I'm with Dan on this, since I know little about mentalism, but am learning more about NLP everyday. I had picked out the language patterns and determined it would be a bike and a BMX bike before Derren had 'revealed' how he did it. I've no doubt that there were some elements in his routine that I have no knowledge or understanding of, but there was plenty of classic NLP - pattern interrupt, anchoring, and use of language patterns to persuade.

So, what else was going on that you could let us in on?

John