Ali C

Yeah, where exactly are you? I don't tend to ride Hebden all that much, but your more than welcome to come for a ride anytime we are out.

Yeah, well worth entering them, I did my first tyke trial comp over 12 years ago!

there's a few here, Myself, Onza Boy Mark, Mat Smith, Little Sam plus a couple of newer riders too. I love to ride Lee Quarry (I helped with getting the trials specific stuff there), but at the moment I am concentrating on street, but once the comps start again no doubt I'll be up there for training.

possibly today! I'll send you a pm hen we set off

Monday

Tricky one this, my feeling is that if you have the rear brake on, then that allows you to remove all slack from the chain, when you then put the power down you put the chain from "slack" to "tight" in a fraction of a second, thus putting a lot of force through it. The opposite is brakeless, when you have a constant pressure on the chain, it doesn't have such a quick difference of state, so would be harder to snap. just my 2p worth anyway

stanley knife, some water as lube and bingo! over 200 pairs of pads for 16p each. They do whatever size you want if you ask them though, I recently bought a 10mm thick sheet, so ideal for pads.

what joke? that IS the material.

I like it, looks pretty

these guys can help you (so can Mike)

all well and good, but that stuff doesn't touch paint.

lol, one of the flexiest frames I have had

just try and keep me away

flexy??? The stingers one of the stiffest frames I have ridden!

been meaning to see this for a while, but whenever I remember that fact, the Imax is always sold out.

sure is a good rider, but his riding seemed like he had got the big book of bmx tricks and ticked them off one by one. there didn't seem to be much personal style going on, but I guess that's kinda the nature of skate park riding.

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feeling ill, went riding with Mark anyway, was pretty good but I ran out of energy and got cold

echo cylinders do fit magur calmps (evo 2 ones included) but you need the plastic C clip like you would get on a magura. Also, if its not fitting due to the rim width (your post was a bit unclear to what was the actual problem) then a magura won't be any closer to fitting.

if its thorns thats giving you the trouble, then the advice thats been given is good, if its pinch punctures, be smoother.

inspired seat and post is pretty neat and light

one word*....redbull bike battle. *may actually be more than one word

i had a short stint on an Ozonys Cannibal with a 45~ bb rise. I found it harder to land most moves, gaps were about the same distance, but when I landed I woud just fall off the back of the bike, same with taps and hooks. The main issue for me was sidehops, it completely ruined me! I was previously at around 48", but once I got on the Ozonys they went down to about 42". I kept on hitting the wheel against the side of the rock/wall instead of landing on top. It felt like I had to jump higher than I would on a lower bb bike.

that's not quite old school. I had already been riding 5 years when that came out.

true that, which is a shame because if they were more popular then more frames would come with the mounts which would mean I can ditch my heavy awkward adaptors and have a lighter, stiffer EVEN more powerful brake!