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I see Jim Keddie so probably more of the Innerleithen gang too. I think Matt Peden's there as well. 16 could be the late Jim McMeechan who wore a deerstalker if I recall. Really need it magnified a bit for others. Jim Young with the camera.

Would that I had his riding ability.

You just don't see cleans like that last one by Gilles Burgat nowadays. Great stuff. .

It's all in the mind. I had a wry smile to myself at the Kinlochleven round last year - all the usual farting about in the section but when the whistle was close to sounding then magically they could do the last two thirds of the section at speed, clean, with no apparent effort.

Have you been on any mountain bikr forums? People do get p****d off, to the extent of seting up cheesewires as they do for motorcyclists, putting logs across the trail etc. They see the creation of trails as an imposition on their use of the land.

We let it happen by tolerating eejits on noisy bikes for too long such that it got to be too much for Joe Public who complained in ever increasing numbers. In short, we brought it on ourselves, as we were often told we would.

I believe the 2012 revision to MOT rules now requires a (working) speedo. And if your car is due a test soon I would take a close look at the new rules (especially if you own a French car where the warning lights are on for no good reason). No need to worry about being rear ended when you apply the brakes - it's a 70's trials bike after all. I'd be more worried about what's in front.

Tap in a torx bit with a hammer then turn that. Or cut a slot with a dremel type tool.

"Again just highlights how poorly thought out the no stop rules are" Hardly - they've had decades of use. In some places they never went away. And from what I've seen of high level trials with stop allowed (the latest rules of which I have not read as the previous iteration was nigh incomprehensible) it seems that you actually have to be lying on the ground in a heap away from the bike to get a five, and sometimes not even then. An absolute joke and every observer has my sympathy with what riders expect to be allowed to get away with beyond the rules.

They seem to work on some rims and not others. Couldn't get an X11 to work on a TLR.

If it's a bit tight heightwise then put a strap round the bars and wheel spindle and compress the forks a bit.

Interesting Ross, I recall Walter's motor looking very KTM like and will have a photo somewhere but Big John will be able to save me several hours research in the photo box, no doubt.

Am I right in recalling a works Maico trials bike based on the later motor, perhaps in the early Seventies? It was pictured in the weeklies and "we" certainly looked forward to a production version given the high manufacturing quality of the Maico motocross bikes compared to the other European stuff.

I think the best way to put it is this. If you had given someone a 200 Beta fifteen years or less ago they would have told you it was a jolly good 250. Sections for many are now laid out as no more severe or even less severe than they were then.

TY 250s always had a death rattle if I recall correctly. I tried one back in the day with a view to purchase and the owner explained away the alarming mechanical rattle on overrun with, "It's just the keys rattling in the toolbox".

TY 250s always had a death rattle if I recall correctly.

"and the bag full of old bushes" Funny how we can't throw anything away isn't it. I keep finding similar bits of Montesa and Fantic these decades later.

Indeed, as a previous trials secretary of the Melville I am pleased to see the club making a return. If only it were feasible to revive some of the old venues. A fair few of the members from those days are still riding trials and even active on mountain bikes so not doing too badly for old guys. Over 50's/60's Melville team anyone?

Might it be easier to adapt a modernish front brake light switch from something else?

The 200 Rev 3 is certainly a cracker. There's no rule that says a left side kickstart has to be operated by the left foot.

Something I've noticed with the modern riding is that you never see extreme body lean nowadays. A pleasure denied.

Don't know what the difference might be but I have changed the seals on a 200 without splitting the cases.

Similar but it went on the inside of the silencer and was held by the mounting bolt.

Personally I wouldn't bother messing about. By the time you buy a horn then spend time figuring out and finally wiring it you will have spent, depending how you value your time, way more than you would have spent buying a handlebar mounted battery operated bicycle horn, which is what most folk do, and taking two minutes to bolt it on.