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The Fantic kill button as standard earths to the bars. Just take it off the bars but make sure it is well clear when you then try to start the bike.

The sport has moved on so much since the twin shock days, even in fact since early mono days and by building a special you no doubt build in advantages which will seem unfair.[/quote Assuming they stick to drum brakes it's hard to think what advantages could be built in that are not seen on many Fantics that have been recently put together. By the way, I run a bog standard SWM.

When I fived a section in my first trial by trying too hard to avoid a dab I was given some sage advice by a then recent national champion. “Don’t try and clean everything”, he said. I took that to heart and have spent the intervening four decades successfully not cleaning very much at all Self deprecation aside, the advice was good. Once you find your feet, as it were, and have some idea of your capabilities you should plan out where you will need to dab rather than be forced to dab then having more through keeping your feet up too long and ending up in a position you don’t want to be. A judicious dab can avoid a three or five. Once you get a bit better you will know which sections you can clean and progress from there. Don’t forget, the correct tyre pressures make a big difference.

Not everybody wants the problems of owning a 40 year old bike, perhaps.

It's probably more to do with riders coming to it after years on two strokes never having ridden a four stroke than the bike itself?

Nice one :-)

I think you'll struggle to get plushness. Trials forks are plush for trials and motocross forks plush for that but to take the trials fork setup so far beyond its design parameters will cost you certain properties with plushness, I suspect, being the main one.

I'm sure it must be possible to at least adjust the preload on the rear - must be worth trying. Ditto forks, you can cut plastic waste pipe to length to increase preload and use thicker oil?

As I happen to have one on the desk in front of me I can tell you that the 4RT front spindle is 20mm diameter.

Someone on here suggested Heldite and I found that it seals the spoke heads very well. It's made for sealing threaded joints etc.

Or make the bead breaker from old timber - there are examples on the internet. May as well save half the cost of that new tyre!

I used to get good results with Snoseal. The problem is that some stuff is meant for "leather" and can pretty soon turn those expensive boots in to a pair of slippers in terms of protective properties.

I use a Doblo car and previously have used two of the old model Berlingo cars. Two bikes would fit in but given how neat it was,even for one, I'm surprised ,and indeed pleased for future reference, to hear that it is possible to get a bike in to the Nemo.

Whatever it is there'll be a service crew standing by to replace it when it wears out in the middle of an event so not really what we want.

I can't remember the year but there were some vociferous complaints when it was decided that Britain would only get the model with the steel tank and all the lugs on the frame along with the restrictive silencer, most of which was easily remedied. The main beef was that one of the biggest markets for the TY was being sold short by getting the "trail" fork yokes as opposed to the "proper" ones on the pukka trials model.

I'm intrigued. How are you going to find if there's a good spark under compression if the lead is not connected to the plug under compression? What you could use is the Gunson Colourtune mentioned on here the other day.

I'm sure I go against the flow but I find most standard pegs adequately clear the mud and offer sufficient grip. Given the properties above, what else do we need from a footrest? Well, the teeth need to be capable of being kept sharp with a file then easy to weld to start again when the filing has reached its limit. Welding is also required from time to time to keep the rests level or tilted up slightly at the ends. I've seen some very expensive rests pointing to the ground thus offering reduced grip and control. They also need to be soft enough to bend to avoid transmitting undesirable forces to the frame and damaging it (which rules out titanium and possibly alloy), then easily straightened with a bit of heat. All the above seems to point to steel as the best. Weight? The difference is negligible in the context and it would be easy and cheap to lose more off the rider's body. Personally I'd feel a lot more benefit from spending the money on a tire and get some beer (vital replacement of the salts lost during a trial :-) with what's left between the cost of titanium rests and the tyre.

I've seldom opened a bearing and found an adequate amount of grease. I refill with waterproof grease.

Well sectionone, I'd guess your correspondent has a cousin who is a Nigerian prince:-)

I'm sure when that photo first appeared it was captioned as the original Armac cub by Duncan MacDonald.

You'll certainly never wear out the brake linings on a Bultaco with such little friction involved Allan:-)

That's easy enough, fit a speedo. You can get cycle computers fairly inexpensively.

I agree with the privacy issue, so no names, but I recall being told by someone who had seen the contract what a very good but just below the very top line rider was being paid in the Seventies. It equated to £186,000 at today's pound (according to a calculator on the web) with the cost of a new bike similarly equating to £4600. I would guess that the same rider today would be on much less as in those days many more bikes were being sold and we are in a very different world now. What Honda pay Bou will be valued differently to how a European manufacturer would do it, part!y due to deeper pockets and partly due to Honda having a much more complex corporate agenda. I wouldn't even hazard a guess but "economic sense" may not be of the highest priority.

The one you saw at the 2 day was an Urge mountain bike helmet and therefore not within the ACU requirements. You may not be bothered but ponder the insurance implications should there be an incident. Not to mention the possible effect on the clerk of course who has the duty to see that such rules are complied with and who may have to appear in court should the worst occur. I very much recommend the Airoh based on a year of use.

Aye, trials wis trials in them days.