Steve-A

I'll ignore your blaspheming nick, on this time only. Spot on. I spent about 4/5 months on my 125, from riding as a learner on day to day basis, through my test then untill i bought a bigger bike. During this time if I was on my current bike (500cc enduro/tourer type affair) then I would have crashed about 10 times over, but the 125 was so forgiving beeing light, small and ot overly powerfull. I remeber one time in particular when i misjudged some diesel on the road and locked the front wheel at about 30, I just stabbed my foot down and sketched my way thruoh on my 125, on my 500 I KNOW I would have been on the floor. To be fair mate I think your lookngi at this all wrong. If you must buy a bike now, then get a 50 or maybe a 125. If you buy relitivly new and look after it then you hold get similar back when you sell it on, and can upgrade as time and experiance goes by. Just a word of warning, if your silly enuogh to go buy an R6 or similar now. The riding positions on most sports bikes will be very similar to the rs50, they are all very crouched, with low bars, and high feet, so an R6 or 748 wouldn't be much better, possibly worse.

I'm so sure about the camera stuff, but editing wise you will need a good computer but probably not as much as you think. What you need to be doing is online/offline editing. This means to capture your footage at low quality say normal standard definition DV (3.6mb/s) or lower, edit your program as you wish with no worries bout computer performance and/or hardrive space. This is offline editing. When you're happy with your finished project you can get the editing softwear to recapture only the exact footage you need at full quality (uncompressed HD is 127mb/s). Then do a final check and possibly sound mix/final graphics before exporting the finished video. This is the online stage. By using online/offline editing you minimise the time spent using the resouce intensive full quality footage. This means faster easier editing. If your going to use this technique you need editing softwear that can support the automatic re-capturing (conforming the project) Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro do I know for sure but I'm unsure about others. You also need to make sure you dont record over your original footage, you lable and log your tapes properly and that you have consistant time code on the tapes.

As Josephine said we've been climbing for a few months now, Gtburrows comes along with us sometimes too. Really enjoying it. I have to say I've almost given up on the bike and I've just been climbing instead. Creation wall is a great centre, theres loads and loads of lead routes, loads of top ropes and a big bouldering area. We had a good climb there yesterday as joe said he's getting 6a consistantly now, and I was pleased with a redpointed lead on both 6B+ and 6c routes. Would be cool to go climb with some other trials riders

Looks interesting. I'll never buy one, as I dont ned a phone that does any of that, but from a technology and innovation point of view, its might impressive. I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the multi-touch aspect of it? The rest of it is just nice gadgets, but multi-touch, thats a real first. The apps side of thigs will be interesting, running proper OSX rather than a cut down version will make things easier, but i guess you've still gotta get specific apps written for it. Anyone who hasn't watched it, watch the key note if you cope with the america speil and brainwashing that is, there are some crazy features to the iPhone.

Before any door is opened theres a 1/3 chance the cars behind either door 1, 2 or 3 When door 3 is opened by presenter new chances are 0 chance of car in door 3, 1/2 chance in doors 1 and. Seeing as your choice of door 1 was chosen before the other door was opened, you had a 1/3 chance of the car. You now know theres a 1/2 chance the car is behind door 2. So your better off changing. Though I know that can be countered by saying the probability of door 1 having the car behind it has risen to 1/2 so it doesn't matter if you stick or change as which door the car was behind before door 3 was opened is now irrelevant. The conclusion of which is i dont know.

Bit of a shame, but dont worry bout prices too much, I've been to see quite a few band at Brimingham carling Accademy, and never payed more than £12 for a ticket, if seeing the bands that aren't quite as big was often bout £8

Both my 20" and 24" leeson weighed in at between 4.5 and 5lbs frame only. I cant comment on Anals frame, as I know little baout it, but I do know that Clive has a choice of tubes to use, butted or plain gauge etc, and so can vary the weight/durability of the frames he makes. I have only good things to say bout my Leeson bikes and my experiance with Clive. Hes been awesome about me thrashing my frames and generally beeing arkward, including building up my 24" with me late on chistmas eve a could of years back so I could get it before the holidays were over.

Looking good, although I'd just say that if your aiming for short and flicky for street then maybe geometry is a bit pure trials? If you look at most classic 'street' 26" they have 73 or 74 degree headangles ( p/x zebidis had a 74 head angles), 72 will mena it wont handle as well and feel as flicky to corner. BB ride? I know itm kaes backwheel easier but makes it harder to spin and bunnyhop, and generally ride street fast type moves. 1040 is a managble wheelbase but for the full effect something heading towards 1020 maybe better? or a compromise. This might not be quite what your looknig for, just thuoght I'd put the ideas forward. What I'd call a street trials bike and what many would call a street trials bike are quite different.

I've used chrome rims for trials and the conclusion was its not worth it. With trials brake pads the chrome can give unbelieveable bite, but the hold doesn't quite match that of a grind. To get the braking performance nessersary for trials the pads they to be soft, i.e. spanish flys or zoo pads etc. This basically leads to the pads tearing apart when they bite onto the chrome, ripping corners off the pads and slowly destroying them. The rim needs to be kept very clean to get best performance. If i got puncture, just taking tyre off left enough dust/grease on the rim to hinder the performance, i alsmost needed a bottle of muck off with me at all times. There are also the weather issues. Wet, not a hope of working. Too dry dusty loss of bite and then more dust leads to no hold. Too hot bite but no hold. This experiance was mostly with spanish fly pads. The only time when the brake really worked well was on a damp but dry cool day, which is a bit of a pain. At the end of the day I ground my rims and went back to koxx greens and the brake just works and keeps worknig no hasstle. Weight wise the chrome rims I had are the Odyssey pro-factor 2 rims and chrem doesn't add much weight at all. On a seperate note, the Odyssey pro fractor rim has been the best one I've used on my 24", just cant dent/buckle it and it grinds like a 521, if you get the chance get one!

If you goto applications you should have compressor, which you can use to make aiff files from other types.

I've used schwalbe racing ralfs, they are nice and lgith, with big volume, but they tear easyily, and dont grip very well especially in wet etc. Best tyres I've used, as others have said are Tioga comp X in 2.1

That really really really sucks. Best band I've ever seen.

If you ran disk on other side you would need to run the caliper on the front of the forks. The mounts on the forks would snap, as you'b be pulling the caliper off the forks most of the time instead of pushng it into the forks.

The wooden ramps are shut, and possibly going to be taken down, which is a bit of a bitch. The youth centre that own them dont have anyone to run them anymore. The concrete skatepark is alright, not amazing, but its ok. As for trials scene its kinda fragmenting as lots of people are getting full time jobs etc, that said theres still a good few of us about. There are some good spots down by the river side and thruogh out town. As shaun H said county hall is now basically un-ridable which is a pain as it was a great spot. If you fancy comming up for a ride sometime add me to msn or something.

Theres some here tv.isg.si Steve-A4.mpg is here Steve-A5.mpg is here I've still got all the older ones but they arent uploaded anywhere. Cool to know people still wanna watch them There will be a new one, one day when I get round to filming, haha

Nah Dan chrome isn't worth it. I've had 2 chrome rims now and I can conclude that its not right for trials. In my experiance its useless in the wet, so not great to have on your bike during winter and in the hot weather it becomes inconsistant, so not great for summer. When I had spanish fly pads on chrome and right conditions etc the brake was unbelieveable, but most of the time it didn't lock and hold well enuogh for trials.

Vimto >* Infact I have a glass of it right infront of me and its awesome.

I liked it. Riding was good as usual for the 26Twenty guys. Song wasn't my taste, but suited video well. I liked the dancy editing, and it didn't hinder the riding as mostly it was on the shots of people. One thing I will say is that I really liked the intro moving titles but i think they should have been shorter, it dragged on a bit longer than I thought it should have. Good vid

LaCie is where its at for external drives. Firewire 400 is fast enough. It will play videos upto about 3mb/s easy. If you can afford it though get firewire 800 ( ieee 1394b) as this with haddle twise the data rate. If budget stretches then http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quick...0&InMerch=1 We've got a few of the 1Tb versions at work and they work well.

Mad chicken has taste in cars. Most things that were group b rallyed are pretty damn cool. Cools pics fred

The 73 is like a 53 but with a hollow axel. If you look at where most 53s snap its where the hole for the crank bolt ends, as the end of the hole creates a stress riser. By having the hole drilled right through theres no stress riser, and therefore lasts longer. Its also lighter as theres less metal. Either way go for a 72/3.

The Guinness ad with the surfer and the horses in the waves, has got to be equal best if not the best. The Golf ad with singing in the rain, amazing peice of work.

Just got back home, was a really cool day I managed to aviod sunburn too badly and got some cool stuff down. The garden was very nice and a fitting memorial. Spose the only down side of the day was that damn nurf thing, and Davetrials throwing ability. haha.

Thats what I used to do. Then I managed to fall off a wall only a foot high and hurt my head. I learnt my lesson from that, wouldn't really ride anything with out one now.

No body else from round here can make it, so I'll be in but on the train. My trains in at 12, I'll come find you guys from there.