentrate on not bending my knees, I can pull up onto two wheels with only a fair amount of momentum, but the front wheel does not lift into the air then. If I use the front brake and leverage around the front tyre contact point by pushing the bars forward, I can get up to the rear wheel, but not without using a fair amount of space on the obstacle for rolling along with the front tyre before it lifts. At the moment it feels more effortless for me to do a 45" side hop than a 30" static. So is it all about abusing the body to do it as fast as possible? It looks so effortless when Vince or Gilles do it...

Nice to see an Inspired used for trials riding, not skatey BMX stuff. Duncan Shaw has some courage. And the skill to not break his p.enis applying it. The H&S hogwash throughout the video was disturbing: For trying to fake the illusion that the riding could be performed in a "safe" manner - i.e. the meaning your mom associates with "safe". And for providing clear directions to a f.ucked-up society where generalized anxiety disorder is a political goal and not an illness.

Such a nice bike. The spacer tower scares me. Trialtech should produce a 140x40 stem...

Thanks, mate. Royal blood? I herd water is ***.

What is that LOCATION? Old movie theater? Man... that is too stylish.

Who is the gifted one on the bike with the faggy rims (1:05, 3:25), who cousts like he had way too many steroids?

Tarty should really make a video or a short text about how to bed in these greased freewheels. Must + no instructions is a combination that has kept me off buying one. I won't rely on any information on the forum here, only on instructions given by those who will decide on my warranty claim.

A search quest for some lame-ass facebook page? Assuming that the park has been done with the same level of motivation as this advertisement, I don't bother.

There is riding and riding. I've met many people always "riding all day" when they were in fact looking at obstacles, discussing, joking around, drinking, eating, sitting on their bike ... I mean look at the videos: 80% of the riders in the background are not seen riding. Counting the time one is engaged on an obstacle with both feet on the bike, I would reckon the average rider does 7 to 10 hours a week. This intensity normally results in constant aches, to which one can get used to with the right mindset of wanting to fight and build something.