Chakers1998

I think they are so hard to get hold of that no one bothers with them outside of china. If I remember correctly, someone had to wait 6 months for a simple reply during a warranty claim.

This is the link to the new main WhatsApp group for organising rides. Created by Tom Taxi Hutley. https://chat.whatsapp.com/GXOnSWynr5e1rkc0IWkoOs

Hopefully it's a good summer this year for riding.

Are there any members that live and ride in Bracknell? Specifically mill pond area?

Yes, I put some tech 3 levers on an echo lite Mk5 by changing the caliper piston seals. The bore cap ones didn't match, but it never leaked anyway.

Wayne Jenkins lives in or around MK. I don't know if he has an account here, but he's on facebook.

@onzatpro09 I summon you, bike mechanic and i9 stockist!

You're being far too logical for the bike market. It obviously makes more sense to have as many proprietary components as possible so the consumer has a larger selection to choose from.

Congrats to Charlie winning 26"

What rims are they?

Hadley are a good one to look at, but they are "only" 72 POE. Most things I've read about them suggest they are indestructible, but the one thing that puts me off is the circular spring they use rather than the conventional pawl spring.

Trials is a little sport that no one else outside it could care less about. The media company probably thought why are we filming these guys jumping over logs on these stupid bikes.

Clean and Jitsie rims seem to flat spot easier than most. Hashtaggs are better but people still flat spot them as well. Andrei Burton said to me he started using an old Echo rim because he kept denting the Hashtaggs, but he does crazy stuff. Shame that the manufacturers put their min order number up, as Trialtech had to stop the Carthy rim because of this.

Sick man. Josh Leech lives in Wantage as well. Our group has moved to a WhatsApp group if you'd be interested in coming out to ride?

I do this with speed wax that I use for my road bike chains. I hate chain oil. It makes working on the drive train so much easier when you don't have to treat the chain like it's radioactive.

I have an Echo forged 150mm stem that may be up for sale if I find a stem that I like the feel off on my 20".

Forgot about these. Yeah the tyres are mint to be fair, loads of pop and are pretty much the lightest on the market.

Jitsie have some nice products, like the Goldfren pads that they sell (they don't make them), but I swear anything they have manufactured is dog shit. People snapping forks and bars all the time.

I happen to have a spare set of tech 3 levers from where I converted my trial zones to mineral oil with saint levers. I'll be putting some hope seals in the echo caliper and see how it goes. I've put Jitsie pads in and they're much better than the echo pads.

Hi all, Has anyone ever used a different lever on an Echo TR disc caliper? The levers do work to be fair to them but they do leave something to be desired, and are known to leak. I have used an m820 Saint lever on a Trial Zone caliper, which is what the TR is based on, but I'd like to hear if anyone has tried something in the past.

Silex 26 is +30mm BB and I love it, I also like the +25mm BB on the 24 as well. I had a brief go of my dads Fourplay and it feels like your feet scrape the floor the BB is so low, didn't like it at all. High BBs are the way.

My silex was 12kg dead when I weighed it. I've since put a spank race 33 on the rear and put a fatbike tube in there, so probably weighs the same as it did.

I've got a Silex 26 with old Saint cranks, DH tubes and two Hookworms, I'll weigh it in the week and see if the scale survives... I'll probably cry.

I've done this 3 times. It's common on the pro 4 unfortunately. Joacim broke his rear pro 5 but I don't know how, and whilst he was waiting on new hubs he stripped a pro 4. Chris King come back to SS!

RampWorld Cardiff is okay for street. Spit and Sawdust is also in Cardiff but I have never been there so I can't comment on how good it is for street.