AdamR28

+1. I9s could be the next best thing, the design looks good and it should work if the materials and tolerances are decent, but they aren't tested for trials yet! There also appears to be no bearing underneath the pawl mechanism, which is there the old XC, Mono and BULB hubs fell down... Are they available with a steel freehub body and a bolt up (not bolt through) axle? Edit: Found this on Facebook, 8 months of DH use (ie. not hard on drivetrain), bottom spring appears to be a bit dead which is weird? http://is.pinkbike.com//photo/1796/pbpic1796053.jpg

Super Tacky or Maxxpro? If Maxxpro, I'd hazard a guess at the place you just got some from, hehe. If Super Tacky, I know of a shop

If they say Maxxpro, they'll be the Maxxpro ones, not Super Tacky.

http://tartybikes.co.uk/product.php?product_id=10568&category_id=523

It doesn't - the end of the spoke is bent up:

A custom 'boss' I made. You can wrap it around the axle too, but you may run into the same problem I described above - not enough room.

Cheers man! Ahh just give it a bosh, it's not that daunting surprisingly, just have a mess about on some kerbs and you'll get a feel for it quite quickly.

There's three considerations with a mod: - Will the brake mounts still line up - Will there be enough chain wrap around the rear sprocket for it not to skip - Is there is enough space to fit the tensioner in... My gut feeling would be maybe, no, and no... but could be worth a try! The other reason I have one is that it takes any slack out of the chain if the threads on your cranks aren't perfectly concentric, plus when you preload to kick the chain doesn't go all flappy.

Yeah that's the one, can't really see a reason why it'd die (especially as it's the needle bearing version of the hub), but we'll see Tensioner is a spoke, see photo 6.

Had a couple of brakeless rides on our shop Inspired, then buggered my ankle... but still gonna give brakeless a try. It's refreshing to have to learn all over again after having been riding for so long! Contrary to popular belief, having a brakeless bike is COMPLETELY different to just death-gripping a brake-d bike. Anyone who's been riding a long time and are getting a bit bored of 'normal' trials - I recommend you try this, I'm confident you'll find it very good fun and be surprised at how fast the learning curve is. Anyway, photos... The latest incarnation of the Spoke Tensioner™ and Pro2 hub modified to 96 engagements. Not had a measure or a ride yet, but geo is around +25, 375, 1050 (would like some Inspired forks to shrink that a bit I think). Bars *look* high but they are actually lower than Stan's Echo as the head tube is quite short. Cheers Adam

... over the bars face first when they snap Very cool video!

Has ANYBODY you know (who is actually a reasonably high level trials rider) ever run one on a trials bike?

I agree...

The hole required for HS33 caliper 'pips' is too small for a strong enough V brake boss unfortunately.

Had it in a box upstairs for about... 3 or 4 years. Think I killed it though, but spoke to JJ Gregorowicz and he's still running one! So gonna get it fixed...

Note that the weight isn't listed...

Got to the bottom of the problem now New chain + old cassette. Thanks for your help Tom! Adam

Around £479 - but wait til you see some proper photos before you make your mind up about one. Always annoys me when Tribalzine post up poorly shot and edited photos of new frames which gives them a bad reputation right from the start, especially when the manufacturer has specifically told us the photos are not to be seen by customers.

Ali hates 24s, so maybe not, haha. My Echo's pretty handy for trialsy stuff, although I'm more street-orientated. Stan bosses the purer trials side of things on his Echo. More so when he had a disc on the back than now when he's brakeless, but it was still capable. It's obviously not as good as a 'proper' trials bike though. It pretty much comes down to working out what you/your friend spend more time doing, then buying the frame to suit the majority rather than the minority.

I've got a 25.4mm pivotal post here in work, the internal profile of the tubing is elliptical and at it's thinnest point is 2.35mm. You'd need to take off 1.6mm to get it to fit so it'd be pretty slim there, but you could always whack some extra tubing or something in there to sort of buffer it? They get thicker towards the top too, get up to about 2.5mm, so it'd be less drama there. The thicker sides of the post are about 3 inches thick so you shouldn't have a problem there. /\ That was me (Mark), I'm just rinsing Premiere on Adam's computer...

Just like a trials bike... definitely a slippery slope! haha

Cos you've never properly ridden an Inspired with your bar and stem combo!

Plenty left, same compound as the original tyre, but I don't ride very often.

No, sorry, not heard any news at all since the prototype I got a few months ago.