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I still think he shoud have changed his name to ****witBen

Scott uses waterproof books as per the ssdt, the big plastic bag is just a gift for the observers to carry everything in You can write in pen or pencil in them, this years books weren't the usual material & the pages stuck together causing problems in the results room. RMC have used the same materials for standard observer board sheets.

SSDT & Scott Trial cards are waterproof, paper isn't that expensive. They're used at Richmond club trials on wet days as well. Get in touch with the RMC secretary as she'll be able to give you a contact detail for them............well maybe as our regular printer went bust recently, I'm unsure about how the pheonix will rise.

22nd to the 24th of July

I told my wife I'd be happy doing one but then I had to go back again to have a better ride, then I had to have a spin round on a 4 stroke, then......... Wish I discovered the joys of riding the SSDT at 21 instead of 41

Enter the Reeth 3 Day, if you manage to get a ride & cope okay with that you'll have a fair gauge of your abilities, if that half kills you the SSDT is way beyond you. Having said that I know several very ordinary club riders that have carried a bike round the SSDT for a finishers certificate. Try some of the Northern Nationals, they'll help your rock riding abilties. Cleveland, Jack Wood, Wainwright, Allan Jefferies, White Rose all spring to mind. Without doing some of these events I'd say a spin round Scotland is a bit of a leap of faith.

Entries open at the Reeth 3 Day at the end of July, they'll be available to download from the RMC website. As Totalshell suggests, get training NOW!

We rode down it a few years ago, possibly in 2006.

I'd try dropping a tooth on the front sprocket. I have previously used a reed block spacer to slow up a 250 gasser.

Top sub is fairly hard but I don't think many people bother getting off to look at the bottom ones. Having said that it's an SSDT icon & for that I'd say it's a must see. It's easily accessible & there aren't too many places to watch in the morning prior to a trip round to Leanachan or the Ben in the afternoon.

I suppose it could work on two routes marked but three routes ridden, works well enough at club level:- A class championship - all hard sections B class championship + A easy - 50 / 50 sections B easy - all easy sections Bit more hassle but if it puts more bums on seats & more get to give it a go, why not?

I know it's more work but an entry level course for the B class wouldn't harm either as it tends to be the youngest ones that struggle with the step up from 80 to 125.

We bought some of these to use at an A&B round a few years back. I personally think they're dangerous as they have little give in them, now I've never heard of anybody being seriously injured by one but I certainly wouldn't like to land on one.

I find it very funny that they base their Trials on that 3 Ring Circus AKA World Trials, it's nowt to do with what we do on a Sunday.

I can't your pm box must be full

Come over here & see what real trials are & then you'll understand.

A few years ago I had a wheel that was small & it constantly dropped tyres. Check the circumference of your wheel against a known good wheel.

I'd go down the lines of Bou's Haonda being made of unobtainium, Caby's Sherco being not far removed from a production machine. I don't personally think that Honda's money hasn't done much for the sport of trials. I also think it's time somebody made a serious attempt to make a 21st century version of the TY80, Trials needs it to survive.

So that means that the 30 mile ride up the road to Chair Lift takes you a little over 2 1/2 minutes longer. Having ridden round with a GPS in my pocket a fair bit I'd say 50mph is way above a road speed average so thet extra time is less than 2 1/2 minutes. You ride the SSDT to do your best in 180 sections, the rest just happens, why gear a bike to be anything other than what you really need in sections? I rode an 11/42 Gas Gas 250 in 2005, I had my best ride in the SSDT on it but it wouldn't pull 5th on the moors, Kinnel told me that he always knew when I was about to pass him on a moor because he'd hear a Gasser getting flogged hard in 4th. I've had another 250 Gasser since & used 10/42 gearing, I didn't do a SSDT on it but I did enough moor work round home to know that 5th was more usable, I also found the bike to be spot on in sections.

Looks like it's a tent on the roundabout just outside Parc Ferme for you then. http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=56.815424,-5.116546&spn=0.000515,0.003463&t=h&z=19&lci=com.panoramio.all&layer=c&cbll=56.815424,-5.116546&panoid=ktjCDojMnOf7NmUh4TiZag&cbp=11,43.57,,0,7.65

did you stuff balls of cotton wool in your cheeks before you typed that?

I think you'd be better off spending your money on taking your bike to somebody who can actually tell you what's wrong with it.

Silly ****** can change his name as often as he likes, he'll always be a ****wit

So then, has technology changed Trials for the better or worse? World Round sections from 1975 are on the easy route at Club trials today.