Ali C

sweet pics! I enjoyed that demo, it was the first on the new (taller) rig and the first on my production Hex (I had flown back from Eurobike to Edinburgh airport the day before and slept in my van overnight). Do you mind if I post some on Facebook?

the vee brake probably has old cables and standard pads. New (linear) cables and some trials specific pads should make it rival (or surpass) the magura on your bike.

either you are telling some big porkies, or you did very well! I got: A subscription to The Albion bmx mag from my brother Battlefield 3 off my sister and brother-in-law Some glow sticks, some kit drying balls, a couple of "Simon's Cat" books and a SAD light off my parents.

not opened mine yet.

as fun as that sounds I don't drink. I can't stand the taste of alcohol. My parents are very supportive of what I do and I know my brother and sister are pretty proud too, but I just don't feel I fit in intellectually.

I've discovered that as much as I love my family, I just don't seem to fit in. My brother and sister both have PHDs, my sisters husband teaches history at Durham Uni, my parents both used to teach too. I never even got any GCSEs. Just had a meal and as usual for any meal I have with my family, I didn't say a word throughout. They just talk about things that I either have no interest in (the latest wines they all like or something political) or I just don't understand. To make it worse they'll notice I can't add anything to the chat and try and talk bikes with me to try and get me involved....at least they are thinking of me I guess. I think I'll be going back to Blackpool asap to be alone with my thoughts.

I am at my parents (again), got here today, pretty bored already. My sister and her family (including cat) should be here soon so that will be fun. My brother isn't coming up this year. Not sure how long I'll stay here then I'll head off back to Blackpool. I got my dad some smellies, my mum some whisky, sister a folk music album, my brother-in-law a sudoku calendar and my niece some paints and a big cardboard box. I didn't ask for anything in particular for myself as there really isn't anything I wanted.

sweet

you need to check out Props "Owned" dvd, it's pretty amazing, some of the best riding I have seen!

I was talking about the vid though, not just the riding, unfortunately the best nicest rider in the world couldn't ever make that vid good.

a Rohloff chain put me in hospital, it was quite a strong high end one and the plate snapped sending me onto my stem groin first....not fun! Another vote for the Z610HX

I've been more negative before You must miss all my positive comments I make too The riding was pretty sweet, the truck driver and 3 whip down the set at the end was pretty impressive HOWEVER.......The editing was diabolic! I have seriously never seen editing as bad as that in a BMX vid. It's like they took all the bad points from a TGS video and ran with them. The "fake" zooming in on nearly every move just about had my pulling my hair out, the music was more like heavy machinery being dragged about and the camera was pretty shaky at times. Plus a lot of the riding was actually a bit sketchy, lots of bitch hops and 270 landings, that dead sailor off the roof to blatant bail (if they hadn't cut it out of the edit) was laughable too. So yeah, worst BMX vid I have seen.

quite possibly the worst bmx video I have ever seen.

been a while since an update, perhaps you should do something about that.

I've met Jim

nice

well, it doesn't reeeaally

nice original font on your logo. Is that frame 24" specific or is the brake and the position a key factor?

I too also have a lot of time for Dominik Raab videos. Great style, great skills and a nice guy.

I am currently building between 8-12 wheels a day and that's pretty much how I do them. I am going to re-cap anyway. *turn all the nipples so there is no thread showing (this means all the nipples have exactly the same turns and you can count how many turns you do on each spoke. *get wheel true *get up and down motion true *get wheel true again *get dish central *tighten spokes if needed *true again *stress spokes *tighten spokes *true wheel *true up and down motion *check dish *stress spokes *true wheel Done

Hopefully this will clear things up a bit

I knew what you meant, I was just pointing out that in this case it's just not a problem.

why were you riding in your underwear? I liked the first riding section, some good skills going on there and I am very jealous of the weather you have. I stopped watching as soon as you got naked though.