AdamR28

Important information: Due to an unfortunate set of circumstances, the venue and date of this ride has had to be changed - apologies for any inconvenience. The new venue will be Back Cowm Quarry and the new date will be Saturday 3rd May. There have been British Rounds help at this venue before and it is jam packed with top stuff to ride. The total land area is 150 acres - more than big enough! The location is 15 miles east and 10 miles south of Shipley Glen, and is within 7 miles of the M62 motorway. Please note that each rider is require to pay £2 entry fee to the venue to cover maintenance and insurance. Links to the location: Google Maps Flash Earth Map As a 'bonus', there will also be a street ride on 4th May - venue to be confirmed. See you there! Adam

26" rigid forks are about 400-420 length... so a 24" rigid fork would be around 375-395... add 80mm of travel, take off 1/4 for sag, add that to 375 and you get about 435mm = not much upset at all

Beast - no worries Thought it was you, hehe!

Just fit the forks as normal. I guess anything up to about 80mm would be sufficient!

Did you give it a good clean out before the water bleed? If not, there will most likely be lots of gunky ming that's slowing your brake right down... Whip it apart and check, it will be fairly obvious! My preferred solution: Get a track pump, and attach this to a bleed pipe using the presta fitment on the pump, and then to the slave cylinder. Stick an outlet pipe in the lever, aim this towards a bag/tub/something to catch the ming and pump like fury... Then, mix up a 1:5 ratio (ish) of washing up liquid/water... bleed the brake with that, pump it a lot. Repeat the track pump stage and then re-bleed with normal water. Pump the brake plenty of times again, repeat track pump... then re-bleed with fresh water. Drop some wet chain lube on the seals/pistons and work it in my pumping the brake, then wipe off any excess. If it's really not having it, you can try taking the master piston out, removing the seals, then sanding the diameter down a teennyy bit until it slides correctly (push it in and check - make sure you put the spring in! Or you'll have to use the track pump to fire it out again). Lube it up, bleed the brake and try again. That should sort you out! Ads

Some nice features on the frames, would be good to see them in the flesh! Interesting idea on the steerer tube too.. Re: hydroforming, maybe we should split it into 'custom' and 'off-the-shelf'? Obviously any hydroformed tubes/profiles are created with the same/very similar processes but I would imagine custom profiles are vastly different in their development and tooling costs?

Yep, and the Tiso ones are £300+! Some people are prepared to spend the extra for TOP performance... just not many! Surprised people haven't seen the VR mechs before, they've been out for a couple of years now.

Haha! To be honest I like both coffee and tea, but rarely drink either. Caffeine is the devil

Haha! New MSN name? You know what... I don't think I do Sorry! 5/12.. not too bad!

I would say flexibility. It's fairly simple mechanics - if you are more flexible, you can exert more power as the force you put in is over a longer distance (work done (power) = force x distance). I guess the equation puts the same emphasis on both strength (force) and flexibility (distance), but it's much faster, initially, to build flexibility. Just a few simple stretches a day makes a massive difference to your riding, whatever level you are at (if you aren't already a stretchy beast anyway!).

Haha, I know... This is where I sit all day too! Cheers for the comments guys

Ta-daa: http://www.trials-forum.co.uk/forum/index....howtopic=115659 New one has a disc mount... I want one :$

I think we're on about 26" here dude I think Dan Brooker has one also?

You'll break it

Thanks to Dr. Jon for the pics! Martin gap down to barrel Sidehop to rear from pallet in the bottom right Sidehop Gap (looks tiny in the pic ) Gap up to Frenchie Gap up to wheels from the grey block on the blue pallet in the left of the picture (big!) Bunnyhop Sidehop to rear Sidehop again... my biggest ever, woop! Bunnywhop... again my biggest But looks small considering I nearly gave myself a hernia... Gap up to front wheel Martin, King of the Gurn Cheers Ads

For me there is actually - only really noticeable when you go from 108 back to 72 though, not quite as much if you go the other way... but still noticeable.

When does easter start for you? Hoping to get them to NSE in time for 24/25th of March.

And then another day or two to get to NSE.

You can make some really interesting shapes with pallets: http://www.trials-forum.co.uk/forum/index....howtopic=115594

Possibly... 580g for 26", thats 140g lighter than 20" Forxx!

There's a bit at the end of this vid: Not sure how to get to that part though... :$

Paint is goood... As for new bar and stem... it kinda depends how you want the bike to ride - more like a 'trials bike' or more like a spinny BMXy type. Longer/lower front ends lend themselves (generally) to more trialsy moves and shorter/higher to BMXy stuff

Maybe with DOB forks and some modifications