Ali C

gt85

tried a vee brake, found it had advantages over maguras in nearly every bit, so I carried on using it.

I'm no engineer but..... Liquid is pretty compression-less (note pretty, not entirely), water, oil etc is VERY hard to compress, I doubt tank fluid is any "harder" than water and I doubt you would notice any difference other than the weight saving in your wallet. Edit: that was just talking about how stiff the brake would be, as has been mentioned water works well because it's thinner than oil, if you really want to experiment you need to try something even thinner, mercury could be a good one

I was waiting for the riding to really kick in and make the video good, I kept waiting...kept waiting but unfortunately I was disappointed by most of the vid.

other way round. makes the brake hold like a beast. try and find a salsa carbon booster, rare as hens teeth but have a wider bolt measurement and loads of tyre clearance too

Daam boy, you gone done got them skills on that there bicycle!

some shimano dx (old ones) or some dmr v8s would be cool? If you want it real old skool then some bear trap pedals are an option.

looking good

I disagree with most of what you just said minus the first motorbike bit.

Subrosas are amazing! they are also a pleasure to build.

Heard good things about Stan's Flow, can't go wrong with Mavic's offerings either, but also check out the Spank range. I have sworn by them for trials for the past 3 years as they are just about the stiffest rims going and are a good weight, well worth considering.

doesn't the power for each caliper get reduced the more that are added? The lever currently puts all it's force into one caliper, if you start to add more that power gets split up and shared meaning each caliper produces less power. I could be wrong and theory is one thing and real world use is another, but I think it's un-necessary, heavier, more things to break not to mention the caliper would have to be mounted on the front of the forks, under the frame unless you custom make some.

rings a bell, I think I had one many moons ago, lets see if I can find a pic.

bolts to the other side....do you mean the lever? or the other end of the caliper?

too slow

this should explain it

you missed the point, the song isn't bad, but it's over used.

"interesting" use of the Trialtech hose splitters Forks look nice on that bike, bet it rides pretty well!

seriously impressed!

very good

sweeeeet! Could do with some matching tyres, but for a budget build that's very impressive! A good bike by anyone's standard

that is true, thanks Mark! Before Mark, I made my last vid back in 2007, I am not great so I just stopped after that. I decided that crap videos are worse than no videos, not saying Aurelien's video is crap, but just a more of a concious effort to find an unused bit of music would have been better I think.

the thing is all it would have taken was for him to not have used the same song used by 90% of "extreme" sports videos these days. I'm sure he listens to a few bands that would have had something that would have worked?

it's my goal in life to wait as long as possible before ever having to send a CV, mostly because mine would suck (no GCSE's, A levels etc) not much help from me I'm afraid, but good luck if you change position.

I wouldn't change anything really, may as well practice them as you would normally have your bike.