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Yes, that's normal. Just rock the bike in gear (4th or 5th)BEFORE you start her up. This always frees-up my clutch. MERRY XMAS Y'all

Markygas, I am not contesting your opinion but can you be a bit more specific about that last comment, particularly when it comes to riding comparisons. I am genuinely interested in your own impressions. Ta !

Has anyone actually seen this ad on tv..if so what channel ?

Ok , 2 tales linked to trials:- 1. Trying to kick over my mates bike for him and i asked him to put his finger in the spark cap (I am evil remember). I jabbed the kick start, he jumped up from shock and banged his lid right into my jaw, chipping my front tooth..just deserts eh?! Both very sore (from laughing). 2.Sitting on my bike (engine idling),queuing on a river bank at a trial in a downpour. The river bank was undercut by the rising river level and crumbled away like a trap door ditching me and the bike in 3 foot of brown water ( throttle wide open). Really narked----but everyone else peed themselves laughing.

Got a bit excited there, I thought you were going to post a pic of a woman

That Fuji ..he's always trying to get some heat into that back tyre !

Looks like Steve didn't want to take any chances with the camera on him,you can clearly see him 'priming ' the bike in gear before he attempts a kick( I am not doubting the bike for a second, there's a saying in engineering ''if it looks right then it is right''). Good job somebody involved with the Rev4 has a bit of PR awareness.

Yes, I think all the video shows is an average rider on a noisy bike then a very good rider on a quiet bike

Right so Bou lands the biggest contract of his career which probably has bonus payments for IWTC and WTC points so would you in his position take chances? he may not even have his works bike? who knows? As Nigel says we are looking at a glorified 'warm-up' session for the IWTC..I'm still going though..and my tip for first place is (ironically when it counts for nowt)....Dougie!

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Yes..this is the real point of wheelies in a trial..the accurate placement/timing of the front wheel into/on to an obstacle , not sitting your a*** on the back mudguard and wheelying through the start gate to the end cards.

Christ..he must ride around with a spare set in his pocket just in case.

I totally agree..some of the best sections i have seen were spoiled by some lions or tigers mooching around in there! Bloody zoos!

There's also a clip on Youtube (which I can't find at the moment..typical)of Laia Sanz doing the same to a row of volunteers......I think.. it was intentional (well you know what women are like?!) Imagine all that weight of the 4rt bearing down on you Give me time to find it. There,found it-

As far as high points go you've missed out the most impoortant one for you.... Gareth and the Smoggie squad brown-nosing ther way to letting Mr. Southgate remain in charge even though he's not qualified to cross the road. You wouldn't find that happening at St. James's...ahem..

Perce..can you do the lyrics for the Swedish chef while your'e on

Was it Ferretflasher ? Currently can't find any trace of him on this site?

I've missed something here..when it comes to the overall effect...what's the difference between backing off the adjuster and grinding off the end of the adjuster?? Please keep the answer simple

Why do you use seperate cleaning products for your bike, clothing or your body?..strange people!!?? click this

Ok...TC people..this was the actual question. Only a handful of us tried to answer this. The lad wanted a technical response not the obvious '' just use some skill'' type of reply. I was looking forward to a lot more good engineering/scientific theories here!

I see you are judging your opinions on the 02 sherco (lack of grip that is). It's funny but that year model had the longest swing-arm and didn't grip as well as previous or later models. I had an 03 model and from what I remember it didn't matter where your weight was placed the back end gripped very well..I think the 03 had a shorter swing-arm. Just my opinion. Is that the sort of answer you were looking for?

Spud, The Ryan Young web-site has a link to a very detailed description of how to alter the timing on a Sherco. I've had quite a few Shercos and the 'range' on the timing can totally transform the bike to what ever you require.

He's not the only dumb-dawg in the force. I have just bought a house from a PC Dog handler and he told me he was called out to a fight outside a kebab shop where one bloke was lashing about with the kebab knife. The dog was wound up and sent into action..it ignored the knife-man, jumped the counter and started eating the rotating kebab slab! : This was all on cctv as well so I hope to see it on you-tube soon.

Mitas, do you mean?.. Gold tyres!.. King bling! Seriously, from a while ago (10 maybe 12 years back) I remember that the Pirelli trials tyre was a **** poor effort in normal trials conditions but if you took it out in the deep snow it wouldn't clog like the dunlops or michelins. I think this was down to the vee shape of the blocks (sidewall). So therefore you could say it was a bit of a ripper not a gripper.