stirlingpowers

Gilles Coustellier doesn't even put much effort into it. He must be able to 330+.

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My Rockman has endured 800 hours of my intermediate-level riding by now, no kidding. But I don't wedge the bike very often, and I am lightweight. I have been doing trials for about 3000 hours (give or take 500) in my life, I reckon. Perhaps I just got a really well-built outlier...

I know.

I've been riding other bikes before the Rockman, you know.

Somehow, they made it.

With glass, my Rockman frame is still going strong after some 800 hours of intermediate-level riding.

Shotblasting, clear anodising for preservation:

I support anything less facef.ucky.

Shenanigans?

Promising...

Racing:

Yo, always at your service. Since you feel that mating initiation wasn't covered enough here: I vote for direct approach, just phone calls (nice and flirty, but brief), no text. So no whatsapp, no sms, no mail, therefore no room for reading and interpreting again. I don't want to talk a girl into it. I offer, if she follows, fine. If not, bad luck. Especially whatsapp with its users expecting peers to read messages immediately leaves way too much room for games and misinterpretation.

Ok, we discussed the UI. Now on to the inner workings: Usually, with free text services, you pay by allowing companies to build a personality profile based on your contacts, vocabulary, locations, stimulus reactions etc. to sell to advertisers, banks or insurance companies. Normally, in the privacy policies for personality analytics commerce, there is a lot of lengthy irrelevant text, with the exception of a well-hidden totally generic phrase that allows to do anything with your digitalised thoughts and reactions. Whatsapp is paid by second-year onwards fee, so the company could operate without dodgy legal texts. While there are statements like http://blog.whatsapp.com/245/Why-we-dont-sell-ads, they seemingly still claim the right to sell any data to anyone for any purpose in their privacy policy: "We do not sell or share your Personally Identifiable Information ... with other third-party companies for their commercial or marketing use without your consent", while consent is defined there through continued use of whatsapp. While it is debatable and perhaps even illegal in some countries to define consent through back-door tricks, it is established industry-wide practice to do so. For the comparison to SMS services, just look into your national com legislation and the privacy policy in your phone provider contract. But since this is an increasingly important area of power and influence over people nowadays, it is very tedious to compile information on this topic.

The latest prototype does have a knee-friendly handlebar clamp! So if it is not leaking or breaking too soon, we finally have a decent lever.

My theory is still that learning how to properly manual will help your pedal-up (-to-front, especially) and even your sidehop by improving your ability to feel and correct wrong front wheel heights.

Riding a similar configuration here. Radix, 2011 Magura including clamps. Had Heatsink Blue with Kabra/Bonz rims. They were really good in the dry. Tried to switch to TNN ADM for the last winter for wet rides: Just threw them on, and my brake performance was gone, no honk, no bite, no hold on the rear, some hold on the front. Switched back to Heatsink Blue, front was ok again, rear shit. Tried adjusting, tried grinding, different grinding discs, new rim, let others grind, nothing. Not with the original Heatsink Blues, not with the new ADMs. Bought a Because rim for the rear, which has parallel sidewalls. Also TNN clamps. Grinded with a very thin, new disk, barely touched the rim to give it the smoothest of grinds. Now the brake works with Heatsink Blue again, loudest ever, good bite, fair hold, even in the wet (!), for almost three weeks or 25 hours now (without sand or mud). I still have the TNN ADMs, and I will try them on the new rim with the TNN clamps, report back here. I came to the conclusion that I am just too stupid to properly align pads and rim with angled sidewalls and Magura clamps.

Can't watch. Censored in Germany, as usually.

Oh noes. I soo hoped for the brake lever to be the first proper trials lever besides the Echo, since Magura, Racing Line and Tensile chose to go with the obvious design flaw of a rear protruded handlebar clamp, resulting in constantly injured legs and knees for some of us.

Here's tribalzine's version, for those of you not too much into facef.uck: http://tribalzine.com/?Les-cadre-et-composants-Clean

Try steering with knees out and in (therefore bent legs) and/or steering with the handlebars and pulling/pushing on the bar ends with your arms to tilt the bike towards the direction you want to go, i.e. the side you are currently falling towards. Wheelieing took me a good many months to learn, perhaps even two years, I don't remember. But it was the Nineties, nowadays people learn to sidehop over a meter in the first year.

At 2:55: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1pg2jw_le-zap-de-spi0n-n-215-zapping-du-web_fun

Crewkerz had a prototype this spring, around 200 grams, platforms, looked quite reliable.

Sick edits. Seriously: These are the best trials videos since at least 2005. Edit, I am in a more positive mood right now: We need more stuff like that. TGS like its 1995.

Totally sick comments here.