AdamR28

So what should be the retail price of this fictional product be?

I don't think it's fair to compare two bikes where every single part on the more expensive one is better and, well, more expensive.

That'll be an in-a-rush while eating lunch typo, oops! Corrected, ta. I was tempted not to put it up to make frame copier's lives a little harder, but then I realised it's probably the best way to ensure there's no way they'll copy the geo exactly

Aaah. Well, the dealer newsletter we had from Inspired last week, stating nobody should put any news of the Arcade anywhere until it was ready for shipping, leads me to believe they probably spoke to Crazybike about it. I don't understand how or why we would have anything to do with it

Did you say 'pounds' or 'UK pounds Sterling'? 1 GBP = 2426 Lebanese Pounds, just sayin'

Making a call on what? Confused...

Not a bad shout that - going to take the front prop out then?

Have you converted it to right wheel drive?

I'm off to withdraw all my money from the bank and PayPal account and put it under my mattress, and will always make and receive payments in cash from now on, brb.

Placebo.

Cos you could buy two MX-5s for that amount of money.

Take a long time to bed in, but work fine.

Think he means your hands get all sweaty. Which is true for a long ride I guess.

Yeah, although I think it's mainly to make them easier to get on. Haha, it's only a 5 minute ride

Nope. Used the same set for 4 or 5 days now. They are the mega cheap ones as well, decent ones would last ages.

^^ Yup, that's what I've been doing for riding to work, feels a bit odd at first but you get used to it

You have awesome stairs!

Not Echo, possibly 24/Seven or Atomz?

Both - but the stem can change the feel of a bike a lot too

That would be a little closer yeah, but the difference in length between 3x and 2x is ~7mm for a 19" wheel, so they'd end up 2-3mm too long.

That sounds like air in the system unfortunately... You can also try: - Firstly, clean the disc caliper with a rag so its free of any brake dust and dirt etc. - Spray or pour some cold, clean water on the rotor. Then ride around slowly while pulsating the brake on and off (1 second on, 1 second off). You don't need to pull the lever very hard, you are basically try to scrub the pads up using the rotor and the water will help clean them. - Do this for 5 minutes and you will notice the water turn black. Wash this off with water and then repeat the process a few times. - On the final run, let the brake dry up and it will hopefully be much better.

I think can insert 'I can think of 4 breaking' for any trials component though.

Depends who's making them I reckon. A good factory will have very tight quality control from raw carbon to final finishing, whereas a shoddy one will just buy any old carbon with a poor control over resin percentage and infusion, lob it in the mould with less care and attention to the layup procedure / position, wang some graphics on and fire the product out. You can make very high quality, well controlled carbon parts but the cost will be higher. Same with any product I think, no matter what material.

The weight didn't change (if anything the later batches got a tiny bit heavier), so another unfounded Trials-Forum / Facebook rumour goes to the sword... The very original batch used a weave rather than unidirectional carbon, and each different 'style' of bar will have been made at a different factory I reckon - that plus stupid bar angles is the reason for breakages IMO.

^^ Exactly.