Ali C

don't jump too high up the wall. I aim to have my front wheel just clearing the lip with all my weight forwards. If you bunnyhop it and do that, then your momentum will be upwards and forwards, if you land too far on the wall your momentum will start to come back down and it will be a lot harder. Also, try not to use your brakes if possible. Comp riders will have a different technique with a pedal stroke and brakes locked but if you're on an inspired the above way keeps better flow and speed.

I'm going to throw a spanner in the works and not recommend a bb5/7 for the front of a streety build. I've tried it and it's pretty good at locking the wheel up and it all feels good at the lever but I'd say it just doesn't have good enough modulation for the front. I really like stoppies though, I found the bb7 I used had such a small margin where stoppies were controlable. There just isn't the feel and feedback that a hydraulic brake can give. I'd recommend the Shimano Deores, they are pretty good but let down by a bit of pad wobble.

THAT'S how you ride a bike!

I disagree with most of that. I'd never trust them on a drop gap or 10ft bunny hop gap. The bite is not quite saint standard either and one crash will end up with the rotors scraping and being noisy. Add the pad rock and it makes being on the back wheel even more vague.

I'd say I give pretty even abuse to front and rear. I've snapped plenty of front 10mm axles, snapped plenty of bolts on trials hubs, had wheels pop out etc. I don't think I've snapped a rear axle before, especially not on a Hope hub. If there were easily accessible parts for a 15mm rear axle I'd go for that, but if I did that now I'd have people like you coming and calling me an idiot. Also, to do a sliding-bolt-though dropout would add weight, costs and unless it was done well,,add flex taking away the whole point. You think we just randomly plucked hub axle ideas out of thin air for the Arcade? You really don't have a clue.

BMXers have solid axles or hex bolts which can be torqued down tighter than any allen key will do. Its just different, plus it's usually heavier. 15mm because its a very common size and there's plenty of hub choices out there in that size despite what you think. Hope hubs have end caps that can be replaced without tools so no "crazy" adaptors needed. Not 20mm as that's perhaps overkill plus would make a steel fork quite a bit heavier. If you think 10mm is strong enough you use that, I wanted a stronger setup so I chose 15mm.....does that make me stupid? Plenty of other people seem to like the idea, I guess they're stupid too?

Why is everything you don't like or understand "stupid"? Fine that you may not want the extra stiffness or security of a 15mm axle but calling it stupid is rather naive.

Then why comment in the first place?

Trials IS more than just single moves, if you went to a comp and got up a rock and then got off you'd be a shit rider. All I was saying is that bike could allow a more general riding style than just tgs, linking moves together doesn't make it Bmx. What part makes me a bmxer btw? The seat? The fact I can do a 360? Foot jam whips? What makes you a trials rider? No seat? Not being able to spin? Loud brakes?

Don't like any one them other than the far left one. If Kenny's getting arm pump he should rock some V-brakes, that will get rid of it over night.

they bought quite the selection!

oh no, I bolted a lock to the inside of my door soon after moving in, I could get one for the outside but I think it wouldn't go down well

Not sure if I can help much but I might be after the same advice after tonight, I share a flat with 6 other guys (proper bachelor pad) and tonight they are having a party that they've planned for a while to coincide with a birthday of one of them and the homecomming of one of their friends after living in Aus for a while. It's been on FB so I'm expecting lots of people round. I'm going to show face for a short while then escape to my GFs house for the night. Last time I left my room for the night (to sleep in my van) I found opened condom packets in my room.....gross. I suspect it will be shut down by the police at some point, the neighbours hate us and usually call them (I had to deal with them once but it went pretty smoothly when they realised I was sober and equally annoyed). If the rent wasn't so cheap I'd have moved out, but for now I'm staying. I'll just throw all my bikes on my bed to try and put people off sleeping (and shagging) in there and I'll be hiding any money/valuables.

Flatmates went out clubbing last night, I'm totally cool with them doing that but I'd kinda appreciate it if they could try and be quiet when they get back, not get back at 4am with a bunch of randomers and skanks and then party until 9am. I went and made a cup of tea earlier and my lounge is full of people I've never met all trying to sleep. I'm now in my room blasting out death metal.....revenge is sweet.

just a warning that these levers don't have a servo wave system like the usual ones do, They should still have good power due to the extra length but the servo wave on normal brakes does ramp up....I'm sure someone could work out which is more powerful but until then it's a bit of a gamble.

Big hops and some smooth lines but not the best use I've seen out of a Hex. I want to see interesting lines, flowing links between objects, not sidehops and single moves. Trying to be street by trying a footjam whip doesn't quite cut it plus the goofy spinning will always be a pet hate of mine. I love your TGS riding (my fave rider for it) but if you're gonna stick with the Hex I'd like the TGS to be a lesser part on it and I'd like to see you really get into the whole street aspect that a bike like that can give (might have to pump up those tyres and stick a shorter stem on)

I'm not saying people new to trials don't know about bike stuff, but from experience comes knowledge and just because something works for one discipline doesn't mean it will work for another. Also someone new to trials won't be putting the same forces through parts that a more experienced rider might, so a new rider having brakes that hold for them doesn't mean that they'll hold for someone else doing a bigger move, a new rider might not do big drops so can use really light weight rims which a bigger rider would break easily. I'm not mocking riding skills, everyone had to start somewhere its just the whole giving advice when you've relatively little experience that gets me.

watching you two recommend bike parts and give tips is like pulling teeth.

This is good for many reasons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ_IQS3VKjA&feature=youtu.be

I've never used a pair so I can't say, other people seem to get on fine though.

Mark how do you allllways have such nice looking bikes? I have to say it's odd having you go on my bike and then change your own to make it feel like mine, it's normally the other way round. If it's any help, these were my brakes that I gave to Mark, I didn't get on with them for a couple of reasons. 1) I'm stubborn and I liked my saints 2) they have far too much pad knock for my liking 3) they are loud 4) I cut my fingers on the levers 5) hard to get a non rubbing brake (Mark managed it though) I don't use inspired rims as I have always used Spank rims as I can fit and forget about them. You should definitely make a new vid Mark, I'll film you next time we go somewhere.

the thing that bugs me about brakes without servo wave is how close the pads sit to the rotor, its near impossible to get the brake running without rubbing, especially once the bikes been ridden and crashed a few times. I've crashed bashed dropped and smashed my bike and my rotors are not perfectly straight but they still spin rub-free thanks to the extra space the servo wave gives. What's wrong with Mineral oil too? I guess DOT might be good for you in the cold? I love the quality of Hopes but they do seem very temperamental, They seem to get sticky pistons and glazed pads easier than Shimano's brakes. I can't stand how much pad wobble there is on their 4 pot brakes too (and they squeal like mad). The only bad things with the Saint brakes is the lack of a split bar clamp and lack of spare parts. That's not true, they do the floating rotors in a light XC version and a tougher DH version, the DH one is fine for trials and there is no rotor movement. The XC ones are a bit too spindly for my liking though.

It wasn't a standard Skye framekit, so just getting a replacement isn't that easy. That was a completely fresh build he'd put together just before last weekend, and the only other framekit like that was the old one he'd had before then. It was in his red Evoc bikebag, but I don't think the flashy-ness of the bikebag was really what caused it to get stolen.

He'd had his bike in the flat, then at a later stage de-built it and put it into the bike bag which then went into his van. There was a load of smashed glass from a car window next to where Danny's van was parked (but no car next to it any more when Danny found his bike was stolen) too so it could just have been some dicks going out to try and steal shit rather than it necessarily being a targeted thing.