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.
All this stuff about tyres is a bit of a red herring, the future riders and organisers of our sport (which like every other sport is constantly evolving) don't like , can't do no stop line riding (only a generalisation). The old brigade /purists don't like/ can't do stop ,pose, reposition, blat up a big old obstacle. The real crunch seems to be that the future riders need the old brigade to organise and observe and the old brigade are not interested, particularly when a succession of riders get into their section and commence to stop with foot down, reposition front end ...reposition back end... discuss gear selection with minder et al, select gear three or four times rev out engine till it nearly explodes, set off and promptly stop at the next obstacle in the section and repeat the process. What we need now is a compromise between the the two "camps". probably sensible section setting out would be the most simple thing to allow all parties involved to have a good days trialing.
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.
I agree when I was a kid I had an old knackered Puch maxi field bike we would push them up to an old disused gravel pit and tear around for hours on end racing my mates on Honda bog seats and any old scrap bikes we could get hold of
Our local Bobby would often drive by and have the Craic as long as we didn't ride them home he left us alone ...
Way to many rule and regulations these days how have we let it happen
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.
hello. i went to take the cylinder head off my 300cc 2006 gas gas txt pro and found one of the heads on the allen bolt has been rounded so i cant get it out. can anyone give me any advice what i could do. thanks.
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.
Hi, is it possible to run a tubeless tyre on a tubed rim? or would it be a big mistake. Also are the tubed michelin tyres that are still available exactly the same as the tubeless x11. thanks ,
They seem to work on some rims and not others. Couldn't get an X11 to work on a TLR.
KTM used a Rotax motor, but couldn't get the rights as SWM had them at the time.
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.
Oot on the bike the day for a wee practice.Its a bit rattly
at lower r.p.m's ???Turns really quickly.Hopefully get another
run oot before the Melville.Have to get bike fit as I've used
bits of my body I didnae ken that existed.
cheers the noo Brian
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".
Well done to the Melville MC (Scotland) with their return to SACU trials.
...Tam's the Man!
Good luck to all competitors and officials at the Duns trial, have a great day's sport.
Big John
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?
YES; LIGHTLY OIUL THE FILTER AND YES THE MAIN BEARING SEAL IN GONE: tHE ENGINE NEEDS SPLITTING ON A 240 TO DO THIS:::QUITE STRAIGHTFORWARD THOUGH: pUT NEW MAINS IN AS A MATER OF COURSE-----.iF IT WERE me, A ROD ALSO: tHEY ARE NOT EXPENSIVE HERE:::MAIL ME IF YOU NEED A SOURCE
CHEERS
lEE
Don't know what the difference might be but I have changed the seals on a 200 without splitting the cases.
i no a different exhaust wont make any difference but just in case i need a new, can u get aftermarket ones?? and is this the cover your on about??http://www.trick-bits.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=40_50&product_id=79 how do u fix it to the pipe?
Similar but it went on the inside of the silencer and was held by the mounting bolt.
aye, its getting late and i'm scratching my head at this one as its not clear in the diagrams.
i think it is AC and it would need a rectifier to go from AC to DC, so i dont think the regulator does this...if it is, then the horn would have to be AC.
will see if dan looks at this one and can shed some light on it or will pm him, as he seems to have sussed out the wiring on the beta.....thats more than beta can do by the looks of it..
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.
Don Smith Trails School 1970'S Airdrie.
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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.