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How do you presume to know how much I or anyone else rides? Go ride with a motorcross helmet on, trust me, you'll notice the weight. Or maybe you're getting on in age (heaven forbid) and you have neck and back problems. Then you'll definitely notice. I rode 200 hours this season. Real hours, on an hour meter, not bull**** estimated hours. My neck is always killing me at the end of an event. But according to you I'm not riding enough, and since you said it on the internet it must be true...

Weight is important: you spend most of your time looking down and ahead, and if strains the neck. But only compared to a non - trials helmet. As long as you buy a decent quality trials helmet the weight should be around what you want. But it is your head after all, so why not buy the best (which will also be the lightest)

I would suspect there's some air in the brakes on the 300. My 17 GG was delivered like that... not knowing immediately how good they should be, they seemed to work tolerably, right up to the point where they started locking on (the trapped air was preventing the pistons from retracting intermittently). After a bleed, they were monstrously good. I'm not sure if the brakes are delivered to manufacturers as sealed/bled units or if they're filled with fluid at the factory.

You're not going to take any substantial weight out of a trials bike by making the airbox carbon fiber. The major weight is all in the frame and the motor, and GG hasn't touched either in over a decade.

Posting 'call me' on a forum is a little bizarre, truth be told, unless you have a prior relationship with the OP.

You lost me again. But just so you're aware, that bike has Marzocchi's on it, which are closed cartridge forks. So if you drained the cartridge on the compression/rebound side (by removing the screw at the bottom of the fork, or by disassembling the cartridge) and didn't fill and bleed it properly, all this clicker talk is neither here nor there.

What bike/forks are we talking about? I can't quite tell what problem you're having, but when you put the fork cap back on, generally you want to first screw the locknut all the way down (as in towards the ground) as far as it will spin by hand. Then put the cap back on as far as it will go by hand. Then spin the locknut back up to where it meets the cap, tighten it down a bit, and you're done. If you're saying the damping rod provides no damping resistance regardless of where the clickers are, then the problem isn't the clickers.

Did I mention that thing is catastrophically ugly?

(Vertigo has some really weird ideas)

Sure it's not just the the brakes rubbing slightly?

Ummm.... probably not a great move for a lot of reasons. But very Australian, so as you were.

Wow, those are million times cleaner than the stock plates. Curious to hear how they work in the Evo.

Well, as it sounds like he's going to GG... who's to say it won't be to ride an enduro bike!

From the wording of the press release, it sounded like it was Dibs that chose to depart, rather than Vertigo letting him go. I guess we'll have to wait for some sort of confirmation one way or the other. GasGas makes sense though... they're the only manufacturer without a big name GP rider, and they seem to have some money to spend now.

I've never heard the full throttle thing. I've ridden the local dealers a few times, and I've never started it with any throttle. Just push the button and kick.

Sounds like normal clutch rattle to me, but I'm used to GasGas 's.

Didn't realize the factory bikes were twin plug. Is the production 4rt as well?

ROFL. First thing out of the engineer's mouth is 'What the riders wanted was unreasonable'. How Honda is that!?! You'll take what we give you, damnit!

Is anyone making the usual guards for the TRS yet? Exhaust silencer, frame, etc.?

I'm still of the opinion that full face helmets made for other disciplines are rather poor for trials. They're all optimized for forward visibility, not side to side and down. Generally, they all also weigh too much. There are guys here that wear them, and tend to stick with downhill MTB helmets which are the best compromise. What I'd be more interested in is a trials helmet with some sort of face protection, like this: https://youtu.be/-yXI1fNNIS8?t=22m22s It's hard to see, but take a look at the guy minding. He's got a clear bit of plastic that hangs down in front of his chin. No idea if this is a do-it-yourself job or something more official, but it's definitely got visibility in mind.

Ok, that's about what I expected. Thanks!

So I'm curious about getting a 300RR, but I confess I'm a bit put off by the weight difference between it and something like the TRS. If the Cota claimed dry weight is accurate, you're looking at about a 15lb weight difference. From anyone that has a a modern 2 stroke and a 300RR, or has switched one way or the other, do you feel like the extra weight is noticeable? Offset by other benefits? Or a non issue?

Things have changed over the last 25 years.

The MT43 isn't a real trials tire... it's a trials tire pattern, but it's made for enduro bikes. Don't put one on a real trials bike. What you probably want is a Dunlop D803 if you can't get a Michelin X11.

We also can't buy one, which makes it largely meaningless to anyone other than Yamaha. It's also ugly as sin...