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I always used Sachs gripshift - much better than the Sram one and the best for downhill too - just click down, down, down... Smooth as well, and simple to maintain.
Not so bad really!
Never liked grip shift, the Shimano Style shifters allowed you to cover the brakes well and shift at the same time.
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Er, Pedersens are still being made, the Danish brand Viva has a shaft drive range and Maguras are pretty common on Dutch and German touring bikes (on top of the trials already mentionned). Regional tastes I guess.
no one's actually saying that these things are forgotten or defunct, we're just being nostalgic. Londoncentrism (if that's the inference) has nothing to do with it, it's just for FUN.
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I always used Sachs gripshift - much better than the Sram one and the best for downhill too - just click down, down, down... Smooth as well, and simple to maintain.
Not so bad really!
Until they reversed the shift of XTR and you could shift down the block with your thumb. Rapidfire FTW!
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If it is, it's a second comeback. My friends who rode trials when I was 17 were running front freewheels, and that was 6 years ago.
I used to ride trials from about 13-17. The front freewheel were only used on 20" bikes like Montys and Brisa's. I always rode 26" but my mate had a front freewheel. Jeans got caught in it all the time and you'd eat shit if you were going any speed or doing anything off an edge. We couldn't ever work out the advantage and generally the freewheels weren't ever peticularly great dealing with much pressure, Think eventually converted to fixed front and a Chris King hub on the rear. They make the best noise ever for a freewheel!
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I used to ride trials from about 13-17. The front freewheel were only used on 20" bikes like Montys and Brisa's. I always rode 26" but my mate had a front freewheel. Jeans got caught in it all the time and you'd eat shit if you were going any speed or doing anything off an edge. We couldn't ever work out the advantage and generally the freewheels weren't ever peticularly great dealing with much pressure, Think eventually converted to fixed front and a Chris King hub on the rear. They make the best noise ever for a freewheel!
Does the Chris King one have 72 pawl engagement so it was less "click-click-click" and more "zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"?
And yeah now I think about it it was only the people I know with 20" trials bikes who used front freewheels.
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http://www.rotorcranksusa.com/s1-q-rings.shtml
I already posted the Rotors.. that's why I left 'em out of this list :P
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Does the Chris King one have 72 pawl engagement so it was less "click-click-click" and more "zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"?
And yeah now I think about it it was only the people I know with 20" trials bikes who used front freewheels.Yeah that was the thing about Kings.. with Shimano you only had 6 or something so you'd have to take up the slack, so to speak, before it engaged. Not that I was ever doing any moves where this mattered.
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More of a hub gear man, Mak??
front rod changer
I love this.
Fairings
Brilliant! i think Aero bars whould be included in this thread.
...Dynamos are not obselete! Wait til the energy supplies go down, bitch. Alright not those but Dynohubss are wicked.
How the fuck are bells obselete?
Yeah they look funny. But you know you're jealous.
Best (worst) things on this thread so far: Direct drive, Lumbar support saddle, and the plexi-fairings.
I keep seeing to this geordie fashion victim kid in Horeditch riding a direct drievetrain, first time I saw him on it I said
'woahhh hello, interesting drivetrain.'
He replies 'yeah great innit I just bought it for fifty quid!'
'Yeah but you'll never sell it though'.Next day I saw him in the same spot, I said
'woah its still going!?'I asked him if he worked for Dazed and Confused (he heads that way), so he proceeded to slag me off for riding a 'fixie' and being a 'shoreditch victim'. This, he said, whilst wearing those fucking crap MC hammer trousers that are in with a certain kind of cunt at the moment, and shoes that had kung-fu style separate big toe sections.
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not quite forgotten, but pretty silly anyway. he's around dublin a lot in the summer
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Does the Chris King one have 72 pawl engagement so it was less "click-click-click" and more "zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"?
And yeah now I think about it it was only the people I know with 20" trials bikes who used front freewheels.
Yeah, they make a lovely "zzzzzzzz", Another company created a hub that had no number of pawl engagement points, something internally expanded and gripped. My friend used to ride trials pro after winning the trials comp at the bike show one year, he was sponsored by the hub company but I think he broke a few of them…
I think they were called Stealth or something, They didn't make a single noise.
P.s. Did your mate use to put Tar on his rims? made your pads grippy as fuck but made a hellish noise!
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Er, Pedersens are still being made, the Danish brand Viva has a shaft drive range and Maguras are pretty common on Dutch and German touring bikes (on top of the trials already mentionned). Regional tastes I guess.