baldilocks

You can't why should others ? You will have known that this topic would produce exactly this sort of response when you started it. Once again you brought lots of irrelevant information into the topic. My mtb has cable discs, even though the mtb is 55kg lighter they still aren't as good as what's on my gas gas. I love the fact the clutch biting point doesn't change when i turn the bars and i never have to oil the cable. My wifes car has a cable clutch but then again she never splats a six foot step

Agreed guys.

Anyone got a link for a hydraulic Keihin ?

Just for clarity i have said it is impressive. All im trying to get across is that if it was rubbish initially they / he wouldn't say so in a video, thats not the same as saying it actually was rubbish at any point. I do have the capacity to be cynical occasionally

Michele Bosi has a new design Beta clutch on his Facebook page

Can we a bit realistic here. Anyone expecting him to say its rubbish we have been working on it for months ? It is impressive and i hope they sell well but its just pr speak.

Andy can we have an ignore talks ***** button ?

I can only see that advice damaging confidence. Fall down a waterfall in practice as the tyres to hard and then there is a similar obstacle in your next event, are you going risk getting hurt again ?

Having said that despite the chasm when you ride down here you are a long long way from last on the ne easy course on your swm.

So thats a yes then ? I think it was a good idea but should have stayed as a separate event perhaps. Yorkshire centre have separate trials / clubs for classic which is great. But in most centres its not viable.

You tell me Ross, if there was a single route trial would you ride it on the swm ?

Lots of issues Ross, but you didn't need pre 65 to solve the issue that started pre 65 and led to everything since. You can't unpick it now but we have groups of people at either end of an ability spectrum with no time for each others requirements. More sections / fewer laps allowing greater range of sections would have been better. Trying to mark a trial out where the best riders are on the most capable bikes and the least capable turn up on 30 - 50 year old bikes makes no sense. Obviously some on older bikes are very capable but dont want to lose marks ??

For twice / three times the price of an infinitely more capable machine once you put it right.

If i had a time machine id go back and stop that first pre 65 trial. Thats where it started to go wrong. Next stage was incorporating a class for them in centre trials round here which became known as the easy course. Then it became pre 65 or twin shock , then it became anyone who didn't fancy the middle route. Roll forward 20 years we now have people on a 2015 bike complaining a section you could clean on an ossa mar is too hard. The middle and harder routes have progressed but the gap between each course is immense. Hard course riders try harder stuff easy course is going backwards and the middle course is lost in the middle making 3 route trials a pain to mark out. Manufacturers go bust as new bikes are too expensive while people fall over themselves to spend £5k or more on a replica that looks like 50 year old bike. The original idea was good but its created more problems than it solved, yesteryears best riders often still win and you cant drag an old bike out and be competitive. Madness. And now i know who to blame

Its usually caused by the sump guard becoming bent by repeated impacts and the rubber block getting split. There is a thread on the issue.

Had one in 1997 so if you have questions i may be able to help

Plus we have all missed what he could earn in other disciplines. So what does a motogp rider earn or mx / enduro rider ?

I got some off Amped recently, good quality stuff but not the design you are after. Have a look though

Well the trs raga rides has a Keihin for a start, not exactly unexpected

you could say the same about the scorpa and the beta and for many other years the 4rt. It doesn't have to be brand new from the ground up, its as good as anything else on the market

Honda were reported to be paying a previous multi world championship winner £200k and thats 15 years ago. Nobody knows its just rumour and gossip. But i think the question is what do i think they earn

On the plus side the above good people having given you the same advice i did. Airoh or Jitsie H2

Andrewmorpeth you dipstick! Full face helmets are not for trials

Bou half a million Euros plus all his private sponsors. If you want to win the wtc there really is nobody else to hire and Honda have the cash. The other riders significantly less

1mm change in compression makes a significant difference to performance