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Superb piccy

Cracking little bikes, shame my lad has grown out of his!

Well that's one way to take the wheel out...

The video blog will be great for us mere mortals to watch. The helmet cam might give the sections a bit more perspective if he lifts his head up a tad

1st week in May comes round quick! Have you got yourself a ride up to FW yet?

Is anyone else receiving spam emails from French trials and quad companies? I seem to be getting loads of emails lately, I've tried unsubscribing in English, French and in plain "**** off you spamming ****s!" style but without success. I blame Andy...

From memory, you should have two re-usable filters and one paper filter. The re-usable ones are either side of the engine, think I used to clean mine with 'air filter' cleaning fluid every 4 trials. Also changed the paper one every 4 trials too...

When did you grow the beard Gizza?

Ah, so it's your fault then!

I've been busy uploading photos to an online server for safekeeping and I found an old hard drive with loads of trials related stuff on it. First up is 120+ photos from the Thu, Fri and Sat of the 2003 SSDT. Photo gallery is here... (The gallery images are at the original size so click the icon at the bottom to expand them then click again to zoom in if needed...) Also found a folder with over 80 gig' of trials videos ranging from club trials, BTC to WR's!

You ****

Those statistics are obviously skewed, I know of at least one Scot(ch) man who can't handle 45 halves of Lager Top a year...

Nah, the carb iced up!

We were chatting about this today, hoping to come up and take the p*** out of some old bugger wearing the latest wet-weather innovation. We've had the Bart Simpson shorts, steel toed wellys and purple <thwack> latex gloves so far

Erm, it has been quite a while

The van that went about 3 years ago?

Thanks for the advice everybody I couldn't be a***d draining the petrol out so I just added 10 litres of diesel. The airlock must have been between the tank and the fuel filter as it was almost empty when I dropped it out, I filled it to the brim and she fired up after two minutes of cranking the engine over, result! PS. I left the N/S injector loose until the engine started proper and then tightened it up. Just filled the tank and took it for a decent run, no ill effects as it seemed to run better than usual

Just logged in, saw 7 replies with Gizza5 as the last person to post and I sat here cringing as I clicked the mouse

***Disclaimer*** This is a typical kinell 'mishap' so I hereby agree to accept all manner of p*** taking, name calling and mental abuse as long as some bugger eventually tells me how to get my van running again The fuel gauge on the old Tranny always shows full so I keep a spare can of diesel* in the back. Yesterday the van coughed, ran, spluttered, ran and then died on me so I topped her up at the side of the road. The battery ran flat trying to draw fuel so I rang a mate up to help out. My 'bargain' jump leads dripped melted plastic all over their engine bay so a mate of a mate turned up with some heavy duty leads. An hour later and the cow still wouldn't start so we left her for the night. Had another go this morning with a bag full of spanners and my favourite BFH. I thought it a bit odd that a diesel engine should smell of petrol so I realised my error and added 10 litres of diesel to the mix. I then rather sheepishly rang the AA who promised to turn up within 2 hours** By 6.30pm, I had had enough so I left the keys under the front wheel and abandoned the van for another night. The AA man eventually turned up*** and the van is now sat outside my house again. A bit of t'internet surfing suggests that: - a) Diesel engines prefer diesel to petrol Diesel engines don't like air in the fuel system and c) I really should stick to Lego and Meccano! So, does TC have any DIY or Professional mechanics who can tell me how to bleed the fuel system? It's an 02 Transit with a Duratorq engine, 2.0 litre I think. I've drained the fuel filter and cracked open the injector pipe thingys but it just won't fire at all... *It should have been diesel as it was in a black can but I now reckon it was an old can of unleaded with a 70ml dose of 2 stroke oil! ** 2 hours turned into 6 hours, yes 6 ****ing hours! *** They call themselves the "4th Emergency Service" My a***!

I bloody knew I'd seen those eyebrows somewhere before!

Not the chauffeurs car surely!

That's right, I sold the plate after getting a bollocking off the Police. I didn't get fined as I passed their 'attitude' test apparently (nice and polite and no back-chat) They told me the same as Bo Drinker says above, get caught a couple of times and you get fined, 3rd offence and the DVLA strip you of owners rights!

It's not the distance, it's the caning that matters - only a Beta for me