Ali C

please please please dont get orange, its such a horrid colour :mellow: I would go with silver personally

cant say Ive seen anyone in lycra at any of the comps I have been to for the past 5 years, I dunno where youve been looking. Even in the vinco pics there is no lycra :lol:

dont like tea :lol:

I am using 16-14, this is the only setup I have never had any probs with, never snapped a chain.

to be brittish champ in masters, might take a while though B)" anyone know where akkers lives? :lol:

might want to pm phil williams (totaltials/selectbikes) as I believe he is the only person to have had one, or maybe find out who he sold it to and ask him

I could handle that, its like going out on the tiles. Still wouldnt enjoy the whole thing though, I am a very miserable b*****d.

do you have to wear suits? You couldnt pay me enough to wear one of them, if I went I would just go in my riding clothes.

true, oh the joys of ti :lol:

I found monty grips tore really easily, the slightest knock they were gone. I REALLY reccomend ritchey foam grips, they are a bit fat, but dont let that put you off, they are really amasing grips, totally diferent foam to montys, and a much better feel

I also havnt snapped one for a few years, the last hanger I snapped was when I had got my echo pure, I just bodged one from my lbs and I havnt snapped one yet

as your manualling, start to turn as if your gonna manual in a big circle, as your body drops to the side to start turning you wanna bunnyhop, but as your doing the hop, just before the back wheel comes off the ground, you wanna make it turn in a tighter circle so it flicks you around a bit more. sorry if that more complicated than it needs to be, I am not the best at explaining moves

ugh! you couldnt pay me enough to go to one of these proms, although I dont think the fact I didnt like ANYONE at my school helped. Mike, I NEVER want to see you in a suit again! it makes you look too succsessful.

youve gotta be kidding! The only "extreme" street I have seen is craig and neil doing their big gap drops and things, most people seem to be into the spins and manuals, that reminds me of sycronised ballet cycling (it really exists) <those guys are doing waay more impressive things than every "wanna be bmxer" I have seen. You may have been unfortunate to have only seen muddy comps, but you should see the uci comps, they are nuts, and I call riding on an uneven slippy rock 20ft up more extreme than street. sorry for the rant, it just really get on my tits when people say street is more extreme than natural. I agree with the buying lots of raffle tickets to rais funds for the brit round of the world champs.

well, after phils advice about lower bars, I put my 10mm spacer ontop of the stem, I then went and nearly did my 50" tap first time, ended up blunting it. I stuck at it and got it 4 times (Y) I always knew about the lower bars thing (honest) but never thought it actually made much difference.

mint riding! I was most impressed, I loved the switch foot stuff. (Y)

my problem (apart from bad technique and being scared) is that when I land on a high tap, my weight is always way over the back and its really hard to keep it. On huge taps, how do you manage to get your front wheel down and ontop of the object? it just seems to bounce me off backwards (Y)

kitkat

47 is huge, I can do about 43 every time, but latley I have been pushing myself and I have gotten a couple of 47s and one 50" but the 50" one was a one off, I need to practise them more.

I had the old x lites. they had no tyre room (couldnt fit a michelin 2" tyre) and they (eventually) snapped. the new ones might be different though

yeah, but the idea wasnt popular enought for them to justify making them. I still think it would be ace

start like number one, but pedal thurther so it ends up like number two (N)

pedals sounds ace, price doesnt. why dont you ask him to make ti cages to fit current pedals, like vp and club roost? Arans steel cages on his vps have lasted years, and are still grippy.

but I didnt even know this brittish cycling thing exsisted, so how can I search for it if I dont know about it. heres a quote "questions are easy if you know the answer"

yeah, its lovely isnt it mr monkey, do you want to stroke it? actually, it was just my winter fluff, I think its time to shed my hair for summer