Mark W

Is that a '05 Magura lever? Shitluck! Thanks for the reviews though; and yes, those Pazzaz/Onza CF bars dominate.

T'was all I could afford to be, Mr. Tomm. I'd rather it looked good, but could only afford to run what I had on there (e.g. 3 year old forks, 2 year old wheels, etc.).

That sucks. Just found the BBC News page. R.I.P...

Had the vid earlier, was amazing. Really, really nice. Good editting, and although it wasn't the usual sort of music I'd listen to it went with the video really well. Crazy riding too, obviously :D And Phil, you've got the weirdest backhopping technique ever (N)

Do it!

Whatever (N)" http://www.trials-forum.co.uk/gallery/1106...91_37_16170.jpg Nah, I've gone for more of this sorta thing now: Was going to get a blue rear Magura, allthough with the new black X-Pedals, I'm tempted to go for a grey/silver/black scheme. The T-Pro frame is a bit of a bitch to get a nice sorta colour co-ordinated thing going on just 'cos it's just a bit dull. However, I've never really worried much about colourings of bike parts just 'cos I couldn't really afford to buy something just 'cos it'd look nicer, so mine's more function over form. I've now got most of my shit together though, so I might be getting some silver '05 Maguras :D That raceline Magura's had a good innings (over 2 years old), so it's only fair... That Giant's a pretty good example, but not one I think I'd ever run nowadays. EDIT: We've randomly got a Specialized Evil Twin in our bike shop now, may be a pair actually. Never had one before, never really carried Specialized parts, but now we've got an (some) Evil Twin(s).

Which bit's pissing fluid? I've got several cylinders here (the bits the pads go in), in either blue or red.

Sorry, yeah, I meant it was designed by them, or at least they had a large part in the design of the finished product...

Hey, I've got the T630. I'll have a play and see what I can do. The only thing I ever use it for is clicking left = new message... Mark.

Yeah, I know what you mean Mr. Dan. I was just pointing out that they have actually specifically created Tensile to show-case their own products; similar I guess to how Mr. Deng - or whoever - owns Echo (typically their 'own' designs) and ZOO! (typically their own take on other people's designs). I don't know the trade price of Tensiles so I can't comment either on VFM, but I have a strong feeling that these are actually an in-house production.

I had some weird memory that they were longer than the standard ones, but I was wrong...

If it's giving you major shit when you're bleeding, you could undo the TPA, but do up the lever pivot bolt to try and eliminate some of the wobble? Sounds sketchy though :lol: Is this a 2005 (disc-style) lever, or the old school kind?

I see, yeah, I got confuzzled ages ago. I thought Ben Slinger and Gilles Coust rode slightly different T-Lites, but never mind.

A-ha, were Ben Slinger and Gilles Coust riding standard T-Lite's?

That's the T-Lite long, and I'm not sure it's available to the public? I know Ryan tried it out, but I don't know if it got past pre-production stage. There's no mention of it on the site or anything, either.

Section7 news page with the Tensile cranks on it, dated September 2003. Notice how the Monty team didn't use them til way after? That would kinda rule out Monty having designed them, which you seemed to be claiming earlier. When I had to interview Mike previously too about SuperCycles business, marketing and R&D strategies, he kept stating then about how they were keeping Tensile as a seperate brand selling only stuff that they had created. The Onza brand is still doing some stuff which is just catalogue bought, but they said they were using Tensile just to sell their own parts. If Tensiles were just bought from a catalogue, why was Mike so emphatic about stating the difference between the Tensile brand and the other SuperCycles brands? Equally, the Syncros cranks do appear to be an earlier version of the Tensiles which Chris Akrigg tested to see how he liked them. This all suggests it was in-house design. Anyway, believe what you want.

SuperCycles bought the rights to trade under Syncros, but there was some hissy fit with GT so they altered it. Plus the Syncros's's's's' were a bit different, I seem to remember? Like a sort of early version of them, but not. I wouldn't have thought that many catalogues would have some front freewheel threaded cranks with that bashring and that setup with replaceable pedal threads and so on? Unless someone designed them first? Maybe the company that actually put them into production before the other company even started testing them with their top riders? Maybe the company who even said that Tensile was keeping as the brand that was just selling SuperCycles/Onza designed products. But there we go...

I wouldn't be so sure of that. Certian people who were after a Koxx Levelboss would always go for the Koxx over the Onza, just because of the name on the decals. However, they might have lost some more shrewd customers.

How d'you work that out? Seeing as SuperCycles were selling them first, and me, Dave and Ad (I think?) were all given proto cranks to try out almost over 2 years ago?

I'm guessing that's the same thing that's happened with Tensiles then? What I don't get is why it took 3 years or so for Pulo to sell that Levelboss frame in their catalogue, unless Onza were uber slow or something? 'cos the Levelboss frame's been out since 2000-ish (although with the disc mount then)?

Ah, fair enough Ad. I thought the IP would be with Koxx, if they were the ones who designed the frame and had it put into production.

Maybe they didn't renew the IP rights on the Levelboss frame or something? :lol: The trade price of the Koxx Levelboss and T-Pro frames are the same though, aren't they? Didn't it transpire it was costing them $60 per frame?

DING DING DING we have a winner. I believe almost all freewheel tools have the 4 seperate bosses on them to mate with the extruded/scooped parts of the freewheels. Same for Eno, Dicta, and ACS's. The only difference is when you have a 14t> freewheel because the internal thread size is smaller, so the over-all freewheel has a smaller diameter, meaning Mr. Remover is as impotent as a 103-year-old. Some freewheel do require different tools, but typically they're so shit you wouldn't even want to have them near your bike, let alone functioning as part of it. Freewheel removers work fine.

Whoa, £20+ Shimano freewheel. That's Monty Value.™ And Div, I don't really get what you mean? I was saying that Mike owns Tensile who has those cranks produced, so I assumed he'd know where they'd potentially be going (in the same way the Levelboss frame is in a public catalogue from Pulo), plus he's probably letting them sell them or something *shrugs* Tired, not thinking right.

The pair of CD's are £5 from SuperCycles, btw. Good vantage point for filming, every run from every rider throughout the day. Pretty good, really...