Ali C

bummer, they actually look quite nice.

about a month ago

haha, no I knew you were just joshing, I didn't mean my response to be harsh or anything, I guess the internet can be hard to get things across as it's meant sometimes. I probably won't do a skatepark edit as there are people way better than me at riding parks, I just see them as a place to get to when the weather won't let me ride outside.

well, I could instead of a nose manual do a stoppie, instead of a threee hop, I could do a 360 pivot drop thing and instead of a hop whip I could do a footjam whip. All accepted by (most) trials riders, yet all a lot easier (and therefore not as good) as doing them properly.

went to Rampworx yesterday with the goal to nose manual a 4-5 meter deck area....did it second try and about 4 more times while I was there Didn't even get close last time I was there a few weeks ago. Also felt like hop whips are getting closer and I dared 3 hop into bankings, something that's been giving me the fear for many months now.

I stopped because I decided that I ride because it's fun and the gym is not fun. Plus it cost money I could use on travelling to interesting places rather than sitting in a sweaty room.

I could bench more free than on a smith. I spent about 4 months going to the gym about 2-3 times a week a few years back and I can't say I noticed much improvement in my riding. I think riding is simply the best thing that can be done, perhaps riding with a weighted vest could work (would look a little gay though). awaits Dave to slag me off

a slightly better way is instead of clamping the trailing end of the chain in a vice, clamp the chain while it's around the cog EXCEPT let one link of the chain miss a tooth so it makes a small triangle. This way it can't slip around in the vice, I've never seem it snap a chain or fail getting a cog off.

was at my parents for Christmas with my sister and her husband. He was upstairs in the bathroom and everyone else was downstairs. He came back down looking a bit shaken and explained that he heard someone talking outside the bathroom quite clearly but when he looked there was no one there. He also said that he heard activity on the landing one night, footsteps up and down but again when he looked there was no one there.

Too much car stuff for my liking haha though I did like how futuristic the Huayra was with it's moving flaps and stuff (reminds me of the game Wipeout) I preferred the McRae thing later, it was a nice surprise.

BMXers usually do comment on the noise of my hub, but Hope would have to make one piece 9T drivers for BMXers to be interested and maybe a different axle so they can use pegs, and no disc mount.....so yeah, would need to be a different hub all together really.

I'm not sure how you make something popular (I know I fail at times). I think more events helps, Section one was a good way to do it, so yeah....more of those. I have two thoughts about whether I want it more popular, part of me likes it being small (means people like me get sponsored) but more money would be cool so more people could make a living off riding, but the bar would be set higher so people like me would probably be overtaken by the next wonder kid and I wouldn't get to go on cool team trips and junk.

pretty sure my Speedrace ones were around 10mm square

actually sorry my bad, I actually used M5 not M6. In which case I would have more confidence with M6 than I previously thought.

I'ved tried m6 before and they were really flexy, they just made me nervous

no sorry I wasn't being offended it's just from my experience of that hub and spoke combo that washers are not needed.

I did this to a Speedrace Fans frame. I used an M8 brakes boss (can't remember the pitch), drilled and tapped by hand, bit of carbon for the spring to sit against and it was lovely. Really low profile, stiffer and just generally better. I can't really comment on it's durability as I only ever rode the bike on some walls outside work as I decided it wasn't as fun as my inspired. I would definitely go with M8 though, I wouldn't trust M6 at all.

well, I've built upwards of 50 wheels with those spokes and those hubs in my time at Tartybikes and I've never experienced or heard of any issues. I agree that if the spoke is going to pull though then some washers will help, but that's very unlikely with that combo.

they're really not needed

they have no idea, get a friend to do it or look at some of the guides,

rust

There seems to be a divide, some people still have a bit of respect for him while others have lost it all. I have a third which I'm only expressing because A) two opinions is a little boring B ) I've nothing better to do right now. I've never really found road riding all that entertaining and find watching the Tour de France about as much fun as watching paint dry. I've never had much of an opinion of Lance just because I've never really cared.......and I still don't. I've really tried thinking about the whole situation and come up with an insightful opinion of it but I failed, I just don't care. Please don't pass this off as me being negative but it's like me caring about a ballet dancer doping, it's just not that interesting to me.

to be fair he is doing some pretty ridiculously hard stuff, not that I'm advocating bike throwing but I can imagine it's pretty annoying spending hours trying to land something and falling off close to landing it. Here he is landing some of those things: https://vimeo.com/52224593

no thanks, give me a stylish table or three instead. Also surprised they didn't give it a really gay name like park riders normally do...."ninja air" or "bounty flip" or something