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DMRs are full of problems. So badly overrated. Ben Cox once had some V8s, and brought them on a London ride ages ago, first day of using them, and I spot some bearings hanging out, with only the red grease holding them onto the pedal... terrible. On top of that the silver ring next to the bit that screws into the crank moves around a lot... Just get VPs... or some decent flat pedals, Gusset Slimjim for example, which are £30 for a sealed pair. Good value for money, unlike DMRs.

Joe Hodges matches that description very well for a sponsored rider. 2nd place at Unicycle trials world championships, British Uni trials champion etc.. Well known in the London scene. I'll inform him about this. However, Unicycle.com UK and Municycle.com in Germany are top notch shops for unicycling if you're in the UK (Tartybikes of unicycling world in short, arguably better). It's going to be extremely difficult to win sales over them unless there's some seriously good prices by competitors.

It's far more different than parkour with a wheel and seat... You'll realise it when trying to gap or hop one to any achievement... It's far more complicated, and plus trials unicycles use trials as a 'little something else', not as a pure thing like trials bikes do... Unis can be used very effectively for Northshore, XC, DH, and street (grinds, unispins, footplants, crankflips back and forward etc...). So trials is only a small portion of what a 'trials' uni can do... It looks much easier than it is... everyone I know that has gone on one, whether it be Chai, Dan Ko, Tim Rodriguez, Joe Elding, Martin Grainger, ... who are all fairly decent trials riders, find it impossibly difficult to do any sort of gap or sidehop up to any real avail (it's normal for everyone!) I can understand where you're coming from though, monkeyseemonkeydo, most people think that at first, as did I, but it's far far different. However, I can't understand where you're coming from, aim@me, as it's sheer ignorance. Try it yourself, that'll keep you quiet.

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You can replace them.. just ask tartybikes, they told me how to, but I forgot! Once you get the bearing holders off the cups (the silver ring and the coloured ring) you can probably get some individual ball bearings from somewhere like halfords and replace them that way.. I'm sure Tarty could tell you where on the internet to buy new cartridges though. THe online world of bearings is huge, so i doubt you won't find the model you need for an Echo headset.

weird I find sidehopping to front stupidly odd and effort-ful. I always do it to two wheels, whichever way I sidehop left or right, though it was only 30" tops. I just I find that doing it to two wheels feels better as its just a big jump rather than a swing over. It's all in practice i guess.

Please, gold rims only go with black tape! Other than that and the yellow lever, the bike's nice looking.

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Cool frame, someone living not too far from me has just built a ZM2 as well. I must have a look at it sometime.

Nice! I always liked that T-mag... The pitbull looks nice, just the blue forks and front tyre letting the aesthetics down a little, but no worries. Hope it rides nice for you!

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Told you things are like that Tim, when.... oh nevermind, you remember what we talked about outside Joe's place Might appear with Joe, maybe, still not sure. I'll give you a buzz if I do though.

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I think I'll come to this one, but I'll be late, like arriving 1 o clock perhaps? Someone phone me telling them where the group is please. my number's 07841716013. Gay, my bike's not done. "it" is going to be there

Danny Kearns, you need to calm down a bit mate Most people on this forum are just talking for the banter, laughs, and discussion. I think you took some people's posts too seriously! Plus, saying Neil's a hell of a lot better than Craig, in an insult sort of way, kinda backfired because Neil and Craig (as for as I know) get along as friends, and I doubt Neil even appreciates you slagging Craig off just to say Neil's good. Yeah i know you couldve been a bit offended by what Craig wrote, but to be honest, its all a bunch of jokes, getting pissed off properly on an internet forum is pretty mateless I'm sure many other people share the opinions I just wrote up, so just have a laugh about it all

Looks good, and it does remind me of an Echo Lite, the stubby short seattube as someone said before. So was it all your ideas that made up the 2 different sizes for 07, Craig? Or was it Deng just trying to experiment? Long geo seems spot on.