Frenchman

Magura cheese metal does come up well but takes significantly longer to do so. You can really see the difference in quality between the two. cheers (Y) frenchman

the tools i use are: Dremel Polishing ends(3 different grades) Grinding ends Nitromorse(for paint) Wire wool Wet and dry (from 400grit all the way up to 2000) Metal polish and t-cut And a lot of spare time and persistence. The key to it is preperation, you have to have the surface perfectly smooth before you can polish it otherwise all the scratches show up. If you look at the top cap that was only done with 1200grit, i am going to redo it in 2000 to remove all the blemishes. cheers frenchman

Nice pics miniman. Pity i couldnt come out but bike was being gay and i was busy polishing lol. Have fun frenchman

Oh yeah pictures do not do it justice atall. Go ahead bigness looks awesome (Y) cheers frenchman

Got a little bored today so thought i would have a little play with my hope lever. A lot of people know i have a certain knack with polishing and i am very pleased with it. Hope you like :( http://www.trials-forum.co.uk/gallery/1115...2_773_49114.jpg http://www.trials-forum.co.uk/gallery/1115...2_773_28064.jpg http://www.trials-forum.co.uk/gallery/1115...02_773_9041.jpg http://www.trials-forum.co.uk/gallery/1115..._773_173661.jpg cheers frenchman.

vv good video. nice editing and i especially liked the cut bit at the end of the vid, finished it off nicely :P

Yep a maggy grub screw will work and it is the same thread. I ran one on my rb with no problems and then ran another with the point ground off and a bb in there. cheers

oh my god!!!!! That is awesome, looks well made and a good idea ;)

Pierre Lien Riding a purple onza t-pro, now with silly heavy steel forks because my teams decided to snap on friday!! Hoping to ride inter this year >_< Lookin forward to it cheers Frenchman

Ohh nice :blink: I still dont know why they went there.. Am thinking it was because i ran 2 stem stackers.

Slightly miffed at the moment. Just popped a new front tyre on my bike and went for a little play in the street. Nothing serious just checking if everything was in order. Went to hop to a curb and my bike flew from under me leaving me on my backside slightly dazed with my bars in my hands my bike 6ft away :blink: Turns out my steerer tube snapped just below the stem whilst snapping my hope hose and ripping out my maggy hose. As usual it couldn't have been worse timing as round one of the south west comp is on monday!! So its a set of stupidly heavy t-pro forks, an old maggy on single wall koxx rim!! Not good...

went to log on to my computer last nite after my brother had been on it and norton came up with a high risk virus alert!!! i am running norton internet security 2005 and i update all my virus definitions every day just to be on the safe side, everything is running and i am using it as my firewall. The virus name is :Trojan.Vundo.B And it is a hidden file in: C:\WINDOWS\Drivers\Motorola\faxmp3.dll Thing is i never installed any motorola based programmes. I have tried removing the file and fixing it, puttin it into quarantene and it wont let me, i guessed it was being used by windows so rebooted the computer in safe mode. When te computer is all boted up it comes up with safe mode in all four corners but none of the icons or start menu are displayed. So i tried ctrl+alt+del and then runt task but norton doesnt seem to want to run ti just takes ages and then comes up with an error report. I have also tried to do a system restore but id didnt work, so i then tried to do one to an earlier that but i have none saved as i had to turn off system restore for norton to work. Any other ideas on how to fix my problem apart from formatting my hardrive and starting fron the begining?? Oh my operating system is xp home and it is an e macines computer. only 3 months old!!! Many thanks pierre

Prawny baby. Looking good there buddy. Glad u liking the lever :) god i HAVE to get my lever on my bike soon!!! Old bodged leaky rb just wont do anymore. Hey, any polishing needed doing get your stuff my way :) cheers pierre

I bought my frame off him, about a year ago.After sorting out payment etc and finalising the deal i sent him the money via cheque. He reciaved it and suddeny dissapeared. even after many e-mails and pm's he did not reply. I checked and the cheque had cleared into his account. I was really annoyed and sent him some rather nasty e-mails. I had been wating for about a month and was going to travvel up to his house to get my frame/or money. But the next day my frame arrived. SO overall i would think he is a very dodgy guy and took 5 weeks for him to send my frame from the date the cheque cleared but i got it in the end. supprise the git by turning up on his doorstep. good luck pierre

10gb of bike vids 12gb of movies 8.2gb of music Did have more but have done a clearout to free up some space.

sound like a really good idea. Definitely do two separate topics.i.e. one england, one france. newquay is awesome in the summer, with loads of campsites. If this all goes ahead than i am definitely up for the england roadtrip. plymouth should be added to the list for a ride. cheers pierre

at the moment. Guano Apes Billy Talent Jimmy eat world-futures

people who dont drive wont have realised that certain roads feel slower than others. For example: driving through a narrow street with cars parked either side at 20mph will seem fast but 20 on a completely open road no parked cars will seem like you are at a standstill. Certain road make you drive faster, it is psycological. I am learning to drive and on the open roads i find myself slipping into the 40's occasionally. Joe probably didnt know he was that much over the speed limit, as he says it was an open road. ok there is no real excuse for excessive speeding but what is safer traveling at what seems 30 mph (actually more like 35-40)and paying attention to the road or pottering along with your eyes glued to the speedo. sucks you got caught, atleast now you wil be slowing down as soojn as you catch a glympse of a white or silver van/estate lol. cheers Pierre

he he. Yeah man was actually quite fun. well it always is when it isnt your own bike. lol Just to add, the rim was unreparable, huge highspot and mega buckle so we decided to test it to its limits. the rim stood 30 minutes of battering from prawn and myself and only then did it crack at the joint. quite impressive. cheers pierre

Rite. First thing that came to mind when you said black smoke was piston rings. but you say that when you rev it, it smokes and then clears. so it may not be this. Another that came to mind are the stem seals in your cylinder head are worn which is allowing oil into the chambers and burning on the intake. this isnt a major problem but you may not pass your mot on emmisions etc. if it is stem seals i would estimate £50-75 to get it fixed depending on where you go, obviously you should install a new head gasket at this point aswell. as for your tuning problem i am not to sure on what you should do. i would just take it to the mot station and let thyem have a twiddle. oh and you should tune your car with the filter onas the difference is noticable and it is all to do with air/fuel mixtures. you will be overfuelling if you tune it without the filter and then put it on because you are restricting the ar flow hence the air/fuel mixture will be too rich. hope this helps cheers

i am pretty sure that the surly rim was designed for a snow bike. i.e. it has to be wide so it doesnt sink in the snow.