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Ahhhh, so you had the same problem too then

Oh yes , busted some ribs and on another occasion my wrist by falling off. The wrist was the most painful as it forced me to limit my other favourite pastime of a young man

Great photos of a great rider on a great machine Its amazing what he will do on it without a minder

Yes - this is a great idea and here is the link Bring Back KickStart

Quite a few people have done this in the past - Follow Ed''s instructions above and this is what it should look like:-

Bitch! Anyway, I could do the jump. I will have to dig out some pics of the old days where I done some jumps .. they are easy - no brains needed

No Problem - Sand Wedge would do it

Not Arf I could ride that I could. I want one

That is just beautiful

Me too ! I bet the sales of them go up a bit after that Video? Sounded great and looked great. I even want to have a go at the jump too ! p.s. Being a golfer, I am not sure what the members thought about that bike running around tearing up the course!

I enjoyed that ! Thanks for the link

Biatch

Thanks for the comments - so it appears the general view is there is no market for a new chassis , even if it is pretty special?

Jeez! you're going soft in yer old age...... Are you sure you are Scottish ? Although maybe, just maybe it could be the influence of a little feminine presence ? am I right?

My son thinks she is rough, but I think she's worthy!.......... must be diminishing standards that come with getting older

If it wasn't for Browny riding, I would have turned it off. The sections were too hard, lacked imagination .. and quite boring ( to watch that is ) Even some parts of the crowd fell asleep - The riders didn't look like they were enjoying it either.. Come on guys, the crowd want to see a show, not loads of 5's and not being able to even get into the section p.s. I'm in my grumpy Monday morning mode

Motocross bikes with heavy BSA engines - I am not surprised they broke.

I would agree, not a great material for wheel spokes.

I think you are referring to magnesium as per gas gas swinging arms

Of course is the simple answer to that. The tubular frame on the gas gas is a lovely design combining weight reduction,strength and most important cost effective to produce. If you modelled a frame and tested its load characteristics, you would find just like a bridge, some areas would need more strength and some less depending on tension/compression criteria. Therefore, it would be possible to design maybe even a composite frame which would be a fraction of the weight of a current design.. but at a huge cost .. that's the downside So maybe there is some middle ground, maybe designing a frame to fine tune current designs then manufacture in exotic materials. This would be expensive but not as costly as the above option.

When I went to the Telford show recently, it was clear that over the early years of trial machines, there were many attempts at custom frame design/manufacture, with a few names still regularly spoken about on here. So it struck me, I am not aware of anyone who builds and sells custom frames for modern machines.( please put me right if there is ) Is this because the modern frame is so well constructed that people don't think they can improve on them, or is there just not the craftsmen about as there was 30 year ago? If you look at most modern frames, they can all be improved but..... at a cost. So, would people pay good money today for a custom lightweight frame for a modern machine?

When I post, I try and make an effort in relation to grammar, but it's not a strong point of mine. I do think spelling is overrated though. There are so many words in the English language that are spelt in a stupid way. Pneumatic for example, why the hell does that word start with a P