Ali C

very good mike It was weird, kinda creepy with the weird noise when the camer moved. You dont see many people doing that backwards hop to front wheel either, I saw jez aivrey doing in mbuks getta grip, so I had to learn it!! its pretty fun

I agree with JT, tensiles are stiffer than a 14 year old in a strip club!! Dunno where you heard they were flexy?

I am actually suprised with the amount of people who reccomed the plazmatics....I dont think they are that great, especially in the wet. for decent braking you cant go wrong with coust heatsink reds koxx bloxx greens, reds, blues

I am also about 80% natural and 20% street, but I am lucky and live local to lots of great rocky areas. Street is too repetative, a 45" high wall is much the same as any other 45" high wall, where as in natural no two rocks are the same. Also, how can street be more dangerous? They are on nice flat places with drops normally no bigger than up to 10ft. A few of my local rocky places are on steep slopes and are slippert, rough etc....if you fell you would bounce down the rocky hillside for about 50 yards or so, plenty painfull.

lol, I didnt even try sidehops untill my 3rd year of riding

small gt zascars!

nope, not a fan, never was. I agree that bottom, young ones and red dwarf ( the earlier series) rocks

yeah, I wanna go, though the whole thought of driving through france with Iolo does make me nervous! I would like to go for the week, but its up to Iolo, need to see if he (and me) can afford it. I recken we should follow you down wayne, get the same ferry an all, will be easier for us (trying) to follow someone who knows the way a bit more.

well, I totally hated mine, couldnt stand it, but some people (crazy ones ) like high bbs, so make up your mind when you get it other than the descusting way it rides, its a nice frame (not the best looking mind), but it has nice details, stiff back end.

looking likley that I will FINALLY have a working bike, so count me in

years ago my brother went on a cycling holiday in bolivia, I was soo jelous of his bike I just had to have one, so I got a mtb and took up riding (nothing in particular, just did a few rides and so on) I then started doing tricks and loved showing off, I wished there was just a form of biking that was just tricks...I got an issue of mbuk and saw martyn ashton, martin haywes and hans ray riding over stuff, I thought it was amazing and so started trials. back then no one really did trials, so it wasnt like there were any trials riders local to me for me to watch. If I had seen bmxing, I probably would have taken that up instead.

I have never hit anyone I didnt know (they guy I did hit was my best friend, until he turned into a right chav and was fireing stones at me with a blackwidow catapalt) being 21 and having nice upper body strength from riding is cool, I dont really get intimedated by people, unless theres a group of them (though I recken I could manage up to three on my own) I am a bit weary of hitting chavs though, they may carry knives...if one pulled a blade out and threatened me with one I would shit me kegs! but yeah, never really been in a situation where violence was needed. Oh and Josh, I didnt realise they were trying to nick your bag in hebden, they guy who did it is ok with me (was in my class at school) so I would have had a word with him. Anyway, I dont recken theres anyone chavlike in hebden I couldnt beat in a fight.

speed was ok, but your technique needs work. They way you did it then is kinda the old skool way of doing it, with just a left right pedal motion. You also stopped pedaling a long way from the wall and kinda manualed into it. Also you hit it pretty high and didnt crouch or jump at all (your body just stayed in the same place through the move, thats why you ended up with your ass on yur tyre when you landed) Try and do it this way......get a full pedal revoloution in there (left, right, left!), leave it a bit later before you pedal at it, so your just finnished pedaling (or still pedaling a little) when your front wheel hits. Aim the front wheel lower and really plow into it, this will get you more hight with less effort. (dont forget to crouch as you get near the wall and jump up just as you hit it) A good tip I recken is to not put your back brake on straight away, let the rear wheen roll up the wall a little bit, it really helps you just fly up them, trust me. give it a try

I got the impression from the first post that it was a game that was comming out. If its been made by a student then I have more respect for it.

+10 to +25mm = good over 25mm = bad

sexcellent!! nice to see riders from down south who I never get to see much and places I need to ride (saw LOADS of lines that I wanna do! ) Nice that I was in for two clips...shame you didnt get my crash though thanks very much for that, very nice of you

cant go wrong with either the onzaz or zoos, both are top bars.

I agree, I get very bored of vids pople just doing the same thing over and over. it doesnt need to be natual to have sections, but just that more than move per clip on street would be nice.

my pair are stiff but they are old, not even that soft rubber too

in this order Ashton justice Echo control/onza limey koxx kenney beleay those are the best stock frames That I recken are out there and are affordable, please please dont be tempted to go high bb, a few people might like them, but personally I think they are crap.

I have always wondered about rock climbing shoes, but I dont recken it will be any good....they are too stiff I recken and grip would be debatable. Please dont get monty or tryall shoes, get some decent ones like 661 dually takis, or 5ten high shoes....they have the same super tacky soals that climbing shoes have and have 10 x better ankle support than any trials specific shoes (they look dam nice too)

I ride 26" I have found its all the young riders or people who havnt been into trials for long are the types that go for 20" Now this is ok if your small, but I feel most are riding 20" because they find it easier, I think thats a bad thing to do....you kinda get skill handed to you on a plate with 20". a 26" takes a little more work, but it really teaches you vital skills, its worth it in the end. Another reason I think 26" is better is that you get MUCH more satisfaction out of it. Say you sidehop 45" on a mod and then do it on a stock, you will feel better for doing on the stock because its harder....thats just how I feel anyway. Also, 26" is more suitable for other types of riding, dh, jumping, bmx etc, get most bang for your buck with stock

doesnt look great to me, infact looks pretty poor its not really gonna be a real game is it? just doesnt look proffesional enough

360 front pivots twisty stoppies backwards manuals

indi for me I guess... my fave are Radiohead (ledgends!) blur (also ledgends!) coldplay (ledgends again!) Flaming lips (you've guessd it...ledgends!) Badly drawn boy (what a ledgend!) super furry animals (how can they not be ledgends!) TWAT (<made up band) Muse (holey cow....what ledgends!) Modest mouse (ledgendary!) Queen (uber ledgends!) EELS (ledgends for sure!) Doves (great ledgends!) arcade fire (newly made ledgends!) batty watty bimbo bob (<another made up band) supergrass (hoooweee, what ledgends!) the avalanches (good) just my top fave bands that I kinda like I guess (ps, you guys have bad music tastes!! )