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Something like that would work surely? Or too avoid arguments get a questionairre out to riders who can put forward concepts and ideas. Then group all the common themes and get riders to vote in an online poll.

In the spirit of the post..... My name is Barry Huskinson, an ex cyle trials rider who used to do a ton of demos and now works at OSET, i also rode the last round of the Btc at westwood albeit on the easier expert route. I have to say i am not adverse to a rule change and i totally agree that something needed to be done in order to raise entries and to make the championship competitive again. As it was last year under stop permitted rules the sections in my view were not nessacarily better or worse to ride but they did require you do have a minder to keep you on time in the section, to catch you or more importantly the bike if you were to fail. The sections as they were before were far more physical so in order to do your best your minder needed to be fit to carry all the water and tools to keep you going. As it is now the rule change certianly makes it cheaper i dont need to pay for an extra room in the hotel, his assistant fee, so the no minder thing means i can travel with a friend and we can share the diesel bill, and seeing as i am from the south and most of the events arnt that is a worthwile saving. The above quote hits the nail on the head for me, and this is where i feel the organisors feel down in the second round, (something which the organisors of round 1 got very right). There was no riders briefing, no observers briefing either which leads to observers trying to do thier best unfortunately with no clear standard to observe too, observers gave the benefit of the doubt in some places and in others the letter of the law was applied. It is not the rule change thats the problem it is how difficult it makes it not to end up with a grey area. In a lot of cases if you were to come in and take a dilliberate dab swing it round and keep moving you would have scored better than if you tried to ride it feet up and got 5'd for a split second pause (which is what happened to brown, i saw it!!) Furthermore The venue didnt lend itself to no stop sections, what they set out got changed by the importers which ment you had too many 'cooks spoiling the broth' and the sections that we ended up were an amalagamation of after thoughts. Other faux pas were made too, on the practice lap (a concept which i think detracts from the sport, but thats for another day) for instance there were no observers so many of the entry were having several goes at it to get it right, now that ok if everyone gets the same number of goes but when u have to get off to your hotel and get sorted you cant, those that camped can! There are loads of issues here and for me it will be a shame if the rules are percieved to not work, when that isnt and never has been the main problem. If we want more entries at that level this is what i suggest 2 laps 18 sections (4 really hard, 5 hard, 5 medium, 4 easy) 2 routes championship and expert No practice lap on the sat Impartial catchers supplied by the club in dangerous spots (train them on a course of how to do it what is safe and what is not and pay them for a days work!) even if it means putting an extra tenner on the entry fee The events need to be marketed better, more attention to flyers in the local town, pre event demos and videos in the local town square, really sell it to people then and only then will paying spectators start to come and watch (non trials people) and see how close you can get to the action to the top riders what other sport can you say your 2 feet away from someone who is world level??! The events need commentary to keep everyone up to speed and to keep the crowd enthused We should be using electronic scoring systems by now to keep the score board up to date section by section. If the acu were to employee some one to facilitate the development and oversee the running of all the events, who actioned all of the above, kept an eye on the numbers and made it a viable business all of a sudden riders could say to thier sponsors look at me look what ive won look how many people i reached with your brand atthe week end. The structure would then be there for up and comming riders to break into teams when there talant deserved it and not rely on mum and dads purse to fund the hobby. Then we would have 20 proffesionals and not just 2! Anyway i have bored you all to tears so im gonna get off to football training where it is a lot cheaper and less political! Ciao

Hook Woods Trials Club will be running a beginers training day at Hook Woods on Februaruy 13th - OSET UK will also be there with some OSETs for people to try from 1pm Onwards Feel free to come along - if you would like some more information then phone OSET UK on 0843 289 2890

To all you OSET owners out there, this may be of interest to you. Yeadon and Guisely Club will be running a series from march to september, catering specifically for electric powered machienes. All events will be run on a saturday, the dates are listed below. For more information please contact the club: http://www.yeadon-guiseleytrials.co.uk The series is being supported by OSET UK, with prizes for rider of the day. The E Class Championship dates are; Rd 1. 5th March at Deer Park, Bingley Rd 2. 2nd April at (TBC) Rd 3. 28th May at Dob Park, Otley Rd 4. 11th June at Emmotts Farm, Silsden Rd 5. 9th July at Ians Rocks, Norwood Top Rd 6. 10th September at Addingham Moorside, Silsden Would be great to see this series supported with a good entry, as this is the first series of its kind run in the UK. Cheers for looking! Regards,