flatslide

I ruptured my ACL 4 years ago, never had the reconstruction done as I was talked out of it by the physician, I wished i had it done at the time. I wear a DonJoy brace when riding trials and i have no concern at all when wearing it. I'm more worried about my good knee. I was back riding after the swelling and pain subsided, I also had a fracture of the tibial plateau at the time which is quite common, so was about 8 weeks. Definately recommend the DonJoy brace. Its now 4 years old and gets quite a bit of work as I ride regularly and I havnt had to replace anything on it yet.

Why would a stop for a one be any easier to mark, the contention here is did they stop or not isnt it? Tough for an observer to get it right every time, even if stopping is allowed its still quite often hard to really know if the rider went backwards or not at times. Even the paid professionals in other sports get it wrong at times. Looking at the videos, to me only Dan Thorpe really rode it non-stop, but if I was the observer I would have probably given them all the benefit of the doubt, thankfully I'm usually a rider. Personally I prefer non-stop rules partly because it suits my riding style but also means the riders get through the sections quicker. Its tough to cop what we might think is a wrong score but its much tougher being the observer.

I recommend the Sherco, I have been riding them since they first came out, I have never not finished a trial because of the bike. Very easy to maintain as well. I think you will love it, the only things that werent fantastic on the 2011 are the carburation and the rear shock, those have been addressed on the 2012.

sounds like something got into the main jet, when you had the carby apart did you remove the main jet and clean it out? Sometimes you can get the tinniest piece of crap in there that can be hard to even see but it causes problems.

dont worry about it unless the dirt is nearly to the top of the filter. Or sell it and buy a new bike, dont say anything to the prospective buyer.

yeh i put some carbon fibre reeds into my sherco290, felt like it gave a more usable bottom end and a bit more pull through into midrange. dunno about boysen reeds but i would expect them to be an improvement on the originals