guineasmithpig

i'd still cry if the bikes actually came through. though it does look unlikely. i'm hangin on for someone to send me some stuff. got 2 filthy ard guards, brand new and packaged, for £1.99 each. seems a little daft price, but i got an address and everything for the shop selling them, and they have good feedback. will be my second bargain of the year (first was a raceface turbine chainset with bb and v12s for £35 posted, last year was my revell 450r frame for £80) you can get some super cheap stuff, but make sure you get some good contact details if they have low feedback. and i only deal with uk sellers Smithy

tryin to go through some stuff from when i started riding about 8 years ago... bent Easton Elite xc frame and Z2 BAMs, trashed FSA headset. stuffed my first custom bike into a tree 5 weeks after completing it after 13 months of doing a paper round to build it. nearly cried! (insurance paid out £600 for new stuff though ) snapped FSA Sidewinders bent PX downhill bars in 40mins. took back to the shop same day i bought em snapped Profile DH bars twisted axle in dmr chieftains crack arms in DMR chieftains bent Z1 CRs FUNN rear DH wheel (early Halo rims, complete tripe. still got the hubshell somewhere) SNAPPED woodman sealed headset (£80 unit, cup sheared off in frame!?) totalled about 4 LX rear hubs (shop refused to sell me anymore) club roost stinger frame (flaired headtube) couple more sets of Sidewinder/PowerPro cranks and UN52 bb's snapped Stinger Evo warranty replacement clean in half within a month (first frame i rode trials on about 6 years ago) broke about 4 axles in rear hope xc shattered 2 ratchet rings in hope xc bust 2 D521s trashed 2 X517 rims radially laced on hope mono hub trashed F519 3X on same mono hub (7ft drop, nose dive drop, hub hit floor goin through rim. hub still going strong on a wheel now!) 3 pairs of Azonic DW bars (resulting in 1 dislocated thumb) bent 5 pairs of V8s that i can remember 2 pairs of Club Roost 2D pedals, 1 pair of 1Ds couple more UN52 bbs about 6 various hs33 levers and blades tore the bottom off a set of Fatty's with 203mm BB7 power! (pics below) snapped another UN52 bb and broke me ankle more recently, trashed a Mavic 121 CD rim (feel pretty guilty. them things belong in a museum!) 24Seven toaster pedals fell off the axles. can't believe how tiny the bearings are! and probably lots of little bits and bobs i've forgotten still riding hard, though when you get to my age (22!!!) i find you tend to break rather than bounce when you hit the floor pretty hard. on that note, almost forgot! smashed 3 helmets, resulting in 1 KO, 2 concussions, and 1 very scary period of post traumatic amnesia! they do save lives, though i don't start the helmet debate. if you refuse to wear one, you get whats comin to you. and EVERYONE knows that. smithy

got one too. luckily explorer flagged it up as a 'phishing' site link. it does have its uses.....

what, ska or garage? only 2 step garage i listen to is 'POW' by Lethal Bizzle, just because it makes me laugh everytime i here it. sound like a bunch o weetards Smithy

get you party on! (most of party occuring behind camera person) Smithy

--> QUOTE(joe b @ Feb 14 2007, 09:12 PM) ←A broke helmet is just as bad as no helmet . Either a week off the bike or a hole in the head? Joe. my thoughts exactly. and if you bodge it together or glue it, and then have a crash and smash it to pieces, they aren't obliged to replace it because its been tampered with. Worst of all, if you sustain injury (or even die) from the crash, because the helmet didn't do its job, then they can still say it didn't work due to tampering and that the warranty is void. Not worth it Smithy

well, if the lock to the compound was broken, then surely they're at fault for not fixing it immediately? i'd go mental! i used to keep by bike/s in my room in halls. was a right hassle gettin them up 3 flights of stairs, and i ALWAYS used to get bollocked everytime there was a flat inspection. but i just kept ignorin them. theres no way i'd leave a bike worth anymore than £50 outside ever. all mine stay in my room in my shared house, which is on the second floor. again, its a hassle but far easier than paying for a whole new bike! anyways, get on the case and give them trouble. ask for the insurance policy regarding tenants property, and see if theres anything on your contract. it'll probably say they have to provide reasonable security, like the bike lock up compounds, and if they've been left in disrepair, then they aren't full filling that agreement. if you don't know what you're looking for, send a copy over as my missus has just finished a law degree, and we hardly pay any fines or surcharges, because she always finds something to complain about in an agreement! Don't let them get away with it, they treat us students shit enough as it is! smithy

be patient. personally, i'd find a company to do it for you. they have the necessary protection and procedures. glass dust is EXTREMELY dangerous. you need an extraction unit, not just a face mask and goggles! like they idea though. and it'd be worth doing it properly. a company could probably prep the cut edge nicely as well? smithy

I was expecting something more along these lines...... anyways, looks like an interesting project! we had something like that on our projects list. but and a mate are doing monoshock suspension for the formula student car. nearly shot myself when i saw what it actually entails! ah well. get us some progress pics of the build! smithy

battered. chips cheese and beans for the win. gym sesh in the mornin. crap

have to get piccies of ma friend. his mate sent a photo message of him in front of an 8ft high snow man! highlight of the day was a 7ft snow-penis in the middle of the park. helmet, balls, the lot! oh, and chuckin a snowball at a cctv camera, which i hit, from about 40 yards away, first time. whoop! smithy

how can anyone forget 'so anyone driving in the outside lane at 50mph is a child molestor' this is why big JC should be prime minister and to top the f1 vs veyron comments, as james may said, you don't get air con, comfy seats, radio, (satnav?) in an f1 car, and the veyron is still faster! though why anyone would would want the white and black one, i have no idea! possibly the fastest police car ever? smithy

do not poke badgers with spoons. its not as funny as the t-shirt makes out do not drink 6 rounds of a pint of stella, and 2 shots of butterscotch schnapps in an hour and a half. or any length of time for that matter. in fact, just steer clear of this drinks combination at all costs. same for magners and jaegermeister. especially in the same bottle. oh dear lord..... you will not stop puking til one of your legs comes out of your mouth do not attempt large gap downs to bollards. this will result in a lot of pain. especially if you have to drive 50miles home afterwards do not argue with your diabetic girlfriend when her blood sugar is low. this will also lead to a lot of pain. possibly more than the bollard incident you did not just suffer do not accidentally 'poke' your missus in the bum. she won't believe it was an accident. this will lead to more pain than the bollard and blood sugar incidents put together! do not underestimate the predictability of stupidity (i'm sure i said that before the bloody film ripped me off) do not try to out do freeriders at step drops running a radially laced front wheel do not run with scissors. no, really! do not faceplant into an 8ft vert quarter and dislocate both your shoulders. it sucks HOWEVER do vote jeremy clarkson in as prime minister AT ALL COSTS!!!!!! and also boris johnson for king, though we're gonna have to do something bout the other lot first. hmmmmmmmmmm.... do eat at least 2 of the huge bags of skittles whilst watching a film at the cinema. the world appears totally different once you leave said cinema do eat fox crunch cream biscuits. mmmmmmm

wouldn't have thought they'd be available seperately. i'd say look for a trashed caliper, but most have been broken in exactly the same way as yours!! how did it come off? i've heard of em comin off before, but nad mine for years, bashed it to hell, and never had anything fall off, nothing pop apart.............

jaime pedrosa takes the win got called a 'f**kin fat bas***d' by a policeman, in a car, who promptly sped away. anyways, as new members, wait til you've been riding about 10years like some of the members on t-f, and you won't even notice people shouting at you anymore! oh, almost forgot, me and salty were 'attacked' by a 90 year old war veteran whilst sat on our bikes having a rest at gala bingo. no provocation, just parked next to us, got out, grabbed salty by the shirt and punched him in the head! then he went for me as well! got it on camera too, which was lucky, because he had the police come down accusing us of attacking him! was funny, because the police gave him a right bo****king and asked if we wanted to press charges. we graciously declined, but made them aware that it'd be totally different if we didn't have video evidence. they would have just treated us as your average young white trouble makers, and we'd probably have gone down for assault, having done absolutely sod all! smithy

sorry, meant millimetres idiot! works out at roughly 28in with a tyre, but i guess sheldon will be better at explaining it than me.

or strip the axle out of the hub and get an engineering firm to make an exact replica, but with necessary adjustments to each end of the axle. then you can use the original bearings and such (making spares readily available). i'd strongly advise against bodging each end with a grinder! if the flats aren't added accurately, then you will most likely end up putting uneven stresses through your frame and hub, leading to premature deterioration! also, the female axle jobby sounds good. i'd get a quote on having an axle made, and see how that compares to converting to the female axle cost wise. smithy

700c (centimetres) is the diameter of the wheel/tyre combo. same as you get 26inch wheels and tyres for mountain bikes. if his tyres say 700 x 35c or something at the moment, then those wheels should be fine. just beware that you do get racing bike wheels in those sizes too, which use much thinner tyres, and wouldn't be suitable for most hybrids

argh! beaten to it! hehe. as soon as i finish my revll 4X/dirt bike, i'm on the case of reassembling my oldy giant team trials (mk1) back to her glory days. hope monos on 521/519s, comp24/hot s tyres, azonic bars on I-Beam stem, even have the matching nitrox saddle as well! just neem to some red pc raceface turbines and black filthy bash, and some fattys (with yellow graphics of course!) anyway, nice pash, one of the first dedicated trials frames! i remeber some kid posting up that ZOO! were the first people to make trials bikes. stilll possibly the funniest thing ever to appear on the forum imo. kinda sums up the whole t-f experience smithy

s'alrite fella still amazed at the deal this guy is getting. tell us how! i want some!

he's currently 16 (according to his profile)

i'm a little confused. how have you gone about getting an apprenticeship on over £30k a year at 16? and why the hell are you having second thoughts! nutter! i'm here sloggin away at a degree with ANOTHER 3 years to go just to give me a chance at gettin a job as good as that!! and again, please answer the first question so i can quit!!!

buy 10,000 lottery tickets

go old skool and track down some TSW Big Deeps! coloured or silver centres available. look cool on corsas

well, if its oasisy rocky music, go powerful, high quality door speakers, with a tight 10in sub, or even one of JL Audio's 8in subs.