AdamR28

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.

It's fairly easy to calculate - you can just do the bigger ERD minus the smaller one, then divide by two. In this case, you'd ideally need 4-5mm longer spokes, it MIGHT just work but you'll not have a lot of thread contact.

Them hoses My post-work effort...

Have you cleaned it with anything?

This. And this!

Depending on which GoPro you have, some software doesn't like it - I've got a reasonable old version of Adobe Premiere and it won't take footage from a Hero 3, for example. The GoPro / Cineform Studio software is free and good for trimming down single clips, but I've never been able to make sense of 'editing' a video with it... You could use it to convert the clips to a different format though, then you could edit it with Movie Maker?

Nice work! Look forward to pics I wasn't, but there was an MX-5 race meeting at Silverstone yesterday so there will have been a few people with similar vehicles on the M1 at that time I reckon.

^^ That is most likely not the geometry, since it's what the manufacturer states Ours came out at, with Urban fork... Wheelbase: 1095mm Chainstay Length: 380mm BB Rise: 55mm Head Angle: 72 degrees 1607g

Focus ST? Volvo?

Have a feeling that won't be for another year...

Might be a typo, meant to say 405 rather than 105?

Ditto all that pretty much

Haha, that's funny. Does it rev to about 2k or something?

Southern pussaaaayyyyy.

Haha. It's a bit like brakeless - learning it all over again, but in rapid time!

Gotta love the trials rider rumour mill... Don't believe everything you read on the internet

Wow, yeah they did do well then! Haha, fair play - it is rather distracting when you're trying to watch the car in front

Such a crafty name that! Makes it sound like its Lithium Ion (LiOn), but in fact it's just the brand, haha.