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it just slides in, like bmx BB's in that respect. It's gonna turn out to be a rich daddy riders BB, or a last thing to buy because i have spare money and the rest of my bike is pimpin john

i well enjoyed that TRA bail vid lol. comical!!! You KNOW tom sucks himself off wit that bendy body of his!!!!

i used yashi.com for ages but now i can't get it to upload properly. I need a host that will provide me with the link to put into myspace so that the mediaplayer comes up in my profile and plays. I can use putfile etc but they don't allow the linking to profiles like that. john

errr, do people just read the title and post?!?!?!?!?

will it f**k hurt!! ( you must have been very unlucky mate ) Don't worry at all matey (Y) I have had 7 teeth taken out lol. I smashed my face to pieces and had a LOT of dental work done ( i lost 4 at the front and cracked some others. i also broke my pallete) i was shit scared to go the dentist for years but then i had no choice. After 1 visit i wasn't scared. All he will do is numb the f**k out of you, then pull hard with some pliery kinda things and it'll be done within 10 seconds i swear. you'll be absoluetly fine. he'll fill the gap with some tampon thing! for a few minutes then you'll be reet to go (Y) john

NO I'M NOT! so stop emailing me congratulating me (Y) lmfao!!!!! i posted this... It was a joke, and it was f**king mental the amount of emails i got!!!!!!!!! Its not true! so i had to post this to quieten people down!! So yeah, it was a pissed up gig with a bulletin as a joke. I'm not getting married!!! john

nobody ginger can be a successful representative for ANYTHING, apart from maybe black hair dye...

yeah she is well nice lol. Geology in liverpool not leeds. john

do any of you wight trash know tobie draper??? bmxer lives in ryde. Got a sister called sophie....

i'd go as far as to say that in my view, to represent a sport is 60% your views/attitude/personality and 40% your actual skill within the sport. Thats not to say your skill is less, but that alongside your skill at the sport (which obviously does need to be well respected and at a high level), your personality needs to be almost more, as you would be the image of the sport to outsiders. The best rider in the world has no bearing in my eyes to become a representing personality. Ben savage, amazing rider, His riding got him where he is, not his personality. Not bad mouthing, just getting my point over. john

i don't think there is anyone in the shadows waiting. all/most of the people listed are pretty quiet lads. Its no bad thing, but as far as one of the main personalities of the sport goes, you can't be quiet. You gotta 'be' a personality. Its the same in most sports. The personalities of the sport often don#t represent the full potential of the sport, but they do carry the sport with their attitude and personality. The 'best' in sports often aren't the personalities of the sport. Look at F1. Mansell was the best, but was no way an F1 personality. He was more boring than the keyboard i'm typing on. The personalities of his time were lower down in the field, but had livelier attitudes, they played to fans, had laughs and connected with people in a different way. Its rare to change how you are i think, But it can happen. Some of you are too young to remember, but i remember when gary lineker just started TV after football, and he was as boring as shit. He made it work and he is now massively successful in TV. Trials needs someone or several people who do have a lot of skill, but also outgoing lovebale personalities that can possibly even outshine the riding skills. They need to carry the sport on TV, interviews, video's etc. The first thing i think about when i think of the mart/ins is entertaining. Before riding even. There are a million good riders, but only a select few that can make audiences who don't know them persoanlly, laugh at their words and antics. john

LMFAo no way i never noticed that at 4 min 15 hahaha. quality!! And yeah, the heatsinks are shocking, I couldn't knock plazmatics to be honest. i'm not gonna start sayin they are shit don't buy them!! They are amazing, but then the heatsinks have identical power, with the bonu of being a lot stiffer. Top pads. I'm 100% sure i couldn't do 90% of that video without some beasty brakes! Nice one for commentin y'all cheers. apreciate it. john

NEW LINK IN MY ORIGINAL POST

i'm tryin to get someone to help me out and upload it somewhere. my dominate vid account doesn't wrk. never has. Anyone who can upload it somewhere then do it!

and that does...... ??!?!?

you ain't seen it yet!!! you might hate it

I got another video for you here. Some oldish footage, you may have seen bits before and indeed some of this has been on my myspace for a week or so around christmas. Cheers to people who filmed! Hope you like it. More links coming soon..... eengoedidee link... http://www.eengoedidee.nl/videoz/bmx/bongo...joyfullness.wmv (it'll be on myspace at some point once its uploaded)... http://www.myspace.com/johntheguru NEW LINK RIGHT CLICKY LINK DOMINATE VIDEO LINK right click link john

ANYONE UP FOR IT??? soz caps lol. we'll be there....

thats the isel of mann mate. where they have the TT races each summer. john

search the forum for starbike. There was some chattin about them a week ago. Magura are the only hydaulic rim brakes that work

It sounds like you are missong a spacer in between either the 2 driver bearings, or inbetween the driver and the hubshell inside, where the hub bearing makes contact with the inside face of the driver. The spacers are paper thin metal washers, but they make it work. úber important. I'd head to a bmx shop and have a talk witht hem, maybe have a look in a new one they have. Just talk to em and they should sort you. Its a tough one on here as nobody has the hub to look at except you innit. thats what normally is the problem with these symptoms though. john

i used to ride for plaz, ridin the spanish fly's. They are awesome pads. f**king top But i now ride for heatsink. I am ridin the heatsink V's. don't go of on one saying "oh of course he would say to buy them if he rides for them" I'll be honest, heatsink don't have anymore power than plaz. I have never said they do. BUT they have about exactly the same power i'd say as plaz, with the benefit of having a metal backing which makes the pad a lot stiffer. Plaz are squidgy. I'd go with the heatsinks as you have equal power as the plaz, with the added stiffness. john

you can ask all my mates, that since dj died, i have constantly said that you should live every day as much as possible. If you wanna do something, do your best to do it. If you wanna buy something, do your best to buy it. Find something to make you laugh and make you happy every day. I have lived by that since dj moved on, and it's made my life so much better. Everyone should think about it and try to live by it, Because nobody knows what will happen tomorow. RIP Mathews... john.

(for starters, I indeed used to use steroids, so in my view i am pretty well qualified to give my point of view . ) Wayne long time no see hehe... I used a few types. At the same time, for muscle growth, joint lubrication and repair. It doesn't kick in quickly, i only noticed after 4 or 5 weeks, but once i noticed, besides packing on 2 stone of REAL muscle (not water), nothing i did to my muscles seemed to damage me. I found it increasingly hard to over train causing my muscles to hurt the next day. I recovered from everything stupidly fast. I had a lot longer on every exersise before my muscles were giving up. It is hard to explain but you really do fel totally different. Because your muscles are lifting the weight easier, you automatically use less energy. john

ok so have a read... You go to the halifax for a loan. They give you a newspaper and a coffee, they kiss your arse for a while and they take you into the posh loan room to make you feel special. You give them 38611 details about yourself and then you come to the occupation field... IF you are a professional rider, you will input your occupation as a proffesional athlete. This is because your MAIN source of income is as a direct result of you riding your bicycle. You are on an income from a single company or several companies. I on the other hand, can go to america all paid for by a shop that i ride for, they can pay me into a contest, which i enter "pro", and i ride and win. But then i go to Halifax and they ask me my occupation. Am i a professional athlete??? NO i am a really good rider who enters the top category and wins, with great help from people, But i still pay the bills by another means (shop work, Policeman, prostitute, BT engineer, binman, whatever) A "pro" isn't someone at the top of the game. A "pro" is someone who earns their living directly from riding their bike. Danny, i don't have a clue where your money comes from, who you ride for or anything about you. This isn't to say one way or the other aboutyou. But for others who hadn't thought about it in this way. john