Mark W

How come the majority of videos are now "training" or "practise" videos and everyone talks about "practising" or "training" instead of just "riding"? :-\ Anyway, there's some good advice here, in amongst the shit. Just go at a bit of an angle, and really lower the front and shift your arse back so you can spring up properly high (Y) Just commit (Y) Mark

Beast.

Pity really, 'cos that sexes me up.

Anywhere, as long as you call before like 12pm or so? e.g. www.supercycles.co.uk, www.tartybikes.co.uk, me if you'll send me some money for the one I've got lying around here (Y)"

From looking at the crowd, they probably didn't clap and cheer 'cos they're dead.

Used to run 158mm Muscleman cranks. Switched to 175mm's, with the same ratio, and I really, really like it. Once you get used to taking off a bit later for backwheeling (which means (Y) for front-touching), it's sorted, really. Managed to get an 8 1/2 ft flat gap today which I'd never even gotten close to doing with 158mm's on the bike. For power moves, they're just the shit, basically. The extra length means more leverage, but you still have all that lovely, juicy 18:12 power, so it's just more easily accessible. I'm really glad I changed to it after being initially sceptical. I used to do loads of road stuff, so I've got fairly powerful legs, which meant that at 18:12 with 158mm cranks it almost felt too spinny, and this feels slightly spinnier, but once you get used to it you can still give it some beans :- Might like to try 170mm's though as they're not quite as extreme, but yeah - longer is really, really f**king good (Y) Mark

Judging from some of the shite people are putting in videos these days, wouldn't fully agree with that...

A keyfob/key-ring ornament.

Personally, I don't have enough money to pay for random living costs, parts for my bike, new strings for my basses and then to be able to buy another 2 pairs of shoes. I wouldn't want to wear those shoes (well, at all really) in anything other than a riding setting, and so I'd still need to get another pair. At the moment, I'm wearing my Etnies that I got from Bike'05. They were cheap, but the f**ktards at Etnies obviously didn't actually think about securely attaching the soles, but there we go... Anyway, point I'm making is that they're ultra grippy on my pedals, they've got really nice, flexible soles, if you do the laces up on these (no super thick tongue, so you have to basically) there's decent ankle support, but as well as that I can wear them down to the pub/school/anywhere. So basically, for around £30 I got a pair of do-it-all shoes, which, having heard from a lot of people, would still last longer than - for example - those Koxx shoes.

At least they aren't at the ultra^1000 low level of fruit-booters. Jesus H. Christ, I don't actually see how they can get any speed, since the friction caused by their faces hitting the floor as they hang their heads in shame should, in theory, cause them to just lose speed constantly. Saying that, bees can fly and they shouldn't be able to, so there we go. I just love watching the X-Games "Aggressive Inline Skate Park Final" (read: fags in wheelie boots doing pointless shit) just to see how low they've managed to run their trousers this year. One stupid Canadian f**ktard pretty much needed to run two belts, one for each leg, because of how low he was running his uber baggy Fubu jeans. Fortunately, his uber baggy basketball jersey thing managed to cover most of his arse that was totally hanging out of the top of his trou', so it wasn't too much of a catastrophe. Fortunately, from what I can remember from that comp, the guy who won was actually fairly 'normally' dressed...

Am I the only one who finds the "Must wear the tightest jeans I can possibly shoe-horn my skinny, emo faggot self into" trend in BMX amazingly funny/stupid? I love riding Newport skatepark almost solely to see all the fashion victim BMXers there parading about like some retarded peacocks in their most fashionable clothing (ultra, ultra tight jeans and stripey T-shirts are in, so sayeth the Newport fashion weathervane), with their most fashionable viewpoints, and their most fashionably set-up bikes. As if it f**king matters. All work and no play (plus no sleep) make Mark an angry boy.

If you've got that much, I'd recommend the Giro Xen (love mine) or the E2. However, you REALLY need to just go out and try as many on as possible. If it doesn't fit, it could do more harm than good in the case of a fall, so just try 'em on for size.

If he's on later at night, maybe he rides day-time? Even so, it's not like it really matters...

Apart from having to deal with the lead singer's voice, the music was good. It was quite a nice video to watch, but it was a bit... hmm. I don't know, it didn't really bring anything new to the table, if you get me? I guess if that's how you ride, fair enough, and you're riding pretty damn well, but it was just a bit... meh.

I'm guessing those FSA ones Koxx used to rebadge, seeing as they're easily available to be rebranded.