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Wheelie education:

First step: Build a trick bike

Second step: Practice lots

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Yup 47C, i'm a little porkier than Mr Wonka ;)

I'm building another one soon, probably gonna whack a 47C up front and 42 on ze back, its gonna be a slow project probably won't be ready long before the summer lol.
I thought I could live without a trick bike....I was wrong, they are too much fun.

WRONG! Ooops
He's currently rocking Velocity Chukkas apparently, but deffo on 42C hutchinson tyres, not sure what hubs, possibly profile

Tyre/rim combo must be spot on. Or maybe they cut straight after and whacked a new wheel in

42C high pressure tyre with wide touring rim, will see if I can find a link to the wheel...

whoever built his rear wheel deserves some credit, I thought that was going to explode on the landing!

Apparently its a miche hub, whoever thought that a miche track hub could stand up to such abuse eh!

looks to me like they used more than one rider for the footy. Hence the reason for the hood and hat.
The guy you half see at 1:12 ain't the guy you see at the end walking into the studio.

Of course, Wonka is doing the tricks/difficult riding, the guy who the music video is about is doing the casual bits of riding, nice bit of promo work for Nike and Gorilla as well though eh ;)

Haha, cheers man

Weirdly she reminds me a lot of Mother Theresa, what do you think of her?......Tynan?

^ haha

No, I won't.

Yeah, but you're fucking off in the New Year......

Before the new Year......more like before this week is out, just flogging these last few bits and pieces then i'm offski.

I said, 'A ship's a dull place without loose cannons'

Ahhhh that was it, you going beers tonight?
I might nip by for a soft drink, but i'm still not completely over this flu/cold crap.

As someone once said to me, a ship is no fun without a loose cannon..... ;)

Thanks all for the offers, PM's have been sent.

Amazing, check out the 13 stair...ridiculous!

http://vimeo.com/8031338

Wonka.....Nuff said.

*http://vimeo.com/8031338
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Don't stress it Dale, you get yourself better, thats way more important than dropping off cigars, even if they are very nice cigars... ;)

Get well soon mate, hope your ear etc returns to normal soon!

They are awesome, however I have a few of them, so i'm not mourning the loss of this one too greatly, my SB800's are getting relegated to event/wedding work, and I have something with a lot more grunt (yet still light and portable) replacing them for studio/location type work.

all sold unfortunately!

PM'in.....^

Voulez vous aime le Strobe Broux?

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Nikon SB800 flashgun

Pukka Workhorse of a flashgun, discontinued and replaced by Nikon with the hideously overpriced and barely improved SB900, still an awesome flash, regretfully though I need to flog it, so make me an offer, read more about it here:

http://nikonusa.com/Find-Your-Nikon/...eedlight-.html

Did post in an old thread for another one I sold a while back, but I figure a new thread is better as its less confusing.

Still in perfect working order and looking great, comes with case but no box this time.
Everyone who has bought photographic stuff from me on here knows I really look after my equipment, just check previous threads and feel free to speak to previous purchasers on here :)

Yours for £140, bargainous!

Yeah its all getting pretty tiresome, once i've sold these last one or two bits i'm clearing off as well, the forum used to be a place to get away from bitchiness and in-fighting which I get plenty enough of at work.....now not so much, I need to start minimizing my time in front of the computer anyway.
Don't worry though I won't be like those attention seeking saddo's that post a flounce thread and want a big dramatic goodbye or all that bollocks, oh and i'm really grateful for all the awesome friends i've made here, nothings going to change there, but i've got to the point now, where i'm just going to stop posting and logging in.

Personally and I know all you fashion conscious cunts are going to hate me for this, I don't think deep v style rims are strong enough when it comes down to tricks etc, you need heavily re-enforced, double eyeletted beefy damn rims if you wanna do tricks where you are regularly leaving/launching off the ground on your bike.
DP18's are strong as fuck yes, but as soon as you go deeper the rims are less resistant to side to side impacts, plus you also want beefy tyres on a beefy rim, a wider rim allows the tyre to spread out more allowing the impact to be better spread over the rim surface area, meaning impacts are less concentrated on the rim surface, Velocity chukkas are a good compromise and no doubt strong enough for most, but I went for Rigida Sputniks knowing that I could get them in 48H at the time and that they were strong as hell.
32C tyre on a Rigida sputnik, is going to spread the impact over the wider surface area of the rim and lessen the overall impact on the rim (as opposed to on a deep V), and of course reduce the stress on your nice and pricey hubs/spokes.
No doubt the Dodicis are probably at least as tough as deep V's I imagine, but nothing is gonna touch touring/tricks specific rims for out and out strength, especially once you get the bigger tyres on there, like I said....it all depends what you wanna do on your bike tricks wise, flatland stuff only no bunnyhops or 180's etc, and no doubt you're gonna be fine on deep V's and a set of 28C tyres at the biggest, but if you are even remotely tempted to hit that 5-6 set of stairs or other similar drops/gaps etc, then you want exactly what I spoke about before.... Rigida sputniks, 32+C tyres, although once you get above 38's they become slow as hell to ride around town, but thats the trade off for more cushioning when doing tricks etc, people like Tom La Marche, Ted, Wonka etc are running 38-42C up back and 40C plus up on the front wheels mostly....