Ali C

Oh yes you do! haha BMXers are way bigger bitches than trials folk. I think street has become more popular simply because of Inspired and Danny Macaskill. Inspired brought out a street specific frame and Danny showed it and what's possible on it to the world. I rode comps and stuff for about 12 years, they are pretty cool but after so long I just found street but be far easier to access and it was fun learning new things rather than seeing if I could get another 5mm on a gap or sidehop. I like the lack of rules in street too, there is no rule saying you can't use a foot or hand to get over something. I also like how flowing street can be, trials can be very static and after awhile it gets a little boring. Having a little more speed is a super fun experience.

more skids and wheelies

Dogs like me, unless I'm on a bike then they hate me.....cats love me no matter what Which photo do you mean? The hippy hop one? I know Danny can do them but I've not seen a picture....unless you mean in general? I'm pretty happy to be compared with Danny though, but I do try an make a concious desicion to not directly copy everything he does.

MTB videos peaked with the Earthed series, since then everything went downhill (no pun intened). Earthed really had the "cool" factor, showing riding at it's rawest all the way up to the top level world champs. No un-nessacary equipment, just cool shots that make me feel like I'm there myself. Where The Trail ends really annoyed me. I thought it came across a bit patronising and the riding was good, but it never made me go "wow". Same with Life Cycles.....too much work on the shots rather than capturing the fun and thrill of riding. Again I never really went "wow" when watching it and I was kind of glad when it ended.

As other people have said, adjusting your riding helps. I always used to look for places to trackstand without using my brakes, try to point up hill when possible and use chain tension. You can use little holes and bumps to put your front wheel against too to help, or hang your back wheel just off an edge.....it's surprising how much it helps.

with those tensioners you can remove the pin that sits against the mech hanger to allow it to sit against the frame. To lock it in place, remove the mech hanger bolt, then remove the alloy washer/spacer and replace with a thicker one and now when you tighten the bolt it will lock the arm in place.

Thanks, it had been a while since I had done a comp as touch as that and I did struggle with arm pump on a couple of sections even with my v brake.

Believe me I've tried a lot of things, even considered surgery. I only ever get it when doing a comp and I did find a cure....a V brake completely stopped it.

you can still seat on a seat that's tilted back, I do no handers all the time, flat seats just looks the worst!

nope

15 years riding and I still have it quite badly even with exercises

did you read the thread?

tell that to Bruno Hoffman

head tube gusset is overkill, but the rest of it and the colour is sweet

fo sure, having all fingers on the bars really helps I think, I have to ride death grip with brakes sometimes if I'm trying a big hop, I hardly ever cover the front when hopping, feels horrible.

happens to me, after being brakeless for a while, going back to brakes is the worst! I couldn't do half the stuff I could before without brakes.

not really true, I've been riding for 15 years and still cant use a magura for comps as I still get terrible arm pump.

v brake for sure, completely stopped my arm pump isses

not sure if serious or trolling? I ride trials with 22-15 so 22-16 will be fine. Try and find someone with an Inspired who is wanting to upgrade to a Hope hub and see if they'll sell you their freewheel.

my bars are 1020mm off the floor (measured to the center of the bar ends). not sure how many spacers I have, but I can't fit any more without some kind of steerer extender.

I bent and cracked a pair of tuff guys pretty rapidly, as mark said, there are much better forks out there

non of his friends helped by holding the camera and filming? Shame really as the camera on the floor pretty much ruined what could have been a sweet video, I would love to see a decent quality vid of him.

I think they should keep them, but make them so they are all tie-dye.

not noticed a difference between sintered and organic personally, I have sintered and they seem pretty good.