General Trials Talk

A friend of mine is looking for some tapered bars for his 04 Rev3 . He wants ones just like on the Scorpa . Any ideas on.... who sells them , cost and if they will fit?? Cheers

Which chain and sprocket set has the best wear and reliability? ive tried the renthal H/duty chain its OK but awfull expensive for a chain that does the same as a factory one(i think so anyway!) also ive tried talon Sprockets there good, theve got good wear on them, has anyone tried renthal Sprockets

Mine would be the Montesa

can anybody tell me wen shefield will be on tv or if i have already missed it?men and motors just seems 2 be showing hong kong over again?so if anybody could shed some light on the situation that would be great.cheers

HI, does any body if this trial is any good as its quite a way for me to go?.are their two routes?.

thanks for all the suggestions lads. Been surviving on tongue,cold shoulder and lettuce alone sandwiches all week SHE has just gone and ordered a chastity belt off the internet. Reckons she had to go for the one with the reinforced backend ? When it arrives she takes it into MY garage and uses My Jizer and MY power washer to remove the traffic film. Anyway she wore it last night and i Solvol'ed it while she was asleep. Bit of a bugger staying awake till she turned over. Anyhow it's know looking quite " trick " it.s all shiney and has purple anodized hinge covers. If i can get in in half i'll be able to make a couple of sump shields only trouble is because of h…

I dont keep the fact that I am a Beta fan any kind of a secret. I also dont make a habit of running other brands down. Basically I could care less what anybody thinks of what bike I ride or what they ride. With that being said I have noticed something interesting in my area of the world with my fellow riders. People have been asking me what I will switch to when the 4 strokes take over. They immediatly go on to explain that Betas 4 will be crap and I will not be happy with one. I have to admitt that I have not heard many details on the Beta 4 and they dont have the resources of Honda and Yamaha. However, Beta is a quality company that is rather diverse. For someone to …

I wish that more people would have their location on their profile. Maybe they are incognito!

Can anyone tell me the web address for the Dougie Lampkin trials challange game. Now its quiet at work, i need something to do! I know it was mentioned not long ago, but never had chance to try it.

Is it just me or is Laia Sanz (note spelling) looking slimmer? I know sam Connor seemed to change shape when he went to Montesa but Laia seems to have shed a few llbs?

I was going to put this under the “if you were the engineer” heading, but my last response there was getting a bit lengthy already and I want to get myself into the rank of “advanced member” as quickly as possible so I can enjoy all the rights, honor, and privileges duly awarded members of that rank. Therefore I decided to start a new thread. There’s been a little banter about a programmable ignition. This is a cool thing, but is probably something only practical for very highly skilled riders. I can see myself trying to re-map the advance curve only to thoroughly honk up the performance of my bike. I suppose the manufacturer could provide 3 or 4 selectable pre-progr…

Anybody got any tips on identifying the subtleties of poor carburation. I often find that my bike gets a bit out of tune, particularly right off the bottom where the power will not come in smoothly and progeressively from idle. On wider throttle openings I can tell if it's weak and searching for fuel or four stroking and obviously rich, but on the pilot jet I struggle to identify which condition causes this delayed responsiveness. I can spend all day trying to tune this problem out on the mixture screw without ever succeeding. Other people have ridden the bike and do not seem to notice a problem but I know how smooth the thing can run, I just can't keep it in that trim fo…

thinking about the scottish and who will get in etc. i started thinking about the first time i spectated and i saw bernie schrieber riding an swm. I thought i would remind myself what the swm looked like i can remember a nice yellow tank and black engine. So i type swm into the search engine and what do i get? pages of single white men all looking for similar. Just then the lady of the house comes in and i start to panick. i can't clear the screen fast enough. Now she thinks i'm gay and looking for rent boys! she reckons i'm doubly guilty cos of my frantic efforts to clear the screen before she could see it. Any suggestions on how to get back in the good books would be…

what music do people listen to, to help with trials

Dates of the French "classic" trials: 10/04/04 to 12/04/04 3 J DE TRIAL EN INDRE - LA CHATRE 20/05/04 to 23/05/04 LES 4 JOURS DE L`AVEYRON SAINT GENIEZ D`OLT D

Just wondering how many of you guys train on a bicycle. I was not thinking about a pure trials bike. But some kind of mountian bike that could do doubble duty as a trials trainer as well as something you could ride to get a good workout on. I have usually spent a fair ammount of time in the gym, but over the past year I have had a tough time with injuries from other forms of racing which make the gym more of lesson in frustration than a workout. At any rate I guess what I am asking is if you guys ride a bicycle what kind is it? Thanks

I need to fit some new bearings to my bike in the very near future and to save doing this pain in the ass job on a regular basis would like to fit some grease nipples ..has anyone fitted grease nipples to various parts of their bike to make greasing easier. I`ve got a 98 Techno...so I contacted Lampkins about doing it. They said that doing this "might" put to much stress on the area around the hole and start to crack and they know of nobody else who has tried it has anyone else done this mod and found any problems like cracking or anything similar dont want to cause a bigger problem than I`m curing Regards N

Most popular bike at the Vic Brittian today seemed to the REV3, they were all over the place. Always a good indication on which bike to go for if you in the market for one I think mark

Just looking at getting a bike rack. as I'm sick of the trailer for one bike. Dave Cooper seems the best advertised, although their web site is a bit poor as far as photos of the racks are concerned. Anyone got views on these. My concern is how good they can be for only

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