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yey !!! loads of replys !! wooooo ohh but there all negative. surprised? -get a proper title -get proper sized wheels -get some flow. a.

you know when you land hard and it yanks your arms straight. well due to that, i ripped the lever off with my (weirdly strong!) finger.

what !? it was only a few miles of riding through wilderness to get there with my tripod. cough*with no phone. perfectly safe

in the deep dark WET winter of Quadra Island, BC, Canada -2009.. i was hiking alone and came across a HUGE rock that over time had split and made a huge gap. i usually dont like the BIG TGS style moves, i prefer technical stuff.. BUT... seen as it was on natural stuff and covered in green slime and moss, it kinda stuck in my head. so i tried it. after i had hopped to the edge, felt my rear tire slide a little on some slime and then leaned forward, for a very very small fraction of time i questioned myself . anyway, the main point is i got across, and didnt fall down the 40ft hole of doom and literally die. i did rip my lever off, mangle the rear wheel and mince my shins though direct link below CLICK ME !!! also can be found on my website www.arancook.wordpress.com just found it online, thanks for the little edit paul ! aran. _____

THAT .......... WAS ...... SICK !! hadnt seen 'unfixed' before on chris' vimeo profile. pretty decent ! alot of big difficult trials lines being pulled on a brakeless road bike.

heres a quick video i did a week or 2 ago. same dodgey bike as in my 'viva las brakeless' video please leave me some comments guys ! CLICK ME ! thanks Aran .

heres another short video. everything was filmed first or second try, due to problems with the police and security. Las Vegas is a nightmare !! CLICK ME ! i feel its necessary to give a quick bike spec too. haha. -frame - old cracked DirtJump thing my friend threw away with my homemade eccentric BB. -fork - rockshox JUDY from early 90s with strips of rubber floor mat rammed down the middle of the springs.the seals have fallen off too. haha. -wheels - buckled mavic D521 on hope sport hubs, built in 1990 ish. -cranks- truvativ DH, were bent by my friend and given to me -pedals- welgo, out of the garbage, parts have smashed off, and you see into the bearings, but they work. -Gear Ratio - 22 - 15... to hard. but well .. its on there now. -bash ring- an old 32 tooth chainring with the teeth chopped off -headset- literally falling apart and has to be loose. -seat- some DJ thing, the post is drilled/bolted to the frame. -bar/stem- Mad/easton... these are actually good !!! -tyres- VERY worn out DH things that Ali C threw away about 3 years ago, i cut the knobs off with a razor, then smoothed them with a grinder. hope you like. comments welcome. just finished editing my second brakeless video on some rocks. online in a week or 2. thanks to Huw for filming. iolo.

short vid filmed in about 2 hours. filmed, ridden and edited by me (loner!) all comments welcome. nearly got another vid ready, ' Viva Las Brakeless' will be online soon. CLICK ME !! iolo and yes... i made a 'tartybikes' Vest..... it was hot OK !!

at this point i dont really know what tarty days is/was.... however, by being lost and foreign i have truly missed out !! looking forward to the full video adam !! and nice riding /not swimming aran

so i decided it would be a good, sensible idea to........... Drag an old van out from the bushes of my friends garden, where it had sat for 2 years, fix it up and set off the next morning by myself from Quadra Island BC and drive to the Moon rocks Trial, in Fort Collins, Colorado. it seemed like a very VERY long drive,so i decided it wouldn't be that much worse to go via Los Angeles both ways to deliver the worlds fastest bike to Hollywood for a film shoot.... i filmed a load of stuff- its a very quick edit, everything just thrown into Premiere and chopped up. filmed on my little cheap camera, does the job for now. CLICK ME ! ---> LINK i was away for 2 and a half weeks, and i spent a whole week in Fort Collins, and a day or so in L.A. either way. in the other 7 days i managed to drive over 9100 k and get 6 ferrys. the whole thing was epic, i made great friends, met a load of people all over the place, rode ALOT in Fort Collins, rode trials in landscapes that seemed to change massively in just an hour of driving.and i learnt that cruse control is great for playing on laptops,making food and playing the harmonica. i want to say a huge thanks to a load of people..... Robbie,Stew and Jon..... for getting me over there, providing a place to crash, showing me the riding spots,organising an awsome competition with an amazing after party,having an awsome pump track, and also getting me to do a short track MTB race,(thanks for the bike jon!) and also for making Fort Collins a place full of great times, and a place i must return to.. thanks to Jason for filming in Seattle and to Lee for filming the LA section. also thanks to Jon for giving me his old shoes, gypsys really appreciate things like that ! thanks to sam for the broken/free van too ! and Kevin for the filming session in Vancouver on the way home ........(home being the big white truck in the last scene) also a HUGE! thanks to... TrialTech HiDrive Energy tartybikes abus helmets Jon's shoes wherestheseat gas station coffee............for all supporting my riding music in the video is.... 'Speech Therapy'-----------------------------Speech Debelle 'I come from a land down under'---------Men at Work 'light enough to travel'-----------------------The Be Good Tanyas 'Yele'---------------------------------------------Wyclef Jean 'Crazy'------------------------------------------- Gnarls Barkley 'Can i kick it'----------------------------------- A Tribe Called Quest hope you enjoy, let me know what you think.

yea looking real good !! both in riding and photography !! nice !

LINK HERE not really trials, although i do ride up some stairs on my brakeless bike at one point... might make some of you laugh anyway aran.

really good vid stan !!! loved the chilled one of you and mark at the quarry too... soooo smooth !! i broke both brakes on my little dirt jump hardtail , then started riding that brakless, then put a trials gear ratio on. with a really stiff roughly 2" travel fork, its AMAZINGLY fun !! i got a bit too into it though and did a horrid faceplant, resulting in a fractured jaw, a massive hole in my face and 2 days of concussion all with no health insurance. but your video just reassured me, its time to get back on that bike !! thanks say hi to all the tarty crew !! iolo.

the riding was immense ! me and a friend were just talking about ways to train to get more bounce. then i watch this. wopper ! things are looking alot more flowing this time too respect. i do agree with rowan though, the rail grind wasnt nice. great vid !! iolo.

FEK guys i cant make it. really miss you all ! and i would LOVE to ride with some other humans !!!! but i literally have no money,. x will just have to wait till im over in the big NW sometime...

awsome ben !! loved it amazing that manuels change the whole vid for me. great style a.

THAT WAS ACE !!!!!!! i want to ride with you guys !! but i live on a wierd island and im lost , haha i will come visit vancouver in the summer a few times

yoyo im from yorkshire but i live in canada at the moment , vancouver island area. im erm kinda a trials gypsy iolo.

REALLY GOOD VID !! in all sorts of ways !

i might be able to get there guys ! i will check back every now and then till date are confirmed, then i might be able to do it. may need a lift from london, and dropping off in gay paris on the way back. im pretty sure im gonna hassle Will or partz about that though oh and due to current funds , i will most definitely be sitting on the floor. aran ! x

yea good point dave, next time i will add coolant with my third hand whilst mitering the tube with my other and taking the photo with the other hand.

i can touch my toes !!!!! haha that was a good night, roasted pigeon and all ! well i swam in the freezing canadian sea today, my tolerance has changed quite a bit, i actually managed to swim around and stay in for about 10 mins. went in 3 times. so thats hat done ! and the killing sumthing to eat plan is going well. made a 4ft wide crossbow at work. and got plans to build a small boat that i can keep on my van roof. haha. iolo.

new year all !! its about 8 pm here right now, so 4 am for you guys i think. i decided to not bother drinking alcohol on new years eve.. that was 5 year ago. and im proud of that. it has caused me to.... save huge amounts of money realise that a room full of people really shouldnt need to be drunk to get to know each other. get up early and ride if i want to after being out late. have alot more confidence knowing i dont need it have some fukin awasome late night drives !! its also saved me from sleeping with people i would regret in the morning, haha. this year i have nothing, im happy with life, im gonna make an effort to eat a little less sweet things. i have a tendancy to eat really really healthy all the time, but then go mental and OD on choc covered raisins or sumthing every few weeks. here are some things that i really wanted to do. and hope to do this year... (some iv already done) swim in a frozen lake- - - - ( did this last week whilst on a hike) swim in the ocean when it has ice in it - ( i hope to do this new years day !) kayak or raft to a small island from where im living now, and sleep there. sleep in a snow hole (again) kill an animal by myself without cheating with a gun ,gut it,cut it,cook it and eat it cut down a MASSIVE tree , chop it up and then split it all with a big axle into fire wood, by myself ( did this on boxing day ) build some kinda hut /den out of stuff in the forest near where i work, and get rid of my van and live there. (again this is just to be cheap ! haha) try trials busking travel south for so long that i run out of land ( not sure how realistic that is ! ) jump on a freight train eat roadkill (hahaha) at some point toward the end of next year, end up traveling with no vehicle, and only a few possessions that will fit into a small rucksack. im blabbering. and seeming very strange. hmm happy new year everyone iolo.

hahaha ace links, i might even print one of them out and stick it in the workshop !! haha thanks, made me laugh !! iolo

iv discovered that if i weight my self, then eat some food.. my weight increases by the amount of food i ate !!! WFT !!!!! 111111 this also applies to when i just put the food in my pocket ,, the weight is still added !!! ARGH ! im so angry ! iv decided to re weigh the food and drill holes in my pockets.. but my drill is too heavy. gr ... .. . . . . ... please..just... go for a bike ride.