Ali C

I cant stand those halfords grips, they are just too soft and fat, not nice. Richey foams are dead nice, really good feel, but a tad fat for my liking, still, they can be trimmed thinner with a knife. Monty grips are cool, be are a bit too fragile for my liking.

I ride for Ashton bikes and tartybikes. Sponsorship isnt the biggest bestest thing ever, dont ride just to be spnsored, ride because you love it, sponsorship just makes things a little easier cost wise, for me thats great as I spend thousands of pounds a year traveling to comps.

sorry guys, thanks to me it looks like me stan and waddy are not going, I was going to drive but I am just too tired, its verging on the dangerous to get up so early and drive there (thats my excuse anyway). sorry to stan and waddy and sorry to those who thought we were going. have a good day

spent £1000 of plane tickets to singapore and japan last year, spent monty on travels to france, spain, czhec, and the indoor euro champs (forgot where it was). There was also tyketrials, brit champs, ymsa. I recken maybe £2000-£3000 was spent on comps last year.

I am pretty sure open ended gussets spread the strain down the whole tube and fully welded gussets just concentrate them into one point. (as has been said) theres no point in a cnc head tube xtp styl bit, it just adds weight.

both taste like mud hot chocolate for me

I HATE that band!! really really do not like the music.

ashton seats look nice on ashtons I think, not so nice on otherbikes though

deffo seat on 24" but no seat on mod or competition style 26" (unless its an ashton seat )

I have sent you an email Fred, hope you got it alright

no need to worry James, they will be sorted

I dont know much, sorry lads, I should be getting my proto any day now (I hope)....I'll post some pics up when I get it, but dont expect the standard frame to be the same (different geo and maybe alloy)

might be worth waiting for the new Ribos from tartybikes to come out, they currently have a few pairs in testing (I have two pairs) they are all slightly different, they will use the best features from each one and come up wih the best shoe ever made. They are 100X better looking than older Ribos too, they will be worth waiting for!

lets all ride burnley, me, wad, iolo, and the tarty crew wotsit are riding, bring some food too, I'm hungry

I danny, thats my type of riding right there! Fair play to the guy ont ashton too, could show me a thing or two!

I would prefer to watch danny ride as thats the type of riding I would like to do, its really nice. I still like damons vids though, I have loads of respect for what he can do!

isnt there two rounds in devon and one in surry? I call that south!!

very good! I have been trying to teach myself solid works, but I gave up because it was too hard, to come up with somthing as good as that deservs a lot of respect!

all terrain cycles do them. I have a 24" blue groove sitting here on my spank rim, its got the stiffest sidewalls I have ever felt!! feels like I could run it without a tube!

I never found the need to bleed the brake that way...ever, leave the brake on and use a syringe, much quicker and easier.

generally speaking, left footed riders sidehop to the right and right footers sidehop to the left.......of course there are people who do the opposite, but its usually easier doing it the way I said.

time for my famous mod bashing........ go for a short, there isnt much point in a long mod in my eyes, if a short mod is too short then you need a stock. A short mod can fit on small rocks, is more flicky, can bunnyhop well, sidehop well and generally have mor advantages than long mods. this is my personal opinion though, I am sure others will dissagree