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Is that a new tank? Pun intended.
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I can understand that some people just don't want to hear it but we're just re-arranging the deck-chairs on the Titanic, we're doomed Capt. Mainwaring , I've seen the future at the bottom of my tea-leaves. The only positive contribution I can make here is a suggestion to start up a slush fund, with the aim of covering legal fees, to challenge and overturn the previous land access legislation, environmental laws and motorised vehicle restriction regulations. About £20 million ought to suffice, that's just a ball park figure (we'll need a qualified accountant as well...see it just mounts up and up) before we realise that we are p|55|ng into the wind.
Once the supply stream of current, experienced, talent is exhausted through natural wastage, then the next world champions will hail from a country ending in ...kzstan or ...ia where there are very few off-road riding restrictions, if any. Conversely if I extrapolate my own hypothesis then the current world and national riders can continue at that level until their 60's as there will be a dearth of up and coming talent to depose them.
Back to the revolution comrades, whilst trying to avoid sounding like a bitter Marxist; there will always be a small minority of people who can afford brand new bikes @ £7/8/9/10/11/12K? made in smaller volumes, which is the only way forward for the manufacturers.
I also have a more pragmatic, alternative suggestion for the £20 million slush fund.....use it to finance my time machine project.
This post was sent from the future:
20:50 hrs. Thursday 15th November. 2016
Yours Sincerely,
Angry, of Mayfair.
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Can you draw us a detailed picture please?
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Ok , Call me Mr. negative but I think we're chasing our tails if we think we can improve the grass roots scene,it's in the past. Whilst I applaud the ceaseless efforts of Baldilocks and the like, with regards to attaining land for organised trials, the loss of easy access,local land for practice has severely handicapped our sport. The tree hugging/ conservationist/ ramblers association/ brigade tuwats have slowly but surely strung us up with their one sided campaigns for anti (off-road) bike regulation and legislation, they are wearing our b0ll0x for jewelery. The poxy craze for mini-bikes heralded a knee jerk reaction from the authorities and we all got tarred with the same brush.
Let me expand on the land loss; every good rider I've known(of.... I'm 45) was brought up practicing on their bike in an area within a few seconds or minutes travel from their front door. Now there are even fewer locations for local practice; very, very few people live on a farm or on top of a quarry where they can come home from school/work and push their bike out of the shed and start training immediately. A trials bike is difficult bike to master, it takes time/practice.The vast majority of budding newbies face the prospect of extended travel time and costs before they get some peg-time; the trials nursery pool is shrinking.
The irony is, that everyone I've tried to nurture into trials has loved the bike but hated the logistics involved with it.
I hope this topic was not started with the aim of encouraging a revolution...the revolution has been cancelled
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Saweet.. you're a lucky fella Mark... see my YouTube comment.
Wayne
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?? you been drinking the sherry again Nige?
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Well USA TC members, what's gonna happen this time around?
Looks like Obama from here...
Stories like this don't help Mitt:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093241/Mitt-Romneys-family-baptized-Ann-Romneys-atheist-father-Mormon-church-year-AFTER-death.html
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Oi loiks this one...
http://www.trialscentral.com/forums/topic/8180-yorkshire-bling/page__hl__+comuter%20+problems__st__15
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Great post, thanks for sharing the info, let's hope it helps someone
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Yeah, Steve provided me with good service and the only let down was the Spanish postal service, so it's good news that he's back......gasgas249uk, have you seen the reports of the economic downturn in Spain? 25% unemployment ? I know of people who can't give away their Spanish Villas without taking a huge financial hit.
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Yeah, their frames never crack? :rotfl:
Your reply is so unhelpful, your TC name should be FatuousB45t4rd
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That looks, to me, to be a classic case of an engineering business that does not believe in finite element analysis when designing a new fabrication (frame). We're not just looking at a few poorly penetrating lug welds, the stresses in that frame have not been accounted for. IMHO
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TC member Neo recommends a birra wood wedged between primary and clutch gearing to lock it all up 'austerity style'.
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It's the expose screw threads on the tank that bother me !
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£130 notes elsewhere.
£80 plus sekshwall favours?
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Sorry for the delay in finishing this topic, it's only because I'm waiting for the DVD (with alternative start and ending)that I've remembered to follow up:
It was not the film I thought it was going to be, a bit too formulaic, poor dialogue and it didn't answer many 33yr old questions. It looks like it was just a franchise addition...are there another couple of films that could be squeezed in before the original Alien?
Gautrek was spot-on.
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3 seconds sounds like a lot if you're on standard factory ignition timing, I've heard some of the experts on bikes with advanced timing and their revs rise and fall instantly like a strimmer...how are your main bearing seals? They may be leaking?
I reckon you have a standard flywheel fitted so hopefully it's just a carburation problem (less ££ for you to sort).
You can't add a flywheel weight to a 2000 Gassser, can you?
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Great advice from Tony27, those cable ties (Americaneese= zip ties ) have saved me some ££ over many years of panic dis-mounts...as for the chain:-
Two fingers tension for the chrome framed models, one for the black frames, me thinks?
Wayne
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Playing the percentage game...some knacker will fall for that
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Yes boys, 'NUTS',the General was so annoyed at having to put down his favourite magazine:-
http://www.nuts.co.uk/
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Very good Andy
...and Htrdoug is it David Koresh (Waco seige)?
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This guy would have given the same reply as me, what would that answer be?
Who is he?
Anyone can join in:-
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When you're new to the sport it's relatively easy messing about on any big-bore trials bike in a quarry or a field.
The level of 'user-friendliness' or poke of the bike becomes a lot more 'critical' to the new rider when he turns up to his first trial and attempts the easy course, where some sneaky bugger has set the most benign looking section that simply criss-crosses a small pebble, stream-bed.
Here's a little insight into my mind (it's not pretty) and my memories:-
1) You manage the first flag yay!
2) Miss your line to the second
3) Your steering bobbles as you add lock
4) The rear tyre rolls a small boulder out
5) The bike surges forward
6) You grip the bike too tightly
7) You over-use the clutch
8) Your arms pump
9) Your balance goes
10) You take a dab ..and end up mad-spidering for a 3
You look back and think why can't I do this, ' I'll be better on the next lap '...for me..that's the beauty of trials, it's technical, the guy who set the course makes good use of the land available.
( A little dramatic, I agree but you get the jist?)
Wayne
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