dabs alot

Here I am making faces for the camera.

Team Texas?

A new fashion trend?

Overall Winners

Isaiah Cullum

Dean Bechard with Minder Ryan Young

Got any photos from the Youth Nationals you would like to share? Here are some I took. Steve Eichelberger

Not from Missouri, but close enough, from Kansas, Josh Nutsch 11 year old 4th place AVTA Ark-Valley Trials Association

Homer Hensley 11 year old 3rd place

Nathan Dennis 8 year old 1st place Sponsored by: MATT Mid America Trials Team

I just wanted to congratulate some fellow Missouri riders who rode in the Youth Nationals at the Trials Training Center. Dawson Dennis 6 year old 2nd place Sponsored by: MATT Mid America Trials Team

The problem with this statement seems to me that when "drive is on the verge of being lost due to low traction" you have not broken traction yet so you have no need to "regain the benefits of static friction" because you have not lost static friction. Traction with a non-spinning tire at a certain point in time is equal to a force, coefficient of static friction, and if the bike's power delivery exceeds that force the tire slips and now you are talking about kinetic coefficient of friction which in my experience has always been less than static friction(usually resulting in me dabbing !). Then something has to change for the rear tire to regain grip, the force exerted to the tire must be reduced below the kinetic coefficient of friction(which means power delivery would have to drop below where it was before the tire slipped since the since the kinetic friction is less than the static friction) or the coefficient of kinetic friction needs to be increased, such as transfering weight to the rear wheel. Ok, now you have just broke traction with the rear wheel, the first thing that happens is the RPM's go up, and now you have a greater speed difference between the tire and the ground to overcome and the inertia of the bike powertrain is working against that.(no wonder I fall down so much!) So if a bike has a soft power curve it makes sense to me that you could approach that value of static coefficient of friction without exceeding it easier than with a bike with a stronger (steeper) power curve. So if everything else was equal about two bikes except two different power curves, such as a two stroke versus a four stroke power curve, the traction of the two bikes would be equal, and the rider that could most skillfully approach that coefficient of static friction without exceeding it would "find the most traction". Make sense to anyone else???? Or have I had too much caffeine this morning????

Quoting Trials Competition newspaper- "Cody Webb and Andy Johnson of California, along with Keith Wineland of Colorado are expected to attend the event"

jt, will you be bringing those bikes to the Quarry Cup this weekend??? http://www.matt-trials.com/ Steve

It looks like a Beta decal on a KTM to me.

"interesting" observation DG Shanon. Honda's press release doesn't mention "Montesa" nor does the bike have Montesa badging, so maybe Montesa isn't ready to present to the public what they will be selling to the public. Maybe Honda just wants people to know what the Honda Team will be competing on this coming weekend.

Has anyone with '04 Pro's messed with the programmable ignition? How do you go about changing it? What changes in performance do you see? Do you have the equipment required to change it yourself or do you have a dealer change it?

I'm curious why these photos were on the US Montesa web site Monday morning but were gone by Monday evening?

It looks as though that is a guard over the silencer, if I'm seeing things straight! Look where the "silencer" meets the frame, it seems you can see the silencer "behind" there. Sure wish we could see the other side, it's not clear what type of valve train it has, that head looks awfully short to have valves in it they way we are used to seeing in a motorcycle engine.

I'm in the market for a '04 Gas-Gas Pro and I am looking for some opinions from riders that have ridden both the 300 and the 280. I ride intermediate class at our club, I struggle with low traction sections so I'm wondering which would have a powerband more suited to low traction situations. But.... I also enjoy play/trail riding on my trials mount where a snappy, powerful engine is fun. I guess you can't have it all with one bike! Fire away with the opinions, just don't recommend another brand bike, I live in Gas-Gas country! Thanks

Has anyone seen this shirt for sale in the states? I saw it at adamraga.com.

I'm looking for a Fanny Pack to carry a Nikon N80 35mm SLR camera with a 28-100 mm lens on the body and possibly a flash unit and just a minimum of other items. I want to be able to ride/walk comfortably with the pack and be able to access the camera quickly. Any comments on what to buy or not to buy??