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Best way to test this and really only the effective way is to go somewhere which has a range of sections with a mich fitted to the bike and a dunlop on a spare wheel. I did this earlier this year and found the michelin better on wet grass and on rocks but the dunlop better on proper mud. i think riding style has an impact as does the type of bike you ride and where you live. Find what you like best and stick with it would be my advice.

for the sake of the well known silsden family I hope it isnt Joel Corroy or that Striet fella... JCM just about finished my fathers business, then both Tony Scarlett and Bob Gollner had a go with them and didnt get very far either.... i wont pretend I'm not bitter but you cant even say third time lucky ! still, as ever, it would be nice to be wrong !

Ive voted yes but I dont think it will be that simple. I think they maybe didnt sell enough copies to cover the non printing costs rather than they were just losing money by printing copies they didnt sell. They need to cover such costs as staff, attendance at events including travel, access to printing facilities etc. This will require a minimum number of copies to be sold and maybe they werent selling enough. still it would be nice to be wrong !!

Thats a good point, we all love watching them ride up huge steps but its often not the kind of section that actually takes marks off the top lads. Take any factory bike with loads of power and set out 10 sections on wet limestone or a green slimey stream, marks will be dropped and nobody gets hurt. I have to say I like the current time limit. I gave a video to a non riding mate once from paris bercy. I asked what he thought of it and he said "Its great, this bloke was balancing a bike between two digger buckets, so I went and made a cup of tea and when I came back he was still there !! Boring ! " I think the time limit stops this and also reduces the queues at sections

I thought about this from a different point of view having not been there but seen the results. In the WTC currently there are 5 people , possibly 6 who could win a round. These people on their day are brilliant in a way you cant imagine until you see it live. BUT Whilst some of those people want harder trials as its a world championship its becoming increasingly difficult for others to ride the course. I think Dabill and Morris and last week Michael Phillipson do very well but who else could actually ride without hurting themselves ? I wouldn't set out a club trial for 12 people but last weekend thats how many where competing on the full course and we have the same problem at the british championship. I dont think we should consider TV as that alone wont sustain trials. The format needs to work for the riders and if people want to watch thats great but its a bonus, you need the riders first. So I think trials has to go to a format which will allow more people to compete and I think the previous post about people getting seriously injured before long is a valid point.

Anyone seen the results on here for the 3 day ? just wondering if I've missed them

how about getting someone like Talon to make you some disc brake wheels, modern hubs are only 32 spoke and i dont know if the rims are steel or aluminium on the TL but that would save a chunk of weight and you would have disc brakes as an added bonus.

some body may correct me but i thought the Gas Gas pro early 03 or 04 models had this carb and they were quickly taken off again as they were not very effective ?

do you mean in general or at the 3 day ? time to duck !!!

I agree, from memory its the same motor as the air cooled gas gas,

there is an oversize tank on ebay at the minute if its any good to you, saw it last week and I know the fella if your interested.

The North East Centre used to have a number of trials with more than 10 sections but we now generally stick to 4 laps 10 sections. sometimes we really have 4 laps of eight as we use double subs which one observer can manage. Personally I dislike riders observing riders as you dont get consistent observing. I wouldn't like to do fewer sections than 10.

If it happens again I'd try trials central classified ads rather than the forums..... out of interest can you bump start one ?

I do it the other way round. I got given a one piece suit which I only wear when practising, i wouldnt dare where it at a trial, the mickey taking would be endless !!! lycra and beer gut, not a winning combination

Both front and rear suspension will have rebound adjusters, theses allow you to change how fast the suspension returns. Less damping = faster return. Make a note of settings before you start to adjust. front suspension is usually on right hand fork top, rear shock is at one end not sure which on a mont. you can also increase the tension on the spring via bolt on left fork top and by the adjusters on the shock. bear in mind that less damping can also mean less control and grip . without being rude the gas gas you have seen will be jumping because the pilot knows how to do it, also the gas gas is also a lot lighter. Try to think of it another way, a good rider can probably bunny hop and flick turn a twin shock bike...

Ive now seen the other thread which started this. Nothing personal bigfoot but your having a laugh.. Jarvis won the SSDT in 98 0r 99 I think, 2004 wasnt his first win. As for no other riders moving rocks thats cobblers. They may be better at disguising their actions perhaps but they all do it. Dave Thorpe is still a legend at it now, saunders was once referred to as the golden boot for his dimmock like landscaping. Nothing against either rider im just using them as examples but i dont consider either of them cheats. IF observers marked every one with a five who moved a rock then fine but we all know they dont. Give grimbo a break, he's not done anything his competitors dont do.

This is always a good debate. so Jarvis moved a two foot circular boulder and now he's the anti christ ? do you really think that when amos, sam conner, dan thorpe etc came along half an hour later they wouldn't of done exactly the same thing? The ssdt for those boys is won and lost on one five in 180 sections. So Graham leaves the rock alone and has a five or three on an easy section as a consequence, then I or some other wobbler falls off and moves said rock. another top guy then appears and cleans the section, whos the better rider ? Gardening has always happened, in a pure sense it shouldn't but rocky sections change all the time, we all do it if we are honest.

Cota Kid all of the trials you mentioned have a clubman route, the travers is just one course, dont let this put you off as its normally a lot more like a clubman route than an expert route with most sections tricky rather than hard and very little big stuff.

Go back to the vice on the bench, put some timber in either side of the tyre ( so its just below the rim on one side and against the rim on the other). then compress in the vice, easy ! as for driving a van / truck over your wheel, rather you than me mate when you refit the tyre either a cycle tube or the 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 beader will work. I find it easier if you take the valve core out as well. normally you'll be putting the wheel back in the bike when you notice you have put the tyre back on the same way round !!

steps steps steps They can be spectacular to watch, and getting up one when your not convinced you can is one of the best feelings in trials. BUT people also are more likely to be hurt on them, a little bit of fear is fun but everyone has a limit. In my experience of setting out trials you can never take marks off the top guys with big steps, but you can spoil everyone elses day. The technical tight section or the slippy bankside or river will take marks off everyone but nobody generally gets hurt, no bikes get broken and the top guys loose marks. so make your pro class harder just dont make it too daunting, its normally the turns that take the marks anyway as given sufficient run up a capable rider will get up most things.

I've never checked it on my 06 but I have been informed that the noise is off the primary gear (end of crank to clutch basket). its a straight cut gear which reduces drag but is more noisey. my TYZ's made the same noise and will presumeably have had the same set up.

Dont know when this actually changed and stopped becoming an issue. In the 70's UK bikes had metal tanks whilst everyone else in europe got plastic. If you can remember montesas used to have an ally tank under a fiberglass cover. Nowadays its not really a problem as most vehicles have plastic tanks anyway ( i think the latest transits do for example). So I dont hink you need a metal tank for an MOT any longer

still cant get my head round the God riding trials bit really, still he should be able to sort DEFRA out anyway. My mrs will go ballistic when she gets to heaven and is asked to observe....

GOD ???? how come God doesn't know the answer to this, I thought God created everything, including Scorpas obviously

I have a jap spec 06 scorpa and I let a mate with a standard one try mine yesterday. He liked the additional power but didn't think it gripped as well as his. However I didnt like his standard one either as it didnt pick up quickly enough so i was opening the throttle to late to get up things. We decided we'd both keep the bikes we had. What problem are you trying to solve by changing your bike ?