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Hmmm..... know what you mean

Hi and welcome to TC

You must be tired as Italy went to the Euro in January 2002

Really ? well at least they have taste

A standard trial consisting of 10 sections would mean you would have to give up 1 in 5 trials (if there were say 50 riders on average of course). The trouble is that means that only 40 riders would be riding as 10 were observing and thats 20% lost income to the club. What club could afford losing 20% of its income? And furthermore, as a CoC myself, I want as many people as possible to ride the sections I laid out to make the job worthwhile. Therefore, ideally you need a system that allows all riders to ride at every event who turn up I feel, so lets keep expanding ideas on this front one idea I have toted before is the use of tally counters like this below: Riders could be grouped in teams of 2 riders on a random 'name out of the hat' basis and be responsible for scoring the other rider. Another idea would be to have a punch card for the other rider on your bike and you punch it accordingly and he does one for you. yes theres a possibility of cheating but it wont be long before the cheaters are found out. I will keep thinking of ideas on this one

You make some good points Barry I just dont understand why there is a ruling stopping money being given out

HAHA - Even a 290 Sherco hasn't got the power to throw him that far up in the air !!!

what do ya mean ????

Took a set of original graphics and my wife patiently cut away the blue section with a scapel. Vasectomy's she can do for a fiver I have moved on a bit from this pic though. The plan is to have some new graphics made at BUKU but still have everything completely black. I have had a lot of positive comments from peeps at trials . They either say 'well its very errrrr Black" or " It looks awesome "

more stuff Here (bottom right)

HeHe - Right in the middle of the first pic , Desperado,Bikespace, me and the missus - Andys executive accomodation on the left Dont seem like 5 minutes ago matey

I use to have a 6 speed Super T when I was a nipper . Great bike - Done the normal stuff like Compression , porting, carb intake mod and expansion chamber on exhaust . Got 70mph out of it with the wind behind This isnt the one I had but this is what it looked like

To cater for both parties why not give them a choice? Take a trophy or take some money. By the way, we spent around

Well, theres pros and cons with everything but I would think that having a memory of riding in a European round or even a World round in another country would be a far greater memory than winning a trophy. All you need for the memory is look at the entry sheet But I cant see a reason why financial gifts can't be given instead of trophies?

As I have already found out through a previous thread, a majority of peeps on here don't want to pay any money towards youth development so instead of collecting trophies etc, could they not receive money to help them finance their fledging careers. Or fuel tokens or something along those lines. Anything that will help ease the cost to the families? what do you think?

Yeh , looks good and how did it ride? p.s. If you want to show more pics, then make another post and add them.

I think you have it all sussed out TooFastTim! Its all about massaging the ol' ego by the sounds of it

And when Gaz talks about serious abuse this is what he means

Yeah, tis good fun but I am told base jumping is good fun but would you do that?

Looked fun

I cant understand why you want to have a go at enduro Gaz? surely your too old. The bits and pieces in your body take too long to mend when you break them at your age matey and thats the point? why would peeps who now have careers and families want to risk the injuries when they are at an age when they can ill afford it?

I think its time that you considered getting a job at the local chip shop matey

A possible suggestion to combat observer abuse is for each centre to hold a register of offenders. If one rider causes trouble at a trial , the CoC can put in a 'yellow card' for the rider . One more and they get a 'red card' which would result in being banned from all centre trials for a month. Just an idea

I was just thinking that of late in our neck of the woods, the common theme of discussion in the paddocks is Enduro. Some riders have already switched and some are considering it. The events are well managed and subscribed to . They do appear to be more costly to enter but it doesn't put people off. So , the question is, is anyone else noticing an exodus from trials to enduro?

Thats a classic mate