Tra`s Article Of The Inspired Hex

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Hello to you all and them other too.

First off let me say that, yes i am sponsored, but i will do my best to keep this article unbiased and honest.

Now lets us think, what is the point of having a bike that does not do pure biketrials as good as, well , pure trials bikes.

Freedom!

This is the entire key to why i have converted to a bike that has a seat, lower standover height,heavier, low bb etc etc.

And it really is one the aspects i have always wanted and loved, i love the concept of taking 1 bike and doing whatever you feel

like with it. If someone remembers my video "ride everywhere", this was the thought behind it.

But then theres the balance choices, which of the two aspects of bmx and trial do you enjoy the most ?

For me this is trial, atleast now in the beginning, and with the "beginning" in context the Hex was definetly a good choice.

If you are more accustomed to pure trials its smarter to go to a 26" hex then a 24" fourplay or even an skye.

With the bigger wheels it will feel more naturally and better to do the trials bits, especially on uneven ground.

Because if you go straight from trial bike to 24" pure street bike you might feel so uncomfortable that you will get a big disliking

and just give up the whole thing and go back to the pure trials bike, dont jump straight into unknown waters, most people dont like it as much.

handlebar/stem setup. The biggest thing you can do on a bike to make it either solely "better" , or better for yourself.

For this step 1 video, im riding with the trialtech SL stem and high rise trialtech bar almost straight up, i have been inching the handlebar

further and further back only to realise that as long as you get used to it, you still have enough room to move freely.

I highly advice trials people to do the same thing, dont start short, start long and inch yourself back, its more natural and easier to find your "sweet spot".

I will try out a shorter stem and try to get as short as possible setup until i feel too restricted to move as i would like to.

Since the shorter setup i have the more "freedom" i have on the bike to toss it around and bunnyhop whenever wherever.

Now , my bad points of the bike.

Well im glad to say there is hardly any .

But me coming from trials background it does feel a little too streety for my taste, i would like a geo that makes it feel a little swifter and lighter and in general more trialsy.

Now this is mainly my taste and the geo is there because i guess most people dont feel it like that, i am certainly weird. But i must say

that i have a tendency to never truly be 100% satisfied and im talking tiny differences here. Point of bike is street, and im saying make it more trials, man im dumb, haha.

Did inspired do something wrong here? no i do not think so .

The rims, the rear rim are made for the not heaviest guys that do the biggest drops, but enjoys smoothness over harshness, and dont do insane drop gaps

from 3.5 meter heights .

And well, im not the smoothest rider, and im 92+kg . So the rims are not holding up as good as i would like to, but nor should they !

I do not think the rims have bad design at all, they do the job exactly as they should, but its just not the strongest rims to take the largest impacts.

They do not get crooked like a flawed designed rim would do, i do like them and most will, i guess for 99.999% of people rear rim should be excellent.

Front rim ive had no issues with, smacked it hard, didnt budge one bit.

Chaintensioner, who here actually likes chaintensioners? i do not like them, but with the variety of setups people want and keeping cost low, it still was a good

choice for the Hex, and theyr chaintensioner works as it should. Still havent had a single problem yet with it.

Like today, im going to put on a smaller cog for test and see if it works better for me, more speed! You cant just swap cogs on horizontal dropout,

you can even run gears with a vertical dropout. Freedom!

And well there isnt much more to say about drawbacks, there are very few(almost none,if not none for some) and i have yet to ridden the bike long enough to make up mind such as frame/fork strenght etc.

Both frame and fork feels really solid, more solid then any trials bike ive had ofcourse, as it should

My biggest "tips" for people who might want to go from pure trials to a hex, is that if you just try out a friends hex going from a proper trials bike, it might feel like

a brick of turd ! But when your balance/movement/techniques adjust to the bike over a little time, it will feel better and better. The balance is quite different and

the power/movement placement is so different that i recommend really to try and adjust before mind is set on thoughts. I for one was shocked at how well the Hex coped with

static gaps, quite impressed! And bike feels better after every time i ride it.

I really do like my new bike, and i see good times and sweet freedom rolling around every corner! =)

For national trials competitions i will most likely ride my Hex, i just make sure the stem/bar setup is as trialsy as possible and im good to go !

Hope you enjoyed my inputs of the bike.

Thank you

[Rebelistic]

Interesting read

I've just got a myself a fourplay frame to build up as I fancied trying something streety however I'm still gonna ride my cannibal too for natural/pure trials. Not sure how I'll get on riding two different bikes, I might end up preferring one over the other.

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These are 2 so different bikes , it creates the problem that you will not aquire a good level increase on either if you constantly swap around :\

Interesting read

I've just got a myself a fourplay frame to build up as I fancied trying something streety however I'm still gonna ride my cannibal too for natural/pure trials. Not sure how I'll get on riding two different bikes, I might end up preferring one over the other.

[Rebelistic]

These are 2 so different bikes , it creates the problem that you will not aquire a good level increase on either if you constantly swap around :\

Yeah I may well find that. I want to experiment though. I might have to spend some time on the Fourplay to get used to it but I feel it will be more fun. I've watched quite a lot of BMX videos lately and was half tempted to try a BMX but figured I'd probably find a Fourplay to be a good compromise and I wanted a bike with decent brakes etc.

I've been able to regularly switch between trials, DH and jump bikes without any great problem before. My level of riding isn't that good though, but I enjoy mixing it up a bit. It'll be fun to experiment anyway

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go for it=)

Yeah I may well find that. I want to experiment though. I might have to spend some time on the Fourplay to get used to it but I feel it will be more fun. I've watched quite a lot of BMX videos lately and was half tempted to try a BMX but figured I'd probably find a Fourplay to be a good compromise and I wanted a bike with decent brakes etc.

I've been able to regularly switch between trials, DH and jump bikes without any great problem before. My level of riding isn't that good though, but I enjoy mixing it up a bit. It'll be fun to experiment anyway