New stuff..

In the last week we managed have to add over 30 new products! Example: Koxx Foxx 26" bike.



Have a scout about about and see what you think.

Danny MacAskill VW ad - part 2!

If you liked the Danny Mac ad we posted a few days ago - and you'd have to be mental not to - here's the "Making of" video. Check out the effort that VW have gone to! Go here to view it!

2XU Compression Clothing

As I speak (type?), we're uploading more of these products, but as a brief intro - we're now stocking 2XU compression clothing. We have the tights (in black) and long-sleeve tops (in black and in white) in stock currently. 2XU also make short sleeve tops, shorts and a massive range of other types of technical clothing, so check out their site here for a more complete idea of what's available - we're happy to order in anything you might want.



Skins are popular in the trials scene at the moment, so to give a comparison the 2XU clothing uses a higher rated denier material (50 denier compared to Skinz' 40 denier), which improves the efficiency of the clothing by providing a higher compression level. There's a hell of a lot more tech stuff up on the product pages to give you all the info you need when deciding which product to buy, so have a browse and see what suits you.

Carles Diaz

This video. My my. Carles Diaz rules, and if you want to have this kind of insane springy riding power, buy the Koxx Silver Sky bike or frame he's riding*.



*Powers not guaranteed.

Teaser...

Got a fleet of bikes going up online in the next few days...



...but whatever could they be?

Tee's..

Check out our latest V3 tee. Now available in a winter grey.

Fresh Product...

As you may have noticed, the Welsh one and I (Stan) have been adding plenty of new products to the site recently, over 20 new items in the last week! One of today's highlights is the new 2010 Terra helmet from Met. Looks sweet in red!

Cheap.

Grab yourself a bargain top end Atomz bike in the countdown sale.

Another New Bike...

Soooo... the lure of a mod bike was just too much for me (Adam), thanks Mark. Here's my latest steed, a few bits robbed from my GU 26".

Thanks to:
Mark for the help in building and 175mm crank advice.
Ali for setting up my front brake.
Gav and Stan for playing pool throughout the build and helping with bugger all, apart from giving me abuse for my wheels being too small.
Dave @ Trialtech for some of the bits (mainly Ti bolts).
















Spec for anyone interested:

Frame and Forks
- Frame: ZOO! Lynx Disc, Long
- Forks: Echo SL

Wheels
- Front hub: Rockman BUB Disc, 28h
- Rear hub: Rockman BUB Disc, 32h
- Chain tensioners: Echo TR Snail Cams
- Front rim: Try-All hOle
- Rear rim: Try-All hOle
- Spokes: Sapim Butted
- Wheelbuilds: Tartybikes
- Rim tape: Tarty
- Inner tube (front): Maxxis Ultralight 20"
- Inner tube (rear): Monty Lightweight 19"
- Front tyre: Try-All Stiky
- Rear tyre: Monty Eagle Claw

Brakes
- Front brake: Hope/Try-All Disc
- Rear brake: Hope/Try-All Disc
- Front rotor: Hope Mono Trial
- Rear rotor: Try-All

Drivetrain
- Cranks: Try-All ISIS 175mm
- Freewheel: Try-All 108.9, 18T
- Chain: Trialtech Z610 HX
- Rear Sprocket: Echo TR 12T
- Pedals: Trialtech Sport Magnesium with Ti Axle
- Bottom bracket: Reset Titanium
- Basring: Trialtech Titanium Halfring

Steering
- Headset: Echo SL
- Stem: Try-All Forged
- Grips: Trialtech Foam
- Handlebars: Try-All Carbon Riser

Extras
- Trialtech Carbon Headset Spacers
- M:Part Stick-On Cable Guides
- Various Titanium and Alloy Bolts

Weight: 8.14kg (no modifications)

Future mods (maybe): Bit of bashplate mount grinding, some rear tyre chopping to improve muddy grip, a few more Ti bolts, bit of bar height tweaking...

Hope you like!
Adam

Pure (Royal) Fail

Another week, another strike. Tedious. Anyway, this week Royal Mail are holding a 3-day strike, going from Thursday to Saturday. As a result, we again recommend upgrading your First Class or ISF shipping to a courier service to ensure your orders get to you in good time.

Danny MacAskill

Danny MacAskill has got his fingers in many pies - this time, it's in a pretty amazing VW ad. Quite a lot of the time ad companies seem to not really 'get' riding, and don't really portray it in a great way, but this advert is filmed, edited and made in an awesome way. Definitely worth a watch!



(In case the video fails, click here!)

Mark

Inspired #854

Green and Gold this time. Very tasty, hope you like it Geoff!













Adam

Sweeties.

Om nom nom.





There goes another £1 towards the 'will need bigger trousers soon' fund.

Knowledge.

Earlier on today, I had to pick an order involving a set of spokes for a wheel. I wanted to check with Ads about the lengths, and simply by telling him the lengths of spoke he was able to tell me which cross for each side of the wheel, which hub, which rim, and which year...



...I'll just let that sink in for a while. Madness.

Mark

Brothers, Sisters and Cousins...

New additions to the Tarty box family: Frame box, 20" wheel box and fork/bar box.

As Mark would say: 'Packing time win' (or something with 'win', 'lose' or 'fail' at the end).



Adam

Tarty Weekender

Hmm.

2riders1wall.com

Two photos from a little session in Bradford last weekend - both on my bike, first one's me backwheeling a wall with a pretty tight (i.e. less than 3/4 pedalstroke) run-up, and the other is Stan dominating a sidehop to backwheel. I would just like to take this opportunity to remind everyone of Stan's initial post about me going back to mod, and the bike he happens to be riding in this photograph.





Both photos were taken by Tim - cheers dude!

Hrm.

Caption competition?

Echo TR wheels.

These bad boys have been pretty popular in the all-black colourway, but here's a sneaky peek of them in the black/white colourway. Some seriously nice looking wheels, available in a kazillion different sizes and disc/non-disc options now...

Ballin'.

Everyone loves limited edition stuff, so if you've ever thought "Man, I would be really into some orange HS33 levers" - today is your lucky day:



Keep an eye out for the full orange sets that should be available soon. They come with a bunch of awesome freebies too, definitely worth it!

Ashton's Summer

Rowan put this video up today of Team Ashton's summer tour. Gives a pretty good feel for the shows!



Got some photos of a sweet new green Inspired going to one Mr. Rossi later on today - once Adam's got his new behemoth of a computer up and running it'll be all systems go! We'll also have an interesting contrast build too for another customer - another green Inspired, but with gold finishing kit. Should be interesting...

Pool Comp - The Results!

We played the final game of our Pool Comp tonight after work, with the two leaders facing each other in the final 2 games!



It was pretty close but we do have a winner... the final results are:

Ali: 1 win
Mark: 2 wins
Stan: 4 wins
Gav: 5 wins
Adam: 8 wins



Stay tuned for our next competition! Table tennis maybe?

Filming orders?

Steve A filming, Kenny and Stan playing pool, Ali riding? What's going on here?



Unrelated, but there's 45 boxes of Koxx/K-124 win sitting in the warehouse now. Chances are if you want something made by them that we now have it. Should be up on the site soon!

Danny MacAskill

Danny's had a mental year - since that video dropped back in April, sponsorship offers, job offers, trips and opportunities to clock up some airmiles have come in thick and fast. One of those job offers came from S1 Jobs, to film a recruiting video which you can view below:



That video's pretty old now, but this making of video has some fresh bits in it. Made by Dave Sowerby for S1, click here to check it out.

All this mention of Danny probably means our search engine traffic is going to go nuts...

Edit by Adam: But only if you put MacAskill as well :P haha!

Big time.

New vid for Red Bull from Mr. Tom Ohler (I don't know how to do that accent on the O...), doing some strizzeeeeet in NYC:

Shipping.

Like we said earlier in the week, Royal Mail strike action's fully on the go. If you've ordered anything First Class (Or ISF), it's going to take at least an extra 2 days to get to you. As a result, if you want your products sooner (e.g. if you want them for a ride this weekend), please make sure you choose courier delivery. Don't forget - order before our courier cut-off today and you'll have your bits before the weekend. Our couriers only deliver on Saturdays if you pay an extra cost, so today is the last time you can order something and have it arrive this week.

Putting in work.

Stan and I have been pounding the website jobs today. As a result, in the next few days a lot of new product is going up on the site - today, the hottest products are the Gusset seat/post combos (officially the lightest full-sized seat and post setup we sell - over 75g lighter than a Pivotal setup, whilst also being under £30 for the whole setup, which is a fair bit less than a Pivotal setup too) and the sweet new white FiveTens.





Like I said, plenty more coming soon, keep checking back! We've also got some reasonably exclusive (To the trials world, at least) products that should be going live in the next few days that should cause a stir. As ever, any new stuff will appear on the home page so keep an eye on it.

Pimp (Pt. 2)

So, as promised, here are some more photos of that sweeeet Stinger build. It's not Ali's bike (as some people thought), this is just a customer who wanted to build the best bike possible. This was fully a no expense spared build - there's only one steel bolt on the whole bike which is the pivot bolt in the front Hope lever body. Everything else is ti, or alloy where it needs to be (Ti pedal spindles too).

















Don't forget, we can make you any custom complete bike you want, so if this bike's tickled your fancy, or you've got some ideas for a build of your own, feel free to give us a call (01772 33 33 32!) or an e-mail (info[at]tartybikes[dot]co[dot]uk) and get the ball rolling...

Pimp.

This bad-boy needs a bit of a grind and some setup tweakage, but it's all built up at the moment - check the weight (Bearing in mind there's no mods at all, and it's a pretty solid build).



More photos tomorrow once it's completely sorted. When Stan was taking this order over the phone he was getting visibly excited about how good it was, and he wasn't wrong.

Baby blue inspiration...

This is approximately our 5 millionth Inspired build to roll out the doors, and is definitely one of the nicest. I'm pretty keen on the blue/white theme!