baldilocks

Do not set fire to an ally exhaust, it will melt !

I think that engine was designed for the TYZ specifically but i'm told it wasnt anybody know ?

John Holland rode one and seemed to do ok with it, i never passed him on the moors !

and people think I'm pessimistic, you lot are unreal !

it will if its been overfilled, where was the breather ?

Take the flywheel off and check that the crank seal hasnt gone on the ignition side, this make the engine "race " a little when its slowing down, it would normally run weak as well

I'm not really a fourstroke fan as in the UK they are between

Are the skid plates made in china ? another quality trials motorcycle component, still its not as though a 4rt is expensive !!

John where did you get Steve Wilson bike from ? my dad had a bike just like you describe for a while . It was a 325 with chrome frame, box section swinging arm, tank under the seat and it a few neat touches such as a longer kick start shaft so the pedal didnt catch the frame by the footrest. It was also fitted with an amal rather than bing carb and was finished with black and white plastics. just wondering if its the same bike as I dont know how many were made

I from tyneside me have a question why do people buy flat tanks ? why not just half fill the standard tank and spend

Cope how does the price of a sherco compare to a GG or Mont in your part of the world ?

Yes mine does that especially after its kicked back

so a C4 has more clearence than a C3 and more again than a C2 ?

I had a TY done years ago, you need some proper engineering kit though and to be honest I dont think it made that much difference as I remember. You need to machine some of the fins off the back off the barrel to get in and I think it was shortened by 15mm but you had better check. Try and see if you can calculate the space between the end of the reeds and the back of the cylinder. What you need to do is take that space out so that the reeds are as close to the cylinder as possible. To be honest I 'd get the barrel ported by birkett if I was you and I think you will notice much more of a difference.

Just to keep us going Justin did you ever take the flywheel off your bike and see if the two map ignition can be retarded by moving the stator or is it fixed ? anybody know what the reference c4 means on the end of a bearing number, the sherco mains are c4s, i think C3 has more bearings which are smaller than standard but I dont know what C4 is ? cheers

Only if you admit how that photo is done with you looking like your balancing a bike.........

I didnt ride particularly well but I thought the sections were excellent on the hard route, everything took a bit of riding to get a clean and I thoroughly enjoyed it. thanks to James Harland and Carl Shaw who I believe set it out yesterday, and thanks to anyone else who was involved. Regards Baldilocks, the oldest rider excluding papa Phillipson !!

Copemech / Addict I heard today that the Boyesens can break after a while , have you had any problems and how often do you change them ? to be fair this was from I guy that used to do moto cross and I think it was on a motocross bike not a trials bike.

Ham posting photos of montesa's will not fix your main bearings, get your backside in that garage lad

Whats Ross doing next year full british champ ? junior WTC ? what size bike ?

I think people are right to dismiss getting proper Trials on TV, it just doesnt make good TV. I went to the World Round in Andorra the other weekend, I had a great time and watched some utterly fantastic riders in action. Then last night I watched the highlights on eurosport, it was pants ! It may be the fault of eurosport but the gradient of the hazards and the general severity of the sections just isnt conveyed. We get impressed that they can balance a bike anywhere but on tv its just a guy standing still if your the man in the street. The obstacles the top guys rode up and over were frightening, and wasnt all steps by the way. These people balance on a gradient i was having trouble standing on and then just calmly pull away. Try and balance your bike with both wheels facing uphill, its very difficult but TV doesnt and cant convey that. I think neosurge is correct to say we should stop worrying about it, lets watch the WTC while we can even if only us trials people like it. If it survives great if it doesn't then some of the issues may get resolved. I've said previously any factory directing all of their resources into one rider is wasting their time based on what I saw in Andorra. Bou is going to win, the rest are making up the numbers. But the factories may get better exposure out of having more riders in that huge truck which is transporting perhaps one or two bikes (honda excluded of course)

Years ago the Britsh Champioship was as slapshot is describing, big nationals like the cleveland, jack wood, colmore, wye valley traders etc. The point people seem to forget is that it wasnt working any longer in that format. I first rode these events in 86, by the time we got to 1991/92 the trials were way too hard for the bulk of the entry and the trial was being spoilt to cater for the top 5 - 10 riders. as an example the Travers was a championship round in 1992, Rob Crawford won on about 30 and I remember Paul Rose commenting at the end it had been too hard and I think he was in the points. I lost 130 marks and finished 29th or 30th, i was way outside my comfort zone, i think i had a couple of cleans and the rest were 3's and 5's. Did I enjoy my day ? did the people who finished behind me enjoy their day ?? And the top riders wanted it harder still as the gap between this type of event and a world round was still too big. enter the british champioship in its current format If you think your going to mark out trials that will deal with the range of ability from my standard up to Graham Jarvis I think your only kidding yourself. Half of the expert class would probably not enjoy a day on the chamionship route where Jarvis is dropping 20 marks, what chance have those that find the expert course too much ? who outside the current expert and championship class riders would enter anyway ??

Do Bennets provide cover for taking part in a trial ? I was insured during events until Protectabike wrote to me and said that they werent offering to renew, I now need a new policy for my sherco and I dont see the point in taking out a normal road policy which explicitly states it doesn't cover reliability trials

Is it definitely not going to run next year ? we were beiginning to organise a trip from the North East as a few of us fancied riding where would I get regs from if it does run again and what do you need to do to take your bike on the road in France ?

I never used an 801 Ham but I didnt think much of the 803. YOU HAVE USED WORDS OR A PHRASE WHICH ARE NOT PERMITTED ON THIS WEBSITE. PLEASE DELETE YOUR POST/TOPIC. DO NOT TRY TO CIRCUMVENT THE FILTERS IN PLACE ON THIS WEBSITE also tested the 803 in the first edition and said the michelin was a much better tyre.