Ali C

please don't, looks fine to me.

I know it's hard to come up with original exciting new designs for what is simply two triangles, but I'd have liked to have seen a little more originality. I don't want to come across like I'm hating the bike, but it does seem like an inspired front end with a Czar rear end welded on, even the spec is almost identical to an Inspired full bike.. the disk tab is cool but has it had much testing? Non gusseted mounts tend to last a much shorter time. But yeah, not hating, competition makes everyone try harder.

I'm disappointed Matt

You wouldn't need to undo any bolts to change a tyre or tubeona push bike with single sided swingarm/fork. I'm all for experimenting, but I feel there is a line where ideas should just stay on paper, I think this bike is creating more problems than it fixes. However it does look well done, I think it still looks a bit too light weight to last though.

Two nights in a row now I've had dreams about being in crashing aeroplanes, first one was in a commercial jet and it crashed and I died, the second I was in a light aircraft and it got into difficulties but made a decent crash landing and everyone survived. Neither dreams were upsetting and neither had a hint of panic (even though everyone else was). It was a very calm feeling, like I accepted I was going to die and just thought nothing else of it. I'm also learning nose manuals at the moment and I often have a nose manual dream (despite never having a normal manual dream). I then wake up and get annoyed when I remember I suck. (same goes for tailwhip and barspin dreams)

I enjoyed that! Think it's even made me want to go out and ride.

Oh yeah, you could also run larger sprockets too, you're much less likely to snap a chain with 22-18 than you are with 18-15.

But if you're doing a sidehop and don't jump as much and just rely on stomping the pedals, then that's a few extra stone the bike is trying move.

wasn't a gag, if you're really snapping chains, then could you be stomping the pedals? If you're not getting your weight in just the right place you could be putting more force through the pedals to compensate. I'd look into it if I were you, would be beneficial for your riding in the future, more so than just getting a bigger chain.

ride smoother

I mean that he'll just end up looking and riding like every other park rider. Helmet, gum shield, back brake with gyro, tailwhips everywhere, tapdancing footjam combos on lips etc. It's like they are all from the same mold.

can tell he's going to turn into just another boring cookie cutter park rider. This is more like it, no special looking gymnastics, just an awesome style. https://vimeo.com/57315802

that's impressive in a number of ways

gears are very finely tuned though, I'm not saying cabled are impossible to stretch, just you'd never notice it. The compression of the outer would be more than the stretch of the inner.

Because that's unlikely to work, they are on there REALLY tight. There are a couple of ways to get them off, but a local bike shop is unlikely to figure them out. The hub while being damaged, is still perfectly usable. Not that I'm defending the shop as they shouldn't be damaging anything. I assume he wanted to keep the cog though, was this expressed when he took it in?

pad wear, same as a TPA

Urban myth

It won't really be particularly relevant as the Fourplays have a super steep seat tube compared to most other frames, so that'll skew the overall top tube length a bit. If you got a frame which had the same length TT as your Inspired but with a normal seat tube angle, it'd feel a lot shorter overall.

Trialtech forks have smooth-welded 4-bolt mounts which should mean they last a little longer than normal welded mounts like the Echo/Onza ones. The Trialtech crown looks nicer too without the big bulgy bit.

Iolo is Welsh

We (this is Mark) measured the full build Freed and it was exactly the same geo as the Crewkerz site. We measured the frame only with an Echo Urban fork (400x35) and the WB was a load shorter and the BB a touch lower, so I'd assume that means the Crewkerz forks have about a mile of offset and would scrape under low bridges (or have approx. 405 x 45 geo).

That's just an evolution of the way I drop, I know what you mean though. :wink2:

other than not have as much hold and is harder to pull Vee on the rear every time, for trialsy trials anyway.

They don't