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Well put.

Well what type of riding did you like doing when you rode? Street, natural? How tall are you? This sort of info will help people to make suggestions.

The disc setup you listed will work just fine. Although as previously stated you could probably get your magura working well enough. A brake bleed is the process of pushing new fluid into your brake line to get rid of trapped air bubbles. Because air more easily than oil, air in your brake line will result in a spongey feeling at the lever, and an overall worse-performing brake. As was also stated, you could try grinding your rim. "Grinding" is taking an angle grinder to your rim and roughing up the braking surface a bit. Even before you try bleeding or grind though, I would suggest checking your caliper/pad alignment. Make sure that your pads are hitting your rim squarely. Lastly you could try some better pads. I'm assuming you're running standard black pads currently which aren't absolutely terrible, but you would get better performance from some different pads. My advice would be to bleed your brake and check your pad alignment before you do anything. You might just find that it works much better and end up saving yourself quite a bit of cash.

What bashguard do you have on there? I've got the raceface evolves too and I love them but I've got the 32-tooth sized bash on there and it just looks a bit out of place on a trials bike.

Funny, mine don't creak (knock on wood). I did have a problem with a creaky bar one time and it turned out that just a quick cleaning of the clamp area on the stem solved it.

We've had a bell law in place for quite a while here. The fine is around $150 to the best of my knowledge. I've actually been stopped a couple of times and never had anything worse than a warning (I don't have a bell). The problem as someone stated earlier in this topic is that people will step right in front of cyclists if they don't hear anything coming. But as was also earlier stated, yelling and steering around them seems more logical than ringing a bell and slamming into the person. On the other hand I'm sure all of us who drive will admit that when someone pulls out in front of you, you're too stunned to say anything right away but more than happy to lean on your horn (often then FOLLOWED by loud swearing).

Hey it's great to see a fellow Canadian on here. As said above, Trashzen is pretty useful for describing quite a number of Trials moves. Honestly though, try watching some trials vids. There is an awesome Videos section here that often contains videos of some of the best riders in the world; these UK'ers are some skilled individuals! I've found the videos help me learn simply by mimmicking the moves as best I can, not to mention they're pretty inspiring which should help you get in the right mindset as you spoke of. Have fun!

Great video! As said above, the pillar line at 2:10 ish is awesome. Was the urban in Kingston?

Good movie! The riding was great and the movie seemed to flow well without cutting clips short.

He is known, in Canada. I agree though James, get some more videos out!

Check your actual bottom bracket, I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually a 73mm with spacers to fit a 68mm shell. If this is the case the all you'll have to do is chuck the spacers away and it'll fit just fine.

Wow, massive moves done with style. Well done!

There was a thread about this on OTN, turns out it's not a Monty. It's actually made by a Russian company called Pinigin.

That's an awesome-looking frame. It's made by Dobermann, a new company that's actually quite close to me. Although I don't really know too much about them, I do know they specialize in high-quality street frames with AMAZING paint jobs. Edit: sorry, I don't know why that pic is such a mammoth.

Hello well first of all, I don't mean for this thread to be a "please choose a frame for me thread", but I do need some advice. I'm currently riding a Planet X Tibo (1050 wb, 390 stays, +20 bb) and at 6'3 I'm starting to feel quite cramped on it. Basically what I'd like to know is whether a frame like an Adamant A1 at 1095 wb would actually feel longer than the Tibo. Clearly there is a 45mm difference in wheelbase plus the much shorter stays, but I'm worried that the higher bottom bracket will cancel out any added "reach". Or would putting a high -rise stem on the A1 fix that? Now, I am for the most part a gap/tap/sidehop kind of rider (albeit not very good), so I doubt that the higher bottom bracket would bother me in terms of riding style. Ideally I would have liked to get something like an Onza Limey for its long wheelbase and low'ish bb, but it's a little out of my price range. So my question for you is would a long wheelbase/ high bb bike actually feel any longer or is there an alternative route I should take to get some extra reach? Thanks for any help.

Incredible. After watching so many trials videos there isn't usually too much shock factor, but wow was I ever shocked by that.

Nope doesn't happen to me, because I never film . You'll have to show me where this gap is Carnagr, I haven't been able to find many worthwhile gaps at all around here. Oh by the way this is element56 from mtbkanata.

Hey that was some great riding, and I found the quality just fine. The one thing I didn't like so much was how some clips ended so quickly, just felt a little too jumpy for me. All in all quite a good vid, keep up the good riding too.

I'm running a rear ENO trials freewheel on a surly fixed hub, couldn't be much happier with it.

I can't really comment too much about bars as I've only ever had ea50's for trials, but they feel great to me so I have no complaints. Actually the only part about them that would prevent me from saying they're perfect is the angle that my wrists are held at seems a little off. Nothing major though, so if you've tried them out and felt comfortable I'd say go for it!

You make a very good point about bike weight not being everything, physical strength of the rider is a huge factor. The thing is that you just can't deny the advantageous feeling of riding a bike that is lighter than what you're used to (assuming it still actually feels strong). The reason I feel bike weight is such a great factor in how comfortable you feel while riding is because for a lot of trials moves, weight (and thus your bike) can be a hinderance. At this point you could argue that if you use your bike properly, it should be beneficial and not hinder you performance at all. But just consider a simple move such as backhopping, or sidehopping. Once again, I cannot deny that technique and physical strength play a main role in how well you perform these actions. The fact of the matter is, though, that you have the ability to jump only so high. And if you are trying to jump with this foreign weight (your bike), your body will not be able to jump as high as you would without it. I guess what I'm trying to get at here is that to your body, your bike can in some aspects of trials be a lot like fat; extra weight that is not useful for added strength. So we can see that it makes sense to use a light bike, but the optimum condition will be when this light bike is coupled with a fit, strong owner.

Get longer bolts... I know there are several sizes as I have tried using a few different sizes when I was playing around with my chainrings. Unfortunately I can't help as to where you might be able to find some, but I can guarantee they're out there if you look. My best advice would be check at your local bike shop.

Wow, those gaps were insane! The one from one side of the loading dock to the ledge on the other side was unbelievable.

Yea believe it or not I ran a rear deore disc on my trials bike for a while. I'm not exactly a very harsh rider but it lasted just fine, so I doubt you'll have any trouble on a non-trials bike.

If you want to check for air in the system, you could try the following. Put your lever above your slave cylinders, then undo the lever bleed bolt. Look inside the bleed hole in the lever and SLOWLY pull the lever until you see the liquid come into view inside the bleed hole. Basically if there's no air in the system you should see liquid almost as soon as you touch the lever.