LauraPalmer

I´m 37 years old now, and ditched trials around two years ago for flyfishing. Came across this vid by accident and like every vid from you I watched til the end and it gets me excited. Luckily I still remember my password for this forum to post. You are without a doubt the best, most innovative and most exciting trials rider of the post-no-seat era. In 20 years+ when riding is even more versatile, crazy etc there will be people posting your vids, like nowadays every now and then a Holroyd or old Akrigg vid turns up, and they will strike people with awe...

FLIPPIMAN!!! Words can´t describe how good you are. You are completly in your own league at what you are doing. In a more and more conformistic sport it´s so nice to see a freak like you - underground SteveMcQueen on steroids you are...

20" rear rim looks and works obviously great... the most exciting thing trials has to offer at the moment: I hope for us - the audience - it takes him a while before he realizes that himself and starts calming down...

what a pleasure to watch!

your best vid/riding by a countrymile!

absolutley not - sorry for being misunderstanding!! Dmitry owes me a frame. I´m trying to solve my thing with Josh with him personally - this thread´s intention was to get into contact with him again - however what I´ve heard so far is not exactly to my liking...

He will no longer do custom trials-frames; 3 last frames will be made - I get one of them... Maybe he will do a TRA promodel for the public - but I´m not too sure about that...

well, he still owes me a frame...

puh... Dmitry reloaded...

Has something to do with a frame he made for me - for now I´d rather keep this between him and me...

yes - that´s facebook profile I was writing to

Hey! Joash and I have some unfinished buisness and I can neither reach him by mail (jaf-bikes@hotmail) nor facebook - anyone knows what´s he up to or how to reach him? Any help would be appriciated!

Stefan gave me this material to put it together, tripod video - however, his riding is so precise and smooth! Sad thing: He was meant to visit Benito/Abel for a month tomorrow, but hurt himself yesterday - I hope this cheers him up a bit! Enjoy!

haha, I see

I guess every thread has to turn into a Marino vs JAF vs Inspired thread nowadays - anyway thanks for the input... I see, would have preferred, if it was rather based on hard facts (which is difficult anyway, only really possible with a machine testing it or as the second best solution with the same rider over the same time period with the same amount and level of riding...); I was just surprised, as the Australian test riders (Nate Dog...) who broke the older TTs quite fast (three months), had them TNN going strong for a year... Anyway, looks like the new TTs are going to be it for me, mainly because of the disc-mount - hope I can get used to the flex, as that´s usually not my thing... Does anyone have a comparison flex-wise between the Rockman Spades (that´s what I´m running at them moment, and I´m not very happy with them stiffness wise coming from my beloved steel steerer TryAlls) and the new TTs? And do you or anyone else from the Tarty crew know the rake of the newer Spade forks? it says 30mm but I did the WB with normal bars + WB with reversed bars /2 method and it was more like 25mm - but that´s not the most accurat way to measure that I guess...

I see...

were they the HS33 or V-version? edit: I guess they didn´t brake at the steel sterrer but at the legs, right? I´d go V with Tnns and disc with TTs, except the TNN finally come in a disc version...

Hey! Flipp you are answering as far as strength and stiffness is concerned, how do these forks compare to the tnn and trialtech sport forks? with "as for strength, these forks are stronger than both." was that more of an assumption because of the mentioned technical details on the TrialTechs or have there actually been TNN forks that have failed already? - I´m asking, as I´ll decide between the TNNs and those new Trialtechs myself; I usually go strength and reliability over weight, but saving a little weight isn´t that bad either... Anyone else has something to contribute to that topic?

Stefan visited my city for a few days. We documented three great spots/rides:

any news on the forks?

thanks Oh - I hope that changes for the production model... I was hoping to get super stiff short rake forks with disc mount...

thanks! Geo thing sounds good sorry for threadjack btw - can´t say I like the looks of the frame too much - have one of those ugly ducklings myself - but the geo is really spot on, especially with short rake forks

Do I spot a steel steerer? Any infos about the geo and when they will be available to the public?

I´m running my rear TryAll the wrong way - started around 2004 or whenever they came out and the Cousts were doing that - I have forgotten what so good about it, so I more or less do it for traditional reasons.

When I saw it at first, I was thinking: ah nice vid, ok; I just realized I´ve been watching it for the 5th time now (it´s on pause now), which happens very rarely nowadays, so: AWESOME!!! (will continue watching now)